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SUMMARY:Poetry Unbound #34
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Unbound presents passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month\, with a brief open mic\, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted by Clive Matson. \nPoetry Unbound #34\nOpen reading sign-up at 5pm\nSixties Retrospective Poetry Reading\n\nSharon Doubiago\nEliot Schain\nJulia Vinograd \nWe resume Poetry Unbound in the perfect venue for a Sixties Retrospective\, the iconic Art House Gallery. Photos of sixties events and celebrities line the walls\, many taken by owner Harold Adler\, former Berkeley Barb staff photographer. Our three features have taken something of the openness and the wild\, truthful spirit of those times into their poetry\, and bring it forward. Doubiago writes that she “was profoundly influenced by the 60s; her sanity and health and that of her children\, plus her poetry were saved by its ethics;” Vinograd was there on the streets of Berkeley every day; and kindred spirit Schain came later and imbibed the essence. They’ll read with an extravagant painting of Grace Slick and Jimi Hendricks in the background. We’ll expect to hear poems that embody the spirit of that radical decade and focus beyond the essence into its lasting influence. What can we take from the sixties as “container of the ideal”? \nSharon Doubiago’s first book was the book length poem Hard Country (West End Press 1982\, reprint 1999) and hailed as an epic poem by major scholars. She has published more than 20 books since — three of which are also book length\, South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh)\, The Husband Arcane\, The Arcane of O (Gorda Press)\, and last year\, The Visit (Wild Ocean Press)\, among many other publications. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction\, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the Coast\, and a California Arts Council Award. She has published over a hundred essays—from the personal and creative to the scholarly. She’s a board member of PEN Oakland. For the past 17 years she has lived mainly in San Francisco. \nEliot Schain’s poetry has been published in Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics From California. His most recent book is Westering Angels (Zeitgeist Press)\, and additional poems can be found at eliotschain.com. He has served as Program Director for The Poetry Society of America and now lives in Berkeley\, CA\, where he makes his living as a psychotherapist and high school teacher. \nJulia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 60 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones\, Eye of the Hand\, and The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco—Poets from Hell.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-unbound-34/
LOCATION:Art House Gallery & Cultural Center\, 2905 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Obsessions: a talk by Kaia Sand
DESCRIPTION:Kaia Sand is the author of the newly released A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff (Tinfish Press 2016) as well as Remember to Wave (Tinfish Press 2010)\, and interval (Edge Books)\, a Small Press Traffic book of the year in 2004; and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press\, 2008). With Garrick Imatani\, she was an artist-in-residence from 2013-2015 at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center\, a public art commission in which they responded to the contents of historical surveillance files on local political activists. This past spring she exhibited Moth\, Flame\, Desire\, at the Portland Community College Cascade Gallery\, after serving in the Despina Artist Residency at Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. She works across genres and media\, dislodging poetry from the book into more unconventional contexts; she documents work at kaiasand.net.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obsessions-a-talk-by-kaia-sand/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading Next to Kilns\, Poetry\, Pots and Prose
DESCRIPTION:Red Brick Studios presents\, Reading Next to Kilns\, a free evening of art and readings ‪on Saturday\, November 5th at 7pm‬ at 1275 17th Streeet (between Capp and Mission) 3rd floor. \nFeatured readers are Rohan daCosta\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, Arisa White\, and Kenneth Wong! \nReading Next to Kilns is a spontaneous and random exhibition space for artists and writers. The series highlights working poets and writers inside a sculpture and ceramic studio in the heart of the Mission district of San Francisco. An independent collective of over twenty artists working primarily in clay\, Red Brick Studios will host this evening of poetry\, pots and prose inside their art studio during Open Studios for Mission Artist United. \nRed Brick Studios http://www.missionartistsunited.org/studios/red-brick-studio \nMission Artist United Spring Open Studios http://www.missionartistsunited.org/open_studios
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-next-to-kilns-poetry-pots-and-prose/
LOCATION:Red Brick Studio\, 3265 17th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sneathen\, Wolkin\, + Low
DESCRIPTION:chapbook release by ERIC SNEATHEN / LINDSEY WOLKIN\n+\nreading by TRISHA LOW\n+\nΦ\, EMPTY SET: a solo exhibition by Shisi Huang\, featuring interactive spatial installations that alter perceptual dimensions of time and space\, inspired by haunting personal experiences \nERIC SNEATHEN splits his time between Oakland and UC Santa Cruz\, where he is a PhD student in Literature. His poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer\, littletell\, Faggot Journal\, and The Equalizer\, and his first collection\, Snail Poems\, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He is also the editor and producer of Macaroni Necklace\, a DIY literary zine and reading series featuring (mostly) writers who have not yet published a book-length manuscript. \nLINDSEY WOLKIN is a writer and visual artist working in Oakland. Her writing has appeared online and in Transfer Magazine\, Forum\, and Passages North. She is a recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize from San Francisco State University and a San Francisco Artist Commission Grant. She’s currently working on a novel and a series of mixed media drawings on paper. \nTRISHA LOW is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions\, 2013). She lives in Oakland and is currently working on a book length essay entitled SOCIALIST REALISM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sneathen-wolkin-low/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-7/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Other Fabulous Reading Series: Cotman\, Rees\, + Woltag
