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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T200000
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SUMMARY:Fenton Johnson
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Public Library presents  Fenton Johnson for a Launch Party in celebration of his new work\, Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays. Fenton will be in conversation with Andrew Lam\, author of Birds of Paradise Lost–which was a 2013 California Book Awards-finalist for First Fiction. \nPart retrospective\, part memoir\, Fenton Johnson’s collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality\, religion\, geography\, the AIDS crisis\, and more. Johnson’s wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco\, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way\, he investigates questions large and small: What’s the relationship between artists and museums\, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What’s the difference between empiricism and intuition? \nThe collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times\, All Things Considered and elsewhere\, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic\, from Burning Man\, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball. \nEverywhere Home is the latest title in Sarabande’s Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. \nFenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds\, Scissors\, Paper\, Rock\, and Crossing the River\, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper’s\, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University. \nThe thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans\, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath\, of murder\, arrest\, re-education camps and new economic zones\, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force\, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration\, and in so doing\, the human heart. \nAndrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New American Media\, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR s All Things Consideredfor many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, theChicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. Birds of Paradise Lostis his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fenton-johnson-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T200000
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Eastridge Open Mic\nwith host Lorenz Dumuk\nTuesday\, May 16\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeature: Tyson Amir\nopen mic follows \nBarnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nTyson Amir is an author\, musician\, educator\, community organizer\, and freedom fighter born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the spirit of The Dragon\, George Lester Jackson\, he endeavors to utilize any and all resources at his disposal as weapons to bring about the eventual liberation of his people. Tyson has been engaged in movement work since the late 1990s. His movement work has influenced his artistic work. Black Boy Poems\, his debut release as an author is an example of that. Black Boy Poems is a powerful\, timely\, and revolutionary body of literature that seeks to inspire his people towards liberation. Find out more about Tyson Amir at www.BlackBoyPoems.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103448
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #24
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-24/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday May 16th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: Tatiana Molinar! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-3/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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SUMMARY:A Leak in the Speakers!
DESCRIPTION:Last teen open mic of the year\, organized by Rebound Bookstore intern\, Sami Stilson! Come by\, share this event with teens you think would like to be involved. Grown ups more than welcome! \nWriters\, singers\, rappers\, slammers\, speakers\, composers\, musicians\, etc. are welcome\, whether performing or supporting (drop-ins welcome)\nFriendly feedback!\nRSVP at reboundbookstore@aol.com. \nFree Refreshments! Meet like-minded artists! Safe space for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-leak-in-the-speakers/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer\, author of the Southern Reach trilogy\, discusses his new novel\, Borne. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer: \n“I’m loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating.” ―Stephen King on the Southern Reach trilogy \n“VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension . . . Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn. It’s about science as a way of not only thinking but feeling\, rather than science as a means of becoming certain about the world. . . . Ingenious.” ―Laura Miller\, Salon \n“If J.J. Abrams-style by-the-numbers stories of shadowy organizations and science magic have let you down one too many times\, then Annihilation will be more like a revelation. VanderMeer peels back the skin of the everyday\, and gives you a glimpse of a world where science really is stretching the bounds of our knowledge–sometimes to the point where we can’t ever be the same . . . [Annihilation] will make you believe in the power of science mysteries again.” ―Annalee Nevitz\, io9 \nAbout Borne: \nIn a ruined\, nameless city of the future\, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord\, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm\, the Company\, until he was experimented on\, grew large\, learned to fly\, and broke free. Made insane by the company’s torture of him\, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers. \nAt first\, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a discard from the Company\, which\, although severely damaged\, is rumored to still make creatures and send them to far-distant places that have not yet suffered collapse. \nBorne reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth\, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment that she resents: attachments are traps\, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary\, Rachel convinces her lover\, Wick—a special kind of dealer—not to render down Borne as raw genetic material for the drugs he sells. \nBut nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past\, not the present\, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets\, so is Rachel—and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There\, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer/
