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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMichelle Ruiz Keil reads from and signs copies of All of Us with Wings\, a YA magical realism novel about love\, found family\, and healing from trauma. An ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. \n   \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being  \n  \nAbout All of Us With Wings: \nSeventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco\, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her\, the man who betrayed her. Then one day\, she meets Pallas\, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household\, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. \nBut on the night of the Vernal Equinox\, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below\, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun\, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life\, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her\, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen\, nor the one she left behind. \n\nAbout the Author:\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx novelist and playwright with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. She teaches writing with a focus on fairytale\, divination\, and archetype and curates All Kinds of Fur: A Fairytale Reading Series and Salon in Portland\, Oregon. She has been a fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Lit Camp and is a member of Las Musas\, a collective of Latinx kidlit authors. Her published short fiction can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue and the forthcoming anthology Color Outside The Lines. You can follow her on Twitter @MichelleRKeil and on Instagram @MichelleRuizKeil. ALL OF US WITH WINGS is her first novel. \n\nPRAISE\nA Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019\nA Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019\nA Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019\nA Book Riot Must-Read Debut Book of 2019 \n“Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function . . . [this is] a book about embracing everything—people\, lifestyles\, beliefs\, experiences—and\, in so doing\, finding your own distinct power.”\n—The New York Times Book Review \n“In her debut novel\, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era.”\n—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music\, rage\, and characters that sing with purpose. Keil is a new voice to keep an eye on.”\n—Zoraida Córdova\, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost   \n“A love letter to live music\, a poem to a city in novel form\, and a poignantly nuanced examination of the ways in which performance impacts life on and off stage. In equal parts realistic detail and surreal vision\, All of Us with Wings bursts off the page and goes with you into real life.”\n—Anna-Marie McLemore\, author of Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca & Roja \n“All of Us with Wings is a decadent slice of post-punk rockstardom that will have you begging to stay at the party till sunrise. This gorgeous debut looks unflinchingly into often unexplored experiences of adolescence—abuse and addiction\, lust and desire\, found families and chosen homes—finding beauty and redemption even in the darkest places.”\n—Tehlor Kay Mejia\, author of We Set the Dark on Fire \n“I’m convinced that Michelle Ruiz Keil has woven a magic spell into these pages. All of Us with Wings is gorgeous\, gritty\, and utterly transfixing.”\n—Sara Holland\, New York Times bestselling author of Everless \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil puts exquisite language and wild imagination to the fierce onslaught of sensation and doubt that is adolescence. This is a story for young adults\, but perhaps it is also a deeply poetic tale of what is lost in the transition to adulthood.”\n—Joanna Rose\, author of Little Miss Strange \n“An irresistible punk rock spirit . . . sets it apart from standard fantasy fare.”\n—Popsugar \n“[An] atmospheric debut . . . Keil plays with prose and imagery\, interweaving the dreamlike language of Francesca Lia Block with a Latin-American sensibility. The frank inclusion of sexual exploration and drug use adds an extra level of maturity to this thoughtful story about trauma and vengeance\, adult decision making\, and recovery.”\n—Publishers Weekly  \n“This intricately constructed urban fantasy is complex and beautiful\, blending folklore\, San Franciscan history\, the music scene\, vampires\, magic\, and the intertwined lives of characters\, including a cat named Peasblossom who sees and understands more than the humans . . . Fantasy fans will find this book appealing\, fun\, and hard to put down.”\n—School Library Journal \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-ruiz-keil-presents-all-of-us-with-wings/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Margaret Gibson & Lisa Rappoport
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Gibson is the poet laureate of Connecticut and has been short-listed for the National Book Award. Her lyrical and meditative poems celebrate the “sometimes painful\, sometimes joyful experience of unfolding Consciousness.” Her books include Signs\, Long Walks in the Afternoon (which was a Lamont Poetry Selection)\, The Vigil\, Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems\, One Body\, Second Nature\, Broken Cup\, and the most recently\, Not Hearing the Wood Thrush. \nGibson’s honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, Connecticut Commission on the Arts grants\, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Teaching Fellowship\, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship\, and residencies at Yaddo. She is the recipient of a Melville Kane Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry\, and two Pushcart Prizes. Gibson has taught and held writer-in-residence positions at many universities and colleges\, including American University\, Elon College\, Trinity College\, and Reed University. She is professor emerita at the University of Connecticut and lives in Connecticut. \nLisa Rappoport is a poet and fine letterpress printer based in the Bay Area. Her witty\, playful\, acerbic poems often explore the complex and conflicting emotions of contemporary life. Her newest book\, Penumbra\, was recently published by Longship Press. Photo credit: Bobbe Besold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-gibson-lisa-rappoport/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops – Litquake 2019\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nprint/ops : a roundtable about technology \nwith Jim Fingal and friends \nWhen developing software systems\, engineers typically seek to automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil — defined as tasks that are manual\, repetitive\, tactical\, devoid of enduring value\, and that scale linearly as a system grows. That works great in the electronic world software systems — but how does this idea apply to the world of small magazines and publishers where we have physical objects to produce and somehow get to people? \nLogic Magazine hosts a round-table of small publishers who get into the nitty-gritty details of the hacks\, kludges\, and workarounds we’ve put into place in our digital systems to enable small groups of people to produce and distribute physical print objects AT SCALE. (Or not so much.)\nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine-print-ops-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
