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SUMMARY:Thrity Umrigar
DESCRIPTION:In Everybody’s Son\, during a terrible heat wave in 1991–the worst in a decade–ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects\, alone\, for seven days\, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity\, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot\, hungry\, and desperate\, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass\, he is covered in blood when the police find him. \nJuanita\, his mother\, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away\, nearly unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to\, she repeatedly asks for her baby boy. She never meant to leave Anton–she went out for a quick hit and was headed right back\, until her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. Though the bond between mother and son is extremely strong\, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita goes to jail. \nThe Harvard-educated son of a US senator\, Judge David Coleman is a scion of northeastern white privilege. Desperate to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage son\, David uses his power and connections to keep his new foster son\, Anton\, with him and his wife\, Delores–actions that will have devastating consequences in the years to come. \nFollowing in his adopted family’s footsteps\, Anton\, too\, rises within the establishment. But when he discovers the truth about his life\, his birth mother\, and his adopted parents\, this man of the law must come to terms with the moral complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most. \nThrity Umrigar is the author of six novels—The Story Hour\, The World We Found\, The Weight of Heaven\, The Space Between Us\, If Today Be Sweet\, and Bombay Time—and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. The Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and a journalist for nearly twenty years\, she is the winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a 2006 finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. She lives in Cleveland\, Ohio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thrity-umrigar-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Johanna Ely
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Poetry Breakfast\, California Quarterly\, and most recently\, The Poeming Pigeon. In 2015\, Johanna published a small collection of her poetry titled Transformation. Johanna is the host of a monthly poetry series in Benicia at Rosanna’s European Delights\, and also facilitates the First Tuesday Poetry Group at the Benicia Public Library. She is honored to be the current Poet Laureate of Benicia\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johanna-ely/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170626T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170626T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020751Z
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SUMMARY:Amelia Gray + Rosecrans Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is doubly excited to host a joint reading by Amelia Gray and Rosecrans Baldwin to celebrate their anticipated new books\, Isadora and The Last Kid Left. Don’t miss this! \nIsadora \nAmelia Gray’s Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life; a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits\, even in the darkest days of her life. \nThe Last Kid Left \nRosecrans Baldwin’s The Last Kid Left is loosely inspired by a true crime in 1930’s New England. After a double-murder kicks off a scandal in a beach town\, a young woman struggles to create a life for herself and escape the lurid interest of a tight-knit community. This novel is a sort of modern day witch hunt\, involving the precarious lives of two teens\, a small town sheriff\, a retired big-city police officer\, and an aspiring young journalist desperate to make the pages of the New Yorker— they all collide in a media firestorm that threatens to swallow them whole. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amelia-gray-and-rosecrans-baldwin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170626T193000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #46
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations Show #46\nLiterary & Poetry Reading\nMonday\, June 26th\, 2017 \nA curated selection of\nSan Francisco Bay Area poets\,\nwriters & storytellers!\nREADERS\nPeter Bullen + Hollie Hardy\nAlexandra Naughton + Keeley Ann Finn\nDaniel Ari + Britt Peter\nEric Kurhi + Josey Rose Duncan\nLenore Weiss + Margaret Spillman\nNatasha Dennerstein + René Vaz\nCaeser Kent + Bronwyn Emery \nSPECIAL MUSIC GUEST\nGia\, of The Open Minds \nCURATORS\nJoel Landmine (Guest)\nSandra Wassilie + Thea Matthews (Board) \nat The Bellevue Club in Oakland\n525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA.\n(on Lake Merritt)\nMap: https://goo.gl/maps/pjv7KpvvWv62 \n**Free Parking in garage\n**Full bar + refreshments\n**Minutes from BART (19th St): http://bit.ly/2i8VgW9 \nDoors & Bar: 6:30 p.m.\nShow: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation\, $7. With chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet Tickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 250 notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nTickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT\nWebsite: http://www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nBay Area Generations * literary reading * authors * poets * writers * playwrights\nmusic * poetry * reading * storytelling * short stories * plays * memoir * flash fiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-show-46/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Manga Club
DESCRIPTION:Manga lovers unite!  Bring your favorite book or just come to chat with other manga maniacs.  Delicious snacks included (or bring some to share) \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/manga-club/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
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SUMMARY:Northern California Book Awards: Judy Grahn
DESCRIPTION:36th Annual Northern California Book Awards \nNorthern California authors are honored in Fiction\, General Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translation\, and Children’s Literature with brief readings and remarks \npresentation of the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award to poet\, activist\, and cultural theorist Judy Grahn; NCBR Recognition Award to Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers\, by Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames; master of ceremonies Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor\, presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers\, Poetry Flash\, San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, PEN West\, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter\, and Mechanics’ Institute Library\, Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Public Library\, 100 Larkin\, enter at Grove\, SF\, free\, 5:30\, book signing reception follows (510/525-5476\, NCBR@poetryflash.org\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/northern-california-book-awards-judy-grahn/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T183000
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SUMMARY:Patti Trimble + Toshi Washizu
