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SUMMARY:Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)
DESCRIPTION:Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O’Neal and Janae Johnson. \nEvery Wednesday | March 20th – May 22\n5:00pm – 7:00pm\nat Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin St\, Oakland\, CA 94607 (near 19th Street BART) \nThis LGBTQIA+ centered workshop will explore personal and historical narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language\, sexuality & gender. Participants will be encouraged to write\, learn performance techniques\, and create the dopest space imaginable. \nSign-Up: https://goo.gl/forms/OWMXtikx5RvHzBnB3 \n**First time and/or experienced writers are encouraged to attend. This is intended to be a space where your authentic self is not only welcomed- it’s celebrated.** \nNote: This is a FREE youth-centered (13-19 years old) Workshop\, and anyone can join! 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queeriosity-writing-performance-workshop-youth-centered/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki - with new books
DESCRIPTION:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki – with new books \n  \nSun\, March 24\, 2pm – 4pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-karen-hildebrand-and-ron-riekki-with-new-books/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Sturm
DESCRIPTION:James Sturm discusses his new graphic novel Off Season. \n\nPraise for Off Season \n“James Sturm’s Off Season is a big-hearted meditation on the shifting sands of family and manhood in our uneasy era—I swallowed this book whole and I’ll be pressing it on anyone who asks me for a great read this year.”—Emily Bazelon\, Cohost of Political Gabfest \n“A haunting examination of the inner life of men in the age of Trump. Off Season is the kind of novel we need in this moment\, forcing us to confront the personal despair at the heart of our national destiny. I was mesmerized by every image\, every word.”—Steve Almond\, Chost of Dear Sugars and author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country \n“Mr. Sturm knows when to let the images speak for themselves.” —New York Times \n“James Sturm’s graphic narratives are strongly grounded in American history\, drawing upon this history to tell fictional stories with ongoing relevance.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Sturm’s… words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale\, the fable.” —NPR \n\nAbout Off Season \nRage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see\, taste\, and feel. \nHow could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season\, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton\, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump\, and the disorienting months that followed. \nWe see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in from the car\, Christmas-morning anticipation\, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum—and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief\, rage\, loss\, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation\, Off Season is unaffected and raw\, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. \nA truly human experience\, Off Season displays Sturm’s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate\, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless\, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sturm/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Cory Doctorow / Radicalized
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and co-editor of BoingBoing Cory Doctorow for his new book Radicalized\, a collection of four new\, urgent sci-fi novellas of America’s present and future from one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nConnected by social\, technological\, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near\, near future\, the stories are: \n“Unauthorized Bread” is a tale of immigration\, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification\, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. \nIn “Model Minority”\, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless…only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. \n“Radicalized” is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife’s terminal cancer. \nThe fourth story\, “Masque of the Red Death”\, harkens back to Doctorow’s Walkaway\, taking on issues of survivalism versus community. \n— \nPraise for Walkaway \n“Is Doctorow’s fictional utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless\, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control\, we’re going to have to fight for it.”  — Edward Snowden \n“The darker the hour\, the better the moment for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful novel: everything we’ve come to expect from Cory Doctorow and more.” — William Gibson \n“The Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture…zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it.” — Neal Stephenson \n— \nCanadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Little Brother\, and the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. His other YA novels include Pirate Cinema andHomeland (2013)\, the sequel to Little Brother. His adult novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has been named one of the Webs twenty-five influencers by Forbes Magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. \n  \nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Radicalized\, and/or any of Cory’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-cory-doctorow-radicalized/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:PREET BHARARA In Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 26\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nPreet Bharara served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. He oversaw the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases and supervised an office of more than two hundred Assistant U. S. Attorneys\, who handled cases involving terrorism\, narcotics and arms trafficking\, financial and healthcare fraud\, cybercrime\, public corruption\, gang violence\, organized crime\, and civil rights violations. In March 2017\, Bharara was fired by President Trump. In 2017\, Bharara joined the NYU School of Law faculty as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the Executive Vice President of Some Spider Studios and the host of CAFE’s Stay Tuned with Preet\, a podcast focused on issues of justice and fairness. His is the author of Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime\, Punishment\, and the Rule of Law.