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SUMMARY:Two Languages / One Community w/ Poets Chun Yu and Michael Warr
DESCRIPTION:Over the course of three workshops\, participants will be guided by the authors through structured exercises\, individually\, and in small groups\, with the goal of supporting participants as they chronicle their experiences through creative storytelling. Participants will write an original short poem or memory\, which will be translated into English and Chinese\, published\, and shared at a public culminating event at OACC in May. The workshops will be conducted at OACC on Fridays 2/23\, 3/23\, and 4/13 from 1-2p\, with optional time from 2-3p for participants to continue writing or working together. Workshops are limited to ten participants who can commit to attending the entire series\, and who would ideally be willing to share their work both verbally at a culminating event at OACC in May 2018\, and in print. \nThe poem “Black Star” based on the photograph of Michael Warr’s mother\, Gaynell Warr\, has been translated into Mandarin by Chun Yu. \nSign-up online at https://tinyurl.com/2Lang1Community or call 510-637-0455. Registration deadline noon on Wed. 2/21/18.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-languages-one-community-w-poets-chun-yu-and-michael-warr/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gearbox Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an afternoon of poetry!\nWe meet the fourth Saturday every month. \nGearbox Poetry\nSaturday\, March 24\, 2018\nat Gearbox Gallery\n770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland. \nPoetry Feature: Clive Matson. Clive began his career as a poet among the Beats in 1960s Greenwich Village. He was mentored and influenced by Allen Ginsberg\, John Wieners\,\nDiane di Prima and Herbert Huncke. He is the author of 9 volumes of poetry and the creative writing text “Let The Crazy Child Write!” and has been a creative writing teacher for 30 years. He frequently performs his works in Bay Area reading venues and will perform excerpts from his newest poem\, “Hello Paradise\, Paradise Good-bye”. The long poem was premiered last year in Paris\, France\, the city of Climate Accord\, and treats the topic of modern day threats of extinction and civil unrest. Clive is the recipient of the Berkeley Lifetime Achievement in Poetry Award in 2012\, was named the Best East Bay Writing Teacher in 2006 and received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Award in 2003. To learn more\, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Matson and http://matsonpoet.com/ \nPlease join us for Clive’s reading\, along with an open mic. \nThe poetry reading is from 2 – 4 pm\, with open mic sign-up starting at 1:30.\nHosted by David Zeltzer\, dzeltzer@acm.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gearbox-poetry/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 nW. Grand\, Oakland
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Nomadic Press' Spring 2018 Chapbook Collection
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch four new 2018 Spring Chapbook Collection chapbooks byAlexandra Naughton\, Jesse Prado\, John Gosslee\, and Kay Nilsson into the universe! \nReadings by all authors and all books will be available for purchase and signing at the event ($10 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-nomadic-press-spring-2018-chapbook-collection/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:National Geographic and the White Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an artists’ talk and book party with Michelle Dizon and Viet Le in conversation with Laura Fantone and Targol Mesbah. In conjunction with the exhibition WHITE GAZE\, these artists and scholars will be talking about the role of photography-and specifically the images of National Geographic-in reinforcing racist hierarchies in the cultural imaginary of the West. \nWHITE GAZE\, an exhibition of works by Michelle Dizon with the poetry of Viet Le. deconstructs an archive of National Geographic magazines to explore the visual and narrative structure of the publications’s White Gaze\, the Western-centric bias that informed its editorial decision-making for decades. Drawing from her archive of magazines\, Dizon uses poetic subtraction\, the erasure of most of the text on the page\, to give us back the original language in fragments or threads that together write a decolonial counterpoint to the Western-centric focus of the pictures. \nIn April National Geographic will publish an issue that explicitly embarks on a reckoning with its past and its complicity in reinforcing the racism of the white American narrative through a photographic language. Join us to talk about this history and explore the implications of the magazine’s decision. \nWhite Gaze has also been published as a book by Bay Area-based Sming Sming Books\, Chicago-based Candor Arts\, and Los Angeles-based at lands edge\, and includes text by Viet Le\, who uses Dizon’s work as a starting point for a poetic exploration of the legacies of war and empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-geographic-and-the-white-gaze/
LOCATION:DESAI | MATTA GALLERY\, CIIS Main Building\, 1453 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Arts at CIIS":MAILTO:arts@ciis.edu
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #55