DESCRIPTION:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters\, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley\, and The Aspen Institute co-present an evening with Megan Phelps-Roper for her debut book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. \nAt the age of five\, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka\, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family\, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up\, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters\, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb – which\, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman\, she learned to do with great skill. Soon\, however\, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible\, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics\, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point – and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life. \nA gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love\, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening\, her departure from the church\, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection\, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization. \nYou can watch Megan’s TED talk here. \n——————- \nMegan Phelps-Roper is a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist Church in November 2012 and is now an educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. She lives in South Dakota. \nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-phelps-roper-presents-unfollow-a-memoir-of-loving-and-leaving-the-westboro-baptist-church/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Mesha Maren and M. Randal O'Wain
DESCRIPTION:M. Randal O’Wain and Mesha Maren discuss their new works\, Meander Belt: Family\, Loss and Coming of Age in the Working Class South and Sugar Run. \nAbout Meander Belt \nIn Meander Belt M. Randal O’Wain offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis\, Tennessee\, came to fall in love with language\, reading\, writing\, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labor and what this does to his relationship with his family\, whose livelihood and sensibility are decidedly blue collar. Straining the father-son bond further\, O’Wain leaves home to find a life outside Memphis\, roaming from place to place\, finding odd jobs\, and touring with his band. From memory and observation\, O’Wain assembles a subtle and spare portrait of his roots\, family\, and ultimately discovers that his working-class upbringing is not so antithetical to the man he has become. \nAbout Sugar Run \n“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut\, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \nIn 1989\, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later\, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop\, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains\, she heads south in search of someone she left behind\, as a way of finally making amends. There\, she meets and falls in love with Miranda\, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a fresh start. But what do you do with your past—and with a town and a family that refuses to forget\, or to change? \nSet within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia\, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life\, the use and treachery of makeshift families\, and how\, no matter the distance we think we’ve traveled from the mistakes we’ve made\, too often we find ourselves standing in precisely the place we began. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mesha-maren-and-m-randal-owain/
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:Caleb Woods / Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Caleb Woods for his first book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry. Please join us! \nHarnessing Darkness traces the struggle of living with mental illness. Through sections aptly titled Birth\, Life\, Death\, and Rebirth\, Caleb Woods gives readers the experience of what it’s like to live in the mind of someone who struggles with a roller coaster of emotions on a daily basis. Caleb chooses to open the doors of his mind\, allowing you to see not only the dark\, but the light. Caleb lets each nightmare\, depressed thought\, and abundance of anxieties come to the surface with harrowing and hopeful poems about the struggles of living with mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. Experience loss\, pain\, heartbreak\, and hope with Harnessing Darkness. \n\nCaleb Woods began writing at a young age\, first to cope with bullying at school and later to soothe his depressing thoughts. Growing up in the small town of Pisgah\, Alabama\, he was surrounded by religion and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his faith with his sexual orientation. Caleb was told he would spend an eternity in hell for being gay – and he believed it. He was first officially diagnosed with PTSD in high school after his closest friend died unexpectedly. He moved away to college but ignored his symptoms and didn’t seek help for his mental illness. After years of suffering silently\, he began to accept his sexual orientation and eventually met his now husband\, Luke. Despite a happy marriage\, Caleb continued to suffer with symptoms of PTSD. At their peak\, the night terrors and panic attacks finally drove him to seek professional help. His doctor quickly confirmed that PTSD was the diagnosis and it wasn’t something to be taken lightly. Today\, Caleb receives treatment for PTSD\, panic disorder\, and depression by attending reoccurring therapy sessions. Throughout these years\, Caleb wrote poetry about his specific struggles surrounding mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. In his debut book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry\, he reveals his most personal thoughts – some dark\, some light\, some suffering\, some uplifting\, but all existential. Currently\, Caleb lives with his husband in Birmingham\, Alabama. He is a full-time writer\, author\, and poet who enjoys reading\, traveling\, playing board games\, and collecting pop culture memorabilia. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The Bindery bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Harnessing Darkness\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caleb-woods-harnessing-darkness-expressing-mental-illness-through-poetry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Prerna Lal
DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal\n\n\n\n\nlaunching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prerna-lal/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-12/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ZADIE SMITH
DESCRIPTION:ZADIE SMITH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nZadie Smith is known for her emotionally rich stories\, superb dialogue\, and unique perspective on contemporary culture. Smith wrote her widely acclaimed debut novel White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge before going on to cement her reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation with Swing Time\, The Autograph Man\, On Beauty\, and NW. Grand Union\, her debut short-story collection\, moves across genres and perspectives\, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian\, offering a sharply alert collection about time and place\, identity and rebirth\, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves\, and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zadie-smith/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author Reading: Sehba Sarwar\, Fan Wu\, and liz gonzález
DESCRIPTION:This literary event celebrates women of color authors\, who will be reading from and talking about their writing and how their various backgrounds influence their creative works. Award-winning Pakistani writer and artist\, Sehba Sarwar\, will read from her recently-published debut novel Black Wings. This book is about a story of a mother and daughter who struggle to meet across the generations\, cultures and secrets that separate them. Bay Area-based writer Fan Wu will read from her critically acclaimed novels including Beautiful as Yesterday\, a book about two sisters who were born and brought up in China and now reside in the United States. Her writing explores the impact of history and memories on one’s life. And fourth-generation Southern Californian liz gonzález will share from her multi-genre collection Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds. Her book explores memories\, pivotal experiences and cultural influences that shaped her when growing up as a nontraditional Catholic Mexican American in San Bernardino.  A book sale and signing will follow the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-reading-sehba-sarwar-fan-wu-and-liz-gonzalez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Betabrand Podcast Theatre with Mary Ladd and Don Asmussen
DESCRIPTION:A Betabrand Podcast Theatre event featuring author Mary Ladd and illustrator Don Asmussen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betabrand-podcast-theatre-with-mary-ladd-and-don-asmussen/
LOCATION:Betabrand\, 780 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190823T011649Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Caren Beilin\, reading and in conversation with Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-caren-beilin-reading-and-in-conversation-with-amy-berkowitz/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190824T194315Z
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SUMMARY:The Velvet Underground Experience - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Velvet Underground Experience – Litquake 2019\nThursday\, October 17\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \nHat & Beard Press\, the San Francisco Rock & Roll Book Club\, and Litquake present an evening about The Velvet Underground \nwith  JC Gabel\, ML Heath\, and Richie Unterberger  \nwith rare screenings of Velvet Underground footage. \ncelebrating the release of two new books from Hat & Beard Press \nThe Velvet Underground Experience \nEdited by JC Gabel and Margot Ross \nand \nMy Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed \nEdited and with texts by Pat Thomas\, Compiled by Michael Heath \nAbout The Velvet Underground Experience: \nAt the heart of 1960s avant-garde New York was the convergence of Lou Reed\, John Cale\, Sterling Morrison\, and Moe Tucker\, heralding an unprecedented musical revolution. The Velvet Underground was a unique group for its time\, fueled by the visual arts\, poetry\, and stage performance\, as much by ideas of sexual transgression and the subversion of social norms. \nCompiled from archival ephemera\, unpublished photographs\, films\, album covers\, posters\, fanzines\, letters\, testimonies\, and poems\, this monograph gathers anew the Velvet Underground Experience exhibition that opened in Paris in 2016 for a US audience\, recreating the sound\, visual\, and emotional experiences of the underground scenes in New York\, where extravagances were always allowed. \nThis updated monograph explores the genesis and history of a group that\, despite its colorful collaboration with Andy Warhol\, was overlooked by success during its brief existence (1965-1970). Too radical\, too transgressive\, and too uninhibited for their time\, the Velvet Underground has become a cultural phenomenon over the decades\, one that continues to fascinate audiences around the world. \nAbout My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed: \nDuring his first major sit-down with the music press in 1977\, between claiming all his songs were about guilt and revenge\, Elvis Costello casually remarked\, “I don’t really listen to Lou Reed’s records\, but I never miss an interview with him.” \nIndeed\, for all his publicly expressed loathing of the press in general and music journalists in particular\, during his long career as a rock artist\, Lou Reed was never less than entertaining in his dealings with the Fourth Estate. In fact\, one could go so far as to claim that\, for Lou\, the press became as much an implement of expression as singing\, composing\, and playing music. In a style at times very much informed by his mentor Andy Warhol\, Reed could play the media like a Marshall-amped Stradivarius. \nTo the majority of his fans\, the apotheosis of Reed’s relationship with the press\, and most prominently regarded to this day\, was