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SUMMARY:LPP+ Residency: Tom Comitta / Closing Reading
DESCRIPTION:For the month of September the LPP+ Resident is LA based Tom Comitta. In partnership with Et al.etc. Tom will do a reading for the closing of his residency with LPP. \nThe reading will be at Et al. etc. Gallery in Minnesota Street Projects and will also serve as a closing event for Cybele Lyle’s solo exhibition ‘Bring me here\, now take me away’ \nFor this event\, Comitta will read from his novel-in-progress The City of Nature\, for which he has collected nature descriptions from over a hundred novels into one “Frankenstein” of a nature novel. All characters have been removed apart from chirping birds\, trotting horses\, and the whale from Moby-Dick. Doubling as a kind of data analysis\, the book documents how novels exploit nature to carry human drama through its peaks and troughs. Clouds and rain bring gloom (“the ground sobs”) and thunder brings rage\, but when the sun returns it’s all smiles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lpp-residency-tom-comitta-closing-reading/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marisa Silver w/ Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century\, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. \nHer arrival\, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions\, stuns her parents and brings outrage and disgust from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf\, beautiful in face\, but as the years pass\, she grows no further than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local doctor and freak sideshow proprietor\, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable\, magical transformation in and out of human form\, as this outcast woman is hunted down and incarcerated for her desires\, her body broken and her identity stripped away until her soul is strong enough to transcend all physical bounds. \nWoven throughout is the journey of Danilo\, the young man entranced by Pavla\, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being\, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises\, Marisa Silver’s new novel spans the beginning of a new century\, the disintegration of ancient superstitions and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters\, a wholly shocking and original story\, and extraordinary\, page-turning prose\, it is a work of sheer electricity. \nMarisa Silver is the author of the novel Mary Coin\, a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of The God of War(a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist)\, No Direction Home\, and two story collections\, Alone With You and Babe in Paradise (a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year). Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker when she was featured in the magazine’s first “Debut Fiction” issue. Winner of the O. Henry Prize\, Silver’s fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, and other anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marisa-silver-w-peter-orner-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets For Change
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Bob Booker and Philip Hackett \nOPEN MIC\n(signup begins at 10am)\nFEATURED POETS\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nDiego DeLeo\nJessica Loos\nLucho (saxophone)\nCharles Marion\nRichard Voorhees\nPeter Sherburn-Zimmer\nStormin’ Norman (saxophone)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T213000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez: \n“The narrative escalates\, the mystery deepens\, and the scope of the story widens with each page. This terrific novel draws on Colombia’s tragic history and cycles of violence to tell the story of a troubled man trying to come to grips with the distant forces and events that have shaped his life.” —Khaled Hosseini \n\n“A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present…” —John Banville \n\n“I felt myself under the spell of a masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts–intelligence\, wit\, energy\, a deep vein of feeling–but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one’s amazement at his talents\, and then the strange\, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold.”  —Nicole Krauss \n\n“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.”  —Mario Vargas Llosa \n\n“For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist… a thrilling new discovery.” —Colm Tóibín \n\nAbout Reputations: \nFrom the brilliant mind of the author of “The Sound of Things Falling\,” a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.\nJavier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist\, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws\, overturning judges’ decisions\, destroying politicians’ careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.\nAt sixty-five\, after four decades of a brilliant career\, he’s at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he’s paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work\, questioning his position in the world.\nIn “Reputations\,” Juan Gabriel Vasquez examines the weight of the past\, how a public persona intersects with private histories\, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel\, Vasquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story\, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez/
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:Pattie McCarthy + Denise Newman
