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SUMMARY:Isabel Tree
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nWilding:Returning Nature to Our Farm \nfrom New York Review Books \nwith an introduction by Eric Schlosser \nFor many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers\, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible\, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000\, facing bankruptcy\, the couple decided they would try something new. They would hand their 3\,500 acres\, farmed for centuries\, even millennia\, back to nature. They would let it go wild. \nThis was no simple matter. What form did the land have before it took on the form that human beings have given it? The answer to that question was controversial and required real\, and fascinating\, research. And then the land had once been open to whole hosts of animals that had since been prevented from running wild\, if not killed off or made extinct. These had been a crucial actor in the landscape and its ecology\, and how were they\, or their likes\, to be reintroduced into it? And finally there were the neighbors\, often appalled at the sight of once-tidy fields now running riot with what they considered dangerous weeds. \nThe experiment however\, was a success. With minimal human intervention\, and with herds of free-roaming animals stimulating new habitats\, Knepp is now full of new life. Rare species such as turtle doves\, peregrine falcons\, and purple emperor butterflies breed there. The fabled English nightingale\, heard less and less in modern times\, sings again. \nThe Knepp project has become a leading light for conservation in the UK\, demonstrating how letting nature take its course can revive both the land and wildlife\, reversing the cataclysmic declines in biodiversity that challenge Britain and the world. The story of rewilding Knepp points the way to a wilder\, richer future—a countryside that benefits farming\, nature\, and us. Wilding is an inspiring story of hope. \n\nWhat has been said about WILDING: \n\n[F]ans of Roger Deakin\, Robert Macfarlane\, Nan Shepherd\, and other British naturalists will follow right along … A fine work of environmental literature that demands a tolerance for detail and should inspire others to follow suit.\n—Kirkus \nThis wonderfully readable book\, which is partly a memoir and partly a plan of action\, is an inspirational guide for how to “rewild” a landscape….This honest\, thoroughly researched and deeply hopeful book will appeal to everyone—especially farmers—who is concerned about how intensive farming practices are degrading the environment and how to restore nature to ravaged lands.\n—Forbes\, “Ten of the Best Books About Climate Change\, Conservation And The Environment of 2018” \nWilding is one of the most exhilarating books I know. Knepp Castle is a modern marvel\, a wild ancient landscape in a modern domestic country\, a place filled with birds and animals leading their own independent and remarkable lives. Isabella Tree\, who lives there\, tells the rich\, complicated story of Knepp. As a writer\, Tree is both elegant and deeply informed\, and the story is full of poetic awareness and scientific foundations. This story will delight anyone who’s interested in nature\, wildlife and hope.\n—Roxana Robinson\, author of Sweetwater \nIn a story that is part personal memoir\, part work of conservation\, Tree reveals the capacity of the wild to reclaim the land–as long as humans step out of the way.\n—Smithsonian\, “The Ten Best Science Books of 2018” \nWilding is both a timely and important book.\n—Tim Flannery\, The New York Review of Books \nA poignant\, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land\, this should be conservation’s salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope.\n—Chris Packham \nEvery farmer (and perhaps every conservationist) in Britain needs to go and spend a day at Knepp. The Knepp “wilding” project is a vitally important experiment for working out what we can do to let nature back into our farmed landscapes…This book tells this vital story and deserves to be widely read.\n—James Rebanks\, author of A Shepherd’s Life \nThe remarkable story of an astounding transformation.\n—George Monbiot \nIsabella Tree’s apparently quixotic tale of Exmoor ponies\, longhorn cattle\, red deer and Tamworth pigs roaming free on an aristocratic estate is a hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul.\n—Caspar Henderson\, The Guardian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/isabel-tree/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jess Row: White Flights
DESCRIPTION:Jess Row discusses his new book\, White Flights: Race\, Fiction and the American Imagination. \nPraise for White Flights \n“These are brilliant\, sweeping\, intimate delights—and afterward\, you may never read the same way again.”—Alexander Chee \n“A major literary and intellectual intervention\, clarifying the real stakes in what we too complacently call ‘identity politics.’”—Pankaj Mishra \n“We need this book\, now and yesterday.”—Kiese Laymon \n“Jess Row performs a much-needed analysis. . . . The landscape of the imagination\, like the country itself\, he argues with rich insight and brio\, is neither equal nor free.”—John Keene \n“White Flights will change my work\, and my life\, and for that I’m grateful.”—Jonathan Lethem \nAbout White Flights \nA bold\, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction\, by the author of Your Face in Mine \nWhite Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book\, Jess Row ties “white flight”—the movement of white Americans into segregated communities\, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns—to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes\, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo\, Annie Dillard\, Richard Ford\, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. \nWhite Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place\, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean\, he asks\, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin\, Dorothy Allison\, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction\, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music\, film\, and literature in its arguments\, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jess-row-white-flights/
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:Timothy Faust / Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Timothy Faust\, back in San Francisco to present his first book\, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next. Please join us! \nThe sun is setting on America’s half-century of punishing the sick\, and this book promises a bright new dawn for us all. \nSingle payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current model\, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what’s the deal with our current healthcare system\, and why don’t we have something better? \nIn Health Justice Now\, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is\, why we don’t yet have it\, and how it can be won. He identifies the actors that have misled us for profit and political gain\, dispels the myth that healthcare needs to be personally expensive\, shows how we can smoothly transition to a new model\, and reveals the slate of humane and progressive reforms that we can only achieve with single payer as the springboard. \nIn this impassioned playbook\, Faust inspires us to believe in a world where we could leave our job without losing healthcare for ourselves and our kids; where affordable housing is healthcare; and where social justice links arm-in-arm with health justice for us all. Single payer is the tool—health justice is the goal! \n\nTimothy Faust‘s writing has appeared in Splinter\, Jacobin\, and Vice\, among others. He has worked as a data scientist in the healthcare industry\, before which he enrolled people in ACA programs in Florida\, Georgia\, and Texas\, where he saw both the shortcomings of the ACA and the consequences of the Medicaid gap firsthand. Since 2017\, he’s been driving around the United States in his 2002 Honda CR-V talking to people about health inequity in their neighborhoods. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Health Justice Now\, order below and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-faust-health-justice-now-single-payer-and-what-comes-next/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Meet Author E.R. Ramzipoor
