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SUMMARY:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH\, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount\, Executive Director\, Pro Arts Gallery\, Oakland \n  \nThe triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist. \nTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh’s unconventional childhood and peculiar journey to adulthood features an array of famous characters\, from George Herms and Marcel Duchamp\, to Michael McClure and William S. Burroughs\, to Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell\, to the Rolling Stones\, Neil Young\, and Toni Basil. \nTOSH takes an unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of his unusual upbringing by an artistic genius with all-too-human frailties\, against a backdrop that includes The T.A.M.I. Show\, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band\, Easy Rider\,and more. With a preface by actress/writer Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Wallace’s friend\, actor Russ Tamblyn)\, TOSH is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. The index of names included represents a who’s who of midcentury American—and international—culture. \nPraise for Tosh: \n“Tosh Berman’s sweet and affecting memoir provides an intimate glimpse of his father\, Wallace\, and the exciting\, seat-of-the-pants LA art scene of the 1960s\, and it also speaks to the hearts of current and former lonely teenagers everywhere.”—Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \n“This book is like a fascinating series of autobiographical post-cards that could be subtitled\, Growing Up Semina. As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh presents fly on the wall impressions of his parents coterie in the 60s and 70s—a grouping that included such luminaries as Dennis Hopper\, Brian Jones\, Toni Basil\, and Andy Warhol. His memoir give us a glimpse into the ‘other’ Los Angeles—a bohemia that thrived in the 60s and 70s in numerous enclaves such as Topanga Canyon\, Venice Beach\, and West Hollywood. This is the story of a kid growing up inside of art world history\, retelling his upbringing warts and all. A well-written\, fast-moving book that is candid\, funny\, often disturbing\, and never dull.”—Gillian McCain\, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“As the son of artist Wallace Berman\, Tosh Berman had a front row seat for the beat parade of the ’50s\, and the hippie extravaganza of the ’60s. It was an exotic\, star-studded childhood\, but having groovy parents doesn’t insulate one from the challenge of forging one’s own identity in the world. Berman’s successful effort to do that provides the heart and soul of this movingly candid chronicle of growing up bohemian.”—Kristine McKenna\, co-author of Room to Dream by David Lynch \n“Through the prism of Tosh Berman\, only child\, born 1954 to Wallace and Shirley\, who personified the wild heart of 20th century West Coast art\, we are offered a truly intimate invitation into a magic world of outliers\, visionaries and shooting stars.TOSH recounts a life ‘lived like a good book on a bookshelf\,’ a memoir resonant with discovery\, passion\, music\, art\, sex\, celebrity\, ego\, desire\, and dignity. All told with a son’s love for his father\, a continuing light into the creative life.”—Thurston Moore\, musician & writer \n“This book is sublime: vertiginous\, melancholy\, highly amusing!”—Johan Kugelberg\, Boo-Hooray \n“One could not wish for a better guide into the subterranean and bohemian worlds of the California art/Beat scene than Tosh Berman\, only scion of the great Wallace. Tosh has a sly wit and an informed eye\, he is both erudite and neurotic\, and often hilarious. TOSH\, the book\, is packed with keen observations and unique anecdotal factoids that could only come from a true insider. It’s a must for anyone who cares about California counter-culture and the raggedy-ass drumbeat of the Beat Generation.”—John Taylor\, Duran Duran \n“Tosh Berman is one of the most valuable writers\, much less people\, the earth has upon it. This book is exquisite. I can’t think of another word. What it says\, how it says it\, what it is.”—Dennis Cooper\, author of The Marbled Swarm \n“I first met Tosh Berman when he was assigned to sit next to me in 5th grade. We rode the Topanga school bus together for many years and even drove with each other to our high school graduation. But the overlap doesn’t end there. Our parents frequented many of the same movie theaters\, clubs\, and galleries. Neither of our mother’s drove\, either. Both of our families had the celebrities of the day passing through our houses. I witnessed much of what Tosh saw and writes about\, and I can say that TOSH: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World captures the times\, places\, and people with accuracy\, sensitivity\, humor\, and\, at times\, great sadness. This is a beautifully written memoir\, and I highly recommend it to those who are interested in the Sixties\, Topanga Canyon\, the Southern California art scene\, and for those who wonder what it might mean to grow up as the son of one of our most acclaimed artists.”—Lisa See\, author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane \n“Reading TOSH\, I felt like I was lying on a couch\, completely relaxed and engrossed\, while Tosh Berman sat in a chair beside me and told me his amazing life story. And at the end\, I was very moved and wanted to cry. The affect that TOSH—the book and the man—had on me was that feeling I get when exposed to great art: a mix of sadness and wonder\, which seem to be the two faces of the human heart. Wonderment at the beauty around us—the world\, its people—and the sadness that nothing lasts\, that all must perish. But this is our journey on planet earth: to be brave and feel both things at once\, and it’s great art\, like this book\, that reminds us to do so.”—Jonathan Ames\, author of You Were Never Really Here \n“If you are interested in California bohemian art-scene culture\, eccentric and fascinating family and friend dynamics between unique individuals\, and celebrated yet oddly little-known artists with uncompromising personalities\, then read this book!”