DESCRIPTION:Pattie McCarthy is author of five full length books of poetry with Apogee Press. The most recent\, “Quiet Book”\, came out this year. Pattie has also published many chapbooks and has been the recipient of a Pew Foundation grant\, among other awards. Pattie is a Phililadelphia poet\, and her first readings from “Quiet Book” will be this September on her West Coast tour. \nDenise Newman is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. Her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen will was published by the Harvill Press\, U.K. She is the author of two chapbooks\, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in Volt\, apex of the M\, Chain\, and Five Fingers Review\, where she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist\, and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at Mills College. Her most recent books are The New Make Believe\, published by the Post Apollo Press in 2010\, and her translation of Inger Christenen’s novel Azorno.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pattie-mccarthy-denise-newman/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Birthright: The Book Party
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the celebration of my new book of poems\, Birthright. Special guests to include Maurisa Thompson and Kim Shuck.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/birthright-the-book-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T193000
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SUMMARY:Apogee Press: McCarthy\, Newman\, + Walker
DESCRIPTION:Pattie McCarthy’s new book of poems is Quiet Book. Julie Carr says\, “Quiet Book keeps its steady gaze on the mother/child unitfrom the inside out and back in again. In gorgeous poems of formal range and daring\, McCarthy gives us birth and motherhood like no other writer she is unafraid\, she is wry and at times she is deeply tender.” Among her previous collections areMarybones\, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words\,Verso\, and bk of (h)rs. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2011\, and was an artist resident at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village\, Nova Scotia in 2013. \nDenise Newman is a poet and a translator. Her books of poetry include The New Make Believe\, Wild Goods\, and Human Forest. She’s translated Azorno  and The Painted Room\, both by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen\, and Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt\, which won the PEN Translation Award. In 2014 she received a Creative Work Fund grant and an NEA fellowship in translation. \nLaura Walker’s new book of poems is story. Maxine Chernoff says\, “Walker’s rich and delicate story of natural forces\, human forces\, master narratives\, and secret moments whispered on deathbeds is as whole and fragile as any fine sequence of poems.It is the story of herself and the story of the story. It is a dance of life and death and a music to live by.” Her previous collections are Follow-Haswed\, bird book\, rimertown/an atlas\, and swarm lure. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apogee-press-mccarthy-newman-walker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alexander Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Alexander Weinstein: \n“A darkly mesmerizing\, fearless\, and exquisitely written work. Stunning\, harrowing\, and brilliantly imagined.” ―Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n\n“[Weinstein’s] stories look like SF―consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus―but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel.” ―Barbara Hoffert\, Library Journal Prepub Alert \n\nAbout Children of the New World: \nAN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN \n  \nChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants\, memory manufacturers\, dangerously immersive virtual reality games\, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance\, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster\, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. \n  \nIn “The Cartographers\,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories\, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In Saying Goodbye to Yang\, the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions\, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. \n  \nChildren of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexander-weinstein/
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:Snack Bar Collective #2 Release: GROSS
DESCRIPTION:Snack Bar Collective presents its second issue: GROSS! Featured readers include Amy Berkowitz\, Tom Comitta\, Carrie Hunter\, George Pfau\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/snack-bar-collective-2-release-gross/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T200000
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SUMMARY:Swan Huntley
DESCRIPTION:Join California author and Columbia University alum\, Swan Huntley\, to celebrate the publication of her suspenseful debut novel. Tracing the relationship between socialite Catharine West and her mysterious lover\, William\, who has unexpected ties to her family past\, We Could Be Beautiful explores the dark psychological layers beneath a superficially glittering society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-huntley/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T183000
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SUMMARY:Mary Szybist
DESCRIPTION:Mary Szybist (Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics) \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nReadings begin at 6:30pm \nUnless otherwise noted\, 2016-2017 Holloway events will be held in theHEARST FIELD ANNEX room D37\, UC BERKELEY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-szybist/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160921T193000
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SUMMARY:Ann Patchett w/ Roy Eisenhardt