\n \n \nJeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker\, a senior legal analyst at CNN and the author of Too Close to Call\, A Vast Conspiracy\, The Nine\, The Oath\, and most recently\, American Heiress. Well known for his ability to illuminate the complexities of our judicial system\, Toobin has covered some of the country’s most sensational news stories and high-profile cases such as the Starr investigation of President Clinton\, Martha Stewart’s legal battles\, the O.J. Simpson trial\, and numerous Supreme Court cases.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preet-bharara-in-conversation-with-jeffrey-toobin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ashley M. Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra
DESCRIPTION:Ashley M. Jones reads from her new poetry collection dark // thing. Also featuring readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra. \n\ndark // thing is a multi-faceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things\, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work\, full as it is of slashes of all kinds\, ultimately separates darkness from thingness\, affirming and celebrating humanity. \nAshley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University. Her debut poetry collection\, Magic City Gospel\, was published by Hub City Press in January 2017\, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies\, including the Academy of American Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Prelude\, Steel Toe Review\, Fjords Review\, Quiet Lunch\, Poets Respond to Race Anthology\, and The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a 2015 B-Metro Magazine Fusion Award. She currently lives in Birmingham\, Alabama\, where she is a board member of the Alabama Writers’ Conclave \, co-coordinator of the Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series\, founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival\, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. \nTongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, 2017)\, which received a 2018 American Book Award\, a 2018 California Book Award\, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year\, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people\, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco. \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. \nYaccaira Salvatierra is a native Californian having lived in various cities from the San Diego/Tijuana border to the magical town of Arcata. She is inspired by people’s stories and a city’s movement. Her BA is in Latin American and Latino Studies from UC Santa Cruz and she has an MA in Education from San José State University where she is currently working on an MFA in poetry.  She is a teacher and lives with her two sons in San José.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-m-jones-tongo-eisen-martin-monica-sok-and-yaccaira-salvatierra/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Namwali Serpell / The Old Drift
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Namwali Serpell‘s debut novel\, The Old Drift. Joining her in conversation is Michelle Quint. Please save the date and join us! \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n  \n\n  \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n \n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience – each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.” – Alice Sebold\, author of The Lovely Bones\n \n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!” – Alexandra Fuller\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight \n  \n\n  \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel. \n  \n  \nMichelle Quint is the Executive Editor of TED Books and Culture Curator for TED Conferences. She is the author of a young adult book\, The Defiant\, published by McSweeney’s in 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Old Drift\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-namwali-serpell-the-old-drift/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCarolyn Forche\nWhat You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance\nHosted by Dennis Bernstein \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nCarolyn Forche is one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Her work-including Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes-has been translated into more than twenty languages. For decades\, however\, the story of how she became an activist through trial by fire has lived inside her until now. Carolyn Forche was twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appeared on her doorstep- a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it was brilliant. She’d heard rumors about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer…He has driven from El Salvador to invite her to his country. Captivated\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension as they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, Forche is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads\, sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. Forche learns how she can act as a witness and translate that into an art that might illumine the lives of others. That is “the poetry of witness.” \nWhat You Have Heard Is True- a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political awakening- is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” – Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-a-memoir-of-witness-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-zephyr-omeira-hosted-by-gary-turchin-open-mic/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our March book at the February Book Club meeting (2/27)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on February 28 while supplies last. \nMARCH’S BOOK CLUB PICK:\nBLUETS\nBY MAGGIE NELSON \n  \nLiterary Nonfiction. “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” A lyrical\, philosophical\, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love\, as refracted through the color