—Roman Coppola\, filmmaker\, screenwriter \n“This book is perfection. I wish it went on forever. Maybe\, somehow\, it does.TOSH is almost like a giant map of small city . . . Each sentence is a street. Each chapter is an era. Each memory revealing a secret passage from one place to the next . . . TO READ IT is to WALK IT with Tosh Berman.” —Jason Schwartzman\, actor \n“Tosh Berman paints an intimate and heartfelt portrait of growing up within the quirky West Coast counterculture of the 1950-70s. At the center of the tale is his dedicated and passionate artist father\, Wallace Berman\, who introduces his son to a bizarre collection of artists\, crooks\, cowboys\, beatniks\, hippies\, freaks\, filmmakers\, musicians\, mystics\, and assorted weirdos. Including hilarious personal stories about Dean Stockwell\, Dennis Hopper\, Allen Ginsberg\, Cameron\, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott\, Michael McClure\, Robert Duncan\, George Herms\, Leslie Caron\, William Burroughs\, Andy Warhol\, Russ Tamblyn\, Lenny Bruce\, Phil Spector\, Brian Jones\, Alexander Trocchi\, John Cage\, and many many more\, TOSH\, is a delightfully entertaining memoir filled with sly wit and a profound personal perspective.”—John Zorn\, composer \n“There’s the life—and then there’s the life. With TOSH you can have both. My life\, and that of many who sailed with me\, was formed by the 40’s & 50’s. TOSH takes you there. Feel the fabric\, touch the canvas of all that informed us. Embrace it and move forward.”—Andrew Loog Oldham\, producer/manager\, The Rolling Stones \n“This double narrative of Tosh Berman and his father\, Wallace\, will tell you more about the creative process than a hundred how-to books purporting to do the same. Joyous and unselfconsciously readable\, it celebrates the delights of surprise and observation on every page\, as well as\, yes—the confidence that things will somehow land upright.”—Jim Krusoe\, author of The Sleep Garden \n“What compels about Tosh Berman’s gorgeously written memoir is the proximity of the quotidian and the familiar to the extraordinary\, the shocking even\, and the enviably glamorous. He recounts a coming of age in which the unexpected laces the ordinary as surely at it does in Alice In Wonderland—only for Tosh\, growing up\, a cast of artists\, nutcases\, iconoclasts\, stars\, and extremists of all kinds provide the distraction and disruption once supplied by the White Rabbit or Cheshire Cat. Add to this his exemplary taste in\, and understanding of\, a particular pop sensibility—TV\, music\, Warhol\, and comic books. That then heady and head-spinning world\, soundtrack to a sentimental education\, that was for the young romantics of the mid-twentieth century what clouds and peaks were to those of mid-nineteenth. Brava\, Tosh Berman!”—Michael Bracewell\, writer \n“If the first movie your father takes you to as a child is . . . And God Created Woman\, you can be sure of two things. First\, that your father is an extraordinary person. Second\, that you are destined to lead an extraordinarily interesting life. Both of these suppositions are made evident in Tosh Berman’s vivid and loving memoir\, TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World. What a world!”—Ron Mael\, Sparks \n“Reading TOSH is like meeting your idols\, one at a time\, for a quiet chat. Everyone is disarmed\, and it feels like you’ve been in the same room with them for about ten hours\, or so. Dennis Hopper is unconstrained and friendly\, Toni Basil is bubbly\, and Brian Jones has just stopped by to say hello. Topanga\, as a place is remote—filled with pockets of escapism\, winding landscapes of tumult and ennui. Tosh’s world is both expansive and crystalline\, he traces the edges of his world\, and Wallace’s world. We get to come and go with Tosh as he navigates his place in and around the tangle of the time.”—Soo Kim\, artist\, Professor at Otis College of Art and Design \n“Sexually giddy\, clairvoyant\, messianic—Wallace Berman’s socially astute photo-collages were vital bread and butter for several generations of artists. The Wallace B bloodline\, from which Tosh sprouted\, is a verdant gene pool. For artists-readers\, TOSH\, the memoir\, is a luscious document of Los Angeles in the last four decades of the 20th century. Every page is filled with juicy history. Such surprises include a teenaged Sammy Davis Jr. sleepover\, a pet alligator\, Mae West\, Allen Ginsberg\, and dozens of remarkable side characters. Bask in Tosh Berman’s honesty and gentle style. He is a one-of-a-kind gem.”—Benjamin Weissman\, artist & writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-by-tosh-berman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: On the Cusp
DESCRIPTION:The events that define us aren’t always immediately apparent. That’s the idea behind On the Cusp\, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning of life’s smaller moments … and their lasting significance. \nAuthors TBA soon — stay tuned\, save the date\, and join us! \n  \n  \n\nAdmission for this event is $5 in advance or $10 at the door. Advance tickets are available at this link. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. This is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, and event begins at 7:30pm. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-on-the-cusp/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sally Wen Mao
DESCRIPTION:reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng \ncelebrating the release of \nOculus: Poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn Oculus\, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement\, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds\, examine robot culture\, and haunt a necropolis for electronic waste. A fascinating sequence speaks in the voice of international icon and first Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong\, who travels through the history of cinema with a time machine\, even past her death and into the future of film\, where she finds she has no progeny. With a speculative imagination and a sharpened wit\, Mao powerfully confronts the paradoxes of seeing and being seen\, the intimacies made possible and ruined by the screen\, and the many roles and representations that women of color are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them. \nSally Wen Mao is the author of a previous poetry collection\, Mad Honey Symposium. She has received fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center\, the George Washington University\, and Kundiman. Visit: http://www.sallywenmao.com/ \nJennifer S. Cheng is the author of MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Publishers Weekly; HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize; and Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press)\, A U.S. Fulbright scholar\, Kundiman fellow\, and Bread Loaf work-study scholar\, she is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Award\, the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, the Mid-American Review Fineline Prize\, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry\, lyric essays\, and image-text work appear in Tin House\, AGNI\, Conjunctions\, Black Warrior Review\, The Normal School\, DIAGRAM\, The Volta\, Sonora Review\, Seneca