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations Show #55\nMonday\, March 26th\, 2018 \nREADERS\nA literary salon featuring a curated selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers\, and musical guest. \nWith these fine poets and writers:\nHeidi Benson-Stagg + Erica Peck\nMarise Phillips + Tim Shipman\nMiah Jeffra + Norma Smith\n& Musical Guest\n\nCURATORS\nKathleen Wallace + Sebastien Snow\, guests \nBay Area Generations Show #55\nMonday\, March 26\n7:30pm\nat The Bindery in SF\nMap: http://bit.ly/BAGBinderyMap \nTickets: http://bit.ly/BAG55tx \nwine bar | easy access | on public transportation line\nFrom BART: http://bit.ly/BAGBinderyMap \nDoors Open: 7:00 p.m. Show: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation with chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet tickets: http://bit.ly/BAG55tx \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 350 hundred notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nWebsite: www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nTickets: http://bit.ly/BAG55tx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-55/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket #17 : Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:We’re seven months from Halloween\, but what the hell\, let’s talk about GHOSTS. The ones that haunt mansions\, the ones that haunt our pasts\, the ones that linger just behind our shadows.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-17-ghosts/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes award winning author Luis Alberto Urrea for a book discussion and signing of The House of Broken Angels. \nIn his final days\, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz\, known affectionately as Big Angel\, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches\, his mother\, nearly one hundred\, dies herself\, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood\, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti\, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother\, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore\, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.The story of the De La Cruzes is the American story. This indelible portrait of a complex family reminds us of what it means to be the first generation and to live two lives across one border. Teeming with brilliance and humor\, authentic at every turn\, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best\, and it cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. \n“[Urrea]’s most personal book… One of the most vivid and engrossing family epics in the last twenty years.” —Dave Eggers \n“In one of the spring’s must-read fiction titles\, Luis Alberto Urrea tells a layered\, complex\, galvanizingly authentic story of the Mexican-American immigrant experience and what it means to live two lives across one border.” —Entertainment Weekly \nIn 2017\, Luis Alberto Urrea received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, the latest prestigious honor in a long and distinguished career\, one full of accolades. His books\, which have frequently been listed as among the best of the year by numerous publications\, have also been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize (The Devil’s Highway) and the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Water Museum); winners of an American Book Award (Nobody’s Son)\, the Lannan Literary Award (The Devil’s Highway again)\, and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize (The Hummingbird’s Daughter); and a Big Read selection by the National Endowment for the Arts (Into the Beautiful North). \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating. Seats are generally set up one hour prior to the event’s start time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #17
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-17/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Michael Nava
DESCRIPTION:Michael Nava reads from and discusses his fiction work. His latest book is Street People: A Novella (Korima Press\, 2017). “Nava writes an excellent mystery featuring crisp dialogue\, diabolical suspense and a subtle wit\, but it’s his unflinching look at what it’s like to be an openly gay man today that makes this series special.” — Booklist. Free.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Room 211\n\n\nDirections: View on Google Maps\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Rios novels won six Lambda Literary awards and Nava was dubbed “one of our best” by The New York Times. In 2001 he won the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants\, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs. Nava has also had a distinguished legal career\, having earned his law degree from Stanford University. He retired from the law in July 2016. \n\nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public this spring. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-michael-nava/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Fady Joudah’s fourth poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. His poetry and translations have earned him numerous national and international prizes\, the Yale Series\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Griffin Poetry prize among others. He is a practicing physician of internal medicine in Houston\, Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fady-joudah/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katherine Applegate
DESCRIPTION:Meet beloved author Katherine Applegate  and fall in love with Wishtree\, a heartwarming story that reveals the powers of love\, healing\, and community \n\n\n\n\n\nRed is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”―people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows\, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all.  Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming\, and Red’s experience as a wishtree is more important than ever. \nFunny\, deep\, warm\, and nuanced\, this is Katherine Applegate at her very best―writing from the heart and from a completely unexpected point of view. \nKatherine Applegate is the Newbery Medal–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for young readers\, including The One and Only Ivan\, Crenshaw\, Wishtree\, and the Animorphs series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-applegate/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Songs of Dismantling: Standing as Witness in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Poets Randall Mann and  Fernando Pérez \nread poetry and discuss the poetic experience as a method of cultural healing \nmoderated by Ingrid Rojas Contreras \nA night of reading and discussion where “Standing as witness” is the over-riding theme. An exploration of the demonization and marginalization of the “other” in the U.S. What do we need to admit to ourselves to move beyond injustice and totalitarian impulses. What memes could be useful to us in spreading a message of inclusion. Poetry is explored as a vehicle to transform culture. \nFernando Pérez celebrates the release of a new book of poetry \nA Song of Dismantling: Poems \npublished by University of New Mexico Press \nIn this dynamic debut collection\, Fernando Pérez employs lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity politics and piece together a complex family history. The book embodies fragmentation in form and story\, exploring how migration affects relationships between people of different generations. Pérez invites readers on the journey as his family story unfolds over time and distance. \nRandal Mann’s most current collection is titled: \nProprietary \npublished by Persea Press \nProprietary and critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. For years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. \nFernando Pérez teaches at Bellevue College. His poems have been widely published in literary journals\, including Crab Orchard Review\, Más Tequila Review\, Exquisite Corpse\, and Hinchas de Poesia. \nRandall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004)\, which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009)\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013)\, also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017). He is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. His most recent book is Proprietary: Poems\,  published by Persea Press. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-dismantling-standing-as-witness-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jimmy O. Yang
DESCRIPTION:Jimmy O. Yang is an actor\, stand-up comedian\, and writer best known for his portrayal of Jian Yang on HBO’s Emmy-nominated series Silicon Valley and his dramatic turn opposite Mark Wahlberg in the highly acclaimed film Patriot’s Day. Born in Hong Kong\, Yang made his television debut on the CBS series 2 Broke Girls and his first late-night stand-up appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show\, where he received a rare standing ovation. He’s based in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jimmy-o-yang/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning / Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog?
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning for a reading and live music in celebration of their new book\, Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog?. Join us! \nA very true love story\, told in counterpoint\, about friendship\, politics and rock n roll. \nIn Barbara Browning’s eyes\, Imre Lodbrog is the greatest aging French rock star you’ve never heard of\, with the appeal of “Leonard Cohen\, Bob Dylan or Serge Gainsbourg on shrooms.” For Imre Lodbrog\, music is an alter-ego experience―a late-in-life outlet for a mild-mannered screenwriter deeply shaped by the generation of May ‘68. Both ask the same questions: What revolution has wreaked more havoc and beauty than rock ‘n’ roll? And why do a certain few geniuses inside every revolution go silent and unrecognized? \n— \nSébastien Régnier is an award-winning screenwriter from France (Kabloonak\, Martha Martha). \nBarbara Browning has published three novels\, including The Gift (or\, Techniques of the Body) – a New York Times Editor’s Choice – as well as I’m Trying to Reach You and The Correspondence Artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sebastien-regnier-and-barbara-browning-who-the-hell-is-imre-lodbrog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 22 – Friday\, April 20\, 2018\, with award-winning Oakland author Nayomi Munaweera\,  local novelist Yang Huang\, East Bay writer Stevan Cavalier and the debut of local musical group Postcapitalism. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180328T193000
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SUMMARY:Ally Carter at the Livermore Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Ally Carter to the Livermore Public Library for an author talk and book signing! \nAlly Carter is the author of the Gallagher Girls\, Heist Society\, and Embassy Row young adult series. Carter’s new book\, Not if I Save You First\, comes out on March 27\, 2018. \nPreorder a copy of Not if I Save You First from Towne Center Books at 925-846-8826 and it will be available for pickup at the signing or at the bookstore on its release date. \nPizza and refreshments will be available while supplies last
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ally-carter-at-the-livermore-public-library/
LOCATION:Livermore Public Library\, 1188 S. Livermore Ave.\, Livermore\, 94550
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Livermore Public Library":MAILTO:lib@livermore.lib.ca.us
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Lesbian Romance Novels"