DESCRIPTION:Ann Patchett is best known for her award-winning novel Bel Canto\, “a book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners” (New York Times). She is also the author of the novels Run\, The Patron Saint of Lair’s\, State of Wonder\, and The Magician’s Assistant\, and the memoir The Getaway Car.In Commonwealth\, Patchett’s much-anticipated new novel\, an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes the lives of two Southern California families. The book explores disillusionment\, guilt\, and deeply loyal friendships. Patchett lives in Nashville\, Tennessee\, where she is co-owner of Parnassus Books\, a popular independent bookstore. \nRoy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years in San Francisco. He was President of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences. He teaches at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. His many past interviews for City Arts & Lectures include General Colin Powell\, Oliver Sacks\, Desmond Tutu\, Linda Ronstadt\, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-patchett-w-roy-eisenhardt/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Affinity Konar
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by Emanu-El \nIt’s 1944 when a pair of twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world\, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures\, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele’s Zoo\, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others\, and they find themselves changed\, stripped of the personalities they once shared\, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. \nThat winter\, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele\, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin\, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army\, she and her companion Feliks–a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin–travel through Poland’s devastation. Undeterred by injury\, starvation\, or the chaos around them\, motivated by equal parts danger and hope\, they encounter hostile villagers\, Jewish resistance fighters\, and fellow refugees\, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world\, they must try to imagine a future within it. \nA superbly crafted story\, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original\, Mischling defies every expectation\, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty\, moral reckoning\, and soaring hope. \nAffinity Konar was raised in California. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/affinity-konar/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:52nd Annual Fall Big Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 52nd Annual Fall Big Book Sale! \nWHEN: September 21-25\, 2016 // 10 AM – 6 PM\n(Members Preview Sale & Reception: September 20\, 4-8 PM)\nWHERE: Fort Mason Center\, Festival Pavillion (pier 3)\nWHAT: Half a million books & media for only $3 or less!\nWHY?: Proceeds support the San Francisco Public Library \nMEMBER RECEPTION:\nWe serve wine & snacks while you shop! Become a member of Friends and attend the Member Preview Sale & Reception on Tuesday\, September 21st. Members are given 1st access to the sale the eve before it goes public. Join online today (www.friendssfpl.org/membership) or in our Readers Bookstores. \nWANT FREE BOOKS? VOLUNTEER!\nIt takes a village to put on a Big Book Sale! We need volunteers from September 19 – 26. Each volunteer receives a complimentary ticket to our Preview Reception\, first look at the books as they come in\, and a $5 coupon for every shift. Sign up today at www.friendssfpl.org/volunteer or call (415) 626-7500 for more information. \nSUNDAY: THE SALE GOES ON SALE\nPsst… on Sunday\, September 25 (the last day of our sale) all items are only $1! \nPlease visit www.friendssfpl.org/bigbooksale or call (415) 626-7500 for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/52nd-annual-fall-big-book-sale/
LOCATION:Festival Pavillion at Fort Mason\, 2 Marina Blvd\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lee Marrs
DESCRIPTION:Lee Marrs \nAs the first woman to work for DC Comics AND Marvel simultaneously\, LEE MARRS could have been a footnote in a Swedish graphics history book. But a cantankerous mouth and sense of humor led her to the undergrounds\, where she was one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective. Lee’s a 1982 Inkpot Award winner and has been reprinted in nine countries. Best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, some of her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman and Indiana Jones. Her Emmy Award-winning secret identity was that of Prez of Lee Marrs Artwork\, an art/digital animation company\, for such clients as Apple Computer\, IBM\, Electronic Arts\, and MTV. After 14 years\, Lee is retired from Berkeley City College where she was Multimedia Arts Chair\, passing on sneaky\, effective techniques to new generations of animation students.\nThe Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge\, Girl Blimp \nTeenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma\, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life – street protests\, self-help clinics\, burglary\, job hunting and midnight pizzas. Assisted by her guardian Martians and backed by her commune\, she may have found her potential beau\, a clueless police detective. Or maybe the delivery boy? There’s that chakra-spouting political activist with rampant pimples? But what about her fellow consciousness-raising group member Jane\, she with such warm knowledgeable hands…? A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies. \nFrom the Foreword: \nAt last\, a funny\, funky\, durable complex heroine who is constantly taking a fresh and satirical look at an aspect of life that is sacred to someone. Lee Marrs has given us something that usually comes only in the best novels: a funny\, tragic\, personal\, universal\, fantasized\, minutely realistic view of life that sends us on our way with a much bigger and better understanding of our own lives and the possibilities around us. \n – GLORIA STEINEM\, feminist icon\, co-founder of Ms. Magazine\, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center and former sticky sweet bun addict. \nWhen I opened this collection I was prepared for a herstory lesson\, or a trip down memory lane. But instead I encountered a radiant and utterly contemporary