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SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil reads from two new collections of his work - open mic follows
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett is proud to present a San Francisco poet of exquisite talents and profound dedication to humanity. Beau Beausoleil’s long history as a bookseller and his many years leading the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project speak to his dedication to to the word\, to the world and to the heart. \nTonight\, Beau will read from his recent volume of poems\, Harness of Bone\, and from his just-released book of new and selected poems from 1976 to present\, A Glyphic House. \nLearn more about Beau at this link:\nwww.narratively.com/resurrecting-the-book-market-of-baghdad
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-reads-from-two-new-collections-of-his-work-open-mic-follows/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Showered with critical acclaim\, Ocean Vuong’s 2016 poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds cemented his status as a young new voice. His equally beloved debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, is a stunning portrait of family\, love\, and the power of storytelling. Written as a letter from a son to a mother\, the book asks perennial and pressing questions about race\, class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and trauma\, all with the characteristic care and love that Vuong lends the page. Born in Vietnam and raised in Connecticut\, Vuong is an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst. His writing has been featured in The Atlantic\, Harpers\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, and the American Poetry Review. \n“[On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous] is one of the best novels I’ve ever read…Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece.” — Tommy Orange \nTommy Orange’s stunning debut novel\, There There\, grapples with the complex and painful history of a multigenerational Native American family living in Oakland\, at once celebrating their rich spiritual heritage and illuminating the profound consequences of systematic discrimination. A recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-with-tommy-orange/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses: Readings by Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and the Senses Program Launch + Celebration\nWith Readings by Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian\nTuesday\, February 4\, 2020 \n5:30 – 7:00pm: Readings + Conversation\n7:00 – 7:30pm: Reception + Celebration\nMorrison Library\, UC Berkeley (inside Doe Library) \nCo-sponsored by Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation \n\nThe launch party for the Art Research Center’s new “Poetry and the Senses” 2-yr program\, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation\, will include local poets Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian\, who will offer readings and comments followed by a conversation. How does poetry offer a model for engaging the world\, and how can we think of it as a political or ethical resource? \nThis event is free and open to the public\, seating first-come\, first-served until capacity is met. For more information and events\, please visit the Arts Research website at arts.berkeley.edu. \n\nIndira Allegra is re-imagining what a memorial can feel like\, the scale on which it can exist and how it can function through the practice of writing\, performance\, sculpture and installation. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago\, John Michael Kholer Art Center\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Center for Craft Creativity and Design\, Mills College Art Museum\, Weinberg/Newton\, 808 Gallery\, The Alice Gallery and SOMArts among others. Her commissions include performances for SFMOMA\, de Young Museum\, The Wattis Institute\, City of Oakland and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. Allegra’s work has been featured by BBC Radio 4\, Art Journal\, KQED and Surface Design Magazine. She was the recipient of the Artadia Award\, Tosa Studio Award\, Windgate Craft Fellowship and Jackson Literary Award and has received support from the Mike Kelley Artist Project Grant\, MAP Fund and Queer Cultural Center. Allegra is a former Lambda Literary Fellow\, her writing has been widely anthologized\, and she has contributed works to 2019 Lambda Literary Finalist Foglifter Magazine\, 2012 Lambda Literary Finalist Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two Spirit Literature\, Canal Magazine\, Cream City Review\, HYSTERIA Magazine\, make/shift Magazine\, and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art and Thought among others. \nChiyuma Elliott is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. A former Stegner Fellow\, Chiyuma’s poems have appeared in the African American Review\, Callaloo\, the Notre Dame Review\, the PN Review\, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society\, Cave Canem\, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the author of two books: California Winter League (2015) and Vigil (2017). \nLyn Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist\, postmodern\, and contemporary poetry and poetics\, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose\, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun (Belladonna\, 2019) and Tribunal (Omnidawn\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-the-senses-readings-by-indira-allegra-chiyuma-elliott-and-lyn-hejinian/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:“Uncanny Valley” Author Anna Wiener in Conversation w/ Casey Newton
