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SUMMARY:New Queer Books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Jane Anders\, Sara Cahill Marron\, Joseph Cassara\, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez read from their new books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco on Tuesday\, May 14\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission\, free wine and donuts\, and door prizes at 7 sharp to reward the punctual! \nHere’s more info on the authors and their books:\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. Her fiction has won the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, Crawford\, Sturgeon and Lambda Literary Awards. She hosts the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series and co-hosts the Hugo nominated podcast “Our Opinions Are Correct”. \nSara Cahill Marron is a writer from New York City currently living in Washington\, D.C.\, studying to become a lawyer. Her book REASONS OF THE LONG T’UM is available through Broadstone Books\, independent bookstores\, and online. She has been published in the Dark Matter Journal\, Chagrin River Review\, Foliate Oak Magazine\, Gravel\, OUT/CAST\, Crab Fat Magazine\, The Newton Literary Review\, FLARE\, and others. Read more of her work here: saracahillmarron.com \nJoseph Cassara was born and raised in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES (Ecco\, 2018)\, which is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, the Edmund White Award for Best Debut Novel\, and was the winner of the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the California State University\, Fresno. \nBaruch Porras Hernandez is the author of the chapbooks I MISS YOU\, DELICATE and LOVERS OF THE DEEP FRIED CIRCLE\, both published by Sibling Rivalry Press. He recently had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer Radar Productions 2019 poetry tour. He is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match\, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry and in Playwriting. He’s been featured with Writers with Drinks\, has performed several times LitQuake\, Quiet Lightning\, and lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-queer-books-at-perfectly-queer-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:Young Adults 14-17! Elizabeth Acevedo\n\n\n\n\npresents With the Fire on High\, a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent\, pride\, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. \n“Acevedo has done it again: the multi-award-winning author of The Poet X here delivers perfection… This sophomore novel is simply stunning.”–Booklist \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of With the Fire on High by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEver since she got pregnant freshman year\, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions–doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen\, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks\, turning her food into straight-up goodness. \nEven though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates\, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by\, once Emoni starts cooking\, her only choice is to let her talent break free. \nElizabeth Acevedo is the author of The Poet X\, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\, the Michael L. Printz Award\, the Pura Belpré Award\, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. She is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo lives with her partner in Washington\, DC. You can find out more about her at www.acevedowrites.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-acevedo/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julie Orringer and Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:Julie Orringer (The Invisible Bridge) joins Michael Chabon (Moonglow) for a conversation about The Flight Portfolio\, Orringer’s new historical novel set in occupied Europe and based on the true story of American journalist Varian Fry’s extraordinary rescue of Jewish artists and writers threatened by the Nazis including Hannah Arendt\, Max Ernst\, Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall. \n“No book this year could possibly compare with The Flight Portfolio: ambitious\, meticulous\, big-hearted\, gorgeous\, historical\, suspenseful\, everything you want a novel to be.”\n– Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less \n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nJulie Orringer\nJulie Orringer is the bestselling author of the novel The Invisible Bridge and the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater\, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She is the winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships… Read More →\n\n \nMichael Chabon\nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps and Legends… Read More →\n\n\n\n\nTuesday May 14\, 2019 7:00pm – 9:00pm\nJewish Community Center of San Francisco\, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118\n  Featured Event\, ticketed
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-orringer-and-michael-chabon/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Aatif Rashid | Portrait of Sebastian Khan
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nSebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major who’s as much a connoisseur of members of the opposite sex as he is of Pre-Raphaelite paintings\, Sebastian starts dating Fatima\, a Muslim American determined to transition smoothly from campus life to a stable white-collar professional career. Sebastian’s membership in Model United Nations\, though\, takes him to college campuses all around North America\, testing his commitment to Fatima and his readiness for adulthood. PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN is a humorous coming-of-age novel about a charismatic but emotionally stunted Muslim American Don Draper\, who wins as many hearts as he breaks. \nAatif Rashid is the author of Portrait of Sebastian Khan. He’s published short stories in The Massachusetts Review\, Metaphorosis\, and Arcturus\, and nonfiction in The Los Angeles Review of Books as well as online on Medium. He currently writes weekly for The Kenyon Review Blog about fiction writing and literature. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-aatif-rashid-portrait-of-sebastian-khan/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is a mashup of photography\, poetry\, and prose set to a live score\, featuring the photography of Brittany Powers. The reading explores love\, relationships\, sexuality\, and gender. Featured readers include: Julie Kramer\, Thea Matthews\, K.R. Morrison\, Jared Roehrig\, Nay Saysourinho and Mackenzie Studebaker. With musical guest: Chloe Zelma Studebaker from Zelma Stone🎈🎉📚 \nTickets: $15 in advance\, $20 day of show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-3/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell
DESCRIPTION:Litquake and MoAD present… \nNamwali Serpell’s electrifying debut\, THE OLD DRIFT\, is the first novel ever to tell the story of Zambia from its very beginnings to the present day—and beyond. \nCrossing centuries\, borders\, and genres\, THE OLD DRIFT tells a sweeping tale of a small African country as it comes into being\, and the trials and tribulations of its people. Their stories\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis\, form an epic meditation on what it means to be human. \nWith playful language\, Serpell masterfully blends historical fiction\, fairy-tale fables\, romance\, and science fiction. On each page\, she turns stereotypes and tropes on their heads\, unsettling the stories we think we know about Africa\, from colonialism to migration\, gender to race\, poverty to politics\, and nationhood to technology. Through THE OLD DRIFT’s cast of vivid characters—including Zambia\, which proves to be a character itself—Serpell shows that\, if to err is human\, then even the slightest error can still be a powerful force for transformation. Incisive\, expansive\, and subversive\, THE OLD DRIFT announces Namwali Serpell as a major new literary talent. \n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nNamwali Serpell\nNamwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, is forthcoming with Hogarth (Penguin Random House) in 2019.She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story\, “The Sack.” In 2014\, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nWednesday May 15\, 2019 6:30pm – 8:00pm\nMuseum of African Diaspora 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94105\n  Featured Event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell/
LOCATION:MoAD\, 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new novel \nPermission \npublished by Coach House Books \n\nA grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix in this haunting and erotic debut. When Echo’s father gets swept away by a freak current off the Los Angeles coast\, she enters a state of paralysis. The failed young actress seeks solace in the best way she knows: by losing herself in the lives of others. This time it’s with her new neighbor\, a dominatrix named Orly who works out of her suburban home\, and who introduces Echo to a whole new world of desire. But Orly’s fifty-something houseboy won’t quite let Echo slip into sweet oblivion? Set among the bright colors of L. A.\, Permission is a kind of love story about three people sick with dreams and expectations who turn to the erotic for comfort and cure. As they stumble through the landscape of desire\, they ask themselves: how do I want to be loved? \n“Saskia Vogel’s provocative debut novel\, Permission\, is like a trick box full of sliding panels. Her protagonist\, jarred loose from her life by the accidental death of her father\, finds that the boundaries she’s always taken as given begin to slide open\, revealing secret zones of power and sexuality within the world and within herself. Beautifully written\, mysterious and compelling. ” – Janet Fitch \nSaskia Vogel grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on the themes of gender\, power\, and sexuality for publications such as The White Review\, The Offing\, and The Quietus . Previously\, she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. \nvisit:  saskiavogel.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JARED DIAMOND In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt
DESCRIPTION:JARED DIAMOND\nIn Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt\nWednesday\, May 15\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJared Diamond is a renowned geographer and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns\, Germs\, and Steel. His books explore philosophical and scientific subject matter candidly and with compelling detail. His most recent book\, Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis and Change\, is the final volume in a trilogy (preceded by Guns\, Germs\, and Steel and Collapse) chronicling the rise and fall of civilizations around the globe. This final volume looks to both the past and the future\, bringing historical\, geographic\, anthropological\, economic\, and personal lenses to the apocalyptic questions surrounding our world today. Diamond’s scientific research covers the birds of New Guinea and other Southwest Pacific Islands\, and he additionally works toward promoting sustainable environmental policy in his role as a director of the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International. He lives and works in Los Angeles\, where he is a professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nRoy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years and currently teaches at University of California\, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He was previously president of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences. His past interviews for City Arts & Lectures include Desmond Tutu\, Doris Kearns Goodwin\, Madeleine Albright\, and Brian Greene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jared-diamond-in-conversation-with-roy-eisenhardt/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Randall
