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SUMMARY:Sheila Kohler
DESCRIPTION:When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven\, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine\, only two years older\, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news\, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born\, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. \nIn her signature spare and incisive prose\, Shelia Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate\, Crossways\, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls\, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother\, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks\, even after death. \nOnce We Were Sisters is a stunningly beautiful\, heartrending literary memoir about the tragic death of the author’s beloved older sister and a tribute to their bond. \nSheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg\, South Africa. She is the author of fourteen works of fiction including the novels Dreaming for Freud\, Becoming Jane Eyre\, and Cracks\, which was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and made into a film starring Eva Green. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and O Magazine and included in the Best American Short Stories. She has twice won an O’Henry Prize\, as well as an Open Fiction Award\, a Willa Cather Prize\, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shelia-kohler/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T090631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T090705Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight: BOMBS AWAY
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-bombs-away-2/
LOCATION:Oasis\, 298 11th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170109T102055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102055Z
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SUMMARY:Identity Crisis IV (IDCIV)
DESCRIPTION:THE GAME HAS RETURNED! \nThe social and literary experiment IDENTITY CRISIS\, hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Youssef Alaoui. \nEach person reads the next in line. The last person reads the first person’s work. No one reads their own. \nWriters hear their work read by another very talented reader\, expressed in a new way. Audience members hear some of their very favorite writers reading one another’s poetry\, which leads one to consider the artful combination of poetry and performance. How does the poem operate when portrayed by this skilled performer? This series adds new light and interpretation on poetics to an amazing collection of poets and poetry. \nWITH MUSIC from KAREN PENLEY \nREADERS:\nCassandra Dallett\nPeter Bullen\nAlexandra Naughton\nJuba Kalamka \nBREAK\nMUSIC: KAREN P \nREADERS:\nCharlie Getter\nMaw Shein Win\nChristine No\nArisa White
URL:https://litseen.com/event/identity-crisis-iv-idciv/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T085816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061302Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Marie Mason
DESCRIPTION:There are more people living alone than at any time in history\, and more depression than ever recorded. Violence to each other and ourselves continues to cast long shadows across generations. We are fragmented individually and collectively to the point of vile speech and hate crimes based on false divisions. How do we heal? How do we become more connected? \nIndivisible: Coming Home to Our Deep Connection is a transformational story of a deep human journey to the heart of connection. \nChristine Marie Mason asks questions such as: Why are people lonely and alienated from one another? Why are people angry? Or mean? Or violent to each other? Is that reversible? Why do we lie and hide our true selves? How do we make more love and less conflict happen? Can we make a world that works better for all of us? How might we shift our internal state and the design of our communities and institutions to be happier\, more connected?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-marie-mason/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170109T102335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102335Z
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SUMMARY:Corpi\, Álvarez\, BPorras-Hernandez\, + Vas
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates poets and artists who are giving back to our communities\, determined to make a positive change. \nOn Saturday January 21st\, Jingletown celebrates educators and poets Lucha Corpi\, Amalia Álvarez\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and René Vasquez \nJingletown Reading & Open Mic\nEvery 3rd Saturday of the Month\n3-5 pm\nCurated by harold terezón\nCésar Chavez Library\, Oakland\nFruitvale BART accessible
URL:https://litseen.com/event/corpi-alvarez-bporras-hernandez-vas/
LOCATION:César E. Chávez Branch Library\, 3301 E 12th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20161223T030310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030310Z
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SUMMARY:Zine Release Party
DESCRIPTION:America\, I love you but you’re bringing me down : ZINE RELEASE\nThis collection of poetry\, drawings\, and personal essays presents views and experiences that do not fit into Trump’s America\, along with tips and recommendations for anyone who wants to get active in opposing his agenda. \nOrganized by Vanessa Hope Schneider\, these limited-run\, risographed zines will be available starting January 20th—inauguration day. We’ll be selling them for $14 each\, and all money will go to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative. \nJoin us for a reading from some of the contributors and pick up a copy. All are welcome!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170121T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T082227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061145Z
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SUMMARY:Songs of Protest
DESCRIPTION:Come to Adobe Books on Inauguration Day for music that will stir your protesting souls\, warm your weary hearts\, remind you of all that is beautiful and strange and hard about this thing we call democracy\, this country we call America. \nBlake Parkinson – Protesting on his bagpipes since 2001\, singing Bob Dylan covers since…? \nRosie Cima – singer songwriter\, lover not a fighter\, election nailbighter\, pulled that allnighter\, sings blues and songs lighter. \nTed Lee – \nAnd more guests to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-protest/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T081624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061037Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Moore
