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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-26/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit a public school in San Francisco\, TBD. \nDirectly following Silent Reading Party we will celebrate the launch of Bottle Grove\, the new novel by Lemony Snicket’s alter ego\, Daniel Handler. More information coming soon. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! 1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm Featured poets + open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz
DESCRIPTION:POETS!\n1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm\nFeatured poets + open mic\nhosted by Jerry Ferraz \n  \nOn the first and third Monday of each month\, Jerry Ferraz hosts a poetry reading that showcases local legends\, poets passing through and folks from around the Bay — typically two featured poets followed by an open mic. We can count on a warm group of poets and poetry fans eager to hear the features and the potpourri of poets of every stripe who come out to read and keep the open mic scene alive. Drawing on the generosity of our neighbors and patrons\, we’re able to pay a small honorarium to the featured poets\, a rarity in reading series off the college campuses… your additional dollar or two tossed in the bucket at the readings makes it that much sweeter. 2018-19 SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck has graciously taken on some booking chores since assuming her laurels\, and much fun\, and some magnificent poetry\, is to be had as a result!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-1st-and-3rd-monday-of-each-month-7-9-pm-featured-poets-open-mic-hosted-by-jerry-ferraz/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF LAUNCH for Daniel Handler w/Dan Stone / Bottle Grove
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening to celebrate Daniel Handler‘s new novel Bottle Grove. With him in conversation is Dan Stone\, and we’ll have specialty cocktails created by Alembic\, inspired by the book. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free event\, but seating is limited and advance tickets are recommended. Tickets are available here\, with the option of ordering a discounted cocktail and/or book. \n>  Directly preceding this event\, The Bindery will be hostingSilent Reading Party\, presented by Misters Handler & Stone. \nThis is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding\, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove — bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good\, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives\, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests\, lustful teenagers\, drunken revelers\, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett — she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels — the bride is emphatic about changing her name\, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. \nSet in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding\, Bottle Grove is a sexy\, skewering dark comedy about two unions — one forged of love and the other of greed — and about the forces that can drive couples together\, into dependence\, and then into sinister\, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix\, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it — and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco’s tech community and . . . everyone else. \n\nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \nDan Stone first met Mr. Handler while working as a program manager and documentary producer at the National Endowment for the Arts\, during which time he produced 25 radio shows on classic American novels\, interviewing more than 200 prominent writers\, actors\, artists\, musicians\, and public figures. Stone and Handler later reconnected across the bar at the Alembic\, where Stone worked with legendary barman Daniel Hyatt.How Money Became Dangerous\, Stone’s forthcoming book\, is about how the world of modern money became so complicated and contentious. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Radio Silence\, a magazine of literature and rock & roll\, and cohosts the Silent Reading Party with Handler\, a monthly event at the Bindery. Stone owns North Light in Oakland\, a hybrid of a bar\, book shop\, and record store. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 6:00pm for Silent Reading Party; event starts at 7:45pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Bottle Grove\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to order a signed copy of any of Daniel’s other books\, order here and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-launch-for-daniel-handler-w-dan-stone-bottle-grove/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Forester: Eat\, Sleep\, Love
DESCRIPTION:Eat\, Sleep\, Love\, by Chuck Forester\, is a fond look back on a brief time when life opened up for gay men only to collapse with the deadly arrival of AIDS that marked the end of an era. It’s 1971 and Charlie McKey\, a young gay man from Point Reyes Station\, California\, arrives in San Francisco\, where free love and gay liberation abound. Newly out but open to experiencing the new wonders that suddenly surround him\, Charlie jumps in headfirst\, immersing himself in a no-holds-barred world of men\, drugs\, and endless sexual pleasure he’d never dreamed possible. \nChuck Forester came out in San Francisco in 1972 and participated in gay history as his generation created the Castro. Chuck worked for three San Francisco mayors and several non-profits\, and he has been writing for the past six years. His work includes the memoir\, Do You Live Around Here?\, and the novel Our Time: San Francisco in the 70s. His second novel\, Eat\, Sleep\, Love was released earlier this year.  Join us as Chuck reads from his new book\, and takes questions from the audience.  Eat\, Sleep\, Love will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-forester-eat-sleep-love/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Arax