DESCRIPTION:David Randall discusses his new book\, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague. \n\nPraise for Black Death at the Golden Gate \n“David K. Randall has created a meticulously researched history that unfolds like a thriller. I raced through this book in two days (horribly\, the span of time it took bubonic plague to fell a victim). The unlikely heroes—bacteriologists and public health officers with long\, flowing beards—battle villains most vile: racism\, rotten politics\, disregard for science\, and Yersinia pestis. Black Death at the Golden Gate is both a page-turner and a cautionary tale: those villains still lurk.” —Mary Roach\, New York Timesbest-selling author of Grunt \n“A haunting detective tale packed with villains and heroes\, Black Death at the Golden Gate shows how bigotry and greed almost brought a major U.S. city to ruin—and how science and courage saved it. The events in this book may be a hundred years old\, but its message is as urgent as ever.” — Jason Fagone\, author of the national bestseller The Woman Who Smashed Codes \n“David K. Randall is a spellbinding writer. He has turned a critical chapter of medical history into a riveting tale that reads like a detective novel\, chock-full of scandals and intrigue…Read Black Death at the Golden Gatebecause it’s a page-turner\, but more important\, read this book because the issues Randall spotlights resonate today.” — Randi Epstein\, author of Aroused \n\nAbout Black Death at the Golden Gate \nFor Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King\, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6\, 1900\, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin–a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience\, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained\, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. \nTo local press\, railroad barons\, and elected officials\, such a possibility was inconceivable–or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat\, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process\, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation\, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco\, examined gory black buboes\, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. \nIn the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson\, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread–the only hope of saving San Francisco\, and the nation\, from a gruesome fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-randall/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 15\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-10/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist\, Michael Kroll
DESCRIPTION:Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces\, some award-winning\, most of which focus on our own criminal justice system and\, in particular\, the death penalty. Hear him read from his works and discuss his varied interests and memoir-writing experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-journalist-and-anti-death-penalty-activist-michael-kroll/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux - poets!
DESCRIPTION:Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux – poets!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-boughn-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-poets/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:reading from and discussing her new novel \nThe Old Drift \nfrom Hogarth Books \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n\nNamwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, is forthcoming with Hogarth (Penguin Random House) in 2019. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story\, “The Sack.” In 2014\, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39\, a Hay Festival project to identify the most promising African writers under 40. In 2011\, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her first published story\, “Muzungu\,” was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2009\, shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize\, and anthologized in The Uncanny Reader. You can read her writing in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, Tin House\, Triple Canopy\, The Believer\, n+1\, McSweeney’s\, Bidoun\, Cabinet\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The L.A.Review of Books\, Public Books\, The Guardian\, and in these six short story anthologies.  She is associate professor of English at UC Berkeley. Her first book of literary criticism\, Seven Modes of Uncertainty\, was published in 2014 by Harvard UP. Visit: www.namwaliserpell.com \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic living in Oakland\, California\, where he works as the reviews editor of The Believer. His work has appeared in Bookforum\, The Nation\, and Slate. \nAdvance praise for THE OLD DRIFT: \n“Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical\, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place\, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s\, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined\, brilliantly constructed\, and staggering in its scope\, this is an astonishing novel.”\n—Publishers Weekly (starred) \n“In this smartly composed epic\, magical realism and science fiction interweave with authentic history\, and the ‘colour bar\,’ the importance of female education\, and the consequences of technological change figure strongly. It’s also a unique immigration story showing how people from elsewhere are enfolded into the country’s fabric… Serpell’s novel is absorbing\, occasionally strange\, and entrenched in Zambian culture—in all\, an unforgettable original.”\n—Booklist (starred) \n“Comparisons with Gabriel García Márquez are inevitable and likely warranted. But this novel’s generous spirit\, sensory richness\, and visionary heft make it almost unique among magical realist epics.”\n—Kirkus (starred) \n“It’s hard to believe this is a debut\, so assured is its language\, so ambitious its reach\, and yet The Old Drift is indeed Namwali Serpell’s first novel\, and it signifies a great new voice in fiction. Feeling at once ancient and futuristic\, The Old Drift is a genre-defying riotous work that spins a startling new creation myth for the African nation of Zambia…Serpell’s voice is lucid and brilliant\, and it’s one we can’t wait to read more of in years to come.”\n—Nylon\, “50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019” \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.”\n—CARMEN MARIA MACHADO\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n\n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience—each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.”