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SUMMARY:Michael McClure and Juvenal Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this very special reading: Michael McClure in translation\, with Juvenal Acosta. Michael will read from new and selected work. Spanish translations will be read by Juvenal. \nTwo books in Spanish\, Agnosia and Neuronas del Espíritu available\, along with copies of Michael’s latest\, Persian Pony and books by Juvenal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure-and-juvenal-acosta/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 telegraph avenue\, Berkeley\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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-27/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Macfarlane and Steve Silberman / Underland
DESCRIPTION:Robert Macfarlane\, who has been called the “greatest nature writer of his generation\,” makes a rare West coast visit to celebrate the publication of his masterpiece\, Underland. He’ll be joined in conversation by science writer and author Steve Silberman. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event — tickets can be purchased in advance here. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Underland\, which is included with each ticket. \nHailed as “the great nature writer of this generation” (Wall Street Journal)\, Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of prize-winning books about the intersection between the human and the natural world. In Underland\, he delivers his masterwork: an epic exploration of Earth’s vast subterranean landscape in myth\, literature\, memory\, and the land itself. \nDelving into what is known as “deep time\,” the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present\, Macfarlane takes us on an exhilarating journey to Arctic sea caves\, Bronze Age burial chambers\, the catacombs of Paris\, the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate\, a dark matter research lab searching for the origins of the universe\, and a deep-sunk “hiding place” designed to store nuclear waste for 100\,000 years to come. \nGlobal in its geography\, contemporary in its concerns\, and written with great lyricism and power\, Underland uncovers our complex\, crucial relationship with the worlds beneath our feet. \n\nRobert Macfarlane is the author of the prize-winning booksMountains of the Mind\, Wild Places\, and The Old Ways. He has contributed to Harper’s\, Granta\, The Observer\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and the London Review of Books. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College\, Cambridge. Author photo by Bryan Appleyard. \nSteve Silberman is an award-winning science writer and the author ofNeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\, which Oliver Sacks called “a sweeping and penetrating history presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity.” The book became a widely-praised bestseller in the United States and the United Kingdom. His TED talk\, The Forgotten History of Autism\, has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 35 languages. He lives with his husband Keith in San Francisco. Author photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Underland\, please remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Underland to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Rob’s books\, order here and be sure to put your request in the comments field; for signed copies of Steve’s book\, order here and be sure to include your request.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-macfarlane-and-steve-silberman-underland/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #44
DESCRIPTION:Heading into its fourth consecutive year\, Get Lit is a community gathering of 12–15 writers reading NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. There is live music at every show\, beer made by Ale Industries on site\, and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! \nPerformers: \nJune 18:\nJuly 16:\nAugust: 20:\nSeptember 17:\nOctober: 15:\nNovember 19:\nDecember 17: \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then get tacos. \nPast performers: \nApril 16 lineup: Jan Steckel\, Gary Turchin\, Barbara Saunders\, Anna Allen\, Yume Kim\, LadiRev\, Gamal Abdel Chasten\, Beverly Parayno\, Michael Gallagher\, Caesar Kent\, Josiahluis Alderete\, Gaia Thomas\, Charlie Getter\, Leticia Garcia Bradford\, and music by Kiva Uhuru. \nFebruary 19: Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, Ricardo Tavarez\, Jordan Wilson-dalzell\, Hilary Brown\, Jenee Darden\, Chad Koch\, Jeanne Lupton\, Lorenz Damuk\, Emily Podhorcer\, Becca Gomez Farrell\, Phyllis Oscar\, Esmerelda Mezcal\, Katie Aliferis\, Dee Allen.\, Kimi Sugioka\, Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Giavanna Ortiz de Candia “The Open Minds” (music) \n\nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-44/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Launch for Dr. Naomi Wolf / Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special event to launch Dr. Naomi Wolf‘s new book Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event — tickets can be purchased in advance here. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Outrages\, which is included with each ticket. \nUntil 1857\, the State did not link the idea of homosexuality to deviancy. In the same year\, the concept of the obscene was coined. New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is the story\, brilliantly told\, of why this two-pronged State repression took hold — first in England and spreading quickly to America — and why it was attached so dramatically\, for the first time\, to homosexual men. Before 1857\, it wasn’t homosexuality that was a crime\, but the act of sodomy. But in a single stroke\, not only did love between men become illegal\, but anything referring to this love alsowas ruled obscene\, unprintable\, unspeakable. Wolf paints the dramatic ways this played out among a bohemian group of sexual dissidents\, including American poet Walt Whitman and closeted English critic John Addington Symonds\, as\, decades before the infamous 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde\, dire prison terms became the government’s penalty for homosexuality. Most powerfully\, Wolf recounts how a dying Symonds helped write the book on sexual inversion that created our modern understanding of homosexuality. And she argues that his secret memoir\, mined here fully for the first time\, stands as the first gay rights manifesto in the West. \n\nNaomi Wolf‘s most recent books include Vagina\, Give Me Liberty\, and The End of America\, all New York Times best-sellers\, and of the landmark international bestseller\, The Beauty Myth. She lives in New York City. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Outrages\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Outrages to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you’d like a signed copy of any of Naomi’s books but are unable to attend the event\,order here and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n– RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-dr-naomi-wolf-outrages-sex-censorship-and-the-criminalization-of-love/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:Ocean Vuong discusses his new novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous with Rebecca Solnit. \nPraise for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \n“A bruised\, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.” —Marlon James\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will be described — rightly—as luminous\, shattering\, urgent\, necessary. But the word I keep circling back to is raw: that’s how powerful the emotions here are\, and how you’ll feel after reading it – scoured down to bone. With a poet’s precision\, Ocean Vuong examines whether putting words to one’s experience can bridge wounds that span generations\, and whether it’s ever possible to be truly heard by those we love most.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere \n“This book—gorgeous is right there in the title—finds incredible\, aching beauty in the deep observation of love in many forms. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel contains all the power of his poetry\, and I finished the book knowing that we are seeing only the very beginning of his truly magnificent talent.” —Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers \n“Ocean Vuong runs up against the limits of language—this book is addressed to a mother who cannot read it—and expands our sense of what literature can make visible\, thinkable\, felt across borders and generations and genres. This is a courageous\, embodied inquiry into the tangle of colonial and personal histories. It is also a gorgeous argument for astonishment over irony—for the transformative possibilities of love.” —Ben Lerner\, author of Leaving the Atocha Stationand 10:04 \n“One is not often given the chance to apply words like “brilliant” and “remarkable” to any novels\, certainly not first novels.  Thank you\, Ocean Vuong\, for this brilliant and remarkable first novel.” —Michael Cunningham\, author of The Hours \nAbout On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \nOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker\, Little Dog\, is in his late twenties\, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known\, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son\, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race\, class\, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment\, immersed as we are in addiction\, violence\, and trauma\, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. \nWith stunning urgency and grace\, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds\, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive\, and how to make of it a kind of joy\, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-and-rebecca-solnit/
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:Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
DESCRIPTION:with David Trinidad\, Amy Gerstler\, D.A. Powell\, Kevin Killian\, Dodie Bellamy\, Randall Mann\, and Roberto Bedoya \ncelebrating the release of \nPunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith \nby Ed Smith\, Edited by David Trinidad \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nIn Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World\, David Trinidad brings together a comprehensive selection of Ed Smith’s work: his published books; unpublished poems; excerpts from his extensive notebooks; photos and ephemera; and his timely “cry for civilization\,” “Return to Lesbos”: put down that gun / stop electing Presidents. \nEd Smith blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early 1980s from out of the hardcore punk scene. The charismatic\, nerdy young man hit home with his funny/scary off- the- cuff- sounding poems\, like “Fishing”: This is a good line. / This is a bad line. This is a fishing line. \nEd’s vibrant “gang” of writer and artist friends― among them Amy Gerstler\, Dennis Cooper\, Bob Flanagan\, Mike Kelley\, and David Trinidad― congregated at Beyond Baroque in Venice\, on LA’s west side. They read and partied and per-formed together\, and shared and published each others’ work. \nEd was more than bright and versatile: he worked as a math tutor\, an animator\, and a typesetter. In the mid- 1990s\, he fell in love with Japanese artist Mio Shirai; they married and moved to New York City. Despite productive years and joyful times\, Ed was plagued by mood disorders and drug problems\, and at the age of forty- eight\, he took his own life. \nEd Smith’s poems speak to living in an increasingly dehumanizing consumer society and corrupt political system. This “punk Dorothy Parker” is more relevant than ever for our ADD\, technology- distracted times \nEd Smith (1957–2005) was a poet involved in the punk and alternative arts scenes in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. His books were Fantasyworld (1983) and Tim’s Bunnies (1988). His poems appeared in Rolling Stone\, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter\, and other publications. Smith also worked as an animator on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues. \nDavid Trinidad is the author of more than twenty books of poetry\, collabora-tions\, and edited volumes. These include Swinging on a Star (2017)\, Notes on a Past Life (2016)\, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011)\, and Plasticville (2000)\, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Trinidad is editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011)\, which won a Lambda Literary Award. He is a professor of poetry in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College\, Chicago. \nCritical Praise For Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: \n“In the very early ’80s Ed was intimidatingly skinny and gorgeous and as reckless and charismatic as that guy in The Libertines who got caught doing coke with Kate Moss\, but very\, very talented and massively intelligent\, and even when he was a little too wild\, he was always so kind and heartbreakingly sweet and smart. Saying he was our Rimbaud is way too lazy\, but there was that. I thought of him as LA’s John Wieners. Ed’s poetry has Wieners’s deep melancholy and low-key\, note-perfect lyricism\, mixed with Ed’s strange\, bright ideas and his dead-pan\, startling sense of humor. I’m one of the many people who misses his poetry a lot.” ―Dennis Cooper \n“Years ago my wife slept with Ed Smith and wrote him into her novel; we goggled\, bemused by his ubiquity. It was a time when Ed was everywhere\, or so it seemed\, and his energy and taste for the zany and the outrageous fit right in with what we in San Francisco appreciated most about the heroic LA artists―Bob Flanagan\, Mike Kelley\, Amy Gerstler\, Dennis Cooper\, so many more. The present anthology is not only the best of Ed’s writing but contains in his notebooks the single greatest account of the genius brewing in the Southland at that moment. Hats off to David Trinidad for bringing it all back home―his exquisite care in selecting and contextualizing is the greatest gift he could have given his late friend.” ―Kevin Killian \n“Sappho invented civilization\, and Ed Smith made it punk.”