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SUMMARY:An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Jamil Jan Kochai
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\nWednesday\, September 29\, 2021 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nThe novelist Thomas Berger once suggested that the sentence was “the cell beyond which the life of the book cannot be traced\, a novel being a structure of such cells.” Continuing this line of thought\, one might argue that a great novel is built upon great sentences. In this craft talk\, we will be thinking through the techniques and theories discussed in Brooks Landon’s Building Great Sentences in order to determine what elements make a great sentence\, and how particular sentences are fashioned by writers like Patrick Chamoiseau\, Sandra Cisneros\, and Annie Proulx.\n\n\nJamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking\, 2019)\, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. \n  \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-afternoon-craft-conversation-with-jamil-jan-kochai/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Readers from ZYZZYVA No. 121\, The Family Issue
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of ZYZZYVA No. 121—The Family Issue—with a night of readings featuring contributors from the issue. ZYZZYVA is the award-winning literary magazine founded in San Francisco in 1985. Since that time\, it has made a name for itself as one of the country’s premier journals and as a beloved fixture in the Bay Area’s literary community. The event will be hosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA’s managing editor. \nBethany Ball is the author of the novels What to Do About the Solomons (Grove Atlantic)\, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and\, most recently\, The Pessimists\, to be published by Grove Atlantic in October. \nAndrew Navarro lives in Southern California where he works as a history teacher. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kelp Journal\, Cutthroat\, A Journal of The Arts\, The ICE Colony\, Carve and ZYZZYVA. \nRobin Romm is the author of three books\, and\, most recently\, edited Double Bind: Women on Ambition (Liveright). Her story collection\, The Mother Garden\, was a finalist for the PEN USA prize. Her memoir\, The Mercy Papers\, was named a best book of the year by The New York Times\,The San Francisco Chronicle and Entertainment Weekly. \nMark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He is also the host and curator of the Stanford Storytelling Project podcast Off the Page\, which spotlights the work of Stanford writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readers-from-zyzzyva-no-121-the-family-issue/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 29\, 2021 – 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nChris Feliciano Arnold has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Outside\, Vice News\, The New York Times and more. His fiction has been published in Playboy\, The Kenyon Review\, Ecotone and other magazines. His work has been noted in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Short Stories. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. His first book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon\, is a work of narrative nonfiction published by Picador in June 2018. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-chris-feliciano-arnold-2/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T193000
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SUMMARY:Mary Roach
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 29\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nMary Roach is the author of the books STIFF\, SPOOK\, BONK\, GULP\, GRUNT\, and PACKING FOR MARS\, all of which bring her distinctly funny voice to popular science subjects. Her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law\, combines little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows\, trespassing squirrels\, and more of “nature’s lawbreakers\,” offering hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. Roach has written for National Geographic\, Wired\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others\, and her TED talk made the TED 20 Most Watched list. She has been a guest editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing\, a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize\, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ journalism award. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-roach/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Merwin Conservancy presents Garden of Verses
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 30th at 12:00 pm Hawai‘i (3:00 pm Pacific\, 6:00 pm Eastern)\, The Merwin Conservancy will gather virtually with friends around the world to celebrate the poetry of W.S. Merwin on the occasion of his birthday\, and share our vision for stewarding his legacy. \nPoets Puanani Burgess\, Jorie Graham\, Rachel Eliza Griffiths\, Ada Limón\, and Matthew Zapruder will read selections of William’s poetry along with several other special guests yet to be announced. We’ll share glimpses of the newly restored house and garden dojo and the palms that envelop them\, all set to music recorded by award-winning composer\, singer-songwriter and slack-key guitarist Makana. \nThe Merwins’ house\, the garden dojo\, the garden itself were made of concerns enacted as ways of being and living. We hope you will join us for an hour celebrating The Merwin Conservancy’s work to restore and share these special places.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-merwin-conservancy-presents-garden-of-verses/
LOCATION:https://www.crowdcast.io/e/garden-of-verses-2021/register\, 74 Anuenue Pl\, Kula\, HI\, 96790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books 8-Year Anniversary Ride
DESCRIPTION:It’s a party and you’re all invited! Our signature 7.1 mile bicycle tour of literary San Francisco combines San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration—a diverting and unique way to celebrate the literary and adventurous spirit of San Francisco. In 2013 we created Bikes to Books as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights Books founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who’d once made San Francisco their home. Celebrate eight years of Bike to Books\, 33 years of street names\, and 150+ years of San Francisco literary history from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac. \nMeet us on the north side of Jack London Alley in South Park\, SF at 12:45.  \nTour ends in North Beach outside City Lights Books. \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. Masks and appropriate distancing required. Proof of vaccination is not required\, but vaccination is highly encouraged. \nEvent is Free\, with maps and posters available for purchase. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-8-year-anniversary-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T180000
