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SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.)
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg presents Machine
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg presents Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nSusan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning\, the first novel by the author of Spectacle. \nIn conversation with Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.\n  \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \nPRAISE \n\n“The narrative shifts\, experimental structure and poetic language in Steinberg’s hypnotic first novel capture the teen years with their shifting emotional tides and heightened awareness of class\, gender\, self and others.”—BBC Culture\nAfter making waves with her book ‘Spectacle\,’ bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel\, a tale of gender\, class\, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions.”—Chicago Tribune\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\nAUTHOR BIO \nSusan Steinberg is the author of Machine\, Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nLucy Corin is the author of two short story collections\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney’s Books) and The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) as well as a novel\, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). She won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the University of California at Davis\, and is at work on a novel\, The Swank Hotel. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-steinberg-presents-machine/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JOHN LITHGOW In Conversation with Calvin Trillin
DESCRIPTION:JOHN LITHGOW\nIn Conversation with Calvin Trillin\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJohn Lithgow is an award-winning actor with two Tonys\, six Emmys\, and two Golden Globes to his name. His forthcoming book of poetry\, Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse\, features his own never-before-seen drawings\, and chronicles the last few years in politics with Lithgow’s characteristic sharp wit and propulsive lyricism. \nJournalist\, humorist\, and devoted eater\, Calvin Trillin is a most beloved chronicler of culture. His long association with The New Yorker Magazine began in 1963 with his U.S. Journal articles\, compiled as he traveled the country\, searching for obscure stories and developing a taste for regional delicacies. Though his writing about food began as comic relief from his more serious pieces\, it has earned him a dedicated readership and has been collected in multiple books. Calvin Trillin is also a board member of City Arts & Lectures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lithgow-in-conversation-with-calvin-trillin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Hannu Rajaniemi\, Meg Elison\, Annalee Newitz discuss their contributions to Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrowwith editor Torie Bosch. \nAbout Future Tense Fiction \nFuture Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who’s-who of the most interesting authors working on the margins of speculative literature and science fiction. \nFeaturing Carmen Maria Machado\, Emily St. John Mandel\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Paolo Bacigalupi\, Madeline Ashby\, Mark Oshiro\, Meg Elison\, Maureen McHugh\, Deji Bryce Olukotun\, Hannu Rajaniemi\, Annalee Newitz\, Lee Konstantinou\, and Mark Stasenko–Future Tense Fiction points the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow. \nA disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test. A future in which everyone receives universal basic income–but it’s still not enough. A futuristic sport\, in which all the athletes have been chemically and physically enhanced. An A.I. company that manufactures a neural bridge allowing ordinary people to share their memories. Brimming with excitement and exploring new ideas\, the stories collected by the editors of Slate’s Future Tense are philosophically ambitious and haunting in their creativity. At times terrifying and heartwrenching\, hilarious and optimistic\, this is a collection that ushers in a new age for our world and for the short story. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novel Autonomous\, nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards\, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, she’s written for the Washington Post\, Slate\, Ars Technica\, the New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. Her book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinctionwas a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She was the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. She has published short stories in Lightspeed\, Shimmer\, Apex\, and Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT\, worked as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Her new novel\, The Future of Another Timeline\, comes out September 2019. \nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Herdebut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K.Dick award. Her second novel was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\,and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She has been published in McSweeney’s\, Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Catapult\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time. \nHannu Rajaniemi is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief(winner of 2012 Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland and translated into more than 20 languages)\, and Invisible Planets\, a short story collection. His most recent book is Summerland\, an alternate history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His short fiction has been featured in Slate\, MIT Technology Review and the New York Times. Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano\, a venture- and Y Combinator–backed biotech startup. \nTorie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense\, a partnership of Slate\, New America\, and Arizona State University. She was also the co-editor of the 2017 edition of What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim\, Reanimate & Reinvent the Future (The Unnamed Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/future-tense-fiction-stories-of-tomorrow/
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:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our October book at the September Book Club meeting on 9/25\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 9/26 while supplies last. \nOUR OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK: \nROOM IN ROME\nPoetry by Jorge Eduardo Eielson \n“As a person\, Eielson always kept something secret\, an intimacy he preserved even beyond the reach of his closest friends. This mysterious depth intrigued and fascinated those who knew him and is a salient feature of his writing\, sculpture\, and paintings. Perhaps this depth will help ensure that his visual and poetic works endure. Though inseparable from the period in which it was created\, Eielson’s work deserves to live on and bear witness for future generations to the myths\, dreams\, miseries\, and achievements pertaining to the world in which Eielson both suffered and enjoyed his life.”\n—Mario Vargas Llosa \n“David Shook’s translation of Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s ROOM IN ROME rescues an essential voice of contemporary Peruvian poetry. A poet of the world who rebels against national as well as aesthetic borders\, Eielson rejects simplistic discords between social and artistic commitment. His poetry heralds the power of words: gathering them\, sculpting them\, changing them to gunshots.”\n—Katherine Hedeen \n“Alongside his other Roman collection\, Noche oscura del cuerpo\, critics consider ROOM IN ROME to be Eielson’s masterpiece. The collection displays its author’s rare ability to ‘knot’ together past and present\, tradition and novelty\, the anguish of modern life and the resplendence of another\, serene existence within reach.”\n—Martha Canfield \n“There was a time when poetry belonged to the world\, both the known world and the one beyond knowing. Eielson taught me everything.”—Mario Bellatín
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-4/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gary Janetti: Do You Mind If I Cancel?