DESCRIPTION:The Other Fabulous Reading Series is hosting a reading at The Long Haul again. \nIt’s been a while. \nThe readers are Elwin Cotman\, Ted Rees\, and Laura Woltag. \nMore Info soon\, but all you really need to know is to come to The Long Haul at 8.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-other-fabulous-reading-series-cotman-rees-woltag/
LOCATION:The Long Haul\, 3124 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Wayne Miller
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wayne Miller: \n“In these poems\, we see the way the world around us is layered by confrontation\, love\, and remembrance. And whether it is the birth of a child\, the death of a father\, the various ways we’ve found to kill each other\, or the aftermath of a riot in response to those killings\, we carry it all forward with us\, in memory and action\, and we give it to those who follow us.” —Adrian Matejka \n\n“This is poetry at its most powerful: instrument of change\, defense against the commonplace of mall shooters and hoax bombs\, deeply entered wisdom of the body in both birth and dying\, and a bastion against loss and forgetting. Wayne Miller’s Post- doesn’t take this century lying down\, it is a ringing rejoinder to those who say poetry does not matter. In Miller’s lines\, we hear the ancient magic of sorrow transformed to hope\, elegy bent back around to ode.” —D. A. Powell\n\nAbout Post-: \nThe poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees\, a world where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt. In this world\, every box could be a bomb and what comes after is what is lived. And yet\, this painful past is not set in stone. The past becomes the present\, yielding toward an immediate future.\nThe collection coalesces around a series of post-elegies triggered by three occurrences: the birth of his child\, the death of his father\, and his experience of the seeming explosion of sociohistorical and political conflict and violence over the past decade. Throughout this series\, Miller processes grief\, but also cuts through pain to open up a way forward in the aftermath of shared loss. “Post-” thrums with pathos and humor\, pain and the beauty of living.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-miller/
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:The Basement Series: The Morning After
DESCRIPTION:Lit Camp‘s Basement Series-the only reading series with FREE BEER-presents NY Times Bestseller Frances Dinkelspiel and Lit Camp alum Frances Stroh\, along with 5 talented newcomers in a night of alcoholically regretful readings. $5-$10 sliding scale at the door with proceeds split between Dave Eggers ScholarMatch and Lit Camp scholarships.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-basement-series-the-morning-after/
LOCATION:Sports Basement\, 1590 Bryant St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Bay Crossing
DESCRIPTION:Bay Crossing\nSpecial East Bay edition\nOctopus Literary Salon\n2101 Webster St.\, Oakland\n\nReaders\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nJacqueline Doyle\nColleen McKee\nLynn Mundell\nApollo Papafrangou\nAndrew Sano\nRobert Thomas\nAmos White \nMusic by Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-bay-crossing-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Civil Coping Mechanisms: #Recurrent
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Civil Coping Mechanisms to exhibit their new series\, #RECURRENT\, on Friday\, November 4th at 7pm. Series editor\, Janice Lee\, describes #RECURRENT as such: “The series will push the boundaries of narrative with books that seek to reconstruct\, reimagine & expand on existing narrative spaces. Not bound to genre or category\, #RECURRENT books will be intuitive\, instigative\, innovative\, sensitive\, perceptive\, heart-breaking\, and honest.” The evening’s feature writers are Harold Abramowitz\, Jordan Okumura\, and Doug Rice \nHarold Abramowitz is from Los Angeles. He is author and co-author of books of poetry and prose\, including Blind Spot\, Dear Dearly Departed\, Not Blessed\, and UNFO Burns A Million Dollars. Harold will be reading from his book Blind Spot\, a poetic novel that weaves a new structure for narrative\, and forces the reader to consider the complex and profound structures hidden in a record of time. \nJordan Okumura is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Gargoyle\, Dirty:Dirty (Jaded Ibis Press)\, Black Rabbit\, and First Stop Fiction. Jordan lives and works in Sacramento\, California\, where she is an editor for trade news publications in the agricultural industry and is a regular contributor at Enclave/Entropy. She will be reading from her debut book\, Gaijin. \nDoug Rice is the author of several books including Here Lies Memory\, Blood of Mugwump\, and An Erotics of Seeing. He is also the co-editor of Federman: A to X-X-X-X. His fiction\, philosophy\, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation\, Zyzzyvya\, Western Humanities Review\, 580 Split\, and others. His work has been translated and published in six languages. He was awarded a Literature Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude\, Stuttgart\, Germany for 2012-2014. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2016). Doug will be reading from Here Lies Memory: A Pittsburgh Novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/civil-coping-mechanisms-recurrent/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Steffi Drewes + nick johnson