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Sandra Lim\, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 5th at 6pm PT when Sandra Lim\, Natalie Shapero\, and Noah Warren join us for an evening celebrating their latest poetry collections at 9th Ave! \nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance \nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_vHSYhcpURdaNKQ_wr42E1g \nAbout The Curious Thing \nIn this gorgeous third collection\, Sandra Lim investigates desire\, sexuality\, and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness. \nTruthful\, sensuous\, and intellectually relentless\, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love\, art making\, solitude\, female fate\, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim’s poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty\, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship\, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot summer day. An extended poem sequence slyly revolves the meanings of finding oneself astray in midlife. A steely strength courses through the volume’s myriad discoveries—Lim’s lucidity and tenderness form a striking complement to her remarkable metaphors and the emotional clamor of her material. \nAnimated by a sense of reckoning and a piercing inwardness\, these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life. \nAbout Popular Longing \nWith her sharp\, punchy\, sardonic wit\, Natalie Shapero’s Popular Longing explores sadnesses and subordinations in their myriad forms. \nThe poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection\, Popular Longing\, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp\, sardonic wit\, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars\, our inflated egos\, our constant deference to presumed higher powers—be they romantic partners\, employers\, institutions\, or gods. “Why even / look up\, when all we’ll see is people / looking down?” In a world where everyone has to answer to someone\, it seems no one is equipped to disrupt the status quo\, and how the most urgent topics of conversation can only be approached through refraction. By scrutinizing the mundane and all that is taken for granted\, these poems arrive at much wider vistas\, commenting on human sadness\, memory\, and mortality. Punchy\, fearlessly ironic\, and wickedly funny\, Popular Longing articulates what it means to share a planet\, for better or more often for worse\, with other people. \nAbout The Complete Stories \nThe Complete Stories announces its desire and its lie in the title; this is a book of shatter and loss. In his second collection\, Noah Warren—previously selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets—unravels histories both personal and public\, picking apart their ugliness\, beauty\, and irreducible singularity. Clothed in broken forms\, these poems of grieving and tentative joy ask finally how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts\, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-sandra-lim-natalie-shapero-and-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seeds Bursting Open in Fire: Poetry & Justice Event
DESCRIPTION:Seeds Bursting Open in Fire is a free virtual event featuring poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil (World of Wonders)\, Tamiko Beyer (Last Days)\, and Gabrielle Civil (( ghost gestures )) who will be reading from their most recent collections of poetry. \nThese poets will be joined by community organizers and artists from Power Shift Network\, Tsuru for Solidarity\, and Urban Bush Women for a conversation at the intersection of literature\, climate justice\, racial justice\, and abolition. \nPlease join us for an evening of poems\, collective writing\, dreaming\, and activation. \nLearn more about all the presenters at tinyurl.com/seeds-catalyst. \nASL interpretation and close captioning will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seeds-bursting-open-in-fire-poetry-justice-event/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Matthew Clark Davison in conversation with Michael Nava
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Clark Davison will be joined by Michael Nava to discuss his debut novel\, Doubting Thomas. Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland\, Oregon’s wealthy progressive elite when he’s falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student. The accusation comes just as Thomas is thrust back into the center of his unusual family by his younger brother’s battle with cancer. Although cleared of the accusation\, Thomas is forced to resign from a job he loves during a potentially life-changing family drama.  \nDavison’s novel explores the discrepancy between the progressive ideals and persistent negative stereotypes among the privileged regarding social status\, race\, and sexual orientation and the impact of that discrepancy on friendships and family relations.  \nArmistead Maupin writes\, “An electrifying debut. Doubting Thomas is one of those novels where you return to passages\, again and again\, to see exactly how the author pulled off such an ingenious sleight-of-hand. Matthew Clark Davison is a force to be reckoned with.”   \nDoubting Thomas can be purchased from our event co-sponsor\, Fabulosa Books. \n \nBios  \nMatthew Clark Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas (Amble Press ’21). He is creator and teacher of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD\, a non-academic school started in 2007 in a friend’s living room. The textbook version of The Lab\, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante\, will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2022. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews (Epiphany Publishing) and 580-Split; and published in or on LitHub\, Lambda Literary\, The Advocate\, Guernica\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Rumpus\, Foglifter\, Exquisite Pandemic\, and others. Matthew earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU\, where he now teaches full-time in the BA/MA/MFA departments.  \nMichael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who The New Yorker\, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is the recipient of seven Lambda Literary Awards in the gay mystery category and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT Literature. His most recent Rios novel is Lies With Man\, was published in April by Amble Press\, an LGBTQ press and imprint of Bywater Books\, of which he is also managing editor.  