Review\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-wen-mao/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MIKE CHEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:With pieces featured in The Mary Sue\, The Portalist\, and Tor\, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel\, Here and Now and Then. \nTo save his daughter\, he’ll go anywhere–and any-when… Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT\, trying to keep the spark in his marriage\, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter\, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission\, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him\, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. Until one afternoon\, his “rescue” team arrives–eighteen years too late.Their mission: return Kin to 2142\, where he’s only been gone weeks\, not years\, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.Torn between two lives\, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself\, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda–even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut\, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart\, playfulness\, and imagination\, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-chen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tracy K. Smith\, Poet Laureate of the United States
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nco-presented with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco \nJoin us for a conversation with Tracy K. Smith\, the current Poet Laureate of the United States. In that role\, she has traveled the country on a quest to bring poetry to people living in rural America. Smith authored the critically-acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light and three books of poetry including her most recent\, Wade in the Water. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as the New York Times Notable Book. Duende received the 2006 James Laughlin Award and The Body’s Question won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith has also been a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a Whiting Award\, and received a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, awarded to one poet annually for distinguished poetic achievement. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. \nEven the men in black armor\, the ones\nJangling handcuffs and keys\, what else \nAre they so buffered against\, if not love’s blade\nSizing up the heart’s familiar meat? \nWe watch and grieve. We sleep\, stir\, eat.\nLove: the heart sliced open\, gutted\, clean. \nLove: naked almost in the everlasting street\,\nSkirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. \n– from “Unrest in Baton Rouge\,” Wade in the Water\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nTracy K. Smith\nTracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She is currently serving as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States\, an office she assumed in 2017. She has published four collections of poetry\, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 30\, 2019 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nJewish Community Center of San Francisco\, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tracy-k-smith-poet-laureate-of-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The American Welfare State in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? \nTina Sacks is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race\, class and gender; and poverty and inequality. Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare\, Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and has also served as legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. \nFree to current OLLI @Berkeley members and UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and students; $10 general admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-american-welfare-state-in-the-age-of-trump-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:The American Welfare State in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 30\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? \nTina Sacks is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race\, class and gender; and poverty and inequality. Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare\, Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and has also served as legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. \nFree to current OLLI @Berkeley members and UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and students; $10 general admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-american-welfare-state-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! \n  \nIn an America convulsed by political upheaval\, cultural discord\, environmental collapse\, and spiritual confusion\, many folks are searching for peace\, salvation\, and — perhaps most immediately — just a little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner\, an unwitting guru whose technique of “Mental Archery” — a combination of mindfulness\, mythology\, fake history\, yoga\, and\, well\, archery — is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It’s a role he never asked for\, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans\, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players\, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist\, a gentle Swedish kidnapper\, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars\, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids\, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish. \nIn this social satire of the highest order\, Sam Lipsyte\, the New York Times bestseller and master of the form\, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters.Hark is a smart\, incisive look at men\, women\, and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic\, ridiculous\, and often dangerous world. \n  \n\n  \n“Madcap and full of love\, laughter and unexpected beauty (not to mention the world’s greatest bone marrow smuggling scheme)\, if Hark doesn’t make you stalk Sam Lipsyte and try to break up his marriage\, then you are not human.” – Gary Shteyngart\, author of Super Sad True Love Story \n  \n“Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical\, Lipsyte has penned a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all. More than a ‘must read\, ‘ Hark is a ‘must believe!'” – Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n  \n\n  \nSam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark\, The Ask\, The Subject Steve\, and Home Land\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating is limited and may be reserved by purchasing a book in advance. To reserve a seat\, order with the link below and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Hark\, and/or any of Sam’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sam-lipsyte-hark/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quest for a New Form of Matter