DESCRIPTION:Join author E.R. Ramzipoor for a reading of her debut novel\, The Ventriloquists. Publishers Weekly calls her book a “magnetic debut… Sprawling and ambitious\, with crisp pacing and fully realized characters\, this will fascinate anyone looking for an unusual\, enthralling war story.” Kirkus Reviews touts her novel as one “that will have special resonance for today’s resisters.” \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. \nThe Ventriloquists is set in Brussels\, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper\, Le Soir\, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist\, Marc Aubrion\, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies\, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all\, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding\, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin — daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.   The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke\, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail\, E.R. Ramzipoor’s dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history. \nE.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer\, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s and The Ventriloquists is her first novel. She lives with her partner and a terrier mix named Lada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-e-r-ramzipoor/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maria Tumarkin - - Axiomatic
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Maria Tumarkin to celebrate the publication of her book of essays\, on Monday\, September 24th at 7pm. \nWinner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award \nShortlisted for the Stella Prize \n“Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force . . . These essays will linger in readers’ minds for years after.”–Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) \nDrawing on nine years of research\, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections–each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present–Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide\, a grandmother’s quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe\, one community lawyer’s struggle inside and against the criminal justice system\, a larger-than-life Holocaust survivor\, and the history of the author’s longest friendship. \nWith verve\, wit\, and critical dexterity\, Tumarkin asks questions about loss\, grief\, and how our particular histories inform the people we become in the world. Axiomatic introduces an unforgettable voice. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMaria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three previous books of ideas\, Traumascapes\, Courage\, and Otherland\, all of which received critical acclaim in Australia\, where she lives. Her most recent work\, Axiomatic\, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maria-tumarkin-axiomatic/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aimee Lucido w/Kwame Alexander / Launch for Emmy in the Key of Code
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Aimee Lucido‘s debut\,Emmy in the Key of Code. With her in conversation isKwame Alexander (The Crossover). Please join us! \nIn this innovative middle grade novel\, coding and music take center stage as new girl Emmy tries to find her place in a new school. Perfect for fans of Girls Who Code series and The Crossover. \nIn a new city\, at a new school\, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class\, unexpectedly connecting with the material—and Abigail\, a new friend—through a shared language: music. But when Emmy gets bad news about their computer teacher\, and finds out Abigail isn’t being entirely honest about their friendship\, she feels like her new life is screeching to a halt. Despite these obstacles\, Emmy is determined to prove one thing: that\, for the first time ever\, she isn’t a wrong note\, but a musician in the world’s most beautiful symphony. \n\n \nAimee Lucido is a software engineer who has worked at Uber\, Facebook\, and Google. Women in technology is a subject close to her heart\, and she brings this passion to the page. In her spare time\, she runs\, bakes\, does musical improv\, and writes crossword puzzles. She lives in San Francisco\, CA. \n  \nKwame Alexander is a poet\, educator\, and the New York Times Bestselling author of 28 books\, including Rebound\, the follow-up to his Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel\, The Crossover. Some of his other works include Booked\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, The Playbook: 52 Rules to Help You Aim\, Shoot\, and Score in this Game of Life\, Swing\, and the picture books\, Out of Wonder and The Undefeated. A regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition\, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards\, including The Coretta Scott King Author Honor\, The NCTE/Charlotte Huck Honor\, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations\, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. He believes that poetry can change the world\, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people around the world through The Write Thing\, his K-12 Writing Workshop. Kwame is the founder of Versify\, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, and the host and producer of the literary variety/talk show\, Bookish\, which airs on Facebook Watch. He’s led cultural exchange delegations to Brazil\, Italy\, Singapore\, and Ghana\, where he built the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic\, as a part of LEAP for Ghana\, an international literacy program he co-founded. Author photo by Portia Wiggins Photography. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Emmy in the Key of Code\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Kwame’s books\, do the same thing here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aimee-lucido-w-kwame-alexander-launch-for-emmy-in-the-key-of-code/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leland Cheuk: No Good Very Bad Asian
DESCRIPTION: Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel\, No Good Very Bad Asian with Vanessa Hua. \nPraise for No Good Very Bad Asian \n“A touching\, funny tale of a Chinese American underachiever’s unlikely journey into standup comedy while also navigating the duties and obligations of society and his traditional family. The comic yet poignant acts that make up the life of Sirius Lee will both entertain and haunt you.”– Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan\, author of Sarong Party Girls \n“An epistolary novel with a devastating sense of humor that will break your heart and captures that space between a rock and hard place of being Asian American in search of unconditional love. Self-centered outcast\, precocious megastar Sirius Lee (Hor Luk Lee) shares his life lessons with his daughter\, making himself known to her with courage and candor in an appeal that will make you nod with recognition and laugh in that way that only the sharpest comedians can make you laugh\, with tears in your eyes.”– Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n“Leland Cheuk’s No Good Very Bad Asian tears the tarp from the Asian American experience and exposes its deepest desires and fears. It articulates perfectly the amusements that make the entire room uncomfortable. Cringing never felt so good.”– Ed Lin\, author of 99 Ways to Die \n“Leland Cheuk’s wacky and wondrous novel follows Sirius Lee\, the ultimate anti-hero\, an Asian American comedian who overcomes all odds to become a star. With brio and humor\, Sirius fights prejudice\, substance abuse\, and his own worst instincts\, always striving for a world bigger than his own. By the last page\, he was so real to me that I longed to turn on the TV and watch the legendary comedy special that gives the novel its name.”– Kirstin Chen\, author of Bury What We Cannot Take \nAbout No Good Very Bad Asian \nMeet Sirius Lee\, a fictive famous Chinese American comedian. He’s a no good\, very bad Asian. He’s not good at math (or any other subject\, really). He has no interest in finding a “good Chinese girlfriend.” And he refuses to put any effort into becoming the CEO/Lawyer/Doctor his parents so desperately want him to be. All he wants to do is making people laugh. A cross between Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Jade Chang’s The Wangs Vs. The World\, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN follows Sirius from his poor upbringing in the immigrant enclaves of Los Angeles to the loftiest heights of stardom as he struggles with substance abuse and persistent racism despite his fame. Ultimately\, when he becomes a father himself\, he must come to terms with who he is\, where he came from\, and the legacy he’ll leave behind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leland-cheuk-no-good-very-bad-asian/