the series of combative tête-à-têtes between Lou and the late great music journalist Lester Bangs\, published in CREEM Magazine during the 1970s. \nMy Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed features 30+ interviews spanning his solo career\, from the golden era of print rock-journalism\, to the first online blogs. The compilation is one fan’s humble attempt to move beyond the Bangs canon\, and delve deeper into the distance and intimacy\, cactus and mercury\, that constituted Lou’s post-Velvet Underground public media image. \nThis anthology will be an intimate portrait of Reed who\, in addition to being notoriously prickly (to put it mildly)\, was also intelligent\, articulate\, and deeply passionate about what was important to him\, both as a person and as a creative artist. \nHat & Beard is an independent\, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house. With their book imprint\, Hat & Beard Press\, they create original\, illustrated nonfiction books of pop-cultural and historical significance that draw on existing cult audiences.  As a production house\, via Hat & Beard Projects\, they produce artist monographs in conjunction with art galleries\, museums\, nonprofits\, and artists themselves. They also champion the redesign and reissue of classic visual culture titles worth a second look. Hat & Beard Films works as the motion picture production arm of the company. \nFounded in 2011\, San Francisco’s Rock ‘n Roll Book Club is a loose group of regulars and non-regulars who enjoy music and reading about it. They generally meet every other month at a bar’s backroom to discuss a book and listen to related music\, over drinks and sometimes food mentioned in the book. They read new releases\, classic memoirs\, biographies\, oral histories and music criticism\, usually focusing on music from the 60s and 70s\, preferably including sex\, drugs\, and good writing. They’ve met with authors Alice Bag (via skype)\, Robert Gordon (via Skype)\, Pauline Butcher (via Skype)\, John Einarson (via Skype)\, Evelyn McDonnell (via Skype)\, and Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). To learn more visit: The Rock & Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-velvet-underground-experience-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190825T144521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190825T144521Z
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SUMMARY:Deepak Chopra\, Metahuman
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to present an evening with New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra\, who will share his new book\, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. \nDeepak Chopra will discuss his latest book and take questions from the audience; the event will conclude with a booksigning. Tickets are $35.00 ($37.74 w/service fee) and include entry to the event and one hardcover copy of Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential\, to be collected at the event. Purchase tickets at Brown Paper Tickets. \n \nDeepak Chopra MD\, FACP\, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing and Jiyo.com\, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” \nDr. Chopra is Board Certified in Internal Medicine\, Endocrinology and Metabolism\, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians\, and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California\, San Diego\, and host of his podcast Deepak Chopra’s Infinite Potential. The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Chopra #17 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. \nIn conjunction with his medical achievements\, Chopra is recognized as a prolific author of over 86 books translated into over forty-three languages\, with twenty-six books reaching the status of New York Times Bestsellers. His latest national bestseller\, The Healing Self\, co-authored with leading geneticist Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi\, discusses the importance of our immune system to lifelong health and was selected as one of the Top 8 Science Books to Read in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deepak-chopra-metahuman/
LOCATION:santa cruz civic auditorium\, 307 Church St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
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CREATED:20190822T231328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T231328Z
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SUMMARY:Joanna Howard with Rita Bullwinkel & Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Howard discusses her new memoir Rerun Era with Rita Bullwinkel and Forrest Gander. \nPraise for Rerun Era \n”Rerun Era is both a romp and a deep dive through a late-70s-and-80s childhood\, where many of us were remanded to the television for caretaking\, fueled on the intoxicants of processed foods\, where the day was vast and sometimes\, particularly if you were down south\, crushing with heat or emptiness or endless lots of red mud. There is a warm hilarity that moves through this book and a kind of cracking pain that follows. It’s a story of time\, family\, culture\, and subjectivity we all need to read\, written with a wild\, quiet\, and wide intelligence.”—Renee Gladman \n“Children are given the gift and burden of feeling the infinite in a single afternoon\, an hour\, an event—Rerun Era\, a wonderfully tactile and intimate book\, returns that gift to its readers. Each chapter explodes with the force and shine of fireworks on an unlit night.”—Catherine Lacey \n“Joanna Howard has a masterful understanding of the way memory bends time and forms startling new structures from the patterns of good sameness\, bad sameness\, strange sameness that compose our lives. She tunnels through this sameness to the glorious specificity at its core\, so that these swathes of childhood recaptured feel like they belong to me\, even though I know that I never witnessed my own life with such penetrating beauty or insight. Rerun Era is startling and new on every page\, a book that you will find yourself in\, lose yourself in\, and long to return to again and again.”—Alexandra Kleeman  \nAbout Rerun Era \nRerun Era is a captivating\, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma\, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture\, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found common ground in the television. Told from the magnetic perspective of Joanna Howard’s past selves from the late ’70s and early ’80s\, Rerun Era circles the fascinating psyches of her part-Cherokee teamster truck-driving father\, her women’s libber mother\, and her skateboarder\, rodeo bull-riding teenage brother. \nIlluminating to our rural American present\, and the way popular culture portrays the rural American past\, Rerun Eraperfectly captures the irony of growing up in rural America in the midst of nationalistic fantasies of small town local sheriffs and saloon girls\, which manifested the urban cowboy\, wild west theme-parks\, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Written in stunning\, lyric prose\, Rerun Era gives humanity\, perspective\, humor\, and depth to an often invisible part of this country\, and firmly establishes Howard as an urgent and necessary voice in American letters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-howard-with-rita-bullwinkel-forrest-gander/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190930T192155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192155Z
