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SUMMARY:The Racket #3
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T180000
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SUMMARY:From Mandalay to the Bay
DESCRIPTION:From Mandalay to the Bay: An Evening of Burmese & Burmese American Poets & Writers \nPlease join us for a very special event at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco on Monday\, January 16th\, 2017 at 6pm. Renowned poet\, ko ko thett\, will be making a rare appearance in the Bay Area to celebrate his latest book\, The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr). He is also the co-editor of Bones Will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press). He will be joined by Bay Area authors\, poets\, and translators\, Htet Yi Linn\, Khin Thiri Nandar Soe\, Audrey T. Williams\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kenneth Wong. \nFree. \nFor more information\, please contact maw@redbridgepress.com \nBios of Readers \nHtet Yi Linn is an undergraduate pursuing a degree in Business Administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. At Cal\, she serves as the President of Burma Association at Berkeley where she works hard to bring the Cal community closer to the Burmese culture. Despite moving out of Burma at the age of 14\, she remains close to the Burmese culture and language through Burmese novels and by staying close to Burmese communities overseas. She embraces the Burmese culture and literature. She has also worked on multiple translation projects. You can find some of her writings about snippets of her life at heyhtett.wordpress.com. \nKhin Thiri Nandar Soe (her pen name is Niyawdar) writes poems and critiques on Burmese political and social culture. She is from Burma and poetry is her first love. Her poems and articles are published in Burmese revolutionary magazines such as Thitsar\, Ah Lin Eain\, Aharya\, Daung O Wai and the literary magazine Kaung Kin (The Sky). Most of her works reflect Burma’s struggle for liberation and human nature. \nko ko thett is a poet by choice and Burmese by chance. He has received an English PEN Translation Award for the seminal Bones will Crow: Fifteen Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press\, 2013\, co-edited with James Byrne). The Burden of Being Burmese (Zephyr\, 2015)\, a collection of ko ko thett’s poems that have appeared in literary journals worldwide\, is listed on ‘‘Nota Benes’’ by World Literature Today. He has read at Sharjah International Book Fair\, Hong Kong Poetry Nights and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai. After a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia and Europe for about 18 years\, ko ko thett moved back to Yangon. He writes in both Burmese and English\, and is an honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. \nAudrey T. Williams is an Oakland-based writer. She is a Medical Writer by day\, and an MFA Candidate in creative nonfiction at California College of the Arts all other times. Audrey grew up in North Carolina. She writes lyrical essays and poems about her multi-cultural family life\, being Burmese and African American. She has been deeply exploring her cultural and racial identity formation\, focused on social dynamics post-Independence in Burma and post-Integration in America. Just when Audrey thought she had resolved the questions about her ancestry\, a conversation with a co-worker from India exposes a family secret…to learn more visit www.audreyTwilliams.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Ruins of a glittering palace\, her collaborative chapbook\, with paintings by Mark Dutcher\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and an instructor at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her chapbook Score and Bone on Nomadic Press was recently nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nKenneth Wong is a Burmese-American author and blogger who grew up in Rangoon. He lives in San Francisco\, California\, and teaches Beginning Burmese at UC Berkeley. His essays\, short stories\, and poetry translations have appeared in Grain\, AGNI\, Eleven Eleven\, Myanmar Times\, Irrawaddy\, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-mandalay-to-the-bay/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T180000
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SUMMARY:Ian Rankin
DESCRIPTION:In Rather Be the Devil\, Detective Inspector John Rebus investigates a cold case that has turned red hot once again. \nJohn Rebus\, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules\, investigates a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom at one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty\, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over forty years. Now\, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate\, but his inquiries quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears. \nIan Rankin is an internationally #1 bestselling novelist and the recipient of an Edgar Award\, a Gold Dagger for fiction\, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh\, Scotland\, with his wife and their two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-rankin/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170117T033019Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Alice Bickford
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-alice-bickford/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170116T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
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SUMMARY:Camille Paglia