DESCRIPTION:Steffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press\, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Magnetic Forest\, Cartography Askew\, and History of Drawing Circles. \nHer poems have appeared in 6×6\, Aufgabe\, Eleven Eleven\, Monday Night\, New American Writing\, No Tell Motel\, Zen Monster\, and in the anthology IT’S NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT IT’S SUNNY IN OAKLAND (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2014). \nShe works as a freelance writer and organizes Featherboard Writing Series at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland.\nnick johnson was born near the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay and raised by his single mother in Baltimore. His mother\, who died when he was in his early teens\, has become a consistent presence and voice in his work\, along with themes of otherness and alienation. \nHis poems have been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and have appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and the anthology Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. \nHis first collection of poems\, music for mussolini\, was published by Nomadic Press in March of 2016. \nWhen he’s not writing poems\, he enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey — typically in that order\, but not always. \nJohnson earned his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. \nHe lives and works in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steffi-drewes-nick-johnson/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis + Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis is the author of internationally best-selling novels that have been translated into 17 languages. The Invisible Mountain received Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize and was a finalist for a California Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award. It was also named a best book of the year by Booklist\, O – The Oprah Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. The Gods of Tango received a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and NBC Latino. De Robertis is the recipient of a 2012 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the translator of two Latin American novels\, and her literary translations have appeared in Granta\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. \nMicah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here; a memoir\, Pagan Time; and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. Perks received her Bachelor of Arts and Master Fine Arts from Cornell University and now co-directs the creative writing program at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-micah-perks/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY
DESCRIPTION:GET READY FOR THE RETURN OF STEPHEN KINGTOBER. This year\, we take on Pet Sematary one month late\, upon our triumphant return from New York Comic Con. \nFeatured writers: Amanda Rosenberg\, Kathleen Miller\, Jamie Real\, Lauren Wheeler\, Nicole Love\, and Elaine Gavin. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month 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 the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \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. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-stephen-kings-pet-sematary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Giménez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and four poetry collections including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. She co-edited  Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing published by Counterpath Press. A CantoMundo Fellow\, she teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces\, NM and serves as the publisher of Noemi Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-gimenez-smith/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ballard\, Fenner\, + Opstedal
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Opstedal was Born and raised in Venice\, California\, and currently residing in Santa Cruz\, Kevin Opstedal is a poet whose line leaves three decades of roadcuts across the entire imaginary West. His twenty-five books and chapbooks include two full-length collections\, Like Rain (Angry Dog Press\, 1999) and California Redemption Value (UNO Press\, 2011). Blue Books Press\, one of many of his “sub-radar” editorships\, belongs in the same breath as the great California poetry houses (Auerhahn\, Big Sky\, Oyez) that his own poems seem to conjure like airbrushed flames on a murdered-out junker carrying Ed Dorn\, Joanne Kyger\, Ted Berrigan\, and some wide-eyed poetry neophyte to a latenite card game in Bolinas. “His poems\,” writes Lewis MacAdams\, “are hard-nosed without being hard-hearted.” As identity and ideas duke it out in the back-alley of academia\, Opstedal surfs an oil slick off Malibu into the apocalypse of style. \nDerek Fenner is an artist\, educator\, and researcher living in Oakland\, California. He earned his MFA in writing and poetics at Naropa University. After a decade of experience as an art educator in the juvenile justice system\, he is completing his Doctorate in education at Mills College. His latest book of poetry is Hermeticities & Others (2016) published by Bootstrap Press\, a publishing company he co-founded in 2000. \nMicah Ballard is the author of over a dozen books of poetry\, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter\, 2014)\, Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books\, 2011)\, Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press\, 2009)\,  Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006)\, and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press\, 2001)\, as well as the collaborations Death Race V.S.O.P (with Cedar Sigo & Will Yackulic)\, Easy Eden (with Patrick James