DESCRIPTION:New Yorker writer Anna Wiener’s new book “Uncanny Valley” is a brilliant memoir of a half-decade lived in San Francisco as tech changes the community for better and for worse. We’ll discuss how working at fast-growing tech startups changed her perspective on privacy\, social networks\, and the city she lives in. \nAbout Uncanny Valley: A Memoir: \nTechnology journalist Wiener looks at Silicon Valley life in this insider-y debut memoir that sharply critiques start-up culture and the tech industry. In 2013\, Wiener left an assistant job at a New York literary agency to work for an e-book start-up run by young men who were uninterested in reading books. That job led to a move to San Francisco\, where she worked in customer support at a data analytics start-up\, then at a start-up that focused on software development. Wiener humorously describes the employee perks at the office (“a miniature theme park” with a wraparound bar\, a roof deck\, a speakeasy)\, though she decided to primarily work from home “in sagging leggings.” \nWiener writes of how she struggled to be taken seriously in a male-dominated industry that lacked diversity; attended lavish work events—at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Lake Tahoe—while San Francisco’s homeless population increased; communicated with coworkers using just emoji; and watched 20-somethings get rich overnight. She eventually became disillusioned with her job (“I was burning out and failing up”) and left in 2018 to pursue writing\, but not before buying up her vested stock options. Wiener is an entertaining writer\, and those interested in a behind-the-scenes look at life in Silicon Valley will want to take a look.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uncanny-valley-author-anna-wiener-in-conversation-w-casey-newton/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Brooke Barker & Boaz Frankel / Let's Be Weird Together
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith holds a special in-store event with Brooke Barker (Sad Animal Facts and Sad Animal Babies) and Boaz Frankel\, creators of the new book Let’s Be Weird Together. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The price of admission is equal to the cost of Let’s Be Weird Together\, which is included with each ticket. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nConversations made up entirely of inside jokes. Netflix passwords\, bizarre dreams\, even French fries\, all shared without a second thought. From husband-wife team Brooke Barker  and Boaz Frankel\, heres that rare relationship book that captures the rituals and mini universe (Population: 2) that a couple can create together\, in a sweet\, small package with all the humor\, charming illustrations\, and endearing quirkiness that makes their It’s Different Every Day Page-A-Day Calendar and Barkers New York Times-bestselling Sad Animal Facts each cult favorites. \nCelebrating the uniqueness that makes each person\, and each relationship\, special\, Let’s Be Weird Together includes a humorous timeline of how a loved ones oddball habits go from annoying to swoon-worthy over time. Illustrations celebrate the Tiny Acts of Heroism you do for your #1 person — like saying youre full when theres only one bite of cake left\, so they can enjoy it. Plus\, fun facts on the habits of lovesick animals (theyre just like us!): Bowerbirds collect blue items to impress mates. Perfect for Valentines and anniversary gifts\, its a hip\, not-at-all saccharine way to say\, “I-love-you-slash-I-love-being-weird-with-you!” \n\n \nBrooke Barker is the creator of the Sad Animal Facts Instagram account and author of the New York Times bestselling book of the same name and its sequel\, Sad Animal Babies. Brooke has contributed to the New York Times\, Lenny Letter\, the Guardian\, Cup of Jo\, The Stranger\, and more. Her books have been translated into nine languages and her comics have been featured by New York Magazine\, Forbes\, Bustle\, Entertainment Weekly\, Fast Company\, Mashable\, POPSUGAR\, Parade\, and the Guardian\, among others. Brooke currently works as a freelance writer and illustrator. \nBoaz Frankel is a filmmaker\, writer\, and talk show host. For six years Boaz hosted the Pedal Powered Talk Show\, a talk show built into a bicycle that traveled all over the United States. When Boaz isn’t breaking Guinness World Records for the most high fives in an hour\, appearing on NBC’s TODAY show\, or starring in a Dutch television segment called Boaz Goes Dutch\, he creates quirky documentaries\, curates a kazoo museum\, and takes Kip (Boaz and Brooke’s dog) on long walks. \nToday\, Brooke and Boaz live in Pittsburgh\, PA with an adorable dog named Kip. You can find them at their local Dairy Queen indulging in their favorite Blizzard flavors (M&M with no chocolate syrup for Brooke and Reeses for Boaz)\, exploring the streets of Pittsburgh with Kip\, and befriending the local wildlife\, be it dead or alive (Brooke has a fascination with road killBoaz once pulled over to take a picture of a dead skunk for her). Let’s Be Weird Together is their first book together\, but the creative couple have been collaborating on the It’s Different Every Day Page-A-Day Calendar since 2014\, a contagiously fun calendar that breaks the mundanity of daily life by offering a new surprise each day. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Let’s Be Weird Together\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Let’s Be Weird Together to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Let’s Be Weird Together\, place an order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brooke-barker-boaz-frankel-lets-be-weird-together/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army on Silenced by Sound
DESCRIPTION:Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army about Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth at Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, CA on Tuesday\, February 4th at 7pm. \n“Silenced by Sound is a powerful exploration of the challenges facing art\, music\, and media in the digital era. It is “full of wisdom from someone who cares deeply about the power of real music.”—MOJO \nIan Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four books and has worked with the likes of filmmaker John Waters\, Merle Haggard\, and Green Day\, among others. His work with international artists such as the Zomba Prison Project\, Tanzania Albinism Collective\, and Khmer Rouge Survivors\, has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment with Anderson Cooper reporting. Since 1993 he has taught violence prevention and conflict resolution around the world for such prestigious organizations as the Smithsonian\, New York’s New School\, Berklee College of Music\, the University of London\, the University of California–Berkeley\, and the National Accademia of Science (Rome).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-brennan-in-conversation-with-kevin-army-on-silenced-by-sound/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T193000