DESCRIPTION:When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s\, scientists thought they knew all conceivable forms of matter. “The Second Kind of Impossible” is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. \nSteinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter\, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important\, simple and beautiful-and Steinhardt’s first-hand account is an engaging scientific thriller. \nPaul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University\, where he is on the faculty of both the departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences. He is the co-founder and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. He received the Dirac Medal and other prestigious awards for his work on the early universe and novel forms of matter. He is the author of “The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter”\, and the co-author\, with Neil Turok\, of “Endless Universe”\, which describes the two competing ideas in cosmology to which he contributed. With his student Dov Levine\, Steinhardt first invented the theoretical concept of quasicrystals before they were synthesized in a laboratory. More than three decades later\, with Luca Bindi\, he guided the team that led to the discovery of three different natural quasicrystals in the Kamchatka Peninsula. In 2014\, the International Mineralogical Association named a new mineral Steinhardtite in his honor. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event for $27 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-second-kind-of-impossible-the-quest-for-a-new-form-of-matter/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:“America does not negotiate with terrorists.” But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist abductions. The US refuses to pay ransoms\, holding that it would only fuel more kidnappings. Other countries pay-up to free their citizens taken hostage. Statistics tell the grim result: according to New America\, “since 2001\, American hostages taken captive by terrorist\, militant\, and pirate groups have been more than twice as likely to remain in captivity\, die in captivity\, or be murdered by their captors as the average Western hostage.” \nJoel Simon has spent nearly two decades with the Committee to Protect Journalists\, working on dozens of hostage cases. His new book We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical\, legal\, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: should governments pay ransom to terrorists? \nJoin KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro as she hosts Joel Simon for this important conversation\, in another installment of our This Is Now news and culture conversation series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-simon-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T210000
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CREATED:20181130T041810Z
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T210000
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SUMMARY:Douglas Rushkoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTeam Human \npublished by W.W. Norton \nThough created by humans\, our technologies\, markets\, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff\, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human\, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. \nIn 100 aphoristic statements\, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: money\, for example\, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation\, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends\, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs\, algorithms directing our attention\, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost. It’s time for Team Human to take a stand\, regenerate the social bonds that define us and\, together\, make a positive impact on this earth. \nAbout Douglas Rushkoff: \n\nNamed one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT\, Douglas Rushkoff is an author\, media theorist\, professor\, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the upcoming Team Human\, based on his podcast\, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock\, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus\, Program or Be Programmed\, Life Inc\, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like\, The Persuaders\, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award\, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative\, money\, power\, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media\,” “screenagers\,” and “social currency\,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future\, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens\, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics\, Ecstasy Club\, A.D.D\, and Aleister & Adolf\, are all being developed for the screen. \n\nPraise for the work of Douglas Rushkoff \n“Original and uplifting. Just the book America needs right now. In his unique and engaging style\, Rushkoff reminds us of our human essence: we are social creatures\, and if we trust this truth about ourselves we can accomplish the seemingly impossible.” — Frances Moore Lappé\, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Daring Democracy \n“Rushkoff is the gold standard. He always knows what tech is up to—and he’s usually prophetic. Now he’s here to tell us how our Silicon masters are attempting to pit us against one another for their own gain. Go Team Human.” — Walter Kirn\, author of Blood Will Out and Up in the Air \n“A vivid thinker\, Rushkoff is an insightful and acerbic antidote to Facebook\, cultural hegemony\, and the corporatization of everything.” — Seth Godin\, bestselling author of The Dip\, Linchpin\, and What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) \n“Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff.” — Parker Posey \n“Technology can be a force for good or amplify our self-destructive capacities. In Team Human\, the always-brilliant Douglas Rushkoff reminds us that the tools we design design us in turn\, and offers a vision to invert our tools and make them better.” — Jason Silva\, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games \n“An astonishing\, paradigm-shifting must-read for all inhabitants of the twenty-first century. Precisely and cogently written. Rushkoff’s best work so far.” — Grant Morrison \n“A searing critique…Visionary\, original\, and inspirational. If you’re not already a member of Team Human\, you will be once you’ve finished reading it.” — Jeremy Lent\, author of The Patterning Instinct \n“[A] catalyst for conversations on what it means to be human.” — Booklist \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-rushkoff/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190128T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190128T200000
