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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Javier Zamora + Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos + Yosimar Reyes \nFriday May 6\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series-2/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Jennif(f)er Tamayo + Aline Mello + Alan Pelaez Lopez \nThursday May 5\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Brian Broome
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 4\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nBrian Broome\, a poet and screenwriter\, won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. His debut memoir\, Punch Me Up to the Gods is available through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  \n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-brian-broome/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Neil Gaiman
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 3\, 2022\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\n“Gaiman is\, simply put\, a treasure-house of story\, and we are lucky to have him.” — Stephen King \nOne of the most celebrated writers of our time\, Neil Gaiman‘s popular and critically acclaimed works bend genres while reaching audiences of all ages. He is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics; his groundbreaking Sandman series was the first comic ever to receive a literary award. He is the author of the novels Neverwhere\, Stardust\, American Gods\, and Anansi Boys\, the children’s book Coraline among others\, and the short story collection Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. Gaiman has also written and directed for television and film\, and maintains a large online following on his blog and social media. The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction\, and a new children’s book\, Pirate Stew\, were published in 2020. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-neil-gaiman/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25\, 2022\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nRichard Powers is the author of thirteen novels\, including the 2019 novel The Overstory\, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The book is a sweeping\, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of the natural world. His new novel\, Bewilderment\, brings Powers’ astute and compassionate eye for nature to the cosmos. His most intimate book yet\, it is the account of a father and son’s ferocious love\, and contains soaring descriptions of the natural world and its tantalizing vision of life beyond. Powers is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-3/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 23\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nRuchika Tomar is the author of A Prayer for Travelers\, which won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway award for debut novel. She is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-ruchika-tomar/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:Faux Queen: A Life in Drag with Fauxnique
DESCRIPTION:Iconic Bay Area drag artist and choreographer Monique Jenkinson\, better known to many as Fauxnique\, joins host Peaches Christ for an evening of stories from her new memoir\, which chronicles her journey through ballet\, fake eyelashes and San Francisco’s nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1621 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/faux-queen-a-life-in-drag-with-fauxnique/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shayda Kafai in conversation with Zena Sharman
DESCRIPTION:Shayda Kafai\, author of Crip Kinship\, and Zena Sharman\, author of The Care We Dream Of\, discuss how disability justice is foundational to combating legacies of cis-heteropatriarchy\, white supremacy\, classism and capitalism in LGBTQ+ health and crip cultural productions. \nASL and CART services are available for this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shayda-kafai-in-conversation-with-zena-sharman/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alphabet Rockers\, You Are Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:Listen as the Grammy-nominated team read You Are Not Alone\, a debut picture book that empowers kids to love their beautiful selves\, celebrate their identities\, stand up to hate and have each other’s backs no matter what. Then\, move the furniture to create a dance floor or bring your device outside to continue the celebration with movement. For kids and their families. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/26/authors-alphabet-rockers-you-are-not-alone sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alphabet-rockers-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kristi Yamaguchi with Forum
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area native\, Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars winner\, Kristi Yamaguchi\, joins Forum to talk figure skating\, the winter Olympics\, life after competition and how she’s supporting children’s literacy through her nonprofit Always Dream. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1616 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristi-yamaguchi-with-forum/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversations with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 23\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Columbia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. She is now working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Columbia who was said to have the power to move the clouds.