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTHE DREAMT LAND:\nChasing Water and Dust Across California \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA vivid\, searching journey into California’s capture of water and soil–the epic story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders\, and ruin\, it has wrought \nMark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers\, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land\, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system\, built in the 1940s\, ’50s and ’60s\, that is straining to keep up with California’s relentless growth. \nThis is a heartfelt\, beautifully written book about the land and the people who have worked it–from gold miners to wheat ranchers to small fruit farmers and today’s Big Ag. Since the beginning\, Californians have redirected rivers\, drilled ever-deeper wells and built higher dams\, pushing the water supply past its limit. \nThe Dreamt Land weaves reportage\, history and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation’s biggest farmers–the nut king\, grape king and citrus queen–tell their story here for the first time.\nThis is a tale of politics and hubris in the arid West\, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth that is made to give more even while it keeps sinking. But when drought turns to flood once again\, all is forgotten as the farmers plant more nuts and the developers build more houses. \nArax\, the native son\, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta\, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned\, awe-inspiring\, tragic and revelatory. In the end\, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it. \nMark Arax is an author and journalist whose writings on California and the West have received numerous awards for literary nonfiction. A former staffer at the Los Angeles Times\, his work has appeared in The New York Times and the California Sunday Magazine. His books include a memoir of his father’s murder\, a collection of essays about the West\, and the best-selling The King of California\, which won a California Book Award\, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University\, and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Fresno\, California. \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Mark Arax: \n“[An] exhaustive\, deeply reported account… Few other journalists could have written a book as personal and authoritative… As Arax makes plain in this important book\, it’s been the same story in California for almost two centuries now: When it comes to water\, ‘the resource is finite. The greed isn’t.'”–Gary Krist\, The New York Times Book Review \n“In his sprawling\, provocative book The Dreamt Land\, journalist Mark Arax examines California’s long-building water crisis with the keen\, loving\, troubled eye of a native son… The Dreamt Land assumes an urgent\, personal tone and incorporates history\, memoir and the lives of larger-than-life personalities. Taken together\, it is a story biblical in scope and cautionary in tenor.”\n—Gerard Helferich\, The Wall Street Journal \n“Former L.A. Times reporter Mark Arax makes a riveting case that this expanse — 450 miles lengthwise from Shasta to Tehachapi; 60 miles across from the Sierra Nevada to the Coastal Range — as much as the world cities on its coast\, holds the key to understanding California …  a deeply reported work keenly alive to local subcultures.”\n—Stephen Phillips\, Los Angeles Times \n“Mark Arax’s monumental new book on California’s water system underscores the madness that makes the Golden State an agricultural powerhouse. [The Dreamt Land] is a compelling and powerful history of how power and greed shape the land\, and Arax has achieved a masterful distillation of how California got here\, warts and all.”\n—Civil Eats \n“The Dreamt Land weaves reportage\, history and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation’s biggest farmers–the nut king\, grape king and citrus queen–tell their story here for the first time.”\n—Chicago Review of Books \n“You can’t understand California without understanding water\, and no one is better at doing that than Mark Arax\, whose depth of knowledge about the Central Valley is organic and unparalleled. Plus\, he writes like a dream.”\n—Mark Bittman\, author of Food Matters  \n“The Dreamt Land is the book Mark Arax was born to write. Nuanced\, deeply researched\, and profoundly personal\, it offers\, through its history of agriculture in California\, a deep dive into the soul of the state. Arax knows the territory; he has written about rural California for many years. This is his crowning achievement\, a work of reportage that is also a work of literature. It belongs on the short list of great books about the state.”—David L. Ulin\, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles\, and editor of the Library of America’s Collected Didion \n“This is a stunning book. Biblical drama played against the harsh sun and earth of California’s Central Valley. Exodus\, diaspora\, parting the waters\, sowing and reaping\, Godlike dominion: it’s all in here.  The Dreamt Land calls up Steinbeck and Didion\, but it rests squarely on its own words\, memories\, and stories beyond mere comparison.”—William Francis Deverell\, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West \n“A sweeping\, engrossing history of his native California focused on the state’s use\, overuse\, and shocking mismanagement of water….Arax reveals the consequences to land and wildlife of generations of landowners who have defiantly dug\, dammed\, and diverted California’s waters.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n“Arax brings a reporter’s precision of language\, a researcher’s depth of perception\, and a born storyteller’s voice to this empathetic but unsentimental look at the history\, present\, and uncertain future of a once-arid region restructured into one of the country’s most productive.”\n—Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-arax/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis w/R. O. Kwon / LAUNCH for Cantoras
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis w/R. O. Kwon / LAUNCH for Cantoras\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nBody:\n\n\nThe Bindery hosts a special evening to launch Carolina De Robertis‘ new novel\, Cantoras. She’ll be in conversation with R. O. Kwon. Please join us! \nFrom the highly acclaimed\, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango\, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who\, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship\, find one another as lovers\, friends\, and ultimately\, family. \nIn 1977 Uruguay\, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped\, raped\, and tortured\, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet Romina\, Flaca\, Anita “La Venus\,” Paz\, and Malena–five cantoras\, women who “sing”–somehow\, miraculously\, find on another and then\, together\, discover an isolated\, nearly uninhabited cape\, Cabo Polonio\, which they claim as their secret sanctuary. Over the next thirty-five years\, their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo\, the city they call home\, as they return\, sometimes together\, sometimes in pairs\, with lovers in tow\, or alone. And throughout\, again and again\, the women will be tested–by their families\, lovers\, society\, and one another–as they fight to live authentic lives. \nA genre-defining novel and De Robertis’s masterpiece\, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love\, community\, forgotten history\, and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking\, Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn. \n\n“Carolina’s