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents “Lesbian Romance Novels\,” 4 authors reading from new books\, Wednesday\, March 28\, 7pm Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland. Free admission\, free refreshments & door prizes! Our readers: Eliza Andrews\, Heather Blackmore\, Kathleen Knowles\, and Cass Sellars. http://bit.ly/2FZr8tt A free romantic gift for everyone attending! \nAbout the Authors:\nEliza Andrews is an author of novels that feature lesbian and bisexual protagonists. She’s also a personal trainer\, a meditator\, a sci-fi geek\, and a hick from the South who recently moved to Southern California. In addition to Reverie\, Eliza’s lesfic titles include To Have Loved & Lost\, Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain\, and Paradise (a novella). \nHeather Blackmore oversees finance for technology startups. In a counter-intuitive move\, she got her MSA and CPA with the goal of one day being able to work part-time so she could write. The right and left sides of her brain have been at war ever since. Heather was a Goldie award finalist for debut author and a Rainbow award finalist in the contemporary lesbian romance and debut author categories for her first novel\, Like Jazz. \nKathleen Knowles has written her whole life but published for the first time in 2012. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the GCLS 2013 prize for historical romance and was named by Out in Print as one of 2012 Notable Books. She has written six romance novels. The seventh\, The Last Time I Saw Her\, will be published in June 2018. She is married and she and her spouse and pets live atop one of San Francisco’s forty-nine hills. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional. She has led criminal\, financial fraud\, and theft investigations. The Lightning Series\, including Lightning Strikes and Lightning Chasers\, incorporates powerful lesbian characters who fight for justice where wealth and politics are not always the only winning assets. Unexpected Lightning\, Book 3\, will be released in Fall\, 2018. She lives near San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-lesbian-romance-novels/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Zachary Lazar with special guests The Kitchen Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Zachary Lazar with special guests The Kitchen Sisters\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of Zachary Lazar’s new novel \nVENGEANCE \nfrom Catapult Books \nZachary Lazar’s powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play\, The Life of Jesus Christ\, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As someone who writes “fiction\, nonfiction\, sometimes a hybrid of both\,” the narrator of Vengeance\, a character much like Lazar himself\, tries to accurately view a world he knows is “beyond the limits of my small understanding.” In particular\, he tries to unravel the truth behind the supposed crime of an inmate he meets and befriends\, Kendrick King\, who is serving a life sentence at Angola for murder. \nAs the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King’s life—paying visits to his devoted mother\, his estranged young daughter and her mother\, his girlfriend\, his brother\, and his cousin—the writer’s own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the “free people” while Kendrick\, who studies theology and philosophy\, will never get his only wish\, expressed plainly as “I just need to get out of here.” The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past\, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance\, racial bias\, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice. \nIt is common knowledge that we have an incarceration crisis in our country. Vengeance\, by way of vivid storytelling\, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that causes it. \nZachary Lazar is the author of three previous books\, including the novel Sway\, chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, Publishers Weekly\, and Newsday\, and the memoir Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder\, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2009. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and\, most recently\, the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence.” He lives in New Orleans. \nThe Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are Peabody Award winning independent producers who create stories for NPR and other public media. \nAdvance praise for Zachary Lazar’s VENGEANCE \n“I am stunned by the daring\, meticulous\, and unsentimental intelligence of this riveting book . . . Vengeance is a masterwork\, the most important American book I’ve read this year\, and the most moving and mesmerizing. —Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n“More than any book I’ve read in the twenty-first century\, Zachary Lazar’s Vengeance makes the reader reckon with the questions of what’s real\, what’s imagined\, and why those questions matter more in 2017 than at any other time in our nation. . . . Vengeance reminds me of what is possible through deft\, imaginative\, ‘real’ storytelling.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division \n“A tale so true and raw\, that you’ll swear that it is non-fiction… rich in detail\, elegant in its telling\, the story that unfolds will have you reminding yourself ‘This is fiction’ on repeat. One of the most daring and important true-to-life tales to be imagined.” —Shannon Alden\, Literari Bookstore (Ann Arbor\, MI)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-lazar-with-special-guests-the-kitchen-sisters-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The End of the End of the World Word Cabaret - Three Local Authors Read From New Books
DESCRIPTION:Join the End of the End of the World Word Cabaret & The Green Arcade in a reading from three Bay Area authors reading from their books (two of them first novels). \nAnanda Esteva‘s novel The Wanderings of Chela Coatlicue is the first installment of a trilogy of coming-of-age adventures that follows a young brazen musical prodigy in search of a sacred bass once owned by legendary blues musician Sugar Rivera. Filled with breathtaking action\, border perils\, magic and passion\, this fantasy novel takes readers through numerous plot developments and twists that lead them to a variety of choices and outcomes\, as Chela travels from the punk rock slums of Mexico City to the suburbs of Los Angeles. Unfolding in the present tense from the second-person point of view\, events\, actions and consequences hit the reader with immediacy\, making this novel the ultimate exploration of border politics\, indie music culture\, and one young woman’s self-discovery in the mystery surrounding Rivera.