\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversations-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Isaac Fellman with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 22nd at 7pm PT when Isaac Fellman celebrates the launch of his new novel\, Dead Collections\, with Charlie Jane Anders at 9th Ave! \nThis event is free to attend\, but registration is required for those attending in person. \nRegister on Eventbrite for in-person here \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination are Required for In-Person Attendance. \nOr watch online by registering here \n(No need to register via Eventbrite for online attendance) \nPraise for Dead Collections \n“This book kept delighting and astonishing me with little insights and conversations that felt like I was eavesdropping on people I desperately wanted to be friends with. Utterly refreshing and thrilling. Dead Collections is a marvel that left me feeling as if miracles might lurk behind every doorway and inside every old box of papers.” –Charlie Jane Anders\, author of Victories Greater Than Death \n“There’s something of the feeling that comes from hanging out at your friend’s work after-hours – a little fuzzy\, a little surreal\, a sense of getting away with something without a commensurate sense of what\, if any\, rules one is breaking. A remarkably efficient book about untidyness.” –Daniel M. Lavery\, author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You \nAbout Dead Collections \nA whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever\, humorous\, and heartfelt novel. \nWhen archivist Sol meets Elsie\, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers\, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism\, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love\, the two traverse grief\, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared\, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.” \nThen\, when strange things start happening at the collection\, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy\, that celebrates the journey\, the difficulties and joys\, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies. \nAbout Isaac Fellman \nIsaac Fellman is the author of The Breath of the Sun (published under his pre-transition first name)\, which won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Horror. He is an archivist at a queer historical society in San Francisco. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. She’s also the author of Never Say You Can’t Survive (August 2021)\, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Teen Vogue\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, “Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future” got 700\,000 views in its first week.With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-isaac-fellman-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emily Maloney with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, February 21st at 6pm PT when Emily Maloney celebrates her book\, Cost of Living\, with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Cost of Living \n“In Cost of Living\, Emily Maloney explores from many perspectives\, and with deep empathy\, intelligence\, and humor the real suffering caused by medical debt and the underpayment of healthcare workers. Like Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Atul Gawande’s Complications\, Maloney’s memoir is at once illuminating and alarming. It will leave readers asking: why has no one ever written a book like this before?” \n—Suzanne Koven\, MD\, author of Letter to a Young Female Physician \n“Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living is a brilliant book\, a staggering indictment of a brutal and arbitrary healthcare system that shapes our days in ways so small it often goes right over our heads. On top of that\, it’s gorgeously written–clear\, exacting\, rigorous\, compassionate–in sentences that lift off the page like song.” \n—Paul Lisicky\, author of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World \n“I’ve never read anything like Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living\, a devastatingly precise\, thoughtful accounting of what it costs to stay alive in capitalist America. In essays rife with vivid characters in unforgettable scenes and stitched through with vulnerability\, Maloney offers a clear-eyed assessment of our disastrous medical system. From the years-long medical debt of surviving a suicide attempt to the deadly fate facing untreated pain patients\, Maloney’s writing indicts the system while honoring the humanity of those caught in it. Everyone with a mortal body should read this book. I hope it creates change.” \n—Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\, author of The Fact of a Body \nAbout Cost of Living \nThe searing intimacy of Girl\, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman’s experiences as both patient and caregiver\, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed. \nWhat does it cost to live? \nWhen we fall ill\, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg\, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents\, breast cancers\, blood diseases\, and dark depressions. \nWhen Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally\, but also financially\, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses\, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices\, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden\, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital\, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments\, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful\, surprising ways. \nShocking and often slyly humorous\, Cost of Living is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay\, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers. \nAbout Emily Maloney \nEmily Maloney’s work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. She has worked as a dog groomer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and has sold her ceramics at art fairs. Maloney has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Evanston\, Illinois.