DESCRIPTION:Gary Janetti discusses his new book\, Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me). \nPraise for Do You Mind If I Cancel? \n“Gary Janetti’s book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny\, so brilliantly observant\, and so full of heart\, I’m sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London.”— Kevin Kwan\, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy \n“The writing of Gary Janetti\, whether televised or tweeted\, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was\, therefore\, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he’s still funny as hell.”— Armistead Maupin\, New York Times bestselling author of The Tales of the City \n“Almost as soon as I began to read Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?\, I found myself feeling the way I felt when I first encountered Fran Lebowitz and David Rakoff: laughing and wanting to shout out the best bits to whoever else was in the room\, even if no one else was there. This crazy quilt of memoir\, cultural history\, one-liners aplenty\, and periodic arias of hopefulness\, frustration\, and brashly rude rage\, is a work of intertwined great humor and great feeling. I’ve already lost my copy\, snatched up by its next eager reader.”— Benjamin Dreyer\, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English \nAbout Do You Mind If I Cancel? \nGary Janetti\, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time\, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is\, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious\, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. \nGary spends his twenties in New York\, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time\, and fantasizes\, as we all do\, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says\, “These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me.” \nOriginal\, brazen\, and laugh out loud funny\, Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-janetti-do-you-mind-if-i-cancel/
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:Elizabeth Strout\, Olive Again
DESCRIPTION:A LITERARY SOIREE WITH ELIZABETH STROUT\nIn Conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie\nOffsite & Ticketed Event at DNA’s Comedy Lab\nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz & KAZU 90.3 \nJoin us for a very special evening when #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout joins us to discuss her highly anticipated new novel\, Olive\, Again\, in which she continues the life of her beloved character Olive Kitteridge. Strout will be in conversation with writer Elizabeth McKenzie at this ticketed event\, cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and KAZU\, which will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab. \nThis great night out\, perfect for book groups and literature lovers\, will also feature a book signing by Elizabeth Strout\, raffle prizes and giveaways\, plus refreshments (including wine and beer) available for purchase. Literary Soiree attendees will have a chance to win great prizes\, including advanced reading copies of fall’s buzz books\, Elizabeth Strout’s paperback books\, tickets to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s upcoming event with Erin Morgenstern of Night Circus fame\, and more. Each attendee will leave with great book recommendations after they stop by curated book stations in the lobby hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz Book Group Ambassadors. Stations will feature selections including “The 5 Best Books My Book Club Have Ever Read” and “Surviving 2020: Books That Will Make You Believe in Humanity.” \nTickets are $32 and include entry for one person to the soiree and one copy of Olive\, Again. \n \nPraise for Olive\, Again: \n“Beautifully written and alive with compassion….A thrilling book in every way.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n“As direct\, funny\, sad\, and human as its heroine\, Strout’s welcome follow-up to Olive Kitteridge portrays the cantankerous retired math teacher in old age. Strout again demonstrates her gift for zeroing in on ordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people to highlight their extraordinary resilience.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-strout-olive-again/
LOCATION:DNA’s Comedy Lab & Experimental Theatre\, 155 S River St\, Sanata Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new novel \nOnly Americans Burn in Hell \npublished by We’ve Heard You Like Books \n\n‘Brilliantly funny … the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see\, and very possibly the last’ Alan Moore \nIt’s 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And its people have been silently robbed of their wealth\, their dignity and their democracy. \nIn this brave new world\, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism\, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING’S FINE – as long as you never\, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings\, or who owns Twitter. \nIt’s 2019 and Jarett Kobek has done the only thing a dissident American novelist can do in those circumstances: he’s joined the party and written fantasy novel about an immortal fairy queen and a shadowy billionaire philanthropist sheikh called Dennis. \nHilarious\, provocative and unmissable\, Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. \nJarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller\, translated into nine languages\, and published in twelve countries.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Brackett presents Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids\, Ourselves\, and Our Society Thrive
DESCRIPTION:MARC BRACKETT presents PERMISSION TO FEEL: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF EMOTIONS TO HELP OUR KIDS\, OURSELVES\, AND OUR SOCIETY THRIVE\nTuesday\, October 29\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here!Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Marc Brackett\, Ph.D. for his new book\, Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids\, Ourselves\, and Our Society Thrive.We have a crisis on our hands\, and its victims are our children. \nMarc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years as an emotion scientist\, he has developed a remarkably effective plan to improve the lives of children and adults  a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely so that they help\, rather than hinder\, our success and well-being. The core of his approach is a legacy from his childhood\, from an astute uncle who gave him permission to feel. He was the first adult who managed to see Marc\, listen to him\, and recognize the suffering\, bullying\, and abuse he’d endured. And that was the beginning of Marcs awareness that what he was going through was temporary. He wasn’t alone\, he wasn’t stuck on a timeline\, and he wasn’t wrong to feel scared\, isolated\, and angry. Now\, best of all\, he could do something about it. \nIn the decades since\, Marc has led large research teams and raised tens of millions of dollars to investigate the roots of emotional well being. His prescription for healthy children (and their parents\, teachers\, and schools) is a system called RULER\, a high-impact and fast-effect approach to understanding and mastering emotions that has already transformed the thousands of schools that have adopted it. RULER has been proven to reduce stress and burnout\, improve school climate\, and enhance academic achievement. This book is the culmination of Marc’s development of RULER and his way to share the strategies and skills with readers around the world. It is tested\, and it works.