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=UTC:20170516T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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SUMMARY:Granta: Best of Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:Every ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists will be announced on April 26; join us as we host some of the Best Young American Novelists! \nThe last issue was published in 2007 and featured an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nGranta’s forthcoming Best of Young American Novelists issue will feature new work from each writer\, creating a timely and authoritative commentary on the state of American writing. \nThe judges for this year’s selection are novelists Patrick deWitt\, A.M. Homes\, Kelly Link\, Ben Marcus and Granta’s editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing. \nCheck back here on April 26\, when we’ll announce which authors will be in the store! \nMore Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/granta-best-young-american-novelists
URL:https://litseen.com/event/granta-best-of-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T210000
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SUMMARY:Gordon Ball
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Ball is a poet\, photographer\, filmmaker\, professor of english\, and master storyteller. For 28 years Gordon Ball took informal photographs of poet Allen Ginsberg and other members of the Beat Generation\, the literary and cultural phenomenon which has had a world-wide impact since its inception in the mid-1950s. As well as being exhibited at five conferences on Ginsberg and the Beat Generation\, at one-man shows at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and other venues\, Ball’s photos have appeared in many books\, including Dennis McNally’s Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac\, the Beat Generation\, and America; Michael Köhler’s Burroughs: Eine Bild Biographie; Carole Tonkinson’s Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation; Steven Watson’s The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries\, Rebels\, and Hipsters\, 1994-1960; and many more. Starting at Ginsberg’s farm in 1968\, he worked with the poet on numerous literary and artistic projects\, editing three books\, including two volumes of journals and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry\, Politics\, Consciousness. He’s the author of ’66 Frames: A Memoir (Coffee House Press\, 1999) and Dark Music (Cityful Press\, 2006) Gordon now lives in Lexington\, Virginia\, where he teaches at the Virginia Military Institute. \nVisit: http://gordonballgallery.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gordon-ball/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T210000
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning novelist Jeff VanderMeer will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about his thrilling new novel\, Borne\, which has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly\, Booklist\, and Kirkus Reviews. \nIn Borne\, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous\, littered with discarded experiments from the Company—a biotech firm now derelict—and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner\, Wick\, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech. \nOne day\, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump—plant or animal?—but exudes a strange charisma. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth\, now lost to rising seas. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet\, against her instincts—and definitely against Wick’s wishes—Rachel keeps Borne. She cannot help herself. Borne\, learning to speak\, learning about the world\, is fun to be with\, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. She begins to feel a protectiveness she can ill afford. \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” –Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \nJeff VanderMeer is most recently known as the author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy—the first volume of which\, Annihilation\, is currently being made into movie to be released by Scott Rubin / Paramount in 2017—and the coeditor with his wife\, Ann VanderMeer\, of The Big Book of Science Fiction. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple year’s-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee\, Florida. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of three short story collections and six novels including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection\, Black Glass. won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T203000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Schelling + Jaime de Angulo
