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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: A Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: JANUARY QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library \nThursday\, January 19\, 2017\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic Room (basement level)\nPlease arrive by 5:45 PM\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nGabrielle Glancy\nWinner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship\, finalist for Yale Younger Poets\, The Colorado Prize and The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award\, Gabrielle Glancy has been published in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The American Poetry Review and many other journals and anthologies. Her book I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In was listed among the top thirty books you may have missed in 2015 by The Advocate. Curve Magazine describes Vera as “. . . a queer gem of a book… wonderful\, literary\, sexy\, funny . . \, by turns mystifying\, hilarious\, admirable\, and always hard to put down . . .” In addition to being a widely published writer\, Gabrielle Glancy is well known all around the world for her college admissions expertise. \nAndrea Wolf\nAndrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript EXTRATRANSMISSION a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject. Andrea is both a writer\, printer\, & publisher whose founding small press project Mess Editions seeks to publish emerging writing from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry & art scenes. \nCarolina de Robertis\nCarolina De Robertis\, a writer of Uruguayan origins\, is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages\, and have received a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American literature\, and the co-producer\, with her wife Pamela Harris\, of the short documentary film “Farías: an Afro Uruguayan Love Story.” De Robertis teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University. She has two children who are constantly teaching her new things about cheetahs and the solar system. \nMarcela Pardo\nMarcela Pardo Ariza explores the relationship of wry humor\, queerness and representation through color sets and prop-like objects. Her photographs incorporate quotidian objects in seemingly absurd ways creating tableaux that mix recognizable elements with magical realism. Pardo is interested in the action of looking within the theatricality of “the set” and her visually provoking portraits seek to explore metaphors regarding race and gender. \nPardo is from Bogotá\, Colombia and has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Clocktower Gallery (Manhattan\, NY)\, a co-Director at the Swell Gallery (San Francisco\, CA) and Co-Founder/Director of NoRoof Gallery (San Francisco\, CA. Pardo has curated shows at Cranium Corporation (San Francisco\, CA); Residence/SF (San Francisco\, CA); and CTRL+SHFT collective (Oakland\, CA). Her photographic work has been shown at Glasshouse (Brooklyn\, NY); SOMArts (San Francisco\, CA)\, Embark Gallery (San Francisco\, CA)\, Zoo Labs\, guest curated by Et al. (San Francisco\, CA); and Root Division (San Francisco\, CA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-a-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20161201T031036Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and curated by and Mk Chavez Sharon Coleman. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20161201T023713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023713Z
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SUMMARY:UNNAMED PRESS SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Indy Publisher UNNAMED PRESS \nwith two new works of fiction \nOne Life  \nby David Lida \nand \nBorder of Paradise \nby Esme Weijun Wang \nWhat has been said about One Life: \n\n\n\n“ONE LIFE will be deservedly praised for the light it trains on a previously unexposed dark corner of the primitively cruel and racist U.S. justice system. But David Lida also writes\, in his remarkable novel\, about a Mexico that even very few Mexican writers have any first-hand knowledge of\, and does it in a way that readers on both sides of the border have rarely encountered.”                                                       –Francisco Goldman\,  author of ‘Say Her Name’ and ‘The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle’. \n\n\n\n“David Lida’s ONE LIFE is simply revelatory. It’s Juan Rulfo meets Raymond Chandler\, Roberto Bolaño meets Chester Himes. It’s the American justice system\, exposed\, and the inside story of the frenetic\, cruel push and pull that lures Mexican migrants from of their homes to the US. I’ve never read a book quite like this\, and neither have you.”\n—Daniel Alarcón\, author of AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES \n“I haven’t read a book this harrowing since Atticus Lish’s PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT LIFE. David Lida has written an extraordinary account of the cruelty\, squalor\, and occasional enchantment of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. It is an indictment of a justice system mired in cynicism and bad faith\, and an economic system that hits the poorest hardest\, and repays ambition with betrayal; but at the same time\, ONE LIFE is an incredible love story\, not just in the romantic sense\, but in the sense that it’s about coming to love life itself\, despite everything.”\n—Paul LaFarge\, author of ANOTHER LIFE \nPraise for The Border of Paradise: \n“THE BORDER OF PARADISE is a magnificent achievement – an exhortation for human tenderness and individual dignity in the most difficult of circumstances. Wang explores identity and family with a sense of drama that borders on gothic\, without ever sacrificing the psychological texture that connects us to her characters.”