blue\, while folding in\, and responding to\, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein\, Sei Shonagon\, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. BLUETS further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. \nIn 2015\, the editors of Bookforum included BLUETS on their list of 10 of their favorite books over the past two decades. \nMaggie Nelson is a writer\, poet and scholar. Her book The Argonauts (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Nelson has also been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Creative Capital Literature Fellowship\, a NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. \n  \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to facilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around literature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nWhen\n\n\nWednesday\, March 27\, 2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nWhere\nMain Library\n1st Floor Reading Area \n\n\n\n\n\n125 14th St.\nOakland\, CA 94612 \nPhone: (510) 238-3134
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-2/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shiv Kotecha\, Ed Steck\, and Syd Staiti
DESCRIPTION:Poets from all over! Converging in one place! On one night! \nShiv Kotecha is the author of The Switch (Wonder\, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now\, 2015). Writing can also be found in frieze\, Art in America\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Believer and elsewhere. \nEd Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Rose (with Adam Marnie\, Hassla)\, Far Rainbow (Make Now Books)\, The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press)\, and others. His work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally\, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Chateau Shatto. He lives in Tampa\, FL. \nSyd Staiti is author of The Undying Present (Krupskaya 2015) and chapbooks In the Stitches (Trafficker 2015) and Verse/Switch & Stop Motion (2008). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, Tripwire\, Amerarcana\, and The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman 2017). Staiti has been involved with The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand\, Small Press Traffic\, and is currently a collective member of Light Field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shiv-kotecha-ed-steck-and-syd-staiti/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katy Butler\, The Art of Dying Well
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 27\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updates\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. Please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 25th\, 2018 if you have any ADA accommodation requests. \nIn The Art of Dying Well\, Katy Butler seeks to restore an element of the sacred to the process of dying\, and provides the tools to navigate a modern medical system that is inadequately designed to meet the needs of the elderly and patients managing prolonged illnesses. This crucial guide prepares readers for seven phases of late life\, from vigorous old age to the final breath. Filled with life-affirming and relatable anecdotes\, each chapter addresses a specific stage: Resilience\, Slowing Down\, Adaptation\, Awareness of Mortality\, House of Cards\, Preparing for a Good Death\, and Active Dying. \nThe author of the New York Times bestseller Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, Katy Butler’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The Best American Science Writing\, and The Best American Essays. A finalist for a National Magazine Award\, she lives in Northern California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Hospice of Santa Cruz County.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katy-butler-the-art-of-dying-well/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forché
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Forché discusses her new memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. \n\nPraise for What You Have Heard Is True \n“In this searing\, vital memoir\, Carolyn Forché at last reveals the dark stories behind her famous early poems: she brings alive the brutality\, complexity and idealism of El Salvador in the late 1970s\, a time of revolution that echoes all too painfully in the present. What You Have Heard Is True\, a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political and human awakening\, is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” —Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“Carolyn Forché asks us not only to hear\, but to see\, the scale of human and moral devastation in El Salvador. For those of us who are citizens and residents of the United States\, Forché’s powerful\, moving\, and disturbing memoir also demands that we recognize our country’s responsibility for the atrocities committed by the El Salvadoran military. As is the case with her poetry\, Forché’s nonfiction asserts the need for truth—in our politics\, in our writing\, in our witnessing.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer \n“What You Have Heard Is True is as much an enthralling account of a life marked by an encounter as it is a document of a time and place. Carolyn Forche’s urgent and compelling memoir narrates her role as witness in an especially explosive and precarious period in El Salvador’s history. This incredible book shapes chaos into accountability. It marries the attentive sensibility of a master poet with the unflinching eyes of a human rights activist.” —Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nAbout What You Have Heard Is True \nThe powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire \nWhat You Have Heard is True is a devastating\, lyrical\, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation\, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy\, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life. \nCarolyn Forché is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. The relative of a friend\, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant. She’s heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer\, but according to her\, no one seemed to know for certain. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. Captivated for reasons she doesn’t fully understand\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension. \nTogether they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her\, but also to learn for himself just how close the country is to war. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, he is determined to save his country\, and Forché is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads and sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship\, as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. This is the powerful story of a poet’s experience in a country on the verge of war\, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Siri Hustvedt / Memories of the Future
