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SUMMARY:Noe Valley Authors Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black\, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay\, children’s book author Emma Bland Smith\, poets Susan Dambroff and Eveline Kanes\, and memoirist & novelist Ramon Sender. Book exhibits and readings run from 3pm to 5pm\, Saturday\, March 9 at Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th St. Free admission and free refreshments. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noe-valley-authors-festival-2/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson\nWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. \nBut today\, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly\, with sparkling wit\, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. \nWhile you wait for your morning coffee to brew\, for the bus\, the train\, or a plane to arrive\, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes\, from quarks to quantum mechanics\, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190309T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 9\, 2019:\n \nJosiah Luis Alderete (The Spanglish Power Hour)\nKyle Thomas Smith (Cockloft: Scenes From a Gay Marriage)\nSevanKeelee Boult (Chile! Hood Stories: A Fairy’s Tale)\nLeslie Miley (The Musings of a Black Man in Tech)\nIsaac R. Fellman (The Breath of the Sun)\nWITH GUEST HOST Elena Rose! \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-20/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190310T153000
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-presents-a-reading-by-meryl-natchez-francesca-bell-and-william-brewer-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-2/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Classical Mediterranean Poetry: Greek\, Roman\, Hebrew\, & Egyptian
DESCRIPTION:Local poets and authors read from Classic Mediterranean poetry on Sunday\, March 10\, 4pm to 5pm at Olive This Olive That\, 304 Vicksburg St.\, just off 24th St. in Noe Valley. Erika Atkinson reads from Roman poetry\, Marylee Mcneal from Greek\, Wayne Goodman Hebrew\, and San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck New Kingdom Egyptian. Readings will be in English\, with snippets in the original languages to give a flavor of how they sounded in their time. Free admission and free refreshments. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nMore about the readers:\nErika Atkinson has published five books\, including Exhort the Goddesses\, a poetry collection; Ode to the Castro; and three travel memoirs. She has been a long-time reader of classic and ancient literature and poetry and will read the prose poem “Pyramus and Thisbe” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with Queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. He will be reading from King David’s “Song of Solomon and Jonathan.” \nMaryLee McNeal writes poetry and fiction. Her novel Home Again\, Home Again won the Clark award at San Francisco State University. Her poetry chapbooks are The Space Between Us and The Way We Fall. Her work has been published in The Bellevue Literary Review\, Chattaqua\, Santa Clara Review\, and other magazines and anthologies. She will be reading poems by Sappho. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. Born and raised in San Francisco\, Shuck has been writing and reading poems since the early 70s. She has three full-length solo books and one chapbook. Shuck is currently the poet laureate of San Francisco. She will be reading rarely heard New Kingdom Egyptian poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/classical-mediterranean-poetry-greek-roman-hebrew-egyptian/
LOCATION:Olive This Olive That\, 304 Vicksburg Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ridin'\, Ropin'\, & Writin' Western Novels: Readings & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The long history of writing novels about the West ranges from Zane Grey to Louis L’Amour to Bill Vlach\, David Watts\, and Bill Yenne–the three authors reading at “Ridin’\, Ropin’\, and Writin’ Western Novels\,” the Odd Mondays for March 11\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Join them afterward for a discussion of the place of Western novels in American literature and history. Free admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion. \nThis event is part of Word Week 2019\, Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For information on all 9 events March 8 to March 16\, 2019\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nRead more about the authors:\nBill Vlach’s poetry is published in the United States and the UK. Both his playwriting and parody have won writing awards. His debut novel\, The Golden Chalice of Hunaphú: A Novel of the Spanish Attack on the Maya\, was named the 2015 best novel by BAIPA. The Gospel According to Father Coffee\, Vlach’s second novel\, is composed of comic tales informed by global trickster stories. His Western satiric saga\, The Guns of Revenge\, was on Amazon’s best-selling classic Westerns list for over three months. He is excited that his Western short stories\, Ambush of the Vigilante\, have recently been published. The Golden Chalice of Hunahpu: The Spanish Attack on the Maya \nDavid Watts is a doctor\, professionally trained musician\, inventor\, radio and television personality\, and an accomplished writer. His literary credits include seven books of poetry\, two collections of short stories\, two mystery novels\, five western novels\, and several essays. He has received awards in academics\, medical excellence\, television production\, and for his writing. David is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and Professor of Poetry at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco. \nBill Yenne is the award-winning author of several dozen nonfiction books and 10 novels\, including the Bladen Cole Western series. A Noe Valley resident for four decades\, he grew up in the mountains of western Montana\, where he spent a great deal of time on horseback in the rugged backcountry. His nonfiction works include a critically acclaimed biography of Sitting Bull and a recent one about the siblings of George Armstrong Custer. He has appeared in numerous documentaries airing on the likes of the History Channel and National Geographic Channel. Bill Yenne\, Author
