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SUMMARY:Léonora Miano
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present \nLéonora Miano \ncelebrating the release of \nSeason of the Shadow \nPublished by Seagull Press \nThis powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day\, a group of villagers find twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream\, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling\, may have some of the answers\, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror; at the same time\, a thick shadow settles over the huts\, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery\, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. \nMiano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange\, dreamlike prose\, befitting a situation that is\, on its face\, all but impossible for the villagers to believe. \nLéonora Miano is a Cameroonian writer who lives in France. She is author of seven novels and two collections of essays. Season of the Shadow is her second book to be translated into English; her debut novel\, Dark Heart of the Night\, won the prix Femina when it was published in French in 2013. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leonora-miano/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #23: The Dark
DESCRIPTION:The summer’s over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let’s gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on THE DARK. \nDetails soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/212401529441541/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-23-the-dark/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Sean Penn\, Author of 'Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff'
DESCRIPTION:“Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff” (Atria Books) by two-time Academy Award(R)-winning actor\, writer and director Sean Penn\, is Mr. Penn’s first novel. The darkly humorous book tells the picaresque story of Bob Honey\, a middle-aged\, divorced\, disillusioned man living in a nondescript house on a nondescript street in Woodview\, California. Bob Honey is a man of many trades-sewage specialist\, purveyor of pyrotechnics\, contract killer for a mysterious government agency that pays in small bills. The novel is a revised and expanded work based on an audiobook (no longer available) narrated by Penn and released in October 2016 under the pseudonym Pappy Pariah. \nPenn has been nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Actor for “Dead Man Walking\,” “Sweet and Lowdown” and “I Am Sam” and won in 2003 for his searing performance in Clint Eastwood’s “Mystic River” and his second in 2009 for Gus Van Sant’s “Milk.” He has worked as an actor\, writer\, producer and director on over 100 theater and film productions. \nAs a filmmaker\, Penn has crafted powerful dramas such as “The Indian Runner” and “Into the Wild\,” which garnered him nominations from the Directors Guild Awards and Writers Guild Awards. He also wrote and directed the US contribution to the compilation film “11’09’01” and engages in political and social activism. This includes his criticism of the George W. Bush administration\, his contact with the Presidents of Cuba and Venezuela\, and his humanitarian work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. \nEach ticket includes a pre-signed copy of “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.” Additional books will be available for sale at the event for $24 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto. \nThe evening will be moderated by Anne Elise Kornblut\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist currently serving as director of strategic communications for Facebook.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-sean-penn-author-of-bob-honey-who-just-do-stuff/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, reading from their poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, who collectively organize Antena\, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, focusing on writing\, art- and book-making\, translating\, interpreting\, and language justice. Hofer and Pluecker\, visiting respectively from Los Angeles and Houston\, will read from their own work on Wednesday\, September 26\, at E. M. Wolfman Books in downtown Oakland\, then present their work around Antena the following evening\, Thursday\, September 27\, at The Poetry Center. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \nJen Hofer (bio coming) \nJohn Pluecker is a language worker who writes\, translates\, organizes\, interprets\, and creates. In 2010\, he co-founded the collaborative Antena and in 2015 the social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. His undisciplinary work is informed by experimental poetics\, language justice\, and cross-border/cross-language cultural production. He has translated numerous books from the Spanish\, including most recently Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e)\, 2018) and Antígona González (Les Figues Press\, 2016). His book of poetry and image\, Ford Over\, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at johnpluecker.com \nRelated event: \nTripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\nAntena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\nJen Hofer and John Pluecker\nThursday SEPT 27\n7:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center & E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-jen-hofer-and-john-pluecker-reading-from-their-poetry/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Preti Taneja reading from her new novel  We That Are Young
DESCRIPTION:We That Are Young \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA stunning debut novel\, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power within a turbulent family\, for status within a nation in a constant state of transformation\, and for the love and respect of a father disappearing into dementia \nJivan Singh\, the bastard scion of the Devraj family returns to his New Delhi childhood home at the age of twenty-three after fifteen years in the United States. His arrival coincides with the unexpected resignation of the founder and aging patriarch of the Company–its simple name belying its vast holdings across industry and entertainment\, and the family’s national renown. On the same day\, Sita\, Devraj’s youngest daughter\, disappears–refusing to marry the man her father wants for her. Now\, Radha and Gargi\, Sita’s older sisters\, are given the Company–and a brutal struggle for power begins. Set against the backdrop of the anti-corruption protests that spread across India in 2011 and 2012\, We That Are Young is brilliant in its fierce\, incandescent storytelling and the energy of its prose. It tells a deeply insightful tale of India today\, the pace of life in one of the world’s fastest growing economies\, the clash of youth and age\, and the ever-present specter of death. But more than that\, it is a novel about the human heart–and its inevitable breaking point. \nPRETI TANEJA was born in the England to Indian parents and spent most of her childhood holidays in New Delhi. She has worked as a human rights reporter and filmmaker in Iraq\, Jordan\, Rwanda\, and Kosovo\, and her work has been published in The Guardian and openDemocracy. A fellow at Warwick University\, Preti’s 2014 novella\, Kumkum Malhotra\, won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize. She is also the editor of Visual Verse and was selected as an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker for 2014. We That Are Young has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists \nRead the UK Guardian Article Here !