DESCRIPTION:From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism — from motherhood to Madonna\, football to Friedan\, stilettos to Steinem. \n\nWhen Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae\, she established herself as a smart\, fearless\, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now\, for the first time\, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume: Free Women\, Free Men. Whether she’s declaring Madonna the future of feminism\, asking if men are obsolete\, calling for equal opportunity for American women years before the founding of N.O.W.\, or urging all women to love football\, Paglia can always be counted on to get a discussion started. The rock-solid intellectual foundation beneath her fiery words assures her timeless relevance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-paglia/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170115T220000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
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SUMMARY:Writers Resist
DESCRIPTION:A night of readings and recommitment to Democracy. \nThis event is a benefit for International Institute of the Bay Area\, Southern Poverty Law Center\, and Transgender Law Center. \nJoin us for readings by Bay Area writers that share a commitment to fighting injustice and inspire us to do the same\, including: \nJason Bayani\nMK Chavez\nIngrid Rojas Contreras\nNatasha Dennerstein\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nJane Hirshfield\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nBich Minh Nguyen\nD.A. Powell\nIshmael Reed\nTennessee Reed\nMargaret Rhee\nElena Rose\nSolmaz Sharif\nKevin Simmonds\nArisa White\nJavier Zamora\nEmcee: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\nMusic by Dusty Shores \nIf you can’t make the event\, but still want to support these critical organizations\, visit:\nhttp://www.iibayarea.org/donate/\nhttps://donate.splcenter.org/\nhttps://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate \nBay Area WRITERS RESIST is part of an international network of literary artists and organizations committed to using writing to encourage and inspire resistance against the injustices threatening so many of us across the country. \nPresented in partnership with: Foglifter Press\, Fourteen Hills: the SFSU Review\, Left Margin Lit\, Liminal\, Lone Glen\, Omnidawn\, Queer Rebels\, Quiet Lightning\, Starline Social Club\, University of San Francisco MFA In Writing program\, and Voz Sin Tinta.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-resist/
LOCATION:Starline Social Club\, 2236 martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop)\nWendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir\, Hollywood Notebook)\nAya de Leon (Uptown Thief)\nRebecca Farivar (Correct Animal)\nAntonio Garcia Martinez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)\nWITH GUEST HOST Baruch Porras-Hernandez
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T203000
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub REAL
DESCRIPTION:Memoirists\nSean Craven\nChristina Ingenito\nTania Martin\nBradley Paterson\nTony Press\nmore to come … \nSubmissions open. This will be a Moth-style evening\, with speakers telling stories from their lives without notes. A decided preference will be for self-revelatory tales of every hue. The time limit will be about eight minutes.\nWould you like to submit something for consideration? If it is a piece you have performed and can link to online\, that would be great; if it is in written form\, that would work; otherwise\, please paste a synopsis of five to ten lines into your message. One note: since this is a family café\, with children sometimes present\, profanity will not be allowed. If interested in submitting\, please write to Jon Sindell: jsind [at] sbcglobal [dot net]. The subject line of your email should read: R-Dub Real: Your Name. \nLet’s get real!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-real/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170114T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170113T053639Z
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: Drag Queen Story Hour For Kids
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170115
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
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SUMMARY:Poets & Writers Live
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-writers-live/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170113T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170113T053108Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Party with Terry Shames
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-with-terry-shames/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170113T190000
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SUMMARY:Vinograd\, Dodsworth\, + Odegard
DESCRIPTION:Julia Vinograd\, Fred Dodsworth\, and Tom Odegard will read at 7 pm on Friday\, January 13th\, at Nefeli Caffe\, 1854 Euclid Avenue\, a little north of Hearst\, in Berkeley\, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading. \nJulia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 61 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. Her most recent book is Look Out (Zeitgeist Press\, 2016). She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones\, Eye of the Hand\, and The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa . She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley . She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco— Poets from Hell. \nFred Dodsworth served on the Bay Area Generations Board of Directors from the Fall of 2013 through the Fall of 2016.