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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
DESCRIPTION:Murakami has a new book out on 10/9 (preorder link below)\, and censors in Hong Kong have declared it ‘obscene\,’ so naturally\, we’re going in. \nDon’t worry if you haven’t read The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: consider this a gross Murakami bingo night\, with swag\, and probably copies of the new book to give away to lucky folks. BYO Cutty Sark. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early.  Tickets on sale now! \n— \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. \n— \nCritics are saying: \n… the most despicable literary event possible. \nI’m so lost and so scared \n… an affront to literature. \nwonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting. \ncome if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before. \nShipwreck will bring you to madness and you may never return. \nI do not care for this. \nlovingly rendered artisanal small batch nightmares \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:As part of their Mazza Writer in Residency for October 1–6\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta will be joined by celebrated Nicaraguan poet—and SF State faculty member in Latina/Latino Studies—Daisy Zamora\, with the two poets reading from their works\, followed by a conversation between them and in response to their audience. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nA Nicaraguan Californian via Mexico raised both in Huntington Park and Highland Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta lives in a rent controlled apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco. An artist\, writer\, reproductive justice activist\, patient advocate\, and lapsed full spectrum doula who supports themself through working at a neighborhood cafe and cleaning houses\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s work attempts\, as fellow poet Lauren Levin writes\, to “include direct revolutionary action\, up to and including revolutionary violence\, as part of a continuum of care\, and their use of this redefinition of care-work to rethink gendered paradigms.” Their first book\, The Easy Body\, was published by Oakland queer art & publishing collective Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2017. Photo: Dickie Bahto. \nDaisy Zamora is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Latin American poetry.  Her work is known for its uncompromising voice and wide-ranging subject matter that explores and expresses the realities of  everyday life while encompassing human rights\, politics\, revolution\, feminist issues\, literature\, art\, history\, and culture.  During Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution she was a combatant for the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front)\, and during the final 1979 Sandinista offensive became the voice and program director for clandestine Radio Sandino.  After the triumph of the revolution\, she was appointed Vice Minister of Culture for the new government. She worked with fellow poet and mentor Ernesto Cardenal\, Minister of Culture to create and implement numerous programs that successfully revitalized the war‑damaged cultural life of Nicaragua\, including a popular\, highly successful national literacy program that brought books and reading\, poetry\, and visual arts to even the remotest areas of the country. \nAuthor of numerous books of poetry in Spanish\, as well as a collection of political essays\, she also edited the first comprehensive anthology of Nicaraguan women poets published in Latin America.  Her latest poetry collection\, La violenta espuma\, was published in Madrid by renowned Spanish poetry publisher Visor in late December 2017.  Also recently\, she was featured in director Jenny Murray’s award winning documentary ¡Las Sandinistas!\, soon to be aired on PBS. Among her poetry books in English\, The Violent Foam: New & Selected Poems\, a bilingual collections\, was published by Curbstone Press.  Life for Each\, was published in England by Katabasis in 1994;  an earlier collection\, Riverbed of Memory\, was published by City Lights Books in 1992\, and Clean Slate by Curbstone Press in 1993. \nA political activist and advocate for women’s rights throughout her life\, for the last several years she has taught poetry workshops at a number of universities and colleges\, and has been a lecturer of Latin American culture and literature for the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the University of San Francisco\, and currently at San Francisco State University. She resides in Managua and San Francisco\, where she lives with her husband\, U.S. poet and writer George Evans. Photo: Frank Pineda. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nin performance\, participants tba\nSaturday OCT 6\n7:00pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\, San Francisco\, free and open to the public\nsupported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-tatiana-luboviski-acosta-with-special-guest-daisy-zamora-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Fady Joudah’s fourth and most recent poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He is the recipient of a Yale Younger Poets prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Residency\, and the Griffin International Poetry prize. He is the translator of several volumes of Arabic poetry into English. He is also a practicing physician of internal medicine in Houston\, TX.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fady-joudah-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Reyna Grande with Carolina De Robertis / A Dream Called Home