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:Book Launch: Nancy Au -- Spider Love Song and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Au’s debut collection is rich with scents\, sounds\, imaginative leaps\, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align\, whose spirits attempt flight despite dashed hopes and lean circumstances. Marginalized by race\, age\, and sexuality\, they endeavor to create new worlds that honor their identities and their Chinese heritage. SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES treads the fault line that forms between lovers\, families\, friends\, cultures—exposing injuries and vulnerabilities\, but also the strength and courage necessary to recast resentment and anger into wonder and power. Au’s lyrical style\, humor\, and tender attention to her characters’ fancies and failings make this powerful debut a delight to read. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNancy Au’s stories and essays have appeared in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Pinch\, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest. \n  \nPraise for SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES: \n“These stories sparkle with life and secrets\, joy and power\, pain and hilarity and sharp insights into the\nhuman heart. Nancy Au is a rare and blazing talent\, and this debut collection is a house of wonders\,\nthrilling and unforgettable.”    —Carolina De Robertis\, author of CANTORAS \n“Foxes\, turtles\, ducks\, oysters\, fish\, badgers\, beetles\, damselflies\, bees: all manner of creatures scratch\, swim\, thrum\, and shimmer through these tender and fantastic stories. Characters struggle with the entanglements of the living and the dead\, like the “spiders’ webs [that] can wind around anything that doesn’t pay attention\,” while they long to be out in the world that both compels and terrifies. I was spellbound by Au’s unique vision and language that pay attention to the many wild\, rich worlds that hold us.”  —Peg Alford Pursell\, author of A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-nancy-au-spider-love-song-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LIT STARTS: Writing Humor
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The San Francisco Writers Grotto’s new series LIT STARTS with a writing night on humor. \nAbout Writing Humor \nA fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. \nFocus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Writing Humor starts with a foreword by author Chris Colin\, who offers pointers for developing your own comedic style. The rest of the book consists of prompts and space to write\, providing opportunities to explore your voice in various hilarious scenarios. Among other ideas\, you’ll be asked to write: \n\nan account of a bachelor\, from the perspective of his refrigerator\na Craigslist ad for something you are desperate to sell\na eulogy to a pair of jeans that no longer fit\nan evaluation of a coworker in the form of a school report card\na list of embarrassing moments that are funny in hindsight\n\nPerfectly sized to take to a café\, on vacation\, or on your morning commute\, this book is designed for practicing your creative writing a little bit at a time.\nSpecial Features \n\nPaperback with textured cover stock\, flaps\, and a lay-flat binding\nAdvice from a published writer\, followed by fill-in prompts and space to write\nPart of a collection of single-subject writing prompt books by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\n\nCheck out the other books in the Lit Starts series: Writing Action\, Writing Character\, and Writing Dialogue. \nThe San Francisco Writers’ Grotto is a community of writers that was founded in 1994. It now has more than 100 members who share workspace and teach classes in downtown San Francisco. Chris Colin is the author most recently of What to Talk About\, and the coauthor of This Is Camino\, which was nominated for a James Beard Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-starts-writing-humor/
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:J.D. Moyer - - The Guardian
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel\, The Guardian\, on Thursday\, September 26th at 7pm. \nIn the year 2737\, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano\, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem\, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter\, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village\, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation. Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana\, the tentacle-enhanced ‘Squid Woman’\, while protecting a secret that could change the course of humanity and civilization. The Guardian\, the sequel to the The Sky Woman\, is a story of colliding worlds and the contested repopulation of a wild Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners\, and exciting\, original voices. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJ.D. Moyer lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, daughter\, and mystery-breed dog. He writes science fiction\, produces electronic music in two groups (Jondi & Spesh and Momu)\, runs a record label (Loöq Records)\, and blogs at jdmoyer.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/j-d-moyer-the-guardian/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Naomi Klein / On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal\, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nOn Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now. \nFor more than a decade\, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate\, she argues that only this kind of bold\, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time. \nThese long-form essays\, based on her extensive research and reporting\, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical\, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more\, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act. \nWith dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest\, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico\, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change\, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanitys greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity. \n\nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Author photo by Suzanne DeChillo for The New York Times. \n\n*** Please note *** \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference.\n– Signing and additional details coming soon.\n– This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.\n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of On Fire\, order below and put your request in the special field. If you’d like to request signed copies of any of Naomi’s other books\, order here and be sure to add your request in the special
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-klein-on-fire-the-burning-case-for-a-green-new-deal/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.
