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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCarolyn Forche\nWhat You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance\nHosted by Dennis Bernstein \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nCarolyn Forche is one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Her work-including Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes-has been translated into more than twenty languages. For decades\, however\, the story of how she became an activist through trial by fire has lived inside her until now. Carolyn Forche was twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appeared on her doorstep- a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it was brilliant. She’d heard rumors about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer…He has driven from El Salvador to invite her to his country. Captivated\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension as they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, Forche is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads\, sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. Forche learns how she can act as a witness and translate that into an art that might illumine the lives of others. That is “the poetry of witness.” \nWhat You Have Heard Is True- a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political awakening- is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” – Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-a-memoir-of-witness-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Namwali Serpell / The Old Drift
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Namwali Serpell‘s debut novel\, The Old Drift. Joining her in conversation is Michelle Quint. Please save the date and join us! \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n  \n\n  \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n \n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience – each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.” – Alice Sebold\, author of The Lovely Bones\n \n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!” – Alexandra Fuller\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight \n  \n\n  \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel. \n  \n  \nMichelle Quint is the Executive Editor of TED Books and Culture Curator for TED Conferences. She is the author of a young adult book\, The Defiant\, published by McSweeney’s in 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \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 The Old Drift\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-namwali-serpell-the-old-drift/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ashley M. Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra
DESCRIPTION:Ashley M. Jones reads from her new poetry collection dark // thing. Also featuring readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra. \n\ndark // thing is a multi-faceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things\, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work\, full as it is of slashes of all kinds\, ultimately separates darkness from thingness\, affirming and celebrating humanity. \nAshley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University. Her debut poetry collection\, Magic City Gospel\, was published by Hub City Press in January 2017\, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies\, including the Academy of American Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Prelude\, Steel Toe Review\, Fjords Review\, Quiet Lunch\, Poets Respond to Race Anthology\, and The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a 2015 B-Metro Magazine Fusion Award. She currently lives in Birmingham\, Alabama\, where she is a board member of the Alabama Writers’ Conclave \, co-coordinator of the Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series\, founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival\, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. \nTongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, 2017)\, which received a 2018 American Book Award\, a 2018 California Book Award\, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year\, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people\, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco. \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. \nYaccaira Salvatierra is a native Californian having lived in various cities from the San Diego/Tijuana border to the magical town of Arcata. She is inspired by people’s stories and a city’s movement. Her BA is in Latin American and Latino Studies from UC Santa Cruz and she has an MA in Education from San José State University where she is currently working on an MFA in poetry.  She is a teacher and lives with her two sons in San José.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-m-jones-tongo-eisen-martin-monica-sok-and-yaccaira-salvatierra/
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:PREET BHARARA In Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 26\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nPreet Bharara served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. He oversaw the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases and supervised an office of more than two hundred Assistant U. S. Attorneys\, who handled cases involving terrorism\, narcotics and arms trafficking\, financial and healthcare fraud\, cybercrime\, public corruption\, gang violence\, organized crime\, and civil rights violations. In March 2017\, Bharara was fired by President Trump. In 2017\, Bharara joined the NYU School of Law faculty as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the Executive Vice President of Some Spider Studios and the host of CAFE’s Stay Tuned with Preet\, a podcast focused on issues of justice and fairness. His is the author of Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime\, Punishment\, and the Rule of Law.\n \n \nJeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker\, a senior legal analyst at CNN and the author of Too Close to Call\, A Vast Conspiracy\, The Nine\, The Oath\, and most recently\, American Heiress. Well known for his ability to illuminate the complexities of our judicial system\, Toobin has covered some of the country’s most sensational news stories and high-profile cases such as the Starr investigation of President Clinton\, Martha Stewart’s legal battles\, the O.J. Simpson trial\, and numerous Supreme Court cases.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preet-bharara-in-conversation-with-jeffrey-toobin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Cory Doctorow / Radicalized
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and co-editor of BoingBoing Cory Doctorow for his new book Radicalized\, a collection of four new\, urgent sci-fi novellas of America’s present and future from one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation. \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. \nConnected by social\, technological\, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near\, near future\, the stories are: \n“Unauthorized Bread” is a tale of immigration\, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification\, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. \nIn “Model Minority”\, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless…only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. \n“Radicalized” is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife’s terminal cancer. \nThe fourth story\, “Masque of the Red Death”\, harkens back to Doctorow’s Walkaway\, taking on issues of survivalism versus community. \n— \nPraise for Walkaway \n“Is Doctorow’s fictional utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless\, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control\, we’re going to have to fight for it.”  — Edward Snowden \n“The darker the hour\, the better the moment for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful novel: everything we’ve come to expect from Cory Doctorow and more.” — William Gibson \n“The Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture…zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it.” — Neal Stephenson \n— \nCanadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Little Brother\, and the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. His other YA novels include Pirate Cinema andHomeland (2013)\, the sequel to Little Brother. His adult novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has been named one of the Webs twenty-five influencers by Forbes Magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. \n  \nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s 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 cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Radicalized\, and/or any of Cory’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-cory-doctorow-radicalized/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:James Sturm
DESCRIPTION:James Sturm discusses his new graphic novel Off Season. \n\nPraise for Off Season \n“James Sturm’s Off Season is a big-hearted meditation on the shifting sands of family and manhood in our uneasy era—I swallowed this book whole and I’ll be pressing it on anyone who asks me for a great read this year.”—Emily Bazelon\, Cohost of Political Gabfest \n“A haunting examination of the inner life of men in the age of Trump. Off Season is the kind of novel we need in this moment\, forcing us to confront the personal despair at the heart of our national destiny. I was mesmerized by every image\, every word.”—Steve Almond\, Chost of Dear Sugars and author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country \n“Mr. Sturm knows when to let the images speak for themselves.” —New York Times \n“James Sturm’s graphic narratives are strongly grounded in American history\, drawing upon this history to tell fictional stories with ongoing relevance.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Sturm’s… words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale\, the fable.” —NPR \n\nAbout Off Season \nRage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see\, taste\, and feel. \nHow could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season\, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton\, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump\, and the disorienting months that followed. \nWe see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in from the car\, Christmas-morning anticipation\, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum—and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief\, rage\, loss\, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation\, Off Season is unaffected and raw\, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. \nA truly human experience\, Off Season displays Sturm’s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate\, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless\, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sturm/
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 Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki - with new books
DESCRIPTION:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki – with new books \n  \nSun\, March 24\, 2pm – 4pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-karen-hildebrand-and-ron-riekki-with-new-books/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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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