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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling 'NOTORIOUS'
DESCRIPTION:Description\n\n\n\nSunday\, February 3rd\, 2019 \nBang-O & Cocktails at 6:30 PM\, Stories & Songs at 7 PM \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Special 75th Birthday Celebration & Story-filled Event includes: \n❤ Guest of Honor/Birthday Person/Ethical Slut co-author Dossie Easton \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Wanna speak at this event? Contact Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Bawdy songs by Rachel Lark \n❤ Play a Custom version of Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #Sin&Tonic #Rimjob \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThose Appearing includes (so far): \n❤ Dossie Easton\, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene\, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut\, The Bottoming and Topping Books\, and Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence. \nDossie is a psychotherapist working with individuals\, couples and more in her private practice in San Francisco\, with a particular interest in how S/M journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex. \nAn active sex radical since 1961\, Dossie was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Society of Janus in San Francisco in 1974\, and active with SFSI from 1973 to 1985. Currently she makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco\, travels to teach at conferences all over the world\, and wanders through the mountains around her home declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures. You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com. \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, storytelling coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is also the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling\, that’s now headed into year 12 (“The original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about the art of storytelling and its ability reduce social anxiety and connect strangers. A former dating site community manager\, this story-loving southerner founded Bawdy Storytelling (Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage). Monthly in San Francisco and Seattle and touring nationally\, Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred – at Bawdy\, folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”)\, and is also the host and curator of Bona Fide storytelling and BawdySlam story slam. Her true stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own award-winning Bawdy Storytelling podcast (Best Sex Podcast from Marie Claire\, Uproxx and Esquire Magazine\, plus Bustle voted Bawdy a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship”). You can follow Dixie’s antics at @Bawdy\, at facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & she’s always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. She’s made waves for her biting political satire\, fearless authenticity\, and hilarious\, raunchy wit. She’s been called the “musical muse for the sex-positive revolution” and “in the league of Sondheim and Tim Minchin.” In 2014 she released her debut EP\, “I Wouldn’t Worry\,” followed by her first full-length album\, “Lark After Dark\,” and her Christmas album\, “Hung For The Holidays.” In 2015 she successfully funded a music video and new album through a Kickstarter campaign and released her music video\, “Warm\, Bloody\, and Tender” in August of 2015. The video was featured in several film festivals including Sacramento Horror Film Festival and Cinekink. Her album\, Vagenius\, was released in October of 2015. In December\, 2016\, Lark recorded a studio album at Tiny Telephone Studios with her band\, The Damaged Goods. In March 2017 she released “They’ve Done Studies” followed by a multi-media dramatic live production at DNA Lounge called “Studies Have Shown.” She toured the production throughout the U.S. in the summer of 2017 and will be releasing a concert film of the show in 2018. Find out more at RachelLark.com \n• No refunds or exchanges. \n• Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-notorious/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, Kim Shuck reading new poetry with E.K. Keith
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \ncelebrating their recent books of poetry \nClouds Running In – by Kim Shuck – from Taurean Horn Press \n“‘You will know the poets by the dirt under our nails\,’ writes Kim Shuck in CLOUDS RUNNING IN\, a spirited\, witty\, moving book of poetry that sings the mystical connections in everyday life. Shuck’s vivid imagery balances dark moods and self-deprecating humor. Drawing on her Cherokee and Polish roots\, Shuck offers us the bittersweet music of lyrically expressed memory and the generational trauma of the Native American holocaust\, lived in nerve and bone.”— Linda Rodriguez \nOrdinary Villains – by EK Keith – from Nomadic Press \nThe world is full of good people who do bad things—drunk drivers\, dumpster divers\, absent lovers\, astronauts\, waitstaff\, aunts and uncles\, and people who have cell phones. Is that you? If you’ve ever secretly enjoyed the effects of climate change or thrown away your recycling—even though you worry about the future—you might find a funhouse mirror in Ordinary Villains. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. She has been writing  since before she could write and arting longer than that. Raised in and by San Francisco\, Shuck takes each sidewalk square personally. She is the poet of two full length collections of poems\, soon to be three\, maybe four. She is also author of  one narrative in prose vignettes. In June of 2017 Kim was named the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco. \nE. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home\, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at coffee shops\, bars\, and radio stations. Her work appears online and in magazines on all three coasts and places beyond\, and ORDINARY VILLAINS is her first book of poetry. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome\, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. Her work as a public school librarian creates opportunities for her to make the world a better place every day. \nPraise for Ordinary Villains: \n“Against a dystopic nationalism come early\, E. K. Keith’s poetry is a tyrant’s headquarters on fire. She seems to know all of the hidden tunnels of language. With incredible musical beauty to her poems\, she reveals the mind behind a blues chord’s anger\, and the omniscience of those who know its progression. A muralist in canyons of love and family\, an elder playing with matches in the company lobby; Keith’s poetry has unfathomable grace. She is your big sister’s insight and true rebel guidance. Keith knows the circuit breakers in the jungle and will lead you out.” \n– Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven is All Goodbyes \n“Keith has that rare and precious combination of a loving heart\, a scalpel sharp grasp of politics and a trickster’s sense of humor. E. K. is a first draft pick for the list of people you’d want with you come the zombie apocalypse. Read the book and find out why.” \n– Kim Shuck\, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco \n“Ordinary Villains is the stunning debut collection by E. K. Keith. Welcome to E. K.’s America: you might recognize it. It is an America that is poisoning itself; an America that is forcing young girls to hate their bodies; an America at war with itself and others; an America that believes in a dream that has become a nightmare for most. Many of these poems are rough in their language but sound vaguely familiar. Why? Because they have the ring of truth about them\, a sound that is recognizable anywhere and by anyone. In the world of I\, a married man curses at his date at the bar\, another man kills himself with heroin and tortures his family\, a girl tortures herself to be attractive and everyone follows the American dream—drunk—burning fossil fuel up and down the highways. These are musical but plain-speaking poems that concern themselves with ordinary lives as they are being lived in the 21st century and are peopled with ordinary\, flawed sinners: people like you and me. These pieces are chanted like spells and they weave their magic on the reader: once you read them you will never forget them.” \n– Natasha Dennerstein\, author of Seahorse and About a Girl
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-of-san-francisco-kim-shuck-reading-new-poetry-with-e-k-keith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Thomson / Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson\, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. Please join us! \nFilm can make us want things we can not have. But\, while sometimes rapturous\, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture\, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism\, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history\, and memoir\, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography\, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight\, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name\, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread\, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art\, entertainment\, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live. \n  \n\n  \nDavid Thomson is the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, Moments That Made the Movies\, and the pioneering novel Suspects\, which was peopled with characters from film. Author photo by Lucy Gray. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \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 Sleeping with Strangers\, and/or any of David’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-thomson-sleeping-with-strangers-how-the-movies-shaped-desire/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What If: The Fiction of the Future
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nFantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future\, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films and TV shows such as Children of Men\, Blade Runner 2049\, Black Mirror\, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring\, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism\, or can it alter our destiny? Discussing these questions and more will be Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night)\, and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\, in conversation with Nilgun Bayraktar\, a writer and professor at California College of the Arts. \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nNilgun Bayraktar\nNilgun Bayraktar is an assistant professor of film in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Film & Media Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her work focuses on migrant… Read More →\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nCharlie Jane Anders\nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the extraordinarily popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her SF and fantasy debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the 2017 Nebula Awards for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Elison\nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel\, The Book of Etta\, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\, and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nSaturday February 2\, 2019 8:00pm – 9:00pm\nSan Francisco Public Library\, main branch\, 1st Floor Deaf Services Center 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-if-the-fiction-of-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas.
DESCRIPTION:City Lights presents “The Poetic City” at the Night of Ideas.\nSaturday\, February 2nd\, 8:00-9:00pm\, San Francisco\, CA: SF Library\, Main Branch\nhttps://www.nightofideassf.com/\n  \nWhat is the “Poetic City” of San Francisco? The City at our feet\, the City behind us\, the one in our heads\, the one breathing down our necks? Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? \nPoems\, songs\, anti-poems\, and more from an inspired crew of local artists and writers including: Julien Poirier\, Ash Tré Philips\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Robert Andrew Perez\, Ava Koohbor\, Lisa Gray-Garcia\, Josiah Luís Alderete\, Thea Matthews\, Jack Hirschman\, and Flavia Mora. \nJoin us on February 2nd\, 2019 when the San Francisco Public Library\, SFMOMA\, and the French Consulate in SF unite to present a seven-hour marathon of debate\, performance\, readings\, screenings\, and music featuring big thinkers from SF and beyond as we envision the “city of the future.”  This event is free and open to all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-presents-the-poetic-city-at-the-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Presents Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime\, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson\, Truong Tran\, Max Shanley and Alanna Rae. Sponsored by Fourteen Hills. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist who has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Columbia University\, Callaloo\, and San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared or is upcoming in The Associated Press\, The Atlantic\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, NY1 News\, Entropy\, Medium\, and The Best American Poetry blog\, among other places. Her poetry appears widely online and in journals\, including poets.org\, The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, RHINO\, Columbia Journal\, Yemassee\, Eleven Eleven\, and New American Writing. Her full-length poetry book Running to Stand Still is forthcoming from Omnidawn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourteen-hills-presents-kimberly-reyes/
