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SUMMARY:After Hours - Brendan Kiely: Consent and #MeToo
DESCRIPTION:After Hours – Brendan Kiely: Consent and #MeToo\nFriday\, March 22nd · 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nThrough discussion of personal experiences\, research\, and his novel Tradition\, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely examines issues of consent\, privilege\, and toxic masculinity as well as their long lasting consequences in the wake of #MeToo and Kavanaugh. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens March 4th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, March 22\, 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\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-brendan-kiely-consent-and-metoo/
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:Amy Glynn & Lucille Lang Day
DESCRIPTION:Amy Glynn is the Poet Laureate of Lafayette\, California. She is multi-generational Bay Area native and holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Lancaster University\, England. Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry (2010 and 2012). Her first collection\, A Modern Herbal\, was published by Measure Press in 2013; her second\, Romance Language\, is forthcoming\, also from Measure Press. She has received the SPUR Award of the Association of Western Writers\, Poetry Northwest’s Carolyn Kizer Award\, scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference\, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is also an award-winning essayist. Amy lives in Lafayette with her two daughters. \nLucille Lang Day is the founder of Scarlet Tanager Books\, where she recently co-edited with Ruth Nolan Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California.  Her memoir\, Married at Fourteen: A True Story (Heyday\, 2012)\, received a 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a  finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Poetry collections include Becoming an Ancestor (Červená Barva\, 2015)\, Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems(Blue Light\, 2015)\, The Curvature of Blue (Červená Barva\, 2009)\, Infinities(Cedar Hill\, 2002)\, Wild One (Scarlet Tanager\, 2000)\, Fire in the Garden(Mother’s Hen\, 1997)\, and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets’ Workshop and Press\, 1982). Her first children’s book\, Chain Letter\, based on her poem “Letter from St. Jude\,” was published by Heyday Books in 2005; her second children’s book\, The Rainbow Zoo\, a rhyming picture book\, was released by Scarlet Tanager Books in 2016.  She has received numerous awards and accolades\, including multiple Pushcart nominations. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-glynn-lucille-lang-day/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706-1856
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:National Geographic Explorer Academy
DESCRIPTION:For science-loving\, world-exploring young adventurers… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Geographic presents Explorer Academy with the help of actual National Geographic Explorer Erika Bergman — scientist\, submersible pilot\, and steamship engineer! \nErika will share her adventures and open up a world of wonder with this new book series that J.J. Abrams\, director and screenwriter of Star Wars: The Force Awakens\, and Lost\, calls “A fun\, exciting\, and action-packed ride that kids will love.” and LeVar Burton\, host of Reading Rainbow says “is sure to awaken readers’ inner adventurer and curiosity about the world around them! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will get the chance to meet Bergman– a virtual reality engineer and an enthusiastic ocean explorer who received a National Geographic grant in 2013 for her “Classrooms Under the Sea” expedition to live stream video from submersibles. Erika will join author Trudi Trueit\, who has written more than 100 books for young readers. Trudi has been a TV news reporter and weather forecaster\, but knew her calling was in writing. \nCome find out about life as an explorer and about National Geographic’s buzzworthy newest series based on the research and adventures of National Geographic’s leading scientists\, photographers and journalists\, focusing on geography\, history\, space\, STEM\, exploration and world cultures. Steeped in fact and real-world investigation\, this series embodies National Geographic’s explorers and how they interact with the world. \nJoin the National Geographic adventure!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-geographic-explorer-academy/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets are $12-20\, sliding. Seating is limited\, and this show often sells out — there’s no guarantee tickets will be available at the door. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is for mature audiences only. If you have any questions about the content\, don’t hesitate to reach out to events AT booksmith DOT com. Generally speaking\, we’d suggest the show is suitable for ages 18+. \n  \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence: Dana Grigorcea and Alta L. Price
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nSwiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translator Alta L. Price discuss An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence. \nAn Instinctive Feeling of Innocence (Seagull Books) is the stunning second novel from Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translated by Alta L. Price. With humor and wit\, An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together—a world bursting with character and spirit.Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery\, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble\, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters\, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman’s self-discovery. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nDana Grigorcea\n\n\nDana Grigorcea is a Swiss-Romanian essayist\, novelist\, and children’s book author. Her debut novel\, Baba Rada\, won the Swiss Literary Pearl. She lives in Zürich.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nAlta L. Price\n\n\n\nAlta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art\, architecture\, design\, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize\, she translates from Italian and German into English\, and is currently shortlisted for The Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. Her latest book translations include Corrado Augias’s The Secrets of Italy\, Jürgen Holstein’s The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic\, and Martin Mosebach’s The 21. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4\, 3 Quarks Daily\, Maharam Stories\, Trafika Europe\, Words Without Borders\, and elsewhere. She is a member of ALTA\, PEN\, the Third Coast Translators Collective\, and Cedilla & Co.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-instinctive-feeling-of-innocence-dana-grigorcea-and-alta-l-price/
