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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash tribute to "Heaven Was Detroit" w/ M.L. Liebler + Greil Marcus
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts a special installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 27th at 3pm. Editor M.L. Liebler and contributor Greil Marcus will be here to discuss Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nHeaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays\, and a few classics\, by widely known and respected music writers\, critics\, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in the Detroit music scene\, from rock to jazz and everything in between. With a foreword by the acclaimed rock writer Dave Marsh and iconic photos by Leni Sinclair\, the book features such well-known writers as Greil Marcus\, Jaan Uhelszki\, Al Young\, Susan Whitall\, Gary Graff\, John Sinclair\, and many others.\nDivided into nine sections\, the book moves chronologically through the early days of jazz in Detroit\, to the rock ‘n’ roll of the 1960s\, and up to today’s electronica scene\, with so many groundbreaking moments in between. This collection of cohesive essays includes Motown’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement through its side label\, Black Forum Records; Lester Bangs’s exemplary piece on Alice Cooper; the story behind the emergence of rap legend Eminem; and Craig Maki’s enlightening history on “hillbilly rock” – just to name a few. With a rich musical tradition to rival Nashville\, Detroit serves as the inspiration\, backdrop\, and playground for some of the most influential music artists of the past century.\nHeaven Was Detroit captures the essence of the Detroit music scene: the grit\, the spark\, the desire to tell a story set to the rhythm of the city. Fans of any music genre will find something that speaks to them in the pages of this collection. \nM. L. Liebler is an award-winning poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. He is the author of several books of poetry\, including I Want to Be Once\, and editor of the anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. He is also co-editor of Bob Seger’s House and Other Stories. Liebler has taught at Wayne State University since 1980. \nGreil Marcus’s books include Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music\, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century\, and The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He teaches at Berkeley and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-tribute-to-heaven-was-detroit-w-m-l-liebler-greil-marcus/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Planned Parenthood Literary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, August 27th\, from 4:00–6:00 for our Read & Rights Literary Fundraiser\, benefiting Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. This special event at Bookshop Santa Cruz will feature a silent auction\, a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale performed by Jewel Theatre Company\, a vintage feminist literature collection\, and activity centers to write postcards with Santa Cruz Indivisible\, make summertime “pussy hats\,” and write a personal thank you to Planned Parenthood. \nTicketed portion: Make a donation (below or at the event) to Planned Parenthood Mar Monte and gain exclusive access to our Literary Refreshment Lounge. Four author-bartenders—Jonathan Franzen\, Laurie R. King\, Karen Joy Fowler\, and Elizabeth McKenzie—will be serving up the beverages! Each ticket can be exchanged at the event for a wristband which will grant you in-and-out access and one drink in the Literary Lounge. Additional beverages may be purchased for $5 each. Light snacks will be provided by Chocolate restaurant. If you would like to secure access for multiple people\, please make a donation for each person at a $15 minimum. \n100% of all donations benefit Planned Parenthood of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. In order to make this event economically accessible to as many people as possible\, tickets are available on a $15–$50 sliding scale. Please note: All are welcome to attend this event—only the Literary Refreshment Lounge requires a ticket. \nVery special thanks to George Ow and Gail Michealis-Ow and their generous donation matching grant. And thank you to our event cosponsors: Good Times and Chocolate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/planned-parenthood-literary-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
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SUMMARY:BAY AREA GENERATIONS #48
DESCRIPTION:Guest Curator: John Rowe\nBay Area Generations Curators: Sandra Wassilie + Amos White \nREADERS \nTBA \nMUSICAL GUEST \nTBA \nGet tickets! \n  \nBAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #48\nMonday\, August 28\, 2017\nat The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\n*Garage and on street parking\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* Walkable from 19th st. BART\n6:30 p.m. –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 p.m.  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 p.m.  – Show Starts\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook\nRSVP Today!\nCall for Submissions to Show #48   BAG #48 Show on FaceBook \nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series features notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians in a paired reading show\, monthly.\nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati\nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-48/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T200000
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SUMMARY:The Racket #10: BIRTH
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly reading series returns with a bevy of writers talking about BIRTH. \nIs it pregnancy? Metamorphosis? A staggering change in life? Well\, we’ll find out. \nOur readers: KAR A. Johnson\, Miah Jeffra\, Mike Hsu\, Jennifer Lewis and Shideh Etaat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-10-birth/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
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SUMMARY:Georgette Howington
DESCRIPTION:Georgette Howington is a closet poet and short story writer who came out three years ago. Her poems are published in Iodine\, Sleet and Poeming Pigeons\, among others. Several poems won Honorable Mentions at the North American Women’s Music Festival and Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest in 2016. As a naturalist and horticulturist\, her niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters. She is a County Coordinator and Assistant State Program Director for the California Bluebird Recovery Program and an activist in the conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years. Georgette is also a published garden and environmental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/georgette-howington/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