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ridin-ropin-writin-western-novels-readings-discussion/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea / The House of Broken Angels
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Luis Alberto Urrea in celebration of the paperback release of his widely acclaimed novel The House of Broken Angels. Please join us! \n  \n“All we do\, mija\, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.” \n  \nIn his final days\, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz\, affectionately called Big Angel\, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches\, his mother\, nearly one hundred\, dies\, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel’s half brother\, known as Little Angel\, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings\, he has not\, as a half gringo\, shared a life. \n  \nAcross two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood\, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti\, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother\, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore\, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. \n  \nTeeming with brilliance and humor\, authentic at every turn\, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best\, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. \n  \n\n  \nA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil’s Highway\, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird’s Daughter\, Into the Beautiful North\, and Queen of America\, as well as the story collection The Water Museum\, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award\, an Edgar Award\, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother\, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago. \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-the-house-of-broken-angels-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold\, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin\, Tuesday\, March 12 in the ground floor meeting room of the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library\, 451 Jersey St.\, between Castro and Diamond Streets. Moderated by Brandon Brown. Free admission and free wine reception at 6:30pm. The readings and discussion begin at 7pm. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nCHRIS FELICIANO ARNOLD has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Foreign Policy\, Vice News and more. The recipient of a 2014 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, he teaches writing in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. Chris Arnold \nMARY JO MCCONAHAY is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Newsweek\, Salon.com\, and other outlets. Her previous books include Maya Roads and Ricochet. \nBRANDON BROWN is Professor of Physics and department chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Planck: Driven by Vision\, Broken by War and the forthcoming The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Mission. Brandon R. Brown’s author page
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tangled-paths-true-stories-from-latin-america/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Library\, 451 Jersey Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a single prompt. (“Happy Endings” is a loooose directive for each writer to do with what they will.) A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and the panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks \nThis month’s participating writers: TBDs\, and February’s winner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-bad-advice-and-lucky-breaks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nina Revoyr
DESCRIPTION:reading from her latest novel \nA Student of History \nfrom Akashic Books \nA contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines\, allegiance and betrayal\, immeasurable power\, and the ways the present is continuously shaped by the past. \nRick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC\, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W—\, the heir to an oil fortune\, he sees it at first simply as a source of extra cash. But he grows closer to the iconoclastic\, charming\, and feisty Mrs. W—\, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth far different from his racially mixed\, blue-collar beginnings. \nPutting aside his half-finished dissertation\, Rick sets up office in Mrs. W—’s grand Bel Air mansion and begins to transcribe her journals—which document an old Los Angeles not described in his history books. He also accompanies Mrs. W— to venues frequented by the descendants of the land and oil barons who built the city. One evening\, at an event\, he meets Fiona Morgan—the elegant scion of an old steel family—who takes an interest in his studies. Irresistibly drawn to Fiona\, he agrees to help her with a project of questionable merit in the hopes he’ll win her favor. \nA Student of History explores both the beginnings of Los Angeles and the present-day dynamics of race and class. It offers a window into the usually hidden world of high society\, and the influence of historic families on current events. Like Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby\, it features\, in Rick Nagano\, a young man of modest means who is navigating a world where he doesn’t belong. \nNINA REVOYR is the author of five previous novels\, including The Age of Dreaming\, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Southland\, a