DESCRIPTION:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL\nin conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal\, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nOn Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now. \nFor more than a decade\, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate\, she argues that only this kind of bold\, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time. \nThese long-form essays\, based on her extensive research and reporting\, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical\, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more\, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.\n​\nWith dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest\, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico\, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change\, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanity’s greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity. \n——————- \nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Author photo by Suzanne DeChillo for The New York Times. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery.\n​\nAbout Mother Jones: Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment\, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education\, climate change\, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website\, social-media presence\, videos\, podcasts\, email newsletters\, and print magazine. Our fellowship program is one of the premier training grounds for emerging investigative storytellers. Founded in 1976\, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington\, DC\, and New York. We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you\, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.” \n​This event is co-presented by The Leap\, Sunrise Movement\, and The Intercept. \n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-klein-presents-the-burning-case-for-a-green-new-deal-in-conversation-with-the-editor-in-chief-of-mother-jones-clara-jeffery/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson's A Frank O'Hara Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kantor and Connie Lewallen discuss the life and work of Bill Berkson and his book A Frank O’Hara Notebook. \nAbout Bill Berkson \nBorn in New York City on August 30\, 1939\, William Craig Berkson studied at Brown University\, Columbia University\, the New School for Social Research\, and New York University’s Institute for Fine Arts. \nDuring the 1960s\, Berkson took on editorial roles at ARTNews\, Arts\, and the Museum of Modern Art. He also served as the associate producer of a public television art program and taught literature and writing courses at the New School and Yale University. \nIn 1970\, Berkson moved to Northern California\, where he began editing and publishing poetry books and magazines under the Big Sky imprint. He also taught in the California Poets in the Schools program. \nBerkson soon returned to regularly writing art criticism\, contributing to publications such as American Craft\, Aperture\, Artforum\, Art in America\, Art on Paper\, Modern Painters\, and others. In 1984\, he began teaching art history and poetry at the San Francisco Art Institute—where he also directed the Letters and Science and public lectures programs—until 2008. \nBerkson’s honors include two Fund for Poetry Awards\, the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Goldie Award for Literature\, and a Poets Foundation Grant\, along with fellowships from the Briarcombe Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. He divided his time between New York City and San Francisco. Berkson died on June 16\, 2016. \nAbout A Frank O’Hara Notebook \nA fascinating account of Frank O’Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York\, told through notes\, images\, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson. \nPoet and art critic Bill Berkson (1939-2016) had planned for many years to write a lengthy study on his friend and mentor Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) but died with the project still incomplete. This volume reproduces the sketchbook in which Berkson gathered notes\, images\, and poems about O’Hara\, focusing on his memories of their collaborations in New York\, from their initial meeting in 1960 to O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966. A Frank O’Hara Notebook offers a fascinating first-person account of the heyday of O’Hara’s creative life\, and memorably sketches the heady social milieus of the poetry and art worlds of New York that O’Hara inhabited in the early 1960s. In addition to an exact-scale photographic reproduction of Berkson’s handwritten notebook\, this volume includes a typesetting of Berkson’s notes and two texts on O’Hara derived from these notes published under Berkson’s direction\, titled “A Frank O’Hara File” and “What Frank O’Hara Was Like.” The book shows the evolution of Berkson’s ideas from notes to fragmentary phrases and sentences into finished pieces of writing. Ultimately\, this collection reveals as much about Berkson’s writing practice as it does about his famous subject and friend. \nThe book’s translation of Berkson’s handwritten notes and collaged material into type honors the idiosyncratic format of Berkson’s handwritten text\, precisely following the line breaks\, capitalizations\, and drawn graphic elements in the holograph. The book also includes an introduction by fellow New York School poet Ron Padgett and an afterword by Berkson’s wife\, curator Constance Lewallen. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berksons-a-frank-ohara-notebook/
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:Jacqueline Woodson / Red at the Bone
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the beloved New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodsonfor her new novel\, Red at the Bone. Please join us! \nTwo families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time\, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length\, Jacqueline Woodson’s extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences\, decisions\, and relationships of these families\, and in the life of this child. \nAs the book opens in 2001\, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends\, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince\, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier\, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody’s mother\, for her own ceremony — a celebration that ultimately never took place. \nUnfurling the history of Melody’s parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment\, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs\, the tolls they’ve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity\, ambition\, gentrification\, education\, class and status\, and the life-altering facts of parenthood\, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives — even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. \n\nJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She received the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award\, and is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming\, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award\, a Newbery Honor\, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. In 2015\, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her recent adult book\, Another Brooklyn\, was a National Book Award finalist\, and her new adult book\, Red at the Bone\, is coming in September 2019. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults\, middle graders and children; among her many accolades\, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner\, a four-time National Book Award finalist\, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include The Other Side\, Each Kindness\, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers\, Show Way\, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle’s Boys\, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and the winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. Author photo by Tiffany A. Bloomfield. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Red at the Bone\, order below and put your request in the comments field; for any of Jacqueline’s other books\, order here and be sure to do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-woodson-red-at-the-bone/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190927T210000