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:El Impostor – Javier Cercas\n¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue desenmascarado en mayo de 2005\, después de presidir durante tres años la asociación española de los supervivientes\, pronunciar centenares de conferencias\, conceder decenas de entrevistas\, recibir importantes distinciones y conmover en algún caso hasta las lágrimas a los parlamentarios españoles reunidos para rendir homenaje por vez primera a los republicanos deportados por el III Reich. El caso dio la vuelta al mundo y convirtió a Marco en el gran impostor y el gran maldito. Ahora\, casi una década más tarde\, \nJavier Cercas asedia\, en este thriller hipnótico que es también un banquete con muchos platos -narración\, crónica\, ensayo\, biografía y autobiografía-\, el enigma del personaje\, su verdad y sus falsedades y\, a través de esa indagación que recorre casi un siglo de historia de España\, bucea con una pasión de kamikaze y una honestidad desgarradora en lo más profundo de nosotros mismos: en nuestra infinita capacidad de autoengaño\, en nuestro conformismo y nuestras mentiras\, en nuestra sed insaciable de afecto\, en nuestras necesidades contrapuestas de ficción y de realidad\, en las zonas más dolorosas de nuestro pasado reciente. El resultado es un libro que no habla de Enric Marco sino de usted\, lector; también el libro más insumiso y radical de Javier Cercas: un libro asombroso que\, con una audacia inédita\, ensancha los límites del género novelesco y explora las últimas fronteras de nuestra humanidad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-book-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190127T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T203000
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SUMMARY:Seating #2: The History of Prisons in California
DESCRIPTION:—SOLD OUT!!— \n  \nCalifornia’s prison system started as a privately-run barge anchored in the Bay\, and was embroiled in corruption\, political scandal\, and violence. Since then\, our system has grown to incarcerate more people than the population of Berkeley. Prisons represent the power of the state in its most raw and basic form\, and 167 years later Californians are still confronting the same fundamental questions: Why do we incarcerate people\, what happens when they leave\, and can we do better? \nJared Rudolph is an attorney at the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender and the founder of Prisoner Reentry Network (prisonerreentrynetwork.org)\, a non-profit that supports successful transitions from incarceration to the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seating-2-the-history-of-prisons-in-california/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190127T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T200000
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CREATED:20190112T042530Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of writers. \nReadings by Kate Folk\, J.P. Grasser\, Sarah McColl\, and sam sax\nHosted by Peter Kline \nKate Folk is a fiction writer whose work has appeared most recently in Zyzzyva\, The New York Times Magazine\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and One Story\, and is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly. She’s an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is writing a novel about a clandestine service that allows people to outsource their emotional and intellectual labor. \nA current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, J.P. Grasser is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah\, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief for Quarterly West. Find him online at www.jpgrasser.com. \nSarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and StoryQuarterly\, which nominated her essay on singer-songwriter Connie Converse for a Pushcart Prize. She has received fellowships from Ucross\, the Millay Colony\, and the MacDowell Colony\, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow. She’s based in Los Angeles. \nsam sax is a queer\, Jewish writer and educator\, the author of Madness\, winner of The National Poetry Series\, and Bury It\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, and other journals. In 2018\, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-11/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T170000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater\, “a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane.”–Ann Packer \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 27\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between hunger and art\, duty and desire\, and\nloss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members\nof their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. The adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. \nSarah Stone’s is the author of The True Sources of the Nile. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares\,\nStoryQuarterly\, The Believer\, The Millions\, and The Writer’s Chronicle\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Visit her online at www.sarahstoneauthor.com. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190126T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190126T210000
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers 'Rolling this Way'
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: \nBeginnings\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019\, 6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\nSan Francisco \nTo submit work for consideration\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW Beginnings\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally: no submissions by representatives will be considered. Limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nLet the fun begin! \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-rolling-this-way/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YANovCon at the Millbrae Library