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:Kurt Eichenwald
DESCRIPTION:Kurt Eichenwald\n\n\n\n\npresents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir\, the compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author’s ongoing struggle with epilepsy–his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination\, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive\, but to thrive. \n“Inspirational in the true sense of the word….It is written with great verve and wisdom by someone who has closely and thoughtfully detailed his own plight as well as the journey out of it….A book to take heart from.”–Daphne Merkin\, The New York Times Book Review \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of A Mind Unraveled by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a college freshman\, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room\, confused and in pain. In the aftermath of that critical moment\, his once-carefree life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence\, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment\, physical abuse\, and dark moments when he contemplated suicide. \nThis is the story of one man’s battle to pursue his dreams despite an often incapacitating brain disorder. From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment\, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition. He details his encounters with the doctors whose negligence could have killed him\, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who fought for him.  \nUltimately\, A Mind Unraveled is an inspirational story\, one that chronicles how Eichenwald\, faced often with his own mortality\, transformed trauma into a guide for reaching the future he desired. Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being\, he affirmed his decision to never give up\, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success. \nKurt Eichenwald is the author of four previous nonfiction books. His second\, The Informant\, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweekand a contributing editor at Vanity Fair\, Eichenwald spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times\, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award\, as well as the winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and an Emmy Award nominee. He lives in Dallas with his family. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kurt-eichenwald/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lynn Emanuel and Troy Jollimore
DESCRIPTION:Lynn Emanuel is the author of several volumes of poetry. She sees her Hotel Fiesta (1984)\, The Dig (1992)\, and Then\, Suddenly— (1999) as a triptych exploring the convention and flexibility of the book\, and the agency of readers and writers. The Dig received the National Poetry Series Award. Emanuel’s work has also been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been featured in several Best American Poetry anthologies and the Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her recent work\, including Noose and Hook (2010)\, explores violence\, the self\, and perspective. Noose and Hook includes a long monologue sequence\, “The Mongrelogues\,” that is told from a dog’s point of view. \nEmanuel holds a BA from Bennington College\, an MA from City College of New York\, where she studied with Adrienne Rich\, and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and the University of Pittsburgh. \nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews. His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006. His third\, Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times’ list of the best books of poetry published in 2015. \nIn 2013 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. He has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center in Palo Alto\, California. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynn-emanuel-and-troy-jollimore/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Benefit For Camp Fire Victims With a Literary Bent - Still Great Need in the Paradise Area
DESCRIPTION:Last fall’s Camp Fire in Butte County was the worst wildfire in California history killing at least 88 people (23 are listed as missing with most presumed to be dead)\, destroying over 18\,000 structures and doing an estimated $13 billion in damage. The flames were finally doused at the end of November\, but thousands of local residents are still struggling to find proper housing\, thousands are unemployed and all while dealing with the trauma of a disaster of biblical proportions. It will likely be a decade before the hospitals\, schools\, businesses and homes\, not to mention community\, are restored. \n\n\nBecause there is still a great deal of need in the Paradise area\, The Green Arcade is holding a benefit for the victims of the Camp Fire on Thursday\, March 21 at 7pm at the McRoskey Mattress Factory Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, 3rd Floor\, San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be a party wherein mutual aid is expressed through donations to the North Valley Community Foundation’s Camp Fire Relief Fund. \n\nThere will be music by The Deadliners: The World’s Most Literate Garage Band whose members are local literary luminaries: \n\nJonathan Alford (keyboards); Gary Kamiya (lead guitar\, author Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco); Mark Hertsgaard (rhythm guitar and vocals\, author Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth);  Zoe Fitzgerald Carter (rhythm guitar and vocals\, author Imperfect Ending: A Daughter’s Story of Love\, Loss and Letting Go); Mark Schapiro (harmonica\, author Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply); Greg McRae (drums); Dan Keller (bass). \n\nOur special guest will be Rebecca Solnit\, author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. \nThere will be door prizes and proceeds from all donations\, ticket sales and book sales will go to the Camp Fire Relief Fund. \n\n“We are coming together for the long-term recovery of Paradise. It’ll be at least ten years before this community is back together.” \n                                           — Elizabeth Goldblatt\, Chico\, CA \n\n\n\nTickets are $10 at Eventbrite.com or in person at The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St. Checks may be made out to: NVCF Camp Fire Relief Fund. \nSponsored by The Green Arcade\, The Bookstore in the Hub and hosted by The McRoskey Mattress Company.