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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Peter Lawrence Kane
DESCRIPTION:The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.   \n\nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time\n\n  \n“I love this book.”– Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk  \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”– Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events  \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!” – Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \n  \nMary Ladd‘s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. \nPeter Lawrence Kane was the editor of SF Weekly from 2017-19 and continues to contribute to the paper. He has only 11 more national parks to go before reaching all 61 in America\, which is going to require at least three expensive trips to Alaska.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-peter-lawrence-kane/
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:The New Global Politics of Waste
DESCRIPTION:This lecture addresses how wastes have become globalized\, but also how one decision – such as China’s decision not to import paper and plastic scrap – can affect all of us right down to weekly decisions about taking out the trash. \nKate O”Neill is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley\, teaching and working on global environmental politics and the global politics of waste.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-new-global-politics-of-waste/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:The Wig Diaries Book Signing at Copperfield's Books Napa
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will host a book signing at Copperfield’s Books in Napa. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wig-diaries-book-signing-at-copperfields-books-napa/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books Napa\, 3740 Bel Aire Plaza\, Napa\, 94558
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Cutting Up The Century: A Burroughs Birthday Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:with Joan Hawkins\, Alex Wermer-Colan\, Peter Hale\, and Jon Longhi \ncelebrating the release of \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century \nEdited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan \npublished by University of Indiana Press \n\nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine\, Nova Express\, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations\, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up\, folding in\, and splicing together newspapers\, magazines\, letters\, book reviews\, classical literature\, audio recordings\, photographs\, and films\, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son\, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work\, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal\, excerpts from his dream journals\, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife\, Joan. \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays\, interviews\, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars\, respected artists\, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies\, media studies\, popular culture\, gender studies\, post-colonialism\, history\, and geography. Ultimately\, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours. \nJoan Hawkins is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. She is author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde and editor of the anthology Downtown Film and TV Culture\, 1975-2001. She co-organized the Burroughs Century conference and symposium held at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. \nAlex Wermer-Colan is a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University’s Digital Scholarship Center. He researched and edited The Travel Agency is on Fire\, a collection of unpublished archival prose poems Burroughs produced by cutting up a range of canonical texts. Wermer-Colan was the organizer of the William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference held at the City University of New York in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-up-the-century-a-burroughs-birthday-miscellany/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Carreyrou - Bad Blood
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $40 (includes signed book) \n \nIn 2014\, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device\, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper\, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion\, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger\, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while\, Holmes and her partner\, Sunny Balwani\, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees. \nRigorously reported and fearlessly written\, Bad Blood is a gripping story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. \nJohn Carreyrou\, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner\, was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for twenty years. For his extensive coverage of Theranos\, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting\, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting\, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. Bad Blood was named the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with his wife and three children. \n………………………………………………………………………………….. \nPlease note: Tickets are non-refundable