DESCRIPTION:The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today’s top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates these amazing talents). This free half-day celebration will include panel discussions\, author hangouts\, and book signings with at least twenty award-winning\, notable\, and new YA novelists including: \n2018 Printz Medal winner Nina LaCour\, 2018 Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly\, Kristin Elizabeth Clark\, J.H Diehl\, Heidi Kling\, Mitali Perkins\, Hugo-nominated Mark Oshiro\, 2018 Beatty and Stonewall Book Award winner Dashka Slater\, Robin Benway\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Akemi Dawn Bowman\, Kayla Cagan\, Brandy Colbert\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Kelly Loy Gilbert\, C.G. Watson\, E. E Charlton-Trujillo\, Adib Khorram\, Pura Belpré Award-winner Meg Medina\, Randy Ribay\, Lisa Super\, and unexpected guests! \nBooks will be available to purchase on site thanks to our wonderful partnership with Books Inc.! \nNot only will you get to connect with your favorite authors about their writing and publishing process\, we are also working with local organizations to help shine a light on the issues teens face inside the home and how they demonstrate their resilience. We’re constantly impressed with the strength our teens show and want to highlight their courage. \nWhile we don’t require an RSVP to attend\, we are giving out random free prizes randomly to those who attend and RSVP in advance. \nAnticipated schedule: \n\n12-1 Early arrivals\, book sale\, and community fair (the first 200 to arrive will get a free totebag)\n1-2 Opening session\n2:25-3:05 1st breakout sessions\n3:15-3:55 2nd breakout sessions\n4:05-5:05 Author one-on-ones\n5:05-5:45 All author book signing\n\nThere is ample parking at Millbrae Library\, but we highly recommend carpooling and using public transit to reduce your impact on the environment. Millbrae Library is easily accessible via samTrans\, Bart\, and Caltrain. \nTo encourage literacy and writing for students in 6th-12th grades\, YANovCon is also sponsoring a Teen Short Story Contest. Visit your local library for information and enter here (coming soon). \nCheck out #YANovCon on Instagram\, Twitter\, and Facebook! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nMillbrae Library\n1 Library Avenue\n\nMillbrae\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanovcon-at-the-millbrae-library/
LOCATION:Millbrae Library\, 1 Library Avenue\, Millbrae\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190125T203000
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\,\nnurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. Hallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. Hallie Iglehart Austen began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-4/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books\, 138 North Main Street\, Sebastopol\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190124T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T213000
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SUMMARY:MEG WOLITZER In Conversation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn her many novels\, such as The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\, The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, and The Wife\, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into the lives of others. A feminist thread runs through Wolitzer’s work\, particularly her groundbreaking essay\, “The Second Shelf\,” an examination of the underrepresentation of women writers. But nowhere is the subject of power more deeply investigated than in her newest novel\, The Female Persuasion. Campus assault\, intergenerational feminist debate\, mentorship\, friendship\, and ambition make for a timely story\, enriched by Wolitzer’s subtle mastery of character. The book confirms Wolitzer’s position as one of the most accomplished writers of our time\, and “an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page” (Lena Dunham). \nAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, The Table Comes First\, and most recently\, At the Strangers’ Gate. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer-in-conversation-with-adam-gopnik/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190124T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T213000
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SUMMARY:MEG WOLITZER
DESCRIPTION:MEG WOLITZER\nIn Conversation with Adam Gopnik\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn her many novels\, such as The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\, The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, and The Wife\, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into the lives of others. A feminist thread runs through Wolitzer’s work\, particularly her groundbreaking essay\, “The Second Shelf\,” an examination of the underrepresentation of women writers. But nowhere is the subject of power more deeply investigated than in her newest novel\, The Female Persuasion. Campus assault\, intergenerational feminist debate\, mentorship\, friendship\, and ambition make for a timely story\, enriched by Wolitzer’s subtle mastery of character. The book confirms Wolitzer’s position as one of the most accomplished writers of our time\, and “an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page” (Lena Dunham). \nAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, The Table Comes First\, and most recently\, At the Strangers’ Gate. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190124T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T213000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Roupenian / You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian for her debut story collection\, You Know You Want This. Please join us! \n  \nYou Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex\, then seeing them have sex… until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless\, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed\, long-haired\, pink-cheeked coworker. \n  \nSpanning a range of genres and topics — from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural — these are stories about sex and punishment\, guilt and anger\, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel\, revolt and arouse\, scare and delight in equal measure. And\, as a collection\, they point a finger at you\, daring you to feel uncomfortable–or worse\, understood–as if to say\, “You want this\, right? You know you want this.” \n  \n\n  \nKristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard College and holds a PhD in English from Harvard\, as well as an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She’s the author of the short story “Cat Person”\, published in The New Yorker and selected by Sheila Heti for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. She is currently at work on a novel. Photo by Elisa Roupenian Toha. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \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 You Know You Want This\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-roupenian-you-know-you-want-this-cat-person-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Pipher: This is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age\nIt’s one of our American ironies: our culture values older women less\, just as they come into the fullness of experience and wisdom. Women “of a certain age” have greater self-acceptance; the losses they’ve lived can give them deeper appreciation of each day’s gifts. But the passage of time offers no escape from the misogyny every woman wades through daily. And that’s compounded by a new barrier: ageism. \nIn her new book Women Rowing North\, Mary Pipher probes the world of aging women with insight and compassion— just as she did the struggles of adolescent girls in her landmark bestseller\, Reviving Ophelia. Pipher explores how women can build resilience against both new and lingering challenges. “If we can keep our wits about us\, think clearly\, and manage our emotions skillfully\,” she writes\, “we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly\, if we have good maps and guides\, the journey can be transcendent.” \nJoin us for KLF’s ongoing This Is Now series with host Angie Coiro\, as she welcomes Mary Pipher— daughter\, sister\, mother\, grandmother\, caregiver\, clinical psychologist\, and treasured cultural anthropologist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-pipher-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-tickets-52694285025?aff=web\n\nPosted in Premier Event\, This Is Now
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-pipher-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kristin Wilson\, Others’ Milk
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, JANUARY 24\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \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. \nIf you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 22nd. \n  \nBreastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork\, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others’ Milkillustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be—an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood in which “successful” breastfeeding proves one’s maternal mettle. \nExceptional breastfeeders find creative ways to feed and care for their children—such as by inducing lactation\, sharing milk\, or exclusively pumping. They want to adhere to the societal ideal of giving them “the best” but sometimes have to face off with dogmatic authorities in order to do so. Kristin J. Wilson argues that while breastfeeding is never going to be the feasible choice for everyone\, it should be accessible to anyone. \nKRISTIN J. WILSON is chair of the anthropology department at Cabrillo College in Aptos\, California. She is the author of Not Trying: Infertility\, Childlessness\, and Ambivalence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristin-wilson-others-milk/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:The Fiction of Amparo Dávila
DESCRIPTION:Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation \ncelebrating the release of \nThe Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila \nby Amparo Dávila \ntranslated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson \npublished by New Directions Publishing \nLike those of Kafka\, Poe\, Leonora Carrington\, or Shirley Jackson\, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying\, mesmerizing\, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. \nWith acute psychological insight\, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire\, paranoia\, insomnia\, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession\, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife\, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow\, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long. \nAmparo Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928. She has published several collections of short stories and for a time worked as Alfonso Reyes’s secretary. In recent years a massive resurgence of interest has acknowledged her as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. Awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1977\, she was honored with the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2015. \nA former Mellon Public Scholar\, Audrey Harris holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nMatthew Gleeson is a writer\, translator\, and co-editor of Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fiction-of-amparo-davila/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MICHELLE CADY at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Health & wellness coach Michelle Cady discusses her quintessential lifestyle guide\, Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition\, Fitness. Brimming with practical tips for finding balance in your busy urban lifestyle\, Self-Care in the City will not only make you feel unstoppable\, but will also give you an edge. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cady-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:RANDY SHAW at Books Inc. Mountain View
DESCRIPTION:Randy Shaw\, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic\, discusses his compelling new book\, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. \nGeneration Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. From San Francisco to New York\, Seattle to Denver\, and Los Angeles to Austin\, Generation Priced Out tells the stories of tenants\, developers\, politicians\, homeowner groups\, and housing activists from over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis and criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and racial inequality. Randy Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities\, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Defying conventional wisdom\, Shaw demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n317 Castro Street\n\nMountain View\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/randy-shaw-at-books-inc-mountain-view/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Ian S. Port / The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts former SF Weekly music editor Ian S. Port for the Bay Area launch of his first book\, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll. Please join us! \n  \nIn the years after World War II\, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock ‘n’ roll — and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar\, the Esquire\, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered\, Gibson\, the largest guitar manufacturer\, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul — whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought — to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender\, Les versus Leo. \n  \nWhile