writing\, as always\, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution — and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again\, I was lifted\, then gently set down again — either through tears\, rage\, or laughter. Days later\, I am still inside this song of a story.” – Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award winner and author of Red at the Bone \n“Cantoras is a wise\, brilliantly compassionate\, wide-ranging novel about women in Uruguay\, and about the power and realities of love. Carolina De Robertis is a force: prepare to be astonished.” – R. O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A lyrical\, richly sensory novel about a group of renegade cantoras — slang for queer women — who claim a beach refuge during the worst years of the dictatorship in Uruguay\, and beyond. Together they steal time from oppression of all kinds\, unspooling the infinity of themselves. Pointedly relevant to our own dangerous age\, Carolina De Robertis has gifted us a majestic work of song and imagination\, a handbook to survival for us all.” – Cristina García\, author of Here in Berlin \n\nCarolina De Robertis is a writer of Uruguayan origins and the author of The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international best seller The Invisible Mountain. Her novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have garnered a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and numerous other honors. She is also a translator of Latin American and Spanish literature and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. 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 at San Francisco State University and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. \nR. O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago/Little Brown (U.K.)\, and it is being translated into five languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications\, the novel is an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Pick and an Indies Introduce selection.The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book\, Los Angeles Times First Book Prize\, and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Prize. Kwon’s next novel\, as well as an essay collection\, are forthcoming. \n  \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Carolina’s other books\, order here and include your request in the comments field; for R. O.’s book\, order here and do the same. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-w-r-o-kwon-launch-for-cantoras/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hot Boxx Girls by Darwin Bell
DESCRIPTION:September 5\, 6pm-9pm\nOpening Reception \nA free public celebration of the third Aunt Charlie’s art exhibition\, featuring the work of Darwin Bell. \nRecently named “Best Street Photographer” by SF Weekly\, Darwin Bell has captures the queens of the Hot Boxx Girls befriending and befamilying adoring crowds every weekend at Aunt Charlie’s.\n—\nDarwin Bell has lived in San Francisco for almost 30 years and sees the city as his photographic canvas. Specializing in colors and compositions\, he takes the big picture and narrows it down to abstracts and ideas. Darwin was recently named “Best Street Photographer” by SF Weekly.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-boxx-girls-by-darwin-bell/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Billheimer
DESCRIPTION:John Billheimer joins us to discuss his new book\, Hitchcock and the Censors. \nAbout Hitchcock and the Censors\n \nThroughout his career\, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo\, undue violence\, toilet humor\, religious disrespect\, and all forms of indecency\, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968\, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words\, as well as a few five-letter words like tramp and six-letter words like cripes. They also scrubbed “excessively lustful” kissing from the screen and ensured that no criminal went unpunished. \nDuring their review of Hitchcock’s films\, the censors demanded an average of 22.5 changes\, ranging from the mundane to the mind-boggling\, on each of his American films. Code reviewers dictated the ending of Rebecca (1940)\, absolved Cary Grant of guilt in Suspicion (1941)\, edited Cole Porter’s lyrics in Stage Fright (1950)\, decided which shades should be drawn in Rear Window (1954)\, and shortened the shower scene in Psycho (1960). \nIn Hitchcock and the Censors\, author John Billheimer traces the forces that led to the Production Code and describes Hitchcock’s interactions with code officials on a film-by-film basis as he fought to protect his creations\, bargaining with code reviewers and sidestepping censorship to produce a lifetime of memorable films. Despite the often-arbitrary decisions of the code board\, Hitchcock still managed to push the boundaries of sex and violence permitted in films by charming — and occasionally tricking — the censors and by swapping off bits of dialogue\, plot points\, and individual shots (some of which had been deliberately inserted as trading chips) to protect cherished scenes and images. By examining Hitchcock’s priorities in dealing with the censors\, this work highlights the director’s theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials. \n\nPraise for Hitchcock and the Censors \n“Here is a book that should have (and could have) been written years ago. Kudos\, then\, to Billheimer for slogging through the paper trail of correspondence between the British Board of Film Censors and Motion Picture Production Code Office (better known as the Breen Office) and Alfred Hitchcock regarding the content of his many provocative films. Each movie has a history all its own\, and while passing reference has been made to censorship in other studies of Hitchcock\, this is the first comprehensive book on the subject. No more be said: this is by definition an important piece of work.” — Leonard Maltin \n“A meticulous deep dive into the sweaty tango between Hitchcock and the Code. Amazing to witness how arbitrary and stringent the rules were and the resulting sacrifices movies had to make. Hitchcock rose to the challenge and made the debates part of his expression — but what a bloody tiresome waste of his time.” — Darren Aronofsky
