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SUMMARY:Gretchen McNeil with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Discover the true horror of social media in #murdertrending by critically-acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil Think Scream Queens meets The Hunger Games\, in which seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera is wrongfully convicted and sent to a prison island where  convicts are hunted down and their deaths are streamed on social media for “spikes.” With its morbid\, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and twisty\, gasp-inducing mystery\, this novel has already been optioned for development by television studio ABC Signature. \nWelcome to the near future\, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society’s most infamous convicted felons\, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0.  Can Dee  prove she’s innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis dark\, unique\, and intelligent novel comments on the horrors of social media\, and draws upon the fascination with today’s trend of murder in entertainment\, such as Serial and Making a Murderer. \nGretchen McNeil is the author of I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl \, the Don’t Get Mad duology\, and the YA horror novels Possess\, 3:59\, Relic\, and Ten which was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was adapted as the Lifetime original movie Ten: Murder Island in 2017. \nGretchen will be chatting with Stephanie Kuehn\, author of the William C Morris Award winning Charm and Strange\, Complicit\, The Smaller Evil\, Delicate Monsters\, and When I Am Through With You. Booklist has praised her work as “Intelligent\, compulsively readable literary fiction with a dark twist.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gretchen-mcneil-with-stephanie-kuehn/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lisa Locascio and Kate Folk
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Locascio discusses her new novel\, Open Me with Kate Folk. \n\nPraise for Open Me \n\n“Locascio’s story of a young American abroad is unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer \n  \n“Through the care of her tremendous observations and the beauty of her prose\, Lisa Locascio writes a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity. This is a story of many important layers\, but one of the many reasons it remains distinct in my mind is because of its honesty about our complicated\, yearning physical selves. A remarkable\, fearless debut.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Color Master \n  \n“Captivating and darkly clever\, Locascio’s debut melds self-discovery and self-abnegation with raw\, muscular grace.  By turns beguiling\, guileless\, and penetratingly felt\, this book seethes with eroticism\, both physical and emotional—you won’t dare to pry yourself away from it.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n  \n“An evocative and compelling remapping of Bluebeard’s Castle for our times. In Open Me\, Locascio offers a daring\, unapologetic\, and vital exploration of female desire.”—Emily Fridlund\, author of History of Wolves \n  \n“A lush\, evocative novel you won’t be able to put down. Open Me is a masterful debut.”—T.C. Boyle\, author of The Harder They Come \n\nAbout Open Me \n\nRoxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program–a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Soren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Soren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss. But as their relationship deepens\, Soren’s temperament darkens\, and Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a mysterious local outsider whom she learns is a refugee from the Balkan War. \n  \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, from a magnetic new voice in fiction\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locascio-and-kate-folk/
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:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 16\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FRIDAY SHOW!!!!\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1728945 \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-16/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Copenhaver and Paddy Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nPaddy Hirsch and John Copenhaver discuss their new novels\, The Devil’s Half Mile and Dodging and Burning. \nAbout The Devil’s Half Mile \nSeven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America\, traders chafe at government regulations\, racial tensions are rising\, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians… 1799 was a hell of a year. \n  \nThanks to Alexander Hamilton\, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil’s Half Mile (aka Wall Street)\, but the young country is still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to solve his father’s murder\, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives\, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost. The body count is rising\, and the looming crisis could topple the nation. \n  \nAbout Dodging and Burning \nIn the summer of 1945\, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy\, mourning the loss of her brother\, Robbie\, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story “A Date with Death” and spending time with his best friend\, Jay Greenwood\, in Royal Oak\, VA. One unforgettable August day\, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman\, but when they arrive\, the body is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder\, starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body As Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective\, Bunny becomes increasingly skeptical of Jay\, and begins her own investigation into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of clues that place doubt on Jay’s story about the photograph. She journeys to Washington\, D.C.\, where she is forced to confront the brutal truth about her dear friend–a discovery that triggers a series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of estrangement between her and Ceola.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-copenhaver-and-paddy-hirsch/