\n\nAdam Smyer‘s debut novel Knucklehead introduces the reader to Marcus Hayes\, a black lawyer who regulates everyday bad behavior with short\, sharp bursts of retribution\, and “struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent ’90s.” Like Smyer\, the book has a wicked sense of humor\, even as it gives the reader a tour of the dystopian Clinton years. Comparisons to James Baldwin\, Richard Wright\, and Zora Neale Hurston are well earned.\n\n\nAsked why he chose to set his book in the 1990’s\, Smyer says\, “I think that the ’90s have been overlooked in a way. I think that on some level the prevailing narrative has become that everything was fine before 9/11. But everything was definitely not fine. We had militias and the Unabomber and Tim McVeigh and Columbine. The amount of hate and hysteria that we normalized back then laid the groundwork for what is happening today. It was fertile ground for storytelling.”\n\nKate Jessica Raphael is the author of Murder Under the Bridge and Murder Under the Fig Tree (She Write Press). In the latter book\, Hamas has taken power in Palestine\, and the Israeli government is rounding up people considered threats. Palestinian policewoman Rania Bakara finds herself thrown in prison\, though she has never been part of Hamas. Chloe flies in from San Francisco to free her friend – and rekindle her romance with Tina\, a beautiful Palestinian Australian. The only way Rania can get out of jail is by agreeing to investigate the death of a young gay Palestinian in a village near her home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-world-word-cabaret-three-local-authors-read-from-new-books/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - March 2018
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Women’s History Month at Hazel Reading with our fantastic line-up of women writers. Don’t miss it! \nFeaturing\nDinika Amaral nominated by Sara Marinelli\nKirin Khan nominated by Kate Folk\nMaya Kosover nominated by A’aron Heard\nOlga Zilberbourg nominated by Tanya Rey\nSimi Singh Juneja nominated by Zhayra Palma\nAurielle Lucier nominated by Lark Omura \nSimi Singh Juneja was born in India and raised in the American South. She graduated from NYU in Paris with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is the keeper of stories in her family and the resident poet. Her debut short story\, “How Doc Met Lady J\,” was published by the Smithsonian Indian-American Heritage blog. She is currently co-authoring and translating a memoir with a Bollywood actress to be published by Penguin India. Additionally\, her own novel set in Bombay is currently in the works. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and was Executive Producer on the feature film Miss India America. The film premiered in theaters in 2015\, and went on to win best film at the Bentonville Film Festival and many others. It can now be seen on Netflix. She is a Voices of Our Nation alumna. She currently resides in Los Angeles\, CA. \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. A former banker with JP Morgan Chase\, she has an M.A. and M.F.A. from New York University. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, The Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she is working on a gloriously unlinked short story collection and a novel about birds and Indian gangsters. She lives with her husband in the Silicon Valley\, but her secret dream is to be a better mob wife to Michael Corleone than Kay. \nKirin Khan is a writer living in Oakland\, CA who calls Albuquerque\, New Mexico her hometown\, and Peshawar\, Pakistan her homeland. A 2016 VONA/Voices alum\, 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow\, and 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow\, her work has appeared in Your Impossible Voice\, Uproot\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, and 7×7.LA. Kirin is working on her first novel. \nOlga Zilberbourg is a bilingual author who grew up in Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. Her English-language fiction has appeared in Confrontation\, World Literature Today\, Narrative\, Outpost 19’s Golden State 2017 anthology\, and others. She co-hosts the weekly San Francisco Writers Workshop. \nAurielle Marie is a Black\, Atlanta-born\, Queer hip-hop scholar and a cultural worker. Through her work as a poet and an activist\, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a Roddenberry Fellow Finalist\, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum\, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Art Center. Both her activism and artistry ground themselves in the afro-indigenous legacy of storytelling in the Deep South. She was a 2016 Kopkind Fellow and has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been published in Selfish Magazine\, in Scalawag\, on For Harriett\, ESSENCE Mag\, Allure\, NBC Blk\, and Huffington Post. Her inaugural collection\, Gumbo Ya Ya\, is forthcoming from Write Bloody Press. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages\, most importantly in her grandmother’s kitchen.\nFollow her on Twitter & Instagram: @ElleOfTwoCities. \nMaya Kosover is a high school educator in Richmond\, teaching English and Multimedia Journalism. When she’s not obsessing over students\, she is learning in community\, singing and dancing\, playing with magic\, crafting letters to pen pals\, nesting as a homebody\, and writing about what it means to be a queer\, Jewish woman. \n(5$ Suggested Donation)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-march-2018/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zachary Lazar with special guests The Kitchen Sisters