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-carreyrou-bad-blood/
LOCATION:Angelico Hall\, Dominican University\, 20 Olive Ave\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov Returns With His New Book Soviet Stamps
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry’s new book is Soviet Stamps\, wherein he recounts how he became an artist. Through written vignettes\, artwork\, and family photos the book charts Samarov’s emigration from the USSR in 1978\, on to his attempts to fit into American society and peripatetic attempts to earn a living\, while continuing to create artwork. Published in a limited-edition\, foil-stamped hardcover run of 800 signed-and-numbered copies. \nDmitry will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, author of the locally sourced underground ‘zine Namaste\, Motherf**ker!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-returns-with-his-new-book-soviet-stamps/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tomas Moniz in Conversation with Nancy Au
DESCRIPTION:Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez\, a self-employed single father\, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter\, Stella\, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover\, Jared\, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole—a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender—is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a neighborhood that is also changing\, gentrification inciting the ire of the established community. \nUpon the unexpected death of one of the bar’s regulars\, Juan is sent reeling\, and a series of upheavals follow as he both seeks and spurns intimacy\, pondering the legacy of distant parents and a failed marriage and grappling with his sexuality—all the while cycling and dating\, drinking at Nicks Lounge\, and parenting a determined and defiant child-become-woman. \nWhen his incarcerated father dies and Stella reveals she’s pregnant\, Juan is forced to examine the emotional bonds that both hold and hinder him\, to reassess his ideas of commitment\, of friendship\, of love. His encounters with various characters—his mother\, his ex-wife\, a middle-aged punker\, an aspiring acupuncturist\, a dapper veteran—lead Juan to the realization that he himself must change to thrive. \nThis is a story of making family and making mistakes\, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer father with a mixed-race daughter\, Juan exemplifies the ways identity connects and divides us. With wit\, insight\, and tenderness\, Big Familia explores the complexities of desire\, devotion\, and the mysteries of the heart. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nTomas Moniz is the editor of Rad Dad and Rad Families\, as well as the children’s book Collaboration/Colaboración\, and the author of the novella Bellies and Buffalos. He is the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\,and the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm residency. \nNancy Au’s is the author of Spider Love Song and Other Stories (Acre Books\, 2019). She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tomas-moniz-in-conversation-with-nancy-au/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: 'Gay Like Me' with author Richie Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Richie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway\, television and film producer. He is coming to Manny’s to talk about his new book ‘Gay Like Me’. \nIn this poignant and urgent love letter to his son\, award-winning Broadway\, TV and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of the LGBTQ community over the last 50 years. \n“My son is kind\, responsible\, and hardworking. He is ready for college. He is not ready to be a gay man living in America.”\nWhen Jackson’s son born through surrogacy came out to him at age 15\, the successful producer\, now in his 50s\, was compelled to reflect on his experiences and share his wisdom on life for LGBTQ Americans over the past half-century. \nGay Like Me is a celebration of gay identity and parenting\, and a powerful warning for his son\, other gay men and the world. Jackson looks back at his own journey as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural turmoil.\nJackson’s son lives in a seemingly more liberated America\, and Jackson beautifully lays out how far we’ve come since Stonewall — the increased visibility of gay people in society\, the legal right to marry\, and the existence of a drug to prevent HIV. But bigotry is on the rise\, ignited by a president who has declared war on the gay community and fanned the flames of homophobia. A newly constituted Supreme Court with a conservative tilt is poised to overturn equality laws and set the clock back decades. Being gay is a gift\, Jackson writes\, but with their gains in jeopardy\, the gay community must not be complacent. \nAs Ta-Nehisi Coates awakened us to the continued pervasiveness of racism in America in Between the World and Me\, Jackson’s rallying cry in Gay Like Me is an eye-opening indictment to straight-lash in America. This book is an intimate\, personal exploration of our uncertain times and most troubling questions and profound concerns about issues as fundamental as dignity\, equality\, and justice. \nGay Like Me is a blueprint for our time that bridges the knowledge gap of what it’s like to be gay in America. This is a cultural manifesto that will stand the test of time. Angry\, proud\, fierce\, tender\, it is a powerful letter of love from a father to a son that holds lasting insight for us all. \nMore about Richie Jackson: \nRichie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway\, television and film producer who most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway. He executive produced Showtime’s Nurse Jackie (the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for Best Comedy Series) for seven seasons and co-executive produced the film Shortbus\, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. As an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts\, he endowed a fellowship program\, the Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship\, at his alma mater in 2015 to assist graduates in the transition from academia to a lifelong career in the arts. He and his husband\, Jordan Roth\, were honored with the Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award. They live in New York City with their two sons. \nCheck out his website: www.richiejacksongaylikeme.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-gay-like-me-with-author-richie-jackson/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Robert Hass