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patti-trimble-toshi-washizu/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s popular comic\, All Over Coffee had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, On the Next Dream evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from Madonna’s home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world. \nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series All Over Coffee and the author of two books\, All Over Coffee and Everything is Its Own Reward. His drawings and stories have appeared in numerous books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-4/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race\, motherhood\, and history. \nAs a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel\, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant\, then toddler\, intensely aware of how they are seen\, not just as mother and child\, but as black women. With a poet’s eye\, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive\, yet threatening\, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. \nWith exceptional candor and grace\, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds―the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child\, living with illness\, conversing with strangers\, and counting on others’ goodwill. Across the nation\, she finds fear and trauma\, and also mercy\, kindness\, and community. Penetrating and generous\, Guidebook to Relative Strangers is an essential guide for a troubled land.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-t-dungy/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabe Habash + Julie Buntin
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Habash and Julie Buntin discuss their new novels Stephen Florida and Marlena. \nGABE HABASH:\nFoxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding\, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season\, when every practice\, every match\, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane\, manic\, and tipping into the uncanny\, it’s a story of loneliness\, obsession\, and the drive to leave a mark. \n“Stephen Florida is an unforgettable addition to the canon of great literary eccentrics. At once a chronicle of obsession\, a philosophical treatise\, and a deeply affecting love story\, this singular novel is perhaps most profoundly an anatomy of American loneliness. Gabe Habash is a writer of powerful gifts\, and this is a wonderful book.”—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nJULIE BUNTIN:\nAn electric debut novel about love\, addiction\, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life\, and define the other’s for decades. \n“Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. She writes the kind of piercing\, revelatory sentences you have to read to whomever is near\, sentences you find yourself remembering years later.”–Jonathan Safran Foer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-habash-julie-buntin/
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:Roxane Gay
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Roxane Gay for her new memoir Hunger. \nPlease note: this event will be held at the African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St. in San Francisco. \nTickets are available now—click here. \n“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big\, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her\, but she is still there\, somewhere.… I was trapped in my body\, one that I barely recognized or understood\, but at least I was safe.” \n New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies\, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure\, consumption\, appearance\, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined\,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial\, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger\, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood\, teens\, and twenties—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers into the present and the realities\, pains\, and joys of her daily life. \nWith the bracing candor\, vulnerability\, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation\, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are\, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers\, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. \nTickets to this event must be purchased in advance. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of Hunger\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxane-gay/
LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Reading
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-reading/
LOCATION:Swirl on the Square\, 21 S Livermore Ave\, Livermore\, CA\, 94550\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks Turn UP (The Volume!) SUMMER Writing and Performance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join M.C. K-Swift to learn how to speak truth to power and the Youth Speaks method at our Summer workshop series.  All programs at The Mix are for teens ages 13-18. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-turn-up-the-volume-summer-writing-and-performance-workshop/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laura Kamoie + Stephanie Dray
DESCRIPTION:In the compelling\, richly researched America’s First Daughter\, a novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources\, bestselling authors Laura Kamoie and Stephanie Dray tell the fascinating\, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter\, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy \nFrom her earliest days\, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly\, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter\, she becomes his helpmate\, protector\, and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death\, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France. \nIt is in Paris\, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution\, that fifteen-year-old Patsy learns about her father’s troubling liaison with Sally Hemings\, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile\, Patsy has fallen in love—with her father’s protégé William Short\, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Torn between love\, principles\, and the bonds of family\, Patsy questions whether she can choose a life as William’s wife and still be a devoted daughter. \nHer choice will follow her in the years to come\, to Virginia farmland\, Monticello\, and even the White House. And as scandal\, tragedy\, and poverty threaten her family\, Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father’s reputation\, in the process defining not just his political legacy\, but that of the nation he founded. \nLaura Kamoie has always been fascinated by the people\, stories\, and physical presence of the past\, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary\, published two non-fiction books on early America\, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction as the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books. \nStephanie Dray is an award-winning\, bestselling and two-time RITA award nominated author of historical women’s fiction. Her critically acclaimed series about Cleopatra’s daughter has been translated into eight different languages and won NJRW’s Golden Leaf. As Stephanie Draven\, she is a national bestselling author of genre fiction and American-set historical women’s fiction. She is a frequent panelist and presenter at national writing conventions and lives near the nation’s capital.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kamoie-and-stephanie-dray/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T203000
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Palooza!