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SUMMARY:Olivia Gatwood\, Life of the Party: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Olivia Gatwood for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection\, Life of the Party. A thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry weaves together her own coming of age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. In precise\, searing language—at times blistering and riotous\, at times soulful and exuberant—she explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. \n“Gatwood writes about the women who were forgotten and the men who got off too easy with an effortlessness and empathy and anger that yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me. Imagine\, we get to live in the age of Olivia Gatwood. Goddamn.” —Jamie Loftus\, writer and comedian\, Boss Whom Is Girl and The Bechdel Cast \n“Life of the Party is an electrifying collection of poems about the agonies and ecstasies of being a young woman.” —Leigh Stein\, author of Land of Enchantment \n“Olivia Gatwood is a revolution of woman\, a flurry of insight harnessing the language of self-assessment and acceptance. Her poems invite a contemporary understanding of sexuality and the feminine form\, feminism and inclusion\, intersection and advocacy. Her metaphors and images are both breath and being. This book is an offering to the silenced\, for firepower and reflection. A haystack of hallelujahs resides in these pages.” —Mahogany Browne\, author of Black Girl Magic \nOlivia Gatwood has received national recognition for her poetry\, writing workshops\, and work as an educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. She is the author of the poetry chapbook New American Best Friend\, and her poems have appeared in such publications as Muzzle magazine\, Winter Tangerine\, Poetry City\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, and The Missouri Review. As a finalist at Brave New Voices\, Women of the World Poetry Slam\, and the National Poetry Slam\, Gatwood has been featured on HBO\, HuffPost\, MTV\, VH1\, and the BBC\, among other media outlets. She is a full-time touring artist\, and has performed at more than two hundred schools and universities worldwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/olivia-gatwood-life-of-the-party-poems/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton
DESCRIPTION:September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton\nKathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books\, 2018)\, which Indigo Moor called\, “a wondrous example of how to loop a mesmerizing arc through a body of work\,” and Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press\, 2013)\, which Jean Hegland called an “excellent collection” that “offers many succinct glimpses of deeply lived lives.” Her poems appear in Southwest Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, Naugatuck River Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ekphrasis\, cahoodaloodaling\, Forgotten Women\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. She has been the winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, and Maria W. Faust poetry prizes\, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. She is Associate Director and sonnet judge for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, and she teaches at Skyline College and The Writing Salon in San Francisco. In 2018-19 she is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. www.kathleenmcclung.com \nGrace Marie Grafton’s newest book\, Lens(Unsolicited Press\, 2019)\, features poems inspired by the art of California. She has published six additional collections\, including Jester\, (Hip Pocket Press\, 2013)\, Whimsy\, Reticence\, and Laud: Unruly Sonnets (Poetic Matrix Press\, 2012)\, and Other Clues (RAW ArT PRESS\, 2010). Her poems have won first prize in the Soul Making Keats contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, as well as awards from the Bellingham Review and The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught with California Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve California Arts Council grants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathleen-mcclung-grace-marie-grafton/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T213000
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event
DESCRIPTION:    * Saturday\, September 28\n100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event\n____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____\nReaders:  TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change-bay-area-poetry-marathon-joint-event-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T160000
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SUMMARY:Walker Talks
DESCRIPTION:Walker Talks\nThe last Sunday of each month\n(except June/July and December)\nfrom 2:30 to 4 pm \nThe last Sunday of every month (except the summer months and December)\, Walker Brents III holds his audience spellbound with his wide-ranging investigations into topics literary\, mythological and otherwise — in the past\, his subjects have ranged from William Blake to Bob Dylan\, Shakespeare to the Shahnameh\, the Kalevala to the story of Layla and Majnun…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walker-talks-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T230000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 29th\, 2019 \nRemember: Games & Cocktails at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM – but we’ll party till Late! \nat the Verdi Club San Francisco\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nWant a sample? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Over-the-Top Folsom Street Fair Afterparty event includes: \n❤  Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O (& Sniff Test! & OKPervert!) & make new friends \n❤  Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action – Get yours in advance \n❤  Custom Cocktails like the C.B.T.\, the Ethical Slut\, Bawdy Got Me Laid & More! \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformers to come – Stay Tuned! \nAnd for One Night Only\,  join us for a rousing game(s) of \n❤ OKPervert – It’s like an Analog Craigslist Casual Encounters\, but everyone’s right there in the room with you #NoSpammers \n❤ Sniff Test – Bring your you-scented unmentionables and join us for a little pheromone dating. Man\, you smell GOOD \n❤ and Bang-O\, Bawdy’s trademarked way to make new friends and hear inspired stories from strangers \nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! This evening of stories features brand new bawdiness\, and recaps of winning stories. Our Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone\, cause this show is gonna SELL OUT. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s Original Sex and Storytelling series – a dozen years ago\, knowing that the world needed a place for people to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender.This multi-city live storytelling event (and Podcast!) welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded 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.