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Moore shares his latest heart-pounding thriller\, The Dark Room. Gavin Cain\, an SFPD homicide inspector\, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco’s mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket\, and Cain’s cold-case investigation\, must wait. At City Hall\, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he’s received: the first\, an unforgettable blonde; the second\, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third\, the woman drinking from a flask; and last\, the woman naked\, unconscious\, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way unless the mayor takes his own life first. An intricately plotted\, deeply affecting thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final pages\, The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer\, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-moore/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T081011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060815Z
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: Caits Meissner + Isobel O'Hare
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Caits Meissner and Isobel O’Hare. With musical guest Thomas Nguyen. \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/uptown-fridays-caits-meissner-isobel-ohare/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170120T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T080730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060644Z
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SUMMARY:A Day of Affirmation
DESCRIPTION:The Rebound Bookstore invites one and all\, to come together\non Friday\, January 20th\, 2017\nat 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael \nFrom 10 in the Morning until 12:00 Noon\nto a communal reading of the Constitution of the United States. \n(Copies available in the store) \nAnd a positive discussion thereafter on means of defending the Republic. \nAll who want to read may choose a section. \nRSVP to reboundbookstore@aol.com\nOr select a paragraph when you arrive. \nThere will be coffee\, and doughnuts\, courtesy of Johnny Doughnuts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-day-of-affirmation/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170109T101827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101827Z
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SUMMARY:Cheng\, Perez\, + Calimlim
DESCRIPTION:JANUARY ARTIST SHOWCASE AND OPENING RECEPTION co-presented by Omnidawn Publishing \nArc Gallery & Studios\n1246 Folsom St. (btw 8th and 9th)\nThursday\, January 19th\, 2017 8-10pm\nEarly Bird $8 | Pre-sale $10 | Door $12| Season Pass (includes Celebrate Your Body and APAture 2017) $50 — bit.ly/kswpresents01 \nKearny Street Workshop teams up with Omnidawn Publishing to present the book releases for Jennifer S. Cheng’s “House A” and Robert Andrew Perez’s “the field”. \nAND \nKSW’s Office Gallery re-launches! Focusing on early artists looking to mount their first solo exhibition\, we are proud to present a new exhibition by Francis Calimlim. \nbios: \nJennifer S. Cheng writes in the intersecting space of poetry and essay. Her book HOUSE A explores immigrant home-building and was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and she is also the author of Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, an image-text chapbook. www.jenniferscheng.com \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor & book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print & online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review & The Cortland Review\, and has forthcoming work in Vinyl. His first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn in their pocket book series. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. More at robertandrewperez.com. \nFrancis Calimlim was born in Quezon City\, Philippines and was raised in San Diego\, California. He has participated in a number of group shows in San Diego\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. He received his BFA in Multimedia at San Diego State University in 2011\, and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. http://www.franciscalimlimart.com/ \nOmnidawn Publishing was founded by wife and husband team Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan to create books that are most closely aligned with each author’s vision\, and to provide an interactive and rewarding publishing experience for poets and writers. They encourage authors to participate at every point in the decision making process of book design and book production\, and thus far all have taken an active part\, deciding on or providing cover art and assisting in the design of the interior of the books. Omnidawn has been publishing poetry since 2001\, with Fabulist and New Fabulist Fiction added in 2006.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheng-perez-calimlim/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20161201T022557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T022557Z
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SUMMARY:Jason Diamond