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benefit-for-camp-fire-victims-with-a-literary-bent-still-great-need-in-the-paradise-area/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anne-christine d’Adesky (The Pox Lover)\, Jenn Stroud Rossman (The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh)\, and others\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday March 21st\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-closure/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Cocktail Culture
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 21\, 2019\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\nGoogle Calendar  ICS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs San Francisco’s roaring vice district\, the Tenderloin of the early 20th century figures greatly into the development of cocktail culture. Many of the bars\, restaurants\, and hotels represented in The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project played a role in San Francisco cocktail history. Join us for a survey of the neighborhood’s historic bar culture and recipes from the innovators who shaped the modern cocktail landscape through a historical discussion\, guided tasting\, and hands-on class led by Shana Farrell\, author of Bay Area Cocktails: A History of Culture\, Community and Craft. In collaboration with the California Historical Society. \n— \nThis event is part of The Tenderloin Match Book: Historical Ephemera Project a multi-faceted project that also encompasses the publication of The Match Book: Vintage Matchbooks from San Francisco’s Tenderloin\, an artfully designed history book of the Tenderloin featuring the matchbooks of local businesses and cultural institutions; the Tenderloin Ephemera Exhibition\, featuring historical Tenderloin ephemera from the 1920’s-1950’s\, including bar signs\, glassware\, postcards\, menus\, matchbooks et al.; the first addition to the Tenderloin Museum’s permanent exhibit\, The Matchbook Map Exhibit\, featuring a searchable\, interactive touchscreen map that connects matchbook imagery to historical info on the associated business and address. \nThrough the everyday act of picking up a matchbook and striking a match\, one is transported to another place and time; the past is remembered through a pedestrian interaction with a tangible object. Matchbooks are emblems of local culture: accessible\, utilitarian ephemera that functioned as the chosen form of advertising for small businesses in an era before plastic lighters and health concerns about smoking. These ritual objects exist at a fascinating intersection of material culture\, local history\, and design art; matchbooks (and other local business ephemera) are striking populist artifacts that serve as portals to places and people in a neighborhood’s past. The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project presents an illuminating new perspective on the Tenderloin’s often overlooked history\, enriches the detail and depth of the neighborhood’s narrative\, and ignites the Tenderloin community’s historical imagination. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, Program 7pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-cocktail-culture/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GREG GRANDIN The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nGREG GRANDIN\nThe End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall In the Mind of America \nadvance tickets: $12\, T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\nMrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, National Book Award & National Book Critics’ Circle Award now offers an eye-opening new interpretation of our history. \nFrom the very beginning of this nation\, the idea of an open frontier has been at the core of our American identity\, symbolizing a future full of promise. Today\, however\, the USA has an entirely new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth\, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier across the full sweep of US history\, from the American Revolution all the way to the Trump presidency. Throughout the centuries\, Grandin shows\, America’s constant expansion served as a “gate of escape\,” helping to deflect domestic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that they country’s problems\, from racism to inequality\, were never confronted directly. Now the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut\, bringing political passions and ugly racist nationalism back home with a vengeance. \nGreg Grandin is the author of The Empire of Necessity\, which won the Bancroft Prize; Fordlandia\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award\, plus a number of other widely acclaimed books\, including Kissinger’s Shadow\, Empire’s Workshop\, The Last Colonial Massacre\, and The Blood of Guatemala. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greg-grandin-the-end-of-the-myth-from-the-frontier-to-the-border-wall/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates\n\n\n\n\nreads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel\, an ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Hazards of Time Travel by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n“Time travel”–and its hazards–are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America–“Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”–that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”–but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She spends winters in Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-8/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Julia Plevin\, author of The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing\, at The Bindery