\n—Adrienne Celt\, author of THE DAUGHTERS \n“Wang’s prose is beautiful and restrained\, and her generous\, precise characterization makes every perspective feel organic and utterly real in the face of increasingly theatrical circumstances. The result — the story of an American family stretched and manipulated into impossible shapes — is an extraordinary literary and gothic novel of the highest order.”\n—Carmen Maria Machado\, NPR \nDavid Lida is the author of four books\, including the very well received travel narrative First Stop in the New World (Riverhead\, 2009). One Life is his first novel and will be published in Mexico in Spanish in 2016. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years\, principally in the U.S. and Mexico\, but also for magazines in England\, Canada and Peru. When David is not writing\, he works as a mitigation specialist\, conducting investigations for lawyers in the U.S. who defend clients who are charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty. He is based in Mexico City. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker\, as well as a journalist and essayist. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. She lives in San Francisco. \nThe Unnamed Press publishes literature from around the world. Whether it’s fiction\, memoir or something in between\, they are always interested in unlikely protagonists\, undiscovered territories and courageous voices. To learn more visit: http://unnamedpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-showcase/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T071550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T015055Z
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SUMMARY:Cary Tennis + Danelle Morris
DESCRIPTION:All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. Finishing School helps writers reignite the passion that started them on the project in the first place and work steadily to get it done. \nUntold millions of writing projects begun with hope and a little bit of hubris lie abandoned in desk drawers\, in dated files on computer desktops\, and in the far reaches of the mind. Too often\, writers get tangled in self-abuse their self-doubt\, shame\, yearning for perfection\, and even arrogance get in the way. In this new work\, Cary Tennis and Danelle Morton help writers overcome these emotional blocks and break down daunting projects into manageable pieces. \nTennis first convened a finishing school so that writers could help one another stay on track and complete their work. Since they weren’t actually critiquing one another’s writing\, there was no jockeying for the title of best writer or the usual writing group politics; there was only a shared commitment to progress. Without guilt\, blame\, and outside critique\, students were more productive than they imagined possible. Through this program\, they were able to complete novels that they d been struggling with for almost two decades\, finish screenplays drafts\, and revive interest in long-neglected PhD theses. In this book\, the authors share this proven and easily replicable technique\, as well as their own writing success stories. \nCary Tennis wrote the advice column “Since You Asked\,” which appeared on Salon.com for twelve years. As an advice columnist\, he never missed a deadline\, but in his literary writing\, he found himself stalled. Through the Finishing School method that he created\, he completed his novel and now helps others through theirs in his writing workshops and international retreats. \nDanelle Morton is a journalist and the coauthor of fifteen books. Morton has worked for The New York Times\, was an associate bureau chief for People\, and has been a foreign correspondent. She was a finalist for the PEN/USA Literary Nonfiction Award and the ASME magazine award in the public interest category.She has received investigative journalism grants from The Nation Institute and the George Polk Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-tennis-danelle-morris/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170118T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170109T101547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101547Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake: No Shadow Without Light
DESCRIPTION:“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no shadow unless there is also light.”\n—Margaret Atwood \nAs with the rest of the Bay Area\, Litquake has been festering over the unexpected election of Donald Trump. Do we publish a manifesto? Or curl up in the fetal position? \nYes\, times are dark indeed\, but it’s incumbent on the creative class to stand tall and contribute. And so we are proud to present these diverse and electric Bay Area voices\, who speak to our nation’s fear\, anger\, and perhaps even optimism. \nIn the words of Toni Morrison:\n“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair\, no place for self-pity\, no need for silence\, no room for fear. We speak\, we write\, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” \nCome and join the chorus! Admission free. \nWords from: \nELMAZ ABINADER\nArab-American author\, poet\, and Mills College professor (“Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon”) \nFAITH ADIELE\nAuthor and editor (“The Nigerian-Nordic Girls Guide to Lady Problems”; “Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology”) \nROBERT MAILER ANDERSON\nNovelist and playwright (“The Death of Teddy Ballgame”; “Boonville”) \nDEVORAH MAJOR\nSan Francisco’s third Poet Laureate (“and then we became”) \nSARAH LADIPO MANYIKA\nNovelist