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents Jason Diamond and his hilarious and poignant new memoir\, Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies\, the story of how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless\, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. \nA writer at heart\, Diamond decided early on that it would fall to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn’t matter to him that he had no qualifications\, training\, background\, platform\, or direction. Thus went the years-long\, delusional\, earnest\, and assiduous quest to reach his goal. In the meantime\, he brewed coffee\, guarded cupcake cafes\, and built up a respectable writing career. All the while\, he watched John Hughes movies religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned\, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through\, and the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or\, at least\, a really\, really good story. \nThis is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream\, one part big failure\, one part John Hughes movies\, one part Chicago\, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!” part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first. \nJason Diamond is a writer and editor from Brooklyn. He is the Sports Editor at Rolling Stone\, a columnist at Electric Literature\, former Literary Editor at Flavorwire\, former Associate Editor at Men’s Journal\, and the founding editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He has been published by the New York Times\, Paris Review\, New York\, the Believer\, the New Republic\, the New York Observer\, Tablet\, The Rumpus\, The Awl\, and many other places. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-diamond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20160908T000328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T000356Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Levine + C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Julia Levine has won numerous awards for her work\, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her latest collection\, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight\, (LSU press 2014) as well as the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for her collection\, Ask; the 1998 Anhinga Poetry Prize and bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection\, Practicing for Heaven\, as well as a Neruda Award from Nimrod\, and a Discovery/The Nation award. Widely published\, her work has been anthologized in The Places That Inhabit Us\, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry\, and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. She received a PhD in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley\, and lives and works in Davis\, California. \nC. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, the most recent being Torn (Four Way Books 2011) and The Halo (Four Way Books\, 2016). His linked collection of short stories\,The Affliction\, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2018. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation.\nHis poetry and short fiction have appeared in many anthologies and magazines\, including The Best American Poetry\, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation\, American Poetry Review\,The Atlantic Monthly\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, and POETRY. He lives in San Francisco with his spouse the biologist and composer\, Jacob Bertrand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-levine-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T074109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060456Z
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SUMMARY:Tamam Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Tamam Kahn is author of Fatima’s Touch\, Poems and Stories of the Prophet’s Daughter\, Ruhaniat Press\, 2016\, and Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad\, Monkfish Press\, 2010\, International Book Award winner\, 2011. She includes stories and poems as well as an occasional Spoken Word piece on these 7th century women. Tamam has traveled widely among the mystics of the Middle East\, India\, and North Africa\, was invited by the Royal Ministry of Morocco to read her poetry at the symposium in Marrakesh in 2009. Tamam lived in Damascus in 2003. She read from her book on Fatima at Poet’s House in NYC for The Wide Shore\, A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry\, 2015. She has been awarded writing residencies at Ragdale Foundation and Jentel Artist Residency.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamam-kahn/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20161223T030434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030434Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Walker\, Sarah Rosenthal\, + Micah Ballard
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for an evening of poetry with Laura Walker\, Sarah Rosenthal\, and Micah Ballard\, reading pieces from their respective new collections Story; Lizard; and Afterlives. \nIn Story\, Walker shares the strategies of telling\, which\, as every savvy writer knows\, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back\, finding\, losing\, and recovering the threads of narration. \nIn Lizard\, Rosenthal “explores the creaturely membranes that lie between the known-social and the unknown-social. This is bone instructive poetry. I love it.” – Rodrigo Toscano \nIn Afterlives\, Ballard continues the precarious yet successful envisioning of the spirited haunts of his native Louisiana amidst the streets of his long adopted San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-walker-sarah-rosenthal-micah-ballard/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170119T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
CREATED:20170113T074512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T060348Z
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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:20260427T020049
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:20260427T020049
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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170118T200000
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CREATED: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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T213000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T220000
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CREATED:20170113T064921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T064921Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #20
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
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CREATED: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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T210000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T020049
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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170117T170000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T210000
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CREATED: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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