\nFred enjoyed a long career as a journalist and publisher in the Bay Area\, prior to returning to college a few years ago to earn a bachelors degree in Creative Writing at SFSU (magna cum laude\, concentration in Gender Studies). His many accomplishments include being a front-page daily columnist and features editor for the SF Examiner\, a freelance writer for the Berkeley Daily Planet\, and a copy chief for the Bay Area News Group. In addition to serving as a Board Member with Bay Area Generations\, he is a member of the Beast Crawl Collective and currently offers his pro bono services to Joyce Jenkins (of Poetry Flash) as she prepares to launch her poetry publishing company and Milvia Street\, the literary magazine of Berkeley City College\, Sharon Coleman\, faculty advisor. While serving on the Board\, Fred was responsible for publication design and production of B.A.G.’s monthly chapbook. \nTom Odegard – aka: Tom/Ms.G is an intersex activist who writes poetry\, operates fire trucks\, lives half time in Oakland and half time on San Juan Island in the NorthWest and manages to be a Jill of some trades as well as author(s) of several books\, including Past Lives Led Ms. G Steps Out and Friends Well Met & More\, while looking forward to poetry readings\, eating with friends\, and making new ones. Tom’s poetry is proof that both William Blake and H.P. Lovecraft both continue to thrive. Simultaneously. In this century. \nThe Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe\, a cafe/restaurant that serves dinners\, tapas\, coffee drinks\, beer\, wine\, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free\, but a one-drink or one-plate minimum is suggested. Dale Jensen\, Ralph Dranow\, John Rowe\, and Grace Grafton are hosts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vinograd-dodsworth-odegard/
LOCATION:Nefeli Cafe\, 1854 Euclid Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170113T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170113T210000
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SUMMARY:Kay Nilson + Thea Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Kay Nilson and Thea Matthews. With musical guest Cricket Crawshaw. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kay-nilson-thea-matthews/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170113T200000
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CREATED:20170113T052608Z
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SUMMARY:Douglas Preston
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-preston/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170113T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170113T200000
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SUMMARY:FRESH and BEST Poetry ft. Eisen-Martin + Trevino
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin and Wendy Trevino to the store on Friday\, January 13st at 7pm as part of the FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems is titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already\,” and was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook “128-131” was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook “Brazilian Is Not a Race” was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-and-best-poetry-ft-eisen-martin-trevino/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T213000
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SUMMARY:Julia Levine & C. Dale Young
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-levine-c-dale-young-2/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T191500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T211500
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: 7th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Why There Are Words will celebrate its 7th anniversary Jan. 12\, 2017! “Lucky Seven + One to Grow On” will feature the following eight acclaimed authors who’ve appeared at WTAW over the past seven years. Additionally\, the publishing arm\, WTAW Press will announce the selection of the first two titles it will publish in 2017. AND\, we’ll toast the launch of WTAW’s national neighborhood of readings in New York City\, Los Angeles\, Pittsburgh\, Portland and Austin\, set to begin in February. Join us at Studio 333 in Sausalito. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 (cash or check). \nAfghan-American author Tamim Ansary wrote West of Kabul\, East of New York\, San Francisco’s  “One City One Book” selection for 2008\, as well as the best-selling Destiny Disrupted\, A history of the world through Islamic Eyes. His latest book\, Road Trips\, is about dropping out of a society he wasn’t even a part of.  He lives with his wife Deborah and his cat Raoul in San Francisco\, where he teaches memoir writing workshops dedicated to the proposition that if no one remembers it\, it didn’t happen. His work-in-progress is a meta-history of the world: Ripple Effects\, How we all came to be so interconnected and why we’re still fighting. He hopes that if writing it doesn’t kill him\, it will make him stronger. \nRebecca Foust’s most recent book\, Paradise Drive\, won the Press 53 Poetry Award and is nominated for the 2016 Poets’ Prize. It was widely reviewed\, in the Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, Hudson Review\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. Recognitions include the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. \nJoan Frank is the author of six books of fiction\, and a book of collected essays. Her new novel\, All the News I Need\, won the 2016 Juniper Prize for Fiction\, and will be published next month (February 2017) by the University of Massachusetts Press. (Yes\, it is possible to pre-order\, and Joan will be thrilled and wildly grateful if you do.) Her last novel\, Make It Stay\, won the Dana Portfolio Award; her last story collection\, In Envy Country\, won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction\, the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award\, and was named a finalist for the California Book Award. Her last book of collected essays\, Because You Have To: A Writing Life\, also won the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. Joan holds an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College in Asheville\, NC. Recipient of many grants\, fellowships and literary honors\, Joan is also a frequent reviewer of literary fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in the North Bay Area of California. \nEvan and Miles Karp are Turk & Divis\, an intersection where chance\, rhythm\, and processed