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for Reyna Grandeand her new memoir A Dream Called Home. She’ll be in conversation with Carolina De Robertis. Please join us! \n  \nFrom bestselling author Reyna Grande—whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country—comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. \nWhen Reyna Grande was nine-years-old\, she walked across the US–Mexico border in search of a home\, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother\, an abusive\, alcoholic father\, and a school system that belittled her heritage. \nWith so few resources at her disposal\, Reyna finds refuge in words\, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAlthough her acceptance is a triumph\, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna\, who is now once again estranged from her family and support system. Again\, she finds solace in words\, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer\, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. \nThrough it all\, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible\, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to “a fierce\, smart\, shimmering light of a writer” (Cheryl Strayed); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “speak[ing] for millions of immigrants whose voices have gone unheard” (Sandra Cisneros); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. \nTold in Reyna’s exquisite\, heartfelt prose\, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how\, by daring to pursue her dreams\, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure. \n  \n\n  \nReyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel\, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria\, 2006)\, received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award\, a 2007 American Book Award\, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel\, Dancing with Butterflies(Washington Square Press\, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award\, Best Women’s Issues\, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs\, including Rochester Reads 2018\, MacReads 2018\, One Book/One Michiana 2018\, All Henrico Reads 2018\, Timberland Reads Together 2017\, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017\, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017\, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016\, Camarillo Reads 2016\, Roswell Reads 2015\, and One Maryland/One Book 2014\, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work\, visit www.reynagrande.com. Reyna’s author photo was taken by Imran Chaudhry. \n  \nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. She is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature\, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\, which features essays by leading thinkers and writers in response to the shifting political atmosphere in the U.S. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. She is currently at work on her fourth novel\, The Burning Edge of the World. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-reyna-grande-with-carolina-de-robertis-a-dream-called-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:In his new book\, Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how\, in a period best known for the rise of black anti-Semitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance\, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda-including the emancipation of Soviet Jews\, the rise of Jewish day schools\, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy\, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. \nUndermining widely-held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance\, Dollinger describes a new political consensus\, based on identity politics\, that drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism. \nMarc Dollinger is the author of “Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America\,” and co-editor of “California Jews and American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader.” He holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. \n“Dollinger’s illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath.”\n~ Shaul Magid\, Indiana University\, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America \nThe ticket price includes a copy of the book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-power-jewish-politics-reinventing-the-alliance-in-the-1960s/
LOCATION:Oshman Family JCC\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:7pm Book Club
DESCRIPTION:book club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/7pm-book-club/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Yung Pueblo / Inward
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Yung Pueblo\, to celebrate his first book Inward. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St. in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Inward\, which is included with each ticket. \n  \nYou can purchase tickets here. \n\n\n  \nFrom poet\, meditator\, and speaker Yung Pueblo comes the revised and expanded edition of Inward\, a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love\, the power of letting go\, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. \n  \nWith an emphasis on mindfulness and meditative healing\, Inward is a narrative of Yung Pueblos personal journey\, but it also implores the reader to self-reflect and take steps toward finding their own inner peace. The collection is divided into five chapters — distance\, union\, interlude\, self-love\, and understanding — and in them\, Pueblo carries the reader through the different phases of the healing process\, sharing his own unique perspective. \n  \nIn an eloquent display of insight and vulnerability\, Inward serves as a reminder to readers that healing\, transformation\, and freedom truly are possible. \n  \n\n  \nDiego Perez is the writer behind the pen name Yung Pueblo. The name Yung Pueblo translates to young people\, and it serves to remind Perez of his Ecuadorian roots\, his experiences in activism\, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. His favorite word\, liberation\, took on a deeper meaning once he started meditating Vipassana\, as taught by S.N. Goenka. Through writing and speaking\, Perez aims to support the healing of the individual\, realizing that when we release our personal burdens\, we contribute to a global peace. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-yung-pueblo-inward/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hot New Books
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Kathleen McClung\, Casandra Dallett\, Mary Mackay\, Ingrid Keir. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-new-books-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 2\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nSolano Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass and Essy Stone