Dunagan)\, and Poems from the New Winter Palace (with Michael Carr). His third full-length collection\,  Afterlives\, was just released by Bootstrap Press. He works at the University of San Francisco and with Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the co-editor of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ballard-fenner-opstedal/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Am I Alone Here?: Peter Orner's San Francisco Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner’s AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott at Booksmith\, Wednesday\, November 2nd\, 7:30pm. Join us! \nhttp://books.catapult.co/products/am-i-alone-here \n“This book\, thank god\, defies any category. It’s partly an ode to reading\, partly a memoir of Chicago and family\, partly a travelogue\, and often it’s all of these things in one four-page essay. Orner reads Cheever in Albania\, thinks about Salinger in Haiti\, salutes his father from a taqueria in San Francisco. Although some will want to dive in randomly and skip around\, reading these exquisite essays in order allows the book to develop a momentum and cumulative power that sneaks up on you and knocks you back.” —Dave Eggers \n“Orner\, a distinguished fiction writer\, appears here as a devoted book lover\, inviting the reader to an intimate and friendly book group of two. . . . Readers will be delighted to join him\, grab one of the stories he delves into\, and enjoy his company.” —Publishers Weekly \n“AM I ALONE HERE? [is] the most beautiful\, moving book I’ve read in a very long time\, and I’ll use any opportunity to mention it. . . . I encourage anyone who loves reading\, I mean who truly loves reading\, to immediately go to a bookshop and demand a copy.” —Alexander Maksik\, author of SHELTER IN PLACE\, in THE HUFFINGTON POST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/am-i-alone-here-peter-orners-san-francisco-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Levy w/ Michal Lev-Ram
DESCRIPTION:The never-before-told story of Pixar’s improbable success. \n“Hi\, Lawrence?” the caller asked. “This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we’d work together someday.” \nAfter Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple\, he turned his attention to a little-known graphics art company that he owned called Pixar. Out of the blue\, he tracked down Harvard-trained Silicon Valley attorney\, Lawrence Levy\, to help him get Pixar on the right track. Working closely with Jobs and the entire Pixar team\, Levy helped produce a highly improbable roadmap that transformed the sleepy graphic art studio into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories and one of the most prolific and profitable entertainment studios in modern history. \nAfter giving a talk about his experiences at Harvard\, Levy was encouraged by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Steve Jobs’ daughter) to write this book. Come hear the inside scoop on how a tiny animation studio was transformed into an Academy Award-winning\, multibillion dollar empire from a leader who witnessed the events with his own eyes. \nLawrence Levy later left corporate life to study Eastern philosophy and meditation and their relevance to modern life. He lives in Palo Alto. \nMichal Lev-Ram\, based in Silicon Valley\, covers the technology and entertainment sectors for Fortune. She is also co-chair of MPW Next Gen\, an extension of the Most Powerful Women community convening the preeminent rising-star women leaders in business\, government\, philanthropy\, education\, and the arts\, and of Brainstorm TECH\, Fortune’s annual technology conference. Before joining Fortune\, Lev-Ram wrote for CNNMoney\, Fast Company\, Popular Science\, and was a staff writer at Business 2.0. She holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University\, and lives in Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lawrence-levy-w-michal-lev-ram/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161030T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20160901T230959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T230959Z
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SUMMARY:Andrés Neuman
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Andrés Neuman: \n“Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature\, the kind written by real poets\, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Andrés Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.” — Roberto Bolano \n\nAbout How to Travel Without Seeing: \nA kaleidoscopic\, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. \nLamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara\, Andres Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of not seeing. But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move\, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic\, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non-places airports\, hotels\, taxis are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen\, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality\, immigration and globalization\, history and language\, and turbulent current events. Above all\, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin America\, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolano\, Vargas Llosa\, Lorca\, and Galeano\, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose impact is now making ripples worldwide. \n  \nEye-opening and charmingly offbeat\, “How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America” is essential reading for anyone interested in the past\, present\, and future of the Americas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-neuman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161030T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161030T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161025T011644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T011644Z