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Zachary Lazar’s new novel \nVENGEANCE \nfrom Catapult Books \nZachary Lazar’s powerful and important novel was inspired by a passion play\, The Life of Jesus Christ\, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As someone who writes “fiction\, nonfiction\, sometimes a hybrid of both\,” the narrator of Vengeance\, a character much like Lazar himself\, tries to accurately view a world he knows is “beyond the limits of my small understanding.” In particular\, he tries to unravel the truth behind the supposed crime of an inmate he meets and befriends\, Kendrick King\, who is serving a life sentence at Angola for murder. \nAs the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King’s life—paying visits to his devoted mother\, his estranged young daughter and her mother\, his girlfriend\, his brother\, and his cousin—the writer’s own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the “free people” while Kendrick\, who studies theology and philosophy\, will never get his only wish\, expressed plainly as “I just need to get out of here.” The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past\, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance\, racial bias\, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice. \nIt is common knowledge that we have an incarceration crisis in our country. Vengeance\, by way of vivid storytelling\, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that causes it. \nZachary Lazar is the author of three previous books\, including the novel Sway\, chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, Publishers Weekly\, and Newsday\, and the memoir Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder\, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2009. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and\, most recently\, the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence.” He lives in New Orleans. \nThe Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are Peabody Award winning independent producers who create stories for NPR and other public media. \nAdvance praise for Zachary Lazar’s VENGEANCE \n“I am stunned by the daring\, meticulous\, and unsentimental intelligence of this riveting book . . . Vengeance is a masterwork\, the most important American book I’ve read this year\, and the most moving and mesmerizing. —Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n“More than any book I’ve read in the twenty-first century\, Zachary Lazar’s Vengeance makes the reader reckon with the questions of what’s real\, what’s imagined\, and why those questions matter more in 2017 than at any other time in our nation. . . . Vengeance reminds me of what is possible through deft\, imaginative\, ‘real’ storytelling.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division \n“A tale so true and raw\, that you’ll swear that it is non-fiction… rich in detail\, elegant in its telling\, the story that unfolds will have you reminding yourself ‘This is fiction’ on repeat. One of the most daring and important true-to-life tales to be imagined.” —Shannon Alden\, Literari Bookstore (Ann Arbor\, MI)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-lazar-with-special-guests-the-kitchen-sisters/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Harry Mathews Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special night of stories and memories to celebrate the life of Harry Mathews and the publication of his last novel\, The Solitary Twin. With readings by Daniel Levin Becker\, Roman Muradov\, Brandon Bussolini\, and Gordon Faylor. \n\nAbout Harry Mathews \n\nExperimental poet and prose writer Harry Mathews grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University\, where he earned a BA. Between stints at school\, he served briefly in the Navy. After graduation\, he moved to Paris and turned his attention to poetry. In Paris\, Mathews met John Ashbery\, who shared with him the work of avant-garde writer Raymond Roussel. In an interview with the Paris Review\, Mathews stated\, “In Roussel I discovered you could write prose the way you do poetry. You don’t approach it from the idea that what you have to say is inside you. It’s a materialist approach\, for want of a better word. You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.” \nMathews’s poetry and prose often use overarching formal constraints to examine the relationship between sound and meaning or pattern and lyric. Times Literary Supplement critic Barry Schwabsky noted that Mathews’s “writing is imbued with a childlike sense of wonder at both language and the world it can conjure\, though always tinged with poignancy\, with the transience of both words and things.” Mathews’s collections of poetry include Armenian Papers: Poems 1954–1984 (1987) and The New Tourism (2010). His short stories are collected in The Human Country (2002) and his essays in The Case of the Persevering Maltese (2002). Mathews is the author of several novels\, including The Conversions (1962)\, Tlooth (1966)\, Cigarettes (1987)\, and My Life in CIA (2005). With Alastair Brotchie\, he edited the anthology Oulipo Compendium (1998\, revised edition 2005). \nMathews was the only American member of the French avant-garde literary society Oulipo\, and he has also been associated with the New York School of Poets. With John Ashbery\, Kenneth Koch\, and James Schuyler\, he started the literary magazine Locus Solus in 1960. His honors included a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and an award for his fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nWith his wife\, novelist Marie Chaix\, Mathews divided his time between New York City; Key West\, Florida; and Paris. He died in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-mathews-tribute/
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:Courtney Peppernell / Pillow Thoughts