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \n\nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling’s Folsom Street Fair AfterParty (9/29\, SF)? Contact Bawdy Storytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Boyer: The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Anne Boyer discusses her new book The Undying: Pain\, Vulnerability\, Mortality\, Medicine\, Art\, Time\, Dreams\, Data\, Exhaustion\, Cancer\, and Care. \nPraise for The Undying \n“The Undying is a startling\, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health\, art and science\, language and literature\, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ‘the ideological regime of cancer\,’ Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.” —Sally Rooney\, author of Normal People \n“Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the ‘carcinogenosphere’ obliterates cliché. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social\, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged\, beautiful\, and brilliant work of embodied critique.” —Ben Lerner\, author of The Topeka School \n“A classic—a book that expands in all directions to fill an empty space in the literature of illness. I have long thought of Boyer as a genius against genius\, speaking from the sea of people in a voice that cannot help but be heard above the others\, it is so clear and strong. And The Undying is a book that is beautifully against: against cancer\, against easy metaphors\, above all against ‘the pink ribbon on the for-sale sign on the mansion.’” —Patricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n“This is a powerful\, timely\, and troubling book. Boyer’s unflinching account of the market-driven brutality of American cancer care sits beside some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read.” —Hari Kunzru\, author of White Tears \n“Anne Boyer is an essential voice\, and this is an essential book: one body’s urgent attempt at finding a language to tell us what it knows.” —Jonathan Lethem\, author of The Feral Detective \nAbout The Undying \nA week after her forty-first birthday\, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care\, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. \nA twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor\, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival\, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens\, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists\, cancer hoaxers and fetishists\, cancer vloggers\, corporate lies\, John Donne\, pro-pain ”dolorists\,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy\, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde\, Kathy Acker\, Susan Sontag\, and others. \nA genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts\, The Undying will break your heart\, make you angry enough to spit\, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally\, perversely glorious.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-boyer-the-undying/
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:Belo Miguel Cipriani w/Caitlin Hernandez & David-Elijah Nahmod / Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts editor Belo Miguel Cipriani (Blind: A Memoir) for Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities\, alongn with contributors Caitlin Hernandez andDavid-Elijah Nahmod. Please join us! \nTake a step back in time with some of the best writers with disabilities as they recount their first adventure\, their first heartbreak\, and the first time the unexpected treaded into their life. From body transformations to societal setbacks\, to love a airs and family trauma\, Firsts collects the most thought-provoking and exciting stories of our time by people with disabilities. Contributors include Nigel David Kelly\, Kimberly Gerry-Tucker\, Caitlin Hernandez\, Andrew Gurza\, and David-Elijah Nahmod. \n\nBelo Miguel Cipriani is an award-winning author\, prize-winning syndicated columnist\, and the CEO of Oleb Media and Oleb Books. His writing has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Houston Chronicle\, Connecticut Post\,HuffPost and elsewhere. Cipriani has lectured at Yale University\, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater\, University of Minnesota Twin Cities\, and is currently Community Faculty in the creative writing program at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul\, MN. Learn more at www.belocipriani.com. \nCaitlin Hernandez‘s writing focuses largely on queerness\, disability\, and the intersection thereof. A two-time Lambda Literary fellow in young adult fiction\, Hernandez has been mentored by renowned authors Emily Danforth\, Stephanie Kuehn\, Sara Ryan\, and Kiersten White. Her fiction has been published in Lambda Literary’s 2015 and 2018 Emerge anthologies\, while her nonfiction appears in the disability studies textbook Barriers and Belonging\, and the second Behind Our Eyes anthology. Caitlin lives in San Francisco where she’s a full-time resource specialist for third and fourth graders with reading and learning disabilities. In her minimal non-teaching\, non-writing time\, she may be found singing karaoke with friends\, seeking chocolate ice cream (especially with Oreo pieces\, chocolate chips\, M&Ms\, and/or hot fudge)\, flaunting her fantabulous rainbow cane\, and over-sharing about her “blind flails” and “blawkward moments” on Facebook. \nDavid-Elijah Nahmod is an American/Israeli dual national of Syrian descent who has lived in New York City and Tel Aviv. In San Francisco since 2003\, his eclectic writing career includes LGBTQ and Jewish publications\, and monster magazines. He is dedicated to raising disability and mental health awareness\, and to forwarding the cause of disability rights. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities\, order below and put your request in the comments field; for Belo’s book\, order here and be sure to do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/belo-miguel-cipriani-w-caitlin-hernandez-david-elijah-nahmod-firsts-coming-of-age-stories-by-people-with-disabilities/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Freeman and Friends
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the relase of the latest issue of Freeman’s \nFreeman’s: California \npublished by Grove Press \nFeaturing work from Tommy Orange\, Rabih Alameddine\, Rachel Kushner\, Mai Der Vang\, Reyna Grande\, and more\, the sixth Freeman’s brilliantly showcases some of the world’s best writers grappling with the myths and reality of California today. \nFrom immigration rights to climate change\, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay\, Rabih Alamdeddine remembers bartending during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. William T. Vollmann visits the Carr fire and discovers that gas masks are the new normal. Natalie Diaz describes growing up in the desert and remaking her body on the basketball court. Award-winning journalist Lauren Markham revisits her family’s tales of their arrival in a town built by a con man on stolen land. Karen Tei Yamashita tells of a Japanese-American man going to Hiroshima after the bomb dropped\, writing letters home. Reyna Grande witnesses her mother never adapting after migrating from Mexico. Tommy Orange conjures a native man so lost and broke he’s either going to rob a bank or end his life—but love might rescue him. Rachel Kushner sings a hymn to the danger and beauty of cars. And since the Beat movement\, California has also given birth to an explosion of poetry. New poems by Frank Bidart\, Robin Coste Lewis\, D.A. Powell\, and recent poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera join newcomers Mai Der Vang and Javier Zamora in this investigation and celebration of California writing. Featuring new work from Héctor Tobar and Jennifer Egan\, Oscar Villalon and Anthony Marra\, Geoff Dyer and Elaine Castillo\, Freeman’s: California will become a benchmark for California anthologies before and to come. \n\nPraise for Freeman’s: California \n“The work is wide-ranging\, by newcomers and established talents: Xuan Juliana Wang\, Elaine Castillo\, Frank Bidart\, D.A. Powell. It tells the story of California in pieces\, which is the only way it can be told . . . The point—or one of them—is that\, in California\, one must learn to persevere. In this collection\, California in all its glorious complexity comes vividly to life.”