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SUMMARY:Robert Currier - Marin Shakespeare Company
DESCRIPTION:“A Labour of Love” \nJoin Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Robert Currier and Marin Shakespeare actors as they discuss the complex wordplay and sly wit of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost\, playing through September 24 at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows Amphitheater. \nClick here to purchase tickets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-currier-marin-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T115740
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone\, host of the WordParty poetry and jazz series and author of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food and love” will be reading from new work along with poet James Cagney\, reading from his latest. Hosted by Jack Hirschman and the North Beach Library. \nvisit: www.jenniferbarone.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-and-james-cagney/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T200000
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SUMMARY:The Singing Ship Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Noe Valley Author Rebecca Winterer discusses her debut novel\, The Singing Ship\, in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell Tuesday\, August 29\, 7 p.m. at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Pursell is the organizer of the North Bay reading series Why There Are Words. The Singing Ship\, “a novel about traversing boundaries\,” is set in Winterer’s native Australia. It won the Del Sol Press First Novel Prize. It is the story of two sisters who fight an unorthodox battle for truth after an attack in the Australian Outback. Free admission\, champagne\, and cake. An author signing follows the discussion. www.facebook.com/events/124981894791558
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-singing-ship-book-launch/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T213000
DTSTAMP:20260411T115740
CREATED:20170621T130322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130322Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Magariel
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Magariel discusses his new book\, One of the Boys. \n\nPraise for One of the Boys \n“Brilliant\, urgent\, darkly funny\, heartbreaking—a tour de force with startling new things to say about class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and family.  Daniel Magariel is an exciting new presence in American writing.” (George Saunders\, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo) \n“Precise and coiled and urgent. Magariel is able–as few writers can–to say so much in so little. A propulsive and intense debut.” (Hanya Yanagihara\, author of A Little Life) \n“With a charismatic\, macho\, drug-addicted dad\, the young narrator pays an awful price to be One of the Boys in the riveting debut novel by Daniel Magariel. Move over Great Santini\, this patriarch is rendered with such artful love\, you’ll be haunted by his presence long after you close this graceful and heartbreaking book.” (Mary Karr\, author of Lit and The Liar’s Club) \n\nAbout One of the Boys \nThe three of them—a twelve-year-old boy\, his older brother\, their father—have won the war: the father’s term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque\, eager to begin again\, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school\, join basketball teams\, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home\, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps—the dead-eyed absentmindedness\, the late night noises\, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters—become worrisome\, and the boys find themselves watching their father change\, grow erratic\, then dangerous. \n\nSet in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world\, One of the Boys conveys with propulsive prose and extraordinary compassion a young boy’s struggle to hold onto the pieces of his shattered family. Tender\, moving and beautiful\, Daniel Magariel’s masterful debut is a story of resilience and survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted\, but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the speed of We the Animals\, One of the Boys is among the most remarkable debut novels you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-magariel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170830T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T200000
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CREATED:20170822T071324Z
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SUMMARY:An Expensive Hoax: Environmental Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana\, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!” —Donald J. Trump\, Jan. 29\, 2014  \nAnd with that tweet\, the would-be President of the United States declared war on the environment. Donald Trump has also opined that climate change was invented by the Chinese to hurt U.S. manufacturing\, tweeted that wind power is dangerous for our health\, deregulated mining waste disposal\, forced the EPA to delete mentions of global warming on its website\, and taken aim at national monuments\, with an eye toward stripping them of their protected status. \nAnd that’s only in the first six months of his presidency. Where will this lead? What can writers and activists do to stem the tide of anti-environmental actions?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-expensive-hoax-environmental-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Tallent discusses his new novel\, My Absolute Darling. \n\nPraise for My Absolute Darling \n“There are books we like well enough to recommend\, but there are a very few— To Kill a Mockingbird\, Catch-22\, The Things They Carried— that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling\, by Gabriel Tallent. Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston is a brilliantly rendered creation\, and her father is the most terrifyingly believable human monster to inhabit the pages of a novel since Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter. This book is ugly\, beautiful\, horrifying\, and uplifting.” —Stephen King \n“I read My Absolute Darling in one sitting\, well past midnight\, despite an early-morning flight: the book is that impossible to put down. Gabriel Tallent depicts Turtle’s battle for her independence–body\, mind\, and soul–with brutal honesty and overwhelming tenderness. The result is a heartrending debut that will shock\, then shake\, then inspire you.” —Celeste Ng\, New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“It is unreal how vivid and compelling this book is. Turtle Alveston is one of the most vibrant characters I’ve come across in a long time\, and every scene in this astonishing novel packs so much tension\, so much insight\, such beautiful prose and such masterful handling of detail\, I simply could not stop reading.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment \n\nAbout My Absolute Darling \nTurtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. \nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well. \nShot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T183000