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Australian sensationCourtney Peppernell as part of her first US tour. She’ll be reading from her books Pillow Thoughts I and The Road Between. Please join us! \nPeppernell’s Pillow Thoughts — originally self-published and recently re-issued by Andrews McMeel — is in its fifth print run and beloved by young women around the world. Her poetry validates her readers and encourages them to find joy in the smallest moments. Her striking vignettes speak to the love she has shared with other women and the love she’s come to find for herself. \nPillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak\, love\, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most. Make yourself a cup of tea and let yourself feel. \n— \nCourtney Peppernell is an LGBT author from Sydney\, Australia. In October 2016 she released the best-selling poetry collection Pillow Thoughts. Courtney has been writing her whole life and currently writes Young Adult novels and poetry collections. In February 2017 she released her second novel\, Keeping Long Island. In August 2017 she published Pillow Thoughts and The Road Between via US publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing. Pillow Thoughts II: Healing The Heart\, is forthcoming in August 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-peppernell-pillow-thoughts/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Honors College Reading with Craig Santos Perez
DESCRIPTION:In fall 2018\, the University of San Francisco will launch an Honors Collegethat helps top students become global citizens equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. \nPlease join us for this pre-launch event featuring a reading from USF alumnus Craig Santos Perez ’06\, MFA in Writing. \nCraig Santos Perez is the author of four collections of poetry\, including from unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017)\, from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008)\, from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010)\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and winner of the PEN Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Award\, and from unincorporated territory [guma’] (2014)\, winner of the 2015 American Book Award. He is the co-founder of Ala Press and co-editor of two anthologies: Chamoru Childhood (2009) and Home Islands (2015). A native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guam\, Perez lives in Hawaii\, where he is an Associate Professor of English and affiliated with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program at the University of Hawaii\, Mānoa. Perez is an alumnus of the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-honors-college-reading-with-craig-santos-perez/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Honors College Reading with Craig Santos Perez
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 28 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 115 – Berman Room\n\n\nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-honors-college-reading-with-craig-santos-perez-2/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR115 – Berman Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117-1080\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180328T213000
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SUMMARY:Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones
DESCRIPTION:Did you know women walk more\, eat less\, socialize more\, meet more men\, dance more and flirt more when they’re ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends with unfit sperm? Behind the “fickle” differences in what women find sexy about men\, or what they like to wear\, there’s a hidden adaptive intelligence that has been shaped over eons. \nIn this provocative and paradigm-shattering book\, Martie Haselton\, the world’s leading researcher on sexuality and the ovulation cycle\, takes a deep\, revealing look at the biological processes that so profoundly influence our behavior and sets forth a radical new understanding of women’s bodies\, minds and sexual relationships\, one that embraces hormonal cycles as adaptive solutions to genuine biological challenges. At the core of Haselton’s new Darwinian Feminism is her remarkable discovery that humans\, like our animal cousins\, possess a special phase of sexuality\, called estrus\, which comes with a host of physiological and behavioral changes. \nRigorously researched\, entertaining and empowering\, “Hormonal” offers women deep new insights into their bodies\, brains\, relationships and affairs\, allowing them to make better-informed choices about sex\, marriage\, friendship\, contraception and more. Above all\, “Hormonal” is a clarion call to appreciate and embrace the genius of female biology. \nMartie Haselton\, PhD\, is a professor of Psychology at UCLA and the Institute for Society and Genetics\, edited the leading journal in the field\, “Evolution and Human Behavior\,” and directs the Evolutionary Psychology Lab at UCLA. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event for $28 plus tax\, provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hormonal-the-hidden-intelligence-of-hormones/
LOCATION:Oshman Family JCC\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Norman Finkelstein: Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM present \nNORMAN FINKELSTEIN\nGAZA: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom\nHosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert \nAdvance tickets $12\, available at T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 stores)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, $15 door\, Benefit KPFA: kpfa.org/events \nBased on scores of human rights reports\, Norman G. Finkelstein’s new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has tried to justify its assaults in the name of self-defense\, in fact Israel’s actions constitute flagrant violations of international law. Finkelstein also documents that the guardians of international law-from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the UN Human Rights Council-ultimately failed Gaza. One of his most disturbing conclusions is that\, after Judge Richard Goldstone’s humiliating retraction of his UN report\, human rights organizations succumbed to the Israeli juggernaut. Finkelstein’s magnum opus is both a monument to Gaza’s martyrs and an act of resistance against the forgetfulness of history. \n“No scholar has done more to shed light on Israel’s ruthless treatment of the Palestinians than Norman Finkelstein. In Gaza\, he meticulously details Israel’s massacres… while demolishing the myths Israel and its supporters have invented to disguise these shocking events.”