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass’s many awards include the National Book Award\, the Pulitzer Prize\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Additionally\, he served as U. S. Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and also founded the long-running Lunch Poems series at University of California\, Berkeley where he is Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics. Among his published books are Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems\, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 and the forthcoming Summer Snow: New Poems (HarperCollins\, 2020).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-robert-hass/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch VERGE Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Lidia Yuknavitch will read from her new book\, VERGE\, on Thursday\, February 6 at 7:00 PM at East Bay Booksellers. A Q&A and Signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. \nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Vogue\, VERGE is a fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis\, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. \nLidia Yuknavitch photo by William Anthony
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch-verge-book-tour/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T203000
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SUMMARY:Elaine Kahn
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new book \nRomance or The End: poems \npublished by Soft Skull Press \nRomance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs\, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth\, love\, and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative’s power to both disfigure and restore. \nROMANCE or THE END \nThis is a book about love. \nAnd it is a book about lies. \nLove can be a lie\, but it is also always true. \nThis is a book about truth. \nThis is a book about story. \nThere is no such thing as a true story\, and so there are no stories in this book. \nWithout a story\, there is separation. \nThis is a book about separation. \nEverything is a story. Even the truth. \nThere is nothing truer in this world than the lie of love. \n\nElaine Kahn is the author of Women in Public (City Lights Publishers\, 2015)\, as well as several chapbooks\, including I Told You I Was Sick: A Romance (After Hours Ltd\, 2017)\, A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse (Poor Claudia\, 2012)\, and Customer (Ecstatic Peace Library\, 2010). Her writing has appeared in Frieze\, The Brooklyn Rail\, jubilat\, Poetry Foundation\, Art Papers\, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at Pomona College and the Poetry Field School. She lives in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-kahn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexis Coe / You Never Forget Your First
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes back Alexis Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) for her new book\, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. Please join us! \nYoung George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother\, demanded military promotions\, caused an international incident\, and never backed down — even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha\, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way\, though he lost more battles than he won. \nAfter an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation’s hero\, he was desperate to retire\, but the founders pressured him into the presidency — twice. When he retired years later\, no one talked him out of it. He left the highest office heartbroken over the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. \nBack on his plantation\, the man who fought for liberty must confront his greatest hypocrisy — what to do with the men\, women\, and children he owns — before he succumbs to death. \nWith irresistible style and warm humor\, You Never Forget Your First combines rigorous research and lively storytelling that will have readers — including those who thought presidential biographies were just for dads — inhaling every page. \n\n“Every now and then a fresh\, new biography told by a gifted storyteller on a familiar figure captures our imagination. So it is with this spirited and engaging biography of George Washington.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Leadership and Team of Rivals \n“A bewitching combination of erudition and cheek\, You Never Forget Your First is a playful\, disruptive work of history.” – Jennifer Egan\, New York Times bestselling author of Manhattan Beach \n“If you think there is nothing new to learn about George Washington\, then you have a treat in store with Alexis Coe’s You Never Forget Your First. In this keen and savage analysis of our longstanding Washington canon\, Coe dramatically reshapes our understanding of the president who could not tell a lie (actually\, he could\, and did). The result is a humorous\, sympathetic and refreshingly human portrait of Washington that is destined to become a classic.” – Karen Abbott\, New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park \n“Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full\, without sentiment or whitewashing. It’s a public service\, and it’s also a lot of fun.” – Irin Carmon\, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBG \n\nAlexis Coe is an award-winning historian and author of the narrative history book Alice + Freda Forever (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe is a consulting producer on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s forthcoming George Washington series on the History Channel\, and has frequently appeared on CNN. She’s the cohost of Audible’s “Presidents Are People\, Too!” and the host of “No Man’s Land.” Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, Time\, and many others. She holds a graduate degree in American history\, and was a Research Curator at the New York Public Library. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 You Never Forget Your First\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexis-coe-you-never-forget-your-first/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Josiah Luis Alderete and James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:This event\, the first in The Poetry Center reading series for 2020\, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and is free and open to the public. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full-blooded Pocho Spanglish speaking poeta from La Area Bahia. He began to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant and began performing his work in the Mission District of San Pancho at Cafe Babar back in the ’90’s. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths (whose collected writings were published by Manic D Press in 2003). Over the years Josiah Luis has been featured at numerous literary events in La Area Bahia. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. In 2017 he was named an AIR New Voice
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josiah-luis-alderete-and-james-cagney/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Talbot - Between Heaven And Hell
DESCRIPTION:If anyone knows hard work\, it’s David Talbot. A bestselling author and journalist of books such as Season Of The Witch and The Devil’s Chessboard\, nothing seemed capable of stopping him from churning out his signature wit and insight onto the page. Everything changed the day he had his stroke. In his new book\, Between Heaven And Hell\, Talbot dives into the event that tipped his life on its side. Please join us in welcoming David Talbot back to BookShop West Portal to discuss his journey back to health and writing on Thursday\, February 6th at 7PM!\n—-\n“A deeply affecting examination of mortality\, ambition and the priorities of a man who dodged death to live better days.” — Dave Eggers\, bestselling author of The Circle\, Zeitoun\, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\n—-\nThis book is perfect for:\n– Fans of David Talbot\n– Anyone dealing with or recovering from health issues (particularly stroke or brain injury) and looking for insight and inspiration\n– Gen Xers and baby boomers who understand their risk for stroke\n– Entrepreneurs scared of burnout
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-between-heaven-and-hell-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Shauna Shapiro / Good Morning\, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm\, Clarity\, and Joy with Eve Ekman
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Shauna Shapiro\, Ph.D. for her new book\, Good Morning\, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm\, Clarity\, and Joy. \nIn Good Morning\, I Love You\, Dr. Shauna Shapiro — one of the leading scientists studying the effects of mindfulness on well-being — shows us that acting with compassion toward ourselves is the key. \nIn short\, lively chapters\, Dr. Shapiro explains the basic brain science and offers numerous mindfulness and self-compassion practices. Stories from her life and research demonstrate how this powerhouse combination alleviates anxiety\, boosts creative thinking\, and enlarges our sense of belonging and purpose. \nWe can see it on brain scans. Negative and critical thoughts (and the vast majority of our thoughts are negative) cause the part of the brain responsible for learning to literally shut down. Kind and self-compassionate thoughts\, by contrast\, turn on the parts responsible for growth and change. With practice\, we can literally rewire our brains for greater feelings of calm\, joy\, and possibility. \nTry it and see  even if it makes you squirm. When you wake up tomorrow\, take a deep breath\, hand on heart\, and say\, Good morning\, I love you. Then try it the next day. And the next. See what happens. \n——————-\n​\nShauna Shapiro\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She is a widely published scholar whose TEDx talk\, The Power of Mindfulness\, has been viewed over one million times. She is a professor at Santa Clara University and a fellow of the Dalai Lamas Mind and Life Institute. Dr. Shapiro lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information\, visit drshaunashapiro.com.    ​ \nEve Ekman\, Ph.D.\, MSW\, is the GGSC’s director of training. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher who has had meaningful collaborations with her father\, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman\, including on The Atlas of Emotions\, an online visual tool commissioned by the Dalai Lama to teach emotional awareness\, and Cultivating Emotional Balance\, an intensive\, evidence-based training for compassion and mindfulness. \n​\n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. 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-presents-shauna-shapiro-good-morning-i-love-you-mindfulness-and-self-compassion-practices-to-rewire-your-brain-for-calm-clarity-and-joy-with-eve-ekman/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange Reading & Conversation with Nick Taylor