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by Poetry Society of America and the Mill Valley Library. This is sure to be a packed event\, so register on the Mill Valley Library website starting on October 15. \n \nRobert Hass\, former United States Poet Laureate\, has illumined the poetic landscape with his many books of poetry\, translation\, and essays. His honors include the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. His celebrated books of essays include A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry and What Light Can Do: Essays on Art\, Imagination\, and the Natural World\, the recipient of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Hass translated many of the works of Czeslaw Milosz\, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer; The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His many honors include the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (twice)\, and the Wallace Stevens Award. His poetry is deeply reflective of the California landscape\, domestic life\, and spiritual awareness. To hear him read or speak is transformative\, whether a Haiku from Issa\, a mediation from Miłosz\, or his own lyric work. \n\n\n\n\nEssy Stone is a PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami\, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New Yorker\, 32 Poems\, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book\, What It Done to Us\, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. For much of her life she supported herself as a waitress. Her work reflects the East Tennessee culture in which she grew up\, an often oppressive world\, especially for women or minorities. The freshness of her language and imagery reflect and transform that environment just as she has transformed herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-essy-stone/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon : Risk
DESCRIPTION:Tales of peril and possibility\, jeopardy and chance; of flirting with danger and being willing to lose it all\nRISK\nTuesday\,  October 2nd\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \nFeaturing: \nRebecca Power\nChris Carrico\nWillow Brugh\nBronica Blue\nNathan Parker\nJohn Adams\nCurated by KC Crowell \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails and conversation; talks begin at 7:30 \nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21 \nArtwork by Imogen Speer \nGET TICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-risk/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel\, The Shape of the Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel\, The Shape of the Ruins. \n\nPraise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Shape of the Ruins is a highly sophisticated\, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read.” —Alan Furst \n\n“One of the great novels of recent years.” —Mario Vargas Llosa \n\n“A reinventor of Latin American literature in the 21st century.” —Jonathan Franzen \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a considerable writer.” —E. L. Doctorow \n\n“I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts—intelligence\, wit\, energy\, a deep vein of feeling–but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one’s amazement at his talents\, and then the strange\, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold.” —Nicole Krauss \n\nAbout The Shape of the Ruins \n\nA sweeping tale of conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and twisted obsessions — the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. \nThe Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy\, political obsession\, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician\, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. \nThis novel explores the darkest moments of a country’s past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read\, beautiful and profound\, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal\, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-discusses-his-new-novel-the-shape-of-the-ruins/
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:20181001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180830T215811Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181001T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20170324T014130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061746Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-18/
LOCATION:California
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181001T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181001T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180924T001128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T001128Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays reading "Exotic Locales: China\, Australia & the American Midwest"
DESCRIPTION:Setting is a device used in writing fiction. A particular setting can be exotic to one reader and prosaic to another. Odd Mondays has asked three authors of recent novels to read excerpts describing setting at “Exotic Locales\,” Monday\, October 1\, 7pm to 8pm\, at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. After the readings\, the authors will discuss why they chose that setting and what function it serves in their novel. Former Noe Valley resident Kirstin Chen set her novel BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE in Mao-era China and Hong Kong. Current Noe Valley resident Rebecca Winterer‘s novel THE SINGING SHIP takes place in Queensland\, Australia. TWISTER\, by Genanne Walsh\, is set in the American Midwest\, which is clearly exotic to San Franciscans\, expats or not. Admission is free and so are the refreshments! \nMORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKirstin Chen’s new novel\, BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE\, was named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. She is also the author of SOY SAUCE FOR BEGINNERS. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of TWISTER\, which was awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also shortlisted for the Brighthorse Prize\, the Housatonic Book Award in Fiction\, and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \nRebecca Winterer’s THE SINGING SHIP was awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. She’s received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in Noe Valley with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-exotic-locales-china-australia-the-american-midwest/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181001T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181001T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180924T001340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T001340Z