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-clark-davison-in-conversation-with-michael-nava/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rhys Bowen - God Rest Ye\, Royal Gentlemen
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nThurs.\, Oct 7\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Live • Online \nSigned Copies Available! \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE\nSUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\nGeorgie is back and hanging the stockings with care when a murder interrupts her Christmas cheer in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series from Rhys Bowen. \nGeorgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in her lovely new home. She suggests to her dashing husband\, Darcy\, that they have a little house party\, but when Darcy receives a letter from his aunt Ermintrude\, there is an abrupt change in plans. She has moved to a house on the edge of the Sandringham estate\, near the royal family\, and wants to invite Darcy and his new bride for Christmas. Aunt Ermintrude hints that the queen would like Georgie nearby. Georgie had not known that Aunt Ermintrude was a former lady-in-waiting and close confidante of her royal highness. The letter is therefore almost a royal request\, so Georgie\, Darcy\, and their Christmas guests: Mummy\, Grandad\, Fig\, and Binky all head to Sandringham. \nGeorgie soon learns that the notorious Mrs. Simpson\, mistress to the Prince of Wales\, will also be in attendance. It is now crystal clear to Georgie that the Queen expects her to do a bit of spying. There is tension in the air from the get-go\, and when Georgie pays a visit to the queen\, she learns that there is more to her request than just some simple eavesdropping. There have been a couple of strange accidents at the estate recently. Two gentlemen of the royal household have died in mysterious circumstances and another has been shot by mistake during a hunt. Georgie begins to suspect that a member of the royal family is the real target but her investigation will put her new husband and love of her life\, Darcy\, in the crosshairs of a killer. \nRhys Bowen\, a New York Times bestselling author\, has been nominated for every major award in mystery writing\, including the Edgar®\, and has won many\, including both the Agatha and Anthony awards. She is also the author of the Molly Murphy Mysteries\, set in turn-of-the-century New York\, and the Constable Evans Mysteries\, set in Wales as well as two internationally bestselling stand alone novels. She was born in England and now divides her time between Northern California and Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhys-bowen-god-rest-ye-royal-gentlemen/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T163000
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SUMMARY:Everyone’s a Critic
DESCRIPTION:Whether it’s the role of take-downs\, accusations of smarm\, writers rebutting their reviews\, or the daily Twitter discourse\, the role of criticism in our culture is complex\, ever-changing\, and seemingly always up for debate. The tools of criticism are evolving\, too. Goodreads\, Substack\, and social media remove critics from an ivory tower and allow anyone to assume the mantle. New Yorker staff writer and former New York Times book critic Parul Seghal\, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott\, and novelist-cum-critic Brandon Taylor will discuss these topics as well as their own pursuits of critical honesty and excellence. Moderated by Electric Literature’s Executive Director Halimah Marcus. Their discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A. This event is part of Electric Lit’s Fall 2021 series\, presented by Mount Saint Mary’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everyones-a-critic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T183000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Ferris - A Calling for Charlie Barnes
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nThurs.\, October 7\, 2021 • 5:30pm PT • Live • Online \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE\nSUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER\n\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\nFrom a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world’s hidden truths—until his two lives come crashing together. \nSomeone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes\, and it doesn’t appear to be going well. Too often divorced\, discontent with life’s compromises\, and in a house he hates\, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles\, his dreams dwindle further\, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot. \nThen\, against all odds\, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son\, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it—in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love—at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be. \nA Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall\, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned. \nJoshua Ferris is the author of three previous novels\, Then We Came to the End\, The Unnamed\, and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour\, and a collection of stories\, The Dinner Party. He was a finalist for the National Book Award\, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and was named one of The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” writers in 2010. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-ferris-a-calling-for-charlie-barnes/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gary Paulsen\, How to Train Your Dad
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed and bestselling author Gary Paulsen for a virtual event celebrating his new middle grade novel\, How to Train Your Dad. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here!\nThe featured book will be published on October 5th and is available for preorder below. \nFrom the legendary author of Hatchet\, a laugh-out-loud eco-friendly adventure about a boy\, his free-thinking dad\, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down. \nTwelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father’s single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. His dad may be brilliant\, but dumpster-diving for food\, scouring through trash for salvageable junk\, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried about what schoolmates and a certain girl at his new school might think of his circumstances–and encouraged by his off-kilter best friend–Carl adopts the principles set forth in a randomly discovered puppy-training pamphlet to “retrain” his dad’s mindset . . . a crackpot experiment that produces some very unintentional results. \nThis is a fierce and funny novel about family\, green-living\, and untangling some of the ties that bind from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen. \nGary Paulsen is the winner of the ALA Margaret Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature\, and is a three-time Newbery Honor winner\, for Hatchet\, Dogsong\, and The Winter Room. His books have sold more than 35 million copies. He lives in New Mexico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-paulsen-how-to-train-your-dad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Lilly Dancyger and Nina Renata Aron
