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SUMMARY:Robert Pinsky + Murray Dewart
DESCRIPTION:Robert Pinsky and Murray Dewart discuss Poems About Sculpture and At the Foundling Hospital: Poems \nPegasus Books Downtown welcomes former poet laureate ROBERT PINSKY and sculptor MURRAY DEWART and for a discussion of their book Poems About Sculpture. Edited by Dewart and with a foreward by Pinsky\, Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Mr. Pinsky will also discuss his latest poetry collection\, At the Foundling Hospital. \nROBERT PINSKY \nRobert Pinsky is the author of several books of poetry\, including Gulf Music\, Jersey Rain\, The Want Bone\, and The Figured Wheel. His bestselling translation of The Inferno of Dante sets a modern standard. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, the PEN/Voelcker Award\, the Korean Manhae Prize\, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. \nMURRAY DEWART \nMurray Dewart is an internationally recognized sculptor who has built large public sculptures in China\, Israel\, and across the United States. He has work in more than thirty permanent collections\, among them the Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum\, Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum\, and the Museum of San Marco University in Lima\, Peru.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-pinsky-murray-dewart/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh
DESCRIPTION:Winner of The Paris Review‘s Plimpton Prize for some of her first stories\, and of the PEN Hemingway Prize for her debut novel Eileen\, Ottessa Moshfegh reads from Homesick for Another World\, her first collection—one of which has already won an O. Henry Prize. \nIn the judges’ citation for the Plimpton Prize\, Jeffrey Eugenides wrote: “What distinguishes Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is that unnamable quality that makes a new writer’s voice\, against all odds and the deadening surround of lyrical postures\, sound unique.” \nJoin us for a reading\, conversation\, and book signing! \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her novel Eileen won the PEN/Hemingway Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
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SUMMARY:Laurie Frankel w/ Kristin Clark
DESCRIPTION:Discussing Frankel’s novel\, This Is How it Always Is\, inspired by her Modern Love column for the New York Times\, “From He to She in First Grade.” \n“Well-plotted\, well-researched\, and unflaggingly interesting…As thought-provoking a domestic novel as we have seen this year.”–Kirkus (starred review) \n“A lively and fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant\, multifaceted love that binds them. . . .Sparkles with wit and wisdom.”– Maria Semple
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-frankel-w-kristin-clark/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T190000
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SUMMARY:One Book One Marin 2017
DESCRIPTION:From Anthony Marra\, the author of National Book Award longlist selection and New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, comes The Tsar of Love and Techno\, a collection of dazzling\, poignant\, and lyrical interwoven stories about family\, sacrifice\, the legacy of war\, and the redemptive power of art. \nThis stunning\, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs\, deep underneath Leningrad\, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recounts their stories and those of their grandmothers\, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce\, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose\, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present\, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents. \nAnthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013)\, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award longlist selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe\, and now resides in Oakland\, California. \nPopular across the United States and throughout the world\, One Book programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city or county. The city\, county and college libraries of Marin\, and community partners Book Passage and the Institute for Leadership Studies at Dominican University of California collaborate to bring Marin County readers stimulating programming and events related to the book throughout a three-month period\, February – April\, each year. All events are free and open to the public. \nThe Launch party at Book Passage kicks off the celebration and introduces the author and programming events that take place during the months of February\, March and April. Most events take place at city and community libraries throughout Marin and are geared around themes of the novel. The One Book One Marin program will conclude with a special event in Spring 2017 (Date TBA) at Dominican University’s Angelico Hall\, featuring Anthony Marra and KQED host Michael Krasny in conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-book-one-marin-2017/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Clair Brown