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Tommy Orange\, author of There There on Thursday\, February 6\, 2020 at the Hammer Theatre’s Black Box Theatre at 7PM. The reading will be followed by an on-stage interview with professor\, Nick Taylor\, plus an audience Q&A\, book sale and signing. \nA national bestseller\, There There has won the PEN/Hemingway Award\, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, and the American Book Award. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable. The novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death\, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nNick Taylor is the author of the historical novels Double Switch\, The Setup Man\, The Disagreement\, and Father Junípero’s Confessor. His work has earned a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship and the Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction. He has also received support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the William R. Kenan\, Jr.\, Fund for Historic Preservation. Currently Nick serves as Professor of English and Director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San José State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-reading-conversation-with-nick-taylor/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Fanny Renoir Variety Show
DESCRIPTION:Join Fanny Renoir and friends for an evening of poetry\, music\, performance\, and films! \nFeaturing: \n\nDOMINIC ANGERAME\nHOWARD MUNSON\nJEFF GIORDANO\nANTHONY BUCHANAN\nJESSICA LOOS\nNATHAN MAY\nROSEMARY MANNO\nKATZ FORSMAN\nJEAN FORSMAN\nJERRY FERRAZ\nBASCIA\nRAYNER\nSELEN OSTURK\nPETER DANIEL WEBSTER
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fanny-renoir-variety-show/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Dan Bellm and Alicia Suskin Ostriker
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest book of poems is Waiting for the Light. Daisy Fried says\, “Ostriker so loves the world\, its griefs\, traumas\, praises\, mysteries\, and joys\, that she teaches us to love the world with her—sometimes  desperately\, heartbrokenly\, never despairingly. Ostriker is an essential poet\, writing at the height of her powers.” Both poet and critic\, she is the author of many previous collections\, most recently The Old Woman\, the Tulip\, and the Dog\, The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems\, 1979-2011\, and The Book of Seventy\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Among other honors\, she’s received the Paterson Poetry Prize\, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her forthcoming collection\, The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems\, 2002-2019\, will be published in September. \nDan Bellm is both poet and translator. His recent poetry book is Deep Well. David St. John says of Deep Well\, “These lyrics of memoriam and these deep songs (in Lorca’s sense) of mourning seem almost to etch themselves onto the air. Keep this book at hand; hold its passages close. This is an essential collection of poetry.” Dan Bellm has published three previous books of poems\, One Hand on the Wheel\, Buried Treasure\, winner of both an Alice Fay Di Castangnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize\, and Practice\, the 2009 California Book Award-winner. His latest translation is Central American Book of the Dead\, by Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo; others include Speaking in Song\, by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé\, and The Song of the Dead\, by French poet Pierre Reverdy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-dan-bellm-and-alicia-suskin-ostriker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T205205
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SUMMARY:Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
DESCRIPTION:Garth Greenwell discusses his new novel\, Cleanness\, with R.O. Kwon. \nPraise for Cleanness \n“Garth Greenwell is an intensely beautiful and gorgeous writer. I can think of no contemporary author who brings as much reality and honesty to the description of sex—locating in it the sublime\, as well as our deepest degradation\, sweetness\, confusion\, and rage. Most American literature seems neutered by comparison. His perfect noticing extends to the way we experience love and loneliness\, the feeling of exile\, and the eternal search for home.”—Sheila Heti\, author of Motherhood \n“So rarely do words make comprehensible the inevitability and confusion of desire as Garth Greenwell’s writing does. His sensibility is akin to James Baldwin’s\, and he observes the world with eyes like those of Tolstoy. With shimmering prose and undiluted intensity\, Cleanness captures the indefinableness of pain and intimacy\, love and alienation\, vulnerability and sustainability.”—Yiyun Li\, author of Where Reasons End \n“In Cleanness\, I found an end to a loneliness I didn’t know—until now—how to describe. Greenwell maps the worlds our language walls off—sex\, love\, shame and friendship\, the foreign and the familiar—and finds the sublime. There are visceral shocks like I’ve never encountered in print\, and they delighted me\, again and again. With each plunge we take beneath the surface of life\, lost and new worlds appear. This could only be the work of a master.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“If Henry James were alive in this strange century\, if Thomas Mann had been allowed to write raw sex\, if Virginia Woolf had slummed it more\, if Proust had been born in Kentucky\, if they all commingled their blood and brains\, we might get something like Garth Greenwell. Cleanness lives between Europe and America\, between novel and story\, between fiction and the self. It is indescribable\, and it is genius.”—Rebecca Makkai\, author of The Great Believers \n“I don’t know how Garth Greenwell writes such delicate\, profane fiction. These stories are grace and salt\, tenderness and shadow. Reading this book made me want to sit with my emotions and desires; it made me want to be a better writer.”—Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \nAbout Cleanness \nIn the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut\, What Belongs to You\, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness\, obligation\, and desire \nSofia\, Bulgaria\, a landlocked city in southern Europe\, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble\, wind scatters sand from the far south\, and political protesters flood the streets with song. \nIn this atmosphere of disquiet\, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home\, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad\, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love\, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism\, and a romance with another foreigner opens\, and heals\, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love\, with the places we inhabit\, and with our own fugitive selves. \nCleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut\, What Belongs to You\, declared “an instant classic” by The New York Times Book Review. In exacting\, elegant prose\, he transcribes the strange dialects of desire\, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/garth-greenwell-cleanness/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T205205