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:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n(PAST) SPECIAL POETALK READING EVENT:\n\nSaturday\, November 11\, 2017\, 3:00-5:00 PM\n\nat the TAREA HALL PITTMAN SOUTH BRANCH\, BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY\,\n1901 Russell St.\, Berkeley (a short walk from Ashby BART station).\n\nThe event featured readings from POETALK contributors (2016-Summer2017 Edition)\, including:\nELIZABETH ALFORD\, AL AVERBACH\, JAN DEDERICK\, STEPHEN KOPEL\,\nJEANNE LUPTON\, BRITT PETER\, LISA SMALL\, GARY TURCHIN.\n\nThere was also an OPEN MIC.\n\nThis FREE event was open to the public and not sponsored by the Berkeley Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is pleased to host Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems\, Half-Hazard\, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen in conversation is Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n  \nHalf-Hazard is a book of near misses\, would-be tragedies\, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem\, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows Tracy’s wide curiosity\, from her growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus out into the forbidden world\, where she finds snakes\, car accidents\, adulterers\, meteors\, and death-marked mice. These wry\, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism and Tracy’s own knack at noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns\, false loves\, quashed beliefs\, and a menagerie of animals\, Half-Hazardintroduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry\, one of resilience\, faith\, and joy. \n  \n\n  \nKristen Tracy is a poet and acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels for young readers. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Threepenny Review\, among other magazines. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. \n  \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. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Half-Hazard\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-tracy-with-daniel-handler-half-hazard/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elena Schneider & Caitlin Rosenthal - - The Occupation of Havana & Accounting for Slavery
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Elena Schneider and Caitlin Rosenthal to discuss their new new books The Occupation of Havana and Accounting for Slavery\, on Friday\, February 1st at 7pm. \nThe Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically\, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba’s return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences\, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions. \nAccounting for Slavery is a unique contribution to the decades-long effort to understand New World slavery’s complex relationship with capitalism. Through careful analysis of plantation records\, Caitlin Rosenthal explores the development of quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations. She shows how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizational structures and even practiced an early form of scientific management. They subjected enslaved people to experiments\, such as allocating and reallocating labor from crop to crop\, planning meals and lodging\, and carefully recording daily productivity. The incentive strategies they crafted offered rewards but also threatened brutal punishment. \n  \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nElena Schneider is a historian of Latin America and the Atlantic World. Her teaching focuses on Cuba and the Caribbean\, comparative colonialism and slavery\, and the Black Atlantic. Professor Schneider’s research explores the ways that war\, trade\, and slavery integrated the Atlantic world across regional and what would later become national boundaries. \nCaitlin Rosenthal is a historian of 18th and 19th century U.S. history. Her research focuses on the development of management practices\, especially those based on data analysis. She seeks to blend qualitative and quantitative methods and to combine insights from business history\, economic history\, and labor history. Before coming to Berkeley\, she was the Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School\, and before that she worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Her work is motivated by the hope that more complete histories of management can help us to explore deep political and ethical questions\, many of which continue to face modern businesspeople. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, February 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elena-schneider-caitlin-rosenthal-the-occupation-of-havana-accounting-for-slavery/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:TEEN POETRY OPEN MIC (7-9pm) \nBring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Samuel Getachew! \nFeaturing special guest performance by: \nRISE Next Gen Voices – an Oakland-based a cappella group for young singers (ages 14-18) led by Lisa Forkish\, renowned a cappella arranger and director of Vocal Rush. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm. First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. Must be 19 years or younger. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-teen-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
DESCRIPTION:TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh Berman is a writer\, poet\, and publisher of TamTam Books. As a publisher\, he focused on post-war French figures such as Boris Vian\, Guy Debord\, Serge Gainsbourg and French gangster Jacques Mesrine\, as well as publishing Sparks (Ron Mael & Russell Mael) and Lun*na Menoh. His previous book Sparks-Tastic (2013) is a combination of travel journal and thoughts on the band Sparks. His book of poems The Plum in Mr. Blum’s Pudding (2014) came out through Penny-Ante Editions. He authored the introduction to Wallace Berman: American Aleph from the Michael Kohn Gallery in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nFeaturing: \nAida Ndiaye (CH510 Young Author) – born in Oakland with parents from Senegal\, West Africa\, Aida is a 4th grader who loves writing and telling stories. She wrote her first book when she was 9 years old about her allergies. \nmore young authors TBA soon! \nPlus: \nKids open mic! \nTiny bookmaking and arts activities for families \nCostume box \nFresh tunes spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-storyteller-series/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dahr Jamail & Antonia Juhasz: Is Our Earth in Hospice Mode?