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents international bestselling author of The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt for Memories of the Future\, a provocative\, exuberant novel about time\, memory\, desire\, and the imagination that tells the story of a young Midwestern woman;s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor\, Lucy Brite. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nAs she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building\, S.H.\, aka Minnesota\, transcribes her neighbors bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook\, along with sundry other adventures\, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. \n  \nForty years later\, S.H.\, now a veteran author\, discovers her old notebook\, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts\, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. \n  \nElaborately structured\, intellectually rigorous\, urgently paced\, poignant\, and often wildly funny\, “Memories of the Future” brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought\, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex\, love\, hunger\, and rage. \n  \n\n  \n“Among the many riches of Siri Hustvedt’s portrait of a young woman finding her way as an artist are her reflections on how acts of remembering\, if they reach deep enough\, can heal the broken present\, as well as on the inherent uncanniness of feeling oneself brought into being by the writing hand.” – J.M.Coetzee \n  \n“Like all the best postmodern novels\, this metafictional investigation of time\, memory\, and the mutating self is as playful as it is serious.” – Kirkus Reviews \n  \n\n  \nSiri Hustvedt is the internationally acclaimed author of a book of poems\, six novels\, four collections of essays\, and a work of nonfiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. Her novel “The Blazing World” was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Lost Angeles Book Prize for Fiction. She has also published numerous papers in scholarly and scientific journals. She has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \n\nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-siri-hustvedt-memories-of-the-future/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Karen Russell and Michael Ray
DESCRIPTION:Karen Russell discusses her new story collection\, Orange World with Zoetrope editor Michael Ray. \n\nPraise for Karen Russell \n“Amidst the leading pack of talents Karen Russell writes the most like she’s on fire\, as in: this close to revelations. Orange World is her best collection yet. Her imagination’s baroque syntax has been planed down to the absolute essentials\, allowing the power of her vision to speak for itself…This is prophetic work written with clarifying fury.”–John Freeman\, Lit Hub \n“Hilarious\, exquisite\, first-rate.” —Joy Williams\, The New York Times Book Review  \n“From apparent influences as disparate as George Saunders\, Saki\, Stephen King\, Carson McCullers and Joy Williams\, [Russell] has fashioned a quirky\, textured voice that is thoroughly her own: lyrical and funny\, fantastical and meditative.” —Michiko Kakutani\, The New York Times  \n“One of the most innovative\, inspired short-story collections in the past decade. . . . There’s absolutely no living author quite like Karen Russell.” —Michael Schaub\, NPR \n\nAbout Orange World \nFrom the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove\, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary\, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. \nKaren Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant\, arrestingly vivid\, unforgettable stories.  In“Bog Girl”\, a revelatory story about first love\, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog.  In “The Prospectors\,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory\, and find themselves fighting for their lives.  In the brilliant\, hilarious title story\, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal\, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral\, slippery\, purgatorial space\, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. \nAbout Karen Russell \nKAREN RUSSELL won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction\, and her first novel\, Swamplandia! (2011)\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the “5 under 35” prize from the National Book Foundation\, the NYPL Young Lions Award\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, and is a former fellow of the Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She currently holds the Endowed Chair at Texas State University’s MFA program\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon with her husband and son. More at https://karenrussellauthor.com. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-russell-and-michael-ray/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ruby Ray