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 8th at 6pm PT when Lilly Dancyger reads from and discusses her memoir\, Negative Space\, with Nina Renata Aron at 9th Ave! \nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance \nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Negative Space \n“Negative Space is a lovely and heartbreaking book; navigating pain\, inheritance\, and loss. Dancyger’s father emerges from these pages as vividly as if I’d known him…” —Carmen Maria Machado\, In the Dream House \n“This book is so many things: a daughter’s heartrending tribute\, a love story riddled by addiction\, a mystery whose solution lies at the intersection of art and memory. Together\, they form a chorus that I could not turn away from.” —Melissa Febos\, Award-winning author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Candid\, thrilling\, wickedly smart\, Negative Space is one of the greatest memoirs of this\, or any\, time.” —T Kira Madden\, award-winning author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Practically hot to the touch.” —BookPage (Most Anticipated Fall Nonfiction) \nAbout Negative Space \nA memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger\, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger\, grief\, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her\, as well as her own. \nDespite her parents’ struggles with addiction\, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger’s father\, Joe Schactman\, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones\, human hair\, and broken glass\, and brought his young daughter into his gritty\, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly\, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence\, she went into her own self-destructive spiral\, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult\, Dancyger began to question the mythology she’d created about her father—the brilliant artist\, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures\, paintings\, and prints as a guide\, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father’s work to find the truth of who he really was. \nAbout Lilly Dancyger \nLilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space\, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn it Down\, an anthology of essays on women’s anger. Her writing has been published by Longreads\, BOMB\, Guernica\, The Washington Post\, Glamour\, Playboy\, Rolling Stone\, and more. She lives in New York City\, and you can find her on Twitter at @lillydancyger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-lilly-dancyger-and-nina-renata-aron/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTAMP:20260403T135755
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SUMMARY:The Five Senses of Community
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a transmedia exploration of what makes & breaks community in the year 2021.  \nHow has a year of involuntary isolation for some (and involuntary\, dangerous proximity for others) reshaped how we think of community? What makes\, breaks\, and fakes our connections to one another in the year 2021? Ten artists will respond to these questions in a series of collaborative performances spanning the five senses and multiple media—from sculpture to music\, words to candles\, painting to edible ferments\, drawing to performance art. \nFeaturing writing and art by Tyler Atura Bushnell\, Chelsea Davis\, Brad Detjen\, Antony Fangary\, Chris Guichet\, Christine No\, Kate De Palma\, Alejandro Schuler\, Sean Skwerer\, & Amin Younes. \nProof of vaccination & masks required. \n$10 suggested donation to help the artists cover event costs; NOTAFLOF. Tickets are limited; please buy youirs in advance. \nLocation: Little Raven Gallery\, 1015 Howard St.\, SF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-five-senses-of-community/
LOCATION:Little Raven Gallery\, 1015 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chelsea Davis":MAILTO:chelsea@chelseamdavis.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T143000
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Shrimp 'N Lobster at the SF Botanical Gardens!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 9th at 1pm at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens with author Charlotte Rygh for an afternoon of drawing and fun celebrating Shrimp ‘N Lobster: A San Francisco Adventure! \nThis event is no cost\, but registration is required. Please RSVP at the link here.\nDo note that there is an entrance fee to the SFBG for non-San Francisco residents.\nFee information can be found here.\nThe SFBG current COVID protocol require masks indoors only. People who are outdoors in close proximity to other people who are not part of their household are strongly encouraged to wear a well-fitted mask. \nJoin us for a drawing lesson from author and illustrator Charlotte Rygh of the hit Shrimp ‘n Lobster Adventures! Learn about this crustacean duo and their travels in San Francisco and New York City\, all while immersed in SFBG’s atmospheric Fragrance Garden. Get your hands on a signed copy of Shrimp ‘n Lobster: A San Francisco Adventure\, learn to draw Lobster\, hear about Char’s journey to creating the series\, and receive your exclusive Shrimp ‘n Lobster bookmarks and coloring sheets! \nAbout Shrimp ‘N Lobster \nFrom the bustling cityscape of New York to the sloping hills of San Francisco\, Shrimp ‘n Lobster are keen to explore the characteristic sights of cities around the United States. This animated duo takes to the City by the Bay to discover landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge\, Fisherman’s Wharf\, and even Karl\, the only fog in the world with a name. \nFilled with spirited illustrations and local charm\, this guide to San Francisco will captivate children from the Bay to Chinatown with equal parts education and delight. Readers will have a blast discovering the history and culture of this coastal city as they follow Shrimp ‘n Lobster to over twenty five destinations in San Francisco alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-shrimp-n-lobster-at-the-sf-botanical-gardens/
LOCATION:San Francisco Botanical Garden\, 1199 9th Ave\, San Francisco\, CA - California\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T163000
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CREATED:20210929T015005Z
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SUMMARY:Steel Yourself Before You Reveal Yourself
DESCRIPTION:A good journalist reports the story\, but never becomes the story. But as essayists and non-fiction writers\, we’re not journalists. Sometimes our lives are\, in fact\, the story. What does it mean to write about ourselves and our lives\, and then\, to publish that writing? What does it mean when people read that writing\, and discuss it—and us—publicly\, as well as privately? \nAlexander Chee (How To Write an Autobiographical Novel)\, Morgan Jerkins (This May Be My Undoing)\, and Joseph Osmundson (Virology\, forthcoming 2022) will discuss the choice to write about ourselves and dive into the public discourse as both writer and subject\, and how to prepare for the unique scrutiny that comes with essay\, memoir\, and autobiographical writing. They will also offer tools to help writers determine how much of themselves to reveal in their writing in the first place. Moderated by Electric Literature’s Editor-in-Chief Denne Michele Norris. Their conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A. This event is part of Electric Lit’s Fall 2021 series\, presented by Mount Saint Mary’s University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steel-yourself-before-you-reveal-yourself/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T180000
