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SUMMARY:Kat Gardiner\, Sea of Bees and Rose Droll
DESCRIPTION:Kat Gardiner discusses her new book from Father/Daughter Records\, Little Wonder: A Micro-Fictionalized Account of Honest Failure. With musical performances by Sea of Bees and Rose Droll. \n\nAbout Little Wonder \n\nKat Gardiner’s debut collection of microfiction\, Little Wonder\, springs from the year she spent in Anacortes\, Washington. Young and idealistic\, she and her husband moved to town to open a café and music venue in the hopes of finding a home there. \n  \nThe experiment lasted exactly one year. \n  \nIn interconnected fragments\, Little Wonder reads like a series of love notes to a former self. Characters navigate frustration\, loss\, heartbreak\, but they also come into new versions of themselves. Little Wonder sheds light on the idea that joy and pain are often two sides of the same coin — and that being alive in this world can necessitate embracing both. \n  \n“Is it because spring is nature’s rebirth that our emotions get so attached to it? All of the descriptions of the town and the feelings there are so accurate and truthful and achy… I can see the sun sinking down over Anacortes at the end of every page. Little Wonder has the ache of Raymond Carver\, the honesty\, the vulnerability. It’s so melancholic and honest and beautiful.” – Kyle Field (Little Wings) \n  \nAbout Kat Gardiner \n\nBorn in Oklahoma\, raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and currently based in Detroit\, Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction\, Little Wonder\, springs from the year Gardiner spent in Anacortes\, Washington\, during her early twenties. Young and idealistic\, she opened a coffee shop and music venue with her husband in the hopes of finding a home in the city’s artistic community. The experiment lasted exactly one year. Gardiner closed the coffee shop and moved away from Anacortes\, ending a stressful and dreamlike chapter in her life. \n\nGardiner studied creative writing at Bennington College in Vermont\, and later took workshops with Tom Spanbauer\, the creator of the technique known as Dangerous Writing\, in Portland\, Oregon. In developing her craft\, she found herself drawn to microfiction\, citing Lydia Davis as a touchstone. “There’s something powerful in succinct details\,” Gardiner says. Writing in short\, interconnected fragments enabled her to revisit the year spent in Anacortes with a new sense of perspective. Little Wonder reads like a series of love notes to a former self\, or a collection of Polaroids made golden with age. Gardiner’s characters navigate frustration\, loss\, and heartbreak\, but they also come into new versions of themselves\, a transformation they may not recognize in the moment. Through poignant vignettes furnished generously with detail\, Gardiner looks into what it means to enter the world and realize that the world is not nearly as amenable to change as an optimistic young person might think. “It’s been liberating to make art out of both the painful and the joyous parts of that experience\,” she says. With Little Wonder\, she’s shed light on the idea that joy and pain are often two sides of the same coin — and that being alive in this world can necessitate embracing both. \n  \nAbout Sea of Bees \n\nSea of Bees is the musical project of Julie Ann Bee\, or Jules as everyone calls her. She sings\, writes the songs\, and plays lots of musical instruments. \n\n“If I had to sum her up in a sentence\, she’s sort of a female Sparklehorse. Her music is rooted very much in folk and rock but wildly experimental; some crazy\, beautiful\, wonderful sounds on her new album “Songs for the Ravens.” On my top 10 for the year.” -Robin Hilton\, NPR radio host \n\n“An unrelenting sense of wide-eyed beauty. The album ends up sounding like some sort of collision between Elliot Smith and The Mamas and the Papas. A talent for elegant\, cathartic songwriting. Build a Boat to the Sun is completely endearing.” The 405 \n\n“I’m not entirely sure why I love this album so much… …That which I cannot put my finger on\, is the mysterious\, wonderful\, and addictive qualities of this album as a whole. Bravo to Jules and her Sea of Bees.” -Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) \n\nAbout Rose Droll \n\nI’m a songwriter based in San Francisco. I’ve been playing piano since I was 7\, and now I play a few other instruments as well. I write and record solo\, and occasionally have a few friends sing on my songs. My music has been called haunting by a few different people\, so maybe that’s accurate. My favorite color is pink and my favorite animal is the cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-gardiner-sea-of-bees-and-rose-droll/
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:Kat Gardiner (Little Wonder) with Sea of Bees and Rose Droll
DESCRIPTION:Born in Oklahoma\, raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and currently based in Detroit\, author Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction\, Little Wonder\, fictionalizes the experience of opening and closing a music venue and café with her husband in the small Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes\, Washington in 2008. An adult coming-of-age story told in fragments\, Little Wonder explores the bittersweet love affair that takes place between despair and hope whenever you try with all your heart to do something you believe in\, and fail. \nKat Gardiner reads excerpts from Little Wonder along with acoustic performances by Sea of Bees & Rose Droll.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-gardiner-little-wonder-with-sea-of-bees-and-rose-droll/
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:Karen Finley
DESCRIPTION:Karen Finley \n\n\n\nOpening statement by Amy Scholder \ncelebrating the release of \nGrabbing Pussy \nBy Karen Finley \npublished by OR Books \nIn a breathless cascade of poetry and prose\, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. \nBased on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery (“Wickedly funny”—The New York Times)\, Finley explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump\, Hillary and Bill Clinton\, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner\, and latterly Harvey Weinstein. \nStanding in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl\, Finley’s words jolt the reader into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy\, the disparity of gender\, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finley’s exhilarating canter. \nKaren Finley is a performance artist whose work has long provoked controversy and debate. She has performed at the Lincoln Center (NYC)\, the ICA (London)\, the Steppenwolf (Chicago)\, and the Bobino (Paris). Her art is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles\, among other places. She has received numerous awards\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two Obies\, two Bessies\, and a Ms. magazine Woman of the Year Award. Her previous books include Shock Treatment\, Enough is Enough\, Living It Up\, A Different Kind Of Intimacy\, George and Martha\, and The Reality Shows. Finley is a professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University. \nAmy Scholder has been editing and publishing progressive and literary books for over twenty-five years. Her visionary style has brought high visibility to her authors\, and has been praised for its contribution to contemporary literature and popular culture. She has served as editorial director of the Feminist Press\, editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press\, US publisher of Verso\, founding co-editor of HIGH RISK Books/Serpent’s Tail\, and editor at City Lights Books. Over the years\, she has published the work of Sapphire\, Karen Finley\, June Jordan\, Kate Bornstein\, Kathy Acker\, David Wojnarowicz\, Dorothy Allison\, Mary Gaitskill\, Joni Mitchell\, Kate Millett\, Elfriede Jelinek\, Muriel Rukeyser\, Laurie Weeks\, Justin Vivian Bond\, Virginie Despentes\, Ana Castillo\, and many other award-winning authors. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-finley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Brian Posehn / Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with comedian\, actor\, and forever nerd Brian Posehn for his new memoir Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal. Please join us! \n  \n“I’m a full-blown nerd\,” Posehn writes in the preface. “And by full-blown nerd\, I mean I’m obsessed with a bunch of cool stuff that dumb people think is uncool\, like comics\, Dungeons & Dragons\, action and horror movies\, and HEAVY FUCKING METAL.” \n  \nForever Nerdy is a collection of stories from his life that amount to a celebration of growing up nerdy and different. Brian\, now middle-aged with a wife\, child\, and thriving career\, still feels like an outsider and is as big a nerd as ever. But that’s okay\, because in his five decades of nerdom he’s discovered that the key to happiness is not growing up. You can be a nerd forever and still become a beloved comedian\, writer\, and actor. Or\, as Brian introduces himself\, “a mildly successful\, not-so-widely known stand-up comic\, writer\, and actor mostly known for playing weirdos and half-wits in sitcoms.” \n  \nWe learn of his retreats to the Dunbar Elementary school library which\, of all places\, is where his obsession with KISS began; his watching Jaws repeatedly at his local movie theatre in the summer of ’75; the lethal combo of being super tall and super skinny with dorky black framed glasses\, pimples\, and braces; reading The Exorcist for the first time; getting kicked out of the house by his mother at 19; and that he inherited the dark side of his humor from Grandpa and the crass side from Nana. \n  \n\n  \n“Everyone has an origin story. For comedians\, they’re usually pretty sad\, tortured\, and depressing. Brian Posehn’s is no different\, and yet he’s so different. Forever Nerdy is a memoir about being brave enough to take your torture and find a way to make it your bliss\, and is so fun to read you’re gonna wish you took even longer poops.”  – Sarah Silverman\, author of The Bedwetter  \n  \n“Forever Nerdy is the only book on Brian Posehn and his curious\, eventful\, sad\, sometimes tragic\, defiant\, fun\, loopy life that you will ever need to read. Throw away all the others on this subject matter and get this one! Joyce had his Ulysses\, now Posehn has his Forever Nerdy to engage your eyeballs and wile away your hours\, whether you’re stuck in Omaha\, or in an airport\, or on the toilet\, or perhaps in a toilet on an airplane over Omaha (a trifecta). Buy it\, read it\, commit it to memory\, and you can be on my team on trivia night!” – Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul\, Breaking Bad\, and Mr. Show  \n  \n\n  \nBrian Posehn has appeared on Lady Dynamite\, The Big Bang Theory\, New Girl\, The Sarah Silverman Program\, and was a writer and performer on HBO’s Mr. Show. He co-produced Netflix’s With Bob and David and starred in the dark indie comedy Uncle Nick. He hosts and produces the Nerd Pokerpodcast and co-wrote a run of Marvel’s Deadpool. His next project is a comedy metal album titled Offenders of the Fake\, featuring members of Anthrax\, Dethklok\, Slayer\, and Soundgarden. \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Forever Nerdy\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-brian-posehn-forever-nerdy-living-my-dorky-dreams-and-staying-metal/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Chung and Daniel Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Chung discusses her new memoir All You Can Ever Know with Daniel Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for All You Can Ever Know \n\n“This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing\, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story\, then widens her aperture to illuminate all of us. All You Can Ever Know is full of insights on race\, motherhood\, and family of all kinds\, but what sets it apart is the compassion Chung brings to every facet of her search for identity and every person portrayed in these pages. This book should be required reading for anyone who has ever had\, wanted\, or found a family―which is to say\, everyone.” ―Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n\n“Adoption is neither an incident nor a process―it is an evergreen story of lives growing and resisting simple definitions. Chung’s All You Can Ever Know takes the grammar of adoption―nouns\, verbs\, and direct object―and with extraordinary integrity remakes them into a narrative about what it means to be a subject. A primary document of witness\, Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty\, wisdom\, and love. Her search and what she discovers offer us life’s meaning and purpose of the very highest order.” ―Min Jin Lee\, author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko \n\n“This book will break your heart in all the best ways. Nicole Chung’s intimate exploration of motherhood\, race\, and identity is a beautiful personal story that also reveals something profound about our culture and country. I didn’t want it to end.” ―Jessica Valenti\, author of Sex Object \n\n“I’ve been waiting for this writer\, and this book―and everything else she’ll write―and now it is here.” ―Alexander Chee\,author of The Queen of the Night \n\nAbout All You Can Ever Know \n\nWhat does it mean to lose your roots―within your culture\, within your family―and what happens when you find them? \nNicole Chung was born severely premature\, placed for adoption by her Korean parents\, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood\, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting\, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life\, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up―facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see\, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer\, becoming ever more curious about where she came from―she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. \nWith the same warmth\, candor\, and startling insight that has made her a beloved voice\, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up\, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound\, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets―vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-chung-and-daniel-mallory-ortberg/
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:BOOKSMITH: Timothy Denevi / Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Timothy Denevi(Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD) for his new book Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism. Please join us! \n  \nHunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking\, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism\, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it\, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw the danger of Richard Nixon early and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice\, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits\, sustained by drugs\, mania\, and little else. For ten years\, he cast aside his old ambitions\, troubled his family\, and likely hastened his own decline\, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history. \nThis timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics\, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth. \n  \n\n  \n  \nTimothy Denevi is an assistant professor in the MFA program at George Mason University\, and the nonfiction editor of Literary Hub. His first book\, Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD was published in 2014. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and his work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Time\, The Paris Review\, andNew York Magazine\, among others. He has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tim lives near Washington\, DC with his wife and children. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Freak Kingdom and/or Hyper\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-timothy-denevi-freak-kingdom-hunter-s-thompsons-manic-ten-year-crusade-against-american-fascism/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Idra Novey with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung
DESCRIPTION:Idra Novey discusses her new novel Those Who Knew with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung. \n\nPraise for Those Who Knew \n\n“There’s an urgent timeliness to this story of the crimes committed by a powerful man\, but Idra Novey’s riveting\, formally brilliant novel transcends any particular moment. Those Who Knew is a devastating inquiry into the way lofty ideals can serve as cover for brutal impulses\, the way struggles for control of the body politic wreak havoc on actual bodies. Most of all\, it’s an indictment\, at once fierce and compassionate\, of the collective silence that implicates us all in irrevocable wrongs.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“Genius. That’s what I kept thinking as I read this novel that somehow combines an invented island\, a political bookstore\, fragments of a stage production\, and a story that’s at once a damning critique of craven self-interest and a tale about our inescapable connectedness. Idra Novey has written an irreverent\, magical\, perfect puzzle of a book.”—Cristina Henriquez\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“Those Who Knew is a beautiful novel about that which we cannot deny\, in ourselves or others\, and the price we are too often willing to pay for what we think is like freedom.”—Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night \n\nAbout Those Who Knew \n\nOn an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime\, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who’s been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead\, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. \nWhy didn’t Lena speak up then\, and will her family’s support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman’s death is wrong? \nWhat follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. Those Who Knew confirms Novey’s place as an essential new voice in American fiction. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/idra-novey-with-marie-mockett-and-bernice-yeung/
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:Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury\, editors of Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION: Editors Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury discuss Sanctuary: A Collection of Poetry and Prose. \n\nAbout Sanctuary \n\nWhen we started this project eight months ago\, we had no way of knowing how bad things would get or how timely the final product would be. The idea of sanctuary has become a flashpoint. Empathy and kindness seem\, on the surface\, to have taken a backseat to hatred\, nationalism\, and fear. Yet\, while some spew hatred\, still more speak out on behalf of kindness. Such scenarios are playing out around the world\, as war and economic and environmental pressures have driv- en people from their homes\, seeking sanctuary and too often being turned away or worse. \n  \nThe fifty pieces you find here were gleaned from over 700 sub- missions. They explore the concept of sanctuary from angles direct and oblique\, political and comical\, religious and secular. \n  \nSome approach the sanctuary itself\, the structure or the institu- tion. Nancy Cook’s two stories\, Illuminations and Illusions and The After- life\, were written during a residency in a 19th century insane asylum\, the stories pulled from old newspapers and brought to life in her deft prose. Several pieces deal with shelters\, both animal and human. Leslie Muzingo’s story\, Heroes on the Ceiling\, and Joyce Kryzak’s essay\, In the Whispering Breezes\, explore the experience of adults and children at bat- tered women’s shelters\, while Jennifer Stuart’s story\, House for Girls\, in- troduces us to youthful victims of human trafficking\, and Gayla Mills’s essay\, Becoming Human\, brings us inside an animal shelter and the heart of one who works there. \n  \nOther authors approached sanctuary from the point of view of those who seek it: refugees and escapees of both the innocent and the criminal kind\, sometimes blurring the lines between. Michelle S. Myers’s essay\, Communion on the Road\, relates her experience escorting “barely documented” Central American asylum seekers to submit their applications\, and Jennifer Stuart’s story\, The Other Side\, gives us a mo- ment in the life of one such refugee on the first steps of her journey to America. Caroline Taylor’s story Creature of Habit\, Charlotte Platt’s\, Claim Sanctuary\, and John M. Floyd’s\, The Blue Delta\, tell the stories of fugitives whose quest for sanctuary have very different ends\, while Jesse Falzoi’s story\, With Every Thought\, tells of a bittersweet experience housing a Syrian family before they move on to their new lives. \n  \nSeveral pieces are harder to pin down\, but the concept is still there. Gina Grande’s flash piece\, Drag\, explores the safety to be found in physical self-transformation\, while Scott Archer Jones’s story\, Con- tentment\, introduces us to an aging hedonist who seeks comfort in the hand of a friend\, and Sage Kalmus’s story\, The First Lo’ihian\, places one young man’s sanctuary 50\,000 years in his future\, on an island that today is just beginning to be born. Ed McCourt’s essay\, What We Leave on the Curb\, finds solace in the face of death\, in the rebirth of a bicycle\, while a physician-priest seeks sanctuary in the bottle in Nick Bouch- ard’s story\, Father Pearson’s Last Day. \n  \nIt’s a cold and disquieting world out there. I hope you find some comfort in these pages and will offer the same to any strangers who show up at your checkpoints or wash up on your shore. \n  \n–S.C.\, June 2018 \nSunnyvale\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susannah-carlson-and-peter-bradbury-editors-of-sanctuary/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky
DESCRIPTION:Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky \ncelebrating the release of \nSon of Amity \nby Peter Nathaniel Malae – published by Oregon State University Press \nThree lives on the verge of ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika\, a half-Samoan ex-con from California\, seeks to deliver justice to his sister’s rapist; Michael\, a five-tour Iraq War Marine\, faces the cracked mirror of his own embattled soul; and Sissy\, a recent convert to Catholicism\, must resist the lure of ruthless self-judgment and discover what love is. \nDetermined to escape the past\, these characters find themselves sharing the same torn-down house\, bordering tweaker poverty and bucolic wine country. Violence and penance\, family and legacy\, recidivism and post-traumatic stress disorder linger with the heavy rain of desperation. At the center of this storm is five-year old Benji\, whose wide-eyed energy and openhearted faith could show all of them how to still be saved. \nIn this unforgettable tale\, award-winning author Peter Nathaniel Malae explores the depths of human pain and trauma with cultural authority. Son of Amity is a novel whose voices cry out with truth and vulnerability\, never betraying that slight tilt toward hope needed to make the long\, hard trek to tomorrow. \nPeter Nathaniel Malae is the author of the novels\, Our Frail Blood and What We Are; the story collection\, Teach the Free Man; and the play\, “The Question.” A former Steinbeck\, MacDowell\, Arts Council Silicon Valley\, and Oregon Literary Arts Fellow\, Malae lives in western Oregon. \nAlan Soldofsky is the author of the poetry colleciton\, In the Buddha Factory\, from Truman State University Press. He is also co-editor with poet David Koehn of Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody by Donald Justice. In addition he has published three chapbooks of poems: Kenora Station\, Staying Home\, and most recently a chapbook that includes a selection of poems by his son\, the poet Adam Soldofsky\, Holding Adam / My Father’s Books. His poems\, articles\, essays\, interviews\, and book reviews have appeared widely in periodicals including The Antioch Review\, The Crab Orchard Review\, The Georgia Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Greensboro Review\, Grand Street\, The Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Nation\, The North American Review\, Poetry East. Chelsea\, Narrative\, Poetry Flash\, Quarry West\, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. \n“From the farthest\, wettest corner of war-damaged America\, Peter Nathaniel Malae brings us the story of a family bound by a shared history of violence\, and liberated by the miracle of shared mercy. Written with immense intellect and swagger\, Son of Amity imbues the street-level realities ofour times — in our cities\, towns\, prisons\, and psyches — with the power of myth.”  — Jon Raymond\, author of Freebird and The Half-Life