CREATED:20191227T180421Z
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SUMMARY:Andy Warner presents Spring Rain
DESCRIPTION:Andy Warner presents and signs copies of Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love\, Madness\, and Revolutions. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nAn intimate graphic memoir by a New York Times–bestselling writer about his semester abroad in Beirut as he grows close to a crowd of mostly LGBTQ students\, and suffers a mental breakdown while the city erupts into revolution. \nIn 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut\, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend\, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city\, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students\, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different cultures and embracing the freedoms of the multicultural city. Warner and his friends party\, do drugs\, and hook up\, even as violence breaks out in the city—the scars of a fifteen-year civil war reopening with a series of political assassinations and bombings. As the city descends into chaos and violence\, Warner feels his grasp on reality slowly begin to slip as he confronts traumas in his past and anxiety over his future. \nIllustrated in beautiful and intricate detail\, Spring Rain is an absorbing and poignant graphic memoir of a young man’s attempt to gain control over his life as well as a portrait of a city and a nation’s violent struggle to define its future. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nAndy Warner is the NY Times Best Selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects and This Land is My Land. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. \nHis comics have been published by Slate\, Fusion\, American Public Media\, popsci.com\, KQED\, IDEO.org\, The Center for Constitutional Rights\, UNHCR\, UNRWA\, UNICEF\, and Buzzfeed. He was a recipient of the 2018 Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and the 2019 Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Artist-in-Residency. \nHe works in a garret room in South Berkeley and comes from the sea.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-warner-presents-spring-rain/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T170000
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SUMMARY:Steven Levy\, Facebook: The Inside Story at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:He has had unprecedented access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for three years. And now renowned tech writer Steven Levy delivers the definitive history of one of America’s most powerful and controversial companies: Facebook. \nIn his sophomore year of college\, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire\, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. \nToday\, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg’s first\, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant\, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world\, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users\, including those on its fully owned subsidiaries\, Instagram and WhatsApp. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts\, the handling of its users’ personal data\, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO\, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. \nBased on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company\, Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences. \nSteven Levy is Wired‘s editor at large. The Washington Post has called him “America’s premier technology journalist.” His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for Rolling Stone\, Harper’s Magazine\, Macworld\, The New York Times Magazine\, Esquire\, The New Yorker\, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology\, including for his book Hackers\, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for Crypto\, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-levy-facebook-the-inside-story-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T130000
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SUMMARY:The Buried Ships of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Every day\, thousands of us walk above and over the buried hulls of ships\, old wharves\, and cargo. Muni streetcars below the street pass right through the oaken hull of a 19th-century ship. Nearly a thousand ships came from all over the world to San Francisco in the early years of the Gold Rush. Almost fifty of them burned to the waterline in the 1851 fire; others used as warehouses were surrounded by wharves that were constantly being extended. Everything was subsequently buried as the sandy hills were leveled to push the shoreline out to deeper water. A revised historical map of Yerba Buena Cove (recently featured by National Geographic) serves as a basis for the presentation\, and was recently developed by San Francisco Maritime Museum staff working with archaeologists. Copies of the map will be available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-buried-ships-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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