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SUMMARY:Disasterama! Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Disasterama!: Adventures in The Queer Underground 1977 – 1997 by Alvin Orloff. A compelling and hilarious memoir of social life in the queer underground at a time when the manic frivolity of queer liberation and youth collided with the deadly reality of plague. \nOrloff will be in conversation with Alia Volz\, author of the forthcoming memoir\,  Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco. There will also be a show from The Disasterama Dancers and Tony Vaguely.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disasterama-release-party/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190823T011839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T011839Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-amy-berkowitz-and-caren-beilin-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20191002T000855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T000855Z
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SUMMARY:K.R. MORRISON\, WILLIAM TAYLOR JR\, ZARINA ZABRISKY\, JON BENNETT\, JULIE VALIN\, TODD CIRILLO
DESCRIPTION:K.R. MORRISON\, WILLIAM TAYLOR JR\, ZARINA ZABRISKY\, \nJON BENNETT\, JULIE VALIN\, TODD CIRILLO\nFRI. OCT. 18TH\, 7PMAn evening of poetry and music featuring the following Bay Area writers: \n\nK.R. MORRISON\nWILLIAM TAYLOR JR.\nZARINA ZABRISKY\nJON BENNETT\nSongcraft by San Francisco writer/songwriter\nJULIE VALIN\nfrom Grass Valley\, CA\nTODD CIRILLO\nfrom New Orleans\, LA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-r-morrison-william-taylor-jr-zarina-zabrisky-jon-bennett-julie-valin-todd-cirillo/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190827T022628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T022628Z
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SUMMARY:APAture 2019 & Litquake present Proclaim (a literary arts showcase)
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Litquake 2019 \nJoin us at Arc Gallery & Studies for APAture 2019 presents Proclaim (a literary arts showcase)! Featuring Jennifer S. Cheng\, Jayinee Basu\, Sagaree Jain\, Celeste Chan\, Christine No\, Lisa Kee Hamasaki\, Jen Soong\, Angie Sijun Lou. For artist bios click here! \nThis year\, in honor of the 20th anniversary of APAture\, our theme is DECLARE. DECLARE is an acknowledgement of both the legacies of our past and the legacies we’ll establish in the future. We invite you to submit work related to legacies\, families (chosen\, biological\, or beyond)\, communities\, decolonization\, representation\, futurism\, agency\, and more. We also welcome work across all themes. \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 20 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2019: Declare will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists! You don’t want to miss this! \nAPAture 2019: Declare Festival Schedule: \n(Multiple Locations in SF) Arc Gallery & Studios 1246 Folsom St. | Hotel Utah 500 4th St. | American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina St. | Roxie Theater 3117 16th St. | SOMArts 934 Brannan St. \n**OPENING RECEPTION\, BOOK ARTS SHOWCASE\, AND CLOSING RECEPTION ARE FREE. ALL OTHER SHOWCASES ARE TICKETED EVENTS** \nAPAture Opening Reception and Visual Arts Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2426475590955249/\nfeat. Anh Bui\nFriday\, October 4th\, 6-10 pm (Opening Reception)\nSaturday\, October 4th – 27th (Visual Arts Showcase on display)\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nMusic Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1033721316830856/\nfeat. Versoul\nFriday\, October 5th\, 9-1 am\nHotel Utah\, 500 4th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94107 \nBook Arts Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2487329794721381/\nfeat. Anand Vedewala\nSunday\, October 13th 1-4 pm\nAmerican Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street. San Francisco 94103 \nLiterary Arts Showcase\nfeat. Jennifer S. Cheng\nSaturday\, October 18th\, 7-10 pm\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nFilm Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2362679250672771/\nfeat. Alle Hsu\nSunday\, October 20th\, 2:30-5 pm\nRoxie Theater\, 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nPerforming Arts Showcase\nfeat. Hien Huynh\nSaturday\, October 25th\, 8-10pm\nSOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nAPAture Closing Reception\nSunday\, October 27th\, 1-4 pm\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \n#APAture2019 #Declare \nPLEASE NOTE: \nREFUNDS CAN BE GIVEN UP TO ONE DAY BEFORE EVENT\nIF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND\, BUT WISH TO DONATE\, YOU MAY PURCHASE A PRE-SALE GENERAL TICKET IN LIEU. GENERAL DONATIONS ARE ALSO GLADLY ACCEPTED\, AND CAN BE MADE THROUGH OUR WEBSITE\nALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE FUNDING OF APATURE 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apature-2019-litquake-present-proclaim-a-literary-arts-showcase/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190822T231603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T231603Z
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SUMMARY:Ed Hardy: Deeper Than Skin