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SUMMARY:37th Annual American Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation announces the\nThirty-Seventh Annual\nAMERICAN BOOK AWARDS\nCeremonies\, October 30\, 2016\, 2:00–5:00 p.m. \nThe 2016 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday\, October 30th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the SF Jazz Center\, Joe Henderson Lab\, 201 Franklin Street (at Fell)\, San Francisco\, CA. This event is open to the public. \nThe American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories\, no nominees\, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity\, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories\, groups\, or “special interests\,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization\, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. \nThe 2016 American Book Award Winners are: \nLaura Da’\nTributaries (University of Arizona) \nSusan Muaddi Darraj\nCurious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts) \nDeepa Iyer\nWe Too Sing America:\nSouth Asian\, Arab\, Muslim\, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press) \nMat Johnson\nLoving Day (Spiegel & Grau) \nJohn Keene\nCounternarratives (New Directions) \nWilliam J. Maxwell\nF.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature\n(Princeton University) \nLauret Savoy\nTrace: Memory\, History\, Race\, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint) \nNed Sublette and Constance Sublette\nThe American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books) \nJesús Salvador Treviño\nReturn to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público) \nNick Turse\nTomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books) \nRay Young Bear\nManifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media) \nLifetime Achievement:\nLouise Meriwether \nWalter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award:\nLyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg \nAndrew Hope Award:\nChiitaanibah Johnson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/37th-annual-american-book-awards/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161029T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161029T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161018T003821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T003821Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special Reading + Contest
DESCRIPTION:Join Saturday Night Special for our 6th Annual Halloween Reading & Costume Contest! \nOur theme this year is: Heroes & Villians\n(But you can dress up as anything.) We will have prizes for the best costumes. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur October features are: Laura Zink and super secret surprise (TBA)\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: The list is often full by 7:05pm)\n\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading and costume contest\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, October 29th\, 2016\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-reading-contest/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T230000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161018T000237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T000237Z
UID:23860-1477684800-1477695600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:BustingOut: HalloWeird
DESCRIPTION:Life is just crazy and these stories will prove it. Stuff Happens. Unexpected\, strange stuff. Attend an Oakland A’s game and someone gets married in the cheap seats during the 7th inning stretch. And it’s your ex. Go get your car from the parking lot only to discover it’s been stolen. No one seems upset by this\, because they’re sure ‘you probably just misplaced it’. The situation doesn’t improve. \nYes\, we will be in costume – because\, of course! Come in your costume. This is ALWAYS a super-fun night! There will be prizes\, fake vampire teeth\, music\, good food\, full bar – but ‘The Monster Mash’ will NOT be played. Never. Ever. \nStorytellers TBA. \nMusic\, Full Bar\, amaaazing Soul Food $10/plate\, one block off 12st. Bart Station. Parking lot on Franklin. Allow time for street parking. Show STARTS at 8pm. \nFive storytellers plus 3min. audience stories. \nShow is always free to Salvation Army guys. As it should be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bustingout-halloweird/
LOCATION:Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\, 410 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161017T234140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T234140Z
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SUMMARY:Fruitvale Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Rachelle Escamilla and Julian Shendelman. With musical guest TBD. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there) https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fruitvale-fridays/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20160922T001308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T001308Z
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SUMMARY:Breathe between the Beats
DESCRIPTION:Breathe Between The Beats\n– An evening of The Beats poets and the Zen of Haiku poetry \nFeaturing\nAMOS WHITE\nHaiku Poet & Author \nwith featured Guests and Beat poets:\nClive Matson\, Jack Foley with Helen Wendy Loo\,\nMary Holman\, and Andrew O. Dugas. \nFriday\, October 28\, 2016\nat The Beat Museum\n540 Broadway\, San Francisco\, CA\n7-9pm \nHear award winning Haiku poet and author\,\nAmos White’s breathless interpretations\nand vivid haiku with those of\nAllen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. \nFriday\, October 28 at The Beat Museum in San Francisco’s North Beach District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breathe-between-the-beats/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T203000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161018T233422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T233422Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ When he’s not hosting the SFQOM Porras-Hernandez is a writer and performer. His poetry appears in Aim for the Head  an anthology of zombie poetry (Write Bloody Publishing)\, Divining Divas 100 Poems by Gay Men on Their Muses (Lethe Press)\, Flicker and Spark Queer Poetry Anthology (Low Brow Press) and Tandem an anthology of the LitSlam contest winners for 2012 (Bicycle Comics Press). He has performed as a feature in Washington D.C.