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-nathaniel-malae-in-conversation-with-alan-soldofsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sarah Cooper / How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Sarah Cooper for her new book How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women. Please join us! \n  \nAmbitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world\, female leaders need to make sure they’re not perceived as pushy\, aggressive\, or competent. In How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings\, Sarah Cooper\, author of the bestselling 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings\, illustrates how women can achieve their dreams\, succeed in their careers\, and become leaders\, without harming the fragile male ego. \n  \nChapters include\, among others\, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women\,” “How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It\,” and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they’re saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of “inaction items” designed to challenge women to be less challenging. \n  \nAnd\, when all else fails\, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact\, it may even lead to a quick promotion! \n  \n\n  \nSarah Cooper is a blogger\, vlogger\, and comedian whose satirical blog TheCooperReview.com pokes fun at corporate culture\, the tech world\, and everything in between. After 15 years working for companies like Google and Yahoo!\, she knows her subject well. Her “10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” post has circled the globe\, with 5 million views and counting. Her work has appeared on The Washington Post\, Fast Company\, Business Insider\, Huffington Post\, and countless more. Sarah lives with her husband in San Francisco and enjoys 90s rock\, standup comedy\, and both sunny and cloudy days equally. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings\, and/or any of Sarah’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sarah-cooper-how-to-be-successful-without-hurting-mens-feelings-non-threatening-leadership-strategies-for-women/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AL MADRIGAL in Conversation with Adam Savage
DESCRIPTION:AL MADRIGAL\nIn Conversation with Adam Savage\nSaturday\, November 10\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAl Madrigal‘s stand-up comedy blends political satire with personal stories of marriage\, family\, and fatherhood. Madrigal is best known for his role as the “Senior Latino” correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewartwhere he helped shed light on racism and anti-immigrant sentiments in the U.S. and had the chance to “drive tanks\, swim with manatees\, go to Mexico City and make a fake drug deal.” Since leaving The Daily Show\, Madrigal has been busy doing stand-up; releasing a comedy special Shrimpin’ Aint’ Easy\, in which he applies his comedic insight to topics like “cilantro politics\,” anger management\, and a wild tale of seafood revenge; and co-founding the All Things Comedy podcast network with Bill Burr. Madrigal currently stars in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here\, a series about stand-up in the 1970s. \nAdam Savage is an industrial special effects designer and former co-host of The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters with Jamie Hyneman. He is currently an editor at Tested.com and co-hosts the podcast Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/al-madrigal-in-conversation-with-adam-savage/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:writers with drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Nov. 10\, 2018:\n \nRachel Khong (Goodbye\, Vitamin)\nKirstin Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)\nAchy Obejas (The Tower of the Antilles)\nTara Sim (Chainbreaker\, Firestarter)\nL.A. Kauffman (How to Read a Protest)\nTammy Stoner (Sugar Land) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-17/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: So It's Come to This: A Going Away Party
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith’s everything Amy Stephenson is moving to New York so soon and throwing a going away party before she takes off. You’re invited! Everyone is invited! Come send her off in true Booksmith fashion: laughter\, tears\, hugs\, drinks\, books\, obviously\, and probably a fair amount of shouting. \n  \nRead all about it here. And do join us! \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated so we know how many snacks to get!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-so-its-come-to-this-a-going-away-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PETER SAGAL In Conversation with Michael Krasny
DESCRIPTION:PETER SAGAL\nIn Conversation with Michael Krasny\nFriday\, November 9\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nPeter Sagal is the host of NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Prior to the popular quiz show\, Sagal had a varied career including stints as a playwright\, screenwriter\, stage director\, actor\, extra in a Michael Jackson video\, travel writer\, essayist\, ghostwriter\, and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine. His first book\, The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How To Do Them\, is a series of essays about bad behavior. On the verge of turning forty\, Sagal started running seriously\, eventually completing fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles. In The Incomplete Book of Running\, Sagal explores body image\, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism\, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. \nMichael Krasny is a Professor of English and American Literature and author of the books Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life\, Let There Be Laughter\, and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993\, he has been the host of Forum\, a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-sagal-in-conversation-with-michael-krasny/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTION\n\n\n\nA Rare Friday night Bawdy…and OMG\, the Games are Back! The Games are Back! \nFriday\, November 9th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThese ‘Ouch\, that smarts!’ stories & songs include: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Internet Legend Ouchy the Clown\n \n❤ Best of Bawdy winner Matt Matthews \n❤ YOU? Pitch your story of Sex/Kink/Gender to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by November 1st \n❤ Custom Bawdy songs by Creature Hole \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #DoublePenetration \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Sexual Folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage\, Bona Fide Storytelling and BawdySlam shows. \nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Marie Claire Magazine\, Esquire & Uproxx as a ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ creature hole is a garlic man & chikn cover band. best described as disturbing\, yet catchy. this weird pop duo met in olympia\, wa in 2011. they’ve been performing together ever since then throughout the PNW and even touring the US! \n* No refunds or exchanges. \n* Lineup subject to change. \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/48479/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:‘KEROUAC ON RECORD’ WITH MICHAEL GOLDBERG & JOHNNY HARPER
DESCRIPTION:Michael Goldberg is the author of “Bob Dylan’s Beat Visions (Sonic Poetry)\,” and interviewed Richard Meltzer for the recently released collection Kerouac on Record\, edited by Simon Warner and Jim Sampas. He will be joined by musician Johnny Harper\, performing covers of 1960s-era Bob Dylan songs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerouac-on-record-with-michael-goldberg-johnny-harper/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maxine Hong Kingston & Gary Gach: Pause\, Breathe\, Smile