\n​\nPermission to Feel combines rigor\, science\, passion and inspiration in equal parts. Too many children and adults are suffering; they are ashamed of their feelings and emotionally unskilled\, but they don’t have to be. Marc Brackett’s life mission is to reverse this course\, and this book can show you how. \n——————- \nMarc Brackett\, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a Professor in the Child Study Center of Yale University. He is the lead developer of RULER\, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by nearly 2\,000 pre-K through high schools across the United States and in other countries. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Collaborative for Academic\, Social\, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).\nAs a researcher for over 20 years\, Brackett has focused on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning\, decision making\, creativity\, relationships\, health\, and performance. He has published 125 scholarly articles and received numerous awards and accolades for his work in this area. He also consults regularly with corporations\, such as Facebook\, Microsoft\, and Google on integrating the principles of emotional intelligence into employee training and product design. Most recently\, he co-founded Oji Life Lab\, a corporate learning firm that develops innovative digital learning systems on emotional intelligence.\n​\nBrackett’s mission is to educate the world about the value of emotions and the skills associated with using them wisely. I want everyone to become an emotion scientist\, he says. We need to be curious explorers of our own and others emotions so they can help us achieve our goals and improve our lives. \n​\n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-brackett-presents-permission-to-feel-unlocking-the-power-of-emotions-to-help-our-kids-ourselves-and-our-society-thrive/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism With contributors Linda Hess\, Hilton Obenzinger\,  Henri Picciotto\, Cecilie Surasky and Jordan Wilson-Daizell
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell graduated from Pitzer College with a degree in creative writing. Her work has been published in the magazines Passwords\, Abramelin\, Eskimpi\, andCadaverine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-with-contributors-linda-hess-hilton-obenzinger-henri-picciotto-cecilie-surasky-and-jordan-wilson-daizell/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T203000
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism - Reading With Several Contributors
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful collection of personal narratives\, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range of stories about the roads they have traveled from a Zionist world view to activism in solidarity with Palestinians and Israelis striving to build an inclusive society founded on justice\, equality\, and peaceful coexistence. \nReclaiming Judaism from Zionism will be controversial.  Its contributors welcome the long overdue public debate.  They want to demolish stereotypes of dissenting Jews as ‘self-hating\,’ traitorous\, and anti-Semitic.  They want to introduce readers to the large and growing community of Jewish activists who have created organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace\, If Not Now\, and Open Hillel. They want to strengthen alliances with progressives of all faiths. Above all\, they want to nurture models of Jewish identity that replace ethnic exclusiveness with solidarity\, Zionism with a Judaism once again nourished by a transcendent ethical vision. \nLinda Hess is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.\n\nSydney Levy\, a queer Latinx\, is a co-coordinator of the caucus of Jews of Color\, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in solidarity with Palestine\, and a steering committee member of both the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Global Jewish Network in Solidarity with Palestine.\n\nHilton Obenzinger is a recipient of the American Book Award. His books include This Passover and the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (1980)\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain\, and the Holy Land Mania (1999)\, and Treyf Pesach (2017). He is currently Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University.\n\nHenri Picciotto served on the JVP Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009 and chaired it for much of that period.   He has authored or co-authored many books and articles on math education.\n\nCecilie Surasky has worked as a professional communicator in a variety of social justice movements\, and her film work and political analysis has been featured in film festivals and news outlets all over the world.\n\nJordan Wilson-Dalzell is a queer poet writing about intersections of disability\, feminism\, Judaism\, survivorhood and social justice; her next poetry book\, Baptism by Flame\, will be about finding a home in Judaism that reflects her values.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-judaism-from-zionism-reading-with-several-contributors/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
CREATED:20191016T033725Z
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SUMMARY:Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographical Novel with Alex Chee
DESCRIPTION:Explore the entangling issues of life\, literature\, and politics in Alexander Chee’s Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographic Novel.  Learn how we form our identities in life and art – and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thoughts-on-how-to-write-an-autobiographical-novel-with-alex-chee/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