\, New York City\, Canada and all over California. Porras-Hernandez holds a Bachelor Arts in Theatre Arts\, Drama concentration from Sonoma State University. He was born in Toluca\, Mexico. \nBLYTHE BALDWIN is a performance poet\, storyteller\, and visual artist. Hailing from the Bay Area\, she attended Pitzer college where she created her own major: Narrative Arts. Blythe has performed her poetry on air with KPFA and has been televised on KCSM’s The Bay Today. She has performed spoken word at The Berkeley Poetry Slam\, The Oakland Poetry Slam\, The VettedWord Showcase\, Return to The Tender Nob: Home Theater Festival\, Califia Festival\, K’vestch Queer Open Mic\, Bawdy Storytelling\, Punk Blood Bath 2.0\, Life With Laughter\, That’s What She Said\, and The Golden Pussy Posse Show part of The International Home Theatre Festival. She has been a featured artist at The San Francisco Queer Open Mic and Modesto’s Slam on Rye. Blythe competed as a semi-finalist for the 2011 Berkeley Poetry Slam Season. She spends her days working in media production and by night writes poetry and draws comics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161018T000500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T000500Z
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers\, Master Writer in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Dave Eggers is the author of The Circle; A Hologram for the King (a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award); and Your Fathers\, Where are They? as well as the Prophets\, and Do They Live Forever? (short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award). \nHe is the founder of the publishing house McSweeney’s and co-founder of Voice of Witness\, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. \nHe is the co-founder of educational nonprofits 826 National and ScholarMatch and was the 2015 Amnesty International chair. \nAbout the Writers Series\nCCA’s MFA Program in Writing proudly offers the Writers Series\, a year-round literary series that features a continuum of talented\, successful\, and\, in many cases\, world-renowned writers and poets. \nThe series is both a curricular requirement (Friday Seminar) for our first-year graduate students and an integral part of the college’s celebrated public programs schedule. \nAll events are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted in the event listing\, events are held from 4:30 to 6 p.m at the CCA Writers’ Studio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-master-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:Timken Lecture Hall\, CCA San Francisco Campus\, 1111 Eighth Street \, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20160922T001125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T001125Z
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SUMMARY:Hannah Hart
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Hart\, the wildly popular YouTube personality and author of theNew York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen\, is back! This time\, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past. \nBy combing through the journals that Hannah’s kept for much of her life\, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life\, her experiences\, and the things she’s figured out about family\, faith\, love\, sexuality\, self-worth\, friendship and fame. \nRevealing what makes Hannah tick\, this sometimes cringe-worthy\, poignant collection of stories is sure to deliver plenty of Hannah’s wit and wisdom\, and hopefully encourage you to try your hand at her patented brand of reckless optimism. \nTickets: $26\, includes a copy of Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded(tax included). \nOnly copies of Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded or My Drunk Kitchen purchased through Booksmith will be signed. One ticket admits only one person into the signing line\, no exceptions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hannah-hart/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T230000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161018T005238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T005238Z
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: WHEN THEY DIED
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die Presents…\nWHEN THEY DIED\n– an evening of stories & music –\n[about those we’ve lost & how we lost them] \nThursday\, October 27th\nSwedish American Hall\nDoors at 7:00pm\nShow at 8:00pm\nTickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1334761\n$15 in advance and at the door. \nFeauturing some of You’re Going to Die’s favorites: \nAvi Vinocur [of Goodnight\, Texas]\nAndrew Blair\nMichelle Murphy\nEd Wolf\nMorgan Bolender\nScott Ferreter\nChelsea Coleman\nKat Marie Yoas\nAngela Hennessy \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-when-they-died/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20160922T000758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T000758Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Lisa Graley