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-billheimer/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler as Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nBottle Grove \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \n\n\n\n\nA razor-sharp tale of two couples\, two marriages\, a bar\, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling\, award-winning novelist. \nThis is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding\, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove–bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good\, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives\, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests\, lustful teenagers\, drunken revelers\, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett–she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels–the bride is emphatic about changing her name\, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. \nSet in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding\, Bottle Grove is a sexy\, skewering dark comedy about two unions–one forged of love and the other of greed–and about the forces that can drive couples together\, into dependence\, and then into sinister\, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix\, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it–and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco’s tech community and . . . everyone else. \nWhat has been said about Bottle Grove: \n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, this taut novel sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year” \n“A hilarious tale about unlikely couples set during the San Francisco dot-com explosion. . . . Handler cleverly exposes the sinister sides of his protagonists as they clamor for what they think they deserve. Readers expecting Handler’s trademark humor and bite won’t be disappointed.” –  Publishers Weekly \n“A drunkenly humorous blend of alcohol\, entrepreneurial ambitions\, and a dash of cheating . . . [Handler’s] quickwitted\, timely characters and offbeat but perceptive one-liners make for an intoxicating delight. . . . Funny\, irreverent\, and clever.” –  Booklist \n“This witty book is\, like San Francisco itself\, simultaneously glossy and grimy\, hi-tech and low-life. Daniel Handler is one of the quickest minds around\, and he is clearly having a grand time here\, taking the reader down a drunken path that is both dreamy and as fast-paced as a screwball comedy.” –  Emma Straub\, New York Times bestselling author of MODERN LOVERS and THE VACATIONERS \n“Bottle Grove is a cozy bar\, a haunted forest\, and a spellbinding new novel by a master of contemporary fiction. With his sly sense of humor and surpassing wisdom about the wildness that exists just below the surface of our lives\, Daniel Handler has created an entrancing and very modern story that doubles as a folklore for our time. It’s one of those rare novels that you really don’t want to end\, and you’re in luck\, because you can read it again.” –  Tom Drury\, author of PACIFIC \n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize \n“Superb\, written with an unflinching eye for comedy and horror.” –  New York Times Book Review on WE ARE PIRATES \n“This impossible-to-put-down novel is a dare. Step in\, be swept away.” –  The Agony Column\, NPR\, on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“A fascinating\, profane book . . . All the Dirty Parts is a shockingly original novel–readers might be reminded of Philip Roth’s famously raunchy Portnoy’s Complaint . . . It deserves to be read widely\, and not just by adults–it’s one of the most realistic depictions of the sex lives of young people to come around in a long time.” –  Los Angeles Times on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“An irreverent\, intimate glimpse inside adolescent desire\, sexual identity\, and emotional discovery.” –  Buzzfeed\, “Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Fall” on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“[A] dark and whimsical novel . . . Yes\, we are pirates\, but we’re chained on barren land. Has that theme ever been explored in such a weird mixture of impish wit and tender sympathy?” –  Washington Post on WE ARE PIRATES \n“The language is what’s sensuous here\, and Handler often dips his toe into Joyce–never a full descent into the Irishman’s decadence\, but the two are kinsmen in how fast their prose moves\, at the speed of rushing blood.” –  San Francisco Chronicle on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-as-daniel-handler/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT 3rd Birthday Party (and Reading)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with us as we cap our 3rd year (and enter our 4th) as the East Bay’s creative writing center/workspace. This is also our 3rd event at Novel Brewing\, the most literary brewery in California. \nSample Novel Brewing’s finest beers and ales on tap. Soak in their friendly\, neighborhood atmosphere. Socialize with our writing community. Eat cake!\n​\nAnd enjoy some short readings by Left Margin instructors: Zubair Ahmed\, Katharine Dion\, Rachel Richardson\, and Laleh Khadivi.\n​\nZubair Ahmed was born and raised in Bangladesh. He and his family immigrated to the U.S in 2005 after winning the DV Lottery. He is the author of Ashulia\, a chapbook\, and City of Rivers\, the third book in the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in Oakland\, where he works as a software engineer.\n​\nKatharine Dion is the author of the novel The Dependents\, which has been translated into four languages. The San Francisco Chronicle called the novel “a gorgeously meditative debut about how unfully we live our lives or know ourselves and our loved ones.”\n​\nLaleh Khadivi’s novels include The Age of Orphans\, The Walking\, and A Good Country. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize.\n​\nRachel Richardson is co-founder and co-director of Left Margin LIT. She is also the author of two books of poems\, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-3rd-birthday-party-and-reading/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn\, reading and in conversation\nThursday\, September 5 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University \nThe Poetry Center’s Fall 2019 season opens with readings followed by a conversation with the audience by San Francisco poet\, biographer\, and literary chronicler of the Beat Movement\, Neeli Cherkovski\, together with Boston poet Jim Dunn on a rare visit to San Francisco. We welcome both for their first reading for The Poetry Center. This event is free and open to the public. \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal State Los Angeles). He is the author of many books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, The Crow and I (2015)\, and Elegy for My Beat Generation (2018). Forthcoming is Coolidge and Cherkovski in Conversation (with Clark Coolidge). He is the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski)\, Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr)\, and Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (with Raymond Foye and Tate Swindell). He has also published bilingual editions in Austria\, Mexico\, Italy\, and Greece. A facsimile edition of one of his notebooks was published by Viviani Edizione in Verona\, Italy. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Cherkovski received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJim Dunn is a poet and author of Soft Launch (Bootstrap\, 2008)\, Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer\, 2004)\, and Insects In Sex (Falling Angel Press\, 1995). His work has appeared in several publications\, including spoKe\, Polis\, Bright Pink Mosquito\, The Process\, eoagh\, Gerry Mulligan\, Cafe Review\, and The Battersea Review. He edited the poet John Wieners’ journal\, A New Book From Rome\, with Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher of Bootstrap Press. Along with Kevin Gallagher\, he also edited an extensive feature on six Massachusetts poets\, for Jacket 2 magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neeli-cherkovski-and-jim-dunn-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T213000
