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SUMMARY:Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 6\, 730pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nTamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50\,000-Year History of Human Culture\, Conflict\, and Connection. \n  \nABOUT \nFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history\, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age \nTraveling across millennia\, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant\, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won)\, geographic (farmers thrive)\, or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. \nMany thousands of years ago\, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness\, we began inventing stories–to organize for survival\, to find purpose and meaning\, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires\, civilizations\, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap\, the encounters produced everything from confusion\, chaos\, and war to cultural efflorescence\, religious awakenings\, and intellectual breakthroughs. \nThrough vivid stories studded with insights\, Tamim Ansary illuminates the world-historical consequences of the unique human capacity to invent and communicate abstract ideas. In doing so\, he also explains our ever-more-intertwined present: the narratives now shaping us\, the reasons we still battle one another\, and the future we may yet create. \nPRAISE \n“A beautifully written world history focused on the stories different civilizations have told about who we are. It ends with a fundamental question: In today’s extraordinary world\, can we build new narratives that are inclusive and global enough to encourage worldwide cooperation in the task of building a better future for humanity?”―David Christian\, distinguished professor\, Macquarie University\, Sydney\, Australia\, and author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History and Origin Story: A Big History of Everything \n“Tamim Ansary has done it again\, writing an expansive\, wonderfully readable account of our present world. With deft examples drawn from across history\, he skewers the idea that there’s anything pure about culture or race. Ideas have blended and meshed across space and time to make the modern world what it is. Ansary is a charming guide to this blesh of civilizations\, and to the world’s permanent-and hopeful-capacity for change.”―Raj Patel\, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System \n“Brimming with essential insights and yet always approachable\, this is the global history we need now.”―Lynn Hunt\, author of Writing History in the Global Era \n“Weaving together multiple complex strands of the human experience into a single compelling storyline\, Ansary delivers-in his usual down-to-earth yet erudite style-an engaging global ‘narrative of narratives’ informed by decades of critical study\, reflection\, and personal transcultural experience. A deeply enriching\, highly relevant read from an important\, unique voice of our day.”―R. Charles Weller\, Central Eurasian and Islamic world history\, Washington State and Kazakh National University \n“The Invention of Yesterday is an insightful guide into human civilization packed with information that shows how we have been connected globally since the beginning of history. Tamim Ansary unpacks complicated theories to make sense of how we became who we are today.”―Fariba Nawa\, author of Opium Nation: Child Brides\, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Afghanistan \n“Ansary offers a remarkable big-picture synthesis that draws upon geography but resists determinism\, and celebrates diversity while embracing humanity’s commonalities.”―Booklist \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nTamim Ansary is the author of Destiny Disrupted and Games without Rules\, among other books. For ten years he wrote a monthly column for Encarta.com\, and has published essays and commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon\, Alternet\, TomPaine.com\, Edutopia\, Parade\, Los Angeles Times\, and elsewhere. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show\, Bill Moyers\, PBS The News Hour\, Al Jazeera\, and NPR. Born in Afghanistan in 1948\, he moved to the U.S. in 1964. He lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 6\, 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/tamim-ansary-discusses-the-invention-of-yesterday/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ANDRÉ ACIMAN & ANDREW SEAN GREER In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:Andre Aciman is a memoirist\, essayist\, novelist\, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name\, Aciman’s best-known novel\, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel\, Find Me\, catches up with beloved characters Elio and Oliver in adulthood. Aciman is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \nNovelist Andrew Sean Greer is the author of six books including The Confessions of Max Tivoli (“enchanting\, in the perfumed\, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov”  – John Updike) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Less\, a comedy about a man fleeing the humiliations of love\, middle-age\, and failure by accepting invitations that lead to a trip around the world and back. \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. His past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Sally Mann\, Zadie Smith\, Michael Chabon\, and Edward St. Aubyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-andrew-sean-greer-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses
DESCRIPTION:Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel\, On Swift Horses. \nPraise for On Swift Horses \n“Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. On Swift Horses is\, for me\, one of those books. As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight\, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace\, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. It is\, simply put\, a masterpiece.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena   \n“On Swift Horses is about both risk and the risqué\, about daring to know\, name\, and act on our own desires. Read this book for the adventure\, for the keening lyricism of the lost and searching\, but mostly read this book because no one writes like Shannon Pufahl. Her voice is muscular\, awesome\, and pure. This book knocked me flat on my back.” —Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals \n“On Swift Horses is a marvel\, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw\, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. Shannon Pufahl’s mid-century West is dead-on right\, as recognizable as a box of old photos and yet completely original in voice and scope.” —Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nAbout On Swift Horses \nA lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. \nMuriel is newly married and restless\, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus\, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother\, dead before Muriel’s nineteenth birthday\, and her sly\, itinerant brother-in-law\, Julius\, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop\, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile\, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas\, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof\, and falling in love with Henry\, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town\, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana\, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another. \nOn Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck\, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-pufahl-on-swift-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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SUMMARY:Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S.  They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with musician and artist Walter Steding. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Neeli Cherkovski (SF)\, Joan Gelfand (SF)\, Matthew Hupert (NYC)\, Deborah Kennedy (San Jose)\, Mira Martin-Parker (SF)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and SB Stokes (Oakland). \nHosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea to call your very own. \n  \nRelease party for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nBirds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea \n  \na reading by \nNeeli Cherkovski\nJoan Gelfand\nMatthew Hupert\nDeborah Kennedy\nMira Martin-Parker\nRichard Loranger\nand SB Stokes \nplus a brief open mic \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, and The Crow and I (2015). He is the co-editor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). In addition\, Neeli has written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children. His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Neeli received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJoan Gelfand is the author of You Can Be a Winning Writer: The 4 C’s of Successful Authors (Mango Press)\, three volumes of poetry\, and an award-winning chapbook of short fiction. Joan’s novel set in a Silicon Valley startup is forthcoming from Mastodon  /  C&R Press. Recipient of numerous awards and honors\, Joan’s work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Prairie Schooner\, Toronto Review\, Marsh Hawk Review\, Kalliope\, Rattle\, Levure littéraire\, and many other journals. \nMatthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist. He is the founder of the NeuroNautic Institute and its associated poetry workshop and of NeuroNautic Press which just released his latest collection\, Secular Pantheism. He is the author of Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and several chapbooks\, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications including Midstream Magazine\, Maintenant\, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. When not writing\, Matthew can be found cooking for his family. He lives in New York City. \nDeborah Kennedy is an author and artist whose recent book\, Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth\, combines illustrations and poetry focusing on the ecological themes of our time. The book’s honors include the 2016 Eric Hoffer Poetry Book Award and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Poetry Book Award. Her writing has appeared in First Literary Review-East and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Deborah lives in San Jose and teaches college classes and poetry workshops. She often hikes in an urban riparian corridor where she spots osprey\, hawks\, and herons. In the evening she watches for moonbows\, earthshine\, and other modern miracles. \n Mira Martin-Parker earned an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in various publications\, including Istanbul Literary Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, Mythium\, and Zyzzyva. \nRichard Loranger is a multi-genre writer\, performer\, musician\, visual artist\, and all-around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the founder of Poetea\, a monthly literary conversation group. His publications include the books Sudden Windows\, Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, nine chapbooks\, and work in over 100 magazines and journals. He curates the reading series Babar in Exile\, and the queer talk and reading series #we. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nS B Stokes writes\, draws\, designs\, and produces in the hills behind a lake in Oakland\, California. His publications include a full-length poetry collection called A History of Broken Love Things (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, a chapbook entitled DARK ENTRIES (Gorilla Press  / The Pedestrian Press\, 2014)\, and a self-published chapbook called Let’s Call This Nothing (2018). S  B is one of the founding producers of Beast Crawl\, an annual literary festival in Oakland which features over thirty readings and is 100% free. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 5\, 2019 at 6:30pm\nJane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres\nA Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club\n2101 Webster St.