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CREATED:20170824T051754Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Annual Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:featuring: Cecil Giscombe \nRobert Hass \nLyn Hejinian \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien \nJohn Shoptaw \nand giovani singleton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-annual-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim + Nellie Wong
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim is the SFJAZZ poet laureate. She has performed in poetry and music collaborations with the late jazz legends Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Fred Ho\, and with Bay Area musicians John Santos\, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. She has also been featured at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia and Italy. Her award-winning play Paper Angels aired on PBS’ American Playhouse in 1985 and was reprised in 2010 at San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square\, receiving the San Francisco Fringe Festival’s Best Site-Specific Award. Lim’s performance piece with drummer Marshall Trammell\, Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\, dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, premiered at Safe House this last April to sold-out houses and will be performed at next year’s SF Jazz Poetry Festival at the SFJazz Center. Lim is author of four poetry collections: Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels and KRA!\, and she is co-author of the seminal Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. \nNellie Wong is the author of four books of poetry: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Most recently she edited Talking Back: Voices of Color (Red Letter Press\, 2015)\, a collection of essays and interviews advancing the views of a multiracial\, intergenerational mix of 30 black\, Latina/o\, Indigenous\, Asian Pacific American\, Palestinian and LGBTQ community organizers. The first-born daughter of Chinese immigrants in Oakland\, Wong is active with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party and has worked as a secretary and administrative assistant and affirmative action analyst. She was a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council for University Professional and Technical Employees. Wong has taught at Mills College and University of Minnesota. Wong has traveled with Alice Walker\, Tillie Olsen\, Paule Marshall and other delegates on the first U.S. Women Writers Tour to China\, and has read throughout the U.S. and in Australia and Cuba. Her work has been translated into Spanish\, Chinese\, French and Italian. She’s featured with Mitsuye Yamada in the documentary film\, Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets\, by Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-nellie-wong/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T213000
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SUMMARY:Michael Mazza
DESCRIPTION:Michael Mazza discusses his new novel\, That Crazy Perfect Someday. \nThe year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world’s wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky\, cars drive themselves\, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long\, UCSD marine biology grad\, champion surfer\, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave\, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame\, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike\, she’s intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father\, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower\, learns that his beloved supercarrier\, the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is to be sunk\, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri’s personal life comes undone via social media\, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen\, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic\, brutal\, and at times funny\, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly\, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney\, Key West\, and Manila\, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliché to explore the depths of sorrow and hope\, yearning and family bonds\, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mazza/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170901T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170901T160000
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CREATED:20170817T121121Z
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SUMMARY:Louise Penny: Glass Houses
DESCRIPTION:When a mysterious figure appears on the village green on a cold November day in Three Pines\, Armand Gamache\, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec\, knows something is seriously wrong. Yet he does nothing. Legally\, what can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. \nFrom the moment its shadow falls over Three Pines\, Gamache suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. When it suddenly vanishes and a body is discovered\, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. \nIn the early days of the investigation into the murder\, and months later\, as the trial for the accused begins in a Montreal courtroom on a steamy day in July\, the Chief Superintendent continues to struggle with actions he’s set in motion\, from which there is no going back. “This case began in a higher court\,” he tells the judge\, “and it’s going to end there.” \nAnd regardless of the trial’s outcome\, he must face his own conscience. \nIn Glass Houses — her latest utterly gripping book — #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others. \nLouise Penny  is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards\, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (six times)\, and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017\, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-penny-glass-houses/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170902T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T180000