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nMAXINE HONG KINGSTON + GARY GACH\nPause\, Breathe\, Smile: Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough\nHosted by Kris Welch \nTickets: $12 advance\, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, Benefits KPFA Radio\, Info: kpfa.org/events \nPause…breathe… smile Three small words each containing a universe of wisdom. With these words we are invited to bring the practice of mindfulness into every moment of our lives. This handbook by Gary Gach supports the cultivation of awareness\, compassion and joy. The awakening of mindfulness will be discussed by Gary and Maxine Hong Kingston. \nMaxine Hong Kingston\, daughter of Chinese immigrants\, is a poet\, memoirist\, and fiction writer who was born in Stockton\, California\, and educated at the University of California-Berkeley. \nHer honors include the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Medal\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature\, the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Literary Awards. \nWriting for students of all levels\, Gary Gach draws on 50-plus years of study and practice to present this elegant\, accessible demonstration of three central aspects of mindful living. This simple process will “water your own innate seeds of awakening to help you pave your own path to total fulfillment and peace.” \n“A lovely offering of wisdom\, practices\, and kindness to help foster a mindful life and a compassionate heart” – Jack Kornfield\, author of “No Time Like the Present” \nGARY GACH is a writer\, mystic\, and lifelong meditator who has engaged in many roles: actor\, bookstore clerk\, dishwasher\, hospital administrator\, office temp\, stevedore\, teacher and trypographer. Lay-ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008\, he has authored eight previous books\, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and grandmother. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-hong-kingston-gary-gach-pause-breathe-smile/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Endangered Species\, Enduring Values: An Anthology Of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of readings from Endangered Species\, Enduring Values: An Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers and Artists of Color with contributors Shizue Seigel\, Francee Covington\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Gail Mitchell\, Tony Robles\, and Dr. Sriram Shamasunder. \n\nAbout Endangered Species\, Enduring Values \n\nAn Anthology of prose\, poetry and artwork by San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color ENDANGERED SPECIES\, ENDURING VALUES is a guide to the real San Francisco-the seldom-heard 58% of the population that brings color and diversity to the city in every sense of the word. Includes than 150 pieces by more than 70 creatives of color with roots in Native America\, Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, the Caribbean\, the Middle East\, and Europe. Contributors include current SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and artists\, curators\, physicians\, educators\, poets\, performers\, and activists for unions\, LGBT\, mental health\, housing and more. \n\nAbout The Contributors \n\nShizue Seigel\, editor of Enduring Species; Enduring Values\, is a Japanese American writer and visual artist. Her five books include Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown and In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment. Her prose and poetry have been published in All the Women in My Family Sing\, Your Golden Sun Still Shines\, Cheers to Muses\, InVasian and other anthologies\, and in Eleven Eleven\, Away Journal\, Persimmon Tree\, Whirlwind Magazine\, among others. She leads monthly Write Now! Writing workshops at the San Francisco Public Library\, and  is a two-time recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission and a VONA Fellow\, Her artwork has been exhibited at SOMArts Cultural Center\, Arts at CIIS\, the Thoreau Center\, UC Santa Barbara\, the Kinsey Institute and other venues. \nFrancee Covington. During a successful TV career as a producer\, director and writer of news\, documentaries\, public affairs and magazine shows\, Francee Covington worked at television stations WCBS in New York\, WBZ Boston and in San Francisco at KGO\, KPIX\, and KQED.  She later formed her own video production company and led it for more than twenty years.  Her clients included numerous Fortune 500 companies\, The Oprah Show\, and city and state agencies.  Active in the community\, she currently serves on the San Francisco Fire Commission.  She’s retired\, lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a poet and information architect. She grew up in Hilo HI and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Tule Review\, Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown: An Anthology\, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her poetry manuscript\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, was awarded the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson literary award in 2014. She is currently engaged in the study of several paranormal phenomena\, including alien encounters\, Marian apparitions\, Sinéad O’Connor\, and Bitcoin. \n  \nGail Mitchell\, author of Bone Songs\, received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She is a native San Franciscan who draws from her Black and Muskogee\, Creole and Italian heritage. In the beginning was the word and I’ve drawn on it\, to map the internal terrain and make sense of the external world\, to investigate life and death\, traversing a language that leaves me spellbound.  I pick words like gems to make the right necklace to go out into the world. I think of jewelry as amulets to protect and of course as adornment to help one shine. I am a jeweler and a poet. I am a maker. It is a must a desire that runs as deep as breath. \nTony Robles was born and raised in San Francisco of Filipino and African American heritage. His books  Cool Don’t Live Here No More—A Letter to San Francisco (2015) and Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike (2017) were published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press.  He is the author of 2 children’s books\, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish and Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel\, published by Children’s Book Press. In 2017\, he was awarded a San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission and short-listed for poet laureate of San Francisco. He carries on the legacy of his late uncles\, Al Robles\, activist poet and scholar\, and Russell Robles\, co-founder of SOMArts Cultural Center\, by serving as board president of the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and working for housing and senior rights. \nDr. Sriram Shamasunder\, a poet and doctor at UCSF\, has spent the better part of the last 10 years working in Burundi\, Haiti\, Rwanda and India. He is interested in health equity and narrative equity\, working towards a world where lives are of equal value both the health care we deliver and the stories we highlight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/endangered-species-enduring-values-an-anthology-of-san-francisco-area-writers-artists-of-color/
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:BOOKSMITH: Jonathan Lethem / The Feral Detective