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-emily-maloney-with-alex-marzano-lesnevich/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Stand Up Comedy: A Humorous History-Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:The comedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever. The Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb’s\, The Punch Line\, hungry i\, the Purple Onion\, Tommy T’s\, Brainwash and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom\, the Holy City Zoo. Join comedians Nina G and OJ Patterson on a hilarious and thoughtful tour through the history of Bay Area comedy. Will include book talk and signing. \nBring proof of vaccination or recent negative Covid test (less than 72 hours) and your ID. We will have your name on the guest list at the host stand when we greet you. \nAbout the authors \nNina G is a stand-up comedian\, author and disability advocate. She performs and gives keynote speeches at colleges\, companies and conferences across the world. Nina is the author of Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen and the children’s book Once Upon an Accommodation: A Book About Learning Disabilities. She is a Bay Area native spanning five generations. Additionally\, she has contributed to books\, blogs and articles and is a favorite among podcasters and comedy audiences all over. For more on Nina\, go to www.NinaGcomedian.com. \nOJ Patterson is a writer\, comedian and homebrew historian born and raised in Pittsburg\, California. A “retired stand-up\,” he’s contributed to numerous online and print publications\, including his award-winning blog Courting Comedy and as an entertainment copywriter. OJ Patterson currently resides in the greater Los Angeles area and unofficially has the best laugh in the room. \nFree \nhttps://www.alamedacomedy.com/shows/163219?fbclid=IwAR21ylmthM8mH7wl3O-HhpYg-eaWR0g3oS-VvLKLNr5kq9-d0nFkQV4eE18
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-stand-up-comedy-a-humorous-history-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alameda Comedy Club\, 2431 Central Ave.\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sheila Heti with Elif Batuman
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 18th at 6pm PT when Sheila Heti is joined virtually by Elif Batuman to celebrate the release of her latest novel\, Pure Colour! \nPresented in proud partnership with our friends at Elliott Bay Books\, Skylight Books\, A Room of One’s Own\, and Seminary Co-op. \nTickets include access to the virtual event with Heti and a soon to be selected interlocutor\, as well as a copy of Pure Colour with signed bookplate. Audience Q+A to follow. \nPlease note this is a ticketed event \nTickets can be purchased here \nAbout Pure Colour \nThe world is failing to remain a world. It is coming apart. The ice cubes are melting. Species are dying. People\, too—of different things. But what if this world is just a first draft\, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? \nIn this first draft of the world\, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There\, she meets Annie\, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what\, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older\, her beloved father dies\, and his spirit passes into her. Together\, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring\, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved\, even by a leaf. Eventually\, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind\, including Annie\, and choose whether or not to return. \nPure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive\, celestially bright\, huge\, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible\, an atlas of feeling\, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience\, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. \nAbout Sheila Heti \nSheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction\, including Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?\, which New York magazine called one of the “New Classics of the 21st Century.” She was named one of “The New Vanguard” by the book critics of The New York Times\, who\, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers\, chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. \nAbout Elif Batuman \nElif Batuman’s first novel\, The Idiot\, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them\, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her second novel\, Either/Or\, will publish in May. \nFAQs \nCopies of the book will be shipped on or as close to publication date (2.15.22) as possible. Ticket holders will receive tracking via email. \nTicket holders will receive a login link closer to event start date with Crowdcast password. \nThis is a ticketed live-stream event\, and a recording will be available for one week after event date for those unable to watch live. \nTo attend the event\, you must purchase a ticket through the Eventbrite page linked above. Purchase of Pure Colour made through the bookstore website does not grant entry to the event. \nWe cannot ship books outside of the U.S. We apologize for any inconvenience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sheila-heti-with-elif-batuman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:100 Years of Stand-Up Comedy in San Francisco's North Beach