character—a disheveled yet sensual young woman\, outwardly confused but inwardly poised\, an instinctive feminist out hustling for a job\, experimenting with drugs\, but mainly just trying to get laid. Step aside\, Lena Dunham\, Amy Schumer\, and Broad City. Pudge\, Girl Blimp paved the way for all of you. \n– ALISON BECHDEL\, author of Fun Home and Dykes To Watch Out For\, recipient of the Eisner Award and the 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lee-marrs-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jessica Bennett w/ Rachel Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Bennett – creator of a real life Fight Club for feminists – and Rachel Thomas – President of Lean In – gather us for a special meeting of the feminist fight club\, providing battle tactics to navigate gender landmines in today’s workplace. \nFeminist Fight Club has been praised by everyone from Sheryl Sandberg to Adam Grant to Ilana Glazer of Broad City fame as a hilarious and practical guide to smashing the patriarchy on the daily. \nDon’t think sexism exists in your workplace? The problems of today’s working world are more subtle\, less pronounced\, harder to identify and harder to prove than those of our foremothers. Come huddle round at Kepler’s to learn trade tips for battling sexism in the workplace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-bennett-w-rachel-thomas/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry into the Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation welcomes Japanese poet and performance artist Yoshimasu Gozo and poet Forrest Gander to San Francisco for a performance and discussion of Gozo’s work\, including upcoming poetry collection Alice Iris Red Horse (New Directions). Edited by Gander\, Alice Iris Red Horse gathers translations of Gozo’s major works that span his entire career. Also included are illuminating interviews and reproductions of Gozo’s artwork and performances. \nYoshimasu Gozo\, born in Tokyo\, has performed worldwide. His work has been described as “so unorthodox that it defies the print medium and can be delivered only as performance.” He has received many literary and cultural awards\, including the Takami Jun Prize\, the Rekitei Prize\, the Purple Ribbon\, and the 50th Mainichi Art Award for Poetry. \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, fiction\, translation\, and essays. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Howard Foundation Award\, the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Prize\, two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovative North American writing\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and United States Artists. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. He has taught at Harvard and Brown. \nAlice Iris Red Horse\, edited by Forrest Gander with introduction and notes by Derek Gromadski\, features translations from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu\, Hiroaki Sato\, Eric Selland\, Jeffrey Angles\, Richard Arno\, Derek Gromadzki\, Forrest Gander\, Sayuri Okamoto\, Auston Stewart\, and Kyoko Yoshida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-into-the-beyond/
LOCATION:SF Camerawork\, 1011 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:phren-Z Online Literary Magazine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-online-literary-magazine-reading-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Joseph Fink + Jeffrey Cranor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents Welcome to Night Vale creators Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor for the release of\, not just one\, but two new books based on the #1 international podcast. Mostly Void\, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes\, Volume 1 AND The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes\, Volume 2 are collections of episodes featuring  the history and origins of the podcast\, introductions by the performers\, behind-the-scenes commentary from the creators\, and original illustrations by series artist Jessica Hayworth. \nJoseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor will be in-conversation with Glen David Gold\, they will answer questions from the audience\, and they will sign copies of the books (books only\, no merch will be signed\, see details below). \nIn June of 2012\, the creators of Welcome to Night Vale began airing twice-monthly podcasts\, hoping to be heard by anyone outside their close circles. By the anniversary show a year later\, the fanbase had exploded\, vaulting the podcast into the #1 spot on iTunes. Since then\, its popularity has grown by epic proportions\, hitting more than 100 million downloads\, and Night Vale has expanded to a successful live multi-cast international touring stage show and a New York Times bestselling novel\, and a new podcast network Night Vale Presents. Now the first two seasons are available as books\, offering a valuable reference guide to past episodes. \nPlease note: this event is at Sundance Kabuki\, 1881 Post St \nTicket information: \n$27.00 One ticket\, Volume 1 book (all ages)\n$27.00 One ticket\, Volume 1 book (21+) \n$40.00 One ticket\, both books Volume 1 and Volume 2 (all ages)\n$40.00 One ticket\, both books Volume 1 and Volume 2 (21+)\n \nImportant details:  \n\nBalcony seating is 21+ and the main floor is all ages. Please choose a ticket option that works with your age group and the ages of those in your party. We are expecting a full house. The theater has open seating.\nOnly books will be signed\, including copies of Welcome to Night Vale: the Novel purchased through the Booksmith\, but NO memorabilia/merchandise.\nRegarding photos: You can take photos in the signing line or during the program\, but NO posed photos or selfies with the authors will be allowed.\nDoors open at 6pm\, the program will begin at 7pm\, the signing will be held after the program. Please note\, the signing could take several hours to complete. Personalizations are not guaranteed.\nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of a Welcome to Night Vale book\, order below and put your request in the comments field.\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-fink-jeffrey-cranor/