repetition collide with modified fragments of language to form serendipitous anthems and intimate\, often polyvocal meditations inside of those anthems. Old school samples and some of tomorrow’s most unusual hits @ turkanddivis.bandcamp.com. Evan is also the mastermind behind Quiet Lightning and Litseen. \nKate Milliken’s debut collection of stories\, If I’d Known You Were Coming\, won the John Simmons Award for Short Fiction\, judged by Julie Orringer\, and was published by the University of Iowa Press. The recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center\, Tin House\, Yaddo\, and several pushcart nominations\, Kate’s stories have appeared in Zyzzyva\, Fiction\, and the Santa Monica Review\, among others. In 2009\, Kate and her family moved from Los Angeles to the suburban wilds of Mill Valley\, where they knew almost no one. Soon after\, in search of a writing community\, Kate wrote to an instructor she found online. That instructor was Peg Alford Pursell. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including Damascus\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.”  He’s also written Fight Song and Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times. His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. His first book of nonfiction\, a memoir called Sirens\, is out this January 2017. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zoetrope: All-Story\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and one-time winner\, Naomi has an MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis. Naomi was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Today she lives in Davis\, California\, where she teaches creative writing and serves as co-director of the literary series Stories on Stage Davis. She’s hard at work on new writing projects\, including a novel about the early 20th-century Japanese poet Yosano Akiko. \nOlga Zilberbourg was born in St. Petersburg\, Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. In 2016\, her third book of fiction in Russian was published in Moscow-based Vremya Press. Olga’s English-language fiction has appeared in and is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today\, Feminist Studies\, California Prose Directory\, Narrative Magazine\, Santa Monica Review\, and other print and online publications. Olga serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and is a co-moderator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-7th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000
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SUMMARY:Hettie Jones
DESCRIPTION:discussing her new book \nLove\, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones  \nfrom Duke University Press \n“It works\, we’re in business\, yeah Babe!” So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own.\n\nFrom their first meeting in 1960\, writer Hettie Jones—then married to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)—and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn (1927–2004)\, wife of poet Ed Dorn\, found in each other more than friendship. They were each other’s confidant\, emotional support\, and unflagging partner through difficulties\, defeats\, and victories\, from surviving divorce and struggling as single mothers\, to finding artistic success in their own right.\n\nRevealing the intimacy of lifelong friends\, these letters tell two stories from the shared point of view of women who refused to go along with society’s expectations. Jones frames her and Helene’s story\, adding details and explanations while filling in gaps in the narrative. As she writes\, “we’d fled the norm for women then\, because to live it would have been a kind of death.”\n\nApart from these two personal stories\, there are\, as well\, reports from the battlegrounds of women’s rights and tenant’s rights\, reflections on marriage and motherhood\, and contemplation of the past to which these two had remained irrevocably connected. Prominent figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary appear as well\, making Love\, H an important addition to literature on the Beats.\n\nAbove all\, this book is a record of the changing lives of women artists as the twentieth century became the twenty-first\, and what it has meant for women considering such a life today. It’s worth a try\, Jones and Dorn show us\, offering their lives as proof that it can be done.\nAbout The Author \nHettie Jones is the author of numerous books\, including her memoir of the Beat scene How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive; and the young adult Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music. She has published in many newspapers and magazines\, including the Village Voice\, Global City Review\, and Ploughshares. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School\, the 92nd Street Y\, and the Lower Eastside Girls Club\, and she previously taught at several colleges and universities in New York and elsewhere. Jones lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hettie-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T210000
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CREATED:20161223T021612Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: The Little House on the Prairie
DESCRIPTION:This month\, Shipwreck tries not to die of dysentery when we take it way back to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House on the Prairie (et al.). \nFeatured writers: December winner Michael Howley\, plus Tess Barry\, Daphne Gottlieb\, Tirumari Jothi\, Meg Trowbridge\, & Hope Waggoner. \n$10 gets you an open bar (21+) and two hours of utter depravity. Seats go fast; best to buy tickets early. \nTICKETS ON SALE NOW. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-the-little-house-on-the-prairie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170109T095928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T095928Z
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SUMMARY:Russian Tales: San Francisco Reading