DESCRIPTION:“100 Years of Stand-Up Comedy in North Beach: \nHow San Francisco Changed Comedy Forever!” \nSan Francisco\, and North Beach in particular\, holds a special place in the history of the performing arts-and comedy in particular. From the early days of Beat poetry readings\, gatherings which themselves were frequently underground\, clandestine activities\, to the days of drag shows and the topless revolution\, perhaps it’s San Francisco’s “anything goes” reputation that’s motivated several generations of comedians to give it a go here. \nIn Bay Area Stand-up Comedy: A Humorous History\, authors (and comedians themselves) Nina G and OJ Patterson examine the rich\, hilarious tradition of stand-up\, highlighting some of its most noteworthy and notorious figures\, past and present. \n“The comedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever. From visiting acts like Richard Pryor\, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg to local favorites who still maintain their following and legacy\, the Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb’s\, The Punch Line\, hungry i\, the Purple Onion\, Tommy T’s\, Brainwash and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom\, the Holy City Zoo. For more than seventy years\, these iconic venues and others fostered talents like Mort Sahl\, Phyllis Diller\, Smothers Brothers\, Kevin Meaney\, Paula Poundstone\, Dana Carvey\, W. Kamau Bell\, Margaret Cho\, Chelsea Peretti\, Andy Samberg\, Ali Wong\, Moshe Kasher and (of course) Robin Williams\, introducing them to local crowds and the world beyond. Join comedians Nina G and OJ Patterson on a hilarious and thoughtful tour through the history of Bay Area comedy.” \nNina G is a comedian\, professional speaker\, comedy historical consultant and author of Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen and Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy: A Humorous History. \nFree \n100 Years of Stand-Up Comedy with Nina G
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-years-of-stand-up-comedy-in-san-franciscos-north-beach/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:On the Intersection of Queerness and Neurodivergence
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 17 years\, Nick Walker has played a key role in the emergence of the neurodiversity paradigm–a framework for scholarship\, practice\, and social justice work where treating human neurocognitive variations such as autism\, dyslexia\, and ADHD as medical pathologies or “disorders” is understood to be a form of systemic oppression along the same lines as the pathologizing of homosexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries. \nJoin queer autistic author and educator Dr. Walker for an uplifting conversation exploring the edges and intersections of neurodiversity\, gender\, Queer Theory\, embodiment\, creativity\, somatic psychology\, and the human capacity for transformation. Dr. Walker shares insights from her latest book\, Neuroqueer Heresies\, a decade’s worth of her most influential writings on the neurodiversity paradigm and autistic empowerment along with her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory–which applies a Queer Theory lens to neurodiversity. \nDiscover how queerness and neurodivergence intersect\, and how we can liberate ourselves from the strictures of both heteronormativity and neuronormativity. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \n  \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-intersection-of-queerness-and-neurodivergence/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Tobey Hiller with Thaisa Frank
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 16th at 7pm PT when Tobey Hiller is joined by Thaisa Frank to celebrate her latest book\, Flight Advice: a fabulary\, at 9th Ave! \nMask and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering here \nPraise for Flight Advice \n“A delicious and dreamlike collection of stories\, filled with the best surprises. Hiller creates a witty\, pungent world\, in which words fly and change\, and stories swirl and go missing\, to arrive again in new forms\, with fresh power to enchant. A tour de force\, concocted of mischief\, insight and pure delight.”—Harriet Scott Chessman\, author of Someone Not Really Her Mother \n“In Flight Advice: A Fabulary\, fairy tales and myths of passion come alive in the modern world: Men with cigarettes that look like stars make love to mermaids\, a genie appears in a woman’s laundry room\, and a writer is transformed by mysterious words. Told by a narrator with a remarkable voice that ranges from vernacular clarity to dazzling lyricism\, Flight Advice is the best of contemporary magic realism.”—Thaisa Frank\, author of Heidegger’s Glasses and Enchantment \n“In Tobey Hiller’s magnificent collection of fables\, Flight Advice: A Fabulary\, these captivating short stories traverse otherworldly landscapes. An accomplished poet\, Hiller’s prose shines with mesmeric intensity and imagery. Singing mermaids\, a bejeweled dog\, one philosophical genie\, and Lillith and her bald children transport the reader on surrealist excursions through worlds of humor and invention. Flight Advice: A Fabulary crackles with energy and wildness and seduces with dreamscape narratives.”—Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nAbout Flight Advice \nUnlikely Books celebrates the release of Flight Advice: a fabulary by Tobey Hiller! Flight Advice is 130 pages of mythological\, weird\, and fabulist stories exploring the possibility of magic in our past and present. It wanders through creation myths\, relates naïve humans to animals wild and sophisticated\, considers the horrors of archetypical demagogues\, and spends time with the inexplicable in ordinary\, modern life. The art on the cover\, “Ghost Dogs\,” is a 2007 painting by Elizabeth Ennis. \nAbout Tobey Hiller \nTobey Hiller writes fiction\, flash and poetry. She’s the author of 4 books of poetry and one novel\, CHARLIE’S EXIT (Edgework Books\, 2002). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals\, such as Ambush Review\, Askew\, Canary\, The Fabulist: Words & Art\, Shotglass Journal (MusePie Press)\, Here Comes Everyone\, 5 Fingers Review\, Mediterranean Poetry\, Milkweed Chronicle\, Sisyphus\, Sin Fronteras/Writers without Borders\, Spillway\, Unlikely Stories Mark V\, and in five anthologies\, most recently FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA (Scarlet Tanager Press\, October 2018)\, THE WILD (Marin Poetry Center\, 2019\, & TRANSFORMATION\, 2020). She writes both realist and fabulist fiction; one of her stories\, Splinter\, won First Prize in CRAFT’s 2020 Short Story Elements Contest for Conflict; two of her other stories have been short-listed for prizes. Her fiction collection PARTICLE TO WAVE: A FABULARY (now called FLIGHT ADVICE: A FABULARY) was recently named one of five finalists for Omnidawn’s Fabulist Collection Contest and will be published this winter by Unlikely Books. Her most recent book of poetry\, CROW MIND (Finishing Line Press\, 2020 is reviewed in The Los Angeles Review at http://losangelesreview.org/review-crow-mind-tobey- \nhiller/. She may be found at http://thiller.ag-sites.net \nAbout Thaisa Frank \nThe fiction of Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction and includes two semi-autobiographical novellas as well as thirty-three stories. Her most recent novel\, Heidegger’s Glasses\, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, the safety of which is threatened forever. It was published in 2010\, reissued in paperback in 2011 and sold to ten foreign countries before publication. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage\, both on the Bestseller List of the San Francisco Chronicle. Thaisa has received two PEN awards and her stories have been widely-anthologized. She has published critical essays on writing and art and is the author of the Afterward to Viking/Penguin’s most recent edition of Voltaire. Her poetry\, which she writes secretly\, appears in small publications. Thaisa has also co-authored Finding Your Writers Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction\, translated into Portuguese and Spanish\, and used in numerous writing programs. Thaisa has taught writing in the graduate departments of San Francisco State\, the University of San Francisco and the University of California as Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-tobey-hiller-with-thaisa-frank/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Joy Books and Resources for Youth
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Unified School District youth librarians team up to talk about Black Joy. Join BIPOC librarians Rachel Fiege (SFPL)\, Jason Hill (SFPL) and Ayana Thompson (SFUSD)\, for a virtual conversation about Black Joy in librarianship\, schools\, youth literature and beyond. They discuss how Black youth should have access to positive stories about their heritage that aren’t rooted in stereotypes or sidekick roles by sharing their personal insights about working with Black youth and how they spread Black Joy to their young patrons\, students and families. They share booklists\, online resources and their own personal favorites including Coretta Scott King award titles and more. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/16/dialogue-black-joy-books-and-resources-youth sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-joy-books-and-resources-for-youth/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Brian Tierney with William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 11th at 7pm PT when Brian Tierney celebrates his collection\, Rise and Float\, at 9th Ave! \nFeaturing fellow poets William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering at the link here \nPraise for Rise and Float \n“In these poems of turnpikes\, water\, and migraine light\, filled with grief and life\, the poet tells us it’s all right that ‘we don’t love / living.’ Here\, precision is a form of metaphor\, language a facet of experience; the poet writes with a kind of allusive purity and vulnerability—‘each thought a texture’—that I find moving. Rise and Float is that rare thing\, a book of one striking poem after another. If I could write something as tender and nearly perfect as ‘You’re the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With’—a lightning strike\, Randall Jarrell might have called it—then I’d consider giving up writing.”—Randall Mann \n“If the job of the poet is to make our interiority knowable and known\, then this book by Brian Tierney triumphs. In this magnificent debut\, a poet arrives to us fully formed\, and Tierney has found ways to transform the mundane into the mysterious\, and the mysterious into the transcendent. Readers will be swept away by the rigors of syntax\, the sparse and charged diction\, and the voice of these worldly\, humane\, sophisticated poems.”—Mark Wunderlich \n“Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float is resonant with the desire for rapture and the never-easing reality of loss. How do we go on living\, these poems seem to ask\, bearing what we must bear? And in lines by turns dolorous and defiant\, they answer: We watch\, we remember\, and we sing.”—Tracy K. Smith \nAbout Rise and Float \nChosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize\, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably\, miraculously—to make our most profound\, private wounds visible on the page. \nWith the “corpse of Frost” under his heel\, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness\, a struggle with disordered eating\, a father’s death from cancer\, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still\, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips\,” a “laugh as good as a scream\,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome\, but to release. \nThe course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying\, these days\, to believe again / in people\,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices\, we see something alluringly\, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide\, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams\, something intimate—hope\, however difficult it may be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-brian-tierney-with-william-brewer-randall-mann-and-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The 54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:One of the world’s largest antiquarian book fairs with over 100 booksellers from the United States and around the globe.  The annual Book Fair features a rich selection of books\, manuscripts\, maps\, and other printed materials\, including incunabula; literature from all centuries and nationalities; fine bindings; children’s and illustrated books; ephemera; and antiquarian books on dozens of topics. \nALSO JOIN US FOR:\nVirtual Book Fair: California Edition\nFebruary 12-14: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm\nabaa.org/vbf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-54th-california-international-antiquarian-book-fair/