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:Clifford Mae Henderson\, Perfect Little Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to present award-winning author Clifford Mae Henderson for a book discussion and signing of her new novel set in Santa Cruz during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake\, Perfect Little Worlds. \nLucy can’t hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago\, her sister did the unthinkable. \nPortland\, Oregon\, 1989: Lucy Mustin\, living somewhat happily\, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she\, a lesbian\, can’t legally marry\, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz to help her autistic sister\, Alice\, care for their Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother. She knew the call was coming sooner or later. She’d just hoped it would be later. Mother issues. The possibility that resolution might be lost to dementia is a heartbreak she doesn’t feel like feeling. \nSanta Cruz\, California\, one week later: a trip to the family bakery ups the ante tenfold when the Loma Prieta/World Series Earthquake\, racking up a whopping 7.1 on the Richter scale\, traps the sisters below ground. There\, Alice reminds Lucy of a promise made to their mother many years ago\, a promise she plans to keep. \nClifford Mae Henderson\, also writing under the name Clifford Henderson\, was named after her grandmother Clifford who once wore a nightgown to a formal event because she liked it better than any of the dresses she could find. Clifford Mae has attempted to follow in her renegade grandmother’s footsteps\, spending as much time as possible trying to shake things up. Her novels have each garnered awards\, including a Foreword Review Book of the Year Award\, an Independent Publisher Book Award\, and a Golden Crown Literary Award. When not writing\, Clifford Mae and her life partner of over a quarter century run the Fun Institute\, an improv school in Northern California where they teach the art of collective pretending. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clifford-mae-henderson-perfect-little-worlds/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Ingrid Rojas Contreras to discuss her novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree on Thursday\, August 16th at 7pm. \nSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogot \, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-presents-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WILDSTYLE
DESCRIPTION:will feature Kirsten Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)\, Dickson Lam (Paper Sons)\, Peter Clarke (Apocryphal Pataphysics)\, Lisa Galloway\, and Lila Vasudevan. \nThe Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, InsideStorytime at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Kate Folk\, Steven Black\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-wildstyle/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Porch light Storytelling Series: TATTOO TALES
DESCRIPTION:Stories by Shotsie Gorman\, TK Moyer\, Taemon Omololu\, Dominic Riley\, Karen Roze\, and Penelope Starr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porch-light-storytelling-series-tattoo-tales/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Vanessa Hua / A River of Stars
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities) back to the store to launch her debut novel\, A River of Stars. Joining her in conversation is Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon. More information coming soon — please save the date\, and join us! \n  \nHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles\, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China\, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner\, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters\, Boss Yeung is overjoyed because the doctors have confirmed that he will finally have the son he has always wanted. To ensure that his child has every advantage\, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. U.S. citizenship will open doors for their little prince. \n  \nAs Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival\, she chokes down bitter medicinal stews and spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy\, a spirited teenager and fellow unwed mother who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend. \n  \nThen a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked\, she escapes by hijacking a van–only to discover that she has a stowaway: Daisy\, who intends to track down the father of her child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown\, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind her. \n\n“Illuminates the lives of her characters with energy\, verve\, and heart. Hua tracks the minutest emotional terrain of these characters while simultaneously interrogating the cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds.” – Emma Cline\, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls \n  \n“A River of Stars splits the ‘Chinese immigrant story’ into a kaleidoscopic spectrum\, putting human faces to the many groups — rich and poor\, privileged