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nRuby Ray: Kalifornia Kool / Photographs 1976-1982 \nIntroduction by Carl Abrahamsson \npublished by Trapart \n\n\n\nSpanning music\, art and literature\, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s were diverse but united by a DIY\, anti-authoritarian attitude. Photographer Ruby Ray was there to capture it all in the same spirit. With her work appearing in the legendary punk zine Search & Destroy and its successor RE/Search\, Ray was at the epicenter of\, and a key participant in\, a vital cultural moment vibrant with provocation and creativity. A local experimental music and art scene supported artists like Bruce Conner and William S. Burroughs\, and attracted groundbreaking bands like Devo\, the Mutants\, Boyd Rice and the Dead Kennedys\, as well as established international bands like Throbbing Gristle\, the Clash and the Sex Pistols. Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool collects the photographer’s images from this time: live shots\, backstage parties\, apartments overflowing with youthful exuberance\, elegant portraits of key people and photographic experiments. Her work captures a time and a place where West Coast open-mindedness\, youth\, art\, music and electricity merged. \n\n\n\n“Late 70s\, early 80s… Ruby Ray and her camera\, capturing the movers and shakers of the San Francisco punk and industrial scenes… And then some… Performance art\, music\, literature\, photos\, videos made with a “fuck you” and “do it yourself” attitude. Ruby sees and Ruby captures… Knowns and unknowns\, winners and losers\, sane and insane\, constructive and destructive… William Burroughs with his gun\, Bruce Conner being fueled by punk energy\, Sex Pistols’ last ever gig in San Fran\, Throbbing Gristle\, The Cramps live at Napa Mental Hospital\, Search and Destroy Magazine\, and bands and gigs galore… Devo\, Mutants\, Slits\, Bags\, Dead Kennedys\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Roky Erickson\, Nico\, DOA\, Chrome\, Factrix\, Boyd Rice\, Z’EV\, Flipper… You name’em and there was Ruby Ray: the spectacularly talented lens of Kalifornia Kool. We should be grateful for her work. It’s invaluable\, evocative\, loud\, sexy and more inspiring now than ever before… Ruby’s images open up a portal to a mythic and frenzied scene and show that it’s true: all mythologies are real… Turn up the volume and dive into this one.” – Carl Abrahamsson\, from the Introduction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruby-ray/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Morris and Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Adam Morris discusses his new book\, American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation with Chris Jennings. \n\nAbout American Messiahs \nA history with sweeping implications\, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. \nMania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed\, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine\, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones\, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. \nAfter years of studying these emblematic figures\, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates\, these charismatic\, if flawed\, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality\, gender conformity\, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue\, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-morris-and-chris-jennings/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julie Moss / Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery and Women Sports Film Festival hosts a special evening with Julie Moss for her new book\, co-written with Robert Yehling\, Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend. Please join us! \n  \nIn 1982\, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky\, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore\, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known\, 140.6-mile combination of swimming\, cycling\, and running. Julie brought no experience or appreciable training beyond running two marathons. She did bring a latent willpower that\, the world soon found out\, wouldn’t be denied. What happened next changed Ironman forever…. After becoming the unlikely leader during the marathon\, the final leg of the Ironman\, Julie fell and lost all bodily function fifteen meters (50 feet) from the finish. While on hands and knees\, she watched her rival pass her. Thirty seconds later\, she crawled across the line – stunning the millions who were watching on television. \n \n  \nAt age twenty-three\, Julie became the instant global icon\, and the public face of fitness and endurance sports – which exploded in popularity\, partly because of her inspiration. That this young co-ed would represent such a new sport was unlikely. That she would inspire millions to change the courses of their lives in the three decades since was unthinkable. Yet\, it happened. And keeps happening. In April 2017 Julie won her age group in the Ironman North American Championships – racing 25 minutes faster than her 1982 Ironman. How does a 58-year-old woman beat the time of her 23-year-old self? Crawl of Fame is the long-awaited release of her incredible story. Julie describes how she found her greater purpose while lying across the finish line at Ironman 1982 – and how that greater purpose as a woman\, athlete\, endurance sports symbol and\, now\, iconic figure has defined her life and inspired others since. Several endurance sports athletes have written memoirs\, but none have changed a sport so dramatically as Julie Moss. Now\, readers will join the inner and outer journey of one of the world’s most impressive athletes\, a woman who has already inspired millions – with millions more to come. \n  \n\n  \nJulie Moss is a member of the Ironman Hall of Fame\, U.S.A. Triathlon Hall of Fame and a ten-time Ironman competitor.  She was the 2012 Triathlon Business International Female Athlete of the Year and was the 2017 Ironman North American Champion in her age group. Julie has served as a commentator for ABC\, NBC\, CBS\, and the Goodwill Games. Julie is a member of the Hoka One One sports team\, which has been featured inPeople\, Sports Illustrated\, ESPN: The Magazine\, The New York Times\, and the Los Angeles Times.  She lives in San Diego\, California. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Crawl of Fame\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-moss-crawl-of-fame-julie-moss-and-the-fifteen-feet-that-created-an-ironman-triathlon-legend/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Estes & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz Standing Rock vs Dakota Access Pipln