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Clair Brown’s talk draws from her book Buddhist Economics to discuss how we can create a sustainable\, equitable economy for all people. \nGlobal warming and global inequality are interrelated problems that we must solve if we want future generations to enjoy life. Buddhist Economics addresses how to move from an economy driven by consumption and “more is better” to an economy that creates a meaningful\, comfortable life for everyone. Clair will outline what we must do — from the individual to a community to a global level — to create a prosperous meaningful life in a sustainable world. \nClair Brown is Professor of Economics\, Emerita at the University of California\, Berkeley. Clair’s economic approach and life as an economist is published in Eminent Economists II – Their Life and Work Philosophies (Cambridge University Press\, 2013). In 2011\, Clair began a field\, Buddhist Economics\, at UC Berkeley. Buddhist economics integrates global sustainability and shared prosperity to provide a holistic model of economic behavior and well-being. Her book Buddhist Economics: An enlightened approach to the dismal science will be published by Bloomsbury Press in February 2017. \nThis event is free for OLLI members as well as uC Berkeley factuly\, students and staff. $10 for the general public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clair-brown/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Kevin Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Poole is pregnant and on her own\, the baby’s father—her high school art teacher—out of the picture. Not sure where to turn\, Izzy joins The Infinite Family Project\, an experiment in child and family development led by the awkwardly charming child psychiatrist Preston Grind. Funded by an eccentric billionaire\, the project is an attempt to create a “perfect little world\,” bringing together ten different families as a single family unit in order to raise exceptional children. All starts well\, with Izzy and her son thriving in their new surroundings\, but soon the equilibrium among the families begins to disintegrate and things fall apart. As her growing feelings for Dr. Grind further complicate the adventure in experimental living\, Izzy ultimately must decide what truly matters when it comes to family. \nKevin Wilson’s New York Times bestselling debut novel The Family Fang was enthusiastically embraced by readers and critics\, who called it “irresistible” (Time)\, “breathtakingly wonderful” (Miami Herald)\, “inventive and hilarious” (Wall Street Journal)\, and “a minty fresh delight” (NPR). Perfect Little World is Wilson’s much-anticipated new novel—another offbeat look at the meaning of family\, and a strange utopian experiment that could redefine what family means.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-wilson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Asturo Riley + Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Atsuro Riley is known for his unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative modes. His stunning and highly original book Romey’s Order is a sequence of poems set in his childhood ‘blood-home\,’ the South Carolina lowcountry—and is the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, The Believer Poetry Award\, the Whiting Writers’ Award\, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.  Riley’s work has also been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine.  Riley lives in San Francisco. \nKay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.  She has lived in Marin County in Northern California since 1971. Ryan’s collections of poetry include most recently Erratic Facts\, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It\, New and Selected Poems; Say Uncle\, Elephant Rocks\, and Flamingo Watching among others. About her work\, J.D. McClatchy has said: “Her poems are compact\, exhilarating\, strange affairs\, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today’s literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson\, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.” Ryan’s awards include a MacArthur “Genius” Award; The National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama in 2012; the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Ingram Merrill Award. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2006. In 2008\, she was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asturo-riley-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brunonia Barry
DESCRIPTION:Brunonia Barry\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader\, returns to her contemporary\, otherworldly Salem with The Fifth Petal\, a complex brew of suspense\, seduction\, and murder. \nSalem’s chief of police\, John Rafferty\, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney\, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide dubbed “The Goddess Murders\,” in which three young women\, all descended from accused Salem witches\, were slashed one Halloween night. Aided by Callie Cahill\, the daughter of one of the victims who has returned to town\, Rafferty begins to uncover a dark chapter in Salem’s past. Callie\, who has always been gifted with premonitions\, begins to struggle with visions she doesn’t quite understand and an attraction to a man who has unknown connections to her mother’s murder. Neither believes that the main suspect\, Rose Whelan\, respected local historian and sometime-aunt to Callie\, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance\, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover what truly happened\, will evil rise again? \nBrunonia Barry is the New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival’s Baccante Award and was a past recipient of Ragdale Artists Colony’s Strnad Invitational Fellowship\, as well as the winner of New England Book Festival’s award for Best Fiction. Her reviews and articles on writing have appeared in the London Times and the Washington Post. Brunonia cochairs the Salem Athenaeum Writers Committee. She lives in Salem with her husband\, Gary Ward\, and their dog\, Angel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brunonia-barry/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T200000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Kelsey Crowe