CREATED:20190823T191500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T191735Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\n1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA \nDeborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She is the author of Soft Targets; The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour\, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press; and Orchidelirium\, which was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. \nLandau studied at Stanford University\, Columbia University\, and Brown University\, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and earned a PhD in English and American xd. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and co-hosted the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com. In 2016\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nMatthew Zapruder is an associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing\, as well as editor at large for Wave Books. He is the author of several collections of poetry\, including Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, in addition to his collaborations and translations. His most recent book is Why Poetry\, a book of prose about reading poetry for a general audience.  \nZapruder’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at New York University\, the New School\, the University of California Riverside – Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Program\, the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst’s Juniper Summer Writing Institute\, and at the University of California at Berkeley as the Holloway Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-landau-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\, 1901 Russell St\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
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SUMMARY:GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN & MIRIAM PAWEL
DESCRIPTION:GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN & MIRIAM PAWEL\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nFriday\, October 25\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJoin author Miriam Pawel and Governor Jerry Brown for a conversation about The Browns of California\, Pawel’s panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation\, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley-told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century. Even in the land of reinvention\, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown\, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown\, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times – and then returned three decades later as the oldest. Through the prism of their lives\, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/governor-jerry-brown-miriam-pawel/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
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SUMMARY:Su Hwang: Bodega
DESCRIPTION:Su Hwang reads from her new poetry collection\, Bodega. \nPraise for Bodega \n“If we are not in denial\, to name one life\, one narrative\, we must name many. This is a responsibility that Su Hwang steps into with elegant care. Her poems in Bodegaare observant and cinematic\, tracing the ways our many-languaged lives come up against each other in these united states. I’ve been waiting for a collection like this\, difficult and prismatic as it is.”―Solmaz Sharif \n“If\, as Wittgenstein posited\, words are probes capable of reaching great depths\, then Su Hwang’s Bodega is a quarry―mining directly into the immigrant heart\, the daughter’s heart\, the American heart. A Barbie is burned and buried ‘without pomp or ballyhoo\,’ the earth ‘slackens\,’ to then reveal a ‘map of storied constellations\,’ and a mother cleans her daughter’s ear with a wood pen: ‘a / series of tiny / digs.’ Real excavation always rends and breaks and works to bring something new into the light. I am grateful for this book\, for all of Hwang’s illuminations.”―Kaveh Akbar \n“Through the poetry of family and community\, the collective and the self\, Su Hwang’s Bodega delivers an unflinching lyric missive to\, and for\, the complicated hearts that power a city––those whose voices and lives\, beautifully and resolutely rendered\, defy dismissal.”―Khadijah Queen \nAbout Bodega \nAgainst the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots\, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents’ bodega in the Queensbridge projects\, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work. \nIn Su Hwang’s rich lyrical and narrative poetics\, the bodega and its surrounding neighborhoods are cast not as mere setting\, but as an ecosystem of human interactions where a dollar passed from one stranger to another is an act of peaceful revolution\, and desperate acts of violence are “the price / of doing business in the projects where we / were trapped inside human cages–binding us / in a strange circus where atoms of haves / and have-nots always forcefully collide.” These poems also reveal stark contrasts in the domestic lives of immigrants\, as the speaker’s own family must navigate the many personal\, cultural\, and generational chasms that arise from having to assume a hyphenated identity–lending a voice to the traumatic toll invisibility\, assimilation\, and sacrifice take on so many pursuing the American Dream. \n“We each suffer alone in / tandem\,” Hwang declares\, but in Bodega\, she has written an antidote to this solitary hurt–an incisive poetic debut that acknowledges and gives shape to anguish as much as it cherishes human life\, suggesting frameworks for how we might collectively move forward with awareness and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/su-hwang-bodega/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
CREATED:20190823T193212Z
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SUMMARY:Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley
DESCRIPTION:October 25\, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley\nBruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Bruce’s haiku have been published world-wide and have won numerous awards including the Haiku Poets of Northern California Chime Award (2012)\, First Place in the HPNC International Senryu Contest (2012)\, First Prize in the Haiku Canada Betty Drevnoik Award (2018)\, Third Place in the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2011)\, First Place in the Hawaii Education Association Twenty-Eighth Annual International Haiku Contest\, Hawaii Word (2005)\, and the Individual Poem Haiku Foundation Touchstone Shortlist (2011).  His haiku have been chosen four times for the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. Old Enough(2016)\, Sunrise on the Lodge (2010) and\, A New Moon (2004) were published by Red Moon Press.  