―Tony Trigilio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/punk-rock-is-cool-for-the-end-of-the-world-poems-and-notebooks-of-ed-smith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alex Espinoza / Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alex Espinoza for his new bookCruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. With him in conversation is the one and only Carla Trujillo! Please join us! \nAcclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground\, to reveal the timeless art of cruising. Combining historical research and oral history with his own personal experience\, Espinoza examines the political and cultural forces behind this radical pastime. From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England\, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr\, Oscar Wilde to George Michael\, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale — one in which men of all races and classes interact\, even in the shadow of repressive governments. \nIn Uganda and Russia\, we meet activists for whom cruising can be a matter of life and death; while in the West he shows how cruising circumvents the inequalities and abuses of power that plague heterosexual encounters. Ultimately\, Espinoza illustrates how cruising functions as a powerful rebuke to patriarchy and capitalism — unless you are cruising the department store restroom\, of course. \n\n“Alex Espinoza’s much-anticipated book takes readers on a unique ‘cruise’ through places of public gay-sex connections\, from early times to today’s apps and sites; and the result is as lively and entertaining as a boldly intimate\, and wonderfully written\, memoir.” – John Rechy \n“Espinoza’s painstakingly documented love letter to cruising is a rare achievement. Not only does he excavate an oft-hidden and -policed queer history\, but he also topples the myth that LGBTQ progress conforms to a single\, ‘straight’ narrative. In a culture that often flattens queer stories to fit assimilationist standards\, Espinoza’s book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers\, thinkers\, and activists. Reading these accounts\, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange\, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve.” – Garrard Conley \n“Against all they have tried to do to bury our revolutionary past\, Alex Espinoza brings it to life in a work that is equal parts secrets shared in confidence\, sweeping historical account\, and learned analysis. Against all the neutering of our social movements and the treacly lure of assimilation\, Espinoza’s fast-paced\, compelling narrative shows readers the radical community of struggle\, contact and solace from which we came\, and to which we belong still.” – Jordy Rosenberg \n\nAlex Espinoza is the author of the novels The Five Acts of Diego Leónand Still Water Saints\, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, NPR\, Salon\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. His awards include a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León. He lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nCarla Trujillo was born in New Mexico and received a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Her first novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press\, 2003)\, received the Miguel Mármol Prize for best first work of fiction by a Latino/a writer\, the Latino Book Award for fiction\, and the Paterson Fiction Prize. It was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award\, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year\, and was an honorable mention for the Gustavas Myers Book Award. What Night Brings was one of three finalists for the University of Washington’s “common book” for 2009 . Carla is the editor of Living Chicana Theory (1998) and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Out/Write Vanguard Award. The anthologies and the novel are widely used in college and high school classrooms. Carla has also written various articles on identity and higher education. She is a founding member Macondo Writers Workshop. In addition to Macondo\, she has taught at Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging Writers Retreat\, U.C. Berkeley\, Mills College\, and San Francisco State University. Carla lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Alex’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Carla’s books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-espinoza-cruising-an-intimate-history-of-a-radical-pastime/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephen Markley / Ohio
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts Stephen Markley for Ohio. Join us! \nSince the turn of the century\, a generation has come of age knowing only war\, recession\, political gridlock\, racial hostility\, and a simmering fear of environmental calamity. In the country’s forgotten pockets\, where industry long ago fled\, where foreclosures\, Walmarts\, and opiates riddle the land\, death rates for rural whites have skyrocketed\, fueled by suicide\, addiction and a rampant sense of marginalization and disillusionment. This is the world the characters in Stephen Markley’s Ohio inherit. This is New Canaan. \nOn one fateful summer night in 2013\, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up\, each of them with a mission\, all of them haunted by regrets\, secrets\, lost loves. There’s Bill Ashcraft\, an alcoholic\, drug-abusing activist\, whose fruitless ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to New Orleans\, and now back to “The Cane” with a mysterious package strapped to the underside of his truck; Stacey Moore\, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting the mother of her former lover; Dan Eaton\, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq\, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried to forget; and the beautiful\, fragile Tina Ross\, whose rendezvous with the captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax. \nAt once a murder mystery and a social critique\, Ohio ingeniously captures the fractured zeitgeist of a nation through the viewfinder of an embattled Midwestern town and offers a prescient vision for America at the dawn of a turbulent new age. \n\n“Markley [does] some extraordinary things with the structure of the book… Casual details suddenly take on new surprising significance. There’s real pleasure in this hopscotching narrative: with each new point of view\, a clearer sense of the hidden story emerges as the reader slowly pieces together some shocking revelations… The most moving parts of the book are those that step back and let the events and the actions speak for themselves\, as when one character (the shy bookish one from high school) recalls his first tours in Afghanistan. The beautifully precise details are all the more vivid for their lack of accompanying commentary. The real core of this earnestly ambitious debut lies not in its sweeping statements but in its smaller moments\, in its respectful and bighearted renderings of damaged and thwarted lives. It’s the human scale that most descriptively reveals the truth about the world we’re living in.” – Dan Chaon\, New York Times Book Review \n“Ohio isn’t just a remarkable debut novel\, it’s a wild\, angry and devastating masterpiece of a book. Markley’s debut is a sprawling\, beautiful novel that explores the aftermath of the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, and a powerful look at the tenuous bonds that hold people together at their best and at their worst. [Ohio] is intricately constructed\, with gorgeous\, fiery writing that pulls the reader in and never lets go.”