and marginalized\, documented and not — who come to America. Vanessa Hua’s debut is an utterly absorbing novel about the ruthless love of parenthood and the universal truth that sometimes family runs deeper than blood alone.” – Celeste Ng\, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n  \n“How does Scarlett Chen — pregnant\, with her immigration status in peril — make her way in America without friends\, language\, and money? Vanessa Hua’s compelling A River of Stars is a story of resistance\, survival\, and self-determination in a world that is seemingly indifferent to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised.” – Min Jin Lee\, author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko \n  \n“A River of Stars is as pleasurable in its parts as it is profound in its sum. It is a road novel\, an immigrant narrative\, a family saga\, a mystery\, and the unlikeliest of love stories\, all animated by a magnificent cast of characters who bear out John Berger’s assertion that ‘never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.’ Vanessa Hua’s debut contains multitudes.” – Anthony Marra\, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno \n  \n\n  \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel. Her author photo is by Andria Lo. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-vanessa-hua-a-river-of-stars/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jason Heller presents STRANGE STARS (w/ Nick Mamatas & Richard Kadrey)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Jason Heller to discuss his book Strange Stars: David Bowie\, Pop Music\, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded\, on Wednesday\, August 15th at 7pm. Joining him in conversation will be Nick Mamatas and Richard Kadrey. \nAs the 1960s drew to a close\, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds\, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex\, drugs\, and rock ‘n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff\, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution. \nIn Strange Stars\, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books\, music\, and out-of-this-world imagery. \nIn doing so\, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos\, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks\, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course\, the whole scene was led by David Bowie\, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey\, and came out a changed man… \nIf today’s culture of Comic Con fanatics\, superhero blockbusters\, and classic sci-fi reboots has us thinking that the nerds have won at last\, Strange Stars brings to life an era of unparalleled and unearthly creativity–in magazines\, novels\, films\, records\, and concerts–to point out that the nerds have been winning all along. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJason Heller has written for publications including the New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, Pitchfork\, NPR\, and The AV Club. His latest book was Taft 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-heller-presents-strange-stars-w-nick-mamatas-richard-kadrey/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paul Matthew Maisano
DESCRIPTION:Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel\, Bindi. \n\nPraise for Bindi \n\n“Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly and soulful\, enduring\, its surface beauty underwritten by adventure and excitement and a deep love of life.”―Rebecca Lee\, author of Bobcat and Other Stories \n  \n“Paul Matthew Maisano is an extraordinary writer\, and one we all should be hearing from right now\, with his thoughtful and nuanced view of the global stage. His unique\, compassionately drawn characters are ones you have not met before. He is a writer of the moment. BINDI is a book everyone should be reading.”―Karen Bender\, author of the National Book Award Finalist Refund \n\n“As the novel moves between Los Angeles\, London and India\, Maisano shows how loss and longing can be converted into hope\, meaningful work\, and love. His beautiful prose\, his immensely sympathetic characters\, and the wonderfully dramatic story he tells make BINDI a novel in which many readers will find a home.”―Margot Livesey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy \n\nAbout Bindi \n\nA richly imagined debut set against the backdrop of southern India\, London\, and Hollywood that tells the story of a young boy in India\, suddenly orphaned\, and the adults around him\, each of whom is also looking for a home in the world. \n  \nKerala\, 1993: Eight-year-old Birendra suddenly loses his mother\, but he refuses to believe he’s an orphan. He’s certain that his mother’s twin sister\, the troubled but winning Nayana\, will come for him all the way from West London. But when the letter informing Nayana of her sister’s death goes missing\, numerous lives are forever altered\, and Birendra is set adrift. \n  \nMadeline\, a Los Angeles native and interior designer to the stars\, is floundering in her personal life. In the aftermath of a failed attempt to get pregnant\, she flies to India where she finds herself face-to-face with Birendra. In a moment of sudden certainty\, she decides she must adopt the boy in order to save them both. \n  \nAs Nayana falls deeper into crisis at work and in her marriage in London\, Birendra learns to make himself at home in Los Angeles\, forging an especially close bond with Madeline’s younger brother\, Edward\, who begins to worry that his sister may have met her match in motherhood. When he learns of his adopted nephew’s family in London\, Edward is faced with an impossible choice. If he can find Nayana and reunite her with her nephew\, should he? Even if in doing so he would risk unwittingly setting the two women who love the boy most against each other?Written in stirring prose\, and infused with keen emotional insight\, Bindi is about our search for family and for home\, and an exploration of the ways that loss and longing can be converted into hope\, connection\, and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-matthew-maisano/