DESCRIPTION:Legendary American tattoo artist Ed Hardy discusses his groundbreaking tattoos\, flash\, drawings\, and artworks with Jeff Gunderson\, contributor to Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin:Art of the New Tattoo. \nAbout Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin \nEd Hardy’s (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades\, creating an indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition\, this profusely illustrated survey of his life in art traces his inspirations\, rooted both in traditional American tattooing of the first half of the twentieth century and in the imagery of Japan’s ukiyo-e era. Hardy\, raised in Southern California\, became intrigued with tattoo art at the age of ten\, setting up shop in his parents’ den. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s\, he rejected a graduate fellowship from Yale to apprentice at studios up and down the West Coast. It was his intention to rescue tattooing from its subculture\, “outsider” status and elevate it to at least the level of folk art. \nHardy’s success at breathing new life into the art form is chronicled in a plethora of tattoo designs\, paintings\, drawings\, prints\, and three-dimensional work spanning fifty years. While the world that inspires him may be lost\, Hardy’s distinct visual language is vibrantly alive within American visual vernacular\, synonymous to some with the spirit of the West Coast itself. \nDonald Edward Talbott Hardy was born in 1945 in Des Moines\, Iowa\, and grew up in Corona del Mar\, on the Southern California coast. For over twenty years\, Hardy worked exclusively as a tattoo artist\, developing the medium’s potential and fueling the late twentieth-century boom in the practice. In the late 1980s he returned to painting\, drawing\, and printmaking while continuing to tattoo\, and his work was exhibited widely. In the millennial year 2000\, Hardy created a 4- by 500-foot scroll painting\, 2000 Dragons. He describes this piece as a decisive turning point in its scale and expansive gesture that freed him to explore abstract elements along with recognizable forms in his art. In 2005\, Hardy licensed his designs to Christian Audigier\, who developed popular merchandise featuring Hardy’s tattoo imagery. \nHardy has written and published more than thirty books on alternative art under his imprint Hardy Marks. In 2010\, Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World\, a film by Emiko Omori was released\, and in 2013\, Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos\, an autobiography with Joel Selvin\, was published by St. Martin’s Press. Hardy divides his time between San Francisco and Honolulu\, where he has had a home and studio since the 1980s. \nJeff Gunderson has been the Librarian and Archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1981. He has written on the history of California photography\, the San Francisco art scene of the 1940s\, and done presentations on artists Joan Brown\, Elmer Bischoff\, Ed Ruscha\, Charles Howard\, the history of LGBTQ art in San Francisco\, the history of Bay Area conceptual art\, and the influence of art libraries on artists.  He also did the introductory essay to Black Power/Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch.  He is currently working on a collection of essays about open water swimming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-hardy-deeper-than-skin/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190827T014333Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Moby Dick Reading Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Breaching on Saturday\, October 19: San Francisco’s 2019 Moby Dick reading marathon. Mark your calendars for this tribute to a classic American novel – and start storing up sleep for this 24-hour literary voyage. Info at: https://maritime.org/events/mobydick/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-moby-dick-reading-marathon/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190824T204042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190824T204042Z
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SUMMARY:Pam Grossman / Waking the Witch
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special late afternoon event in conjunction with the Modern Witches Confluence\, presenting Pam Grossman for her new book Waking the Witch. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Seats are limited\, and advance tickets are highly recommended. Tickets can be purchased here. Unless otherwise noted here tickets will be available at the door. \n\nWitches have been with us for centuries and have a long history of being associated with evil and diabolism. But beginning in the 19th century\, the archetype of the witch got reclaimed and reframed as an agent of positive – if subversive – transformation. This illustrated talk will excavate and celebrate the evolution of this magical\, feminist icon. Touching on historical events\, pop occulture in film and television\, and her own personal story\, author and podcast host Pam Grossman will trace how the witch went from hideous hag to Hermione\, and discuss the ways in which witches continue to reflect our fears and fantasies about feminine power today. \n\nPam Grossman is the creator and host of The Witch Wave podcast and the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women\, Magic\, and Power(Gallery Books) and What Is A Witch (Tin Can Forest Press). Her writing has appeared in such outlets as the New York Times\, TIME.com\, Sabat Magazine\, HuffPost\, and her occulture blog\, Phantasmaphile. She is co-founder of the Occult Humanities Conference at NYU\, and her art exhibitions and magical projects have been featured in such publications as Artforum\, Art in America\, and the New Yorker. You can find her at PamGrossman.com and @Phantasmaphile. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens with the store at 2pm. Event starts at 5pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Waking the Witch\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of any of Pam’s other books\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-grossman-waking-the-witch/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
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SUMMARY:Litcrawl Hits The Green Arcade with Sonoma County Writers Camp and Queer Words Podcast
DESCRIPTION:Once again the city-wide events of Litquake descend on us for two Litcrawl readings this Saturday night. \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl is a massive\, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10\,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004\, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique\, resonant brand: smart and silly\, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars\, cafes\, galleries\, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations\, tattoo parlors\, barbershops\, and laundromats). \nPhase one: 5:00pm-6:00pm\nSonoma County Writers Camp \nWith Nayomi Munaweera – Island of a Thousand Mirrors; Lucy Jane Bledsoe – A Thin Bright Line; Shanthi Sekaran – Lucky Boy; Ellen Sussman – A Wedding in Provence; Devi Laskar -The Atlas of Reds and Blues; and Elizabeth Stark – Shy Girl. \nPhase 2: 6:30-7:30\nQueer Words Podcast \nWith Richard May – Inhuman Beings and Ginger Snaps: Photos & Stories (with photographer David Sweet); Nona Caspers – The Fifth Woman; Avery Cassell – Behrouz Gets Lucky. \nFor more details see: Litquake.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litcrawl-hits-the-green-arcade-with-sonoma-county-writers-camp-and-queer-words-podcast/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T213000