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jonathan Lethem for The Feral Detective\, his first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn. With him in conversation is Michael Chabon. Please join us! \n  \nPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter\, Arabella\, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer\, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly\, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble—caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist\, mysteriously\, can end. Phoebe’s trip to the desert was always going to be strange\, but it was never supposed to be dangerous… \n  \n\n  \nJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels\, including The Fortress of Solitude\, Dissident Gardens\, Chronic City\, andMotherless Brooklyn\, winner of National Book Critics Circle Award.  A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship\, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and The New York Times\, among others. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California. Author photo by Amy Maloof. \n  \nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps & Legends\, Gentlemen of the Road\, Manhood for Amateurs\, Telegraph Avenue\, Moonglow\, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. He lives in Berkeley\, California with his wife\, novelist Ayelet Waldman\, and their children. Author photo by Sarah Lee. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, with mature themes. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of The Feral Detectives\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jonathan-lethem-the-feral-detective/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: The Fight for a Free Press: Book Launch and Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alison Littman for the launch of her debut novel\, Radio Underground. Littman will join New York Times journalist Sheera Frenkel\, cybersecurity expert Bill Marczak (Larry King\, Washington Post\, Vanity Fair) and Camille Fischer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to discuss the fight for a free press. \n  \nFrom combating fake news and censorship on social media to protecting journalists and activists abroad\, panelists will discuss the threats to our freedom online and in the press in a high-stakes political environment. Schmooze and booze with panelists and the author after the discussion. \n  \nRadio Underground follows a journalist in Budapest during the Cold War who manipulates news on Radio Free Europe to spark the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviets. In Cold War Hungary\, journalism was used to ignite uprisings\, help people escape the country and persuade the masses to take action. The launch event will also include a short reading and Q&A with the author and panelists. \n  \n\n  \nAbout Radio Underground \n  \nEszter Turján is a mother and a fanatical underground journalist living in Budapest at the height of the Cold War. After years of suffering under the communist regime\, she’d sacrifice anything\, and anyone\, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe\, she ignites the vicious revolution\, commits a calamitous murder\, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison as her teenage daughter Dora watches in horror. \n  \nHaunted and hurt\, Dora vows to work against everything Eszter believes in. But\, it’s not that simple. After nine years\, Dora is unwittingly drawn back into Eszter’s circle when she falls hopelessly in love with a fan of The Beatles – and Radio Free Europe. At the same time\, she discovers Eszter\, driven mad by years of torture\, is headed toward a death sentence. To save her mother\, Dora will have to defy a vindictive and lethal regime\, and confront family ties she’s spent years denying. On the brink of losing Eszter again\, Dora must make a choice: to risk her life for the mother who discarded her—or leave it all to fate. \n  \nRadio Underground is a beautiful\, relevant novel that explores the lengths and limits of love\, family\, and the power of expression. \n  \n\n  \nAbout the Panelists \n  \nSheera Frenkel is a cybersecurity reporter at the New York Times. She spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent\, reporting for BuzzFeed\, NPR\, The Times of London and McClatchy Newspapers. \n  \nBill Marczak has appeared on Politicking with Larry King and in the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Vanity Fair and other major outlets for his work rooting out spyware used to stifle activists\, dissidents\, journalists and others speaking out against dictatorial regimes. A Senior Research Fellow at Citizen Lab\, a co-founder of Bahrain Watch\, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley\, Bill focuses on novel technological threats to Internet freedom\, including new censorship and surveillance tools. \n  \nCamille Fischer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation works on the organization’s free speech and government transparency projects. Previously\, Camille worked in the Obama White House and in the Department of Commerce advocating for civil\, human rights\, and due process protections in national security and law enforcement policies. \n  \n\n  \nAlison Littman is an author by day and stand up comedian by night. A former journalist\, she covered politics and education while also contributing articles on John F. Kennedy and The Beatles to various specialty magazines. Her feature stories focus on listening to rock ‘n’ roll behind the Iron Curtain and Cold War politics. Radio Undergroundis her first novel. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Radio Underground and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-the-fight-for-a-free-press-book-launch-and-panel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Authors from Nothing Short of 100\, with Special Guest R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on November 8\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when authors from the anthology Nothing Short of 100 will read\, along with very special guest R.O. Kwon. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. \nNOTHING SHORT OF presents the best of 100WordStory.org\, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. Published by Outpost 19 in April 2018\, in these very short stories\, every word\, every detail\, every moment matters. These 100-word stories are authored by some of the best microfiction story writers around\, including WTAW’s own Peg Alford Pursell\, and the following readers. \nKaren Benke is the author of several creative writing adventure books from Shambhala Publications\, including Write Back Soon! Adventures in Letter Writing (2015). Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, Rattle\, West Marin Review\, The Bark\, Poetry Daily\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her teenage son and leads writing workshops for children at Book Passage Bookstore and from The Writers Nest\, located in a converted lumber mill\, circa 1892. \nAndrew O. Dugas’ work has appeared in Unlikely Stories\, 100 Word Story\, Mayfly\, and many other places. His novel Sleepwalking in Paradise was published in 2014 by Numina Press. He recently snail-mailed 1\,001 original hand-inscribed haiku postcards to as many randomly selected recipients. Maybe you got one? \nJane McDermott is the 2014 Michael Rubin book award winner for her collection of microfiction Look Busy: One hundred 100-word stories by and for the easily distracted (14 Hills\, 2014). Her fiction can be found in Foglifter\, 100 Word Story\, Weirderary\, Reflex Fiction\, Reunion: The Dallas Review\, Red Light Lit\, and others. She earned an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. She lives in Oakland with her wife\, cats\, chickens\, and bees. \nLynn Mundell‘s writing has appeared in The Sun\, Booth\, Portland Review\, Permafrost\, Tin House online\, and elsewhere. Her story “The Old Days\,” originally published in Five Points (2018)\, is included in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (August 2018). Her work has been recognized on the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions long lists of 2017 and 2018. She is co-editor of 100 Word Story and its anthology Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story (Outpost19\, April 2018). \nCornelia Nixon’s fourth novel\, The Use of Fame\, is out in hardcover from Counterpoint Press (2017). She is also the author of Jarrettsville (Counterpoint\, 2009)\, Angels Go Naked (Counterpoint\, 2000)\, Now You See It (Perennial\, 1992)\, and a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards (one of them the First Prize in 1995)\, two Pushcart Prizes\, a Nelson Algren Prize\, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley\, California\, and half on an island in Puget Sound\, Washington. \nABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST:R.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was published in July 2018 by Riverhead (U.S.). Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-authors-from-nothing-short-of-100-with-special-guest-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:L.A. Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:L.A. Kauffman \n\n\n\ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nHow to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance \npublished by University of California Press \nWhen millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 women’s marches\, there was an unmistakable air of uprising\, a sense that these marches were launching a movement. But the enduring work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It feels powerful to march\, but when and how does marching matter? \nIn this original and richly illustrated account\, activist and organizer L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America’s major demonstrations\, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington\, to reveal what protests accomplish and how their character has shifted over time. Using the signs that demonstrators carry as clues to how protests are organized\, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. How to Read a Protest sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the bottom-up\, women-led model for organizing that’s transforming what movements look like and what they can win. \nL.A. Kauffman has been a grassroots organizer for more than thirty years and was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive Iraq antiwar protests of 2003–2004. She has covered social movement history and activism for The Guardian\, n+1\, and numerous other publications and is the author of Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. \nCritical praise for the work of L.A. Kauffman: \nffman is one of the people I look to most for the big picture about American activism—where it’s been\, where it’s going\, what works\, who’s doing the work\, and why. For How to Read a Protest\, you could paraphrase George Orwell to say that those who remember the past understand the present\, and those who understand the present (sometimes) shape the future. This swift-moving book equips us all to do exactly that\, as it revises and deepens and corrects what we know about past social movements in America and appraises what has made the women-led\, grassroots resistance to Trump unlike any movement that came before. The next chapter is something we will all write together if and when we rise to the promise and the legacy of the radical past that Kauffman so ably describes.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories\, Wild Possibilities \n“Kauffman’s new book offers critical historical analysis and strategic insights\, raising provocative and complex questions about the relationship between protests and movement building. Every organizer and social movement historian should read it.”—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century \n“How to Read a Protest is an incredible tool for understanding collective action: who is involved\, how it unfolds\, and what makes it successful\, with special emphasis on the often-overlooked role of women in making movements and how ideas of organization and leadership have shifted. L.A. Kauffman helps us understand and interpret the reasons behind\, and meanings of\, protest in our time\, giving us a valuable gift of insight and research.”—Marina Sitrin\, coauthor of They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy \n“L.A. Kauffman is a marvelous combination of mobilization-insider and historical commentator. No one else could bring so much fruitful commentary to bear on mass protests. The illustrations here are fascinating in themselves\, wonderful to observe and ponder. This is a splendid and much-needed book.”—Paul Buhle\, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/l-a-kauffman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, November 8th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Hallie Iglehart Austen to discuss her newest book (from Monkfish Publishing) The Heart Of The Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine.  \nPraise for The Heart of the Goddess. \nThis extraordinary compilation of the art\, values and living lessons of Goddess culture dating from 30\,000 years ago to the present\, from Africa to Hawaii\, Siberia to North America\, is a multicultural tapestry of artwork\, historical background\, and meditations organized by the themes of creation\, transformation and celebration\, bringing focus and expression to the myth and spirituality of the feminine. \n“A collection of more than 70 Goddess figures from cultures throughout the world. Each is a treasure…inspiring us to embody the Goddess’s virtues in our lives.”–Yoga Journal \n  \n“A beautiful book…an excellent resource for information and inspiration from many cultures.”–Starhawk\, author of The Spiritual Dance and \n  \n“…a mythical journey to every corner of the Earth…a delightful book of life-affirming legends\, rituals\, and images that help us envision a more balanced and creative world.”–Riane Eisler\, author of The Chalice and the Blade \n  \n“What a treasure! Decades of scholarship and oceans of love have been poured into gathering this exquisite collection of goddesses from all the world’s wisdom traditions. By gazing at the images and contemplating their stories\, I felt myself joyously reclaiming the feminine face of the Holy One…. I love love love this book.”–Mirabai Starr\, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism\, Christianity & Islam \n  \n  \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back again over the course of a year. This journey\, described in her first book “Womanspirit” led to a synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she began teaching in the 1970s. Since then\, she has led workshops\, rituals and conferences at universities\, the United Nations\, and theological schools among other places. Hallie Iglehart Austen is cofounder of Seaflow: Protect Our Living Oceans\, which educates the public about the dangers of active sonars and other ocean noise to whales\, dolphins\, and all sea life. She also initiated All One Oceans\, establishing over fifty beach cleanup stations in California\, Hawai’i\, Iowa\, and Alabama and is starting a pilot project for grade school students on ocean plastic pollution. Hallie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and gives classes and private consultations on dream work\, life transition rituals\, and Wisdom Healing Qigong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
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SUMMARY:EILEEN MYLES
DESCRIPTION:EILEEN MYLES\nIn Conversation with Stephen Best\nThursday\, November 8\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nEileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books of essays\, fiction\, and poetry\, including Chelsea Girls\, Cool For You\, and I Must Be Living Twice. A counter-culture icon and activist\, Myles ran for president in 1992 as a “openly female & queer” candidate\, promising to refuse to live in the White House while there were still homeless people living in America\, to decrease defense spending by 75%\, and to offer free healthcare. Myles has described the campaign as part protest\, part performance art. This fall\, Myles returns to poetry with Evolution. “Poetry always\, always\, always is a key piece of democracy\,” they told The New York Times Magazine in 2016. “It’s like the un-Trump: The poet is the charismatic loser. You’re the fool in Shakespeare; you’re the loose cannon. As things get worse\, poetry gets better\, because it becomes more necessary.” \nStephen Michael Best is an associate professor of English at University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession\, and his work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the Hellman Foundation\, the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and the Ford Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-myles/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What Future 2018