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nNICK ESTES with ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ\nOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock vs the Dakota Access Pipeline\nand the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM. co-sponsored by St. John’s Presbyterian Church \nIn 2016\, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota\, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline\, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century\, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan – “Mni Wiconi” – Water is Life – was about more than just a pipeline. Water protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before\, and that even after the encampment was gone their anti-colonial struggle would continue. In Our History is the Future\, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars\, the Pick-Sloan Dams\, the American Indian Movement and the campaign for Indigenous Rights at the United Nations. Estes also draws on personal observations from the encampments and from his own growing up as a citizen of Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires)\, making this book a work of authentic history\, a personal story\, and a stirring manifesto for native liberation. \n“This book is a jewel-history and analysis that reads like the best poetry-certain to be a classic work as well as a study guide for continued and accelerated resistance.”\n-Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States \nNick Estes\, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe\, is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico\, and a co-founder of The Red Nation\, an organization dedicated to native liberation. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-estes-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-standing-rock-vs-dakota-access-pipln/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:EAR HUSTLE In Conversation with Al Letson
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 29\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\nEar Hustle presents stories of life inside prison\, shared by those living it. The podcast is a partnership between ​Nigel Poor\,​​ a Bay Area visual artist\, and ​Earlonne Woods​​\, formerly incarcerated at​ San Quentin State Prison​\, and was co-founded with fellow inmate ​Antwan Williams. ​​The Ear Hustle team works in San Quentin’s media lab to produce stories that are sometimes difficult\, often funny and always honest\, offering a nuanced view of people living within the American prison system. \nIn addition to co-producing and co-hosting Ear Hustle\, Poor is also a visual artist whose work explores the various ways people make a mark and leave behind evidence of their existence. Her work can be found in various museum collections including the SFMOMA\, the M.H. deYoung Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C. She is also a professor of photography at California State University\, Sacramento. \nIn November 2018\, California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Woods’ sentence after 21 years of incarceration. Upon his release\, Woods was hired by PRX as a full-time producer for Ear Hustle\, and will continue to work with Poor\, contributing stories about re-entry. \nAl Letson is the host of the award wining public radio/podcast Reveal\, from Center for Investigative Reporting. Prior to that\, Letson created and hosted the Peabody Award winning public radio program State of the Re:Union (SOTRU). Letson’s background in theater\, slam poetry\, and playwriting informs his interdisciplinary work. \nThis event is a benefit for Prison University Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ear-hustle-in-conversation-with-al-letson/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Cindy Derby / How to Walk an Ant
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Cindy Derby‘s debut picture book\, How to Walk an Ant. Please save the date and join us for this special afternoon event\, which will include a puppetry performance — with ant puppets! — and innovative activities for adults and their kids. \n  \nThere are nine steps to becoming an ant walker\, and Amariyah\, the expert ant walker\, is here to show you how it’s done. This irreverent and quirky picture book follows a young girl as she goes through the process of walking ants\, from polite introductions to tragic leash entanglements. In the end\, this unique book shows that as long as you’re doing what you’re best at\, you may find a like-minded friend to tag along. \n  \n\n  \nCindy Derby is an illustrator and author based out of San Francisco. How to Walk an Ant is her first picture book (Roaring Brook Press\, March 2019). Other picture book titles (as illustrator) include: Climbing Shadows by Shannon Bramer (Groundwood Books\, 2019); Outside by New York Times best selling author Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020); The Boy and the 800-Pound Gorilla by Jackie Azua Kramer (Candlewick Press\, 2020). Cindy’s background is in puppetry and she has performed all over the world. She received her Master of Arts from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was awarded grants from organizations such as The Jim Henson Foundation and Puppet Animation Scotland to assist in the creation of her shows. In 2014 Cindy won the grand prize for her illustration portfolio at the international SCBWI conference in Los Angeles. Her work is done in watercolor\, india ink\, gouache and inktense pencils. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Walk an Ant\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-cindy-derby-how-to-walk-an-ant/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Michael Koch + Robert Anbian followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:A Night Horn Press celebration…  On April 1st\, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release\, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-koch-robert-anbian-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling\, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for her new book\, SHOUT\, a memoir and call to action for the #MeToo era. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about\, and advocates for\, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999\, her groundbreaking\, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now\, twenty years later\, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing new poetic memoir\, SHOUT. \nIn free verse\, Anderson shares reflections\, rants\, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching\, devastating and triumphant\, Shout is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp\, whether aloud\, online\, or only in their own hearts. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event is for mature audiences only. Children under 13 will not be admitted. \n★ “A captivating\, powerful read about clawing your way out of trauma\, reclaiming your body\, and undoing lifetimes of lessons in order to use your voice as the weapon it is. Fervent and deafening.”—Booklist\, starred review \nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers\, teens\, and new adults. Combined\, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chains was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal in the UK. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. In addition to combating censorship\, Laurie regularly speaks about the need for diversity in publishing and is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council. \nPurchase of Shout is mandatory for entry to the signing line. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Premier Event\, Youth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-halse-anderson/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Clive Thompson on the Future of Coding
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive cultural portrait that Kirkus recommends for fans of John Markoff and Ari Levy\, Clive Thompson offers smart\, funny\, necessary reporting with Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. This tech journalist uncovers lesser-known origin stories within the field and outlines its future directions\, all while casting incisive light on ethical questions of coding (what we code for\, more humans do). Thompson further explores the shifting role of the profession into a blue-collar arena where labor and class distinctions impact tech-innovations and outcomes. Design-thinking\, new economic engines\, Kentucky coal miners being trained to code and teen feminist hacktivist sleepovers—Thompson covers it all. \nJoining Thompson in conversation to explore the shifting future of coding is Wired veteran and Atlantic staff writer Alexis Madrigal. \nDo you fully know the profession that fuels Silicon Valley? Maybe we know it less than we think—Thompson and Madrigal weigh whether it could be the overlooked driving force of seismic social change. \nThis special event will be hosted at HanaHaus\, the dynamic community coworking space in downtown Palo Alto. Seating opens at 7:00 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Premier Event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clive-thompson-on-the-future-of-coding/
LOCATION:HanaHaus\, 456 University Ave\, PAlo Alto\, CA\, 94301
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Meredith May / The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Meredith May for the launch of her book\, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees. More information to be announce\, but please save the date and join us! \nMeredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature. \nThe bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival\, and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n\n  \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Honey Bus\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-meredith-may-the-honey-bus-a-memoir-of-loss-courage-and-a-girl-saved-by-bees/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:K Chess
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nK Chess discusses her new novel\, Famous Men Who Never Lived. \n\nPraise for Famous Men Who Never Lived \n“With an eerie and ingenious premise\, K Chess explores in a fresh way the most universal of human experiences: loss\, regret\, and the longing for what might have been. With its refugees from a parallel universe\, this inventive book does what only fiction can do: describes an impossible world in order to more clearly show us our own.”—Karen Thompson Walker\, author of The Age of Miracles \n“Famous Men Who Never Lived is a fascinating novel: complex\, uncanny\, powerful. K Chess adroitly enacts Joyce’s  ‘cracked looking glass’ and gives us an off-kilter reflection that allows us to really see who we are. The wit\, elaboration\, and detail of her invention are spectacular.”—Dana Spiotta\, author of Innocents and Others \n“The novel jumps off from a fascinating premise into strange and fertile territory. K Chess constructs not just one universe\, but two\, and delicately entangles them to create a rich\, engrossing exploration of displacement\, history\, memory\, of the past and the present. Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling\, Famous Men Who Never Lived is a smart\, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable debut.”—Charles Yu\, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe \n  \nAbout Famous Men Who Never Lived \nFor readers of Station Eleven and Exit West\, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities\, the communities that come together through circumstance\, and the power of art to save us. \nWherever Hel looks\, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States―an alternate timeline―she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her\, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others\, like her partner Vikram\, attempt to assimilate\, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead\, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts―a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback―and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. \nBut the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing\, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger\, guilt\, and grief over what she has truly lost.