—Kirkus Reviews \nPraise for Freeman’s \n“There’s an illustrious new literary journal in town . . . [with] fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights . . . alike.” —Vogue.com \n“A terrific anthology . . . Sure to become a classic in years to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n“Ambitious.”—O Magazine \n“Freeman draws from a global cache of talent . . . An expansive reading experience.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Looking at what John [Freeman] has put together in [his] first edition\, I’m struck by how many names I don’t know and how diverse and global it is. My only disappointment is that it’s going to be twice a year—I think we need it 4 times a year.”—James Wood\, Radio Boston \n“Illuminating . . . Perfect reading for our ever-accelerating times.”—NPR’s Book Concierge \n“Freeman’s is fresh\, provocative\, engrossing.”—BBC.com \n“A first-rate anthology of bold\, searching and personal writing by emerging and established writers.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune \n“From the abstract to the literal\, there is no shortage of provocative\, thoughtful pieces here.”—Publishers Weekly \n“Freeman’s sets a new standard for literary journals . . . It’s refreshing and full of nuanced stories that will linger with you long after you finish them.”—Chicago Literati \n“[An] infinitely relatable and beautifully crafted prose and poetry anthology . . . Freeman has assembled a thoughtful and profoundly accessible collection of work that connects our vulnerabilities\, our expectations and our hopes.”—Newcity Lit \n“[A] thrillingly unique collection of voices.”—Toronto Star \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-freeman-and-friends/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jasmine Guillory - - Royal Holiday
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her fourth novel\, Royal Holiday\, on Tuesday\, October 1st at 7pm. \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling new novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. \nVivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time\, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member\, she can’t refuse. She’s excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights\, but what she doesn’t expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain private secretary\, his charming accent\, and unyielding formality. \nMalcolm Hudson has worked for the Queen for years and has never given a personal\, private tour—until now. He is intrigued by Vivian the moment he meets her and finds himself making excuses just to spend time with her. When flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe\, things snowball into a full-on fling. \nDespite a ticking timer on their holiday romance\, they are completely fine with ending their short\, steamy affair come New Year’s Day. . .or are they? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJasmine Guillory is a lawyer\, a graduate of Wellesley College and Stanford Law School\, and a Bay Area native who lives in Oakland\, California. She has been published in The Toast and The Hairpin\, has towering stacks of books in her living room\, a cake for every occasion\, and upwards of fifty lipsticks. She is The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date\, The Proposal\, and The Wedding Party. Visit her online at jasmineguillory.com and twitter.com/thebestjasmine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jasmine-guillory-royal-holiday/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Boyer:The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Oct 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley \nWebsite \n“The Undying is a startling\, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health\, art and science\, language and literature\, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ‘the ideological regime of cancer\,’ Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.” \n—Sally Rooney\, author of Normal People \nAnne Boyer is a poet and essayist who lives in Kansas City. Her honors include the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, a 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry\, and the 2018-2019 Judith E. Wilson Fellowship in poetry at Cambridge University. She is the author of several collections of poetry\, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award-winning Garments Against Women and a book of fables\, essays\, and ephemera titled A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. Her memoir The Undying: Pain\, Vulnerability\, Mortality\, Medicine\, Art\, Time\, Dreams\, Data\, Exhaustion\, Cancer\, and Care will be published by FSG this fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-boyerthe-undying/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 1\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-5/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. \nGreen Apple Books and Music\n506 Clement Street\, Upstairs in our Granny Smith Room \nThe Beyond The Shortest Month September title is Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956\nMeeting and discussion will be on Wednesday\, October 2\nSee you there! \nCan’t make this month? Stay tuned for the Beyond The Shortest Month pick for October 2019! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Gullah culture\, though borne of isolation and slavery\, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today\, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island\, SC. On this small barrier island descendants of the first generations of Gullah people continue to preserve Gullah language\, customs\, arts\, and cuisine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-the-shortest-month-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maxim Osipov
DESCRIPTION:Reading excerpts from the new translation of his short fiction collection \nRock\, Paper\, Scissors and other stories \nby Maxim Osipov \nPreface by Svetlana Alexievitch\, edited by Boris Dralyuk\, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk\, Alex Fleming\, and Anne Marie Jackson \npublished by NYRB Classic Originals \nApril 2019 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club. \nMaxim Osipov\, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow\, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams\, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction presents a nuanced\, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia—its tragedies\, frustrations\, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors\, actors\, screenwriters\, teachers\, entrepreneurs\, local political bosses\, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms\, classrooms\, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters\, major and minor epiphanies\, and—on occasion—the promise of redemption. \nMaxim Osipov (b. 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California\, San Francisco\, before returning to Moscow\, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical\, musical\, and theological texts. In 2005\, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa\, a small town ninety miles from Moscow\, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital’s survival. Since 2007\, he has published short stories\, novellas\, essays\, and plays\, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published five collections of prose\, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov’s writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Tarusa. \nWhat has been said of the work of Maxim Osipov \nOsipov makes his English-language debut with this masterful and sublime collection\, largely set in rural Russian villages….This collection showcases Osipov’s talent in creating subtle\, sophisticated character portraits that carry a good dose of suspense.