\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\nPoems in Defense of Our Planet: Please join us at Sierra Club’s national headquarters in Oakland\, CA as we hear two insightful poets read their inspiring work to support Sierra Club’s mission to protect the world we love. Beer\, wine\, and small bites will be served. \nRSVP and Donate Here \nCan’t make it? To make a tax-deductible donation through Sierra Club Foundation\, click here. Thank you. \nJane Hirshfield’s ninth\, forthcoming poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020)\, centered on the crises of climate and biosphere\, and on our interconnection with one another and all beings.  She is the founder of #PoetsForScience\, a project originating with the first March For Science in D.C. in 2017\, and the author of two now-classic books of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as Poetry Center and California Book Awards. The Washington Post has named her “among the modern masters” and the New York Times called her last book\, The Beauty\, “a deep well of wisdom.” \nEllery Akers is the author of two award-winning poetry books\, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth. Her new poetry collection\, Swerve: Environmentalism\, Feminism\, and Resistance\, is forthcoming in January from Blue Light Press.  She has won thirteen writing awards\, including the Poetry International Prize and an Independent Publisher Book Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in such journals as Poetry and The New York Times Magazine.  She is also the author of a children’s novel\, Sarah’s Waterfall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ellery-acres-a-benefit-reading-for-the-sierra-club/
LOCATION:Sierra Club National Headquarters\, 2101 Webster St\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\, CA - California
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Raina Telgemeier
DESCRIPTION:Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT\n\n\n\n\npresents Guts\, a true story from the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile\, Sisters\, Drama\, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny tale about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–her fears. \nThis event is now SOLD OUT. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRaina Telgemeier has been captivating readers young and old for years\, and once again she brings us a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–your fears. She is the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile and Sisters\, which are both graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts\, and is the adapter and illustrator of four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. Telgemeier lives in the Bay Area. To learn more\, visit her online at goRaina.com. \nDuring this evening event\, sponsored by Mrs. Dalloway’s and Berkwood Hedge School\, Telgemeier will give a dynamic presentation and answer audience questions\, and ticketholders will have the opportunity to meet her and take a photo together after the event. \nBooks will be distributed at the event\, including a special signed book plate. Those who wish to pick up their books before the event can do so at Mrs. Dalloway’s\, 2904 College Ave in Berkeley\, (510) 704-8222. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way @ Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raina-telgemeier/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning in the Doolan-Larson Building
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 4 in the Doolan-Larson Building\n\n\n\n\na literary mixtape\, featuring: \nA.A. Vincent\nNoah Sanders\nAnna Allen\nChelsea Davis\nKelly Alsup\nAbe Becker\nEmilie Osborn\nGenie Cartier\nDiana Donovan\nFernando Meisenhalter\nSerena Chan\nLauren Ito\nJC Walker\nRichelle Lee Slota \nand the artwork of Zoltron \n\nCurated by Hadas Goshen & Kevin Madrigal and featuring all kinds of writing\, this one-night-only show is $15 to attend and includes a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 102 featuring all of the selected writing and covers by Zoltron. \nDue to space constraints\, only 50 guests are allowed. Tickets are for sale here\, with all proceeds going toward our 10th anniversary fundraiser. Door tickets are not guaranteed\, so we recommend you get your tickets now! Unless otherwise noted here\, tickets are still available. \nAbout the Doolan Larson Building\nRecently named the 100th National Treasure by the National Register of Historic Places\, the building is at the corner of Haight & Ashbury streets\, where the store Mnasidika opened in 1965 by an openly bisexual woman named Peggy Caserta. Caserta convinced Levi Strauss to make bell bottoms\, and was Janis Joplin’s ‘primary female love interest’ from ’66 until Joplin’s death in 1970. You can read more about it here (and in a biography Caserta has recently published). This is sure to be an intimate event – take a virtual tour if you’d like! \nUpstairs @ the Doolan-Larson Building\, photo by Evan Karp\nTaking a tour of the building\nSF Heritage will be conducting a tour of the building for up to 12 people at 6:45pm\, before the show\, and another tour of the same size following the show. Tickets for the tour must be purchased in advance. \n\nGet tickets! \nStatistics\nThanks to everyone who sent in writing. We received 60 submissions and accepted 14 (23%). Of those selected\, only 4 have read or performed with us before (29%). 10 (71%) of the selected authors will be reading for Quiet Lightning for the first time. \n\n\n\nSubmissions are open for the first show of our second decade! Curated by Disruptor Sophia Passin and her co-curator of choice\, Kathleen Torrez\, this show will be on January 6\, 2020 at a special location to be announced soon. Submissions are open through Wednesday\, December 11 @ 11:59pm. \n\nfeatured image: Norm Larson in the Doolan-Larson Building\, by Christopher Michel
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-in-the-doolan-larson-building/