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preti-taneja-reading-from-her-new-novel-we-that-are-young/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Sara Nicholson
DESCRIPTION:Sara Nicholson \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-sara-nicholson/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 26\, 2018 –  \n2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Jordan reads poems from Riding Waves
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Solano \nKathryn Jordan reads select poems from her new collection\, Riding Waves. \nKathryn Jordan’s Riding Waves is not for the faint of spirit. Do not pick it up unless you are prepared to be jolted by hurts\, inspired by survival\, and charmed by metaphors that can only come from a wounded place within us.\nJohn Warley\, author of A Southern Girl \nKathryn Jordan’s beautiful book reverberates with the beauty and pain of a lost era. Scenes from a fragmented military childhood at the height of the Vietnam War are interspersed with meditations on Nature\, family\, love\, loss\, travel and music. It’s a rich tapestry of memory and spiritual inquiry. Jordan finds her way through a tumultuous time by paying rapt attention to the sensory details and small epiphanies that accompanied her on her journey. \nAlison Luterman\, author of Desire Zoo \nA strong book\, crafted and elegant\, utterly unsparing of hard truths and lit ablaze by the flamed-open heart of saying. These are poems that pull us close with their unflinching presence; roped in\, caught up by Kathe Jordan’s work\, we turn pages that spill a tough and aching history\, broken\, bled through\, and fraught with beauty. \nJudyth Hill\, editor\, poet\, author of Dazzle Wobble \nAbout the Author \n\nAt UC Berkeley\, Kathryn won the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize for Short Story and has placed narrative non-fiction with The Sun Magazine. She is the winner of the 2016 San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference Prize for Poetry. Her work was selected for Bay Area Generations and chosen to represent B.A.G. at Oakland Beast Crawl in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Roar Magazine and in the anthology\, Solamente en San Miguel. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-jordan-reads-poems-from-riding-waves/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dubravka Ugresic
DESCRIPTION:Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels\, Fox and American Fictionary. \n\nPraise for Fox \n\n“Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent\, in part because within her quirky\, aggressively sweet plot she achieves moments of profundity and evokes the stoicism innate in such moments.”—Mary Gaitskill \n\n“Never has a writer been more aware of how one narrative depends on another.”—Joanna Walsh \n\n“Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile\, and the storyteller of many shattered lives.”—Charles Simic \n\nAbout Fox \n\nFox is the story of literary footnotes and “minor” characters―unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic’s characteristic wit\, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan\, through Balkan minefields and American road trips\, and from the 1920s to the present\, as it explores the power of storytelling and literary invention\, betrayal\, and the randomness of human lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dubravka-ugresic/
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:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eileen Truax in conversation with Lauren Markham (moderated by Ian Gordon)
DESCRIPTION:  \n \ndiscussing the subject of \nWe Build the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico\, Central America and Beyond \nby  Eileen Truax \nfrom Verso Books \nand \n  \nThe Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life \n  \nby Lauren Markham \npublished by Crown \nWe Built the Wall is an immersive\, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes\, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family\, and Delmy Calderón\, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil\, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico\, and Rocío Hernández\, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity. \nOriginally from Mexico\, Eileen Truax is a journalist and immigrant currently living in Los Angeles. She is the author of Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight For Their American Dream. \nLauren Markham is a writer and reporter based in Northern California. She writes fiction\, essays and journalism – mostly about migration\, youth\, the environment\, and the state of California.  