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SUMMARY:Rick Riordan
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\n\n\nRICK RIORDAN IS BACK! \nJoin us online to hear Rick Riordan tell us all about his new action-packed underwater adventure\, Daughter of the Deep\, an exciting modern take on Jules Verne’s  20\,000 Leagues Under the Sea. We couldn’t be more excited. \n\n\n\n\nAna Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy\, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists\, naval warriors\, navigators\, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana’s parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago\, and the only family’s she’s got left is her older brother\, Dev\, also a student at HP. Ana’s freshman year culminates with the class’s weekend trial at sea\, the details of which have been kept secret. She only hopes she has what it’ll take to succeed. All her worries are blown out of the water when\, on the bus ride to the ship\, Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives. \nBut wait\, there’s more. The professor accompanying them informs Ana that their rival school\, Land Institute\, and Harding-Pencroft have been fighting a cold war for a hundred and fifty years. Now that cold war has been turned up to a full broil\, and the freshman are in danger of becoming fish food. In a race against deadly enemies\, Ana will make amazing friends and astounding discoveries about her heritage as she puts her leadership skills to the test for the first time. \nGet ready to dive into Daughter of the Deep\, an undersea adventure full of Rick Riordan’s trademark humor\, fast-paced action\, and wide cast of characters.. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRick Riordan\, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly\, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians\, The Heroes of Olympus\, and the Trials of Apollo\, based on Greek and Roman mythology; the Kane Chronicles\, based on Ancient Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard\, based on Norse mythology. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two #1 New York Times best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney-Hyperion\, Rick Riordan Presents\, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. Rick’s presentations are always the best. and sell out early.  \nPlease note: Ticket includes a SIGNED copy of Daughter of the Deep and a commemorative t-shirt (while supplies last). T-shirts are one size: XL child/Small adult
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rick-riordan-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Victoria Chang and Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 12th at 6pm PT when Victoria Chang and Ari Banias celebrate the launch of their latest books Dear Memory: Letters on Writing\, Silence\, and Grief and A Symmetry on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Dear Memory \n“After the impressive formal innovations of her 2020 books\, OBIT\, which won multiple national awards\, Chang continues to find new ways to plumb her experiences on the page . . . Depending on what one brings to this book\, each reader may find their own moment of goosebumps or tears . . . This book is moving in a way that transcends story and message; it captures a purse sense of another person’s heart.” —Kirkus Reviews\, Starred Review \n“Chang has assembled a collection of letters to family\, past teachers\, and fellow poets\, as well as family memorabilia\, creating not just a moving family history but a rumination on the creative and self-shaping act of remembering.” —Literary Hub\, “Most Anticipated Books of 2021” \n“A moving consideration of ancestry and loss . . . [Chang’s] prose is sharp and strong—memory is the ‘exit wound of joy\,’ she writes—and her creativity shines in her incorporation of the collage-like visual elements\, which add depth. Fans of Chang’s poetry will be delighted.” —Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \nAbout Dear Memory \n“Victoria Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums.” —THE MILLIONS \nA collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. \nFor poet Victoria Chang\, memory “isn’t something that blooms\, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed\, summoned\, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly\, and the silences of her father\, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license\, a letter\, a visa petition\, a photograph. And\, just as often\, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered. \nDear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped\, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history\, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted missives on trauma and loss\, on being American and Chinese\, Victoria Chang shows how grief can ignite a longing to know yourself. \nIn letters to family\, past teachers\, and fellow poets\, as the imagination\, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories. \nAbout Victoria Chang \nVictoria Chang is the author of Dear Memory. Her poetry books include OBIT\, Barbie Chang\, The Boss\, Salvinia Molesta\, and Circle. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children’s picture book\, Is Mommy?\, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a New York Times Notable Book\, and a middle grade novel\, Love\, Love. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship\, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA program. \nPraise for A Symmetry \n“’Refuse the difference between sameness and difference.’ Refuse the possibility that saying it all on a song won’t change the baseline of what happened. Ari Banias’ poetry sits in an abandoned chair under the overpass\, atop an ‘oil slick on the Aegean’ looking ‘at\, not through’ reality’s immeasurables that the poet is called to count\, holding it all in mind so we can also hold it. A T-shirt hanging out the window\, ‘scratched glass Fanta bottles filled and refilled\,’ ‘the ruined tanneries beside the seawall’—when you add everything up x times x\, what do you get? Only the precarious balance of the world\, and a trust in that voice of A Symmetry earned with each self-deflecting playful flourish. The paper antiquity of NYC coffee cups & ‘A doric column / squatting in a strip mall’ & ‘the discotheque / painted tourist pink with a classical name’ evoke the churn of some perpetual history whose action-reaction is embodied in the motion of lyrical meter and the news reports this book takes apart. The poet calls it: ‘A yellow butterfly that has no interest in me. / I have no interest in kings.’ Such cosmic foreshortening disembarrasses the poem from imperial valence until all that’s left of the book is ‘just the tree.’ When Ari Banias says ‘don’t be sorry for the future sand / this stone wall will become’ one can almost let it go. Almost.” —Ana Božičević\, author of JOMO \n“The surge\, the swell\, and the casual mutability of the borders and breaks that ensconce our world are laid bare in A Symmetry\, Ari Banias’s incandescent new collection of poems. Early on\, these pieces acknowledge the transmutable\, shifting world—acknowledge the indecency of anything that purports to be static and staid. Even the I is the I only as long as it resists all other possible orientations. Banias ingests the discrete\, itinerant minutes\, which makes his work come alive at the edges\, the thresholds\, and the charged moment where distance can finally collapse. The continuous jostling is generous\, though. In it we remember the permutations that have existed\, do exist\, and that will exist in the future. Near the end of A Symmetry\, Banias ropes “a brief fish / netted / partly recovered / the sweat of a horse / the wet of its eye.” These objects are momentarily linked and next time we see them\, their potential will likely be revealed in an entirely new arrangement. This is one way to see—what taut instructions Banias has given us.”—Asiya Wadud\, author of No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body \nAbout A Symmetry \nUnsettling the myth of an ordered reality through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry\, A Symmetry considers the inscriptions of nationhood\, language\, and ancestral memory. A window washer wields an impossibly long mop in the mirrored pane of a Greek government building; strangers mesmerize us while they fold sheets into perfect corners. “Artists who design border wall prototypes are artists / who say they ‘leave politics out of it.’” \nIn meditative wanderings and compressed\, enigmatic lyrics\, Ari Banias probes the sometimes-touching\, often-violent mundane to draw out the intimate\, social proportions of our material world. \nAbout Ari Banias \nAri Banias is the author of A Symmetry (W. W. Norton\, 2021) and Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His work has been supported by Headlands Center for the Arts\, MacDowell\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. He lives and teaches in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-victoria-chang-and-ari-banias/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Saul Griffith with Laura Fraser / Launch for Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are thrilled to present the launch for Saul Griffith and his book Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future. He’ll be in conversation with Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Electrify here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nAn optimistic—but realistic and feasible—action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. \nClimate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify\, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure\, update our grid\, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars\, but the rest of us\, Griffith says\, will stay and fight for the future. \nGriffith\, an engineer and inventor\, calls for grid neutrality\, ensuring that households\, businesses\, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world\, mobilize industry as we did in World War II\, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big\, not-yet-invented innovations\, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis\, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to 25 million\, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else. \nAbout the authors\nSaul Griffith\, inventor\, entrepreneur\, and engineer\, is founder of Rewiring America\, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything\, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007. \nLaura Fraser is a journalist and author of three books of nonfiction\, including the NYT-bestselling memoir\, An Italian Affair. As founder and editorial director of Shebooks\, she published 75 short ebooks by women before selling the company to Shewrites Press. She lives around the corner from the Booksmith and launched all three of her books here. She’s also interviewed several authors for the Booksmith. Lately\, she has been collaborating with Saul Griffith and Rewiring America\, the organization he founded. So while she is not objective about the material in Saul’s new book\, she is well-acquainted with it. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-saul-griffith-with-laura-fraser-launch-for-electrify-an-optimists-playbook-for-our-clean-energy-future/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T153000
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Christopher Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 13\, 2021 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n“Post-Freudian Slips: How contemporary psychoanalytic thought can deepen the inner lives of your characters” by Christopher Feliciano Arnold \n\n\nThis craft talk will introduce students to a basic overview of contemporary psychoanalytic thought that can help them instill characters with a deeper level of psychological realism. Building upon the pioneering ideas of Sigmund and Anna Freud\, we will explore how the Post-Freudian thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century can help writers render splintered selves\, fluid identities\, formative relationships\, traumas\, ecstasies and critical experiences like birth\, sex\, violence\, parenthood and death. \nChris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. He has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Outside\, Vice News\, The New York Times and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-afternoon-craft-conversation-with-christopher-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135755
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T015403Z
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SUMMARY:Pitch Roulette
DESCRIPTION:What goes through an editor’s mind when they read a pitch? What turns them off\, and what grabs their interest? One of our most popular salons is back with a twist: Editor-in-Chief Denne Michele Norris and Executive Director Halimah Marcus will review your anonymous pitches\, submitted just for this event. They will read each pitch for the first time live on screen\, sharing their immediate reactions as they go. Your pitch may even be commissioned for Electric Lit! This event is part of Electric Lit’s Fall 2021 series\, presented by Mount Saint Mary’s University. \nSubmission instructions: You can find the link to submit in the chat\, on the right hand side of the event page. (Please note\, you will only see the chat if you are registered for the event.) If you are unable to find the submission portal or have questions about submitting\, email editors@electricliterature.com. Please submit an essay pitch of 1 to 4 paragraphs\, not to exceed a single page in 12 pt\, Times New Roman font. Your pitch should be for an essay you would like to be considered for publication in Electric Literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pitch-roulette/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T203000
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SUMMARY:Susan Orlean