Bruce is on the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation\, chairs The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards\, and is the Vice-President of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. \nRenée Owen‘s reading will feature haiku & haibun\, accompanied by her musician husband\, Brian Foster\, on shakuhachi. Her full-length collection\, Alone on a Wild Coast\, jointly received first prize in the Snapshot Press Book Awards and Honourable Mention in the 2014 Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. She edited Scent of the Past…Imperfect (Two Autumns Press)\, receiving Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2017 Merit Book Awards. Renée’s handsewn chapbook Blossoms was commended in Modern Haiku\, and her poetry\, widely published internationally\, has won numerous awards\, including Haiku Society of America contests\, CVHC’s Kilbride Haibun Contests\, and the San Francisco International Haiku and Rengay Competitions. Renée serves on The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards’ Individual Haiku juror panel\, has judged numerous contests\, and has selections of her work featured in Haiku 21 and New Resonance 7:Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. Her poetry is also featured in her award-winning mixed-media book & fiber artwork. A practicing psychotherapist\, she enjoys hiking the wilds near her North Bay home. \nA native San Franciscan\, Chuck Brickley lived in rural British Columbia for thirty-five years. He was Associate Editor of Modern Haiku under the editorship of Bob Spiess from 1980-1985. In addition to haiku magazines\, his work has appeared in numerous anthologies\, including Canadian Haiku Anthology (edited by George Swede)\, Haiku: Anthologie Canadienne/Canadian Anthology (edited by Dorothy Howard\, André Duhaime)\, The Haiku Anthology (edited Cor Van Den Heuvel)\, and the Norton Anthology Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years (edited by Jim Kacian\, Phillip Rowland\, Allan Burns). His book of haiku\, earthshine(Snapshot Press\, 2017) won a Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books from The Haiku Foundation (2017)\, and a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award Honorable Mention (2017). His haibun Is Where The Car Is was nominated last year for a Pushcart Prize. \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/haiku-with-bruce-feingold-renee-owen-chuck-brickley/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
CREATED:20190930T192118Z
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SUMMARY:Open Call for Poets
DESCRIPTION:Mangalam Center’s Mindful Art Gallery presents:\nThe Joy of Being a Poet – Mindful Expression Through Poetry \nWe are looking for poems that explore the theme of mindful expression.\nSubmissions should be no more than 3 minutes when read.\nSelected poets will be given a time slot to read their work around the gallery. \nClick the link below for detailed information and access to the submission form\nhttps://forms.gle/dMjjRu4kzCe6zV27A\nDeadline: September 24th\, 2019
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-call-for-poets/
LOCATION:Mangalam Center\, 2018 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA 94704
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
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SUMMARY:Rosalind Brackenbury returns to read from her exquisite new novel\, Without Her.
DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Without Her in advance by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her house in the south of France\, everyone assumes that Claudia\, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school\, will know where she is\, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah’s husband and children conduct their search\, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah\, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover\, Alexandre. As events unfold\, Claudia begins to wonder if Hannah and Alexandre may have had an affair and if that has had something to do with Hannah’s mysterious disappearance. In this exquisitely written\, Ferrante-esque novel\, the question of whether or not Hannah will come back becomes urgent and bewildering. And if she doesn’t come back\, what will the lives of her friends and family be without her? \nPoet and novelist Rosalind Brackenbury is the author of Becoming George Sand\, Paris Still Life\, The Third Swimmer\, and The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier. A former writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary\, she has also served as poet laureate of Key West\, teaching poetry workshops. Born in London\, Rosalind lived in Scotland and France before moving to the United States. She now lives in Key West. Her latest poetry collection\, Invisible Horses\, was published in May. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosalind-brackenbury-returns-to-read-from-her-exquisite-new-novel-without-her/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
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SUMMARY:Jodie Hollander: My Dark Horses
DESCRIPTION:Jodie Hollander reads from her new poetry collection\, My Dark Horses. With readings by poets Francesca Bell and Amanda Moore. \nAbout My Dark Horses \nSet against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians\, Jodie Hollander’s beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter’s maturing relationship with her mother. Interspersed with versions of Rimbaud\, and always alert to the surreal comedy of the human condition\, these powerful and immediate poems chart with huge passion\, musicality and insight a complex journey towards familial understanding and reconciliation. \nJodie Hollander was raised in a family of classical musicians. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Poetry Review\, The Dark Horse\, The Rialto\, Verse Daily\, The Warwick Review\, The Manchester Review\, Australia’s Best Poems\, 2011\, and Australia’s Best Poems of 2015. Her debut pamphlet\, The Humane Society\, was released with Tall-Lighthouse in 2012. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa\, and was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship in 2015. \nFrancesca Bell’s poems appear in many journals\, including ELLE\, New Ohio Review\, North American Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Rattle. Her translations from Arabic and German appear in Arc\, B O D Y\, Circumference\, Mid-American Review\, and The Massachusetts Review. She is the co-translator of Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish’s collection\, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat\, 2017)\, and the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press\, 2019). She is the former poetry editor of River Styx and lives with her family in California. \nAmanda Moore’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA\, Cream City Review\, Best New Poets\, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting. Her craft and lyric essays have appeared in theBaltimore Review\, Hippocampus\, on the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center Blog\, and Women’s Voices for Change\, where she is a contributing editor for Poetry Sunday. She is the recipient of awards from The Writing Salon\, Brush Creek Arts Foundation\, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She received her MFA in poetry from Cornell University\, where she served as Managing Editor for EPOCH magazine. Currently a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center and 2019 Fellow at The Writers Grotto\, Amanda is a high school teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jodie-hollander-my-dark-horses/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