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SUMMARY:Ripped from the Headlines! Poets Reading the News at Beast Crawl
DESCRIPTION:With a news cycle like ours\, we need poetry. Come hear poetic reflections on the news from legendary writers Arisa White & Moira Roth\, along with the editors of Poets Reading the News\, Jenna Spagnolo and Elle Aviv Newton\, at Oakland’s Beast Crawl. \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over three hours and thirty-eight local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nPOETS READING THE NEWS is the world’s only newspaper written entirely by poets. We publish work from around the world online atwww.poetsreadingthenews.com and host an events series in Oakland\, California. \nARISA WHITE\, author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, Black Pearl\, and Hurrah’s Nest\, is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She can be found online at arisawhite.com. \nMOIRA ROTH is an art historian\, writer\, and playwright. She has published extensively including Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism\, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. She has a “News from the cafe” series on Poets Reading the News.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ripped-from-the-headlines-poets-reading-the-news-at-beast-crawl/
LOCATION:Itani Ramen\, 1736 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Poets Reading the News":MAILTO:editors@poetsreadingthenews.com
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017
DESCRIPTION:BEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nEach leg of The Beast lasts one hour\, and offers a dozen different readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. \n\nCrawl maps\, curators\, readers\, and venues are all searchable on our website: beastcrawl.weebly.com. \nPrinted crawl maps will be available on the day of the festival at all the Leg 1 events\, and at the Beast Crawl Information Table in front of The Legionnaire Saloon. \nEveryone is invited to the Leg 4 After Parties (marked with stars on the crawl map) starting at 9pm at The Legionnaire Saloon (drinks\, dancing\, 21+) and Telegraph Beer Garden (food\, drinks\, all ages). \nEvery city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \nBeast Crawl Literary Festival\nSaturday\, September 2\, 2017\n5pm – 9pm readings\n9:30pm – 2am afterparty\nUptown Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017/
LOCATION:Uptown Oakland\, Oakland
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170903T020000
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, September 2\, 2017\, Uptown Oakland’s Beast Crawl unleashes its sixth annual free literary festival featuring more than 150 writers in a single night\, spread out over three hours and nearly 40 local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, and storefronts. Previous and current venues include Telegraph Beer Garden\, Awaken Café\, Farley’s East\, Era Art Bar & Lounge\, The Legionnaire Saloon\, and many more. \nEach leg of the Beast lasts one hour\, and offers as many as a dozen readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. Crawl maps listing all the venues\, curators\, legs\, and after-party locations will be available online and at all the Leg 1 events. \nTo curate these literary events for Beast Crawl\, we invite a diverse collection of local reading series producers and literary rock stars including Tourettes Without Regrets\, Saturday Night Special\, The Pedestrian Press\, Kundiman\, Be About It\, Lip Service West\, Pochino Press\, Queer Spectrum Media\, Oakland Crossroads\, Mixer 2.0\, and many more. \nThe name “Beast Crawl” derives from the Pig Latin for Beast\, which is East Bay\, symbolized by the classic Oakland image of the giant cranes that stalk our shore. We think every city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \n\n1st leg: 5pm to 6pm\n2nd leg: 6:30pm to 7:30pm\n3rd leg: 8pm to 9pm\n4th leg: 9pm to 2am (After Party)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-literary-festival-2/
LOCATION:Oakland\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T193000
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CREATED:20170718T040048Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Presents: Saturday Night Special
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is an open mic literary reading series regularly held at Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley on the last Saturday of every month\, with a huge following and a reputation for being diverse\, loud\, gritty\, sexy\, inclusive\, and loaded with local talent. \nFor Beast Crawl 2017 we’re bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival at the Telegraph Beer Garden: \nPeter Thomas\, Hollie Hardy\, Kwesi Wilkerson\, G Macias Gusman\, Lisa Martinovic\, and musical guest Dillie Dauley \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nSaturday\, Sept. 2\, 2017\nLEG 2 of the Beast (6:30pm – 7:30pm)\nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph Ave (between 24th & 25th) \nLike our FB page to find more details about upcoming Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic events and photos from past events! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nFind out more about Beast Crawl Lit Fest at beastcrawl.weebly.com \nBIOS: \nPETER THOMAS BULLEN is confused about bios. Do you discuss pivotal moments in your life\, assuming there were pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your heartbreaking lack of pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your phobias\, your first girlfriend Phoebe\, or something else beginning with p\, like your own name? Or do you list literary credits? If you list literary credits\, then mine come down to sPARKLE & bLINK\, Eleven Eleven\, LA Review of Books\, Red Light Lit\, Sweet Wolverine\, and Oakland Review. Plus I have a chapbook out from Nomadic Press titled Wallflower\, which I am shy and excited about. \nHOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute and Berkeley City College\, hosts Saturday Night Special\, An East Bay Open Mic\, and is a core producer of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. Her website is: www.holliehardy.com \nTERRON “KWESI” WILKERSON started writing