and editor (“In Dependence”; “The Weaverbird Collection: New Fiction from Nigeria 2008”) \nALEJANDRO MURGUIA\nSan Francisco’s current Poet Laureate (“Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6”; “This War Called Love”) \nISHMAEL REED\nAuthor\, editor\, journalist\, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate (“The Complete Muhammad Ali”; “Black Hollywood Unchained”) \nTENNESSEE REED\nPoet and activist (“City Beautiful: Poems 1998-2006”) \nT.J. STILES\nAuthor and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (“Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America”; “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-no-shadow-without-light/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20161201T025606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025606Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories: \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of Gods Without Men \n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write. ” — Javier Calvo \n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \nAbout Savage Theories: \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano.\nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleepswith a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend oferoticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey.\nSavage Theories wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac/
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:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T220000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T064921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T064921Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #20
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-20-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T070738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T070738Z
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SUMMARY:Holly Brown
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holly-brown/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T065931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065931Z
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SUMMARY:Sara Marinelli
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-marinelli/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T065545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065545Z
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SUMMARY:Charles Vogl
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-vogl/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20161201T023556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023556Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Mohr
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new memoir \nSirens \nfrom Two Dollar Radio \n\n\n“To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens\, a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr’s lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl\, there is no line Mohr won’t cross\, either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation\, or his fearless honesty in reporting back from that time. But what sets this book apart is Mohr’s unwillingness to traffic in pat notions of redemption.”—Ron Currie\, Jr. \n“This isn’t your average recovery memoir. Mohr’s honesty in this book is astonishing and necessary\, his candor about hitting bottom and relapsing deeply moving and important. It’s a hell of a compelling read.”—Cari Luna \nAcclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr provides a captivating and complicated account of his years of substance abuse and culpability in his non-fiction debut. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded\, Mohr traces his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid\, through his first failed marriage\, parenthood\, heart-surgery\, and his everyday struggle against relapse. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of Oprah Magazine‘s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller; Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice pick at the New York Times Book Review; Damascus\, called “Beat-poet cool” by the New York Times; and\, most recently\, Fight Song and All This Life. He recently moved with his family to Seattle\, Washington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-mohr/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170109T101353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101353Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: Poetry + Prose
DESCRIPTION:Queer Words presents four poets reading new poetry and prose Tuesday\, January 17\, 7 pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Natasha Dennerstein reads from her new collection Triptych Caliform\, David Hathwell from Muses\, Richard Loranger from Sudden Windows\, and Arisa White from You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. Free admission and refreshments. Door prizes awarded for promptness!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T065353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T065353Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Perry
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-perry/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170117T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170117T110034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T110034Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith Maran