She is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life published in September 2017 by Crown. The Far Away Brothers is the winner of the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize\, a California Book Award Silver Prize\, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection\, a New York Times Book Critics’ Top Book of 2017\, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the L.A. Times Book Award and longlisted for a Pen America Literary Award in Biography. Her essays\, fiction and journalism have appeared in outlets such as VQR (where I am a Contributing Editor)\, Harper’s\, The New Yorker.com\, The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Guernica\, VICE\, Mother Jones\, Orion\, California Sunday\, Narrative Magazine\, Pacific Standard\, and on This American Life. \nIan Gordon is an investigative journalist the managing editor at Mother Jones Magazine. \ncritical praise for We Build the Wall: \n\n“Eileen Truax has given us an evocative and human portrait of the so-called immigration crisis\, bringing together gripping firsthand narratives of refugees with an incisive analysis of America’s broken asylum policy. With attention to lives that have been put in jeopardy by Mexican and American governments alike\, We Built the Wallis the book we need in this time of rising nationalisms—a must-read clarion call for empathy across borders in the age of Trump.” \n– Ali Noorani\, Executive Director\, National Immigration Forum\, and the author of There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration \n\n\n\n“We Built the Wall combines the flair of a novel and the depth of the best investigative journalism with a passionate commitment to human rights to take readers into the heart of today’s immigration crisis. Truax highlights the voices of people who are fighting for justice on both sides of the border to shed light on the systems that have led to a deeply transnational human rights crisis. Immigration\, she makes clear\, is the result\, not the cause\, of this crisis.” \n– Aviva Chomsky\, author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal and “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration \n\n\n“A lucid account of US asylum policy\, both during the Cold War\, when it was granted overwhelmingly to people leaving the Soviet Union\, Cuba and Vietnam\, but withheld from people brutalized by Washington’s allies—in Guatemala\, El Salvador\, Haiti—and now in the age of deportation\, when Mexicans and Central Americans heading north\, including children in fear for their lives\, find it almost impossible to obtain refugee status.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, Contributing Editor at The London Review of Books and author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants out of the Rich World
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-truax-in-conversation-with-lauren-markham-moderated-by-ian-gordon/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clara Bingham in conversation with Charles Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 24\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFifty years later\, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge point in history. \nClara Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution is a riveting story of America in the turbulent year when the 60s ended\, and the nation teetered on the edge of revolution. As the 1960s drew to a close\, the United States was coming apart at the seams. The death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand\, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society — from work\, family\, and capitalism to sex\, science\, and gender relations. Witness to the Revolution\, Clara Bingham’s unique oral history of that tumultuous time\, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home\, as it fought a long\, futile war abroad. \nCharles Kaiser’s 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan)\, this is compulsively readable popular history. Now\, fifty years later\, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg\, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible\, wonderful\, and pivotal year in the story of America. \nFree to attend. \n    \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nCharles Kaiser\, the author of 1968 in America\, has been a reporter at The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Newsweek. He has also written for Vanity Fair\, New York\, and The Washington Post. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton\, and is the author of The Gay Metropolis\, a history of gay life in New York City since 1940. \nClara Bingham is the author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (with Laura Leedy Gansler) and Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. She is a former NewsweekWhite House correspondent\, and her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Vogue\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Talk\, The Washington Monthly\, Ms.\, and other publications. Bingham produced the 2011 documentary The Last Mountain. She lives in Manhattan and Brooklyn with her husband\, three children\, and three stepchildren.