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SUMMARY:Mike Isaac w/Casey Newton / SF Launch for Super Pumped
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac for the San Francisco launch ofSuper Pumped: The Battle for Uber. With Mike in conversation is Casey Newton (The Interface). Please join us! \nIn June 2017\, Travis Kalanick\, the hard-charging CEO of Uber\, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world\, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. \nAward-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber\, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder\, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. A near instant “unicorn\,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon\, Apple\, and Google as a technology giant. \nWhat followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Isaac recounts Uber’s pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers\, the company’s toxic internal culture\, and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. With billions of dollars in the balance\, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO. \nMike Isaac has been covering Uber for years. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees\, along with previously unpublished documents\, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception\, obscene wealth\, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history. \n\n\n\nMike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber\, Facebook\, and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times\, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. He lives in San Francisco. \nCasey Newton‘s bio is forthcoming. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-isaac-w-casey-newton-sf-launch-for-super-pumped/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190906T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190906T210000
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SUMMARY:System Reboot: Rosenthal / Witte / Armendinger / Greyja / Sáenz
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the launch of Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte’s collaborative chapbook\, ‘The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow’\, and Brent Armendinger’s ‘Street Gloss’\, both out now from The Operating System! They will be joined by fellow OS creators Jacq Greyja and Erick Sáenz. Snacks and beverages will be provided. \nSarah Rosenthal is the author of several books and chapbooks including ‘The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow’ (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Valerie Witte) ‘Lizard’ (Chax\, 2016)\, and ‘Manhatten’ (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). She edited ‘A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area’ (Dalkey Archive\, 2010). She has done grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Soul Mountain\, Ragdale\, New York Mills\, Hambidge\, and This Will Take Time\, and has been a Headlands Center Affiliate Artist. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach\, develops curricula for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom\, and serves on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net. \nValerie Witte is the author of ‘a game of correspondence’ (Black Radish Books\, 2015) and three chapbooks\, most recently ‘The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow’ (The Operating System\, 2019)\, a collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal. She is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School\, and for eight years\, she helped produce many innovative books by women as a member of Kelsey Street Press. In her daytime hours\, she edits education books in Portland\, OR. Read more at valeriewitte.com. \nBrent Armendinger’s new book is ‘Street Gloss’\, a hybrid work of site-specific poetry and experimental translation\, featuring Argentinian writers Alejandro Méndez\, Mercedes Roffé\, Fabián Casas\, Néstor Perlongher\, and Diana Bellessi\, and drawings by Alpe Romero (The Operating System\, 2019). Brent is also the author of ‘The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying’ (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry. He teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles. His website is brentarmendinger.com. \nJacq Greyja is the author of ‘Greater Grave’ (The Operating System\, 2018). Work has recently appeared in HOLD: A Journal\, Dream Pop\, Linden Avenue Literary\, Peach Mag\, Bettering American Poetry: Volume II\, and elsewhere. They are an MFA candidate and William Dickey Fellow in Poetry at SFSU. More @ greyja.com \nErick Sáenz is a latinx poet and teacher from Los Angeles. He is the founding editor of Lilac Press\, a small DIY imprint. He was previously a contributing editor for the online journal Cheers from the Wasteland. In addition to self-publishing several chapbooks and zines\, his writing can be found online. ‘Susurros a mi padre’ was released by The Operating System in 2018. He is currently working on his second book and watching too much baseball.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/system-reboot-rosenthal-witte-armendinger-greyja-saenz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Vivian Ho / Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts the launch for former San Francisco Chronicle criminal justice reporter Vivian Ho‘s debut book\, Those Who Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: Booksmith will donate 100% of proceeds from purchases of Those Who Wander to the Homeless Youth Alliance. \n\nAbout the book\, from the publisher: \nIn 2015\, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’ families. But they also shed light on a more complex issue. The killers were three drifters scrounging for a living among a burgeoning counterculture population. Soon this community of runaways and transients became vulnerable scapegoats of a modern witch hunt. The supposedly progressive residents of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury\, only two generations removed from the Summer of Love\, now feared all of society’s outcasts as threats. \nIn Those Who Wander\, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics\, she gives voices to these young people — victims of abuse\, failed foster care\, mental illness\, and drug addiction. She also doesn’t ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency\, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth. \n\nVivian Ho is an award-winning journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Guardian\, Topic\, and the Boston Globe. Raised in New England\, she currently lives in San Francisco. Author photo by Gabrielle Canon. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Those Who Wander\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Colin’s books\, do the same via this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-vivian-ho-those-who-wander-americas-lost-street-kids/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Last Hoisan Poets