CREATED:20190827T022226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T022226Z
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SUMMARY:For Small Creatures Such As We: A Conversation with Sasha Sagan
DESCRIPTION:Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents\, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty\, that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. \nWhen Sasha herself became a mother\, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions—from births to deaths\, holidays to weddings\, anniversaries\, and more—growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on religious frameworks. \nSasha’s first book\, For Small Creatures Such as We\, is part memoir\, part guidebook\, and part social history—a luminous exploration of Earth’s marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. \nJoin Sasha as she shares these rituals\, stories of her experiences celebrating life itself\, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together. \nCopies of Sasha Sagan’s book\, For Small Creatures Such as We\, will be available for sale at this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/for-small-creatures-such-as-we-a-conversation-with-sasha-sagan/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190824T210846Z
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SUMMARY:Adam Rippon / Beautiful on the Outside
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special event with Adam Rippon\, the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics\, for his memoir Beautiful on the Outside. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. Each ticket includes a presigned copy of Beautiful on the Outside. Tickets are available here. \nYour mom probably told you it’s what on the inside that counts. Well\, then she was never a competitive figure skater. Olympic medalist Adam Rippon has been making it pretty for the judges even when\, just below the surface\, everything was an absolute mess. From traveling to practices on the Greyhound bus next to ex convicts to being so poor he could only afford to eat the free apples at his gym\, Rippon got through the toughest times with a smile on his face\, a glint in his eye\, and quip ready for anyone listening. Beautiful on the Outside looks at his journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton\, Pennsylvania\, to a self-professed American sweetheart on the world stage and all the disasters and self-delusions it took to get him there. Yeah\, it may be what’s on the inside that counts\, but life is so much better when it’s beautiful on the outside. \n\nAdam Rippon is an Olympic athlete and medal-winning figure skater. He won the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the 2016 U.S. National Championships and was selected to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang\, South Korea. He came out as gay in October 2015 and\, at the 2018 Winter Olympics\, won a bronze medal as part of the figure skating team event\, thus becoming the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics. Later that year\, he won season 26 of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. Hilarious and inspirational\, Adam is absolutely beloved by his thousands of fans. \n\n– This is an all-ages\, ticketed event. Each ticket admits one person and includes a pre-signed copy of Beautiful on the Outside. No exceptions. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Beautiful on the Outside\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Adam cannot sign memorabilia. Photos will be allowed from attendees’ phones. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have any special needs\, please write to events@booksmith.com and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you. \n– Facebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-rippon-beautiful-on-the-outside/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
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SUMMARY:Benedicte Maurseth in conversation with David Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:discussiing the subject of \nTo Be Nothing: Conversations with Knut Hamre\, Hardanger Fiddle Master \nby Benedicte Maurseth \npublished by Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press \n\nDialogues between student and master about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. \nKnut Hamre has devoted his life to playing the Hardanger fiddle—a unique folk violin with resonating strings beneath\, like a sitar’s—and to teaching new generations the secrets of this ancient music\, rooted in a stark and beautiful land. Benedicte Maurseth is one of his most accomplished students\, an internationally known artist who has recorded for the ECM label. In a book that brings to mind such classics as Zen and the Art of Archery and Wabi Sabi\, the student and her master together explore the quest for excellence and originality in the heart of a living tradition. \nAt once mystical and practical\, To Be Nothing is a series of dialogues about music\, learning\, teaching\, the healing power of art\, and the art of life itself. With photographs evoking the rugged landscapes and people from which this music springs and the exquisite beauty of the fiddles themselves\, this is a work as serene as a fjord\, and as deep. \nBenedicte Maurseth is a Norwegian folk musician\, composer\, and writer. She began her study of the Hardanger fiddle with Knut Hamre at the age of eight. She has toured in Norway and internationally\, and has made several recordings on Grappa and ECM. In 2017 she was awarded the NOPA Music Prize for her outstanding contribution to the Norwegian music scene. \nvisit: https://www.maurseth.net/ \nDavid Rothenberg is the Series Editor of Terra Nova Books and is distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books investigating music in nature\, including Why Birds Sing\, Survival of the Beautiful\, and Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise. His writings have been translated into more than eleven languages and among his twenty one music CDs is One Dark Night I Left My Silent House\, on ECM. \nTerra Nova Books aim to show how environmental issues have cultural and artistic components\, in addition to the scientific and political. Combining essays\, reportage\, fiction\, art\, and poetry\, Terra Nova Books reveal the complex and paradoxical ways the natural and the human are continually redefining each other. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benedicte-maurseth-in-conversation-with-david-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T210000