DESCRIPTION:This is the Bay Area book launch for: \nTracks Along the West Coast:Jaime de Angulo & the Pacific Coast \nMore than an immersive tale of the picaresque life of cowboy linguist\, doctor\, ethnographer\, and author Jaime de Angulo— the Old Coyote of Big Sur—but an exploration of the persecuted Native Californian cultures and languages that had thrived for millennia and endured into his day.\nJaime de Angulo’s linguistic and ethnographic work\, his writings\, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself\, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific coast. His poetry and prose uniquely represented the bohemian sensibility of the twenties\, thirties and forties\, and he was known for his reworkings of coyote tales and shamanic mysticism. So vivid was his writing that Ezra Pound called him “the American Ovid\,” and William Carlos Williams claimed that de Angulo was “one of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered.”\nIn each retelling\, through each storyteller\, stories are continually revivified\, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast\, weaving together the story of a life with the story of the land and the people\, languages\, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied. \nAndrew Schelling is a poet\, essay writer\, and translator. He works on land use issues in the American West\, and teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University in Boulder\, Colorado. In India\, he teaches at Deer Park Institute in the Himalayan foothills. \nRecent titles include Love and the Turning Seasons and The Real People of Wind & Rain
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-schelling-jaime-de-angulo/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges celebrates Work on Wednesday May 17 from 7:30-9pm with a reading at Pegasus Books\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue. \nCome hear \nAnna Rodas \nDawn McGuire \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nHeather Bourbeau \nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman\,  hosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with refreshments and bookstore cats!!! \nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her academic research has explored the social realities of war\, violence\, and poverty.  And her poetry is an attempt to bring to the page the many voices left out of books. \nDawn McGuire is a neurologist-poet and the author of four poetry collections\, most recently American Dream with Exit Wound. She has received numerous prizes\, including the Indie Book Award in Poetry and the Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Prize for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” Her work appears in Zyzzyva\, Nimrod International\, Narrative and numerous other literary magazines\, and has been featured in a New Yorker podcast selected by Poetry Editor\, Paul Muldoon.  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States.  His latest book of poems titled “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes\,” is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Cleaver\, Duende\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, Open City\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her first collection of poetry\, Daily Palm Castings\, profiles people in overlooked professions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T213000
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SUMMARY:Rakesh Satyal
DESCRIPTION:Rakesh Satyal presents his big-hearted and funny novel\, No One Can Pronounce My Name.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rakesh-satyal/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T223000
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CREATED:20170503T231953Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's '#NerdSex
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 17th\, 2017\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\n\n\nThis Evening of ‘Sex Geekery’ includes:\n❤ Bawdy’s NerdSex Carnaval! #Pheromones #AnalogDating #More\n\n❤ Storytellers coming soon – Stay Tuned!\n\n\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n\n❤ Custom Sex Nerd Songs by Jefferson Bergey #NSFW #Yay\n\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action – they’re only sold online!\n\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n\n❤ Online dating prankster & Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey).\n\n\nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-nerdsex/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Please join MPC in welcoming Marin’s new Poet Laureate\, Rebecca Foust\, and showing appreciation for our outgoing Poet Laureate\, Prartho Sereno\, before the Third Thursday event on May 18. Doors will open at Falkirk at 6:00 p.m. for a champagne and cake reception followed by brief remarks by both poets at 6:30.\n\n\nRebecca Foust has published five prizewinning books of poetry\, most recently Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015)\, sonnets featuring a modern-day Pilgrim living in Marin County\, reviewed in the Marin Independent Journal\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Rumpus in the Bay Area and in national venues including the Huffington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Washington Review of Books. Recent recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield\, the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, the Constance Rooke Prize for Creative Nonfiction and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and West Chester Poetry Conference. Foust is the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and has been a board member at Marin Poetry Center since 2008. \n\n\n\n\nPrartho Sereno is the author of three poetry collections and has taught poetry to both children and adults. A graduate of Bowling Green University and Syracuse University\, Sereno has worked as a counseling psychologist\, college mediation instructor\, illustrator\, cook\, farmer and songwriter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
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CREATED:20170513T010002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170513T010002Z
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SUMMARY:Sustainability Made Simple: An Evening of Learning and Ideas
DESCRIPTION:The Sustainability Co-Op hosts a night of idea sharing to encourage\, recognize and celebrate the shift towards shaping a sustainable future. Signed copies of Sustainability Made Simple will be available for purchase. Refreshments from local\, sustainable companies will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sustainability-made-simple-an-evening-of-learning-and-ideas/
LOCATION:Third Plateau\, 209 Kearny Street\, 3rd Fl\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170509T000736Z