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim\, Nellie Wong\, and Flo Oy Wong return to CHSA! These three monumentally influential women artists and poets all trace their roots to China’s Toisan villages\, home of the Hoisan-wa (a.k.a. Toisanese/Taishanese) Chinese dialect. They will do a special poetry reading in English and Hoisan-wa\, to pay homage to their mother language which is at risk of fading from collective memory. \nTickets include entry to event and CHSA galleries. Seating is limited—reserve your tickets soon. RSVP on Eventbrite. \n—– \nAbout the poets \nGenny Lim is a second generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco. She served as a former San Francisco Arts Commissioner and San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. Her award-winning play Paper Angels has been produced throughout the U.S.\, in Canada and China. Lim is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award. Lim has collaborated with jazz legends Max Roach and Herbie Lewis and Bay Area musicians\, Broun Fellinis\, Francis Wong\, Jon Jang and Anthony Brown. She has also collaborated with Lenora Lee Dance on the texts of its recent on-site immersive performances\, Within These Walls and Dreams of Flight\, at the Chinese Immigration Detention Station on Angel Island. \nFlo Oy Wong\, artist\, poet\, and educator\, is a first generation Chinese American born and raised in Oakland Chinatown. Her work as a visual artist and poet explore issues of social justice. She focuses on family\, community\, and history of Chinese in America through her immigrant parents\, bringing to light the lives of the invisible\, unrecognized\, and underrepresented. As an artist\, she has received many awards and has shown locally and internationally. In 2013\, The Luggage Store Gallery displayed her 75th birthday show\, The Whole Pie\, and she collaborated on a musical with Marcus Shelby\, Gwah Gai\, about her husband Edward Kow Wong who grew up in Augusta\, Georgia during segregation. Featured on KQED’s SPARK and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, her work is currently being taught in the Art in Action 8th grade Art and the American Experience curriculum. As a poet\, she has been published by the Blue Collar Review\, Oakland Chinatown EBALDC\, and a South Bay on-line literary magazine. In 2018\, she published her first book of art and poetry\, Dreaming of Glistening Pomelos\, to celebrate her 80th birthday. She is currently working on a sexual trauma chapbook I Don’t Cry Anymore co-edited by Kathy Skaggs and Ann Muto\, to be published in 2020. \nOakland Chinatown-born\, Nellie Wong has published four books: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Her poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Two pieces are installed at public sites in San Francisco. She’s co-featured in the documentary film Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets\, and among her recognitions\, a building at Oakland High School is named after her. She’s traveled to China in the First American Women Writers Tour with Alice Walker\, Tillie Olsen and Paule Marshall\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-last-hoisan-poets/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Re/Search Celebrates The Release Of Issue 19: Underground Living
DESCRIPTION:Re/Search celebrates the release of Issue 19: UNDERGROUND LIVING with V. Vale and Rudy Rucker. \nV. Vale has traversed the major global underground movements of the past century (including Beatniks\, Hippies\, Punk\, Industrial\, kitsch\, retro-styles\, surrealism\, situationism\, queer\, incredibly strange films and music\, performance art\, feminism\, zines—and more). Along the way\, he documented it all\, taking over 100\,000 photos. Here\, for the first time in book form\, are 80 “personal” images of underground living\, selected from the depths of Vale’s vast photographic archive. UNDERGROUND LIVING Includes more than 75 color photos featuring the early Ramones shows\, Henry Rollins\, Lydia Lunch\, John Waters\, Genesis P-Orridge\, William S. Burroughs\, J.G. Ballard\, Andy Warhol\, Allen Ginsberg\, Kathy Acker\, Survival Research Labs\, and many more! \nRudy Rucker is a mathematician\, computer scientist\, science fiction author\, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction\, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy\, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. His most recent book is “Million Mile Roadtrip” published by Nightshade Books. He wrote the inroduction for Re?Seaerch 19 UNDERGROUND LIVING.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/re-search-celebrates-the-release-of-issue-19-underground-living/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aging: Representations on Screen and in Print\, a Conversation
DESCRIPTION:How is aging represented though different media – on film and by the written word? \nSheila Malkind will talk about film\, specifically the Legacy Film Festival on Aging which she runs\, the only three-day festival uniquely devoted to films on aging\, held annually in San Francisco. In its ninth year\, it celebrates the aging process as profound and meaningful\, often challenging\, and always courageous. Filmmakers portray many facets of this unique\, ever-changing experience honestly\, artfully\, and with compassion and love. Coming up September 20-22 at The New People Cinema in San Francisco’s Japantown. https://www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org \nNan Narboe brings us the written word as editor of Aging: An Apprenticeship (awarded a Silver Medal at this year’s IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards) an anthology of “essays offering an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades. Authors Judy Blume\, Andrew McCarthy\, Gloria Steinem etc. draw from their own experiences\, describing life’s losses and gains to form a complex and unflinching portrait of the years from nearing fifty to ninety and beyond.” https://aginganapprenticeship.com/ \nSigned copies of the book and information on the film festival will be available at this Odd Mondays. Maxine Einhorn of the Mostly British Film Festival and Noe Valley Word Week will moderate. Free admission and refreshments.