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-chess/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nRheea Mukherjee reads from The Body Myth \nAdam Nemett reads from We Can Save Us All \nAbout The Body Myth: \nA moving exploration of loss\, Mukherjee delivers an intense and unexpected modern love story as Mira reconciles reality with desire. \nMira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam\, a modern bustling city in India\, and the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone\, and with only the French existentialists as companions\, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park. Mira runs to help her but is cautious\, for she could have sworn the woman looked around to see if anyone was watching right before the seizure began. \nMira is quickly drawn into the lives of this mysterious woman Sara\, who suffers a myriad of unexplained illnesses\, and her kind\, intensely supportive husband Rahil\, striking up intimate\, volatile and fragile friendships with each of them that quickly become something more. \nPraise for The Body Myth \n“Witty\, melancholic\, and dramatic by turns\, Rheea Mukherjee’s THE BODY MYTH is a touching love story about misfits searching for togetherness\, even if that togetherness might not be healthy for all concerned… THE BODY MYTH is a compelling tale\, rich in emotional undercurrents and empathy for its unconventional characters.”\n—Foreword Reviews\, \n“Rheea Mukherjee has written a thought provoking and memorable meditation on the meaning of life. In seductive prose\, THE BODY MYTH\, explores the depths and boundaries of relationships\, conventional and unconventional\, and the meaning of intimacy in sickness and health. A fine novel.”\n—Soniah Kamal\, award winning author of ‘Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan’ \n“Like the Rasagura fruit Rheea Mukherjee so eloquently writes about\, THE BODY MYTH is a tender love story at its core: sweet\, sour\, and bursting with wisdom. An intoxicating read.”\n—Neel Patel\, author of IF YOU SEE ME\, DON’T SAY HI \nAbout We Can Save Us All: \nWelcome to The Egg\, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war\, climate disasters create a global state of emergency\, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. \nFunded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs\, a student revolution incubates at The Egg\, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth—an impassioned heroine with a dark secret—propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide\, inspiring a cult-like following. As the final superstorm arrives\, they toe the line between good and evil\, deliverance and demagogues\, the damned and the saved. \nIn this sprawling\, ambitious debut\, Adam Nemett delves into contemporary life in all of its chaos and unknowing.  We Can Save Us All is a brave\, ribald\, and multi-layered examination of what may be the fundamental question of our time: just who is responsible for fixing all of this? \nPraise for We Can Save Us All \n“Adam Nemett is the kind of smart and the kind of funny we need right now. WE CAN SAVE US ALL has the savvy\, dangerous feel of early Don DeLillo.”\n—Sam Lipsyte\, author of ‘THE ASK’ and ‘THE SUBJECT STEVE’ \n“Adam Nemett has done something superheroic here. WE CAN SAVE US ALL is a wild and uproarious debut that is also wise and deeply felt. Come for the costumes\, comedy\, and psychedelics; stay for the searching questions about what it means to live an honorable life—to try to be one of the Good Guys—at the (maybe) end of time.”\n—Justin Taylor\, author of ‘THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY’\, ‘FLINGS’\, and ‘EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER’ \n“Adam Nemett is a terrific new writer\, and in WE CAN SAVE US ALL he has crafted a wildly entertaining and often moving book about what it’s like to be young and rebellious in a dangerous world.”\n—Tom Barbash\, bestselling author of ‘ON TOP OF THE WORLD’\, ‘STAY UP WITH ME’\, and ‘THE LAST GOOD CHANCE’ \nabout the authors: \nRheea Mukherjee’s fiction and non-fiction has been published in several publications including Scroll.in\, Southern Humanities Review\, Out of Print\, QLRS and Bengal Lights\, among others. Her previous stories have been Pushcart nominees\, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Finalists\, and semi-finalists for the Black Lawrence Press Award. She co-founded Bangalore Writers Workshop in 2012 and currently co-runs Write Leela Write\, a Design and Content Laboratory in Bangalore. You can learn more about Rheea at www.rheeamukherjee.com. \nAdam Nemett serves as creative director and author for The History Factory\, where he’s written award-winning nonfiction books for Lockheed Martin\, Brooks Brothers\, City of Hope Medical Center\, and Huntington Bank\, and directed campaigns for 21st Century Fox\, Adobe Systems\, HarperCollins\, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\, New Balance\, Pfizer and Whirlpool. An excerpt of his debut novel\, WE CAN SAVE US ALL\, was anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader. He is the writer/director of the feature film\, The Instrument (2005). Adam’s work has been published\, reviewed and featured in Variety\, LA Weekly\, The New Yorker\, Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, as well as many others. \nabout the publisher: \nUnnamed Press is an independent publisher based in Los Angeles\, California. Unnamed Press publishes literary fiction and non-fiction\, with an emphasis on debuts by women\, underrepresented voices and people of color\, as well as internationally focused speculative and fantasy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-city-lights-with-rheea-mukherjee-adam-nemett/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Meredith May - - The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Meredith May to discuss her new new book The Honey Bus\, on Tuesday\, April 2nd at 7pm. \nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees.May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMeredith May is an award-winning journalist and fifth-generation beekeeper. \nDuring her sixteen-year career at the San Francisco Chronicle\, her reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism\, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism\, and first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press. Her series about an Iraqi boy wounded during the second Gulf War was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. \nMeredith is a former professor of  journalism and podcasting at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. She lives in San Francisco\, where she rows on the Bay and cares for several beehives in a community garden. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 2\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-the-honey-bus/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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