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SUMMARY:Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Beautiful Things Project presents Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension\, a photographic collaboration with Nye’ Lyn Tho. For the Natural Heir series\, Nye’ replaces the subject’s hair with beautiful plant life that represents African and African American cultures. However\, in The Arisa White Extension\, the models’ hair will be graphically altered with images inspired by poems from White’s You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. The five participating models\, who are queer and trans black women\, include: Janet Halfin\, health education specialist for TransVision\, Tri-City Health Center; Zakiya Harris\, cultural architect\, artist\, and founder of Hack the Hood; UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Kerby Lynch; ecotherapist and Oricha priest J. Phoenix Smith\, founder of EcoSoul; and visual artist and educator Orlonda Uffre. The evening includes the unveiling of the photographic portraits\, a poetry reading\, and a Q& A. Funded by the Akonadi Foundation\, Beloved Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natural-heir-the-arisa-white-extension-exhibition/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
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CREATED:20170501T124033Z
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SUMMARY:Granta's Best Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Lauren Groff\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Anthony Marra from Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists to the store on Thursday\, May 18th at 7:00 pm. \nEvery ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists was announced on April 26th.\nThe last Best of Young American Novelists issue was published in 2007 and featured  an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nLauren Groff\, born in New York in 1978\, is the author of four books\, including The Monsters of Templeton\, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Her most recent novel\, Fates and Furies\, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.\nHer work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Atlantic and Tin House\, among others. She lives in Gainesville\, Florida. \nPhoto Credit- Megan Brown \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a mental health advocate\, essayist and the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She won the 2016 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for her book of essays\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Her work has appeared in Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Believer and Lenny. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Marra\, born in Washington DC\, is the author of the collection of stories The Tsar of Love and Techno\, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. His first novel\, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, won the inaugural National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and is currently the Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grantas-best-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T210000
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CREATED:20170320T104450Z
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SUMMARY:The Worlds of João Gilberto Noll: Adam Morris + Scott Esposito
DESCRIPTION:Called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine\, author João Gilberto Noll made a splash in the United States last year with the novel Quiet Creature on the Corner\, named a “Best Book of 2016” by World Literature Today and praised in Literary Hub\, the Kenyon Review\, Electric Literature\, and The Rumpus. \nNow\, Two Lines Press is very proud to announce a launch event at longtime Bay Area publishing mecca City Lights Booksellers to celebrate the release of the follow-up to Quiet Creature\, Noll’s career-defining novel Atlantic Hotel.\nTwo Lines Press’s Scott Esposito will be in conversation with author and Portuguese translator Adam Morris\, who has brought both Quiet Creature on the Corner and Atlantic Hotel into English. \nCompared to David Lynch\, César Aira\, the Dadists\, and the Situationists\, Noll creates strange\, surprising books that question our basic assumptions about identity\, while delivering madcap plots that revolve around modern-day flâneurs. His innovative stories and difficult-to-pin-down sentences have been met enthusiastically by experimental American authors like Matt Bell\, Brian Evenson\, and Lance Olsen. \nJoin us at City Lights Booksellers on May 18 for a reading from Atlantic Hotel\, along with an intriguing conversation delving into modern-day Brazil\, Noll’s influences (including Clarice Lispector)\, his mysterious protagonists\, and the challenges of translating his labyrinthine\, twisty sentences into English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-worlds-of-joao-gilberto-noll-adam-morris-scott-esposito/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170423T190804Z
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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Release Party - Issue 23.2
DESCRIPTION:Fourteen Hills Press is proud to announce the release party for issue 23.2! Join us for wine\, snacks\, and readings by the following contributors: \nJEN SULLIVAN BRYCH has published most recently in sPARKLE + bLINK and The Bygone Bureau. Past publications include The Rumpus\, The Los Angeles Timesand Wired. Her plays have also been read and performed in various Bay Area theaters. She’s currently working on a novel and advising Forum\, CCSF’s literary magazine. \nSYLVIA CHAN is a poet from Hayward\, California. She teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Arizona and serves as contributing editor for Entropy. Her debut collection\, We Remain Traditional\, is forthcoming from the Center for Literary Publishing in 2018. She will be in conversation with CHET WIENER\, who selected Chan as the winner of the 2017 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, TONGO EISEN-MARTIN is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest book of poems titled Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nTIFFANY HIGGINS is the author of The Apparition at Fort Bragg (2016)\, an e-chapbook\, winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s contest\, selected by Camille Dungy; And Aeneas Stares into Her Helmet (2009)\, Carolina Wren Poetry Prize winner; and Tail of the Whale\, translations from Alice Sant’Anna’s Portuguese (Toad Press\, 2016). \nLORRAINE LUPO is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, and the Art Book Review\, among others. She edits the poetry/art series Periodic Postcards and lives in Oakland\, California. \nANDREW MURPHY lives in San Francisco\, where he currently teaches English at San Francisco State University and Skyline College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourteen-hills-release-party-issue-23-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T210000