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:Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 14\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nAnil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the “double-slit” experiment\, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself–and continues to almost 200 years later.\n    \nMany of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show that light behaves like a wave\, and in doing so opposed Isaac Newton’s view that light is made of particles. But then Albert Einstein showed that light comes in quanta\, or particles. Quantum mechanics was born. This led to a fierce debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality–subatomic bits of matter and its interaction with light–again as revealed by the double-slit experiment. Richard Feynman held that it embodies the central mystery of the quantum world. Decade after decade\, hypothesis after hypothesis\, scientists have returned to this ingenious experiment to help them answer deeper and deeper questions about the fabric of the universe. \nHow can a single particle behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle\, or indeed reality\, exist before we look at it\, or does looking create reality\, as the textbook “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum mechanics seems to suggest? How can particles influence each other faster than the speed of light? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and the familiar classical world of our daily lives begins\, and if so\, can we find it? And if there’s no such place\, then does the universe split into two each time a particle goes through the double-slit? \nThrough Two Doors at Once celebrates the elegant simplicity of an iconic experiment and its profound reach. With his extraordinarily gifted eloquence\, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world\, through history and down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed. It is the most fantastic voyage you can take. \nAnil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He has been a guest editor for the science writing program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and organizes and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru\, India. He is a freelance feature editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’s Front Matter. He contributes regularly to the New Scientist\, and has also written for Nature\, National Geographic News\, Discover\, Nautilus\, Matter\, The Wall Street Journal and the UK’s Literary Review. His first book\, The Edge of Physics\, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World\, and his second book\, The Man Who Wasn’t There\, won a Nautilus Book Award in 2015 and was long-listed for the 2016 Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anil-ananthaswamy-discusses-through-two-doors-at-once/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SF in SF Presents: An Evening with George R.R. Martin in conversation with John Picacio
DESCRIPTION:SF in SF presents an evening with George R.R. Martin\, creator of Game of Thrones\, in conversation with Hugo Award-winning artist John Picacio at the landmark Fox Theatre in Redwood City on August 14\, 2018. Join friends\, colleagues\, and co-conspirators Martin and Picacio as they delve into a discussion on literature\, art\, and life in this intimate and historic theater setting\, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \nGeorge R.R. Martin\, John Picacio\nBorderlands Books will be on-site selling books. Please note: A limited number of signed books will be available for purchase at this event\, but Mr. Martin will not be available to sign copies of attendees’ books. \nTicket proceeds from this SF in SF fundraiser go to support the non-profit Locus SF Foundation\, parent to Locus Magazine\, the long-standing journal of record for the science fiction and fantasy fields. Launched in 1968 as a ‘zine for science fiction fans\, Locus has evolved over the past 50 years into the industry’s institution of record\, covering science fiction and fantasy publishing. The 30-time Hugo Award-winning magazine and website publishes interviews with established and up-and-coming authors; reviews of the latest novels and short fiction; news about the publishing industry and conventions; as well as international coverage\, book listings\, and more. \nLocus Magazine is a Bay Area 501(c)(3) non-profit run by the Locus SF Foundation\, which also administers the Locus Awards\, maintains an extensive collection of SF and fantasy works\, and conducts quarterly writers’ workshops. To subscribe\, visit locusmag.com/subscribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-presents-an-evening-with-george-r-r-martin-in-conversation-with-john-picacio/