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Dr. Kelsey Crowe to the store to discuss and sign There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary\, Awful\, and Unfair to People You Love\, on Tuesday\, January 31st at 7:00 pm. Joining her in conversation will the executive director of the Greater Good\, Jason March. \nWhen someone you know is hurting\, you want to let her know that you care\, but many people don’t know what words to use or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful\, instructive guide from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell\, blends well-researched\, actionable advice with the no-nonsense humor and the signature illustration style of McDowell’s immensely popular Empathy Cards\, to help you feel confident in connecting with anyone experiencing grief\, loss\, illness\, or any other difficult situation. \nWritten in a how-to\, relatable\, we’ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way\, There Is No Good Card for This isn’t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. It is a helpful illustrated guide to effective compassion that takes you\, step by step\, past the paralysis of thinking about someone in a difficult time to actually doing something (or nothing) with good judgment instead of fear. There Is No Good Card for This features workbook exercises\, sample dialogues\, and real-life examples from Dr. Crowe’s research\, including her popular “Empathy Bootcamps” that give people tools for building relationships when it really counts. Whether it’s a coworker whose mother has died\, a neighbor whose husband has been in a car accident\, or a friend who is seriously ill\, There Is No Good Card for This teaches you how to be the best friend you can be to someone in need. \nDr. Kelsey Crowe is the founder of Help Each Other Out and is co-author of There Is No Good Card for This. She has her PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley and teaches social work at California State University. She hopes for a day when no one has to suffer a personal trial alone because the people around them just didn’t know what to do or say.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-kelsey-crowe/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland Crossroads: Last Tuesday's Reading and Open Mic Series
DESCRIPTION:TIME: Doors at 6:30pm; Open Mic Sign-up at 6:45pm; Reading at 7:00pm\nVENUE: Studio Grand Oakland\nAdmission: $5-15 Sliding Scale*\nEVENT TITLE: Oakland Crossroads :: Last Tuesday’s Reading and Open Mic Series featuring Adela Najarro\, Cassandra Dallet\, and Javier Zamora \n*No one turned away for lack of funds. Contribution to artists and space appreciated. \n“To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras\, be a crossroads.”\n– Gloria Anzaldúa\n\nOakland Crossroads is a monthly reading series and open mic curated by Suzana Huerta. This series occurs on the last Tuesday of every month. This month\, our featured writers include Adela Najarro\, Cassandra Dallet\, and Javier Zamora \nEvery last Tuesdays of the month\, join us for Oakland Crossroads\, a monthly reading and open mic series curated and hosted by Suzana Huerta. It takes its name from the idea that living at a crossroads\, embracing community in all its rich complexity is the only way to resist borders that bind and confine us. Through poetry and story\, in the space of art and song\, we come to together to connect and express the multitude of voices that makes Oakland so rich. \nOakland Crossroads features local\, Bay Area poets and writers. This series seeks to bring together Bay Area based writers\, both established and emerging\, to share their stories\, their hearts—to reveal their own realities and dreams on the mic. Every reading will feature at least one poet or writer from Oakland and will provide an open mic for anyone who wants to read. We welcome all poets and writers\, all levels of experience\, all members of the community. \nSUZANA HUERTA\nSuzy Huerta was born and raised in San Jose\, California. She is an educator teaching full-time at Foothill College. Her writing is featured in Cheers from the Wasteland\, Poetry of Resistance: A Multicultural Anthology in Response to Arizona SB 1070\, Xenophobia and Injustice by University of Arizona Press\, Bordersenses\, La Bloga\, The Packinghouse Review\, La Bloga and other journals. Suzy is a two-time VONA alum\, a Lucille Clifton Scholar at the Community of Writers in Squaw Valley\, and a Macondo fellow. \nADELA NAJARRO\nAdela Najarro is the author of two poetry collections: Split Geography and Twice Told Over. She teaches creative writing\, literature\, and composition at Cabrillo College. This spring semester\, she will teach a poetry workshop\, “Poetry for the People in a Time of Division\,” where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word; English 12B and 14B is currently open for enrollment through Cabrillo College. More information about Adela can be found at her website:www.adelanajarro.com. \nCASSANDRA DALLET\nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a Pushcart nominee and has published online and in many print magazines. She has authored eight books of poetry and reads often around the Bay Area. \nJAVIER ZAMORA\nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow\, 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellow\, and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-crossroads-najarro-dallett-zamora/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SJSU MFA Open House
DESCRIPTION:If you’re a Creative Writer considering applying to an MFA program\, you should check out SJSU’s dual-genre MFA. We offer tracks in Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, Poetry\, and Scripwriting. Meet SJSU’s core creative writing faculty\, and learn about our new two-year curriculum. Refreshments served. For more details click: http://www.sjsu.edu/english/graduate/mfa/creative/index.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sjsu-mfa-open-house/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="San Jose State University":MAILTO:alan.soldofsky@sjsu.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T170000