– NPR \n\nStephen Markley is an author\, screenwriter\, and journalist. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, Markley’s previous books include the novel Ohio\, the memoir Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote\, Sold\, and Published This Very Book\, and the travelogue Tales of Iceland. He lives in Los Angeles. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited and not guaranteed; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Ohio\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-markley-ohio/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling ‘BEST FIENDS’
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 20th\, 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-best-fiends/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcus Thompson on Kevin Durant
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Jun 20\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nWe are proud to present bestselling author of Golden\, Marcus Thompson. He joins us to read from and to sign copies of his new book\, KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest. \nJoin us on Thursday June 20th at 7pm.Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history—Kevin Durant. As a sports columnist for The Athletic Bay Area\, and longtime beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors\, Marcus Thompson is perfectly positioned to trace Durant’s inspirational journey. KD follows Durant’s underdog story from his childhood spent in poverty outside DC; to his rise playing on AAU teams with future NBA players; to becoming a star and hometown hero for the Oklahoma Thunder; to his controversial decision to play for the NBA rival Golden State Warriors; to his growth from prodigy into a man\, in the first true inside account of this superstar player. KD is a powerful\, moving biography of a modern-day legend and an essential read for all sports fans—or anyone who wants to know: what’s it like to shoot for greatness? \nMarcus Thompson II is a lead columnist at The Athletic\, covering the Golden State Warriors\, San Francisco 49ers and Giants\, and the Oakland Raiders and A’s. He was previously a sportswriter at the San Jose Mercury News and covered the Warriors exclusively as a beat writer for ten seasons. He lives with his wife\, Dawn\, and daughter\, Sharon\, in Oakland\, California. He is the author of the national bestseller Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry and KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcus-thompson-on-kevin-durant/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold
DESCRIPTION:Megan Griswold joins us to discuss her new book\, The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies.\n \nPraise for The Book of Help \n“Griswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.”\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n\nAbout The Book of Help \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-griswold/
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:Shipwreck Returns to Booksmith! Mary Poppins Edition
DESCRIPTION:Shipwreck Returns! \nJoin us for a Very Special One-Off event as San Francisco’s premier Literary Erotic Fanfiction Competition gets the band back together: Amy hosts\, Baruch reads\, and Casey records. \nHop on that East Wind: we’re doing a Mary Poppins adaptation that’s sure to be even worse than the 2018 Emily Blunt vehicle (probably). Join us to get all those chimney sweep jokes out of your system. Costumes encouraged. Get scared. \n  \nFeatured writers: Returning champs Joe Wadlington & Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, plus Kirstie Haruta\, Alan Leggitt\, Amanda Rosenberg\, Molly Sanchez\, and more TBA. \n  \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on one notable Thursday this June at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back at some point to defend their title. \n\n\n \n\n\n—\n \n\nCritics are saying: \nwait\, they’re still doing that? \n\n… the most despicable literary event possible. \n\nI’m so lost and so scared \n\n… an affront to literature. \n\nwonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting. \n\ncome if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before. \n\nShipwreck will bring you to madness and you may never return. \n\nI do not care for this. \n\n…lovingly rendered artisanal small batch nightmares…\n \n\n\n— \n\nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-returns-to-booksmith-mary-poppins-edition/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime PRIDE
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime PRIDE\, featuring Nona Caspers (The Fifth Woman)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, Eddie Jen\, and others\, will occur at Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday June 20th\, 7.30-9.30 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-pride/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Dennis-Benn
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Dennis-Benn\, author of Here Comes the Sun\, discusses her new novel\, Patsy. \nPraise for Patsy \n“Nicole Dennis-Benn is an exquisite writer who paints scenes with words so vivid you might as well be walking through it as a character\, not a reader. In Patsy\, she addresses motherhood\, sexuality\, racism\, and colorism; turning her prodigious talents to the timely story of an undocumented immigrant straddling two worlds while learning that love isn’t a choice\, but the beat in one’s blood.” – JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things \n“A stunningly powerful inter-generational novel about the price―the ransom really― women must pay to choose themselves\, their lives\, their value\, their humanity. Frank\, funny\, salty\, heartbreaking\, full of love\, Dennis-Benn is a map-maker to those places in the heart held so closely\, the holder may not know even they’re there.” – ALEXANDER CHEE\,author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Beautiful\, shattering\, and deeply affecting. Patsy’s story ultimately makes for a novel that is destined to endure.” – CHIGOZIE OBIOMA\, author of The Fishermen \n“An aching meditation on motherhood\, sacrifice\, and what it means to look truth in the face in order to fully become oneself. A beautiful book\, as heartbreaking as it is restorative.” – CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“A novel that splits at the seams with yearning\, elegantly written and deeply felt. Dennis-Benn leads the reader through Patsy’s life with empathy and grace.” – ESME WEIJUN WANG\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \nAbout Patsy \nBeating with the pulse of a long-witheld confession\, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first–not to give a better life to her family back home. Patsy leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation\, hoping for a new start where she can be\, and love\, whomever she wants. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn\, America is not as Cicely’s treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant\, she is forced to work as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile\, Tru builds a faltering relationship with her father back in Jamaica\, grappling with her own questions of identity and sexuality\, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother’s decision. \nExpertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica\, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another. \nAs with her masterful debut\, Here Comes the Sun\, Nicole Dennis-Benn once again charts the geography of a hidden world–that of a paradise lost\, swirling with the echoes of lilting patois\, in which one woman fights to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her. Passionate\, moving\, and fiercely urgent\, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood\, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-dennis-benn/
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:Undocumented Consequences: Life on Both Sides of the Border
DESCRIPTION:Undocumented Consequences: Life on Both Sides of the Border\nSaturday\, June 22\, 2019\, Doors 1:00 p.m. Eveny begins 1:30 p.m.\, Woman’s Building\, 3543 18th St #8\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Duke University Press\, Harvard University Press\, and The Woman’s Building present \nBeth C. Caldwell and Ana Raquel Minian \n \nThis event will be held at: \nWoman’s Building\, 3543 18th St #8\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 \nAdmission is Free\, seating limited\, reservations required. \nE-mail: staff@citylights.com to inquire about seating availability. \nThis event will explore the history of undocumented migration from Mexico to the United States\, and the consequences of the current save of mass deportation from the U.S. to Mexico. Beth C. Caldwell and Ana Raquel Minian are two exceptional scholars working in the field. If you are an activist\, policy maker\, or simply interested in the current situation regarding migration\, this event promises to cover important ground. There will be an open discussion after the lectures and panel talk. \nBeth C. Caldwell is Professor of Legal Analysis\, Writing\, and Skills at Southwestern Law School and was formerly an attorney in the Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender. She is the author of Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexicopublished by Duke University Press. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She is the author of Undocumented Lives:The Untold Story of Mexican Migration published by Harvard University Press. \n \nabout Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico \nWhen Gina was deported to Tijuana\, Mexico\, in 2011\, she left behind her parents\, siblings\, and children\, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card\, Gina was removed from the only country she had ever known. In Deported Americans legal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells Gina’s story alongside those of dozens of other Dreamers\, who are among the hundreds of thousands who have been deported to Mexico in recent years. Many of them had lawful status\, held green cards\, or served in the U.S. military. Now\, they have been banished\, many with no hope of lawfully returning. Having interviewed over one hundred deportees and their families\, Caldwell traces deportation’s long-term consequences—such as depression\, drug use\, and homelessness—on both sides of the border. Showing how U.S. deportation law systematically fails to protect the rights of immigrants and their families\, Caldwell challenges traditional notions of what it means to be an American and recommends legislative and judicial reforms to mitigate the injustices suffered by the millions of U.S. citizens affected by deportation. \nabout Undocumented Lives:The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. Ana Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. Undocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-consequences-life-on-both-sides-of-the-border/
LOCATION:Woman’s Building\, 3543 18th St #8\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:J Dianne Dotson
DESCRIPTION:J. Dianne Dotson joins us to discuss the second book in her Questrison Saga\, Ephemeris. \n\nAbout Ephemeris\n \nVisions of doom. A growing evil. A new hero emerges as old alliances unravel. \nAn epic science fiction and fantasy tale with a rich array of characters and settings\, Ephemeris: The Questrison Saga: Book Two is the sequel to Heliopause: The Questrison Saga: Book One. \nPlucked from space and raised in a star-city of androids\, impetuous Galla-Deia looks human but is not. Chosen to stop the dual threats of a galactic natural disaster and a malevolent alien entity\, she must grow as a commander and gain the trust of both humans and non-humans alike. Unknown to her\, the entity draws zealots to its cause\, destabilizing interstellar order\, and threatening all life in the galaxy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/j-dianne-dotson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mariana Mazzucato Rethinking Value
DESCRIPTION:Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London\, and is Founder and Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. \nMazzucato’s work is focused on the economics of innovation; the role of the State in modern capitalism; finance and economic growth; and how to steer innovation in ‘mission oriented’ ways directed at the sustainable development goals. \nMazzucato gave a Long Now Seminar in 02014 around her previous book\, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths. Her new book is The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. \nTickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar; you can follow Long Now on Twitter\, Facebook and through our blog for updates on our live events\, podcasts and videos on long-term thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariana-mazzucato-rethinking-value/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n“Tristana” de Benito Perez Galdos \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-10/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thom Hartmann / The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Thom Hartmann for his new book The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment. \n  \nWith mass shootings continually on the rise\, the call for gun control at a fever pitch\, and the House recently passing what could be the biggest change to federal gun laws in decades\, The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment is the kind of brief and brilliant analysis for which syndicated talk show host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann is justly renowned. \nOffering an in-depth\, historically informed view\, Hartmann examines how guns have played important roles throughout American history\, from early European settlement to the Revolutionary War and Manifest Destiny\, through the use of Slave Patrols in the Deep South (which became the “well-regulated militias” so debated in 1787)\, to the recent school massacres. He explores the brutal role of guns\, including in the enforcement of slavery and the racist post-Civil War social order\, and documents how inequality in America and the number of people killed in mass shootings have grown together over the last fifty years. \n  \nHe shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns\, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States. \n  \nHartmann identifies common-sense and powerful solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended\, such as: \n  \n* getting money out of politics to get the National Rifle Association out of lobbying\n* passing laws that would treat gun ownership like car ownership (title\, license\, insurance)\n* addressing the social despair and economic inequality that drive violent crime and mass shootings \nA timely examination of the real history of guns in America\, The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment shows what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby. \n\n  \nThom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers magazine named him America’s most important progressive host and has named his show one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for over a decade. A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award\, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four books\, translated into multiple languages. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n–  Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n–  Signing and additional details coming soon. \n–  This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n–  If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment\, and/or any of Thom’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n–  RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thom-hartmann-the-hidden-history-of-guns-and-the-second-amendment/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Rachel DeWoskin / Banshee
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rachel DeWoskin for her new novel\, Banshee. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nA former pleaser\, newly enraged poet/professor Samantha Baxter burns her polite life to the ground. \nBy turns heart-wrenching\, uncomfortable\, and hilarious\,Banshee explores the internal monologue and actions of a woman who\, upon being diagnosed with cancer\, tumbles head-first into a midlife crisis and decides to be unapologetic about it. Banshee is a critical addition to the feminist canon\, giving the reader a dramatized glimpse into what happens when women step outside of society’s rules and expectations as wives\, mothers\, and working professionals — and instead choose to behave the way men do on a day-to-day basis. \n\nRachel DeWoskin is the author of six books: Blind\, Big Girl Small\, Foreign Babes in Beijing\, Repeat After Me\, Someday We Will Fly\, and Banshee\, which is forthcoming from Dottir Press in June 2019. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker\, Vanity Fair\, The Sunday Times Magazine of London\, Teachers and Writers\, and numerous anthologies. She spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera\, which became the basis for her memoir. DeWoskin is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago\, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Rachel’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-dewoskin-banshee/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nElderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life \nfrom Bloomsbury Books \nAs revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal\, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. \nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, disparaged\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson has an MFA in fiction from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She has won the Sonora Review prize\, the New Millennium short fiction award and has received three Pushcart nominations. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California where she cares for diverse\, frail older patients and directs the Pathways to Discovery Program\, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco. Visit: http://louisearonson.com/ \nPraise for the work of Louise Aronson: \n“[A] penetrating meditation on geriatrics . . . Aronson’s deep empathy\, hard-won knowledge\, and vivid reportage makes for one of the best accounts around of the medical mistreatment of the old.” – Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.” – Abraham Verghese\, author of CUTTING FOR STONE \n“Aronson’s Elderhood is dazzling\, rich with knowledge gleaned from her professional work as a geriatrician\, her personal experience as a daughter\, her common sense\, and her thorough analysis of our social supports and cultural messaging. Her arguments are powerful\, and her conclusions are revolutionary. I hope everyone who has a stake in older people\, which is ultimately all of us\, will read this book.” – Mary Pipher\, author of REVIVING OPHELIA and WOMEN ROWING NORTH \n“An intimate look into how the aging process affects real lives and a non-didactic take on the importance of health care.” – San Francisco Chronicle on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“Dr. Aronson writes lovely\, nuanced description.” – The New York Times on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“The ethical dilemmas that abound in medicine are prominent but never swamp the stories: these are tales about people\, as insightfulas Lorrie Moore or Alice Munro.” – The Independent on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“A fascinating study of our fragile human condition\, both physical and emotional. Here is a writer-and a doctor-whose empathy . . . springs forth on every page.” – Peter Orner on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of the sick and the wounded–not on television or in movies but really–then this is the book for you. Compassionate and even anguished . . . It it has the palette and the ring of truth.” – Victoria Sweet\, author of GOD’S HOTEL\, on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“Invites us to bear witness as people–with very little fanfare\, but with a profound sense of truth–to come to terms with what it really means to be a flawed\, sick human being in a flawed\, sick world.” – Chris Adrian\, M.D.