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents its annual celebration of Queer pride >>Pride Poetry Palooza!<< with amazing LGBTQ poets MK Chavez\, Thea Matthews\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, David Welper\, Arisa White\, and Shelley Wong Wednesday\, June 28\, 7-8:30pm at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland. Baruch leads a discussion of writing Queer poetry after the readings. Book signing\, door prizes\, and free donuts–the poetic fuel of the gods! As-you-will door donation helps keep the doors open at Nomadic Press: Uptown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T210000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime DESECRATION
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DESECRATION\, on Wednesday June 28th\, 7-9 pm\, at the Convent Arts Collective\, 660 Oak St\, San Francisco\, will feature Angela Pneuman (Lay it on my Heart)\, Saqib Mausoof (The Warehouse)\, Youssef Alaoui (Fiercer Monsters)\, Lyndsey Ellis\, and Peter Clarke. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns). This will be one of those BYOB midsummer roof-of-a-convent kinda readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-desecration/
LOCATION:Convent Arts Collective\, 660 Oak St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T210000
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #87
DESCRIPTION:Welcome our June writers Terry Lucas and Joan Baranow. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: In This Room (CW Books\, January 2016) and Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, October 2016). In addition he is the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Altar Call\, one of four winning chapbooks selected by the 2013 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival for the anthology\, Diesel; and If They Have Ears to Hear\, winner of the 2012 Copperdome Chapbook contest (Southeast Missouri State University Press\, 2013). His work has received numerous other awards\, including the 2014 Crab Orchard Review Feature Award in Poetry\, the fifth annual Littoral Press Poetry Prize\, and six Pushcart Prize nominations. \nTerry’s poems\, reviews\, and essays have appeared in dozens of national literary journals\, including Best New Poets 2012\, Green Mountains Review\, Great River Review\, PoetryFlash\, and South 85 Journal. He has taught in the Chicago Public School System as a Master Poet in the Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center’s Writing Center\, and is a guest lecturer for the Dominican University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Formerly the co-executive editor of Trio House Press\, he is currently serving the press as an assistant editor in order to spend more time on his own writing\, as well as his work as a freelance poetry coach. More about Terry can be found at www.terrylucas.com. \nJoan Baranow\, PhD\, is Director\, Graduate Humanities\, and Associate Professor\, English at Dominican University.\nJoan is also Director of the newly launched Dominican Low-Res MFA program. \nHer poetry has appeared in The Paris Review\, Western Humanities Review\, The Antioch Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Squaw Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Cider Press Review\, The Western Journal of Medicine\, and other magazines. Her poetry has also appeared in Women Write Their Bodies: Stories of Illness and Recovery\, issued by Kent State University Press. Her book of poetry\, Living Apart\, was published by Plain View Press. \nOur lively open mic follows our featured writers. We will have light refreshments\, and our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early and grab a flyer if you want to get a bite before the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-87/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kaitlin Solimine + Warren Read
DESCRIPTION:Kaitlin Solimine has been a Fulbright Fellow in China\, and has received several scholarships\, awards\, and residencies for her writing\, including the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award for an earlier draft of Empire of Glass\, judged by Colson Whitehead. Her fiction has been published in Guernica\, theKartika Review\, and numerous anthologies. Kaitlin is co-founder of HIPPO Reads\, a network connecting academic insights and scholars to the wider public. She resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter\, where she is a 2016 SF Grotto Writing Fellow. \n  \nWarren Read is the author of a 2008 memoir The Lyncher in Me (Borealis Books)\, about his discovery that his great-grandfather had incited a lynching in 1920. His fiction has been published in Hot Metal Bridge\, Mud Season Review\, Sliver of Stone\, Inklette\, Switchback and The Drowning Gull. In addition\, he has had two short plays directed and produced by Tony winner Dinah Manoff. Warren earned his MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaitlin-solimine-warren-read/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170425T012337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012337Z
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SUMMARY:Arundhati Roy
DESCRIPTION:Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Her political writings include The Algebra of Infinite Justice\, Listening to Grasshoppers\, Broken Republic and Capitalism: A Ghost Story\, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said\, co-authored with John Cusack. Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi and her new novel\, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness will be published in June 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arundhati-roy/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170619T140505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022331Z
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SUMMARY:Catherine Lacey