DESCRIPTION:On March 20\, The Bindery is hosting the launch party for Julia Plevin and her first book\, The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing! \nThe Healing Magic of Forest Bathing is an engaging guide to the art of forest bathing\, inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku\, for anyone who wants to explore the transformative power of nature in promoting health and happiness. \nAuthor Julia Plevin takes a traditional Japanese healing practice and presents her own unique program for those who are seeking better balance in their lives. As founder of the popular Forest Bathing Club (more than 1\,000 members)\, Julia has over a decade of experience guiding groups of people into the forest\, where the practice of forest bathing helps calm the mind and create space for wellness and prosperity. \nCome hear Julia discuss how her practice aims to help improve our lives through deeper connection\, alignment\, and attunement with Nature. \nThe Bindery is located at 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco\, CA 94117. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-julia-plevin-author-of-the-healing-magic-of-forest-bathing-at-the-bindery/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center: R.O. Kwon and Nona Caspers\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 20 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special Wednesday evening devoted to new fiction\, with acclaimed novelist R.O. Kwon and Nona Caspers\, reading from their work and talking with one another and the audience. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is free and open to the public. \nR.O. Kwon is the author of The Incendiaries\, published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago (U.K.). The Incendiaries was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Great Read and Indies Introduce selection\, and it is being translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Born in South Korea\, she has mostly lived in the United States. \nNona Caspers‘ new book The Fifth Woman\, a Novel in Stories (Sarabande Books\, 2018) was selected by Stacy D’erasmo for the Mary McCarthy Award. Her story\, “The Party” (aka “Frontiers”) was selected by Best American Short Stories as a “Distinguished Story of 2016.”  Caspers’ other books of fiction include Heavier Than Air\, awarded the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and listed as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, and Little Book of Days. In 2013 she co-edited with Joell Hallowell a book of queer women oral histories\, Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant\, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant and Award\, a LAMBDA Literary Award nomination\, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Stories have appeared in numerous literary reviews\, including Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, Ontario Review\, and The Sun. She is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University and lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center-r-o-kwon-and-nona-caspers-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacob Tobia / Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Jacob Tobia for their first book\, Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story. Please join us! \n  \nA heart-wrenching\, eye-opening\, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it’s like to grow up not sure if you’re (a) a boy\, (b) a girl\, (c) something in between\, or (d) all of the above. \n“When the political reality facing this country seems dark\, we need shinier\, sparklier thinkers in the public eye. With a signature style matched only by their wit\, Jacob fits that bill perfectly.” – Alan Cumming \nFrom the moment a doctor in Raleigh\, North Carolina\, put “male” on Jacob Tobia’s birth certificate\, everything went wrong. Alongside “male” came many other\, far less neutral words: words that carried expectations about who Jacob was and who Jacob should be\, words like “masculine” and “aggressive” and “cargo shorts” and “SPORTS!” \nNaturally sensitive\, playful\, creative\, and glitter-obsessed\, as a child Jacob was given the label “sissy.” In the two decades that followed\, “sissy” joined forces with “gay\,” “trans\,” “nonbinary\,” and “too-queer-to-function” to become a source of pride and\, today\, a rallying cry for a much-needed gender revolution. Through revisiting their childhood and calling out the stereotypes that each of us have faced\, Jacob invites us to rethink what we know about gender and offers a bold blueprint for a healed world–one free from gender-based trauma and bursting with trans-inclusive feminism. \nFrom Jacob’s Methodist childhood and the hallowed halls of Duke University to the portrait-laden parlors of the White House\, Sissy takes you on a gender odyssey you won’t soon forget. Writing with the fierce honesty\, wildly irreverent humor\, and wrenching vulnerability that have made them a media sensation\, Jacob shatters the long-held notion that people are easily sortable into “men” and “women.” Sissy guarantees that you’ll never think about gender–both other people’s people’s and your own–the same way again. \n  \n\n  \nJacob Tobia (@JacobTobia) is a gender nonconforming writer\, producer\, and performer based in Los Angeles. A member of both the Forbes “30 Under 30” and the “OUT 100\,” Jacob’s writing and advocacy have been featured by MSNBC\, The New York Times\, TIME\, The Guardian\, and Teen Vogue\, among others. A Point Foundation Scholar\, Truman Scholar\, and member of the Biden Foundation’s Advisory Council for Advancing LGBTQ Equality\, Jacob has worn high heels in the White House twice. \n  \n\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 at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \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 Sissy\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacob-tobia-sissy-a-coming-of-gender-story/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Richard Chiem