poetry during his time abroad in Ghana\, West Africa. It began as a personal keepsake and evolved into his first book\, Pieces of My Soul\, Vol. 1. Kwesi now performs at venues throughout the Bay Area\, most recently during an event at Twitter Headquarters. Stay connected by following @KwesiDreams on social media. And find out more at KwesiDreams.com! \nG. MACIAS GUSMAN lives in Oakland California writing prose poems to the factories\, mountains\, and ditches that enslave many a good women/ men and the bars they escape too. He’s had work published in a few tight rags and has performed around the Bay Area. G. Macias is still discovering himself and his voice. \nLISA MARTINOVIC has performed on stages from LitQuake to Lollapalooza. Her work appears in publications as diverse as the San Francisco Chronicle and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Lisa feeds her beast by writing: slam poetry\, flash fiction\, gritty memoir\, and essays about neuroplasticity and addiction. Yeah\, her beast is voracious. \nMusical Guest: \nDILLIE DAULEY has been playing Folk Punk Americana on ukulele and viola for twelve years. She toured the country with her former band Ghost Town Gospel\, and is currently performing with Vagabondage. She is constantly working on writing new music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-presents-saturday-night-special/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck (and KML!) present: A Midsummer Night's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Fairyland\, as we team up with the superstars at Killing My Lobster to bring you a Midsummer Night’s (Wet) Dream. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, seats usually sell out fast.Tickets on sale now. \nFeatured writers: Amanda Rosenberg\, Carla Lee\, Ken Grobe\, Rinee Shah\, Sam Bertken\, Ty & Gina Bardi \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-and-kml-present-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170904T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170904T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T115740
CREATED:20170324T014120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170901T054537Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-5/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170905T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T193000
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CREATED:20170622T062055Z
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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:The Cubans in Achy Obejas’s new story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they fled\, the island they’ve created\, the island they were taken to or forced from\, the island they long for\, the island they return to\, and the island that can never be home again. With language that is both generous and sensual\, Obejas writes about lives beset by events beyond individual control\, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.\nACHY OBEJAS is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir\, and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many others. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T210000
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nat Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House \n2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel \nEvent #6 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nOur last bookish beer-bash of the season! Have you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Beer Thirty. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 90 seconds\, and we’ll have a timer. Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Beer Thirty will generously offer 20% off all purchases (including retail) to attendees on the date of this event. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book to participate in this event.*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-2/
LOCATION:Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House\, 2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T213000
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder w/ Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Matthew Zapruder \n“Zapruder’s poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it.”—The Boston Review \n\n“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.”—The New York Times \n\n“With dynamic\, logically complex sentences\, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary.”—BOMB \n\nAbout Why Poetry \nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \n  \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry–and poetry alone–can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \n  \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, -possess the origin of all poems\, – without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \n  \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-w-natalie-baszile/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T213000
DTSTAMP:20260411T115740
CREATED:20170822T071454Z
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SUMMARY:LUNADA Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the book release celebration of Unaccompanied by Salvadorean poet Javier Zamora\, and performance by Sophia Mabelitini\, with readings by Leticia Hernandez\, Javier Huerta\, Joseph Rios\, Solmaz Sharif\, Charif Shanahan\, and Monica Sok. \nLunada’s OPEN MIC invites poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates and first-timers to shine under the lunar spotlight\, under the backdrop of Galería’s current exhibition Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us. Sign up at entrance / First 5 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. \nHosted by Sandra Garcia Rivera\n \nDOORS OPEN AT 7PM.\n$5.00 Admission:\n \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his first poetry collection Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press September 2017. \nSophia Mabelitini is a queer androgynous photographer\, artist and musician\, born and raised in San Francisco\, CA.  At the age of 14\, Sophia was one of the original cast members of the San Francisco Paul Green School of Rock\, the program that inspired the movie School of Rock with Jack Black. Sophia has toured across the nation as a drummer\, vocalist and keyboard player and has made appearances in Singapore and Thailand. After completing their degree in Fine Art: Photography in Brooklyn\, New York\, Sophia’s love of travel brought them to teaching young students in Thailand on how to utilize technology with the arts. While Sophia is multifaceted in the arts\, music and holistic realms\, their true passion lies with the continual avenues of self-expression. Sophia will be relocating to the Portland Oregon area next month with their partner Marie Shier and dog\, Charlie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-2/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Series Kick-off