Los Angeles Times best seller and “Best Book” of 2003; and Wingshooters\, which won an Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award and was selected by O\, The Oprah Magazineas one of “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-revoyr/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mitchell S. Jackson / Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Mitchell S. Jackson for his new book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family. Please join us! \n  \nIn a thrillingly alive\, candid new work\, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth\, while examining the cultural forces—large and small—that led him and his family to this place. \nWith a poet’s gifted ear\, a novelist’s sense of narrative\, and a journalist’s unsentimental eye\, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe—to stay alive—in their community\, a small black neighborhood in Portland\, Oregon blighted by drugs\, violence\, poverty\, and governmental neglect. \nSurvival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race. Mitchell explores the Portland of his childhood\, tracing the ways in which his family managed their lives in and around drugs\, prostitution\, gangs\, and imprisonment as members of a tiny black population in one of the country’s whitest cities. He discusses sex work and serial killers\, gangs and guns\, near-death experiences\, composite fathers\, the concept of “hustle\,” and the destructive power of drugs and addiction on family. \nIn examining the conflicts within his family and community\, Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in contemporary urban America—an exploration of the forces that shaped his life\, his city\, and the lives of so many black men like him. As Jackson charts his own path from drug dealer to published novelist\, he gives us a heartbreaking\, fascinating\, lovingly rendered view of the injustices and victories\, large and small\, that defined his youth. \n  \n\n  \nMitchell S. Jackson is the author of Survival Math. His debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications\, including The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and The Times(London). The novel won the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence\, and it was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize\, the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, TED\, the Lannan Foundation\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, Salon\, and Tin House\, among other publications. He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University. \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 at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \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. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mitchell-s-jackson-survival-math-notes-on-an-all-american-family/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190312T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for opening seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190313T183000
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi
DESCRIPTION:Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi\nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-aditi-machado-with-lindsay-choi/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Small Publishers Night book exhibition & readings
DESCRIPTION:The consolidation of publishing house after publishing house into five mega book businesses foretold a future where reading choices for the many would be controlled by the few. In addition\, the kind of books being published changed. Small-run and medium-sized sellers fell by the wayside. But\, good news! Small presses began to abound\, startups and labors of love\, which published what editors felt needed to be published\, rather than what might make the executives and shareholders mega bucks. \nAt Word Week’s Small Publishers Night\, we feature four of the best Bay Area small presses: Manic D Press\, Nomadic Press\, Two Lines Press\, and Why There Are Words Press. Join us at 7pm\, Wednesday\, March 13\, at Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th St.\, for an exhibition of books from these excellent publishers and readings by a few of their authors. Free admission and free refreshments provided by Umpqua Bank Noe Valley. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nAbout the publishers and their authors:\nManic D Press\nFounded in 1984\, Manic D Press is a critically acclaimed\, internationally distributed\, award-winning independent literary press based in San Francisco. D Manic Press \nJon Longhi has published four books of hilarious fiction with Manic D\, all having to do with the absurdities of life in San Francisco. \nNomadic Press\nNomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word through publications\, events\, and active community participation. \nJames Cagney is a Cave Canem fellow and author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). He has authored five self-produced chapbooks. \nTwo Lines Press\nTwo Lines Press and its Two Lines journal specialize in presenting exceptional new writing and overlooked classics that have not previously been translated into English. The Center for the Art of Translation \nSenior Editor Emily Wolahan works to bring great international literature\, often previously untranslated\, to a wider audience. She will read from their spring journal\, Two Lines 30: The Future of Translation. \nWTAW Press\nWTAW Press is a non-profit\, woman-run publisher that supports the artistic development of writers and fosters a thriving literary community with its national reading series\, Why There Are Words. \nSarah Stone is the author of the novels Hungry Ghost Theater and The True Source of the Nile (Doubleday). She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and Stanford Continuing Studies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-publishers-night-book-exhibition-readings/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ali Liebegott with special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Ali Liebegott reads from \nThe Summer of Dead Birds \npublished by Feminist Press \njoined by special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian \n“A fierce\, funny\, agonized\, cracked-open aria in homage to the presence and passing of fiercely loved things.