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nIS OUR EARTH IN HOSPICE MODE? \nDAHR JAMAIL + ANTONIA JUHASZ\nThe End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption \nT: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nDahr Jamail has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis\, from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest\, to discover the consequences of the loss of ice to nature and to humans. The End of Ice is the firsthand chronicle of his travels\, during which he scaled Denali\, the highest peak in North America\, swam in warm crystal waters around Pacific coral reefs\, explored the tundra of St. Paul Island and spoke with some of the last subsistence seal-hunters of the Bering Sea. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families for centuries have fished and farmed in the various places he visits\, Dahr begins to accept the dark fact that earth is almost certainly in a hospice situation. Ironically\, this renews his passion for the planet’s wild places\, cherishing the earth in an entirely new way. Like no other book\, The End of Ice offers a true narrative that includes photographs throughout by Dahr of his journey across the world\, of the catastrophic reality of our predicament\, and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable planet while it is still possible. \nAntonia Juhasz is a leading energy analyst\, author\, and investigative journalist specializing in oil. An award-winning writer\, her articles appear in Newsweek\, Rolling Stone\, Harper’s Magazine\, The Atlantic\, CNN.com\, The Nation\, Ms.\, The Advocate\, and many more. Antonia is the author of three books: Black Tide (2011)\, The Tyranny of Oil (2008)\, and The Bush Agenda (2006). \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dahr-jamail-antonia-juhasz-is-our-earth-in-hospice-mode/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:The Racket!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
DESCRIPTION:Doors open 6:00pm\nEvent begins 6:30pm \nAt the American Bookbinders Museum
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anya-martin-and-nick-mamatas/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading: Wendy C. Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir\, Hollywood Notebook\, and the dreamoir\, Bruja. In 2016\, Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, The Rumpus\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the New York Times\, Fence\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Oritz is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n« BACK TO PREVIOUS\n\n\nBACK TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-reading-wendy-c-ortiz/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH\, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount\, Executive Director\, Pro Arts Gallery\, Oakland \n  \nThe triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist. \nTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh’s unconventional childhood and peculiar journey to adulthood features an array of famous characters\, from George Herms and Marcel Duchamp\, to Michael McClure and William S. Burroughs\, to Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell\, to the Rolling Stones\, Neil Young\, and Toni Basil. \nTOSH takes an unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of his unusual upbringing by an artistic genius with all-too-human frailties\, against a backdrop that includes The T.A.M.I. Show\, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band\, Easy Rider\,and more. With a preface by actress/writer Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Wallace’s friend\, actor Russ Tamblyn)\, TOSH is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. The index of names included represents a who’s who of midcentury American—and international—culture. \nPraise for Tosh: \n“Tosh Berman’s sweet and affecting memoir provides an intimate glimpse of his father\, Wallace\, and the exciting\, seat-of-the-pants LA art scene of the 1960s\, and it also speaks to the hearts of current and former lonely teenagers everywhere.”—Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \n“This book is like a fascinating series of autobiographical post-cards that could be subtitled\, Growing Up Semina. As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh presents fly on the wall impressions of his parents coterie in the 60s and 70s—a grouping that included such luminaries as Dennis Hopper\, Brian Jones\, Toni Basil\, and Andy Warhol. His memoir give us a glimpse into the ‘other’ Los Angeles—a bohemia that thrived in the 60s and 70s in numerous enclaves such as Topanga Canyon\, Venice Beach\, and West Hollywood. This is the story of a kid growing up inside of art world history\, retelling his upbringing warts and all. A well-written\, fast-moving book that is candid\, funny\, often disturbing\, and never dull.”—Gillian McCain\, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh Berman had a front row seat for the beat parade of the ’50s\, and the hippie extravaganza of the ’60s. It was an exotic\, star-studded childhood\, but having groovy parents doesn’t insulate one from the challenge of forging one’s own identity in the world. Berman’s successful effort to do that provides the heart and soul of this movingly candid chronicle of growing up bohemian.”—Kristine McKenna\, co-author of Room to Dream by David Lynch \n“Through the prism of Tosh Berman\, only child\, born 1954 to Wallace and Shirley\, who personified the wild heart of 20th century West Coast art\, we are offered a truly intimate invitation into a magic world of outliers\, visionaries and shooting stars.TOSH recounts a life ‘lived like a good book on a bookshelf\,’ a memoir resonant with discovery\, passion\, music\, art\, sex\, celebrity\, ego\, desire\, and dignity. All told with a son’s love for his father\, a continuing light into the creative life.”—Thurston Moore\, musician & writer \n“This book is sublime: vertiginous\, melancholy\, highly amusing!”—Johan Kugelberg\, Boo-Hooray \n“One could not wish for a better guide into the subterranean and bohemian worlds of the California art/Beat scene than Tosh Berman\, only scion of the great Wallace. Tosh has a sly wit and an informed eye\, he is both erudite and neurotic\, and often hilarious. TOSH\, the book\, is packed with keen observations and unique anecdotal factoids that could only come from a true insider. It’s a must for anyone who cares about California counter-culture and the raggedy-ass drumbeat of the Beat Generation.”