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SUMMARY:Shane Bauer: American Prison
DESCRIPTION:Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting\, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting\, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award\, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism\, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author\, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal\, of a memoir\, A Sliver of Light\, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. \nABOUT AMERICAN PRISON \nIn 2014\, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield\, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist\, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later\, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough\, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still\, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison\, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For\, as he soon realized\, we can’t understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery\, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. \nThe private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates\, or to feed them well\, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight\, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror\, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison\, and he is far from alone. \nA blistering indictment of the private prison system\, and the powerful forces that drive it\, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shane-bauer-american-prison/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 TELEGRAPH AVE\, BERKELEY\, CA\, 94704-2322\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180930T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180802T024841Z
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event
DESCRIPTION:Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  Info To Come \nDoors open at 6:30pm.  Readings begin at 7:00pm sharp.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change-bay-area-poetry-marathon-joint-event/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180930T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180825T020319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T020319Z
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nFeatured readers – \nMusical guests: \nWith your host Bloodflower
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180929T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180929T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
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SUMMARY:FRAN LEBOWITZ
DESCRIPTION:FRAN LEBOWITZ\nIn Conversation with Lawrence Rinder\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads\, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators. Often considered heir to the crown of Dorothy Parker\, her essays and interviews have been featured in Interview and Mademoiselle. Her books include Metropolitan Life\, Social Studies\, the children’s book Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meets the Pandas\, and the novel Exterior Signs of Wealth. A raconteur if ever there was one\, Lebowitz has long been a regular on various talk shows including those hosted by Jimmy Fallon\, Conan O’Brien\, and Bill Maher. Lebowitz lives in New York City\, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fran-lebowitz/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180930T180000
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CREATED:20180924T020921Z
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SUMMARY:11TH ANNUAL BEAT MUSEUM POETRY FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:IN ASSOCIATION WITH 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE\nSAT. & SUN. SEPT. 29TH & 30TH\, 1-6PM \nTwo days of poetry and music\, produced by Fred Dodsworth\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, and Marguerite Munoz. \n\nKim Shuck\nMarguerite Munoz\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nBill Gainer\nMK Chavez\nRaina De Leon\nPreeti Vangani\nAmelia Alvarez\nMaw Shein Win (F)\nTerry Adams\nDiane Mooney\nDale Jensen (SAT)\nAlexandra Naughton\nAnne Cheliek\nPeter Kline\nChris Olander\nDiego DeLeo\nQ.R. Hand\nMichael Joseph ArchAngelini\nMatthew Siegel\nNaomi Quinonez\nAbe Becker\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nBen Gucciardi\nLeah Lubin\nCesar Love\nGwynn O’ Gara\nCaroline Goodwin\nNeeli Cherkovski\nNatasha Dennerstein\nK.R. Morrison\nJoel Landmine\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nFred Dodsworth\nKirk Lumpkin\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nYoussef Alaoui\nRichard Martin\nCarol Denney\nAllen Fleming\nBlack Lyrics Ileah\nThea Matthews\nCarl Macki\nJessica Loos\nMary Marcia Casoly\nJoe Cottonwood\nGary Horsman w. Bill Haines\nTracy Knapp\nBill Vartnaw\nJeanne Powell\nColleen McKee\nBrittany Perham\nNicole Henares\nGarrett Murphy\nPeggy Morrison\nGary Turchin\nDaniel Ari\nEsther Kamkar\nCarol Dorf\nNorm Mattox\nCara Vida\nRichard Loranger\nDeamer Dunn\nAideed Medina
URL:https://litseen.com/event/11th-annual-beat-museum-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
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SUMMARY:Jessica Hopper