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aging-representations-on-screen-and-in-print-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:APAture 2019: Living as an Artist Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join Kearny Street Workshop for a panel on the experiences of living as a professional artist\, featuring Weston Teruya\, Terisa Siagatonu\, and DJ Umami\, and moderated by Jason Bayani! \nFree and open to the public with priority given to artists participating in APAture 2019: DECLARE. \nWeston Teruya was born and raised in Honolulu\, Hawai‘i and currently resides in Oakland\, California. As an artist\, he has exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum (Oakland)\, Commons Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i\, Mānoa (Honolulu)\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Southern Exposure\, Chinese Culture Center\, and Kearny Street Workshop (San Francisco)\, Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum (New York)\, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery (Tokyo)\, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta)\, and the Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto). He has received public art commissions from the Alameda County and San Francisco Arts Commissions. \nTerisa Siagatonu is an award-winning touring poet\, teaching artist\, and community activist born and rooted in the Bay Area. Her voice in the poetry world as a queer\, Sāmoan woman has granted her opportunities to perform in places such as the White House (Obama administration)\, the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris\, the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane\, Australia\, and the SF Women’s March. One of the most memorable moments in her career was receiving President Obama’s Champion of Change Award for her activism as a poet/organizer in her Pacific Islander community. With numerous viral poetry videos garnering over millions of views collectively\, Terisa’s writing/teaching blends the personal\, cultural\, and political in a way that calls for healing\, courage\, justice\, and truth. A 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 List Honoree\, Terisa’s work has been published in Poetry Magazine and has been featured on Button Poetry\, CNN\, NBCNews\, NPR\, KQED\, Huffington Post\, Everyday Feminism\, The Guardian\, and Buzzfeed. \nBay Area born DJ Umami – a rotating DJ for the Golden State Warriors\, Nike\, Q102.1fm (Bay Area)\, and female group Peaches Crew. She is known to rock the party outside of The Oracle Arena at Golden State Warrior post-season games. These parties have been broadcasted on ESPN\, CSN\, and ABC. She has open for acts such as Metro Boomin\, John Legend\, Big Boi\, Just Blaze\, Tuxedo\, Talib Kweli\, DJ Maseo (De La Soul)\, Tokimonsta\, Holy Ghost\, Chromeo\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apature-2019-living-as-an-artist-panel/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T220000
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CREATED:20190823T192423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T192423Z
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON SF: EPIPHANY
DESCRIPTION:September 10 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm\nPublic Works SF\, 161 Erie Street\nSan Francisco \, CA 94103 United States\n\n\n\n\nSan Francisco \, CA 94103 United States + Google Map\n\n\n\nJoin us at Public Works SF for six tales of acute realizations & revelations\, profound insights & inspiration\, and life altering discoveries\nODD SALON SF: EPIPHANY\nTuesday\, Sept 10 \nCurated by Miles Traer \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \nGET TICKETS>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-epiphany/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T210000
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:reading from her debut novel \nMachine \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \n\n\nSusan Steinberg is the author of Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about MACHINE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n\n\n\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n\n\n\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n\n\n“Susan Steinberg takes everything you loved about her short story collections (Spectacle\, anyone?) and brings them to this new tragedy: a hazy summer night in which one girl drowned. The voice of the story—sometimes singular\, sometimes with other echoes—will guide and haunt you as it tries to make sense of what happened.”—Literary Hub\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-steinberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085414
CREATED:20190823T195711Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Exquisite Miniatures and Really Big Things
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions. \nThis month’s writers are: \nGrey Rosado\nRoxanne Villaluz\nSasha Wright\nNick O’Brien\nAnd the August show’s returning champion!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-exquisite-miniatures-and-really-big-things/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190911T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085414
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SUMMARY:Jairus Grove in conversation with David Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of \nSavage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World \nby Jairus Grove \nfrom Duke University Press \nJairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations with the theoretical interventions of fields ranging from new materialism to political theory\, Grove shows how political violence is the principal force behind climate change\, mass extinction\, slavery\, genocide\, extractive capitalism\, and other catastrophes. Grove analyzes a variety of subjects—from improvised explosive devices and drones to artificial intelligence and brain science—to outline how geopolitics is the violent pursuit of a way of living that comes at the expense of others. Pointing out that much of the damage being done to the earth and its inhabitants stems from colonialism\, Grove suggests that the Anthropocene may be better described by the term Eurocene. The key to changing the planet’s trajectory\, Grove proposes\, begins by acknowledging both the earth-shaping force of geopolitical violence and the demands apocalypses make for fashioning new ways of living. \nJairus Victor Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai’i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. \nVisit: http://jairusgrove.com/ \nWhat has been said about the work of Jairus Grove: \n\n\n“In Savage Ecology Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet\,’ he writes\, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not\, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture\, algorithmic warfare\, drone strikes\, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint\,’ he says\, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately\, Grove says\, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” — Bonnie Honig\, author of Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair \n“What Beck did for risk society\, Hardt and Negri for empire\, and Barad for technoscience\, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence\, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer\, writer with a stiletto\, and artist with a spray can.” — James Der Derian\, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies\, the University of Sydney