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CREATED:20170505T005356Z
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace O'Brian
DESCRIPTION:In the luminous poems contained in The Moon Reminded Me\, Ellen Grace O’Brian manages to braid contemporary moments of everyday life with ancient spiritual teachings–the sight of a hummingbird’s red throat\, bread on the table\, a couple’s quarrel\, a mother’s advice–become doorways into the divine mystical heart. The Moon Reminded Me\, subtly laced with Sanskrit\, gives us an insight into a poet who bridges two worlds eloquently enough to take us along with her. Sandhya\, the numinous time for stepping into the temple\, suddenly becomes this moment\, now. \nYogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (CSE) with headquarters in San Jose\, California\, serving seeking souls since 1981. CSE is a meditation center in the spiritual tradition of Kriya Yoga that serves people from all faith backgrounds who are seeking Self- and God-realization. \nKhaled Hosseini\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns\, has written And the Mountains Echoed\, a new novel about how we love\, how we take care of one another\, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters\, cousins and caretakers\, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture\, wound\, betray\, honor\, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us\, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos the story expands gradually outward\, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page. \nKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner\, A Thousand Splendid Suns\, and And the Mountains Echoed. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency\, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation\, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-ellen-grace-obrian/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings at Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library\nThird Thursday of Every Month\nThursday\, May 18\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nFeature: Dennis Richardson\nopen mic evening \nWillow Glen Library \n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public \nBio to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-at-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T213000
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CREATED:20160908T001411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T035717Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry + Music: Brian Laidlaw + Ken Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Brian Laidlaw is a troubadour-poet from San Francisco. He studied Creative Writing at Stanford and earned his MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have been published widely in journals including New American Writing\, The Iowa Review\, Quarter After Eight\, Agni\, and many others. Paper Darts Press released his acclaimed hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium\, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook as the liner notes. His first full-length book of poems\, The Stuntman\, was published in 2015 by Milkweed Editions; a follow-up called The Mirrormaker is under contract as well. He tours to festivals\, colleges\, and arts venues around the country\, both solo and with his folk band The Family Trade. \nKen Waldman has drawn on his 30 years in Alaska to produce poems\, stories\, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his. Nine CDs mix Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. Eight books include six poetry collections\, a memoir\, and a children’s book. Since 1995 he’s performed at some of the nation’s leading concert series\, festivals\, universities\, and clubs. Of note are two CDs. Some Favorites\, contains tracks from Waldman’s first seven CDs. The double- CD\, All Originals\, All Traditionals consists of one CD with a five-piece band playing Waldman’s originals\, and a second CD of Waldman and friends playing traditional tunes to Alaska-set poetry\, and includes a ten-minute treatment of Waldman’s 1996 plane crash near Nome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-music-brian-laidlaw-ken-waldman/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T213000
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CREATED:20170501T130141Z
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SUMMARY:Dawn McQuire + David Watts
DESCRIPTION:Dawn McGuire’s new book of poems is American Dream with Exit Wound. Carol Muske-Dukes says\, “McGuire is inspired by her work with post 9/11 vets\, by her brain research as a neurologist and her immersion in myth. You will take your life in your hands as you read these super-charged poems—and you will…’come to’ with an exit wound…” Both a neuro-scientist and a poet\, she has published three collections\, including The Aphasia Café\, which won the 2013 Indie Book Award for Poetry. Born in the Appalachian region of Kentucky\, her graduate education was both in Theology and Medicine. \nDavid Watts is both a physician and a poet. His new book of poems is Having and Keeping. Al Young says\, “Watts’ quiet poems couple with their subjects in an intimacy so strong\, you can smell their crackle and spark. When it comes to singing the uncontrollable messiness of family life\, growing pain and growth; the stickiness of love life\, the clumsiness of loss\, the pleasures of cranky togetherness\, this little book takes the cake.” His literary credits include seven books of poetry\, two collections of short stories\, a mystery novel\, a bestselling western and essays. He has received numerous awards in academics\, literature\, and television production.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dawn-mcquire-david-watts/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T203000