LOCATION:Doolan-Larson Building\, 557 Ashbury St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ramesh Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nBeyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow \nPublished by The MIT Press \n\nHow to repair the disconnect between designers and users\, producers and consumers\, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. \nIn this provocative book\, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics\, economics\, and other inefficient\, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results\, the convenience of buying from Amazon\, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices\, but it’s a one-way\, top-down process. We’re not asked for our input\, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It’s time\, Srinivasan argues\, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. \nSrinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users\, producers and consumers\, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet\, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca\, East and West Africa\, China\, Scandinavia\, North America\, and elsewhere\, visiting the “design labs” of rural\, low-income\, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren\, David Axelrod\, Eric Holder\, Noam Chomsky\, Lawrence Lessig\, and the founders of Reddit\, as well as community organizers\, labor leaders\, and human rights activists.. To make a better internet\, Srinivasan says\, we need a new ethic of diversity\, openness\, and inclusivity\, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed\, who profits from them\, and who are surveilled and exploited by them. \nRamesh Srinivasan is Professor of Information Studies and Design Media Arts at UCLA. He makes regular appearances on NPR\, The Young Turks\, MSNBC\, and Public Radio International\, and his writings have been published in the Washington Post\, Quartz\, Huffington Post\, CNN\, and elsewhere. \nvisit: http://rameshsrinivasan.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ramesh-srinivasan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt
DESCRIPTION:50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\nSunday\, November 3\, 2pm – 3pm \nPegasus families\, come join author Wendy Gorton for an afternoon of adventure with your littles! \nWe will: \n-Read an adventure storybook\n-Read a local map\n-Plan our adventure!\n-Take photos and identify scavenger hunt plants out front and try a fun identification app on a phone\n-Trace plants and sketch in a provided nature journal\n-Read “”50 Hikes with Kids” to plan your next adventure!\n-Sign books \nA Love of Nature Starts Here! \nCalifornia kids live in a magnificent natural playground\, and 50 Hikes with Kids California helps them explore its beaches\, deserts\, mountains\, and forests. Scavenger hunts for every hike make it fun for families to learn about the region’s geology\, flora\, and fauna. For successful adventures with even the youngest trekkers\, award-winning author Wendy Gorton includes a detailed map\, trustworthy and intuitive directions\, a difficulty rating\, restroom info\, and places to grab a snack nearby for every trip. \nWendy Gorton holds a master’s degree in learning technologies and is a former classroom teacher. She has worked as a National Geographic Fellow in Australia researching Tasmanian devils\, a PolarTREC teacher researcher in archaeology in Alaska\, an Earthwatch teacher fellow in the Bahamas and New Orleans\, and a GoNorth! teacher explorer studying climate change via dogsled in Finland\, Norway\, and Sweden. Today\, she is a global education consultant who has traveled to more than fifty countries to design programs\, build communities\, and train other educators to do the same. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, November 3\, 2019 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/50-hikes-with-kids-reading-and-nature-scavenger-hunt/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: Holding on to Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne discusses her new novel\, Holding on to Nothing. \nPraise for Holding on to Nothing \n“Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the South\, all whiskey\, bluegrass\, Dolly Parton\, tobacco fields\, and women who know better but still fall for the lowdown men whom they know will disappoint them. Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne writes with extraordinary love and compassion of the lives of her flawed characters; she shines a clear\, calm light on their tragedies\, their joys\, and their hard-won redemptions.”—Lauren Groff\, Florida and Fates and Furies \n“Forget Hillbilly Elegy and read this gorgeous novel instead. Every detail is exactly right. Contemporary themes of work and no work\, drinking\, sex\, guns\, music\, community\, and no future—along with in-depth character development and a hard-driving plot—make this a book you literally cannot put down.”—Lee Smith\, Dimestore and The Last Girls \n“With her immense empathy for her characters\, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne refuses to give the reader a simple\, and stereotypical\, tale of Appalachian dysfunction. Instead\, we get a story of a seemingly star-crossed couple striving to create a better life in the most trying of circumstances. Holding On To Nothing is a gem.”—Ron Rash\, Serena \nAbout Holding on to Nothing \nLucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing\, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents\, Jeptha Taylor\, who becomes the father of her child. Together\, these two young people work to form a family\, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that\, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music\, tobacco fields\, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting season. Their path is harrowing\, but Lucy and Jeptha are characters to love\, and readers will root for their success in a novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know whether this family will survive. \nIn luminous prose\, debut novelist Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us a present-day Appalachian story in the tradition of Lee Smith\, Silas House\, and Ron Rash\, cast without sentiment or clich \, but with a genuine and profound understanding of the place and its people.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-chiles-shelburne-holding-on-to-nothing/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T170000
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 201 November 2\, December 7\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-10/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T210000
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SUMMARY:Mikhal Dekel: Tehran Children