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \nhow does a person dislodge the scenes\nthat burn inside them like arsoned cars? \nAli Liebegott is reeling from a fresh\, painful divorce. She wallows in grief and overassigns meaning to everyday circumstance\, clinging to an aging Dalmatian and obsessing over dead birds. Going through the motions of teaching and walking her dog\, she eventually decides to hit the road: Ali and Rorschach at the Center of the World. \nThis autobiographical novel-in-verse is a chronicle of mourning and survival\, documenting depression and picking apart failed intimacy. But Ali Liebegott’s poetry is laced with compassion\, for herself and the reader and the world\, as she learns to balance the sting of death with the tender strangeness of life. \nAli Liebegott is the author of three books\, and the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumley Award. She currently live in Los Angeles and writes for Transparent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-liebegott-with-special-guests-doddie-bellamy-and-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke\, Foursome
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Foursome\, a captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \n“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-burke-foursome/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Sophia Shalmiyev with Shanthi Sekaran\, Melissa Stein\, and Matthew Zapruder / Mother Winter: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sophia Shalmiyev for her debut book Mother Winter: A Memoir. Joining her for readings and conversation are Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy)\, Melissa Stein (Terrible Blooms)\, and Matthew Zapruder (Sun Bear). Please join us! \n  \nRussian sentences begin backward\, Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking\, lyrical memoir. To understand the end of her story we must go back to her beginning. \n  \nBorn to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father\, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). An imbalance of power and the prevalence of antisemitism in her homeland led her father to steal Shalmiyev away\, emigrating to America\, abandoning her estranged mother\, Elena. At age eleven\, Shalmiyev found herself on a plane headed west\, motherless and terrified of the new world unfolding before her. \n  \nNow a mother herself\, in Mother Winter Shalmiyev depicts in urgent vignettes her emotional journeys as an immigrant\, an artist\, and a woman raised without her mother. She tells of her early days in St. Petersburg\, a land unkind to women\, wayward or otherwise; her tumultuous pit-stop in Italy as a refugee on her way to America; the life she built for herself in the Pacific Northwest\, raising two children of her own; and ultimately\, her cathartic voyage back to Russia as an adult\, where she searched endlessly for the alcoholic mother she never knew. Braided into her physical journey is a metaphorical exploration of the many surrogate mothers Shalmiyev sought out in place of her own–whether in books\, art\, lovers\, or other lost souls banded together by their misfortunes. \n  \nMother Winter is the story of Shalmiyev’s years of travel\, searching\, and forging meaningful connection with the worlds she occupies–the result is a searing observation of the human heart and psyche’s many shades across time and culture. As critically acclaimed author Michelle Tea says\, “with sparse\, poetic language Shalmiyev builds a personal history that is fractured and raw; a brilliant\, lovely ache.” \n  \n\n  \n“Vividly awesome and truly great.” – Eileen Myles \n  \n“I love this gorgeous\, gutting\, unforgettable book.” – Leni Zumas \n  \n“A rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n  \n\n  \nSophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. An MFA graduate of Portland State University\, she was the nonfiction editor for The Portland Review and is a recipient of the Laurels Scholarship and numerous Kellogg’s Fellowship awards. She has a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from The School of Visual Arts\, previously counseling survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Her work has appeared in Vela Magazine\, Entropy\, Electric Lit\, The Seattle Review of Books\, Ravishly\, and The Literary Review\, among others; all with a feminist lens. She lives in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book. \n  \nShanthi Sekaran is a writer and educator from Berkeley\, California. Her recent novel\, Lucky Boy\, was named an IndieNext Great Read and an NPR Best Book of 2017. It won the Housatonic Book Award and was a finalist for Stanford University’s Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her essays and stories have also appeared in The New York Times\, Salon.com\, and the LA Review of Books. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, an AWP mentor\, and teaches writing at Mills College. \n  \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA\, Pushcart Prize\, Bread Loaf\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \nMatthew Zapruder’s most recent book is Why Poetry (Ecco\, 2017). His fifth collection of poetry\, Father’s Day\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in fall 2019. He is Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California\, and editor at large at Wave Books. \n  \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 Mother Winter\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sophia-shalmiyev-with-shanthi-sekaran-melissa-stein-and-matthew-zapruder-mother-winter-a-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chip Conley The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Chip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur\, founding boutique hotel brand Joie de Vivre Hospitality at 26 and running it as CEO for 24 years. He then served as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for 4 years\, and remains involved as a strategic advisor. He is author of 5 books including his most recent\, Wisdom @ Work: The Making of a Modern Elder. \n\nChip Conley’s Homepage\nChip Conley’s Wikipedia page\n\n\n\nChip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur\, founding boutique hotel brand Joie de Vivre Hospitality at 26 and running it as CEO for 24 years. He then served as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for 4 years\, and remains involved as a strategic advisor. He is author of 5 books including his most recent\, Wisdom @ Work: The Making of a Modern Elder. \nTickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar; you can follow Long Now on Twitter\, Facebook and through our blog for updates on our live events\, podcasts and videos on long-term thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chip-conley-the-modern-elder-and-the-intergenerational-workplace/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Christian Robinson
DESCRIPTION:In Another\, his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator\, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree and store favorite Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful\, imaginative journey into another world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA wordless picture book\, Another recounts the dream journey of a little girl and her cat\, a thought-provoking celebration of imagination and wonder that is wide open to interpretation and a joy to read. What if you saw yourself in a book – literally? What might happen? \nWhat if you…\nEncountered another perspective?\nDiscovered another world?\nMet another you?\nWhat might you do? \nChristian Robinson is a 2016 Caldecott Honoree\, a Newbery Medalist\, and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street\, a #1 New York Times bestseller. His picture books include the Gaston and Friends series; Carmela Full of Wishes; Leo: A Ghost Story; School’s First Day of School; The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade; Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker; and many more. Robinson is also an animator and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios. \nDon’t miss this chance to meet Christian Robinson and fall in love with Another
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-christian-robinson/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cara Black Takes Us to Paris! reading & talk
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, Noe Valley author Cara Black takes a few lucky readers on a real tour of the Paris she writes about in her bestselling Aimee Leduc mysteries. She has set her novels in 18 of the 20 Paris arrondisements\, or\, en anglais\, districts. Her latest book\, Murder on the Left Bank\, was set in the 13th Arrondisement\, which\, as Cara tells it\, is not all Left Bank coffee houses and famous bookstores. It’s also home to Paris’ Quartier Asiatique\, including the homes and businesses of many of the city’s Chinese\, Vietnamese\, Cambodian\, and Lao residents. It is in this part of the 13th that Cara’s novel is situated and to which on Thursday\, March 14\, Cara will take us  in words and photos and excerpts from her book. The 60-minute tour starts at 7pm at La Boulangerie\, 3898 24th St. \nAdmission to the reading is free\, but La Boulangerie de San Francisco is staying open late for us\, so come early and buy yourself une café and a dessert before we fasten our seatbelts and we’re off to Paris! \nThis is Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nAbout the author:\nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 17 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, which is set in Paris. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. With more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-takes-us-to-paris-reading-talk/
LOCATION:La Boulangerie de Noe\, 3898 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, March 14\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-28/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, 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-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eleanor Burke on Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods
DESCRIPTION:Eleanor Burke\, author of A Walker’s Sketchbook of San Francisco\, discusses her new book Walking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods. \n\nAbout Walking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods \nWalking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods is a chronicle\, with sketches and commentary\, by local artist Eleanor Burke\, who brought us Sketching San Francisco’s Neighborhoods and Walker’s Sketchbook of San Francisco.  Here is her description of the creative process behind her latest book: \n“I’ve walked the streets of Manhattan (not as ambitiously as I did in SF\, where I walked every step of every street…in NY I think I walked every street but not every inch of every one) with my notebook and my camera and noted what I saw.  I did it over time\, but the heaviest walking was in the past year and a half.  Walking\, especially in New York\, has become popular – one fellow is walking all 5 boroughs\, I think 5 or 8\,000 miles in all\, and will be at it for a while longer\, but a movie has been made about him.  No one has hounded me for movie rights\, but I had a great time walking and got a lot of terrific exercise.  