\n– John J. Mearsheimer\, Distinguished Service Professor\, University of Chicago \nNorman Finkelstein has the moral gravity of an Old Testament prophet\, the scrupulous attention to detail of a Talmudic scholar\, and the mordant sense of humor of a Yiddish novelist. All these attributes are on display in Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom\, an indictment of Israel’s crimes in the overcrowded Palestinian territory from 2008 up to the present. \nBrian Edwards-Tiekert is the founder and co-host of UpFront\, the morning drive-time public affairs program on KPFA Radio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-finkelstein-gaza-an-inquest-into-its-martyrdom/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:The Poetics of Identity with Cameron Awkward-Rich
DESCRIPTION:Join poet and scholar Cameron Awkward-Rich for a conversation on his life and poetry including selected readings of his work. His collection of poems\, Sympathetic Little Monster broke new ground in Trans\, Queer\, Black\, and American poetry. \nA Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine\, his poetry has appeared in Narrative\, The Baffler\, Indiana Review and elsewhere. Cam received his PhD in ModernThought and Literature at Stanford University\, and he is currently a Postdoctoral Associate within the Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies program at Duke University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetics-of-identity-with-cameron-awkward-rich/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bruce Holbert in conversation with Suzanne Lang
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Holbert in conversation with Suzanne Lang\n\n  \ndiscussing his new novel \nWhiskey \nfrom Farrar\, Strauss\, Giroux/MCD \nBrothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents’ failed marriage and appetite for destruction\, and find themselves in the same straits as adults—navigating not only their own marriages\, but also their parents’ frequent collision with the law and one another. The family lives in Electric City\, Washington\, just a few miles south of the Colville Indian Reservation. Fiercely loyal and just plain fierce\, they’re bound by a series of darkly comedic and hauntingly violent events: domestic trouble; religious fanaticism; benders punctuated with pauses to dry out that never stick. \nWhen a religious zealot takes off with Smoker’s daughter\, there’s no question that his brother—who continues doggedly to try and put his life in order—will join him in an attempt to return her. Maybe the venture will break them both beyond repair or maybe it will redeem them. Or perhaps both. \nWhiskey is the story of two brothers\, their parents\, and three wrecked marriages\, a searching book about family life at its most distressed—about kinship\, failure\, enough liquor to get through it all\, and ultimately a dark and hard-earned grace. With the gruff humor of Cormac McCarthy and a dash of the madcap irony of Charles Portis\, and a strong\, authentic literary voice all his own\, Bruce Holbert traverses the harsh landscape of America’s northwestern border and finds a family unlike any you’ve met before. \nBruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Hotel Amerika\, Other Voices\, The Antioch Review\, Crab Creek Review\, and The New York Times. He grew up on the Columbia River and in the shadow of the Grand Coulee Dam. His great-grandfather was an Indian scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee. Holbert is the author of The Hour of Lead\, winner of the Washington State Book Award\, and Lonesome Animals. \nSuzanne Lang is a reporter for KQED and the host of “A Novel Idea” on KRCB . \nPraise for Whiskey: \n“[An] impressive novel . . . Like Cormac McCarthy\, another bard of the modern West’s brutality\, Holbert finds beauty and cruelty in the land\, in the tease and punch of eloquently elliptical dialogue\, and in the way humans struggle for love\, self-knowledge\, and a grip on life . . . He writes terse prose whittled to essentials and grained with vernacular . . . His characters may well brand a reader’s memory. A gut-punch of a bleak family saga that satisfies on many levels.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-holbert-in-conversation-with-suzanne-lang-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence with Kate Crawford
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Indre Viskontas\n\nARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The Trouble with Bias \nKate Crawford is a leading researcher\, academic and author who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems\, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is a Distinguished Research Professor at New York University\, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York\, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media\, and an Honorary Professor at the University of New South Wales. In 2016\, she co-chaired the Obama White House symposium on the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence. She is on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on AI and Robotics\, and she was recently awarded a Richard von Weizsaecker Fellowship. She is widely published in academic journals such as Nature\, New Media & Society\, and Information\, Communication & Society\, and she has written for The New York Times\, Harper’s Magazine\, and The Wall Street Journal. Her recent research publications address data discrimination and artificial intelligence\, predictive analytics and due process\, and algorithmic accountability. She is currently writing a new book for Yale University Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artificial-intelligence-with-kate-crawford/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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