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ Pride Readings presents three authors of new Russian novels: Arthur J. Levy (Coda: A Tale of Tchaikovsky’s Secret Love)\, Wayne Goodman (Vanya Says “Go!”)\, and Michael Aleynikov (Ivan and Misha)\, Coda spins a tale of a secret encoded in music by Tchaikovsky\, discovered in a present-day antique shop in New York City. Vanya Says “Go!” is a retelling and expansion of Mikhail Kuskin’s Wings\, the first known Gay Russian novel\, originally published in 1906. Ivan and Misha tells the story of twins and their father\, Russian-speaking emigres from Ukraine to contemporary New York. All three novels expand the idea of what a Russian novel is. This is a free event with complimentary Russian refreshments and Russian door prizes for promptness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russian-tales-san-francisco-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170112T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170113T080428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T080428Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight: BOMBS AWAY!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-bombs-away/
LOCATION:Oasis\, 298 11th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170111T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170111T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20161223T034539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T034539Z
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:“How lucky the reader who gets to devour Shanthi Sekaran’s extraordinary\, necessary novel. Lucky Boy is both timely and timeless\, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices. It’s a story about immigration\, privilege\, and parenthood\, and shows us how we are connected\, and how we are\, perhaps irreparably\, divided. It swept me away and took a little piece of my heart with it. It’s a perfect book.”–Edan Lepucki\, author of California \nA heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers–a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife–whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together. Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you guard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant\, this desire will test her marriage and her sanity. It will set Kavya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care. As Kavya learns to be a mother–the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being–she builds her love on a fault line\, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story\, no single obvious hero. Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. \nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts. The author of the novel The Prayer Room\, she has also published work in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170111T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170109T095722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T095722Z
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SUMMARY:Passages on the Lake 33
DESCRIPTION:Oakland’s premiere literary showcase gets the new year off to a hella strong start with Daphne Gottlieb\, Sonya Renee Taylor\, Tracey Knapp\, Derrick Carr\, and Haldane King\, always free! (event photo by Bianca Tummings.) \nHaldane King earned his Master of the Fine Arts degree in Writing and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. Since then he has been presenting his fantasy and science fiction tales at local readings while working on a collection of short stories. He currently works as a data analyst and helps bring literature to the people with the Why There Are Words Literary organization. \nTracey Knapp first full-length collection of poems\, Mouth\, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received scholarships and awards from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010\, The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press)\, and has appeared in Poetry Daily\, Five Points\, The National Poetry Review and elsewhere. \nDerrick Carr has lived in the Bay Area since he was old enough to read. He wrote & illustrated a book of bad poetry in 7th grade and he spends his time reading great poetry in the hopes he can someday atone. While getting his undergrad degree in black people with a minor in hugs\, he helped co-found his college slam team which took 11th at CUPSI both years he attended. He also organizes and edits for The Lit Slam. Most days\, he commutes between Oakland (where he sleeps) and San Francisco (where he makes money to buy poetry books) with a book under his nose. \nSonya Renee Taylor is an author\, poet\, spoken word artist\, speaker\, humanitarian and social justice activist\, educator\, and founder of The Body is Not An Apology movement. Taylor has won multiple National and International poetry slams\, and has performed for audiences across the US\, New Zealand\, Australia\, England\, Scotland\, Sweden\, Canada and the Netherlands\, including in prisons\, mental health treatment facilities\, homeless shelters\, universities\, festivals and public schools across the globe. She is an African-American woman who identifies as queer. \nDaphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of 10 books including the new Pretty Much Dead\, short stories about the people forced to live outside and hanging on to the edge in San Francisco. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words. She is also a winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry\, and a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is currently struggling to hang on to her housing\, and finishing a novel about anonymous sex.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/passages-on-the-lake-33/
LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, 1800 Madison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170111T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20161129T054510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T054510Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:The idea for the forum emerged out of a local writers workshop in San Jose\, CA where members routinely read their work aloud. We noticed that although the South Bay has a wealth of poetry reading events\, there was not a regular spoken word venue for fiction.  If up to now\, you’ve only written and published\, but never read in public\, we encourage you to join us. This platform allows the writers to get an immediate response to their work. Join us and expose your fiction!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-3/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20161223T035520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T035520Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Buckley + Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:POETRY SANTA CRUZ \nPresenting Christopher Buckley and Gary Young \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County\, and generally hold monthly meetings at Bookshop Santa Cruz on the second Tuesday of the month. The suggested donation is $3. Visit www.poetrysantacruz.org or contact Len Anderson for more information about the poets featured this month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-buckley-gary-young/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20161017T233029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233029Z
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SUMMARY:Zadie Smith w/ Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:British novelist\, essayist and short story writer Zadie Smith is known for her unique perspective on contemporary culture\, superb dialogue\, and emotionally rich stories.  Smith wrote her widely acclaimed debut novel White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge and went on to cement her reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation with The Autograph Man\, On Beauty\, and NW. Her newest novel Swing Time follows the lives of two aspiring dancers growing up in a poor London neighborhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zadie-smith-w-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20161223T035102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T035102Z
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SUMMARY:Janie Chang
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of award-winning author Janie Chang’s new novel\, Dragon Springs Road. Set in 20th Century Shanghai\, Dragon Springs Road is the heartbreaking story of Jialing\, a seven-year-old girl abandoned at the doorstep of a once-lavish estate. Growing-up an orphan and an outsider amidst a fallen family’s crumbling wealth\, Jialing is consumed by a friendship both toxic and essential to her survival. \nJanie grew up listening to stories about ancestors who encountered dragons\, ghosts\, and  immortals\, and about life in a small Chinese town in the years before the Second World War. She is a graduate of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her first novel\, Three Souls\, was short-listed for the BC Book Prizes Fiction award and nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. \nBorn in Taiwan\, Janie has lived in the Philippines\, Iran\, Thailand\, and New Zealand.  She now lives in beautiful Vancouver\, Canada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janie-chang/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20161018T233231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T233231Z
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SUMMARY:Manjula Martin
DESCRIPTION:About Scratch: \nA collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner\, Alexander Chee\, Nick Hornby\, and Jonathan Franzen on the realities of making a living in the writing world.\nIn the literary world\, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job\, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless\, confusing\, and often controversial conversation that\, despite our bare-it-all culture\, still remains taboo. In Scratch\, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money?\nAs contributors including Jonathan Franzen\, Cheryl Strayed\, Roxane Gay\, Nick Hornby\, Susan Orlean\, Alexander Chee\, Daniel Jose Older\, Jennifer Weiner\, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money\, MFA programs\, teaching fellowships\, finally getting published\, and what success really means to them\, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money\, work and life\, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers\, and for anyone interested in the future of literature\, Scratch is the perfect bookshelf companion to On Writing\, Never Can Say Goodbye\, and MFA vs. NYC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/manjula-martin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T220000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170109T101211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T101211Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit # 20
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: Chris Chandler\, Yume Kim\, Kyrsten Bean\, Renata Salazar-Acosta\, Wendy Trevino\, Rebecca Gomez Farrell\, Kelechi Marie\, David Welper\, Julie Soller\, Chris Smith and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: Cricket Crawshaw \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-20/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T184514
CREATED:20170109T095548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T095548Z
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SUMMARY:New Year\, New Books!
DESCRIPTION:Authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Rob Rosen\, and Aya de Leon read from their new books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-year-new-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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