I met lots of wonderful and generous people\, never came close to getting mugged\, stopped at dozens of wonderful local cafes\, and explored neighborhoods I knew nothing or next to nothing about\, like Inwood\, Harlem\, Washington Heights.  These three were particularly delightful:  Inwood\, a chic neighborhood lined with parks and children playing in them\, has single family homes amid the greenery.  Harlem has become trendy over the years and not is downright lovely\, and yet still with its own history.  Lin-Manuel Miranda lived in Washington Heights and in Inwood\, so I was drawn to those neighborhoods much as I was determined to see Hamilton\, which I did three times!  Manhattan is like a gift – you start exploring and you find much more than you thought you would.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eleanor-burke-on-walking-manhattans-neighborhoods/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar\, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
DESCRIPTION:               …collectivity as a part of speech:   come again.\nThe radio channeling an exaltation of larks:   what it is\nto be euphonious.  In a dream I was an organ tuner  knifing the pipes\nto make the building run. This well tempering as the articulation\nas the maladjustment of the details: … \n—from “I hold it towards you\,” Maryam Ivette Parhizkar \nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series features poet\, musician and scholar Maryam Ivette Parhizkar\, reading from her writings and in conversation with poet\, performer and visual artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, in the first event of a two-evening program. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, this event is free and open to the public. \nMaryam Ivette Parhizkar is a writer\, scholar\, occasional musician\, and author of the chapbooks Pull: a ballad (The Operating System\, 2014) and As For the Future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2016)\, the latter originating from a talk at Naropa speculating on Clarice Lispector and Sun Ra. Her recent writings have been published by Omniverse\, Social Text Online\, Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil (on musician/composer Matana Roberts — check Coldfront for a prefatory note to Roberts’ Coin Coin project)\, The Daily Gramma\, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Born and raised in Houston\, Texas by Iranian and Salvadoran immigrants\, she lives in Jersey City\, New Jersey. Her current poetics circles around diasporic myth-making\, family histories\, the sociopolitical entanglements that bring people together\, and the relationship between spirit(s)\, possession\, and American history and identity. More here. \nKenyatta A.C. Hinkle is an interdisciplinary visual artist\, writer and performer. Her artwork and performances of experimental texts have been reviewed by the LA Times\, Artforum\, The Huffington Post and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in Not That But This\, Obsidian Journal\, and Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. She is the author of an artist book\, Kentifrications: Convergent Truth(s) & Realities\, published by Occidental College and Sming Sming Books. SIR\, a relection on naming as a tool for undefining the defined\, is her first book of poetry\, and is newly published by Litmus Press. Hinkle is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice. Her visual art and performance works are on view at kachstudio.com. \nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nMaryam Ivette Parhizkar and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\nreading from their work\nFriday MARCH 15\n7:00 pm @ University Press Books\n2430 Bancroft Avenue\, Berkeley\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nIn Common Writers Series Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading and in conversation with their paired guest writer and the audience. Then\, moving off-campus\, both writers read their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified region. Details on our six 2018-19 programs and featured artists here. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
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LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Witness
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on March 14\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito and bear witness to a spectacular evening of readings\, as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Witness.” \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nTim Fitts is the author of two collections of short stories\, Hypothermia (MadHat Press\, 2017) and Go Home and Cry for Yourselves (Xavier Review Press\, 2017)\, and his work has been published by Granta\, The Gettysburg Review\, Shenandoah\, and Fugue\, among many others. \n  \nStephen D. Gutierrez is the author of The Mexican Man in His Backyard\, Stories & Essays (Roan Press\, 2014)\, and Elements\, Live from Fresno y Los (Bear Star Press\, 2009)\, which won an American Book Award. He is currently a Pushcart nominee for recent work that appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review and The Nasiona. www.stephendgutierrez.com \n  \nSusan Hayden is the author of the novel\, Cat Stevens Saved My Life\, a finalist in the inaugural Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award with Penguin Press. Her poetry\, stories\, and plays have been featured in Los Angeles in the 1970s (Rare Bird Lit\, 2016)\, I Might Be The Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays From The Los Angeles Underground (Padua Playwrights Press\, 2015); and The Black Body (Seven Stories Press\, 2009). \n  \nKeenan Norris’s chapbook By the Lemon Tree was recently published by Nomadic Press in September of 2018. His novel Brother and the Dancer (Heyday\, 2013) won the 2012 James D. Houston award. His essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as Boom: a journal of California. www.keenannorris.com \n  \nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier’s third prose chapbook\, Don’t Give Up on Alan Greenspan (Cutbank\, 2019)\, was selected as the winner of CutBank’s 2018 contest. Her previous chapbooks include Salve (Nomadic Press\, 2016) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press\, 2013). somafrazier.com \n  \nTracy Winn is the author of Mrs. Somebody Somebody (2010) from SMU Press and Random House\, which won the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. Her most recent stories can be found in the Harvard Review and Waxwing Magazine\, and have been honored with nominations for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prizes. www.winnwriter.