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Lacey discusses her latest novel\, The Answers\, with FSG editor Emily Bell. \nAn urgent\, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various aftereffects via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship \nIn Catherine Lacey’s ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary\, a young woman living in New York City and struggling to cope with a body that has betrayed her. All but paralyzed with pain\, Mary seeks relief from a New Agey treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia\, PAKing for short. And\, remarkably\, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive and Mary is dead broke. So she scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds herself applying for the “Girlfriend Experiment\,” the brainchild of an eccentric actor\, Kurt Sky\, who is determined to find the perfect relationship—even if that means paying different women to fulfill distinctive roles. Mary is hired as the “Emotional Girlfriend”—certainly better than the “Anger Girlfriend” or the “Maternal Girlfriend”—and is pulled into Kurt’s ego-driven and messy attempt at human connection. \nTold in her signature spiraling prose\, The Answers is full of the singular yet universal insights readers have come to expect from Lacey. It is a gorgeous hybrid of the plot- and the idea-driven novel that will leave you reeling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/27432/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170619T112929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T112929Z
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nAlyss Dixson \nAlyss Dixson grew up in Portland\, Oregon. She received the 2015 Joseph Henry Jackson award in fiction and is writing a collection entitled Fukuoka Woman. She has publications in The Callaloo Journal\, Day One\, and The Atlantic. She studied at Yale\, Columbia and San Francisco State. She also makes movies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170619T112456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T112456Z
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SUMMARY:TransAction: Trans Writing as Activism
DESCRIPTION:Foglifter\, RADAR Productions\, Bay Area Writers Resist\, and Queer Rebels present a reading and panel discussion featuring prominent Bay Area trans writers and activists. \nThe event will examine the role of trans literature and aesthetic in the current American political and cultural climate. \nFeaturing:\nNatasha Dennerstein\nSam Dylan Finch\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nAkira Jackson\nShafer Mazow\nKay Nilsson\nAria Sa’id \nJulia Serano \nThe event is free and open to the public and created incoordination with TAJA’s Coalition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/transaction-trans-writing-as-activism/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170619T132708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022409Z
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SUMMARY:Siobhan Fallon
DESCRIPTION:I’ll just read a little bit\, I tell myself. And really\, why shouldn’t I? \nBoth Cassie Hugo and Margaret Brickshaw dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the US Embassy in Jordan\, but that’s about all the women have in common. After two years\, Cassie’s an expert on the rules of the Middle East. For newly arrived Margaret\, the move is a chance to see the world and explore. Against the odds the two strike up a friendship\, until their husbands deploy and Cassie senses her new friend pulling away. \nSo when a fender-bender supposedly sends Margaret to the local police station\, Cassie remains alone in the Brickshaw apartment to watch over Margaret’s toddler son. But with Margaret missing for hours Cassie becomes bored and soon frustrated\, tired of being left behind while Margaret adventures. Then she discovers her friend’s journal. Where could Margaret be? Could her diary reveal the secrets that have come between them? \nWritten with stunning prose and powerful emotional insight\, here is a story of two unforgettable women and the choices each will make in friendship\, in marriage\, and in love. The Confusion of Languages offers a poignant glimpse into the private lives of husbands\, wives\, and American military families living overseas. \nSiobhan Fallon is the author of The 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner You Know When the Men Are Gone. She earned her MFA at the New School in New York City and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine\, Women’s Day\, Good Housekeeping\, Prairie Schooner\, Publishers Weekly\, The Huffington Post\, NPR’s The Morning Edition\, and Military Spouse magazine. Siobhan and her family moved to Jordan in 2011\, and they currently live in Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/siobhan-fallon/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170621T004704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T004704Z
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SUMMARY:Mildred Barya w/ Varda Artists Residency Program
DESCRIPTION:Mildred K Barya teaches creative writing and literature at UNC-Asheville and is a board member of African Writers Trust (AWT). Her publications include three poetry collections: Give Me Room to Move My Feet\, 2009\, The Price of Memory after the Tsunami\, 2006\, and Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say\, 2002. She also has short stories and poems in anthologies\, journals and magazines such as Tin House\, Prairie Schooner\, Poetry Quarterly\, Per Contra and Northeast Review. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver and maintains a blog on literary matters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mildred-barya-w-varda-artists-residency-program/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170628T025228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T104343Z
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SUMMARY:Anastasia Aukeman w/ Deborah Treisman