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SUMMARY:LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl
DESCRIPTION:LIT-Crawl SF\nPlease join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street!\n5:00pm – Phase 1:  TONGO EISEN-MARTIN and friends \n8:00pm – Phase 3:  THE RACKET: INFO \nDownload the Lit Crawl map here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-lit-crawl-2/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T193000
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CREATED:20191002T001815Z
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series at Litcrawl 2019
DESCRIPTION:Hazel Reading Series is back and is excited to participate at Litcrawl 2019 with some of the best writers of 2019!\nJoin us on October 19th\, Phase II\, 6:30-7:30 pm\, at The Woods\, for another unforgettable night of prose and poetry. \nFeaturing:\nCeleste Chan\nKirin Khan\nRaina León\nSara Marinelli\nDominica Phetteplace \nThe readers\nCeleste Chan teaches creative writing to LGBTQ youth with Queer Ancestors Project and coordinates QTPOC Free School. A Hedgebrook\, Lambda\, and VONA fellow\, she works across documentary\, creative writing\, performance\, and oral history projects. From 2008-2018\, she co-directed Queer Rebels\, a queer and trans people of color arts project\, and toured work to Austin\, New York\, Montreal\, Tijuana\, Berlin\, and beyond. A Hedgebrook\, Lambda Literary\, and VONA fellow\, Celeste’s work can be found in several journals and anthologies\, including cream city review and The Rumpus. www.celestechan.com \nKirin Khan is a writer living in Oakland\, California\, who calls\nAlbuquerque\, New Mexico\, her hometown\, and Peshawar\, Pakistan\, her homeland. Kirin is an alumnus of VONA\, Las Dos Brujas\, and the Tin House Writers Workshop\, and she is a 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow\, a 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow\, a 2018 AWP Writer to Writer Mentee\, and a 2018 Steinbeck Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Margins\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, Your Impossible Voice\, 7×7 LA\, and elsewhere. Currently\, Kirin is working on her first novel. \nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book\, sombra : (dis)locate\, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook\, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. www.rainaleon.com \nBorn and raised in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing appears in Blue Mesa Review\, New American Writing\, and many Italian publications. She teaches Comparative Literature and Humanities at the USF and SFSU. She is the co-foudner and curator of the Hazel Reading Series\, an all-women reading series; and every week she hosts an Italian music program on KUSF radio. Sara is currently working on her first novel.\nwww.saramarinelli.com \nDominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Clarkesworld\, Lightspeed\, Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, Wigleaf\, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and Best Microfiction 2019. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, a Barbara Deming Award and fellowships from I-Park\, Marble House Project and the MacDowell Colony. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-at-litcrawl-2019/
LOCATION:the woods\, 910 Valencia st.\, San Francisco\, CA - California\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T210000
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CREATED:20190824T211212Z
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SUMMARY:Nia King - - Queer and Trans Artists of Color Vol III ft. Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is so excited to welcome back Nia King to discuss her new anthology Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume Three. She will be joined by several contributors including\, Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed. \nFor the last year\, Nia King and co-editor Maliha Ahmed have been hard at work on Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 3\, featuring interviews with Anthony J. Williams\, Osa Atoe\, Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite\, Ah Mer Ah Su\, Gabby Rivera\, Joamette Gil\, Mey Rude\, Kai Cheng Thom\, Jia qing wilson-yang\, Sarah Burke\, Sam Levin\, Arielle Twist\, Paradise Khanmalek\, Qwo-Li Driskill\, and Kamal Al-Solaylee! The launch party will be a talk show-style event where Nia interviews queer and trans artists of color live before an audience. \nThis event will be free and open to the public. There will also be free food for all in attendance! \n  \nAbout the Contributors: \nNia King is a queer Black/Lebanese/Hungarian Jewish author and podcaster from Canton\, MA who lived in Oakland\, CA from 2008-2019. She has been hosting and producing We Want the Airwaves podcast (available in iTunes) since 2013. She self-published her first book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives\, with co-editors Jessica Glennon-Zukoff and Terra Mikalson in 2014\, and her second book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 2\, edited by Elena Rose\, in 2016. Nia’s writing and comics have been published at Colorlines.com\, East Bay Express\, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She received a Best of the East Bay Award in 2016 and was featured in KQED’s Bay Brilliant series (formerly Women to Watch) in 2018. She loves and misses Oakland dearly. You can find more of her work at niaking.com. \nAnthony James Williams (they/them pronouns) is a Black queer non-binary writer\, sociology PhD student\, and facilitator. They’re responsible for popularizing the hashtag #MasculinitySoFragile and their published writing (Hazlitt\, The Outline\, Electric Lit) focuses on race\, sexuality\, and mental health. Their prior Black student organizing led the University of California system to divest $25 million from private prisons. Find them on twitter @anthoknees or antjwilliams.com. \nLuna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan writer and artist. They are the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated poetry book\, Heal Your Love. They have published short stories and essays in The Resilience