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb\, a playwriting workshop and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-peter-nachtrieb-a-playwriting-workshop-and-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T200000
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SUMMARY:Dav Pilkey\, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome worldwide bestselling children’s author Dav Pilkey back to Santa Cruz for a ticketed event at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium to celebrate his new Dog Man book\, For Whom the Ball Rolls. Produced in partnership with Allterra Solar\, and cosponsored by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nTickets are on sale via Brown Paper Tickets. General Admission Tickets are $21.00 (plus service fee). Each ticket contains two general admission seats (one adult\, one child) for Dav Pilkey’s presentation\, a photo line number to meet Dav Pilkey\, access to all games and activities\, and one copy of Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls with signed book plate (distributed at the event). \n \nJoin us for Dav Pilkey’s Do Good Tour event in Santa Cruz—featuring a presentation and live drawing by Pilkey\, immersive activities and games for kids\, photo-ops with Dog Man and Captain Underpants\, and of course\, meeting Dav Pilkey himself! Each ticket package access to the event and all activities\, as well as a copy of Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls with a signed book plate. \nDoors will open and activities will begin at 4:30 pm with Pilkey’s presentation beginning at 6:00 pm. Dav Pilkey will be giving a presentation at 6:00 pm. His presentation will be followed by activities\, games\, and giveaways\, as well as his photo op line. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Civic Auditorium during the event. \nThe Supa Buddies have been working hard to help Dog Man overcome his bad habits. But when his obsessions turn to fears\, Dog Man finds himself the target of an all-new supervillain! Meanwhile\, Petey the Cat has been released from jail and starts a new life with Li’l Petey. But when Petey’s own father arrives\, Petey must face his past to understand the difference between being good and doing good. \nDav Pilkey’s wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes\, including empathy\, kindness\, persistence\, and the importance of being true to one’s self. \nDAV PILKEY is the creator of many acclaimed children’s books\, including Dogzilla\, Kat Kong\, god bless the gargoyles\, and the bestselling Captain Underpants series. His book The Paperboy received a Caldecott Honor. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. www.pilkey.com \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dav-pilkey-dog-man-for-whom-the-ball-rolls/
LOCATION:santa cruz civic auditorium\, 307 Church St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T215248
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SUMMARY:Michael Nava: Carved in Bone
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Q&A with the six-time Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery writer\, Michael Nava. \nMichael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios\, who The New Yorker called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of an award-winning historical novel\, The City of Palaces\, set at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution. His first new Rios novel in 20 years\, Carved in Bone\, was released by Persigo Press on October 1\, 2019. Set in San Francisco in 1984\, Kirkus praised the book for its “refreshing emotional depth and a gay narrative seldom seen in thrillers.” Publisher’s Weekly said of the novel: “An authentic portrait of [San Francisco] in the early days of the AIDS crisis complements a satisfying mystery.” \nIn addition\, he is the writer/producer of the Henry Rios Mysteries Podcast which adapted the first Rios novel\, Lay Your Sleeping Head into an 18-episode audio drama available on I-tunes\, Spotify and other podcast platforms. In 2019\, he founded Persigo Press\, through which he hopes to publish LGBTQ writers and writers of color who write genre fiction that combines fidelity to the conventions of their genre with exceptional literary merit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-nava-carved-in-bone/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T170000
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SUMMARY:John James with Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:John James with Henri Cole\nThursday\, December 5\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n    \ncelebrating the release of John James’ new collection of poetry \nThe Milk Hours \npublished by Milkweed Editions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom—or what—do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nJohn James is the author of The Milk Hours\, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. New York Review Books recently published a collection of prose title Orphic Paris. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nAbout Milkweed Editions \nJust as the common milkweed plant is the site of metamorphosis for monarch butterflies\, Milkweed Editions seeks to be a site of metamorphosis in the literary ecosystem. We take risks on debut and experimental writers\, we invest significant time and care in the editorial process\, and we enable dynamic engagement between authors and readers. We operate as a nonprofit to pursue these ends without overbearing financial pressure. And yet\, though profits aren’t our primary focus\, helping our authors succeed certainly is. Just so\, since our founding in 1980\, we’ve published over 350 books of literary fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry and now have over four million copies in circulation. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world\, and that bringing new voices to essential conversations is the clearest path to ensuring a vibrant\, diverse\, and empowered future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-james-with-henri-cole/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T170000
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Jelani Cobb
DESCRIPTION:IBRAM X. KENDI\nin conversation with Jelani Cobb\nThursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nCultural Studies \n  \nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s newest book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, re-energizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America\, asking us to think about what an antiracist society might look like\, and how we can play an active role in building it. \nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi-in-conversation-with-jelani-cobb/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T213000
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Weschler