DESCRIPTION:Co-editor Rose Eveleth\, and contributors Lauren Smiley\, and Annalee Newitz discuss What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas To Reclaim\, Reanimate And Reinvent Our Future. \n  \nRose Eveleth is a producer\, designer\, writer and animator. She’s dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. These days\, she explores how humans tangle with science and technology. She’s been a columnist for BBC Future and Motherboard\, the producer of the Story Collider\, the special media manager at Nautilus\, a new digital magazine about science\, culture and philosophy and the managing editor for LadyBits\, a place where women are smart about science. She also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine\, and founded Science Studio\, a home for all the best science multimedia on the web. Even before that she was an editor of all things animated at TED Education\, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. Most recently she helped ESPN’s award winning documentary series 30 for 30 launch their podcast and is currently the producer and host of Flash Forward\, a podcast about the future. \n  \nLauren Smiley is based in San Francisco and writes about humans in the tech age for WIRED\, San Francisco Mag\, California Sunday Magazine\, and New York Magazine. \n  \nAnnalee Newitz is the author of the Science Fiction novel\, Autonomous\, the non-fiction books Scatter\, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction and Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture\, and is an editor-at-large for Ars Technica\, a freelance science journalist for magazines and newspapers as well as the co-host\, with Charlie Jane Anders\, of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz is the founder of io9\, and was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Newitz’s writing has appeared in Slate\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Smithsonian Magazine\, The Washington Post\, 2600\, New Scientist\, Technology Review\, Popular Science\, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. \n\nAbout What Future \n\nThe future is here and\, frankly\, it sucks. Without doubt\, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge\, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It’s work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe\, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says\, now what? A best-of-the-year anthology\, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future\, from the environmental and political\, to human health and animal rights\, to technology and the economy. What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert\, Jeff Vandermeer\, Bill McKibben\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, as well as the scientists\, journalists\, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead\, but beyond\, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-future-2018/
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:BINDERY: Micah Perks with Kate Schatz and Lucy Jane Bledsoe / True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining here are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date! \n  \n  \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic — athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. An intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \n  \n\n  \n“What an enticing cast of characters readers get to meet here! Micah Perks writes so well of love in many of its forms and stages\, and she populates her book with such a memorable crew. No one is exempt from struggle and disappointment\, and yet there is always a chance for transcendence\, too.” – Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake andThe Color Master \n  \n“A writer whose stories are endearingly hard headed and tender hearted\, and whose characters are so very alive that they practically escape off the page when you encounter them. This collection will cure what ails you.” – Kelly Link\, author of Get In Trouble and Pretty Monsters \n  \n“The stories in True Love connect in the most satisfying way. You begin with a journalist who interviewed Harry Houdini about his night with lost souls in the Winchester House\, a light story that gains weight from the six million Jews who did not escape. Then you have the chance to follow his granddaughter in her sad affair with a lover from Chile\, a legacy. The stories are about escape in the deepest ways\, from marriage and family and self and even from time and place\, and the writing is beautiful\, believable\, disorienting. Sit down and watch the show\, because I guarantee you don’t know what’s coming. . .” – David Vann\, author of Bright Air Black and Aquarium \n  \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \n  \nKate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com. \n  \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s most recent novel\, The Evolution of Love\, came out in May 2018\, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness\, family\, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards\, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of True Love and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-micah-perks-with-kate-schatz-and-lucy-jane-bledsoe-true-love-and-other-dreams-of-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samina Ali
DESCRIPTION:Samina Ali is an award-winning author\, activist and cultural commentator. Her debut novel\, Madras on Rainy Days\, won France’s prestigious Prix du Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Ali’s work is driven by her belief in personal narrative as a force for achieving women’s individual and political freedom and in harnessing the power of media for social transformation. She is the curator of the groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed virtual exhibition\, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices. Her current project\, a memoir of her near-death experience delivering her firstborn\, takes an unsparing look at gender bias and the crisis of preventable maternal deaths in the U.S. Ali is a former cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Daily Beast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Guardian\, Vogue\, National Public Radio (NPR) and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samina-ali/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley \ncelebrating the release of Lyric Multiples: Aspiration\, Practice\, Immanence\, Migration \n\n\n\nfrom Nightboat Press \nA poet’s capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society \nLyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call\, ascensional modes of thinking\, pop songs\, the built environment and its discontents\, the post-punk moment\, its fruitful aftermath\, and much else. Throughout this book\, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity. \nGeorge Albon’s most recent books are Fire Break\, winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry in 2014\, and Aspiration. He lives in San Francisco. \nMaxwell Shanley\, author of There Are Trees (Drop Leaf Press)\, is the Sales & Marketing Assistant at Stanford University Press and a former used book buyer at Green Apple Books & Music. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University\, where he formerly served as the Managing Editor of Fourteen Hills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, DIAGRAM\, CutBank\, MIDTERM\, Border Crossing\, Camas: The Nature of the West\, Slipstream\, Transfer Magazine\, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\, Four Ties Lit Review\, and has been performed by Theatrikos Theatre Company. He lives in San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Albon: \n“Lyric Multiples is a triumph from beginning to end—a miracle of sustained argument and elaboration. In a process of continuous vision and revision\, words and images appear\, return\, slip around the corners\, only to return again to form multivalent entrances to truth.” —Kevin Killian \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-albon-in-conversation-with-maxwell-shanley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Día de los muertos / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús Gonzáez\, Jess Medina\, Jan Steckel\, Andrena Zawinski. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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