DESCRIPTION:Richard Chiem discusses his debut novel\, King of Joy. \n\nPraise for King of Joy \n\n“What a funny\, fresh\, bittersweet masterpiece—there is no one else in the world writing like Richard Chiem. From the sentence-level wizardry to the racing plot\, I feel smarter just having read this. Every page brings a new set of wonders.” —Alissa Nutting\, author of Made for Love \n  \n“This novel is transfixing: an imaginative meditation on emotional survival\, isolation\, and the beauty and limitations of human connection. I love Chiem’s writing.” —Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \n\nAbout King of Joy \n\nFrom one of the most exciting and risk-taking new literary voices\, Richard Chiem’s debut novel King of Joy is the triumphant\, electrifying story of one woman’s quest for survival against all odds\, told in the author’s inimitable prose style. \n  \nCorvus has always had an overactive imagination. Growing up\, she develops a unique coping mechanism: she can imagine herself out of any situation\, no matter how terrible. To get through each day\, Corvus escapes into scenes from fantasy novels\, pop songs\, and action/adventure movies\, and survives by turning the everyday into just another role to play in the movie of her life. \n  \nAfter a tragic loss\, Corvus finds a sadness so great she cannot imagine it away. Instead\, she finds Tim\, a pornographer with unconventional methods\, who offers her a new way to escape into movies. But when a sinister plot of greed and betrayal is revealed\, Corvus must fight to reclaim her independence\, and discovers she is stronger than even she could have imagined. \n  \nWritten in Richard Chiem’s singular style\, this debut novel is equal parts sledgehammer and sweet song\, a neon\, pulsing portrait of grief. King of Joy tells the triumphant\, electrifying story of one woman’s quest for survival against all odds\, and serves as a reminder that resilience can be found even in our most hopeless moments.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-chiem/
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:Paul Beatty
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\nMarch 19\, 2019\n7PM \nHammer Theatre\n101 Paseo de San Antonio\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by Associate Professor of Justice Studies and Director of the Human Rights Program at SJSU\, William Armaline – plus a book sale and signing. \nNovelist Paul Beatty is among the funniest and most fearless writers in contemporary fiction. He has been called “one of the shrewdest cultural commentators\, and hilarious cutups\, of his generation” (Interview). In a voice both acerbic and expansive\, Beatty creates unforgettable characters and haunting settings that strike at the very heart of race\, sex\, and language in America. With his most recent novel\, The Sellout\, Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize. The bestselling novel was also awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the John Dos Passos Prize and named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times\, Newsweek\, The Denver Post\, Kirkus\, and Publishers Weekly. In addition to The Sellout\, Beatty is the author of Slumberland\, Tuff\, The White Boy Shuffle\, and two volumes of poetry. He is also the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. Beatty is currently working on a new novel\, as well as an anthology of nonblack writers writing on blackness\, titled Negro Sunshine\, out in 2020. He speaks on fiction and social critique.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-beatty/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lloyd Khan\, Driftwood Shacks
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, MARCH 19\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 17th. \n“I started building almost 50 years ago\, and have lived in a self-built home ever since. If I’d been able to buy a wonderful old good-feeling house\, I might have never started building. But it was always cheaper to build than to buy\, and by building myself\, I could design what I wanted and use materials I wanted to live with. I set off to learn the art of building in 1960. I liked the whole process immensely. Hammering nails. Framing — delineating space. Nailing down the sub-floor\, the roof decking. It’s a thrill when you first step on the floor you’ve just created. Ideally I’d have worked with a master carpenter long enough to learn the basics\, but there was never time. I learned from friends and books and by blundering my way into a process that required a certain amount of competence. My perspective was that of a novice\, a homeowner — rather than a pro. As I learned\, I felt that I could tell others how to build\, or at least get them started on the path to creating their own homes. Through the years I’ve personally gone from post and beam to geodesic domes to stud frame construction. It’s been a constant learning process\, and this has led me into investigating many methods of construction — I’m interested in them all. For five years\, the late ’60s to early ’70s\, I built geodesic domes. I got into being a publisher by producing Domebook One in 1970 and Domebook 2 in 1971. I then gave up on domes (as homes) and published our namesake Shelter in 1973. We’ve published books on a variety of subjects over the years\, and returned to our roots with Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter in 2004\, Builders of the Pacific Coast and The Barefoot Architect in 2008\, and Tiny Homes in 2012. Building is my favorite subject. Even in this day and age\, building a house with your own hands can save you a ton of money (I’ve never had a mortgage) and — if you follow it through — you can get what you want in a home.” -Lloyd Kahn
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lloyd-khan-driftwood-shacks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Moira Crone\, Rodger Kamenetz\, and Ariel Resnikoff
DESCRIPTION:Two New Orleans based writers–poet and dreamworker Rodger Kamenetz and fiction writer Moira Crone–join forces with East Bay native and recent returnee Ariel Resnikoff for a speculative set of their latest work. All three of them habitually push hard on boundaries\, whether it’s the divide between conscious and subconscious life or the linguistic borders dividing cultures. \nRodger and Moira both taught writing at LSU in Baton Rouge for many years. Ariel is finishing up a PhD at Penn\, where he has been very active as a teacher and a multilingual editor and translator. \nAuthor of seven works of fiction\, Moira Crone has won distinction for her short stories\, novels\, and her speculative fiction. In 2009 she received the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Southern Fellowship of Writers for the body of her work. Her 2014 novel THE ICE GARDEN\, a coming of age tale set in the 1960’s South\, won the Independent Booksellers Regional Gold Medal and was hailed by author Lee Smith\, as “a heart-stopper.”   