LOCATION:Fox Theatre\, Redweood City\, 2215 Broadway\, Redwood City\, CA\, 94063\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book\,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us! \n  \nGrowing up as a fat girl\, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt\, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since\, she’s been helping others to do the same. \nTovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally\, food is free from moral judgment\, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language\, she delves into unlearning fatphobia\, dismantling sexist notions of fashion\, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. \n  \n\n  \n“The importance of Virgie Tovar’s perspective and identity cannot be understated. As we collectively deconstruct our society’s addiction to body negativity\, Virgie’s words provide crucial guidance\, clarity\, and support for all those who champion universal body liberation.”  — Jessamyn Stanley\, author of Every Body Yoga \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is the radical voice we need\, with a gift for expressing what so many women feel but cannot always articulate. In this bold new book\, she eviscerates diet culture\, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fat\, and shows us that liberation is possible.” — Sarai Walker\, author of Dietland \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is a vital voice in contemporary activism\, media\, and feminism. The joy she takes in her own body and life\, combined with the righteous anger she expresses at an oppressive world is a truly radical act. Virgie is deeply thoughtful\, but does not equivocate. She confronts bigotry\, but does not engage with bullshit.” — Kelsey Miller\, author of Big Girl \n  \n“Virgie does the thing we need to see more of in political writing: she shares every bit of her humanity\, right down to her feelings about her own nipple color\, without missing a beat on sharp critiques of the systems that oppress her. Her clear descriptions of antifat-bias and the social construction that is “diet culture\,” make it difficult to disagree with her main point: you are not the problem\, society is the problem. The world desperately needs to be told this truth—this book will be required reading for my clients going forward.” — Isabel Foxen Duke\, Coach and Creator of StopFightingFood.com \n  \n“Fierce\, passionate\, and poignant\, Virgie Tovar has written a manifesto that will inspire you and ignite the revolution.” — Linda Bacon\, PhD\, author of Health at Every Size \n  \n“You Have the Right to Remain Fat feels like spending a margarita-soaked day at the beach with your smartest friend. She shares juicy secrets and makes revolutionary ideas viscerally accessible. You’ll be left enlightened\, inspired\, happier\, and possibly angrier than when you started. If you’ve ever thought you’d heard it all about fat liberation and body acceptance\, Virgie Tovar has a few more light bulbs to switch on. Don’t miss this captivating\, eye-opening\, and hilarious book!” — Joy Nash\, actress \n  \n\n  \nVirgie Tovar is an author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp\, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight\, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press 2012). Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, MTV\, Al Jazeera\, NPR\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Huffington Post\, Cosmopolitan\, and BUST. \n\n\n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, event begins at 7:30pm. The venue has no steps for entry from the street level\, is wheelchair accessible and has a mix of sofa seating and fold out chair seating. Sofa seating will be reserved for bigger bodied babes until 10 minutes before the event starts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-virgie-tovar-you-have-the-right-to-remain-fat/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:features: Joyce E. Young and David Denny\nopen mic follows \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nBios to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors
DESCRIPTION:Queer authors Jim Provenzano\, Margo Perin\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-queer-authors-read-other-queer-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Middle Grade Writers' Craft Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend\nThe Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a middle grade (8-12 year old) audience from a writing craft perspective. \nWe are middle grade writers ourselves\, and our goal is to study the techniques used by other writers to improve our writing. For an overview of our past book selections and discussion topics\, see our blog at http://www.mglunchbreak.com. \nWe welcome both new and experienced writers with an interest in a craft-focused book discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/middle-grade-writers-craft-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Paula Saunders\, The Distance Home
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel\, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. \nIn the years after World War II\, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions–the ruggedness and the promise–of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines\, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon\, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where\, for most\, there are limited options. \nRené shares a home\, a family\, and a passion for dance with her older brother\, Leon. Yet for all they have in common\, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to René\, a born spitfire\, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class\, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile\, René excels at everything she touches\, basking in the delighted gaze of their father\, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. \nAs the years pass\, René and Leon’s parents fight with increasing frequency–and ferocity. Their father–a cattle broker–spends more time on the road\, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as René and Leon grow up\, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat–a word