DESCRIPTION:Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book\, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. \nPraise for Tehran Children \n“A revelatory history\, a saga of flight and welcome\, of death and head-down survival\, a powerful narrative built for this moment. Dekel’s sweeping storytelling is marked by heartbreaking restraint and historical sensitivity.”—Charles King\, Georgetown University\, author of Odessa and Midnight at the Pera Palace \n“Though their story is seldom told\, most Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust did so by taking the road east\, into the Soviet Union. In tracing the harrowing journey of her father’s escape\, Mikhal Dekel provides a multi-layered and nuanced account. . . . Her exploration of the peculiar refugee world in 1940s Tehran — especially the tense relations between Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees in that city – makes the book an important and timely addition to the literature of the Holocaust and modern refugee history.” — Tom Reiss\, author of The Orientalist and The Black Count \n“In this brilliantly conceived narrative\, Mikhal Dekel reconstructs her father’s and grandmother’s circuitous journeys by land and sea through Iran on the way from Poland to Palestine in the years of the Holocaust. Retracing their lives as she lives her own\, in turn she illuminates a series of unexpected places absent from many maps of the refugee experience of the era. A striking book.”—Samuel Moyn\, Yale University\, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World \nAbout Tehran Children \nAuthor Mikhal Dekel’s father\, Hannan Teitel\, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries\, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there\, Dekel’s father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated via Polish military transport to Iran\, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community celebrating familiar rituals in unfamiliar ways. Months later\, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine\, where\, at the endpoint of their 13\,000 mile journey\, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the “Tehran Children” was far from straightforward\, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel. \nBeginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father\, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story\, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague\, a Polish PiS politician\, a Russian oligarch\, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity\, of fate and destiny\, of hospitality and of cruelty\, of love and hate. The experiences her father and aunt endured\, along with so many others\, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers\, profoundly and permanently\, during and after the war. \nWith literary grace\, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust\, whose governing symbol is not the concentration camp\, but the refugee\, and whose center is not Europe\, but Central Asia and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhal-dekel-tehran-children/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T230000
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SUMMARY:Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book\, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a small reading and a big party. \n“Whether writing about dry-cleaned gorilla suits or stillborn infants\, cigarettes or hammers\, moonshine or ashrams\, Sarah Kobrinsky balances with grace on a tightrope strung between the human platforms of the ridiculous and the sublime. Honest\, lyrical\, irreverent\, and profound\, these are poems honed by the blade of awareness and engraved with empathy. ” \n-Elizabeth Rosner\, author of Survivor Cafe\, and the Speed of Light
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nighttime-on-the-other-side-of-everything-book-launch/
LOCATION:Jered’s Pottery\, 5743A Horton St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T200000
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SUMMARY:SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join on First Friday. \nBook description:\nSoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents\, channels\, and writes from the many physical\, cultural and economic changes the Bay Area has undergone since 2015. \nAbout the author:\nJosé Vadi is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and producer based in Oakland\, California. His previous poetry chapbooks include Marrow (Discantbelife Press). His work has been featured by the PBS NewsHour\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, McSweeney’s\, New Life Quarterly\, and Catapult. (josevadi.com | @vadiparty)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Project Kalahati\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T133000
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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.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/impromptu-writing-online-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T213000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T213000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T210000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T113531
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T113531
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T113531
CREATED:20190823T231336Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T113531
CREATED:20190824T211907Z
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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:20260413T113531
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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:20260413T113531
CREATED:20190823T191500Z
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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
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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
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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
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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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