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \nPraise for White Tears \n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \nAbout White Tears \nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
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SUMMARY:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/24866/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
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SUMMARY:Susan Sherman
DESCRIPTION:Set in the early 1900s\, If You Are There follows young Lucia Rutkowski who\, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother\, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position\, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for two disorganized\, rather poor married scientists so distracted by their work that their house and young child are often neglected. Lucia soon bonds with her eccentric employers\, watching as their work with radioactive materials grows increasing noticed by the world\, then rising to fame as the great Marie and Pierre Curie. \nSoon\, all of Paris is alit with the news of an impending visit from Eusapia Palladino\, the world’s most famous medium. It is through her now famous employers that Lucia attends Eusapia’s gatherings and eventually falls under the medium’s spell\, leaving the Curie household to travel with her to Italy. Ultimately\, Lucia is placed directly in the crosshairs of faith versus science what is more real\, the glowing substances of the Curie laboratory or the glowing visions that surround the medium during her seance? \nSusan Sherman is the author of The Little Russian. She is the former Chair of the Art Department of Whittier College and the co-creator of one of the most successful television shows for children in the history of the Disney Network.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-sherman-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T190000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations Edition #41
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations proudly presents\nShow #41 \nThis reading of authors and poets\, features live music within a curated show. \nWe are back in San Francisco on Monday\, January 30\, 2017 at Hotel Rex\, located on Gallery Row\, in the center of San Francisco’s Arts and Theater district. \nWe start the evening with our writer’s mixer at the bar at 6:30 pm. Come share a drink over lit chat and book babble with an intriguing gaggle of Bay Area poets\, authors and writers. \nThe show starts promptly at 7:30pm. \nJoin us\nMonday\, January 30\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\n562 Sutter St.\, San Francisco \nBay Area Generations #41\nWriter’s mixer at the bar: 6:30 pm.\nDoors Open: 7 pm. Show Begins: 7:30 pm. \n$7.00 suggested donation\n$10.00 suggested with chapbook. \nBay Area Generations is a reading series that features paired readers of different generations. Since 2013\, it has featured over 200 notable authors\, poets\, writers and playwrights in this celebrated literary series: a salon of paired readers with musical guests in a curated\, submission-based show.www.bayareagenerations.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-edition-41/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170131T072115Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of “Gods Without Men” \n\n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write.” — Javier Calvo \n\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\nAbout Savage Theories \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano. \nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey. \n“Savage Theories” wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-2/
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:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170131T051314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T051314Z
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SUMMARY:Bass\, Hirshfield\, + Howe: A Benefit for SHE
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass: “Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral\, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. Following her musings on suicide and generosity\, desire and repetition—it becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.” —Briana Shemroske\, Booklist \nJane Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield’s poetry speaks to the central issues of human existence—desire and loss\, impermanence and beauty\, the many dimensions of our connection with others and the wider community of creatures and objects with which we share our lives. Demonstrating with quiet authority what it means to awaken into the full capacities of attention\, her work sets forth a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. \nMarie Howe: “Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” —Stanley Kunitz \nAnd Kim Rosen\, on behalf of the S.H.E. College Fund
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bass-hirshfield-howe-a-benefit-for-she/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170129T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20161223T030951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030951Z
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SUMMARY:Paulette Jiles