of praise\, a grandmother’s outstretched hand\, the seductive attention of a stranger–as René works to save herself\, crossing the border into a larger\, more hopeful world\, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. \nTender\, searing\, and unforgettable\, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades–a tale of haves and have-nots\, of how our ideas of winning and losing\, success and failure\, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It’s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author’s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize\, in turn\, with everyone involved. \nPaula Saunders grew up in Rapid City\, South Dakota. She is a graduate of the Syracuse University creative writing program\, and was awarded a postgraduate Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the State University of New York at Albany\, under then-Schweitzer chair Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband. They have two grown daughters. \n“Paula Saunders has given us a riveting family saga for the ages. The Distance Home is fresh\, with a seductive Midwestern innocence\, though the book’s outwardly ideal clan holds dark secrets that kept me turning pages into the wee hours. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years–destined to become a classic.” –Mary Karr \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the start time of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paula-saunders-the-distance-home/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon presents THE INCENDIARIES (w/ Nayomi Munaweera)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends\, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel\, The Incendiaries\, on Tuesday\, August 14th at 7pm. Joining her in conversation tonight is Nayomi Munaweera (What Lies Between Us). \nFirst … check out this advance praise! \n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.” —Lauren Groff\, author ofFates and Furies and Florida \n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You  \nA powerful\, darkly glittering novel about violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Buzzfeed\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, August 13\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-presents-the-incendiaries-w-nayomi-munaweera/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Sapiens by Yuval Harari\nOne hundred thousand years ago\, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods\, nations\, and human rights; to trust money\, books\, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy\, timetables\, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? \nIn Sapiens\, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history\, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical–and sometimes devastating–breakthroughs of the cognitive\, agricultural\, and scientific revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology\, anthropology\, paleontology\, and economics\, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text\, Harari explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies\, the animals and plants around us\, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors? And what\, if anything\, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? \nBold\, wide-ranging\, and provocative\, Sapiens integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts\, our actions\, our heritage…and our future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jessamyn Stanley\, Every Body Yoga
DESCRIPTION:This event will be a part of Bookshop Santa Cruz’s Women’s Voices effort in August. You can read more about the program here. \nBookshop is delighted to welcome Yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley\, who will discuss and sign copies of her book\, Every Body Yoga\, in which she shares her path to becoming a yogi and embracing looking different from the lean practitioners typically shown in the media. This mix of memoir and guide is suffused with Stanley’s enthusiasm and honesty. Part one reveals her early encounters with yoga\, along with the discouragement that stemmed from being a “fat girl”; it goes back to her childhood eating habits and family life\, and also includes an honest\, vulnerable FAQ (“What if I’m the fattest person in the class and everyone stares at me?”). Part two includes Stanley’s witty nutshell history of modern yoga and breaks down the different styles and recommends useful clothing\, mats\, and props. Part three is devoted to the “ABCs of Asana\,” or yoga postures\, and also recommends asking “How do I feel?” rather than “How do I look?” In part four\, Stanley teaches readers to do yoga on their own by sharing stories of her own triumphs. In part five\, Stanley reminds readers that everyone struggles while doing yoga\, including her. This touching work is a must for those new to yoga\, no matter their age or body type. – Publisher’s Weekly \nHere are “directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home\, all photographed in full color. It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty. Most of all\, it’s a book that changes the paradigm\, showing us that yoga isn’t about how one looks\, but how one feels\, with yoga sequences like ‘I Want to Energize My Spirit\,’ ‘I Need to Release Fear\,’ ‘I Want to Love Myself'” \nAs an internationally recognized yoga teacher and Instagram star\, Jessamyn Stanley conducts yoga workshops across the country\, teaching students of all shapes\, sizes\, and colors how to make yoga a permanent part of their lives. A rising media favorite\, Jessamyn has been profiled and featured by a wide range of international and national news outlets\, including Good Morning America\, New York\, Glamour\, Shape\, Al Jazeera English\, the Huffington Post\, The Daily Mail\, The Sunday Times Style\, and People\, among others. She won a 2016 Shortie Award (honoring excellence in social media) in the Healthy Living Category. She lives in Durham\, North Carolina. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating is usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessamyn-stanley-every-body-yoga/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alice Bolin / Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Alice Bolinfor her superb debut\, Bad Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession. Please join us! \n  \nIn this poignant collection\, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks\, Britney Spears\, and Serial\, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused\, killed\, and disenfranchised\, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible\, thoughtful and heartfelt\, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations\, and her own role as a consumer and creator. \n  \nBolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles\, dissects the Noir\, revisits her own coming of age\, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves\, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction\, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate. \n  \nReminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and the critical skill of Hilton Als\, Bolin constructs a sharp\, perceptive\, and revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our culture. \n  \n\n  \n“Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry\, macabre humor\, blistering intelligence… I love this book.” –Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \n  \n“Bracing and blazingly smart\, Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls could hardly be more needed or more timely.”  – Megan Abbott\, Edgar Award-winning author of You Will Know Me \n  \n\n  \nAlice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession\, a collection of essays forthcoming from Morrow/HarperCollins on June 26\, 2018. It was named one of the most anticipated nonfiction reads of 2018by Bitch magazine. Kirkus called it “an illuminating study on the role women play in the media and in their own lives.” \n  \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, which begins at 4pm. The bar will be open. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-bolin-dead-girls-essays-on-surviving-an-american-obsession/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (A Kind of Freedom)\nHannah Pittard (Visible Empire)\nCassandra Khaw (A Song for Quiet\, Bearly a Lady)\nMarlee Jane Ward (Welcome to Orphancorp) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-14/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg\nOur world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world\, racism\, poverty\, war\, inequality\, hunger. While politicians\, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done\, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering\, darkness and division\, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now. \nJohan Norberg is a lecturer\, documentary filmmaker and internationally acclaimed author. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. A frequent commentator in Swedish and international media\, he has a weekly column in Sweden’s biggest daily\, Metro.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Nona Caspers
DESCRIPTION:Nona Caspers discusses her new novel\, The Fifth Woman. \n\nPraise for The Fifth Woman \n\n“The Fifth Woman is stealthily astonishing from its first line to its last. Over the course of twenty-three connected short fictions\, the writer marks out a trail of mourning that is both quite straightforward and miraculously layered\, strange\, and emotionally multifaceted. There is not a single sentence in these stories that is not as clear as water…. It is a wonderful book.”—Stacey D’Erasmo \n\n“Grief alters the world in ways that are both expected and less so. The Fifth Woman is a story of love\, loss\, and carrying on\, in language that is always precise and often transporting. There is a sadness here but also acute observation and magical happenings. Nona Caspers is a true original.”—Jean L. Thompson \n\nAbout The Fifth Woman \n\nAt the center of this book is the death of the narrator’s partner in a bicycling accident. Each short chapter serves as a brief vignette of\, or occasionally a magical-realist metaphor for\, the grieving process. A shadow of a dog appears in her apartment with no apparent source; a crack opens in the ceiling and splits her building down the middle. One day she notices in the alley below her window four women chatting together and a fifth\, with no features\, standing on the perimeter. She finds herself wondering: What did she want from me? What are the things that matter? At times dryly comical\, at other times radiantly surreal\, The Fifth Woman is a testament to the resurrecting power of memory and enduring love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nona-caspers/
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:Epic Poetry Reading\, Frederick Glaysher\, at Sacred Grounds