\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nMasterful and often startling stories\, suffused with an irony that is as merciless as it is tender.\n—Daniel Medin \nMaxim Osipov’s stories cut me to the quick\, because he does what true writers do: he tries to make sense of life with his own mind\, puts his soul into the effort\, and\, most importantly\, presents everything in his own words.\n—Sergey Gandlevsky \nOsipov’s prose — remarkable\, transparent\, Russian\, painful and tough\, timely and timeless — is imbued with compassion. It may not always console\, but it always gratifies.\n—Lev Dodin \nOsipov writes not only laconically\, but simply\, plainly\, without going into excessive details but ‘going into’ the essence of contemporary Russian life. … Irony\, Robert Musil once noted in his diaries\, combines enmity with compassion. And this is what we find in the work of Maxim Osipov.\n—Alexander Livergrant\, Novy Mir \nMaxim Osipov’s stories are kaleidoscopic. [He] is continuing Russian literature’s great love story with medicine\, a flame lit by writer-physicians Mikhail Bulgakov and Anton Chekhov.\n—Matthew Janney\, The Calvert Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-osipov/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Jon Roemer / Five Windows
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Jon Roemer‘s debut novel Five Windows. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nAt a busy intersection on a crammed city hillside\, an overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears\, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before: Is the encampment in the park responsible for the fires — or are his new upscale neighbors somehow to blame? Has the man upstairs even bothered to notice\, or is his time better spent battling with his boyfriend? What’s his own ex-wife doing\, resurfacing now just when things are getting tense? Is everyone safer with more fire trucks around? And\, just a block down the hill\, is the new mixed-use project the perfect urban remedy\, or will it do even more damage? \nBy the time the duplex across the street catches fire\, he has to face a few questions about himself\, too\, including his own role in the neighborhood’s upheaval. Inspired by Rear Window and set in San Francisco\, Jon Roemer’s debut novel explores a fabled American city divided by rapid and aggressive change. \n\n“A disquieting take on Rear Window set in contemporary San Francisco… Like Hitchcock\, Roemer excels at establishing and then deepening the reader/viewer’s unease — but his interest is less in the plot complications that fuel Hitchcock’s film than in the psychological drama unfolding within the apartment as the publisher’s life implodes. Roemer’s achievement here is to discomfit the reader without sacrificing the story’s fundamental realism. This book reads\, often\, like a dystopian novel\, but — disturbingly — it’s one set in a dystopia we already live in. A frightening fable about the watcher and the watched.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Jon Roemer knows his way around a sentence. From the first line through the last\, readers feel they’re in the hands of an accomplished craftsman. Roemer’s writing is nuanced\, controlled\, and full of surprises. Five Windows follows a reclusive editor\, obsessed with his neighbors and the turmoil of San Francisco in the throes of gentrification\, but trapped inside a fishbowl of his own design. Roemer writes with an intimacy that becomes almost claustrophobic as our protagonist flirts with madness and the plot spirals toward its apocalyptic climax. An impressive\, engrossing debut from a bold new voice.” – Alia Volz\, author of Home Baked: My Mother\, Marijuana and the Stoning of San Francisco \n“Darkly funny and surreal\, Five Windows is a timely\, page-turning debut about alienation and breakdowns communal and individual.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \n“Jon Roemer channels Hitchcock in this noirish stunner. An indie publisher watches with increasing horror as his San Francisco neighborhood is rattled by small explosions\, fires\, domestic disputes\, demolition\, gunshots\, broken windows — a sinister series of skin-prickling accidents coming ever closer to home. In Roemer’s hands\, the online “world of whispers” and the outside timeline of strange occurrances merge into an uncanny approximation of our times.” – Jane Ciabattari\, author of Stealing the Fire \n\nJon Roemer is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. He is founder and senior editor of Outpost19\, an award-winning book publisher. He is queer\, a San Francisco resident since 1991 and an explorer of urban change. Roemer studied literature and fiction writing at Northwestern. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Five Windows\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-jon-roemer-five-windows/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying
DESCRIPTION:Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying dicuss their new cookcbook\, The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef\, Father\, Eater\, and Lifelong Outsider. \nAbout The Gaijin Cookbook \nIvan Orkin is a self-described gaijin (guy-jin)\, a Japanese term that means “outsider.” He has been hopelessly in love with the food of Japan since he was a teenager on Long Island. Even after living in Tokyo for decades and running two ramen shops that earned him international renown\, he remained a gaijin. \nFortunately\, being a lifelong outsider has made Orkin a more curious\, open\, and studious chef. In The Gaijin Cookbook\, he condenses his experiences into approachable recipes for every occasion\, including weeknights with picky kids\, boozy weekends\, and celebrations. Everyday dishes like Pork and Miso-Ginger Stew\, Stir-Fried Udon\, and Japanese Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce are what keep the Orkin family connected to Japan. For more festive dinners\, he suggests a Temaki Party\, where guests assemble their own sushi from cooked and fresh fillings. And recipes for Bagels with Shiso Gravlax and Tofu Coney Island (fried tofu with mushroom chili) reveal the eclectic spirit of Ivan’s cooking. \nIVAN ORKIN is the author of Ivan Ramen and a star of Chef’s Table and Mind of a Chef. He owns Ivan Ramen and Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop in NYC\, where the food is “so good it makes your eyes explode” (Eater). \nCHRIS YING is the co-founder of Lucky Peach\, the former publisher of McSweeney’s\, and the author and editor of numerous titles including Ivan Ramen\, the Mission Chinese Food Cookbook\, and You and I Eat the Same. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivan-orkin-and-chris-ying/
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:SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK In Conversation with Benjamin Moser and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK\nIn Conversation with Benjamin Moser and Rebecca Solnit\nWednesday\, October 2\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nNovelist\, activist\, essayist\, playwright\, filmmaker\, and critic\, Susan Sontag was one of the most emblematic writers of the American 20th century\, one whose name conjures an immediate image\, one so well-known that 15 years after her death\, a day rarely goes by without her somehow\, somewhere\, being mentioned. Ben Moser (Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector) offers the definitive portrait of Sontag\, and a single-volume introduction to the American twentieth century\, refracted through the life of one of its most extraordinary figures. He is joined by writer\, historian and activiist Rebecca Solnit (Hope in the Dark\, The Mother of All Things\, Men Explain Things to Me).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sontag-her-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-benjamin-moser-and-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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