\n—ALICE SEBOLD\, author of The Lovely Bones\n\n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!”\n—ALEXANDRA FULLER\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight\n\n“It’s difficult to think of another novel that is at once so sweepingly ambitious and so intricately patterned\, delivering the pleasures of saga and poetry in equal measure. The Old Drift is an endlessly innovative\, voraciously brilliant book\, and Namwali Serpell is among the most distinctive and exciting writers to emerge in years.”\n—GARTH GREENWELL\, author of What Belongs to You \n“The Old Drift is a dazzling genre-bender of a novel\, an astonishing historical and futuristic feat\, a page-turner with a plot that consistently and cleverly upends itself. Playfully poetic and outright serious at once\, it is one of the most intelligent debuts I’ve read this year. No matter your reading preference\, there’s something in it for you.”\n—CHINELO OKPARANTA\, author of Under the Udala Trees\n\n“If\, as she writes\, ‘history is the annals of the bully on the playground\,’ then in The Old Drift\, Namwali Serpell wreaks havoc on the Zambian annals by rewriting the past\, creating a new present\, and conjuring an alternative future. In refusing to be bound by genre\, Serpell is audacious and shrewd. This is a Zambian history of pain and exploitation\, trial and error\, and hope and triumph.”\n—JENNIFER MAKUMBI\, author of Kintu\n\n“The Old Drift is an extraordinary meditation on identity\, the history of a nation\, love\, politics\, family\, friendship\, and life. Serpell’s prose is dazzling. Darting back and forth through the decades and mixing different genres\, Serpell has delivered an original\, remarkable\, magical work that both delights and challenges.”\n—CHIKA UNIGWE\, author of On Black Sisters Street
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:All the Sweeter
DESCRIPTION:Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. \n\nAbout All The Sweeter \nAll the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family’s adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face\, including the complications that accompany transracial adoptions\, helping children understand adoption\, relationships with birth parents\, and raising a traumatized child. Each year\, over 50\,000 children are adopted from the US Foster Care System. \n  \nInformative and diverse in scope\, All the Sweeter provides a resource to families considering adoption\, families in the process of adoption\, and families who have already adopted children from foster care–with the ultimate goal of facilitating a better life for the children they bring into their lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/all-the-sweeter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES
DESCRIPTION:    \nInsideStorytime QUIDDITIES\, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater)\, Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes)\, Vincent Chu (Like A Champion)\, Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility)\, and others\, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday May 16th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-quiddities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Lights\, Camera\, Fashun
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Lights\, Camera\, FASHUN \nThis month’s participating writers: Liz Owuor\, Kar Johnson\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-lights-camera-fashun/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Hansman
DESCRIPTION:Heather Hansman discusses her new book\, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. \nPraise for Down River \n“Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo raft trip down the Green River is more than a terrific adventure story. She ably explains why water in the West doesn’t concern only the West and why simple answers to water questions are never as simple as they seem.” David Owen\, author of Where the Water Goes\n“History\, politics\, science\, reportage\, and adventure all whirl together in Downriver\, a deeply researched and intimate exploration of water’s uncertain fate in the American West. In this narrative journey along the Green River\, Heather Hansman navigates turbulent waters and diverse worldviews with compassion\, grit\, and an overriding respect for complexity. This book is graced with insights that can only be won with a paddle in hand and a sense of our collective future at stake.” Kate Harris\, author of Lands of Lost Borders\n“In her journey down the Green River\, Heather Hansman brilliantly captures the complexity of the Colorado River through the lens of its largest tributary.  Her balanced and thoughtful investigation into the river’s many uses\, the colorful characters that depend on it\,and those who have dedicated careers to it will leave readers questioning their own biases and wanting to learn more about the landscape\, its people\, and its future. Downriver is a must read for those interested in the Colorado River and the future of the West.” Matt Rice\, Director\, Colorado River Basin Program \nAbout Down River \n\nThe Green River\, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River\, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches\, cities\, national parks\, endangered fish habitats\, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country\, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams\, slaked off by irrigation\, and dried up by cities\, the Green is crucial\, overused\, and at risk\, now more than ever. \nFights over the river’s water\, and what’s going to happen to it in the future\, are longstanding\, intractable\, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter\, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening\, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey\, in a one-person inflatable pack raft\, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers\, city officials\, and other people met along the way\, Downriver is the story of that journey\, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-hansman/
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:Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration
DESCRIPTION:America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience\, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election\, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states\, high schools and nursing homes\, big cities and small towns—with the voices of poets from other countries and other times. From Virgil and Dante to Claudia Rankine and Mai Der Vang\, from Milton to Merwin\, from Po Chü-i to Robin Coste Lewis\, these voices—now raucous\, now muted\, now lyric\, now plain—join together here in dissent and in praise\, in grief and alarm\, in vision and hope. Local poets will read selections from this inspiring volume.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-anthology-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic
DESCRIPTION:Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic\n\n\n\n\n\n05/17/2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Nonfiction\n\n\n\n\nReading/Talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the age of nineteen\, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest\, toughest horse race”\, an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1\,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim\, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia\, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. \nRiders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby\, a course that recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan\, and many fail to finish. Prior-Palmer had no formal training. She was driven by her own restlessness\, stubbornness\, and a lifelong love of horses. She raced for ten days through extreme heat and terrifying storms\, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration\, exhaustion and bruising falls\, she decided she had nothing to lose. Each dawn she rode out again on a fresh horse\, scrambling up mountains\, swimming through rivers\, crossing woodlands and wetlands\, arid dunes and open steppe\, as American television crews chased her in their Jeeps. \nTold with terrific suspense and style\, in a voice full of poetry and soul\, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead\, against all odds\, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race. \nLara Prior-Palmer was born in London in 1994. She studied conceptual history and Persian at Stanford University. In 2013\, she competed in the 1\,000-kilometer Mongol Derby in Mongolia\, sometimes described as the world’s toughest and longest horse race\, and became the first woman to win the race\, and the youngest person ever to finish. Rough Magic is her first book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage San Francisco \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lara-prior-palmer-rough-magic/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emma Bland Smith
DESCRIPTION:Emma Bland Smith discusses her new children’s book To Live on an Island. \n\nAbout To Live on an Island \nWhen you live on an island\, things are different. Sometimes harder. Sometimes sweeter. Sometimes quieter. Experience a day in the life of a child growing up on a Pacific Northwest island in this beautifully written and illustrated picture book. \nOff the coast of Washington State rise hundreds of small islands. Some are lush and green. Others are rugged and rocky. And each has its own personality. \nMany islands are home mostly to deer\, but quite a few have farms and fields\, schools and stores\, and people.  \nWhat is it like to live on an island?  \nAward-winning author Emma Bland Smith explores what it’s like to grow up on an island in the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of a young boy\, who wakes up to the sound of a ferry horn\, hikes through the woods to get to his bus stop\, drops crab pots for dinner\, and falls asleep counting orcas instead of sheep. \nThis book celebrates what’s special about island culture and includes a brief nonfiction element on each spread that relates to the narrative. \n  \nAbout the Author \nEMMA BLAND SMITH is a librarian and writer living with her family in San Francisco. Her children’s book debut\, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7\, the Most Famous Wolf in the West\, won the 2017 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature\, and the 2017 Cook Prize\, which honors the best STEM picture book published for children aged eight to ten. She has written a nonfiction book for adults\, San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights (Arcadia)\, and has contributed to Sunset and other magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emma-bland-smith/
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:Cliterary Salon: Mothers and Monsters of May
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we dig into all that is May: flowers\, fantasy\, mothers\, monsters\, poetry and pettiness. Hosted at Perdita in the Haight\, this is a spring literary event you won’t want to miss! \nLineup TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cliterary-salon-mothers-and-monsters-of-may/
LOCATION:Perdita\, 323 Divisadero Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Tony Horwitz: Spying on the South
DESCRIPTION:The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America’s greatest landscape architect\, Frederick Law Olmsted. Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Tony Horwitz for a discussion and book signing of his long-awaited new release\, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. \nFree to attend. \n \nAbout Spying on the South \nIn the 1850s\, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift\, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey\, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. \nFor the Connecticut Yankee\, pen name “Yeoman\,” the South was alien\, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months\, by horseback\, steamboat\, and stagecoach\, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners–white and black\, free and enslaved\, rich and poor–were revelatory for readers of his day and have endured as classic texts for the study of America on the brink of cataclysmic break-up. \nYeoman’s remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape. As a rebuke to the caste-bound ideology of the South’s master