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clara-bingham-in-conversation-with-charles-kaiser/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford\, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie Peterson! Please join us. \n  \nThe poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention\, for revelation\, and\, perhaps above all\, for companionship. The extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form\, bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry. Beginning in the cramped space of selfhood—in the bedroom\, cluttered with doubts\, and in the throes of marital loss—these poems edge toward the clarity of “what I can know and admit to knowing.” In song and in silence\, Ford inhabits the rooms of anguish and redemption with scouring exactness. This is poetry that “can break open\, // it can break your life\, it will break you // until you remain.” If You Have to Go is Ford’s most luminous and moving collection. \n  \n\n  \n“In every poem in If You Have to Go\, Katie Ford risks seeing—she must\, because from her first book onward\, but never more so than here\, her poems have been poems that have seen. Here\, Ford has seen the end of a marriage\, and in her great refusal to make the world weep as she weeps\, she finds herself at times almost unbearably at odds with a world she sees unchanged by her suffering\, and so she sees the world—‘everyone thrashes / against a wall / in this life.’ Ford becomes stronger with each book\, and is among the best poets of our generation.” – Shane McCrae \n  \n“With the publication of her first book\, Katie Ford established herself as a distinct and powerful voice in American poetry\, and in subsequent books her aesthetic has evolved of necessity to meet the demands of new urgencies. Here\, she goes to the bottom of loss to explore the relationship between uncertainty\, desire\, and belief as well as the relationship between faith in the human and faith in a God. At times it seems that only the careful speaking of the heart-made thought stands between this speaker and an abyss. This is a complex\, riveting\, and heartbreaking book.” – Jane Mead \n  \n\n  \nKatie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics\, Colosseum\, and Deposition. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, she teaches at the University of California\, Riverside. Katie’s author photo was taken by Helge Brekke. \n  \n  \nKatie Peterson is the author of four books of poetry\, This One Tree\,Permission\, and The Accounts. Her fourth collection\, A Piece of Good News\, will be published by FSG in February 2019. The winner of the Rilke Prize in Poetry from the University of North Texas\, she is Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, Davis. Katie’s author photo was taken by Jackson Frishman. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-ford-with-katie-peterson-if-you-have-to-go/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
DESCRIPTION:Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. His epic six-part\, 3\,600-page autobiographical novel\, My Struggle\, is a New York Times Best Seller and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. The final volume\, Book Six\, will be published in the United States in September 2018. \n  \nKARL OVE KNAUSGAARD\nIn Conversation with Lydia Kiesling\nMonday\, September 24\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karl-ove-knausgaard/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jackson Burgess
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday\, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection (from Write Bloody Publishig)\, Atrophy.  \n\nPraise for Atrophy \n“Jackson Burgess is the most dazzling\, urgently urban and unfailingly inventive young chronicler of lost highways and avenues of broken dreams since the early poems of Denis Johnson and the ballads of Tom Waits.” -David St. John\, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets \n  \n“Atrophy is simply shattering–in its apocalyptic intensity\, its relentless drive\, its urgent music\, its desperate tenderness.” -Cecilia Woloch\, author of Carpathia \n  \n“Atrophy pulses with love\, vodka\, and the despair of things lost and things found…I want to gift Atrophy to every human I’ve ever met.” -Ruth Madievsky\, author of Emergency Brake \n  \nJackson Burgess is the author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing\, 2018)and the chapbook Pocket Full of Glass\, winner of the 2014 Clockwise Competition (Tebot Bach\, 2017). He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Rattle\, Cimarron Review\, Colorado Review\, and elsewhere. He has led workshops at the University of Iowa\, Los Angeles Southwest College\, and the St. Vincent de Paul Cardinal Manning Center on Skid Row. Jackson lives in Los Angeles\, where he works as an editor and educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackson-burgess/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jane Ira Bloom Quartet - Improvising Emily Dickinson
DESCRIPTION:Jazz’s greatest living soprano saxophonist performs with her spectacular quartet including pianist Dawn Clement\, bassist Mark Helias\, and drummer Bobby Previte. Possessing a painterly style and firm command of electronic textures\, Bloom creates music that gives form to mysterious beauty and subconscious emotions. Two performances – 6:00pm & 7:30pm. \nRegularly cited as jazz’s foremost master on her wily instrument\, she’s distinguished herself over the past 35 years as a resourceful bandleader and a melodically expansive composer particularly inspired by painters and poets. She’s also a tenured professor at The New School and a Guggenheim Fellow. \nBloom’s latest album\, 2017’s Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)\, features the same stellar band she brings to SFJAZZ.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-ira-bloom-quartet-improvising-emily-dickinson/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETRY EVENT!