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of the Civil War\, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas\, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them\, the captain enjoys his rootless\, solitary existence. \nIn Wichita Falls\, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier\, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl\, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army\, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. \nNews of the World follows their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain. Johanna has forgotten the English language\, tries to escape at every opportunity\, throws away her shoes\, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass\, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other\, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. \nArriving in San Antonio\, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man\, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself. \nPaulette Jiles is a poet\, memoirist\, and bestselling novelist. Her books include Cousins\, a memoir; and the novels Enemy Women; Stormy Weather; The Color of Lightning; and Lighthouse Island. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paulette-jiles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170129T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20161223T033628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033628Z
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SUMMARY:Far Out: Poems of the ’60’s
DESCRIPTION:Far Out: Poems of the ’60s features poems from 78 writers including work from several past poets laureate of the U.S. and several U.S. states\, as well as iconic cultural figures\, who remember that tumultuous decade from a wide range of vantage points. This collection covers the most important themes of the time; protest\, civil rights\, the counter-culture\, drugs\, sex\, rock & roll\, liberation\, and the Vietnam War. It brings to life the experiences of people who vividly remember the effects of the assassinations of Medgar Evers\, JFK\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King\, and those who lived through the period of the Vietnam War and the protests against it. Also included are poems from those who experienced the rise of Second-Wave Feminism\, the Civil Rights Act and the emergence of the Black Power Movement\, as well as the Apollo 11 moon landing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/far-out-poems-of-the-60s/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T020000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170109T103143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T103143Z
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SUMMARY:Oakland Review #4
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of Oakland Review #4 with us! There will be a reading featuring authors published in issue #4 (lineup tba\, so please stay tuned). Hosted by OR eds Paul Corman-Roberts\, J de Salvo\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Laura Zink.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-review-4/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170128T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170128T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170109T102905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102905Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, An "Animal" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is ready to put 2016 to sleep and wake up in a shiny new 2017. (As a reminder\, December is our one hiatus of the year\, but we’re excited for a fresh and sexy January reading). \nGet out your grrr and your fur\, your teeth and tails\, your fierce and feral hearts; our theme for January is ANIMAL! \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 January features are: MK Chavez and Alexandra Kostoulas\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: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \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\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, January 28th\, 2017\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 \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nOakland based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks\, including “Mothermorphosis.” “Dear Animal\,” was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Fruitvale Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she was awarded an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. \nALEXANDRA KOSTOULAS is an award-winning writer of poetry\, fiction and journalism. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute and publisher of the Mid-Market News. She has performed her work on stage locally and nationally at Santa Barbara Book & Author festival\, Los Angeles Festival of Books\, UC Berkeley\, Beyond Baroque Bookstore in Venice\, CA\, Mills College\, the Lit Symposium at UC Santa Barbara\, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley\, Books and Books in Miami\, and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and more. \nShe has just finished a book of poems called Leaving Los Angeles about a young poet’s coming-of-age. She is currently working on finishing up her novel\, “Persephone Stolen\,” which weaves in tales of the Persephone myth\, the immigrant experience and stolen artifacts. \nShe teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day at methodwritingsf.com and http://sfwriting.institute/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-animal-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170114T010857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062110Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Rachel Richardson + Martin Rock