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jairus-grove-in-conversation-with-david-goldberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T200000
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SUMMARY:QTPOC at Strut presents Noche de Poetas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of queer latino poetry! Free\, part of QTPOC at Strut \nMore info to come! \nQTPOC at Strut is every Thursday\ntesting and services from 5pm to 6:30pm\nPoetry show from 7pm to 8pm\nalways free! \nquestions about the show email Baruch at bporrashernandez@sfaf.org \nThis event is being held at Strut (470 Castro St) at the third floor lobby.\nText QTPOC to 474747 if you have any questions about our Thursday nights! \nAccessibility: There are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors\, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/qtpoc-at-strut-presents-noche-de-poetas/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T200000
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and special guests for a poem jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. Join us! \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-4/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T220000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085414
CREATED:20190726T151907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T151907Z
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SUMMARY:Hauntings: Celebrating Two Lines 31 & 25 Years of Two Lines
DESCRIPTION:SEPTEMBER 12\, 2019\nHauntings: Celebrating Two Lines 31 & 25 Years of Two Lines\n\nTBD \n\n\n\nCelebrate 25 years of Two Lines and the latest issue with us! \nMore details coming soon. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hauntings-celebrating-two-lines-31-25-years-of-two-lines/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T203000
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CREATED:20190729T182353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190729T182353Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic. \nThu\, September 12\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-30/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190729T191107Z
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SUMMARY:Marika Lindholm - - We Got This
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Marika Lindholm and more (tba) to celebrate the publication of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit\, Heart\, and Humor\, on Thursday\, September 12th at 7pm. \nWe Got This celebrates the 15 million solo moms who parent on their own in the United States. A compelling\, moving\, and humorous compilation of essays\, poems\, and inspirational quotes by moms raising kids on their own\, this book gives voice to women who–despite their differences in age\, race\, culture\, sexual orientation\, economic circumstance\, and route to single motherhood–are bound together in a conscious coalition that is strong\, proud\, and dedicated to their children. We Got This reminds solo moms that they are powerful and important–and that there’s a whole community of women out there who understand what they are going through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marika-lindholm-we-got-this/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T210000
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CREATED:20190730T021251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190730T021311Z
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SUMMARY:Dobby Gibson & Matthew Zapruder reading new poetry
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFather’s Day – by Matthew Zapruder \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \nand \nLittle Glass Planet – by Dobby Gibson \nfrom Graywolf Press \nabout Father’s Day: \nThe poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask\, how can one be a good father\, partner\, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent\, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court\, watching a child grow off into a distance\, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike\, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. \nabout Little Glass Planet: \nLittle Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa\, Texas\, Gibson maps disparate landscapes\, both terrestrial and subliminal\, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic\, allusive\, and collaged\, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers\, as family\, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcast to foreshorten the perceived distances between us\, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world\,” Gibson writes\, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” \nElegiac\, funny\, and candid\, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope\, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create\, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, and Sun Bear\, 2014\, as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose\, from Ecco Press/Harper Collins in August 2017. He cotranslated\, with historian Radu Ioanid\, Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu’s final collection\, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems (Coffee House\, 2008). He has received numerous honors for his work\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams Award\, and others. In 2000\, he co-founded Verse Press\, and is now editor at large at Wave Book\, where he edits contemporary poetry\, prose\, and translations. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nDobby Gibson is the author of Little Glass Planet; Polar\, which won the Alice James Award; Skirmish; and It Becomes You. His poetry has appeared in Fence\, New England Review\, and Ploughshares\, among others. He lives in St. Paul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dobby-gibson-matthew-zapruder-reading-new-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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