DESCRIPTION:Anastasia Aukeman in discussion with Deborah Treisman\, moderated by Paul Yamazaki \nAnastasia Aukman\, author of Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association meets Deborah Treisman\, co-author with Walter Hopps and Anne Doran of The Dream Colony: A Life in Art. They will explore two enigmatic and influential figures in the world of art and how their work intersected via art creation and curation. City Lights very own Paul Yamazaki will moderate an evening of discussion that traverses the San Francisco\, Los Angeles\, and national art scenes. Mid-century San Francisco artist Bruce Conner and legendary arts curator Walter Hopps walked in familiar worlds. The Rat Bastard Protective Association intersected with Wallace Berman’s Semina Scene of which Hopps was a supporter (and integral part of) via the Ferus Gallery. Through following the threads that connected artists with each other and the gallery scenes that supported them\, we hope to show the rich history that California mid-century artists and curators shared. \nAnastasia Aukeman is an art historian and curator who teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and written articles and reviews for Art in America\, Art on Paper\, and ARTnews\, among other publications. \nDeborah Treisman is the fiction editor of The New Yorker. This year\, she won the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for distinguished achievement in the field of fiction. She has edited 20 Under 40: Stories From The New Yorker. \nPaul Yamazaki has been the principal buyer and board member at City Lights Booksellers for over 30 years. He has served on the boards of the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses\, Small Press Distribution\, Kearny Street Workshop\, and has worked with the National Endowment for the Arts\, California Arts Council and many others. He recently spoke at the Menil Collection in Houston\, Texas discussing the history of City Lights in relation to the BEAT Generation for the exhibit Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anastasia-aukeman-deborah-treisman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170605T102529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170605T102529Z
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SUMMARY:Barry Eisler
DESCRIPTION:Barry Eisler returns to Kepler’s for the release of the newest John Rain novel\, Zero Sum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-eisler/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170619T140734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022441Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Barkan
DESCRIPTION:Josh Barkan in conversation about his new story collection\, Mexico. \nThe unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan’s astonishing and beautiful story collection–chef\, architect\, nurse\, high school teacher\, painter\, beauty queen\, classical bass player\, plastic surgeon\, businessman\, mime–are simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet\, inevitably\, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A teacher struggles to protect lovestruck students whose forbidden romance has put them in mortal peril. A painter’s freewheeling ways land him in the back of a kidnapper’s car. Again and again\, the walls between “ordinary life” and cartel violence are shown to be paper thin\, and when they collapse the consequences are life-changing. \nThese are stories about transformation and danger\, passion and heartbreak\, terror and triumph. They are funny\, deeply moving\, and stunningly well-crafted\, and they tap into the most universal and enduring human experiences: love even in the face of danger and loss\, the struggle to grow and keep faith amidst hardship and conflict\, and the pursuit of authenticity and courage over apathy and oppression. With unflinching honesty and exquisite tenderness\, Josh Barkan masterfully introduces us to characters that are full of life\, marking the arrival of a new and essential voice in American fiction. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-barkan/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170630T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170619T130430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170624T003854Z
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SUMMARY:Curate & Create
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of community celebration\, a ‘thank you’ reading for the labor and efforts of local literary curators\, Amy Berkowitz and Paul Ebenkamp. Snacks and drinks will be provided. \nIf you are a curator and would like to read in the future\, please reach out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alley-cat-books-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170630T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170621T003202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T003202Z
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SUMMARY:Truong Tran + Farah Amezcua
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an excellent Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Truong Tran and Farah Amezcua. Emceed and curated by Reńe Vaz and music by TBD. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about the performers: \nFarah Amezcua is going through it\, but at least she has at least one good friend. She has no cats but she imagines that she wants one. Her veins are filled with marinara sauce and her hair smells like hookah. She currently lives with a spider\, a snake\, and a piece of trash. Get ready. \nTruong Tran is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. His books include Placing the Accents\, Dust and Conscience\, The Book of Perceptions\, Within The Margins\, Four Letter words\, I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar and the Children’s book Going Home Coming Home. His works have been translated into Dutch\, French\, Spanish and Vietnamese. He has been twelve years a lecturer at SFSU and is currently The Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College where he teaches writing workshops at the intersection of poetry and the visual arts. His Latest body of exploration entitled “The Book of Others” will be forthcoming in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truong-tran-farah-amezcua/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170630T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T040509
CREATED:20170629T052835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T052835Z
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SUMMARY:THE BEATS AND BEYOND
DESCRIPTION:Come and experience the poetry of the Beat Generation with musical accompaniment. Featuring the works of Herbert Huncke\, Michael McClure\, Diane di Prima\, John Weiners\, Alden Van Buskirk\, and others\, read by younger poets influenced by their works. \n\nClive Matson\nAndy Halsig\nMartine Algier\nAntonio the Rapper\nKwesi the Dreamer\nBob Booker\n\nand Cori Hartwig on guitar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-beats-and-beyond/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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