LOCATION:The Oakland Marriott City Center\, 1001 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,In-person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
DESCRIPTION:Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation\, Indigenous science is very rarely found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. While holistic land\, water\, and forest management practices born from a millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us\, Indigenous science has long been ignored\, otherized\, or perceived as “soft”-the product of a systematic\, centuries-long campaign of racism\, colonialism\, extractive capitalism\, and delegitimization. \nJessica Hernandez (Maya Ch’orti’ and Zapotec)\, environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Pina Soul\, introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vision of land stewardship that heals rather than displaces and generates rather than destroys. She breaks down the failures of western-defined conservatism and shares alternatives-citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle\, her family’s fight against ecoterrorism in Latin America\, and holistic land management approaches of Indigenous groups across the continent. \nIn Dr. Hernandez’s latest book\, Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science\, she breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies\, personal stories\, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. \nJoin Dr. Hernandez in a conversation about her life and work and explore how to stop the eco-colonialism ravaging Indigenous lands to restore our relationship with Earth to one of harmony and respect. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs \npublicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-healing-indigenous-landscapes-through-indigenous-science/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quincy Troupe in Conversation with Danny Glover & Terry McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Quincy Troupe\, “Poet of the Deep Song\,” is joined in conversation by two lifelong friends\, actor Danny Glover and bestselling author Terry McMillan. Dr. Kim McMillon moderates this virtual program\, which celebrates the release of Troupe’s new collected poems\, DUENDE: Poems\, 1966-Now\, a gathering of more than 50 years of lyrical\, evocative writing. The program also honors Troupe’s years of collaboration with visual artists and musicians and features guest cameos and videos by Mildred Howard\, Will Calhoun and J.D. Parran. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/10/author-quincy-troupe-conversation-danny-glover-terry-mcmillan sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quincy-troupe-in-conversation-with-danny-glover-terry-mcmillan/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 15\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater \n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, published as part of City Lights’ Pocket Poet series\, and someone’s dead already. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize\, received the California Book Award for Poetry\, an American Book Award\, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people\, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His second book in the City Lights Pocket Poet series\, Blood on the Fog\, will be released in the fall of 2021. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-3/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses Fall 2021 Fellows Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Arts Research Center will celebrate the 2021 Fall Poetry Fellows with a reading of work created during their fellowship semester. This event will feature undergrad fellows Anastasia Le and Gisselle Medina; graduate fellows Lindsay Choi and Vincente Perez; faculty fellows Ahmad Diab and Jesse Nathan; and community fellows Maurya Kerr and D’mani Thomas\, and be followed by a short conversation and Q&A with Chiyuma Elliott. \nDuring fall 2021\, these amazing poetry fellows will explore and push against the theme coexistence.  The word coexistence has a spatial component\, and implies the sharing of space or cohabitation within overlapping territories; it also has a temporal dimension\, suggesting simultaneous presence with others in the same moment in time. These fellows engage capaciously with issues of mutuality\, synchronicity\, interdependence\, and care – from enlivening exchanges between beings\, to the porous line between animate and inanimate\, to the challenges of living together on our planet\, to the uncanny shivers of coincidence. \nPlease read more about these fellows here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-the-senses-fall-2021-fellows-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Natashia Deón & Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 19\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nNatashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel\, Grace and The Perishing\, forthcoming in 2021. A practicing attorney\, mother\, and law professor\, Deón