Her 2012 dystopian THE NOT YET\, set in a drowned Louisiana in 2121\, was one of seven finalists for the international Philip K. Dick Award\, for sci-fi paperback of the year. She has received fellowships from the NEH\, the NEA\, Bunting Institute at Harvard-Radcliffe\, and other institutions. Her works have been selected for the prize anthology New Stories from the South: The Year’s Bestfive times\, have appeared in two dozen anthologies\, and in such magazines as The New Yorker\, Mademoiselle\, TriQuarterly\, Oxford American\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, and Image. She lives in New Orleans. \nPoet\, author\, essayist\, biographer\, religious thinker and dreamwork practitioner\, Rodger Kamenetz is probably best known for his breakthrough account of Jewish-Buddhist dialogue\, The Jew in the Lotus. A serious student of dreams since 1999\, his The History of Last Night’s Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Series. His poems have appeared in hundreds of periodicals and 25 anthologies. His previous books of poetry include The Missing Jew\, Stuck\, The Lowercase Jew\, and To Die Next To You. YONDER is his seventh collection. Kamenetz lives in New Orleans where he practices Natural Dreamwork. Visit him at kamenetz.com or  thenaturaldream.com \nAriel Resnikoff  is a poet\, translator\, editor & teacher. His most recent works include Ten-Four: Poems\, Translations\, Variations (Operating System 2015)\, with Jerome Rothenberg\, & Between Shades (Materialist Press 2014). With Stephen Ross\, he is at work on the first critical bilingual edition of Mikhl Likht’s modernist Yiddish long poem\, Processions; and with Lilach Lachman and Gabriel Levin\, he is translating the collected writings of the translingual-Hebrew poet\, Avot Yeshurun. Ariel is a contributing editor of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury\, forthcoming ‘19)\, an anthology of multilingual modernist source texts\, as well as a commissioning editor at Jacket2. His writing has been translated into French & Spanish and is forthcoming in German in a special issue of Schreibheft.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moira-crone-rodger-kamenetz-and-ariel-resnikoff/
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:Shobha Rao
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nShobha Rao’s novel Girls Burn Brighter\, longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, appeared on many “best of” 2018 lists including the Washington Post\, NPR\, Shelf Awareness\, Paste\, LitHub\, and Real Simple. Her debut short story collection An Unrestored Woman illuminated how the division of India and Pakistan into two countries violently disrupted the lives of the region’s citizens for years. Rao is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao-3/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Salvatore Scibona
DESCRIPTION:Salvatore Scibona discusses his new novel\, The Volunteer. \n\nPraise for The Volunteer \n\n“Salvatore Scibona is gravely\, terminally\, a born writer—a high artist and exquisite craftsman. Yes his sentences are perfect but not merely; a surplus of dark and tender wisdom\, who knows its source\, makes his language—and the world—glow with meaning.”  —Rachel Kushner\, author of The Mars Room \n\n“Salvatore Scibona couldn’t write poorly if he tried. The Volunteer is a wonder right from page one\, lovely in its language and aching in its insights. Denis Johnson’s Tree of Life is a blood relative but this novel is a triumph all Scibona’s own.” —Victor LaValle\, author of The Changeling\n \n\n“This magnificent and deeply moving novel by Salvatore Scibona\, one of our most masterful writers\, has at its heart the simple and compelling tale of a small boy abandoned in a foreign airport and a mysterious ‘volunteer’ who all his life\, without knowing it\, is trying to find him. In stunningly inventive prose\, Scibona models the world through which these two beautifully drawn lost souls stumble—an infinitely-interconnected and repeating fractal of airplane routes and inscrutable tongues\, of arbitrary hubs and meaningless destinations\, of escapes and hideouts\, of swarming megalopoli improbably wired to pitiful ghost towns such as only America can hide in its empty middle. All this under the crosshatched shadow of the military\, for Scibona’s portrait of the way we live now is also\, necessarily\, a novel about war. The Volunteer is so brave\, tough and admirable you are on his side before you recognize what you are looking at. He is the good soldier\, the man who fights America’s wars.” —Jaimy Gordon\, National Book Award-winning author of Lord of Misrule \n\n“Salvatore Scibona is a virtuoso and The Volunteer is a majestic\, magnificent\, frankly epic work of art. Characters with the most modest\, vulnerable lives transform from ‘nobodies’ into full\, precious human souls\, steeped in pathos\, tragedy\, and a seemingly unstoppable heritage of particularly American violence. What tenderness and love they manage to wrest from their lives becomes nothing less than heroic and starkly\, luminously beautiful.” —Paul Harding\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers \n\nAbout The Volunteer \n\nA long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist\, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government \nA small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport\, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So begins The Volunteer. But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision\, the story must return to the moment\, decades earlier\, when a young man named Vollie Frade\, almost on a whim\, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents\, Vollie puts in motion an unimaginable chain of events\, which sees him go to work for insidious people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian jungle\, to a flophouse in Queens\, to a commune in New Mexico\, Vollie’s path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America\, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning. \nWith intense feeling\, uncommon erudition\, and bracing style\, Scibona offers at once a pensive exploration of how we are capable of both inventing and discovering our true families and a lacerating interrogation of institutional power at its most commanding and terrifying. An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons\, The Volunteer is a triumph in the grandest traditions of American storytelling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/salvatore-scibona/