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\n\n\n\n\npresents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks\, the untold story of the famous neurologist\, his own most singular patient. \n“The story of Lawrence Weschler’s faithful four-decade friendship with the amazing Oliver Sacks offers pleasures and amazements on every page. This loving but unblinking portrait will delight fans of Dr. Sacks as well as devotees of Weschler’s always-pathfinding nonfiction.”–Ian Frazier \nTo reserve your seat in advance please purchase a copy of And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? by speaking with a bookseller or clicking on the cover image below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s\, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier\, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings–the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success\, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years\, the two men worked closely together until\, for wracking personal reasons\, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile\, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends\, however\, across the next thirty years and then\, just as Sacks was dying\, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. \nWeschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief\, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious\, ribald\, hilarious\, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say\, How do you be? \nA question which Weschler\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nLawrence Weschler\, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR\, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and the author of nearly twenty books\, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees\, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, Everything That Rises\, and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lawrence-weschler/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T210000
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SUMMARY:Jake Brennan: Disgraceland
DESCRIPTION:Jake Brennan discusses his new book\, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away With Murder and Behaving Very Badly. \nPraise for Disgraceland \n“Through his gritty and powerful stories\, Brennan breathes new life into the music and musicians we’ve known all our lives.”—Aaron Mahnke\, author and creator of Lore \n“Jake Brennan is writing from a crossroads- the junction of music and crime. One road leads to the Elysian Fields\, the other\, to the Underworld. Some of these magicians have been down both.”—T Bone Burnett\, Oscar and Grammy winning musician and producer \n“Mix the true crime mythology of rock ‘n’ roll with a dash of transgressive fiction\, then add 10 cc of adrenaline and twice that in anabolic steroids. Employing due caution\, enter Jake Brennan’s brain as translated in Disgraceland to observe the dark results–Elvis locked in unholy union with the parasitic Colonel Tom Parker\, why Jerry Lee Lewis was called the Killer\, Altamont. Axl Rose. Chuck Berry. And\, of course\, the truly twisted Phil Spector. It all works brilliantly because Jake genuinely loves rock ‘n’ roll just as much as he enjoys indulging his imagination and wickedly stylish sense of humor.”—Dennis McNally\, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead \nAbout Disgraceland \nFrom the creator of the popular rock ‘n’ roll true crime podcast\, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter\, hysterical\, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. \nYou may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager’s office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that\, or would your love for his music triumph? \nReal rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder\, drug trafficking\, rape\, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what’s expected. It’s baked into the cake. Deep down\, way down\, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong\, when it comes down to it\, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons\, ones that drove Elvis Presley\, Phil Spector\, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they’re so damn entertaining. \nDISGRACELAND is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world’s most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new\, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize\, DISGRACELAND shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles\, tabloids\, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry–a glittery stage populated by gangsters\, drug dealers\, pimps\, groupies with violence\, scandal and pure unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll entertainment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jake-brennan-disgraceland/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T210000
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SUMMARY:Tui Sutherland\, Wings of Fire
DESCRIPTION:Tui T. Sutherland—bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series\, the Menagerie trilogy\, and the Pet Troubleseries—will join us to read and sign copies of her enthralling new books\, Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic\, Book 3) and The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire\, Book 13). \nThe Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire\, Book 13) \nThe New York Times bestselling series continues with a thrilling revelation—brand-new tribes of dragons! There are dark secrets in the jungle\, though—some that Sundew is keeping\, and some that she’s only just beginning to discover. And now that a new war is upon them\, Sundew and her friends must unearth the oldest secret in the jungle—even if what they find has the power to destroy them all. \nHidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic\, Book 3) \nThe #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the third graphic novel adaptation! Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being “a lazy RainWing.” Maybe she wasn’t meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny\, but Glory is sharp and her venom is deadly…even if that’s still a secret. \nTui T. Sutherland is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wings of Fire series\, the Menagerie trilogy\, and the Pet Trouble series\, as well as a contributing author to the bestselling Spirit Animals and Seekers series (as part of the Erin Hunter team). In 2009\, she was a two-day champion on Jeopardy! She lives in Massachusetts with her wonderful husband\, two awesome sons\, and two very patient dogs. To learn more about Tui’s books\, visit her online at tuibooks.com. \n  \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 us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by October 22nd\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tui-sutherland-wings-of-fire/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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