\, author of THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“A History of the Present Illness is a collection of stories about doctors and their patients\, and about the chronic and presenting situations that bring them to crisis. Eudora Welty described the work of another physician/story writer by saying that ‘Chekhov’s candor was exploratory and painstaking — he might have used it as the doctor in him would know how\, treating the need for truth between human beings as an emergency\,’ words that seem to me to also apply here. Aronson’s quest\, too\, is for that truth.” – Antonya Nelson\, author of BOUND\, on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“Aronson’s examination of medical culture in stories\, of the brutality and tenderness at home and hospital\, is a gem. [Her] voice is tender and one from which I hope we’ll hear more histories in the future.” – Washington Independent Review of Books on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS \n“Aronson effectively illustrates just how jumbled life can be. Hope is limping barely one step ahead of sadness. Human devotion and division\, responsibility to self and others are only a smidgen of the subject matter examined by talented and knowledgeable Aronson.” – Booklist on A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-aronson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Polchin
DESCRIPTION:James Polchin discusses his new book Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall. \nAbout Indecent Advances \nA skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. \nStories of murder have never been just about killers and victims. Instead\, crime stories take the shape of their times and reflect cultural notions and prejudices. In Indecent Advances\, James Polchin recovers and recounts queer stories from the crime pages–often lurid and euphemistic–that reveal the hidden history of violence against gay men. \nWhat was left unsaid in the crime pages provides insight into the figure of the queer man as both criminal and victim\, offering readers tales of vice and violence that aligned gender and sexual deviance with tragic\, gruesome endings. Victims were often reported as having made “indecent advances\,” forcing the accused’s hands in self-defense and reducing murder charges to manslaughter. \nPublished in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28\, 1969\, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured. Polchin shows\, with masterful insight\, how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by activists to help shape the burgeoning gay rights movement in the years leading up to Stonewall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-polchin/
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:David Rothenberg in conversation with Elliot Sharp
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of two new books \nNightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound \nby David Rothenberg \npublished by University of Chicago Press \nand \nIrRational Music \nby Elliot Sharp \npublished by Terra Nova Books (distributed by The MIT Press) \nabout Nightingales in Berlin: \nA celebrated figure in myth\, song\, and story\, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia\, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions\,—from melancholy to joy\, from the fear of death to the immortality of art.\nBut have you ever listened closely to a nightingale’s song? It’s a strange and unsettling sort of composition—an eclectic assortment of chirps\, whirs\, trills\, clicks\, whistles\, twitters\, and gurgles. At times it is mellifluous\, at others downright guttural. It is a rhythmic assault\, always eluding capture. What happens if you decide to join in?\nAs philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book\, the nightingale’s song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners\, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them\, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty\, hard machinery and soft melody. Rather than try to capture a sound not made for us to understand\, Rothenberg seeks these musical creatures out\, clarinet in tow\, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlin—longtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heard—and invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each other’s sounds. Through dialogue\, travel records\, sonograms\, tours of Berlin’s city parks\, and musings on the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination\, Rothenberg takes us on a quest for a new sonic alchemy\, a music impossible for any one species to make alone. In the tradition of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Invention of Nature\, Rothenberg has written a provocative and accessible book to attune us ever closer to the natural environment around us. \nabout IrRational Music: \nA memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock\, the avant-garde\, and an ever-widening spiral of art\, theater\, film\, and dance. \nFor over five decades\, Elliott Sharp has been engaged in a quest at once quixotic and down to earth: to take the music he hears in his inner ear and bring it to life in the real world. In this vivid memoir and manifesto\, Sharp takes us along on that quest\, through some of the most rugged\, anarchically fertile cultural terrain of our time. Sharp\, a mainstay of the New York Downtown scene beginning in the 1980s\, has been a pivotal figure at the junction of rock\, experimental music\, and an ever-widening spiral of art\, theater\, film\, and dance. Rooted in blues\, rock\, jazz\, and the twentieth-century avant-garde\, Sharp’s innovative music has encompassed fractal geometry\, chaos theory\, algorithms\, genetic metaphors\, and new strategies for graphic notation. \nIn IrRational Music\, Sharp dodges fake cowboys’ real bullets by the side of a highway near Colby\, Kansas; is called on the carpet by a prickly\, pompadoured Morton Feldman (“Improvisation… I don’t buy it”); segues from Zen tea to single malt with an elfin John Cage; conjures an extraterrestrial opera from a group of high-school students in Munich; and—back in his own high-school days—looks up from strumming Van Morrison’s “Gloria” in Manny’s Music on 48th Street to see Jimi Hendrix smiling benignly upon him. A mix of tales from the road with thoughts on music\, art\, politics\, technology\, and the process of thinking itself\, IrRational Music is a glimpse inside the mind of one of our most exacting\, exciting creative artists. \nDavid Rothenberg is the Series Editor of Terra Nova Books and is distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books investigating music in nature\, including Why Birds Sing\, Survival of the Beautiful\, and Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise. His writings have been translated into more than eleven languages and among his twenty one music CDs is One Dark Night I Left My Silent House\, on ECM. \nElliott Sharp is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was awarded the Berlin Prize in Music in 2015 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. His composition “Storm of the Eye” for violinist Hilary Hahn appeared on her Grammy-winning album In 27 Pieces. \nTerra Nova Books aim to show how environmental issues have cultural and artistic components\, in addition to the scientific and political. Combining essays\, reportage\, fiction\, art\, and poetry\, Terra Nova Books reveal the complex and paradoxical ways the natural and the human are continually redefining each other.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-rothenberg-in-conversation-with-elliot-sharp/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Miranda / The Last House Guest