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Richardson’s new book of poems is Hundred-Year Wave. Victoria Chang says\, “Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject matter from new parenthood\, marriage\, the ocean\, whales\, and Sylvia Plath….Her gifts are wide and deep like the ocean\, as she shows us that ‘we are not lost/ in the vast expanse of lostness.’” A former Stegner fellow at Stanford and a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\, she coordinates poetry programming for the Bay Area Book Festival and co-directs Left Margin Lit\, a new literary arts center in Berkeley. \nMartin Rock’s collection Residuum was chosen for the Cleveland State Poetry Center’s 2015 First Book Award. Erin Belieu says\, “Martin Rock’s remarkable debut collection\, Residuum\, takes on nothing less than making the unsayable (as Heidegger perceives it) ‘legible.’ I find the partial erasure form of this book dynamic\, and lyrically fluid. Residuum is also genuinely moving and funny in spots.” A translator from the Japanese widely published in literary journals\, he has held senior editorial positions at several journals and is Founding Editor of Loaded Bicycle\, an online journal of poetry\, art\, and translation. Poet-in-Residence at Texas Children’s Hospital\, he helps young patients express themselves through writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-rachel-richardson-martin-rock/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170114T010458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T010537Z
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SUMMARY:Be About It Zine #14 Release Party
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-davis/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20161201T023002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023002Z
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SUMMARY:Bookswap w/ Marian Palaia
DESCRIPTION:This January\, we have invited the incredible local author Marian Palaia to kick off the new year! Marian’s debut novel\, The Given World\, was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, and recognized by Kirkus as a 2015 Best Novel. \nFrom a quiet family farm in Montana in the 60s to the grit and haze of San Francisco in the 70s to a gypsy-populated\, post-war Saigon\, The Given World spins around its unconventional and unforgettable heroine\, Riley. When her big brother is declared MIA in Vietnam\, young Riley packs up her shattered heart and leaves her family\, her first love\, and “a few small things” behind. By trial and error she builds a new life\, working on cars\, delivering newspapers\, tending bar. She befriends\, rescues\, and is rescued by a similarly vagabond cast of characters whose “‘unraveled souls’ sting hardest and linger the longest” (The New York Times Book Review). Foolhardy\, funny\, and wise\, Riley’s challenge as she grows into a woman is simple: survive long enough to go home again\, or at least figure out where home is\, and who might be among the living there. \nBring a book about being lost. As long as you love it\, bring it to Bookswap. You’ll talk about it in groups and hear about the books that other people brought. We’ll drink a bunch of free wine and beer and get to know our guest author. At the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap\, and you’ll leave with a new favorite (or ten). \n>>> Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out! You can purchase them HERE. \n**** Admission includes an open bar\, swag\, and 20% off everything you buy that night.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-w-marian-palaia/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20161201T025052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025052Z
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA Winter Issue Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to host the release of ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue on Thursday\, January 26th at 7:00 pm. Copies of this issue will be available for purchase at the event. \nCome celebrate ZYZZYVA‘s Winter issue with a reading featuring contributors Kathleen Alcott\, Ella Martinsen Gorham\, Matthew Zapruder\, and Scott O’Connor. We promise a night of exemplary prose and verse\, so please join us! \nKathleen Alcott is the author of the novels Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets\, which was translated into several languages. Her fiction\, criticism\, and essays appear in publications including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The New Yorker Online\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Coffin Factory. Born in Northern California\, she currently resides in New York City. \nElla Martinsen Gorham‘s story\, I Have Jonah\, which is told from the perspective of a mother of a developmentally disabled child\, was nominated by Edan Lepucki for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s James Kirkwood Literary Prize\, and placed second. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of author of the poetry collections Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, and the forthcoming essay collection\, Why Poetry. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Oakland\, where he is an instructor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program\, as well as editor-at-large for Wave Books. \nScott O’Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves\, and the novels Untouchable and Half World. He has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award\, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Zyzzyva\, The Rattling Wall\, VLAK\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-winter-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20161223T021903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T021903Z
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SUMMARY:Disaster by Madison Davis Book Release