—John Taylor\, Duran Duran \n“Tosh Berman is one of the most valuable writers\, much less people\, the earth has upon it. This book is exquisite. I can’t think of another word. What it says\, how it says it\, what it is.”—Dennis Cooper\, author of The Marbled Swarm \n“I first met Tosh Berman when he was assigned to sit next to me in 5th grade. We rode the Topanga school bus together for many years and even drove with each other to our high school graduation. But the overlap doesn’t end there. Our parents frequented many of the same movie theaters\, clubs\, and galleries. Neither of our mother’s drove\, either. Both of our families had the celebrities of the day passing through our houses. I witnessed much of what Tosh saw and writes about\, and I can say that TOSH: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World captures the times\, places\, and people with accuracy\, sensitivity\, humor\, and\, at times\, great sadness. This is a beautifully written memoir\, and I highly recommend it to those who are interested in the Sixties\, Topanga Canyon\, the Southern California art scene\, and for those who wonder what it might mean to grow up as the son of one of our most acclaimed artists.”—Lisa See\, author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane \n“Reading TOSH\, I felt like I was lying on a couch\, completely relaxed and engrossed\, while Tosh Berman sat in a chair beside me and told me his amazing life story. And at the end\, I was very moved and wanted to cry. The affect that TOSH—the book and the man—had on me was that feeling I get when exposed to great art: a mix of sadness and wonder\, which seem to be the two faces of the human heart. Wonderment at the beauty around us—the world\, its people—and the sadness that nothing lasts\, that all must perish. But this is our journey on planet earth: to be brave and feel both things at once\, and it’s great art\, like this book\, that reminds us to do so.”—Jonathan Ames\, author of You Were Never Really Here \n“If you are interested in California bohemian art-scene culture\, eccentric and fascinating family and friend dynamics between unique individuals\, and celebrated yet oddly little-known artists with uncompromising personalities\, then read this book!”—Roman Coppola\, filmmaker\, screenwriter \n“This book is perfection. I wish it went on forever. Maybe\, somehow\, it does.TOSH is almost like a giant map of small city . . . Each sentence is a street. Each chapter is an era. Each memory revealing a secret passage from one place to the next . . . TO READ IT is to WALK IT with Tosh Berman.” —Jason Schwartzman\, actor \n“Tosh Berman paints an intimate and heartfelt portrait of growing up within the quirky West Coast counterculture of the 1950-70s. At the center of the tale is his dedicated and passionate artist father\, Wallace Berman\, who introduces his son to a bizarre collection of artists\, crooks\, cowboys\, beatniks\, hippies\, freaks\, filmmakers\, musicians\, mystics\, and assorted weirdos. Including hilarious personal stories about Dean Stockwell\, Dennis Hopper\, Allen Ginsberg\, Cameron\, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott\, Michael McClure\, Robert Duncan\, George Herms\, Leslie Caron\, William Burroughs\, Andy Warhol\, Russ Tamblyn\, Lenny Bruce\, Phil Spector\, Brian Jones\, Alexander Trocchi\, John Cage\, and many many more\, TOSH\, is a delightfully entertaining memoir filled with sly wit and a profound personal perspective.”—John Zorn\, composer \n“There’s the life—and then there’s the life. With TOSH you can have both. My life\, and that of many who sailed with me\, was formed by the 40’s & 50’s. TOSH takes you there. Feel the fabric\, touch the canvas of all that informed us. Embrace it and move forward.”—Andrew Loog Oldham\, producer/manager\, The Rolling Stones \n“This double narrative of Tosh Berman and his father\, Wallace\, will tell you more about the creative process than a hundred how-to books purporting to do the same. Joyous and unselfconsciously readable\, it celebrates the delights of surprise and observation on every page\, as well as\, yes—the confidence that things will somehow land upright.”—Jim Krusoe\, author of The Sleep Garden \n“What compels about Tosh Berman’s gorgeously written memoir is the proximity of the quotidian and the familiar to the extraordinary\, the shocking even\, and the enviably glamorous. He recounts a coming of age in which the unexpected laces the ordinary as surely at it does in Alice In Wonderland—only for Tosh\, growing up\, a cast of artists\, nutcases\, iconoclasts\, stars\, and extremists of all kinds provide the distraction and disruption once supplied by the White Rabbit or Cheshire Cat. Add to this his exemplary taste in\, and understanding of\, a particular pop sensibility—TV\, music\, Warhol\, and comic books. That then heady and head-spinning world\, soundtrack to a sentimental education\, that was for the young romantics of the mid-twentieth century what clouds and peaks were to those of mid-nineteenth. Brava\, Tosh Berman!”—Michael Bracewell\, writer \n“If the first movie your father takes you to as a child is . . . And God Created Woman\, you can be sure of two things. First\, that your father is an extraordinary person. Second\, that you are destined to lead an extraordinarily interesting life. Both of these suppositions are made evident in Tosh Berman’s vivid and loving memoir\, TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World. What a world!”—Ron Mael\, Sparks \n“Reading TOSH is like meeting your idols\, one at a time\, for a quiet chat. Everyone is disarmed\, and it feels like you’ve been in the same room with them for about ten hours\, or so. Dennis Hopper is unconstrained and friendly\, Toni Basil is bubbly\, and Brian Jones has just stopped by to say hello. Topanga\, as a place is remote—filled with pockets of escapism\, winding landscapes of tumult and ennui. Tosh’s world is both expansive and crystalline\, he traces the edges of his world\, and Wallace’s world. We get to come and go with Tosh as he navigates his place in and around the tangle of the time.”—Soo Kim\, artist\, Professor at Otis College of Art and Design \n“Sexually giddy\, clairvoyant\, messianic—Wallace Berman’s socially astute photo-collages were vital bread and butter for several generations of artists. The Wallace B bloodline\, from which Tosh sprouted\, is a verdant gene pool. For artists-readers\, TOSH\, the memoir\, is a luscious document of Los Angeles in the last four decades of the 20th century. Every page is filled with juicy history. Such surprises include a teenaged Sammy Davis Jr. sleepover\, a pet alligator\, Mae West\, Allen Ginsberg\, and dozens of remarkable side characters. Bask in Tosh Berman’s honesty and gentle style. He is a one-of-a-kind gem.”—Benjamin Weissman\, artist & writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-by-tosh-berman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: On the Cusp