DESCRIPTION:Book critic and essayist Meredith Maran discusses her absorbing memoir\, The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention. Meredith will be in conversation with Michelle Richmond\, bestselling author of the novel Golden State. \n“By turns poignant and funny…a spirited and moving memoir about how “it’s never too late to try something new.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“When Meredith Maran lost her best friend\, her money\, and her marriage to the woman of her dreams at age 60\, she could have become a bitter\, angry woman. Instead she made a new\, vibrant life for herself in a new\, vibrant city\, with a new job\, new friends\, new lovers\, and an old bungalow among the lime trees. The spirit\, resilience\, and hilarity on display in The New Old Me offers hope for living soulfully and zestfully no matter what life gives us—now\, and at every age.” — Ayelet Waldman \n“The New Old Me is a book I don’t just want to read – I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully\, with immediacy and enjoyment\, which is to say\, everyone.” —Anne Lamott \n“The New Old Me is funny\, tough\, sweet\, and always charming.” —Meg Wolitzer \n“Meredith’s wrenching\, redemptive journey is a heartfelt\, wise meditation on the challenges women face today as we age\, and the creativity with which we’re facing them.”—Susan Orlean \nLike a lot of women her age\, MEREDITH MARAN has a hard time believing she’s a woman of her age. And yet she’s published more than a dozen books\, including The New Old Me\, Why We Write About Ourselves\, Why We Write\, My Lie\, and A Theory of Small Earthquakes. When she’s not hiking Mount Hollywood\, attending readings at indie bookstores\, or scouring Los Angeles’ finest thrift shops\, she’s writing for venues including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Christian Science Monitor\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, and Salon. The grateful recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, Meredith lives in a Silver Lake bungalow that’s even older than she is.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-maran/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T064320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T064320Z
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SUMMARY:Lida Parent & Geddes Fielder
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/lida-parent-geddes-fielder/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T063515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T063515Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #3
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170109T101043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101043Z
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SUMMARY:From Mandalay to the Bay
DESCRIPTION:From Mandalay to the Bay: An Evening of Burmese & Burmese American Poets & Writers \nPlease join us for a very special event at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco on Monday\, January 16th\, 2017 at 6pm. Renowned poet\, ko ko thett\, will be making a rare appearance in the Bay Area to celebrate his latest book\, The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr). He is also the co-editor of Bones Will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press). He will be joined by Bay Area authors\, poets\, and translators\, Htet Yi Linn\, Khin Thiri Nandar Soe\, Audrey T. Williams\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kenneth Wong. \nFree. \nFor more information\, please contact maw@redbridgepress.com \nBios of Readers \nHtet Yi Linn is an undergraduate pursuing a degree in Business Administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. At Cal\, she serves as the President of Burma Association at Berkeley where she works hard to bring the Cal community closer to the Burmese culture. Despite moving out of Burma at the age of 14\, she remains close to the Burmese culture and language through Burmese novels and by staying close to Burmese communities overseas. She embraces the Burmese culture and literature. She has also worked on multiple translation projects. You can find some of her writings about snippets of her life at heyhtett.wordpress.com. \nKhin Thiri Nandar Soe (her pen name is Niyawdar) writes poems and critiques on Burmese political and social culture. She is from Burma and poetry is her first love. Her poems and articles are published in Burmese revolutionary magazines such as Thitsar\, Ah Lin Eain\, Aharya\, Daung O Wai and the literary magazine Kaung Kin (The Sky). Most of her works reflect Burma’s struggle for liberation and human nature. \nko ko thett is a poet by choice and Burmese by chance. He has received an English PEN Translation Award for the seminal Bones will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press\, 2013\, co-edited with James Byrne). The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr\, 2015)\, a collection of ko ko thett’s poems that have appeared in literary journals worldwide\, is listed on ‘‘Nota Benes’’ by World Literature Today. He has read at Sharjah International Book Fair\, Hong Kong Poetry Nights and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai. After a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia and Europe for about 18 years\, ko ko thett moved back to Yangon. He writes in both Burmese and English\, and is an honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. \nAudrey T. Williams is an Oakland-based writer. She is a Medical Writer by day\, and an MFA Candidate in creative nonfiction at California College of the Arts all other times. Audrey grew up in North Carolina. She writes lyrical essays and poems about her multi-cultural family life\, being Burmese and African American. She has been deeply exploring her cultural and racial identity formation\, focused on social dynamics post-Independence in Burma and post-Integration in America. Just when Audrey thought she had resolved the questions about her ancestry\, a conversation with a co-worker from India exposes a family secret…to learn more visit www.audreyTwilliams.