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers tba \nCurated by Aakash Tyagi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katya Apekina\, Bryan Hurt\, and Lisa Locascio
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings from new books by Katya Apekina (The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish)\, Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France)\, and Lisa Locascio (Open Me). Please join us! \n  \nThe Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish\nby Katya Apekina \n  \nIt’s sixteen year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope\, puddle of urine on the floor\, barely alive. Upstairs\, fourteen year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances\, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital\, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father\, Dennis\, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success. The girls\, grieving and homesick\, are at first wary of their father’s affection\, but soon Mae and Edie’s close relationship begins to fall apart–Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne\, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother’s downfall\, while Mae\, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother\, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing and destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain\, and as the history of Dennis and Marianne’s romantic past clicks into focus\, the family fractures further. \n  \nMoving through a selection of first-person accounts and written with a sinister sense of humor\,The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can’t\, and shouldn’t\, have to themselves. In this captivating debut\, Katya Apekina disquietingly crooks the lines between fact and fantasy\, between escape and freedom\, and between love and obsession. \n  \n“The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish is an engrossing debut — Apekina’s brilliant story of a family in crisis is a remarkable feat of empathy and insight\, guided by unpredictable\, propulsive storytelling. I was increasingly and helplessly hooked. I can’t believe this remarkable tour de force is a first novel.”  – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of the New York Times Bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \nKatya Apekina has had stories published in The Iowa Review\, Santa Monica Review\, West Branch\, Joyland\, PANK and elsewhere\, and has appeared on the Notable List of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. She translated poetry and prose for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky\, which was short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. She co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film New Orleans\, Mon Amour\, which premiered at SXSW in 2008. Born in Moscow\, she currently lives in Los Angeles. Poets & Writers recently named Katya a writer to watch and The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish a big fiction debut for the Fall. \n  \n\n  \nEveryone Wants to be Ambassador to France\nby Bryan Hurt \n  \nA seagull\, a goat\, and a teenage boy enter into a bizarre love triangle that leaves one of them dead and the other two changed forever. A grief-stricken astronaut quits NASA to paint pictures of the moon. A lonely scientist creates stars in his basement and becomes enraged when he discovers that one of his stars harbors life. An eighteenth-century British aristocrat adopts two teenage girls and absconds with them to France\, determined to raise one of them to become his perfect wife. By turns humorous and heartbreaking\, this debut collection offers weird and wonderful stories that illuminate the hidden truths of life. \n  \n“Bryan Hurt’s stories are like no one else’s. They are by turns hilarious\, whimsical\, arresting\, and heartbreaking\, but what makes them such a delight is the sly simplicity and off-handed charm of their telling.” – T.C. Boyle \n  \nBryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France\, selected by Alissa Nutting as the winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of Watchlist: 32 Sstories by Persons of Interest and Midwest editor for Joyland Magazine. His short stories and essays have been published in The American Reader\, Guernica\, Kenyon Review Online\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Tin House\, TriQuarterly\, and many others. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named finalist for the Calvino Prize and Horatio Nelson Prize in Fiction. He’s received fellowships from the Sewanee and Tin House Writers’ Conferences. Bryan holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the university of Southern California. He lives in Columbus\, Ohio and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Capital University.  \n  \n\n  \nOpen Me\nby Lisa Locascio \n  \nA political and erotically-charged debut that follows a young American woman’s transformative journey during one pivotal summer abroad hailed by Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth.” \n  \n​Roxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program — a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Søren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Søren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss. But as their relationship deepens\, Søren’s temperament darkens\, and Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a mysterious local outsider whom she learns is a refugee from the Balkan War. \n​ \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, from a magnetic new voice in fiction\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong. \n  \n“Not since Henry James’ Daisy Miller have I been so beguiled by an American abroad. Lisa Locascio’s Roxana Olsen may only be eighteen but she is already a desperate sexual adventurer. Part captivity narrative\, part political awakening\, Open Me will open you\, reminding us that nothing really happens until it happens in the body.” – Darcey Steinke\, author of Suicide Blonde \n  \nLisa Locascio‘s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\, and many other magazines. She is the editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, co-publisher of Joyland and editor of its West section\, as well as of the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7x7LA. She is Executive Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katya-apekina-bryan-hurt-and-lisa-locascio/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Dickson Lam is author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, the Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, the Normal School\, PANK\, the Good Men Project\, the Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Lam is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dickson-lam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BOOK RELEASE: NOMADIC PRESS' FALL 2018 CHAPBOOK COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch seven new chapbooks in our Fall 2018 Chapbook Collection into the universe: TBA! \nReadings by all authors and all books will be available for purchase and signing at the event ($10 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-nomadic-press-fall-2018-chapbook-collection/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THE DAILY