DESCRIPTION:The events that define us aren’t always immediately apparent. That’s the idea behind On the Cusp\, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning of life’s smaller moments … and their lasting significance. \nAuthors TBA soon — stay tuned\, save the date\, and join us! \n  \n  \n\nAdmission for this event is $5 in advance or $10 at the door. Advance tickets are available at this link. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. This is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, and event begins at 7:30pm. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-on-the-cusp/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sally Wen Mao
DESCRIPTION:reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng \ncelebrating the release of \nOculus: Poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn Oculus\, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement\, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds\, examine robot culture\, and haunt a necropolis for electronic waste. A fascinating sequence speaks in the voice of international icon and first Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong\, who travels through the history of cinema with a time machine\, even past her death and into the future of film\, where she finds she has no progeny. With a speculative imagination and a sharpened wit\, Mao powerfully confronts the paradoxes of seeing and being seen\, the intimacies made possible and ruined by the screen\, and the many roles and representations that women of color are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them. \nSally Wen Mao is the author of a previous poetry collection\, Mad Honey Symposium. She has received fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center\, the George Washington University\, and Kundiman. Visit: http://www.sallywenmao.com/ \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Publishers Weekly; HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, A U.S. Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Bread Loaf work-study scholar\, she is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Award\, the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, the Mid-American Review Fineline Prize\, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry\, lyric essays\, and image-text work appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Conjunctions\, Black Warrior Review\, The Normal School\, DIAGRAM\, The Volta\, Sonora Review\, Seneca Review\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-wen-mao/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MIKE CHEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:With pieces featured in The Mary Sue\, The Portalist\, and Tor\, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel\, Here and Now and Then. \nTo save his daughter\, he’ll go anywhere–and any-when… Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT\, trying to keep the spark in his marriage\, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter\, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission\, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him\, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon\, his “rescue” team arrives–eighteen years too late.Their mission: return Kin to 2142\, where he’s only been gone weeks\, not years\, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.Torn between two lives\, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself\, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda–even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut\, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart\, playfulness\, and imagination\, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-chen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tracy K. Smith\, Poet Laureate of the United States
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nco-presented with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco \nJoin us for a conversation with Tracy K. Smith\, the current Poet Laureate of the United States. In that role\, she has traveled the country on a quest to bring poetry to people living in rural America. Smith authored the critically-acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light and three books of poetry including her most recent\, Wade in the Water. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as the New York Times Notable Book. Duende received the 2006 James Laughlin Award and The Body’s Question won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith has also been a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a Whiting Award\, and received a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, awarded to one poet annually for distinguished poetic achievement. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. \nEven the men in black armor\, the ones\nJangling handcuffs and keys\, what else \nAre they so buffered against\, if not love’s blade\nSizing up the heart’s familiar meat? \nWe watch and grieve. We sleep\, stir\, eat.\nLove: the heart sliced open\, gutted\, clean. \nLove: naked almost in the everlasting street\,\nSkirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. \n– from “Unrest in Baton Rouge\,” Wade in the Water\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nTracy K. Smith\nTracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She is currently serving as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States\, an office she assumed in 2017. She has published four collections of poetry\, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 30\, 2019 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nJewish Community Center of San Francisco\, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tracy-k-smith-poet-laureate-of-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The American Welfare State in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? \nTina Sacks is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race\, class and gender; and poverty and inequality. Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare\, Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and has also served as legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. \nFree to current OLLI @Berkeley members and UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and students; $10 general admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-american-welfare-state-in-the-age-of-trump-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:The American Welfare State in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 30\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? \nTina Sacks is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race\, class and gender; and poverty and inequality. Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare\, Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and has also served as legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. \nFree to current OLLI @Berkeley members and UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and students; $10 general admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-american-welfare-state-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! \n  \nIn an America convulsed by political upheaval\, cultural discord\, environmental collapse\, and spiritual confusion\, many folks are searching for peace\, salvation\, and — perhaps most immediately — just a little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner\, an unwitting guru whose technique of “Mental Archery” — a combination of mindfulness\, mythology\, fake history\, yoga\, and\, well\, archery — is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It’s a role he never asked for\, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans\, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players\, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist\, a gentle Swedish kidnapper\, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars\, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids\, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish. \nIn this social satire of the highest order\, Sam Lipsyte\, the New York Times bestseller and master of the form\, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters.Hark is a smart\, incisive look at men\, women\, and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic\, ridiculous\, and often dangerous world. \n  \n\n  \n“Madcap and full of love\, laughter and unexpected beauty (not to mention the world’s greatest bone marrow smuggling scheme)\, if Hark doesn’t make you stalk Sam Lipsyte and try to break up his marriage\, then you are not human.” – Gary Shteyngart\, author of Super Sad True Love Story \n  \n“Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical\, Lipsyte has penned a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all. More than a ‘must read\, ‘ Hark is a ‘must believe!'” – Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n  \n\n  \nSam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark\, The Ask\, The Subject Steve\, and Home Land\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. \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  \nAs with all of our events\, seating is limited and may be reserved by purchasing a book in advance. To reserve a seat\, order with the link below and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Hark\, and/or any of Sam’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sam-lipsyte-hark/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quest for a New Form of Matter
DESCRIPTION:When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s\, scientists thought they knew all conceivable forms of matter. “The Second Kind of Impossible” is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. \nSteinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter\, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important\, simple and beautiful-and Steinhardt’s first-hand account is an engaging scientific thriller. \nPaul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University\, where he is on the faculty of both the departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences. He is the co-founder and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. He received the Dirac Medal and other prestigious awards for his work on the early universe and novel forms of matter. He is the author of “The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter”\, and the co-author\, with Neil Turok\, of “Endless Universe”\, which describes the two competing ideas in cosmology to which he contributed. With his student Dov Levine\, Steinhardt first invented the theoretical concept of quasicrystals before they were synthesized in a laboratory. More than three decades later\, with Luca Bindi\, he guided the team that led to the discovery of three different natural quasicrystals in the Kamchatka Peninsula. In 2014\, the International Mineralogical Association named a new mineral Steinhardtite in his honor. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event for $27 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-second-kind-of-impossible-the-quest-for-a-new-form-of-matter/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:“America does not negotiate with terrorists.” But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist abductions. The US refuses to pay ransoms\, holding that it would only fuel more kidnappings. Other countries pay-up to free their citizens taken hostage. Statistics tell the grim result: according to New America\, “since 2001\, American hostages taken captive by terrorist\, militant\, and pirate groups have been more than twice as likely to remain in captivity\, die in captivity\, or be murdered by their captors as the average Western hostage.” \nJoel Simon has spent nearly two decades with the Committee to Protect Journalists\, working on dozens of hostage cases. His new book We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical\, legal\, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: should governments pay ransom to terrorists? \nJoin KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro as she hosts Joel Simon for this important conversation\, in another installment of our This Is Now news and culture conversation