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:POETS! - Beau Beausoleil and Tamsin Smith\, followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Beau Beausoleil and Tamsin Smith\, followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-beau-beausoleil-and-tamsin-smith-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:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Patria – Fernando Aramburu\nPlease note: the Spanish Book Group will not be meeting in February. \nEl dia en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas\, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a la tumba de su marido el Txato\, asesinado por los terroristas\, que ha decidido volver a la casa donde vivieron. Podra convivir con quienes la acosaron antes y despues del atentado que trastoco su vida y la de su familia? Podra saber quien fue el encapuchado que un dia lluvioso mato a su marido\, cuando volvia de su empresa de transportes? Por mas que llegue a escondidas\, la presencia de Bittori alterara la falsa tranquilidad del pueblo\, sobre todo de su vecina Miren\, amiga intima en otro tiempo\, y madre de Joxe Mari\, un terrorista encarcelado y sospechoso de los peores temores de Bittori. Que paso entre esas dos mujeres? Que ha envenenado la vida de sus hijos y sus maridos tan unidos en el pasado? \nCon sus desgarros disimulados y sus convicciones inquebrantables\, con sus heridas y sus valentias\, la historia incandescente de sus vidas antes y despues del crater que fue la muerte del Txato\, nos habla de la imposibilidad de olvidar y de la necesidad de perdon en una comunidad rota por el fanatismo politico. El retablo definitivo sobre mas de 30 anos de la vida en Euskadi bajo el terrorismo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-book-discussion-group-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lea Kirk 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 March author Lea Kirk will discuss her Prophecy series novels Prophecy\, Salvation\, and Collision\, and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nUSA Today Bestselling Author Lea Kirk loves to transport her readers to other worlds with her science fiction romance Prophecy series. She’s an avid Trekkie\, Gryffindor\, and wannabe space explorer. She’s made one foray into paranormal romance with her vampire novella\, Made for Her\, part of S.E. Smith’s Worlds of Magic\, New Mexico series. When she’s not busy writing\, she’s hanging out with her wonderful hubby\, their five kids (aka\, the nerd herd)\, and their seriously spoiled Dobie mix pup.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lea-kirk-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alice Pettway
DESCRIPTION:Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger (2017)\, Moth (2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming 2021). Her poetry\, nonfiction and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander\, The Colorado Review\, The Miami Herald\, The Progressive\, Teaching Tolerance\, The Threepenny Review\, WomenArts Quarterly and many others. Currently\, Pettway lives and writes in Shanghai\, China. \nhttps://www.alicepettway.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-pettway/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190316T210000
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SUMMARY:Helen Oyeyemi - - Gingerbread
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Helen Oyeyemi to discuss Gingerbread\, on Saturday\, March 16th at 7pm. \nInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children’s stories\, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy\, in which the inheritance is a recipe. \nPerdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing\, they share a gold-painted\, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there’s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it\, but it’s very popular in Druhástrana\, the far-away (or\, according to many sources\, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee’s early youth. The world’s truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread\, however\, is Harriet’s charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. \nDecades later\, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother’s long-lost friend\, it prompts a new telling of Harriet’s story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy\, ambition\, family grudges\, work\, wealth\, and real estate\, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying\, written with Helen Oyeyemi’s inimitable style and imagination\, it is a true feast for the reader. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nHelen Oyeyemi is the author of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours\, along with five novels– most recently Boy\, Snow\, Bird\, which was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013\, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, March 16\, 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/helen-oyeyemi-gingerbread/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Moore Ramee with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated\, funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel A Good Kind of Trouble\,  about friendship\, family\, and standing up for what’s right – a book that Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) calls “full of heart and truth” \n“Ramée effectively portrays the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and the difficulty of navigating complex social situations while conveying universal middle school questions about friendship\, first crushes\, and identity. Shay’s journey is an authentic and engaging political and personal awakening.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. But in junior high\, it’s like all the rules have changed. Now she’s suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she’s not black enough. Wait\, what? Shay’s sister\, Hana\, is involved in Black Lives Matter\, but Shay doesn’t think that’s for her. After experiencing a powerful protest\, though\, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing)\, but if she doesn’t face her fear\, she’ll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that’s trouble\, for real. \nLisa will be in conversation with Sabaa Tahir\, author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. This is a book we are sure to keep talking about\, a book I am evangelizing for.  Come celebrate with us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-moore-ramee-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Shakespeare Festival "Did Shakespeare Really Write That?"