Fender was a quiet\, half-blind\, self-taught radio repairman from rural Orange County\, Paul was a brilliant but egomaniacal pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s–including bluesman Muddy Waters\, rocker Buddy Holly\, the Beatles\, Bob Dylan\, and Eric Clapton–adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By the time Jimi Hendrix played “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969 on his Fender Stratocaster\, it was clear that electric instruments–Fender or Gibson–had launched music into a radical new age\, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. \n  \n\n  \n“More than an essential\, colorful\, and gripping history of the electric guitar\, The Birth of Loud introduces Ian Port\, the best new non-fiction writer of the past twenty years.” — Daniel J. Levitin\, author of This Is Your Brain on Music \n  \n“Ian Port’s found a way to tell the story of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll–for some of us\, among the postwar American stories\, those that help define who we feel ourselves to be–in beautifully-evoked dual portraits of the men who made the instruments. In doing so\, he re-situates this story in its context so neatly it is as if it had never been told before at all.” — Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude \n  \n\n  \nIan S. Port is an award-winning writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone\, Village Voice\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Believer\, among others. He is also the former music editor of the San Francisco Weekly. A California native and lifelong guitar player\, he now lives in New York with his wife\, Lindsay. The Birth of Loud is his first book. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-ian-s-port-the-birth-of-loud-leo-fender-les-paul-and-the-guitar-pioneering-rivalry-that-shaped-rock-n-roll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nSketchtasy \nfrom Arsenal Pulp Press \nSketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together\, and everything falls apart: it’s an urgent\, glittering\, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. \nThis is Boston in 1995\, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa\, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen\, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions\, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades\, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity\, willful apathy\, and the spectre of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? \nSketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels\, and the editor of five non-fiction anthologies. Her memoir The End of San Francisco won a Lambda Literary Award\, and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest book is the novel Sketchtasy. Mattilda lives in Seattle. \nPraise for Sketchtasy \nIf Sketchtasy doesn’t become a classic\, we are doomed. Mattilda has such complete command of craft here that she is able to evoke experience rather than simply describe it. Whether or not we identify with her characters\, she lets us into their hearts and perceptions through sheer talent\, raw honesty\, and the sophisticated ability to handle word order\, duration\, pacing\, and soul. The form of this novel is determined organically from the emotions at their core. A lesson in how to write\, how to remember\, how to grapple with history. -Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse \nI thought it was impossible that Sycamore could get any better\, but Sketchtasy is a vivid masterpiece that rivals the likes of Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. It’s dangerous\, hilarious\, scary\, and transcendentally beautiful. Sycamore’s prose is so searing\, you might want to read it with sunglasses. -Jake Shears\, singer; author of Boys Keep Swinging \nEvery sentence in Sketchtasy is a living thing\, fierce and funny and a little bit dangerous — a voice made of coke dust and club lights\, cut with crackling insight. I was completely addicted to the story of Alexa’s search for connection\, set in the gritty Boston nightclub scene in the 90s. Nobody writes like Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore — most writers wouldn’t dare try. -Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nReading Sketchtasy is like a night of stealing other people’s drinks\, or a much-needed slap to the face\, or a little of both. Bold\, glittering\, wise\, fun\, the novel as found poem alive in the mouth of this truth-telling queen\, making her way through a wasteland of other people’s lies (and a few of her own)\, and looking for something near paradise. Follow her and live. -Alexander Chee\, author of The Queen of the Night \nSketchtasy is a breakneck spree through a cultural moment\, scratching off the patina of nostalgia to show how urgently relevant it still is. If you’ve heard her read\, you know Sycamore’s voice is one in a zillion. She’s at her very best here. –Shelf Awareness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Art of Relevance
DESCRIPTION:How can you re-ignite your community and create greater participation? \nJoin us for an informal discussion of Nina Simon’s recent book\, The Art of Relevance\, followed by the chance to chat and network with people who work in museums\, zoos\, aquariums\, parks\, historical organizations\, and nature centers. \nNina Simon has been described as a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine for her audience-centered approach to design. “Whether you work in museums or libraries\, parks or theaters\, churches or afterschool programs\, relevance can work for you. Relevance is not something an institution can assign by fiat. Your work matters when it matters to people—when THEY deem it relevant\, not you. The Art of Relevance will help you identify the people you seek to engage\, empathize with their concerns and interests\, and develop authentic ways to invite them into your work on their own terms.” (From www.artofrelevance.org). \nYou can read the book for free online. \nThis free event is open to the public\, but will be of special interest to professionals and aspiring professionals from museums and related fields. You do not have to have read the book to come to the discussion! \nCo-hosted by Cultural Connections\, a community of Bay Area museum professionals who meet regularly to exchange ideas\, share resources\, and inspire creativity and action. We value diversity\, pushing boundaries\, being responsive\, and professional development. To learn more\, please visit our website.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-discussion-the-art-of-relevance/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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