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 13\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nA staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992\, Susan Orlean has written with wit and endless curiosity about subjects ranging from umbrella inventors to origami artists\, from the figure skater Tonya Harding to treadmill desks\, gospel choirs\, and taxidermy. She is the author of Rin Tin Tin\, The Orchid Thief\, and The Library Book\, in which Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history. Her new book\, On Animals\, is a collection of Orlean’s lifetime of explorations of the creatures she finds most fascinating. They range from stories about lions to tigers to panda bears and beyond; profiles of dogs and donkeys; meditations on what it’s like to raise chickens and care for whales; stories about animals that star in movies\, animals that go to war\, and animals that are celebrated for being beautiful. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-orlean-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T200000
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SUMMARY:Atsuro Riley
DESCRIPTION:Reads from his highly anticipated collection of poems\, Heard-Hoard\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 14\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAtsuro Riley reads from Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press)\, his highly anticipated collection of poems. \n“Intoxicating. . . Sounds unheard and unrivaled since Atsuro Riley’s acclaimed debut permeate Heard-Hoard.  His elegant rhythms are atmospheric and robust\, his neologisms transform the ‘weed-embrangling snuffle-path\,’ his vernacular is magical as ‘dew-sparks galaxifying the crabgrass.’ Amid each mesmerizing reading\, like dancing to a good song for a good long time before truly hearing its lyrics\, Heard-Hoard’s remarkable stories crystallize; music becomes narrative. Atsuro Riley is an extraordinary poet. This book holds all the meanings of fantastic.” — Terrance Hayes\, National Book Award winning poet \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Heard-Hoard\nWinner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. \nRecognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative\,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang.  In Heard-Hoard\, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems\, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. \nAt once an album of tales\, a portrait gallery\, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook\, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries\, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.”  From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak\,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore. \nAbout Atsuro Riley\nAtsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard\, winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and  Romey’s Order\, which was the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, The Believer Poetry Award\, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. His work has been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry\, Riley lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/atsuro-riley/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135755
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SUMMARY:Adam Schiff
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 14\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nCongressman Adam Schiff represents California’s 28th Congressional District. In his 11th term in the House of Representatives\, Schiff currently serves as the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence\, which oversees the nation’s intelligence agencies. In his role as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence\, Schiff led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump. Before he served in Congress\, he worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles and as a California State Senator. His new book Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy And Still Could offers a vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour\, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-schiff/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135755
CREATED:20210929T042148Z
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SUMMARY:George Saunders: The Art of Story & Story Structure
DESCRIPTION:In the age of mass infotainment\, how do we make our stories on the page shine through a crowded visual world? \nJoin bestselling author and legendary teacher George Saunders and Albert Flynn DeSilver for an exceptional daylong writing experience focusing on the art of story and story structure. \nThe day will include a morning session on story structure\, including writing exercises with Albert Flynn DeSilver\, followed by a one-hour lunch and then a 90-minute intensive afternoon session with George Saunders. Writers of both fiction and non-fiction will experience… \n\nExtraordinary writing prompts and exercises\nDiscussions on craft\nConnection in creative community\nInsight and support\nSpecial gifts and bonuses for attendees
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-saunders-the-art-of-story-story-structure/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135755
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SUMMARY:The Hollywood Muse Masked Ball
DESCRIPTION:Bird and Beckett Bookstore\n653 Cheney\nSan Francisco\, Ca\n415-586-3733\nwww.birdbeckett.com\nPoet\, Tony Seymour\nViolinist\, India Cooke\nPiano\, Bill Crossman \nThe Hollywood Muse Masked Ball:\nSeymour & Cooke+Crossman\nWhen\nSun\, October 17\, 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nDescription\nExclusive Limited TEN Person LIVE Audience. $40 per ticket. Make your paid reservation in advance with the bookstore to guarantee a seat. (415-586-3733) \nLive stream contribution of $20 requested for those unable to attend in person. (www.birdbeckett.com\nOr You Tube\n \nEveryone attending the live performance must show proof of vaccination; seats will be spaced six feet apart. We request that the in-person audience observe be 100% masked at the Hollywood Muse Masked Ball tonight! \nIn the Hollywood Muse Masked Ball\, poet Tony Seymour takes a deep dive into an extended work inspired by his “Hollywood Muse\,” enlisted for strictly inspirational purposes at a juncture when he desperately needed to get his creative juices flowing again\, in a time when beautiful sunsets\, swaying palms\, laid back locals and planeloads of tourists weren’t nearly enough. Seymour adds that “Essentially it starts on a love theme then expands into a poetic overview of how social structures have been the bane of civilization. It then ventures into taking all the myth out of dying and then formulating a strong sense of self as a human goal……to go beyond the ways of subconscious indoctrination.” \nSeymour was the publicist for Black Panthers Huey Newton and Erica Huggins POETRY in the early 70’s via City Lights Books. He’s seen it all\, and has always had plenty of words to sling. For years now\, however\, he’s been languishing in Hawaii. No real paradise in his eyes. Now\, for a minute\, he’s flying back to the Bay Area to re-engage with the world that made him\, and he’s induced his long-time friend\, the violinist India Cooke to bring to his epic