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)(3) non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Mesha Maren and Randal O'Wain
DESCRIPTION:Mesha Maren discusses her new novel\, Sugar Run with Randal O’Wain. \n\nPraise for Sugar Run \n“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut\, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Strong and insightful . . . Maren puts stories to lives that are ordinarily overlooked\, exploring damaged souls and damaged land\, the need for that redemptive sense of connection to places and people. Maren writes prose that moves us ever deeper into her world without strain\, but with sureness and vivid details.”—Daniel Woodrell\, author of Winter’s Bone \n“Sugar Run is a joyride—an intoxicating\, headlong exploration of the hazards of freedom and the deadly consequence of desire. Maren’s blistering prose will take your breath away.”—C. Morgan Babst\, author of The Floating World \n\nAbout Sugar Run \nIn 1989\, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later\, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop\, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains\, she heads south in search of someone she left behind\, as a way of finally making amends. There\, she meets and falls in love with Miranda\, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a fresh start. But what do you do with your past—and with a town and a family that refuses to forget\, or to change? \nSet within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia\, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life\, the use and treachery of makeshift families\, and how\, no matter the distance we think we’ve traveled from the mistakes we’ve made\, too often we find ourselves standing in precisely the place we began. \n 
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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:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Thurday\, February 14\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Feb13\nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is Cash Only at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
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LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word for Word Reads "The Widow Dreams"
DESCRIPTION:Members of the Charter Group of Word for Word\, a program of Z Space will present a reading of “The Widow Dreams\,” a narrative of transformation\, at 7pm on Friday\, March 15 at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. In women’s voices\, the piece chronicles the author’s journey through loss\, grief\, and anger\, to the restoration of wholeness\, creativity\, and new life. The dreams will be read by Sheila Balter and Jeri Lynn Cohen\, along with the author\, Nancy Selby. Admission is free. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nWORD FOR WORD Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality\, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. Co-Artistic Directors JoAnne Winter and Susan Harloe founded Word for Word Performing Arts Company in 1993 as part of the Artists in Residence program at The Z Space Studio (Z Space’s original name). \nIn its vibrant history\, Word for Word has performed over 70 stories by some of the world’s best writers. Many of these stories have been performed in front of the authors themselves. The ensemble performs regularly at Z Space and since 1996 has toured annually throughout California and France. \nThe following writers have had their work performed by Word for Word and lend their names in support of the work of our company: Daniel Handler\, Edward P. Jones\, Barbara Kingsolver\, Armistead Maupin\, George Saunders\, Octavio Solis\, Amy Tan\, Tobias Wolff\, Greg Sarris | Honorary President\, Julia Alvarez\, T.C. Boyle\, Sandra Cisneros\, Siobhan Fallon\, Paul Fleischman\, Richard Ford\, Ellen Gilchrist\, Joanne Greenberg\, and Andrew Sean Greer. \nMore about the readers:\nSheila Balter\, Word for Word charter member\, is an actor\, director\, teacher. Recent work: directed Octavio Solis’ RETABLOS for Litquake. Also performed her original piece OLAM (Objects\, Loss\, Attachment\, Memory) in San Francisco and internationally. She is proud to support Nancy in this exciting endeavor. \nJeri Lynn Cohen is a Charter Member of Word for Word Performing Arts Company celebrating 25 years of critically acclaimed productions. She has appeared at theatre companies throughout the Bay Area and she has toured internationally with Word for Word and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. \nNancy Shelby is an actor and director and has appeared in fifteen of Word for Word’s award winning productions. Most recently she and JoAnne Winter directed Lucia Berlin: Stories. She is currently working on the manuscript of a book\, The Widow Dreams\, based on the one hundred dreams she had after the 2009 death of her husband\, Luke Cole.
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LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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