LOCATION:Sundance Kabuki\, 1881 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Short Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Queer essay authors Julia Serano (Whipping Girl)\, Aaron Shurin (The Skin of Meaning)\, and Yuska Lutfi Tuanakotta (Gentlemen Prefer Asians) will read from their essay collections Tuesday\, September 20\, 2016 from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th Street in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. A panel discussion on the art of essay writing and author book signings will follow the readings. Free refreshments. No admission charge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/short-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T213000
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CREATED:20160920T001923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T001923Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Marrs
DESCRIPTION:Lee Marrs \nAs the first woman to work for DC Comics AND Marvel simultaneously\, LEE MARRS could have been a footnote in a Swedish graphics history book. But a cantankerous mouth and sense of humor led her to the undergrounds\, where she was one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective. Lee’s a 1982 Inkpot Award winner and has been reprinted in nine countries. Best known for her Pudge\, Girl Blimp series\, some of her other work includes Batman\, Wonder Woman and Indiana Jones. Her Emmy Award-winning secret identity was that of Prez of Lee Marrs Artwork\, an art/digital animation company\, for such clients as Apple Computer\, IBM\, Electronic Arts\, and MTV. After 14 years\, Lee is retired from Berkeley City College where she was Multimedia Arts Chair\, passing on sneaky\, effective techniques to new generations of animation students.\nThe Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge\, Girl Blimp \nTeenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma\, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life – street protests\, self-help clinics\, burglary\, job hunting and midnight pizzas. Assisted by her guardian Martians and backed by her commune\, she may have found her potential beau\, a clueless police detective. Or maybe the delivery boy? There’s that chakra-spouting political activist with rampant pimples? But what about her fellow consciousness-raising group member Jane\, she with such warm knowledgeable hands…? A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies. \n• • • • • • • • • • • • \nFrom the Foreword: \nAt last\, a funny\, funky\, durable complex heroine who is constantly taking a fresh and satirical look at an aspect of life that is sacred to someone. Lee Marrs has given us something that usually comes only in the best novels: a funny\, tragic\, personal\, universal\, fantasized\, minutely realistic view of life that sends us on our way with a much bigger and better understanding of our own lives and the possibilities around us. \n – GLORIA STEINEM\, feminist icon\, co-founder of Ms. Magazine\, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center and former sticky sweet bun addict. \n• • • • • • • • • • • • \nWhen I opened this collection I was prepared for a herstory lesson\, or a trip down memory lane. But instead I encountered a radiant and utterly contemporary character—a disheveled yet sensual young woman\, outwardly confused but inwardly poised\, an instinctive feminist out hustling for a job\, experimenting with drugs\, but mainly just trying to get laid. Step aside\, Lena Dunham\, Amy Schumer\, and Broad City. Pudge\, Girl Blimp paved the way for all of you. \n– ALISON BECHDEL\, author of Fun Home and Dykes To Watch Out For\, recipient of the Eisner Award and the 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lee-marrs/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T210000
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CREATED:20160720T005626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T005626Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express: James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Cave Canem fellow James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland.  He has appeared as a featured poet and artist in San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Chicago and Mumbai.  His poems have appeared in Print Oriented Bastards\, Tandem\, Eleven Eleven\, and Ambush Review.  His current chapbook is entitled Dirty Thunderstorm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T203000
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CREATED:20160919T230846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T230846Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + CaraVida
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Jennifer Barone & Cara Vida feature their latest poetry and more. Music and cabaret stylings will ensue with Daniel Heffez on sax and Wendy Loomis on piano. Open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Bring your poems to this wonderfully\, warm\, local book store.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-caravida/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160918T180000
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CREATED:20160825T010121Z