DESCRIPTION:Michael Barbaro\nIn Conversation with Kevin Roose\nCo-presented with The New York Times\nFriday\, September 21\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJoin Michael Barbaro\, host and managing editor of The Daily\, as he speaks to New York Times “The Shift” columnist Kevin Roose\, on the culmination of his 3-part investigation into social media and the Midterm 2018 elections. Twenty minutes a day\, five days a week\, The Times podcast The Daily is hosted by Barbaro in conversation with New York Times journalists exploring a topic of the day. \nAdvance sales are open to City Arts & Lectures members only starting Thursday\, August 2 at 10am. To become a member\, click  here or call 415-563-2463. \nCo-presented with
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-daily/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Valerie Wallace\, Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds
DESCRIPTION:Valerie Wallace discusses her new poetry collection\, House of McQueen with Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds. \n\nPraise for House of McQueen \n\n“How does a writer begin to capture the wild glory and talent of someone like Lee Alexander McQueen\, the high-octane designer of the House of Givenchy and then of his own unmistakable label? One only has to look to Valerie Wallace’s debut collection House of McQueen for an answer. Wallace begins with an in-depth\, intuitive knowledge of the designer’s life gleaned from interviews\, studies of his ground-breaking collections\, visits to exhibitions of his visionary work\, and by collecting fragments of words spoken by the man himself as well as some of the famous people he dressed. But it is more than that. The mastery of Wallace’s own poetic art is what rips into the heart of a man who defied all odds by moving from a working class boyhood to the center of 21st century haute couture and the brutality of that game. Wallace captures the genius of McQueen not to memorialize his tragically short life (although she does) or to write a biography or history of the designer\, but rather to transform art—his art into a maelstrom of her own poetic brilliance. In the process\, we find a book that captures the flair of Valerie herself—as poet\, soothsayer\, designer\, and seeker of the strange and wonderful manifestations of what art can be. This is a book inspired by McQueen\, but one that rises into its own thing of beauty and myth.”~ Andrea Witzke Slot\, author of TO FIND A NEW BEAUTY \n  \n“I cut / a path to / the sacred” and “I am | you are / the voyeur | the mirror.” So declares Alexander McQueen amid these poems of a richly sounded sensorium: of the texture of cloth\, the silhouette of a waist\, the smell of orange peels\, the hook of a fang. If McQueen’s work resulted from the designer thinking with his bare hands\, Valerie Wallace’s poems in this arresting collection result from the poet speaking with all five of her senses fully engaged. House of McQueen is a remarkable book.”~ Peter O’Leary\, author of THICK AND DAZZLING DARKNESS\, THE SAMPO\, and others \n\nAbout House of McQueen \n\nFrom the publisher: Selected by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize\, Valerie Wallace’s HOUSE OF MCQUEEN is a glittering debut by an assured new voice. Inhabiting the life and work of Alexander McQueen\, Wallace builds a fantastical world using both original language and excerpts drawn from interviews\, supermodels\, Shakespeare\, and more. At turns fierce and vulnerable\, here is a collection that leaps from runway to fairytale to  street with wild\, brilliant grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valerie-wallace-daniel-handler-and-kevin-simmonds/
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:The story of the Spear of Longinus: Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel "The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker"
DESCRIPTION:Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-story-of-the-spear-of-longinus-terry-tarnoff-discusses-his-novel-the-thousand-year-journey-of-tobias-parker/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Denise Clifton
DESCRIPTION:Denise Clifton discusses her new book\, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today. \n\nAbout Tables from the Rubble \n\nTABLES FROM THE RUBBLE transports readers to San Francisco in the years just after the Great Earthquake of 1906. Amid the ruins\, restaurants rose to feed the hungry and lead the recovery. Today\, a handful of the restaurants that opened in those boom years remain – some still serving customers in the same spaces where they first opened\, offering food and drinks with a direct link to a century-old past. TABLES FROM THE RUBBLE tells the stories of restaurants like Swan Oyster Depot\, Liguria Bakery\, Comstock Saloon\, the Palace Hotel\, the House of Shields\, John’s Grill and Schroeder’s. And it follows the journey of Chinatown’s Sam Wo\, which was saved by the hard work of one family and an entire community committed to the historic restaurant’s legacy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-clifton/