recital the stellar musical interplay of Cooke+Crossman\, fully masked for the occasion. Cooke+Crossman comprises India and pianist Bill Crossman in a duo they have had going for a dozen years. \nCooke\, violinist\, composer\, and educator\, performs improv\, jazz and classical. She has performed with Pharaoh Sanders\, Peter Kowald\, Sun Ra\, Cecil Taylor\, Pauline Oliveros\, George Lewis\, Joelle Leandre\, Amiri Baraka and many others. She has also been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. India has performed in Bay Area symphony and opera orchestras\, chamber ensembles and Broadway shows. As one of California’s most respected contract artists\, she has performed with the Louie Bellson Orchestra\, Sarah Vaughn\, Frank Sinatra\, Tony Bennett and many others. India has recorded sessions for Atlantic\, Fantasy and Stax records. As a featured recording artist she can be heard on Leo Records with Sun Ra and his Arkestra\, Black Saint Records and Hat Music’s “Nomadic Winds\,” Plainisphares’ “African Roots of Jazz” and Sparkling Beatnik Records “The Circle Trio~Live at the Meridian.” She recorded\, and released to critical acclaim\, her Grammy nominated debut cd as a leader\, “Music and Arts’ India Cooke~Redhanded.” India is currently on the Mills College Music Department Faculty\, Ensemble Directors & Lesson Instructors roster\, and teaches at her private studio – India’s Music Room. \nCrossman\, jazz/world-music pianist\, composer\, and educator\, is an innovator in freely-improvised jazz piano. He has performed with some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians and has appeared in performance venues and festivals from coast to coast and internationally. For over a dozen years\, Bill has played with jazz violinist India Cooke in the India Cooke-Bill Crossman Duo\, now renamed COOKE🔸CROSSMAN on their 2018 CD “Infinite Dimensions”. Bill can also be heard on The Troublemakers Union’s recent CD “Fight Back.” Bill’s jazz-styled musical “John Brown’s Truth\,” focusing on the last year of the famed anti-slavery abolitionist’s life\, has been staged throughout northern CA and in New York City. See website www.johnbrownstruthmusical.com. A poet himself\, Bill’s jazz piano has accompanied poetry readings by Al Young\, Genny Lim\, David Meltzer\, and others. He taught jazz & blues piano for years at Oakland Public Conservatory of Music (OPCM) and also led an innovative monthly free-jazz improv open-mike session there
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-hollywood-muse-masked-ball/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T203000
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SUMMARY:Amy Tan & Michael Krasny
DESCRIPTION:Author Amy Tan joins KQED veteran and literature professor Michael Krasny for a conversation on how personal and cultural histories fuse with imagination in her writing. \nBorn to Chinese immigrant parents in Oakland\, California in 1952\, Tan’s upbringing\, complex family experiences\, and cultural heritage have been an inexhaustible well of creative inspiration\, while the wit and tenderness of her writing has made her a global literary icon. \nTan’s novels include “The Joy Luck Club”\, “The Kitchen God’s Wife”\, “The Hundred Secret Senses”\, “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “Saving Fish from Drowning”\, and “The Valley of Amazement”\, all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of a memoir\, a book about writing\, two children’s books\, and numerous articles and short stories. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the International Orange Prize\, and she has won many awards including the Commonwealth Gold Award and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature. Her essays and stories are found in hundreds of anthologies and textbooks. Her work has been translated into 35 languages. \nShe is also the subject of the recent documentary “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir”\, which debuted at Sundance in January 2021 and aired as part of PBS’s American Masters series. \n$10 – In Person\, Free – Livestream. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/events/167826649025 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-tan-michael-krasny/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="KQED Live":MAILTO:live@kqed.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T203000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Adam Hochschild on her new book Orwell's Roses
DESCRIPTION:Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936\, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores  his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England\, fighting in the Spanish Civil War\, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left)\, to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.  \nThrough Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections\, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism\, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions\, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica\, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden\, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market.  \nThe book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell\, as well as a reflection on pleasure\, beauty\, and joy as acts of resistance. \nWriter\, historian\, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including  Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction)\, Men Explain Things to Me\, and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. \nAdam Hochschild is an American author\, journalist\, historian and lecturer whose books include King Leopold’s Ghost\, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion\, and Spain in Our Hearts. \n\nAttendance is limited. Ticket with purchase of book now available at The Green Arcade Online Shop (www.TheGreenArcade.com). Individual tickets on sale closer to the event depending on availability. Doors open at 6:30 – event at 7pm. \n\n\nThis is a masked event and vaccination cards will be mandatory. The event will be livestreamed on YouTube. \nMany thanks to the McRoskey Mattress Company
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-in-conversation-with-adam-hochschild-on-her-new-book-orwells-roses/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T183000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Cave Canem: Cornelius Eady with Morgan Parker & Cameron Awkward-Rich
DESCRIPTION:On October 20th\, at 5pm pacific\, we’ll welcome poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady (author of Hardheaded Weather) to the ARC virtual stage\, along with two emerging poets who’ve benefitted from his teaching and mentorship in the Cave Canem Black artists collective: Morgan Parker (author of Magical Negro) and Cameron Awkward Rich (author of Dispatch). Following their readings\, these poets will be in conversation with ARC’s Acting Director Chiyuma Elliott and fall 2021 Poetry & the Senses fellow Vincente Perez. This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses initiative generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-cave-canem-cornelius-eady-with-morgan-parker-cameron-awkward-rich/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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