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Hopper\, author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic\, dicusses her new memoir\, Night Moves. \n\nPraise for Night Moves \n\n“Jessica Hopper’s Night Moves reads like a diary—immediate and urgent. Hopper and her friends prowl the streets of Chicago on bicycles\, always moving\, surrounded by both the city and a cocoon of occupied affection. It’s full of music and pets and friendship and made me feel as if the heating bills in Chicago would be worth it\, if one could have this sort of busy\, free life. The book exists in that space between fact and fiction\, between novel and memoir—but I knew right away that every word was true.” Emma Straub\, best-selling author of Modern Lovers \n\n“In Night Moves\, Jessica Hopper opens the window to a past that might have been my past\, or your past\, or the past of someone you know. It is a book of poems\, it is a memoir\, it is a living journal\, all at once. This is the best writing—personal\, but with two arms held wide open to invite you in. Night Moves is a book teeming with generosity. It gives and gives and asks only for an eager imagination in return.” Hanif Abdurraqib\, author of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us \n\n“In this vivid collection of snapshots from Hopper’s life as a beneficent renegade rock girl\, she manages to communicate so much more than what happened and what she thought about it. She takes you with her\, on every steamy summer bike ride\, to every jukebox and rock show and dive bar in her wild\, sweet young life.” Lizzy Goodman\, author of Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011 \n\nAbout Night Moves \n\nWritten in taut\, mesmerizing\, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009\, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals\, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ\, living in decrepit punk houses\, biking to bad loft parties with her friends\, exploring Chicago deep into the night. And\, along the way\, she creates an homage to vibrant corners of the city that have been muted by sleek development. A book birthed in the amber glow of Chicago streetlamps\, Night Moves is about a transformative moment of cultural history–and how a raw\, rebellious writer found her voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-hopper/
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:20180928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180704T211931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180704T211931Z
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SUMMARY:SALLY FIELD
DESCRIPTION:SALLY FIELD\nFriday\, September 28\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nSally Field is one of the most celebrated\, beloved and enduring actors of our time. A two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor\, Field has portrayed dozens of iconic roles on both the large and small screens. In 2012 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and in 2015 she was honoured by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts. She has served on the Board of Directors of Vital Voices since 2002 and also served on the Board of The Sundance Institute from 1994 to 2010. Her memoir In Pieces will publish in September 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-field/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T203000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180924T015506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T015506Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Hopper presents Night Moves\, in conversation with Carvell Wallace
DESCRIPTION:Written in taut\, mesmerizing\, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009\, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals\, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ\, living in decrepit punk houses\, biking to bad loft parties with her friends\, exploring Chicago deep into the night. And\, along the way\, she creates an homage to vibrant corners of the city that have been muted by sleek development. A book birthed in the amber glow of Chicago streetlamps\, Night Moves is about a transformative moment of cultural history–and how a raw\, rebellious writer found her voice. \nJessica Hopper will be discussing her memoir with the writer Carvel Wallace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-hopper-presents-night-moves-in-conversation-with-carvell-wallace/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="University of Texas Press":MAILTO:jpinckney@utpress.utexas.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents 'All This Wreckage\, In Your Own Language'
DESCRIPTION:KSW Presents “All This Wreckage\, In Your Own Language\,” a reading featuring two debut novelists-Elaine Castillo\, author of America Is Not the Heart\, and Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with Tayo Literary Magazine co-founder\, Melissa Sipin. \nThe title of this event brings together quotes from both books as their stories begin-when a letter arrives in Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, “bringing with it all this wreckage to our doorstep\,” and in America Is Not the Heart\, when “you can’t remember the last time someone told you to take care of yourself in your own language.” \nThis is a reading that gives language to the stories and wreckages of war and violence\, colonialism and dictatorship\, immigration and refuge\, family\, desperation\, and the decisions one makes towards a kind of survival. \nELAINE CASTILLO was born and raised in the Bay Area. She graduated from the University of California\, Berkeley with a degree in Comparative Literature. She is a Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation Fellow\, and her writing can be found or is forthcoming from Freeman’s\, Lit Hub\, The Rumpus\, Taste Magazine\, Bon Appetit\, Electric Literature and elsewhere. Her debut novel AMERICA IS NOT THE HEART was published by Viking Books in the US/Canada and Atlantic Books (UK). \nINGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday\, 2018)\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. She was born and raised in Bogota\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Nylon\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, and the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. She currently teaches writing to immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing artists into public schools. She is the book columnist for KQED.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-all-this-wreckage-in-your-own-language/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: TBD AND TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features TBD and TBD! Music by TBD! \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/telegraph-open-mic-features-tbd-and-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180801T012608Z