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:Readings by R. O. Kwon\, Anisse Gross\, Rachel Khong\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Caille Millner\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a very special evening of readings with one of San Francisco’s longest-running writing groups! It all started in 2003\, when some friends in college started a group called Chapter Room. It’s gone through a lot of iterations since then\, and names (Kick-It Boys\, Pre-Party Forever); it’s now bicoastal and nameless\, with one branch in San Francisco and one in New York. Please come join us for a celebratory group reading\, and for revelry afterward! \n  \nReadings by (clockwise\, from top left): Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, Colin Winnette\, Anisse Gross\, Caille Millner\, Rachel Khong\, and R. O. Kwon! \n  \n\n  \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\, with her family. \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She received a 2018 Whiting Award\, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, Esmé lives in San Francisco. \n  \nColin Winnette is the author of several books\, including Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio) and The Job of the Wasp (Soft Skull Press). He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nAnisse Gross is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. \n  \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, the Cimarron Review\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review Daily\, Longreads\, and many other publications. She is also a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. \n  \nRachel Khong is a writer living in the Mission. She’s the author of the novel Goodbye\, Vitamin\, which was released by Henry Holt in 2017\, and recently in paperback by Picador. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland\, Tin House\, and The Paris Review. She is the founder of The Ruby\, also located in the Mission\, a shared work and gathering space for women of all definitions. \n  \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n  \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-the-incendiaries/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading by Bay Area poets MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons. We’ll be helping to debut the first full-length book\, Her Mouth As Souvenir\, by SF State Creative Writing faculty member Gibbons. This event\, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nOakland based Latinx writer MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal (both from Nomadic Press.) She is a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself Among the Ruins was selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. She is a co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, a fellow with CantoMundo\, and guest curator of the reading series at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the Fall of 2018. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press\, as well as two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Vermont Studio Center\, Academy of American Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in San Francisco\, where she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIDEO: MK Chavez at Radar Reading Series\, San Francisco Public Library\nVIDEO: Heather June Gibbons at Quiet Lightning/Poetry in Parks \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mk-chavez-and-heather-june-gibbons-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center 2018 Anthology Launch Thursday\, September 20\, 7pm
DESCRIPTION:The annual event to launch the Marin Poetry Center is always popular. Come join us to start the Marin Poetry Center fall season and read and hear selections from this unique anthology. This is an evening of reconnecting with other members\, having a glass of wine\, and celebrating our unique anthology. \nWe will also let you know about exciting new events\, partnerships\, and venues for our Spring Season. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-2018-anthology-launch-thursday-september-20-7pm/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime IN EXTREMIS
DESCRIPTION:Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Philip Harris (The Flowers In My Mothers’ Name)\, Kate Folk\, and Steven Black.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-in-extremis/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander in conversation with Jonathan Santlofer (moderated by Susan Steinberg)
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books: \nBe With – by Forrest Gander – from New Directions \nWidows Notebook – by Jonathan Santlofer – from Penguin Books \nabout Be With: \nDrawing from his experience as a translator\, Forrest Gander includes in the first\, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section—a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s—rise from the page like hymns\, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets\, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and\, as one critic noted\, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.” \nabout Widows Notebook: \nOn a summer day in New York Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife\, Joy\, gasping for breath on their living room couch. After a frenzied 911 call\, an ambulance race across Manhattan\, and hours pacing in a hospital waiting room\, a doctor finally delivers the fateful news. Consumed by grief\, Jonathan desperately tries to pursue life as he always had–writing\, social engagements\, and working on his art–but finds it nearly impossible to admit his deep feelings of loss to anyone\, not even his to beloved daughter\, Doria\, or to himself. \nAs Jonathan grieves and heals\, he tries to unravel what happened to Joy\, a journey that will take him nearly two years. \nabout the authors: \n\nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \n\nJonathan Santlofer is a writer and artist. His debut novel\, The Death Artist\, was an international bestseller\, translated into seventeen languages\, and is currently in development for screen adaptation. His fourth novel\, Anatomy of Fear\, won the Nero Award for best novel of 2009. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. He is also the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America\, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City. \nSusan Steinberg is the author of the short story collections\, Hydroplane and The End of Free Love\, and her third collection\, Spectacle\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Conjunctions\, American Short Fiction\, and elsewhere\, and she was the recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-in-conversation-with-jonathan-santlofer-moderated-by-susan-steinberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Roberto Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Roberto Harrison \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-roberto-harrison/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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