series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-simon-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Douglas Rushkoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTeam Human \npublished by W.W. Norton \nThough created by humans\, our technologies\, markets\, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff\, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human\, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. \nIn 100 aphoristic statements\, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: money\, for example\, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation\, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends\, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs\, algorithms directing our attention\, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost. It’s time for Team Human to take a stand\, regenerate the social bonds that define us and\, together\, make a positive impact on this earth. \nAbout Douglas Rushkoff: \n\nNamed one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT\, Douglas Rushkoff is an author\, media theorist\, professor\, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the upcoming Team Human\, based on his podcast\, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock\, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus\, Program or Be Programmed\, Life Inc\, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like\, The Persuaders\, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award\, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative\, money\, power\, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media\,” “screenagers\,” and “social currency\,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future\, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens\, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics\, Ecstasy Club\, A.D.D\, and Aleister & Adolf\, are all being developed for the screen. \n\nPraise for the work of Douglas Rushkoff \n“Original and uplifting. Just the book America needs right now. In his unique and engaging style\, Rushkoff reminds us of our human essence: we are social creatures\, and if we trust this truth about ourselves we can accomplish the seemingly impossible.” — Frances Moore Lappé\, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Daring Democracy \n“Rushkoff is the gold standard. He always knows what tech is up to—and he’s usually prophetic. Now he’s here to tell us how our Silicon masters are attempting to pit us against one another for their own gain. Go Team Human.” — Walter Kirn\, author of Blood Will Out and Up in the Air \n“A vivid thinker\, Rushkoff is an insightful and acerbic antidote to Facebook\, cultural hegemony\, and the corporatization of everything.” — Seth Godin\, bestselling author of The Dip\, Linchpin\, and What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) \n“Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff.” — Parker Posey \n“Technology can be a force for good or amplify our self-destructive capacities. In Team Human\, the always-brilliant Douglas Rushkoff reminds us that the tools we design design us in turn\, and offers a vision to invert our tools and make them better.” — Jason Silva\, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games \n“An astonishing\, paradigm-shifting must-read for all inhabitants of the twenty-first century. Precisely and cogently written. Rushkoff’s best work so far.” — Grant Morrison \n“A searing critique…Visionary\, original\, and inspirational. If you’re not already a member of Team Human\, you will be once you’ve finished reading it.” — Jeremy Lent\, author of The Patterning Instinct \n“[A] catalyst for conversations on what it means to be human.” — Booklist \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-rushkoff/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:El Impostor – Javier Cercas\n¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue desenmascarado en mayo de 2005\, después de presidir durante tres años la asociación española de los supervivientes\, pronunciar centenares de conferencias\, conceder decenas de entrevistas\, recibir importantes distinciones y conmover en algún caso hasta las lágrimas a los parlamentarios españoles reunidos para rendir homenaje por vez primera a los republicanos deportados por el III Reich. El caso dio la vuelta al mundo y convirtió a Marco en el gran impostor y el gran maldito. Ahora\, casi una década más tarde\, \nJavier Cercas asedia\, en este thriller hipnótico que es también un banquete con muchos platos -narración\, crónica\, ensayo\, biografía y autobiografía-\, el enigma del personaje\, su verdad y sus falsedades y\, a través de esa indagación que recorre casi un siglo de historia de España\, bucea con una pasión de kamikaze y una honestidad desgarradora en lo más profundo de nosotros mismos: en nuestra infinita capacidad de autoengaño\, en nuestro conformismo y nuestras mentiras\, en nuestra sed insaciable de afecto\, en nuestras necesidades contrapuestas de ficción y de realidad\, en las zonas más dolorosas de nuestro pasado reciente. El resultado es un libro que no habla de Enric Marco sino de usted\, lector; también el libro más insumiso y radical de Javier Cercas: un libro asombroso que\, con una audacia inédita\, ensancha los límites del género novelesco y explora las últimas fronteras de nuestra humanidad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-book-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Seating #2: The History of Prisons in California
DESCRIPTION:—SOLD OUT!!— \n  \nCalifornia’s prison system started as a privately-run barge anchored in the Bay\, and was embroiled in corruption\, political scandal\, and violence. Since then\, our system has grown to incarcerate more people than the population of Berkeley. Prisons represent the power of the state in its most raw and basic form\, and 167 years later Californians are still confronting the same fundamental questions: Why do we incarcerate people\, what happens when they leave\, and can we do better? \nJared Rudolph is an attorney at the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender and the founder of Prisoner Reentry Network (prisonerreentrynetwork.org)\, a non-profit that supports successful transitions from incarceration to the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seating-2-the-history-of-prisons-in-california/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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