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SUMMARY:Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:With his breakout debut novel Rules of Civility\, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing\, sophisticated fiction\, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented\, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” \nA Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When\, in 1922\, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal\, the Count is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol\, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov\, an indomitable man of erudition and wit\, has never worked a day in his life\, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly\, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. \nBrimming with humor\, a glittering cast of characters\, and one beautifully rendered scene after another\, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the Count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose. \nAmor Towles was born and raised just outside Boston\, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. For many years a principal at an investment firm in Manhattan\, he now devotes himself full time to writing. His first novel\, Rules of Civility\, published in 2011\, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. \nMr. Towles is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting\, 1950’s jazz\, 1970’s cop shows\, rock & roll on vinyl\, manifestoes\, breakfast pastries\, pasta\, liquor\, snow-days\, Tuscany\, Provence\, Disneyland\, Hollywood\, the cast of Casablanca\, 007\, Captain Kirk\, Bob Dylan (early\, mid\, and late phases)\, the wee hours\, card games\, cafés\, and the cookies made by both of his grandmothers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amor-towles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160918T180000
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CREATED:20160811T002623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T002623Z
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SUMMARY:San Jose Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:featuring:\nAlejandro Murguía\, San Francisco Poet Laureate\nArlene Biala\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\nSally Ashton\, former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate \nplus many more local and regional poets\, along with:\nWorkshops • Small Press Fair • Spoken Word • Veterans Write\nWords & Music • World Poetry • Youth Presentations \nThe theme of the 2016 San José Poetry Festival is Breaking Borders\, which celebrates not only our community’s diverse ethnic and cultural heritage\, but also the wide range of topics and literary styles reflected in our festival workshops\, presentations\, and small press fair. \na packed schedule of eclectic presentations: \nA World Poetry segment\, presented by Pushpa MacFarlane\, includes international poets reading works in both their native tongue and in English translation\, while Amy Meier’s Veteran’s Writeprogram features writers who have served in the armed forces. Scientist Poets\, led by Len Anderson\, illustrates the unique perspectives of writers applying a technical background to the craft of poetry\, engineering a hybrid of art and science. For a younger perspective\, longtime Willow Glen Poetry Project’s Dennis Richardson has assembled a posse of high school poets to read their writing in Youth Poetry. \na celebration of unique modes of expression: \nCaesar Kent has mobilized a squad of expressive and impressive performance poets in a Spoken Word/Slam segment\, including the San José celebrity and self-proclaimed “stand-up poet\,” Mighty Mike McGee. San Francisco author and poet Diane Frank\, accompanied by Cellist Eric Ievins\, will present a gorgeous collaboration of strings and stanzas in Words and Music. The cavalcade of creative voices continues with Bay Area poets Mark Heinlein and Pranita Patel exploring The Borders of Ecstasy. Local poet and workshop leader Charlotte Muse has designed a segment illustrating the many ways poetry inspires\, and is inspired by\, The Senses. \nadvice and improvement in poetry workshops: \nFor writers looking to wrestle with our Breaking Borders theme\, Los Angeles-based poet Tresha Haefner Rubinstein will offer a mind-bending two-hour workshop on Surreal Poetry. Dean Rader’s workshop deals with effective poetic Revision and refinement techniques\, and poet/storyteller Tim Myers’ fifty-minute slot explores Building a Poem—Word by Word. On advice for performing poetry\, former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Nils Peterson will illustrate How to Read a Poem. Diane Moomey’s presentation on Self Publishing\, as well as Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s insights on Journal Submission will help poets get their work into readers’ hands! \nJoin us at the beautiful History Park San José for San José Poetry Festival 2016—a day of inspiration and exploration!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:History Park San José\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose \, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:George Omi: American Yellow
DESCRIPTION:The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor\, Minoru Omi’s whole life was turned upside down. \nRacial tensions ran high — his father\, a Japanese immigrant\, is questioned by the FBI\, and eventually his family is uprooted from their lives in San Francisco\, and forcibly relocated to desolate Rohwer\, Arkansas. He and his little sister leave behind their school and friends\, while their immigrant parents give up their hard-won dry cleaning business. Still\, though\, their family resolve persists — and even while facing tough times thousands of miles from the city he was born in\, Minoru manages to get into trouble with snakes\, bullies\, and out-of-bounds candy shops\, just like any other young boy. Interned or not\, he finds a way to thrive. \nFollow the Omi family as they make their way through World War II — from San Francisco to the internment camp in Arkansas and back again in American Yellow. \nGeorge Omi lives in Mill Valley\, California. He has won awards for his writing\, which he only took up after retiring from a successful career as a landscape architect.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-omi-american-yellow/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T213000