DESCRIPTION:It is estimated that William Shakespeare used 31\,000 different words in his writing and that some had hidden meanings. He also invented over 30 new words which are now in our vocabulary. What is the true meaning of his words? Join Word Week 2019 as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival players act out 400 of his most famous words for us. Adults and children are welcome at this event\, which will be held on Saturday\, March 16 from 1:30pm-2:30pm in the ground floor community room of the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library\, 451 Jersey Street (between Castro and Diamond streets). Free admission. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nAbout San Francisco Shakespeare Festival:\nFounded in 1983\, the mission of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is to make the works of Shakespeare accessible to everyone\, regardless of age\, ethnicity\, geography\, economic status\, or level of education. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival brings Shakespeare’s greatest works to over 30\,000 people in the Bay Area each summer with Free Shakespeare in the Park. Free Shakespeare in the Park has become as much a part of summer in the Bay Area as a backyard barbecue — bringing professional\, free performances of the Bard’s greatest works to diverse audiences for over 25 years. And each year the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival reaches a new audience of over 70\,000 kids throughout California with its unique arts education programs — Shakespeare on Tour\, Midnight Shakespeare\, and Bay Area Shakespeare Camps.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-shakespeare-festival-did-shakespeare-really-write-that/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Library\, 451 Jersey Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amber Tamblyn / Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Amber Tamblyn\, to celebrate her new book of essays Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. We had a packed house for Amber when she came through town for Any Man\, so if you want to make sure you get a seat we strongly recommend you purchase advance tickets. Join us! \n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with the price of admission equal to the cost of Era of Ignition\, which is included with each ticket. Advance tickets can be purchased here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. \n  \nIn her late twenties\, Amber Tamblyn experienced a crisis of character while trying to break out of the confines of the acting career she’d forged as a child in order to become the writer and director she dreamed of being as an adult. After a particularly low period fueled by rejection and disillusionment\, she grabbed hold of her own destiny and entered into what she calls an Era of Ignition — namely\, the time of self-reflection that follows in the wake of personal upheaval and leads to a call to action and positive change. In the process of undergoing this metaphysical metamorphosis\, she realized that our country was going through an Era of Ignition of its own. She writes: “No longer stuck in a past we can’t outrun and a future we must outgrow\, we are a nation that is actively confronting our values and agitating for change. We are in an age when activism becomes direct action\, when disagreement becomes dissention\, when dissatisfaction becomes protest\, when accusations become accountability\, and when revolts become revolutions.” \n  \nThrough her fierce op-eds and tireless work as one of the founders of the Time’s Up organization\, Amber has emerged as a bold\, outspoken\, and respected advocate for women’s rights. In Era of Ignition\, she addresses gender inequality and the judgment paradigm\, misogyny and discrimination\, trauma and the veiled complexities of consent\, white feminism and pay parity\, reproductive rights and sexual assault — all told through the very personal lens of her own experiences\, as well as those of her Sisters in Solidarity. At once an intimate meditation and public reckoning\, Era of Ignition is a galvanizing feminist manifesto that is required reading for everyone attempting to understand the world we live in and help change it for the better. \n  \n\nAmber Tamblyn is an author\, actor\, and director. She’s been nominated for an Emmy\, Golden Globe\, and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film\, including House M.D. and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Most recently\, she wrote and directed the feature film Paint It Black. She is the author of three books of poetry\, including the critically acclaimed bestseller Dark Sparkler\, and a novel\, Any Man\, as well as a contributing writer for the New York Times. She lives in New York. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n–  This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n–  This is an all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.. \n–  Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Era of Ignition\, remember that books make great gifts! If you have any questions or concerns about this\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n–  If you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Era of Ignition\, and/or any of Amber’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n–  RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-tamblyn-era-of-ignition-coming-of-age-in-a-time-of-rage-and-revolution/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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