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Ruins of a glittering palace\, her collaborative chapbook\, with paintings by Mark Dutcher\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and an instructor at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her chapbook Score and Bone on Nomadic Press was recently nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nKenneth Wong is a Burmese-American author and blogger who grew up in Rangoon. He lives in San Francisco\, California\, and teaches Beginning Burmese at UC Berkeley. His essays\, short stories\, and poetry translations have appeared in Grain\, AGNI\, Eleven Eleven\, Myanmar Times\, Irrawaddy\, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-mandalay-to-the-bay/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ian Rankin
DESCRIPTION:In Rather Be the Devil\, Detective Inspector John Rebus investigates a cold case that has turned red hot once again. \nJohn Rebus\, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules\, investigates a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom at one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty\, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over forty years. Now\, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate\, but his inquiries quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears. \nIan Rankin is an internationally #1 bestselling novelist and the recipient of an Edgar Award\, a Gold Dagger for fiction\, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh\, Scotland\, with his wife and their two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-rankin/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170117T033019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T033019Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Alice Bickford
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-alice-bickford/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T170000
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CREATED:20170117T025323Z
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SUMMARY:Camille Paglia
DESCRIPTION:From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism — from motherhood to Madonna\, football to Friedan\, stilettos to Steinem. \n\nWhen Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae\, she established herself as a smart\, fearless\, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now\, for the first time\, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume: Free Women\, Free Men. Whether she’s declaring Madonna the future of feminism\, asking if men are obsolete\, calling for equal opportunity for American women years before the founding of N.O.W.\, or urging all women to love football\, Paglia can always be counted on to get a discussion started. The rock-solid intellectual foundation beneath her fiery words assures her timeless relevance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-paglia/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170115T220000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170109T100851Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Resist
DESCRIPTION:A night of readings and recommitment to Democracy. \nThis event is a benefit for International Institute of the Bay Area\, Southern Poverty Law Center\, and Transgender Law Center. \nJoin us for readings by Bay Area writers that share a commitment to fighting injustice and inspire us to do the same\, including: \nJason Bayani\nMK Chavez\nIngrid Rojas Contreras\nNatasha Dennerstein\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nJane Hirshfield\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nBich Minh Nguyen\nD.A. Powell\nIshmael Reed\nTennessee Reed\nMargaret Rhee\nElena Rose\nSolmaz Sharif\nKevin Simmonds\nArisa White\nJavier Zamora\nEmcee: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\nMusic by Dusty Shores \nIf you can’t make the event\, but still want to support these critical organizations\, visit:\nhttp://www.iibayarea.org/donate/\nhttps://donate.splcenter.org/\nhttps://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate \nBay Area WRITERS RESIST is part of an international network of literary artists and organizations committed to using writing to encourage and inspire resistance against the injustices threatening so many of us across the country. \nPresented in partnership with: Foglifter Press\, Fourteen Hills: the SFSU Review\, Left Margin Lit\, Liminal\, Lone Glen\, Omnidawn\, Queer Rebels\, Quiet Lightning\, Starline Social Club\, University of San Francisco MFA In Writing program\, and Voz Sin Tinta.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-resist/
LOCATION:Starline Social Club\, 2236 martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T213000
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CREATED:20161129T061046Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop)\nWendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir\, Hollywood Notebook)\nAya de Leon (Uptown Thief)\nRebecca Farivar (Correct Animal)\nAntonio Garcia Martinez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)\nWITH GUEST HOST Baruch Porras-Hernandez
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T203000
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CREATED:20161018T003559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T003559Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub REAL