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SUMMARY:Bona Fide Storytelling's 'Didn't See It Comin'
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Sept 16th\, 2016\nParty at 6:30\, Stories at 7:30 PM\nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa / San Francisco\, CA\nThis is our EARLY SHOW (Bawdy Storytelling is at 10:30)\nSee BOTH shows with a Full Evening Wristband! \nWinner of Best Storytelling Event 2016 (SFist.com)\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (Best Storytelling)\, & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \nThis Evening of No Holds Barred Storytelling includes:\nGot a Story? Pitch it to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\nMusic & more to come\nPlay Bang-O to make new friends & WIN Prizes!\nCocktails to go with your Stories\, because you’re all grown up now\nOfficiated by Award-winning Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \nBawdy Storytelling has expanded – now\, we’re Bona Fide\, TOO! How our new storytelling series works:\n– This is a live stage performance series – you’re hearing what happened\, right from the source!\n– Stories told at Bona Fide are True\, firsthand recountings\n– Stories are Told (not Read)\n– Stories are told in about 10 minutes\n– This is PG-13 Storytelling. You’ll laugh\, you’ll cry – it’s way better than CATS! \nPerformer Bios: \nAward-Winning Storytelling Producer and Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour created Bawdy Storytelling (the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series) almost 10 years ago\, and earlier this year she gave birth to a brand new series\, Bona Fide Storytelling. She is passionate about all forms of story\, and spends her days as a storytelling coach\, traveling event producer\, master of ceremonies and teller of her own true tales. She has taught storytelling at Yale\, been heard on the Risk! Podcast many times and has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for her work to reduce sexual shame and stigma. Dixie has been lauded by Master Storyteller Mike Daisey as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” She lives in San Francisco with her partner\, Bent\, and their Saint Bernard\, Quake\, and you can find out more about Dixie and her work at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\, and follow her on Twitter at @Bawdy and on Instagram and Facebook at Bawdy Storytelling. \n* No Refunds or Exchanges\n* Line-up subject to change
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bona-fide-storytellings-didnt-see-it-comin/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gayle Forman
DESCRIPTION:Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner\, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention–meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins\, she doesn’t even realize she’s had a heart attack. \nSurprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her\, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But\, as is often the case\, once we get where we’re going we see our lives from a different perspective. Far from the demands of family and career and with the help of liberating new friendships\, Maribeth is able to own up to secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves. \nWith bighearted characters–husbands\, wives\, friends\, and lovers–who stumble and trip\, grow and forgive\, Leave Me is about facing the fears we’re all running from. Gayle Forman is a dazzling observer of human nature. She has written an irresistible novel that confronts the ambivalence of modern motherhood head on and asks\, what happens when a grown woman runs away from home? \nGayle Forman is a bestselling\, award-winning author of young adult novels. Her novel If I Stay won the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award and was a 2010 Indie Choice Honor Award winner. The film adaptation of If I Stay was released in 2014. Forman is also a journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications\, including Seventeen\, Cosmopolitan\, and Elle. She has visited more than forty countries and wrote a nonfiction book about her travels titled You Can’t Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World. Forman lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with her husband and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gayle-forman/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T213000
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CREATED:20160907T235250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160907T235250Z
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SUMMARY:2016 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T213000
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Colson Whitehead: \n“It’s a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling\, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch\, pursue\, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One \n\n“The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” — Walter Kirn\, Time on The Intuitionist \n\n“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed\, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days \n\nAbout The Underground Railroad: \nFrom prize-winning\, bestselling author Colson Whitehead\, a magnificent\, wrenching\, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \n  \nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves\, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north. \n  \nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor — a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens — and Ridgeway\, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her\, arrives in town. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey\, state-by-state\, seeking true freedom. \n  \nLike Gulliver\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage\, and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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