DESCRIPTION:Co-winners of the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Jungle Around Us: Stories and The Current That Carries: Stories talk and read from their respective works. \n“Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around. Seldom have I read work so confident in the power of what s left unspoken and in the deep eloquence of gesture. . . .A haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.”–Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You on The Jungle Around Us \nStrongly reminiscent of the stories of Annie Proulx: all these lives at—or near—the end of the road reluctantly offering up their secrets.”—Ron Carlson on The Current That Carries \nThe Jungle Around Us: “You’ll see how beautiful it is in the morning—jungle all around us\,” says one of the characters in Raeff’s story collection\, referring to the way that the jungle that threatens can also provide solace. The jungle in these stories is both metaphorical and real\, taking the reader from war-torn Europe to Bolivia and from suburban New Jersey to Vietnam. Raeff examines how war and violence\, like the jungle\, seep into our lives\, even when we are no longer in danger and long after the war is over. \nWhile struggling with fear\, danger\, and displacement\, the characters of The Jungle around Us form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon\, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of 1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay\, two adult sisters confront their loneliness while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear. \nAnne Raeff teaches English and history at East Palo Alto Academy. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. \nThe Current That Carries: This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction\, where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails. Set in West Virginia\, the stories take up residence with rural characters who defend their mailboxes against teenagers\, bathe and feed their bedridden elders\, and circle the inflated orbs of love and desire in high school gymnasiums. Whole lifetimes flare in an instant as characters scramble to sift through the past’s wreckage to find some small miracle in the present. \nIf there is nostalgia\, it’s for a South without billboards\, talk shows\, and children with iPods dangling from their ears. It’s for a South where you can go pick a ripe tomato to slice for the mayonnaise on your sandwich because you found time to plant a garden. And if there’s grace\, it is in the careful wading through a shifting current to reach possibilities snagged at the bottom of a trotline. \nIn lean\, muscular prose\, Graley pays homage to the daily chores that make up a lifetime. With delicate precision\, she renders the boundaries\, as thin as the blade of a shovel\, between fear and courage\, rejection and compassion. \nLisa Graley is an assistant professor of English and humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the author of the poetry volume Box of Blue Horses. . Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train\, the Georgia Review\, and the McNeese Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-lisa-graley/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20160922T000532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T000532Z
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SUMMARY:Patrick Hoffman w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Hoffman follows up his sensational debutThe White Van with Every Man A Menace\, the inside story of an increasingly ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring. San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Fresh from prison\, Raymond Gaspar follows his imprisoned boss’s orders to check on their once-reliable buyers and distributors\, but quickly finds himself caught in a web of backstabbing and deceit. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco\,Every Man A Menace offers an unflinching account of the making\, moving\, and selling of the drug known as Molly—happiness sold by the brick and paid for with bloodshed and betrayal. \nPatrick will be in conversation with Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \nPatrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel\, The White Van\, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named aWall Street Journal Best Book of the Year. He was born in San Francisco and lived there for half his life\, working as an investigator\, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-hoffman-w-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T100301
CREATED:20161018T001854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T001854Z
UID:23868-1477594800-1477602000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2016 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates our last event of 2016 with special guest readers Dani Burlison\, Jacqueline Doyle and Megan Turner! Come cozy up with a glass of wine and listen to these storytellers! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit). \n—–\n+ Dani Burlison is the author of “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories\,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name and “Lady Parts\,” which will be available soon from Pioneers Press. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly\, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune\, KQED Arts and The Rumpus. Her writing can also be found at WIRED\, Vice\, Utne\, Ploughshares\, Hip Mama Magazine\, Spirituality & Health Magazine\, Shareable\, Prick of the Spindle and more. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Lit Camp and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and has upcoming work in various online and print publications. Dani is currently finishing a collection of short stories and is working on her first novel. \n+ Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has published flash in Quarter After Eight\, [PANK]\, Monkeybicycle\, Sweet\, Café Irreal\, The Pinch\, Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pine Press\, 2016)\, and many online journals. She lives in the East Bay with her husband\, the writer Stephen D. Gutierrez\, and their son. \n+ Megan Turner graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Her work has appeared in Rio Grande Review\, Spark\, Witness\, Grasslimb\, Atticus Review\, and others. Originally from Baltimore\, she grew up in Columbia\, Maryland and Harrogate\, England. She now lives and works in the Bay Area. For more information\, please visit: www.MeganRTurner.com. \n—–\n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2016-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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