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CREATED:20170425T013123Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Gailey
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Gailey’s wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls “preposterously fun.” \nIn the early 20th Century\, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. \nOther true things about hippos: they are savage\, they are fast\, and their jaws can snap a man in two. \nThis was a terrible plan. \nContained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-gailey/
LOCATION:Borderlands Books\, 866 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103448
CREATED:20170425T015423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T015423Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Finney Boylan
DESCRIPTION:Nationally recognized civil rights advocate and New York Times-bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new work of fiction\, Long Black Veil. \nReview Quotes:\nPraise for Long Black Veil \n“This is Boylan’s best book. It’s one of the most eloquent pleas for empathy and moral imagination I’ve ever encountered.\n RICHARD RUSSO\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nobody’s Fool \n“In the tradition of Donna Tartt\, Jennifer Finney Boylan has crafted a thriller that’s intellectual\, existential\, and compulsively readable. If change is the only constant in life\, how much can a person reinvent himself and still be the same? Long after the last page is turned\, you will be thinking about the nature of identity\, the pull of the past\, and whether you can ever outrun the person you used to be.\n JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time \nJennifer Finney Boylan rewards her fans with a riveting whodunit.The plot shapeshifts along with the unforgettable characters–including a woman whose family could be dismantled by her long-buried secrets. All this is rendered in Jenny’s signature hilarious\, wise and wise-assed prose. Bravo\, Boylan\, bring us another one!\n MARY KARR\, New York Times bestselling author of Liar s Club\, Lit and Cherry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-finney-boylan/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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CREATED:20170430T022709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T022718Z
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays Presents: Denise Benavides + Trey "Drow Flow" Amos
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Shideh Etaat and Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, with music by Phillip Michael Hermans. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nDenise Benavides is an Oakland based queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and radical educator sharing her work with urgency—using the stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia\, relocation\, sexuality\, religion\, and love. Always\, love. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a Bachelor’s of Arts in English from Mills College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima Press. \nTrey “Drow Flow” Amos is a poetic emcee originally from Nashville\, Tn by way of Chicago. He is a nationally recognized performer and teaching artist. He has shared stages with artists and public figures such as Talib Kweli\, Dr. Cornel West\, Saul Williams\, Lemon\, Mick Jenkins and more. Trey is currently working as a Poet Mentor Fellow at Youth Speaks\, Inc. \nMusical Guest Meaghan Owens is an Americana Roots performer with three critically acclaimed albums: “No Whiskey in a Good Girl’s River”; “Gun Shy of a Kiss” and the recent “Bounty on my Heart.” She has been a whirlwind nomad for the past two years with stops in Maui\, Colorado and currently\, a brief stint in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-presents-denise-benavides-tret-drow-flow-amos/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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CREATED:20170513T005914Z
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing Print Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 19th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! \nJoin us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, California for a night of celebration and literary readings. \nFeatured readers include Matthew Zapruder\, Arisa White\, Brontez Purnell\, Meg Elison\, Cesca Waterfield\, Emily Vizzo\, and Nicoleta Leontiades. Dramatic readings of MARY Journal published works by Genre Editors: Katie Walker\, Jennifer Burnside\, and Paola Vergara.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-print-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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CREATED:20170515T235547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235547Z
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SUMMARY:At The Inkwell Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:At The Inkwell returns with its usual variety of tender mayhem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-inkwell-reading-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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CREATED:20170519T102130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T102409Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading
DESCRIPTION:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading/
LOCATION:364 S. Market St.\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,South Bay
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