is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship and served as a 2017 U.S. Delegate to Armenia in partnership with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program\, for a reconciliation project involving Armenian and Turkish writers. \nRebecca Solnit is an incisive voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment\, western history to literary criticism\, and from hope and disaster to popular power and social change. She has published more than twenty books\, including Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things to Me\, The Mother of All Questions\, and Recollections of My Nonexistence. Her new book\, Orwell’s Roses\, is a lush exploration of roses\, pleasure\, and politics\, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natashia-deon-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Black Nature\, Poetry\, and Coexistence: Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming two extraordinary poets to ARC’s virtual stage for readings and conversation: Camille T. Dungy and Ross Gay. In addition to four collections of poetry\, Camille Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry\, the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets. By using social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry\, Dungy challenged and changed that framework to include poets writing out of slavery\, Reconstruction\, the Harlem Renaissance\, the Black Arts Movement\, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Ross Gay is interested in studying joy. His four books of poetry include the National Book Award winning Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015)\, and his latest\, Be Holding (2020)\, is the winner of the PEN /Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is also the author of the NYT bestselling collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, and co-author\, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, of the chapbook Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens. A long time gardener and advocate for cultivating community\, Gay is a founding member of the food justice and joy project the Bloomington Community Orchard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-nature-poetry-and-coexistence-camille-t-dungy-ross-gay/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman: Not a Nation of Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman: A KPFA Zoom Event \nNot a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion \n“Her thought-work and writing are both full-force with courage and wisdom. In the age of telling truth\, she says\, the US has yet to correct its narrative to acknowledge its settler-colonialist and imperialist past and present. This book should be taught in classrooms; readers will finish it changed.” \n-Booklist\, Starred Review \n“Dunbar-Ortiz’s message is clear: uplifting narratives about the United States as a ‘nation of immigrants’ allow the country to hide from its history of colonialism\, genocide\, slavery\, and racism . . . . [T]his thought-provoking account will prove insightful for all.” \n-Library Journal \nMany Americans will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, acclaimed historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts that this self-congratulatory myth is harmful because it masks the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. This myth\, she claims\, is a convenient response by the ruling class to the demands for decolonialization\, reparations\, and social justice. This paradigm-shifting new work from the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States insists that we need to stop perpetuating this simplistic and inaccurate ideal and embrace the real history of the United States. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer. Dunbar-Ortiz has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades. She is the author of eight books. \nSteve Wasserman is currently publisher of the award-winning Heyday Books. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-not-a-nation-of-immigrants-tickets-170048201749
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-with-steve-wasserman-not-a-nation-of-immigrants/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jelani Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 5\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nJelani Cobb is a historian\, a professor of journalism at Columbia University\, and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He writes frequently about race\, politics\, history\, and culture. He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays\, To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and he is the co-editor of  a new anthology\, The Matter of Black Lives. This new book compiles New Yorker essays on race in America through time\, by James Baldwin\, Toni Morrison\, Ta-Nehisi Coates\, Hilton Als\, Zadie Smith\, and more—with a foreword by Cobb. The anthology provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America\, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies\, political vision and artistic inspiration. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jelani-cobb/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 3\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nLauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction\, the most recent the novel MATRIX (September 2021). Her novel Fates and Furies is a dazzling examination of marriage. A finalist for the National Book Award\, it was named Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, NPR\, TIME\, and many more. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, along with several Best American Short Stories anthologies\, and she was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.\n\nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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