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Geoffrey G. O’Brien\, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants: \nAssociate Director Adam A. Hillier (Undergraduate Admissions)\, Khalid Kadir (International and Area Studies)\, Marco Lindsey (Haas School of Business)\, Kathy Mendonca(Human Resources)\, Claudia Polsky (Law)\, Sidalia Reel(Staff Diversity Initiative)\, Elizabeth Wilcox (Human Resources)\, and Tarek Zohdi (Mechanical Engineering).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/series-kick-off/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T200000
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SUMMARY:Nancy Pearl
DESCRIPTION:George and Lizzie have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. George grew up in a warm and loving family—his father an orthodontist\, his mother a stay-at-home mom—while Lizzie grew up as the only child of two famous psychologists\, who viewed her more as an in-house experiment than a child to love. \nOver the course of their marriage\, nothing has changed—George is happy; Lizzie remains…unfulfilled. When a shameful secret from Lizzie’s past resurfaces\, she’ll need to face her fears in order to accept the true nature of the relationship she and George have built over a decade together. \nWith pitch-perfect prose and compassion and humor to spare\, George and Lizzie is an intimate story of new and past loves\, the scars of childhood\, and an imperfect marriage at its defining moments. \nNancy Pearl is known as “America’s Librarian.” She speaks about the pleasures of reading at library conferences\, to literacy organizations and community groups throughout the world and comments on books regularly on KUOW FM in Seattle\, as well as KWGS in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Public Radio. Born and raised in Detroit\, she received her master’s degree in library science in 1967 from the University of Michigan. She also received an MA in history from Oklahoma State University in 1977. Among her many honors and awards are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. She also hosts a monthly television show\, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. She lives in Seattle with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-pearl/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T210000
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CREATED:20170817T050233Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Stephen King's IT
DESCRIPTION:Lucky you: Stephen King comes one month early\, thanks to 2017’s movie adaptation of the book with the shapeshifting title character that attacks children by appearing as Pennywise the clown. That’s right: It. \nLook forward to all the Stephen King staples you’ve come to expect from your humble Shipwreck crew: small town faux-quaintness\, childhood horrors\, and\, most importantly\, cocaine jokes. \nFeatured writers: July winner Ken Grobe\, Damian Ledbetter\, Lily Miller\, Jamie Real\, India Sabater\, and June winner Molly Sanchez. \n  \nTickets on sale now. $10 advance\, $12 door\, seating usually sells out fast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-stephen-kings-it/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent: My Absolute Darling
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Gabriel Tallent for a book talk and signing of his new book\, My Absolute Darling\, A Novel. A brilliant and immersive\, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl’s heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since th e death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.\n\nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well.\n\nWith remarkably striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. \nGabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his BA from Willamette University\, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. Tallent lives in Salt Lake City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent-my-absolute-darling/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T213000
DTSTAMP:20260411T115740
CREATED:20170621T232410Z
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SUMMARY:Robin Sloan Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Robin Sloan (bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore) celebrates the release of his new novel\, Sourdough. \n\nPraise for Robin Sloan \n“A real tour de force [and] a beautiful fable…The reader is swept along by Sloan’s enthusiasm.” ―George Saunders \n\n“A book about passion–for books\, for history\, for the future…There is nothing about Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore that I didn’t love.” ―Cory Doctorow \n\n“In a time when actual books are filling up tag-sale dollar boxes\, along with VHS tapes and old beepers\, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore reminds us that there is an intimate\, adventurous joy in the palpable papery things called novels\, and in the warm little secret societies we used to call ‘bookstores.’ Robin Sloan’s novel is delightfully funny\, provocative\, deft\, and even thrilling. And for reasons more than just nostalgia\, I could not stop turning these actual pages.” ―John Hodgman \n\nAbout Sourdough \nLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity\, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night\, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then\, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop\, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture\, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive\, they tell her―feed it daily\, play it music\, and learn to bake with it. \n  \nLois is no baker\, but she could use a roommate\, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon\, not only is she eating her own homemade bread\, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market\, and a whole new world opens up. \n  \nWhen Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets\, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then\, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people\, exactly? \n  \nLeavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation\, while taking on even more satisfying challenges\, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robin-sloan-book-launch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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