class\, Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted’s path-breaking career as America’s foremost landscape architect. \nTony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the angry discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers\, and his own adventures\, Horwitz follows Olmsted’s tracks and often his mode of transport: through Appalachia\, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers\, into bayou Louisiana\, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. \nVenturing\, as Olmsted did\, far off beaten paths\, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges of the Cotton Kingdom and strange new mutations that have sprung from its roots. Spying on the South is also a penetrating and poignant study of Olmsted\, whose destiny was forged by his Southern odyssey. Horwitz’s wise\, intrepid\, and often hilarious journey\, through an outsized American landscape\, is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains\, Bad Land\, and the author’s own classic\, Confederates in the Attic. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 17\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-tony-horwitz-spying-on-the-south/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling ‘UNICORNFEST’
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 17th\, 2019 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of ‘That came outta nowhere!’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes from Good Vibrations – yeah\, baby! \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #Sin&Tonic #Rimjob \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. As a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Esquire.com as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No refunds or exchanges. \n• Theme and Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \n( photo by the talented Andrew McDonald )
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-unicornfest/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon : Rachel Howard\, Kristen Cosby\, Cheryl Ossola: Summer 2019
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Summer Reading \nSaturday\, May 18\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n—\nRachel Howard \n(The Risk of Us; The Long Night)\n\nKristen Cosby\n(Atlas Obscura; The Moment; The Spirit of Disruption) \nCheryl Ossola\n(The Wild Impossibility)\n\nand many more! \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-rachel-howard-kristen-cosby-cheryl-ossola-summer-2019/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nlaunching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!  \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Dictionary of Difficult Words by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 19\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates? Find out all this and more in the Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze\, confuse\, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell\, hard to say\, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple\, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon\, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page. \nJane Solomon spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary.com. She’s a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee\, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. You can find her online at lexicalitems.com and at the Twitter handle @janesolomon. She is based in Oakland. \nTyler Schnoebelen (@TSchnoebelen) is principal product manager at integrate.ai. Prior to joining integrate\, Tyler ran product management at Machine Zone and before that\, founded an NLP company\, Idibon. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Stanford and a BA in English from Yale. Tyler’s insights on language have been featured in places like the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, Time\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, and CNN. He’s also a tiny character in a movie about emoji and a novel about fairies. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ages-7-up-jane-solomon-and-tyler-schnoebelen-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore\, Ken Haas\, Janey Jennings\, and Barb Reynolds\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore\, Ken Haas\, Janey Jennings\, and Barb Reynolds\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-presents-a-reading-by-amanda-moore-ken-haas-janey-jennings-and-barb-reynolds-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:READING\nAnna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster\nMay 19\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-anna-moschovakis-and-tonya-foster/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:STACEY ABRAMS In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:STACEY ABRAMS\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nSunday\, May 19\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\n\n\nStacey Abrams is an author\, serial entrepreneur\, nonprofit CEO and political leader. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives\, seven as Minority Leader\, in 2018\, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia\, when she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the 2018 election by the Secretary of State’s office\, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system. Over the course of her career\, Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights\, training and hiring young people of color\, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the 2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award\, and a current member of the Board of Directors for the Center for American Progress. She is the author of Lead from the Outside\, a guidebook on making real change\, as well as eight romantic suspense novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College\, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas\, and Yale Law School. She and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport\, Mississippi and were raised in Georgia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-abrams-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-26/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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