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 24 – Friday\,  September 28\, 2018\, with a great lineup of writers and musicians to be announced. See you in the fall! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-3/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T022920
CREATED:20180731T003957Z
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SUMMARY:Léonora Miano - English Translation Release of "Season of the Shadow"
DESCRIPTION:We’re incredibly excited to be hosting the author\, Léonora Miano\, in collaboration with the Cultural Services French Embassy in the US. We’ll have more info about the event’s specific program soon! \nLéonora Miano is the author of Season of the Shadow\, published in the United States by Seagull Books (distributed by the University of Chicago Press) in April 2018 in a translation by Gila Walker. \nBorn in Cameroon\, Léonora Miano moved to France as a student. She has written fourteen books that have been translated into many languages. Miano’s award-winning first novel\, L’intérieur de la nuit\, was released in 2005 and translated in English by Tasmin Black. Her other books include Contours du jour qui vient\, which was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2006. Upon its release in France in 2013\, the book Season of the Shadow won the prestigious Fémina prize and the Grand prix du roman metis. \nAbout the book: Season of the Shadow \n(Seagull Books\, 2018\, Translation by Gila Walker) \nThis powerful novel recounts the early days of the transatlantic slave trade in the perspective of its first victims\, the sub-Saharan population. Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day\, a group of villagers finds twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream\, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling\, may hold some of the answers\, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror. At the same time\, a thick shadow settles over the huts\, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery\, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. \nMiano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange\, dreamlike prose\, befitting a situation that is\, on its face\, all but impossible for the villagers to believe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leonora-miano-english-translation-release-of-season-of-the-shadow/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christian Kracht
DESCRIPTION:Christian Kracht reads from his new novel\, The Dead. \n\nPraise for Christian Kracht \n\n“Imperium is astonishing and captivating\, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl Ove Knausgaard\, author of My Struggle \n\n“To say a word about Christian Kracht’s Imperium would be like engraving Goethe’s Conversations of German Refugees into an orange seed. Or perhaps into a coconut? The cocovore on his South Sea isle would consume it at some point\, and then the writing would be gone. But then shadowy mountains of fate would still form in the background: the German history behind the dropouts who made it by escaping it\, when the evil procession of fate halted for a moment. An adventure novel. No doubt. That there even is still such a thing.”―Elfriede Jelinek\, author of The Piano Teacher and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature \n\n“Reads at times like the best Werner Herzog movie Herzog has yet to make.”―Tobias Carroll\, Biographile \n\nAbout The Dead \n\nIn The Dead\, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year)\, Christian Kracht mines the feverish film culture of the 1930s to produce a Gothic tale of global conspiracy\, personal loss\, and historical entanglements large and small. \n  \nIn Berlin\, Germany\, in the early 1930s\, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective―to create a monumental\, modernist\, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come. \n  \nMeanwhile\, in Japan\, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood’s growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli’s film-star fiancée and a strangely thuggish\, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin―as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war―soon complicates both Amakasu’s and Nägeli’s plans\, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christian-kracht/
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:Zulema Renee Summerfield / Every Other Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel\, Every Other Weekend. Please join us! \n  \nThe year is 1988\, and America is full of broken homes. The protagonist of this stunning debut novel is eight-year-old Nenny. Her life turns upside down when her parents announce they are getting a divorce. Her weekends are spent shuttling between their homes\, watching her mother move on quickly while her father struggles to keep it together. Nenny’s mother soon remarries and moves them into a home with her new husband and his own children. The memories of their former family life have been swept under the rug. \n  \nNenny has always been an anxious child with an overactive imagination but recently has had a creeping premonition that something terrible is going to happen. In her new home\, intimations of impending earthquakes (gulp) and neighborhood home invasions converge with ghosts from her stepfather’s days in Vietnam. Knock-kneed and a little stormy-eyed\, she is far too small for the thoughts that haunt her—yet her fears are not entirely unfounded. Indeed\, tragedy does come—in the most awful and unexpected way. \n  \nSet in the sun-scorched suburbs of California\, where teased hair and Bret Michaels mania reign supreme\, Every Other Weekend is a story about the surprising ways in which families fracture and reform. It’s a story of love lost and found\, and how sometimes the closest bonds we create come in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. \n  \n\n  \nZulema Renee Summerfield’s short fiction has appeared in the Threepenny Review\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. Her first book\, Everything Faces All Ways at Once\, is available from Fourteen Hills Press. A MacDowell Colony fellow\, she lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, with mature themes. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zulema-renee-summerfield-every-other-weekend/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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