DESCRIPTION:BOOK RELEASE FOR MADISON DAVIS’S DISASTER\nWe’re having a reading / we’re having a show / we’re excited to share this new book with all of you. \nPERFORMERS\nMadison Davis\nFisayo Adeyeye\nWendy Trevino\nOut of Pocket (Sharmi Basu & Angel Castellon) \nPerformer Bios:\n\n//Madison Davis//\nMadison Davis writes about family\, water\, mourning & disaster. Her recent work can be found in Elderly\, Hold: A Journal\, The Portable Boog Reader\, It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny in Oakland\, & Open House. She lives\, writes\, and works retail in Oakland\, CA. Disaster is her first book. \n//Fisayo Adeyeye//\nFisayo Adeyeye has works published in The Collapsar\, The Birds We Piled Loosely\, The Wildness\, and work forthcoming in Print Oriented Bastards\, New American Writing\, and This Magazine. He is the current Poetry Editor of Fourteen Hills\, a Co-Curator of the VelRo Graduate Reading Series. His chapbook Blackfish was a finalist for the 2015 Best Prize Chapbook Contest (Big Lucks). His first full length book Cradles is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in April 2017. \n//Out of Pocket//\nA performance that attempts to create a non narrative experience of the vibrational transition and tension between the material and immaterial that occurs within intimacy. \n//Wendy Trevino//\nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nMore about the new release: Disaster is an investigation into what is possible when everything goes perfectly wrong; when planes crash\, trains derail\, and structures collapse. The details are put forward as a way to examine how each disaster is mourned as a catastrophic exception to the order of things. Ultimately\, looking at these events creates space to explore the connection between the collective trauma experienced in the wake of a large scale disaster and a personal story of mourning. \nDoors @ 5:30\nPerformances promptly @ 6
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disaster-by-madison-davis-book-release/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20161017T233319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233319Z
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead w/ Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:COLSON WHITEHEAD takes on a multitude of issues with original wit and a rich imagination. In 1999\, he burst onto the literary scene with his award-winning debut novel\, The Intuitionist\, which concerned the travails of the first black woman elevator inspector in New York City. His second novel\, John Henry Days\, followed in 2001 and was met with much critical acclaim. John Updike wrote in a New Yorker review that the novel “does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.” Whitehead is also the author of The Colossus of New York\, a collection of essays about his hometown\, Apex Hides the Hurt\, Sag Harbor\, and Zone One\, a zombie novel influenced by films Whitehead watched as a child. His long-awaited new novel\, The Underground Railroad\, is a magnificent and wrenching chronicle of a young slave’s journeys as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-w-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170113T131749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062003Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Cusk
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Cusk  discusses Transit\, the second volume in a trilogy that began with Outline (a NY Times 10 Best Books selection for 2015) with Caille Millner. \n\nPraise for Rachel Cusk: \n“[A] lethally intelligent novel . . . reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater\, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk’s literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you’ll become convinced that she is one of the smartest writers alive.” —Heidi Julavits\, The New York Times Book Review \nAbout Transit: \n The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk/
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:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170113T133818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061858Z
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SUMMARY:Gregg Hurwitz
DESCRIPTION:New York Times-bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz shares his latest critically-acclaimed thriller\, The Nowhere Man: An Orphan X Novel. \nSpoken about only in whispers\, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate\, he can He will do anything to save them. \nEvan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. \nTaken from a group home at twelve\, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program\, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program\, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. \nBut his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured\, drugged\, and spirited off to a remote location\, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage but they don’t know who they re dealing with or that they ve trapped themselves inside that cage with one of the deadliest and most resourceful men on earth. \nContinuing his electrifying series featuring Evan Smoak\, Gregg Hurwitz delivers a blistering\, compelling new novel in the series launched with the instant international bestseller\, Orphan X.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gregg-hurwitz/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T094516
CREATED:20170113T132101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T132101Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit Reading Series: New Year Edition
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-reading-series-new-year-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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