DESCRIPTION:Memoirists\nSean Craven\nChristina Ingenito\nTania Martin\nBradley Paterson\nTony Press\nmore to come … \nSubmissions open. This will be a Moth-style evening\, with speakers telling stories from their lives without notes. A decided preference will be for self-revelatory tales of every hue. The time limit will be about eight minutes.\nWould you like to submit something for consideration? If it is a piece you have performed and can link to online\, that would be great; if it is in written form\, that would work; otherwise\, please paste a synopsis of five to ten lines into your message. One note: since this is a family café\, with children sometimes present\, profanity will not be allowed. If interested in submitting\, please write to Jon Sindell: jsind [at] sbcglobal [dot net]. The subject line of your email should read: R-Dub Real: Your Name. \nLet’s get real!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-real/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T053639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T053639Z
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: Drag Queen Story Hour For Kids
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170115
DTSTAMP:20260428T055518
CREATED:20170113T055529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T055529Z
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SUMMARY:Poets & Writers Live
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-writers-live/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170113T210000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party with Terry Shames
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-with-terry-shames/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Vinograd\, Dodsworth\, + Odegard
DESCRIPTION:Julia Vinograd\, Fred Dodsworth\, and Tom Odegard will read at 7 pm on Friday\, January 13th\, at Nefeli Caffe\, 1854 Euclid Avenue\, a little north of Hearst\, in Berkeley\, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading. \nJulia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 61 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. Her most recent book is Look Out (Zeitgeist Press\, 2016). She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones\, Eye of the Hand\, and The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa . She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley . She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco— Poets from Hell. \nFred Dodsworth served on the Bay Area Generations Board of Directors from the Fall of 2013 through the Fall of 2016.\nFred enjoyed a long career as a journalist and publisher in the Bay Area\, prior to returning to college a few years ago to earn a bachelors degree in Creative Writing at SFSU (magna cum laude\, concentration in Gender Studies). His many accomplishments include being a front-page daily columnist and features editor for the SF Examiner\, a freelance writer for the Berkeley Daily Planet\, and a copy chief for the Bay Area News Group. In addition to serving as a Board Member with Bay Area Generations\, he is a member of the Beast Crawl Collective and currently offers his pro bono services to Joyce Jenkins (of Poetry Flash) as she prepares to launch her poetry publishing company and Milvia Street\, the literary magazine of Berkeley City College\, Sharon Coleman\, faculty advisor. While serving on the Board\, Fred was responsible for publication design and production of B.A.G.’s monthly chapbook. \nTom Odegard – aka: Tom/Ms.G is an intersex activist who writes poetry\, operates fire trucks\, lives half time in Oakland and half time on San Juan Island in the NorthWest and manages to be a Jill of some trades as well as author(s) of several books\, including Past Lives Led Ms. G Steps Out and Friends Well Met & More\, while looking forward to poetry readings\, eating with friends\, and making new ones. Tom’s poetry is proof that both William Blake and H.P. Lovecraft both continue to thrive. Simultaneously. In this century. \nThe Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe\, a cafe/restaurant that serves dinners\, tapas\, coffee drinks\, beer\, wine\, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free\, but a one-drink or one-plate minimum is suggested. Dale Jensen\, Ralph Dranow\, John Rowe\, and Grace Grafton are hosts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vinograd-dodsworth-odegard/
LOCATION:Nefeli Cafe\, 1854 Euclid Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kay Nilson + Thea Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Kay Nilson and Thea Matthews. With musical guest Cricket Crawshaw. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kay-nilson-thea-matthews/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170113T200000
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CREATED:20170113T052608Z
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SUMMARY:Douglas Preston
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-preston/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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CREATED:20170109T100248Z
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SUMMARY:FRESH and BEST Poetry ft. Eisen-Martin + Trevino
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin and Wendy Trevino to the store on Friday\, January 13st at 7pm as part of the FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. \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. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems is titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already\,” and was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook “128-131” was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook “Brazilian Is Not a Race” was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-and-best-poetry-ft-eisen-martin-trevino/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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