Anthology\, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic\, and the second edition of Colonize This! Feel free to follow their work at luna.merbruja.com\, IG: @LunaMerbruja\, or contact by email: lunamerbruja@gmail.com. \nParadise Khanmalek is an Iranian American artist\, poet\, and graphic designer from Los Angeles. She creates illustrated books of poetry\, takes photographs\, and most recently self-published a book of semi-academic poetic text about entropy\, gender\, and the semiotics of the visual world. Find her work online at Pardislili.com and @Humanchandelier on Instagram. \n  \nIf you are interested and able to help contirbute to the fund to pay for artists travel expenses\, ASL interpretation at the event and a caterer please check out https://www.gofundme.com/f/queer-amp-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3-launch?member=2377338 \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, October 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nia-king-queer-and-trans-artists-of-color-vol-iii-ft-anthony-james-williams-luna-merbruja-paradise-khanmalek-and-co-editor-maliha-ahmed/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T210000
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SUMMARY:Mark Mallman: The Happiness Playlist
DESCRIPTION:Mark Mallman discusses his new book\, The Happiness Playlist: The True Story of Healing My Heart With Feel-Good Music. \nPraise for The Happiness Playlist \n”Mark Mallman is legitimately original\, exclusively motivated by a desire to conquer the strange obstructions he builds inside his mind.” –Chuck Klosterman (Foreword by)\, author of Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota \n”This brave and masterfully written book is a testament to the power of love and art. Read it and become obsessed.” —Diablo Cody\, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno and creator of United States of Tara \n”The Happiness Playlist is funny\, thought-provoking\, and just plain helpful. It’s the best book on grief that I’ve ever picked up. The examination of music-listening as a method to combat heartbreak is a joy to read. You need it.” —-Craig Finn\, frontman of the critically acclaimed band The Hold Steady \nAbout The Happiness Playlist \nMinneapolis rock legend Mark Mallman woke at 3 a.m. with a crushing panic attack that wouldn’t end. He responded by pouring songs into a happiness playlist and leaning on the wisdom of friends. This is the true story of a man beset by grief\, healed by music\, and learning to laugh through it all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-mallman-the-happiness-playlist/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T154243
CREATED:20190823T005917Z
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SUMMARY:Birds of Paradise at LitQuake Lit Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Birds of Paradise at LitQuake Lit Crawl\n\n\nSaturday October 19th\, 2019\, from 8-9pm\nat Lone Palm\, 3394 22nd Street\, San Francisco CA 94110 \nPresented by Feather Press and hosted by Ingrid Keir\nFeaturing: Jennifer Barone\, Cassandra Dallett\, EK Keith\, and Lauren Ito 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/birds-of-paradise-at-litquake-lit-crawl/
LOCATION:Lone Palm\, 3394 22nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T220000
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CREATED:20190827T013608Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers & Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Richard Powers is the Pulitzer-prize and National Book Award-winning author of twelve novels\, including Orfeo\, The Echo Maker\, and The Time of Our Singing. The Overstory\, Powers most recent novel\, is a sweeping\, impassioned tale of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of – and paean to – the natural world. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that explore the essential conflict on our planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. \nBill McKibben is an author\, environmentalist\, activist\, and the co-founder of 350.org\, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world. His 1989 groundbreaking book\, The End of Nature – issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic – was the first book to alert us to global warming. He’s gone on to write a dozen more books\, most recently Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, he is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize\, the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize\, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T160000
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SUMMARY:Zeitgeist Press Presents: Julia Vinograd Release Party – Selected Works and Tribute Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Zeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books with a celebration at Himalayan Flavors. Publisher Bruce Isaacson has put together A Symphony for Broken Instruments\, a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume\, which is 384 pages in total\, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event\, editor Deborah Fruchey presents Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue\, the new tribute anthology of poems to\, for\, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers. \nPlease join us for a festive afternoon celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. \nZeitgeist Press Presents: \nJulia Vinograd Release Party –  Selected Works and Tribute Anthology \n  \nwith \nBruce Isaacson presenting A Symphony for Broken Instruments: Selected and New Works by Julia Vinograd \nand \nDeborah Fruchey presenting the Julia Vinograd tribute anthology Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue \n  \nwith readings from both volumes \nHosted by Bruce Isaacson & Deborah Fruchey \nSunday\, October 20\, 2019 \n2-4 pm \n  \nevent is free of charge and books for sale at a one-time discount \n  \nABOUT JULIA VINOGRAD \n  \nJulia Vinograd\, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley\, California\, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018).  She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley\, where her mother was a poet and English Professor.  Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.  She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. This book represents a life’s work of Street Poems that are accessible\, charming\, and deeply human.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zeitgeist-press-presents-julia-vinograd-release-party-selected-works-and-tribute-anthology/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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