DESCRIPTION:In 1977\, Frederick Glaysher took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry\, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting Homer. Before long the idea of writing an epic poem became compelling and the dream that one day I might also revive the art of the rhapsode. \nThirty years in the making\, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem takes place partly on the moon\, at the Apollo 11 landing site\, the Sea of Tranquility\, an epic tale or chant\, the story of humanity from Blombos Cave to the dark side of the moon. \nIn a world of Quantum science\, Apollo calls all the poets of the nations\, ancient and modern\, East and West\, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modernity. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character\, the Poet of the Moon\, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and wisdom traditions of humankind. On Earth and on the moon\, the poets teach a new global\, universal vision of life. \nGlaysher has read more than twenty-five times from his epic poem\, mostly in Metro Detroit\, at Detroit Public Library\, Troy Public Library\, universities\, cafes\, UU churches\, the Theosophical Society\, and elsewhere. In California\, last year he read at Tuesdays at North Beach Library\, Cafe International (SF)\, Florey’s Books (Pacifica)\, and at the Himalayan (Berkeley). \nDownload the Brochure for Epic Poetry Readings at https://earthrisepress.net \n“Like a story around a campfire.” —The Audience\n“Certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance and the words themselves.” —Albany Poets News\, New York \n“Glaysher has written an epic poem of major importance that is guaranteed to bring joy and an overwhelming sense of beauty and understanding to readers who will travel the space ways with this exquisite poet. While the poem reads like the classic poetry of Milton\, it has the contemporary edge of genius modernity. I am truly awed by this poet’s use of epic poetry that today’s readers will connect with\, enjoy and savor every word\, every line and every section. Frederick Glaysher is a master poet who knows his craft from the inside out\, and this is truly a major accomplishment and contribution to American Letters. Once you enter\, you will not stop until the end. A landmark achievement. Bravo!” —ML Liebler\, Poet\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, Michigan​ \n“A remarkable poem by a uniquely inspired poet\, taking us out of time into a new and unspoken consciousness…” —Kevin McGrath\, Harvard University\, author on the Mahabharata​ \n​”A great epic poem of startling originality and universal significance\, in every way partaking of the nature of world literature.” —Hans Ruprecht\, Carleton University\, Canada\, author on Goethe\, Borges\, etc. \n“And a fine major work it is.” —Arthur McMaster\, Converse College\, South Carolina\, in Poets’ Quarterly \n“Don’t be intimidated by an epic poem. It’s really coming back to that image of the storyteller sitting around the campfires of the world\, dipping into and weaving the story of humanity\, in the most beautiful\, mellifluous language.” —New Consciousness Review Radio\, Portland\, Oregon \n​”I am in awe of the brilliance of this book! Everyone must read this book\, especially if you enjoy literature\, wisdom\, and philosophy.” —Anodea Judith\, Author\, Novato\, California​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/epic-poetry-reading-frederick-glaysher-at-sacred-grounds/
LOCATION:Sacred Grounds\, 2095 Hayes\, Sacred Grounds\, 94117
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180811T190000
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Event: PASEO ARTISTICO
DESCRIPTION:1-3pm Kid’s Craft Table \n4pm Peggy Reskin:  Dynamic Speaker and Author of Barefoot Frontrunners; Sex Women and Power \n6:30pm Poetry – Per-versions with your host Arturo Mantecon \nhttps://www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neighborhood-event-paseo-artistico/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180810T210000
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SUMMARY:The Parliament of Poets\, An Epic Poem\, at the Shelton Theater
DESCRIPTION:Shelton Theater – The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. August 10\, Friday\, 7:30 to 9:00 pm. https://sheltontheater.org/the-parliament-of-poets-an-epic-poem/ \n\n\n\n\nThe Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1977\, FREDERICK GLAYSHER took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry\, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting Homer. Before long the idea of writing an epic poem became compelling and the dream that one day he might also revive the art of the rhapsode. \nThirty years in the making\, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem takes place partly on the moon\, at the Apollo 11 landing site\, the Sea of Tranquility\, an epic tale and shaman-like chant\, the story of humanity from Blombos Cave to the dark side of the moon. \nApollo calls all the poets of the nations\, ancient and modern\, East and West\, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modernity. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character\, the Poet of the Moon\, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and wisdom traditions of humankind. On Earth and on the moon\, the poets teach a new global\, universal vision of life. One of the major themes is the power of women and the female spirit across cultures. \nFREDERICK GLAYSHER is an epic poet\, rhapsode\, poet-critic\, and the author or editor of ten books. \nGlaysher has performed more than twenty-five times from his epic poem in Metro Detroit\, universities\, cafes\, UU churches\, the Theosophical Society\, Albany and Buffalo New York\, Austin International Poetry Festival\, and elsewhere. In California\, last year\, he read at Tuesdays at North Beach Library\, Cafe International\, Floreys Books\, and at the Himalayan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-parliament-of-poets-an-epic-poem-at-the-shelton-theater/
LOCATION:Shelton Theater\, 533 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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