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Megan Miranda for her new novel\, The Last House Guest. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nLittleport\, Maine\, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy\, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. \nTypically\, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl—but that’s just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade\, the girls are inseparable—until Sadie is found dead. While the police rule the death a suicide\, Avery can’t help but feel there are those in the community\, including a local detective and Sadie’s brother\, Parker\, who blame her. Someone knows more than they’re saying\, and Avery is intent on clearing her name\, before the facts get twisted against her. \nAnother thrilling novel from the bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger\, Megan Miranda’s The Last House Guest is a smart\, twisty read with a strong female protagonist determined to make her own way in the world. \n\nMegan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls. She has also written several books for young adults\, including The Safest Lies\, Fragments of the Lost\, and Come Find Me. She grew up in New Jersey\, graduated from MIT\, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. The Perfect Stranger is her second novel of psychological suspense and The Last House Guest is the latest. Follow @MeganLMiranda on Twitter. Visit MeganMiranda.com. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Megan’s books\, order here and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-miranda-the-last-house-guest/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bobby Hundreds
DESCRIPTION:Bobby Hundreds discusses his new book\, This is Not a T-Shirt. \nPraise for This is Not a T-Shirt \n“This is Not a T-Shirt tracks the history of surf and skate culture and its relationship to streetwear—from the Zephyr skate team of the ’70s to brands like Stüssy\, Supreme\, BAPE\, and\, of course\, The Hundreds\, which has managed to stay relevant for 15+ years in a most fickle market. This book is an insider’s guide to the prevailing trends in youth culture of the last few decades that highlights the importance of self-discipline and self-confidence; the same traits that made me fall in love with skateboarding at a young age.”—Tony Hawk \n“With This is Not a T-Shirt Bobby Hundreds has proven that he’s not just an incredible designer\, but a literary force as well. Thebook is smart\, funny\, and gives some real insight into the ever-changing\, ever-elusive Streetwear game. It’s a great reminder that art exists in many different forms and that a kid with a dream can be unstoppable.”—Lena Waithe\, creator of The Chi \n“Building a brand is about identifying and fulfilling a need in a way that no one else can. It takes vision\, dedication\, and attention to details. The Hundreds is a prime example of what it looks like when you’ve combined all these elements along with tapping into a culture and community. This is Not a T-Shirt guides you through methods and tools you can apply to get you one step closer to fulfilling your dream.”—Jessica Alba\, founder of The Honest Company \n“Bobby Hundreds is an encyclopedia of American pop culture\, from breakfast cereals and Saturday morningcartoons to hardcore\, punk\, and hip-hop. He’s packed all of his cultural insights into This is Not a T-Shirt\, a book about turning your hobbies into your passions\, which he’s done his entire life. Also\, we went to high school together\, he was way cooler than me then\, and now he’s written a book before I have\, and that’s extremely annoying.”—Alan Yang\, co-creator of Master of None \nAbout This is Not a T-Shirt \nStreetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine “cool” coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike\, a tattoo artist\, Louis Vuitton\, and a skateboard company. It’s the ubiquitous style of dress comprising hoodies\, sneakers\, and T-shirts. In the beginning\, a few brands defined this style; fewer still survived as streetwear went mainstream. They are the OGs\, the “heritage brands.” The Hundreds is one of those persevering companies\, and Bobby Hundreds is at the center of it all. \nThe creative force behind the brand\, Bobby Kim\, a.k.a. Bobby Hundreds\, has emerged as a prominent face and voice in streetwear. In telling the story of his formative years\, he reminds us that The Hundreds was started by outsiders; and this is truly the story of streetwear culture. \nIn This Is Not a T-Shirt\, Bobby Hundreds cements his spot as a champion of an industry he helped create and tells the story of The Hundreds—with anecdotes ranging from his Southern California\, punk-DIY-tinged youth to the brand’s explosive success. Both an inspiring memoir and an expert assessment of the history and future of streetwear\, this is the tale of Bobby’s commitment to his creative vision and to building a real community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bobby-hundreds/
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:After Hours: Shoulder Pads + Shermer High School
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 28th | 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nJoin Tom Barbash (The Dakota Winters) and Kevin Smokler (Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies) in conversation about the decade of Rubik’s Cubes\, Slap Bracelets\, the Walkman and The Breakfast Club as seen in both reality and our imagination. How do we write about the 80s\, remember and see it in light of 80s nostalgia of Stranger Things\, Ready Player One\, and the reboot of Ghostbusters? \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens June 10th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 28\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-shoulder-pads-shermer-high-school/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Gary Snyder and the Ecological Crisis with Jason Wirth discussing his new book
DESCRIPTION:Author Jason M. Wirth discusses issues raised in his latest book\, Mountains\, Rivers\, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dogen in an Age of Ecological Crisis. What are some of the important perspectives and modes of analysis that these two seminal figures can offer us during this time of looming ecological catastrophe? Come to this talk and find out! \nDr. Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and an ordained Soto Zen priest. \nThis is a Green Stacks event sponsored by the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-gary-snyder-and-the-ecological-crisis-with-jason-wirth-discussing-his-new-book/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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