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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Jessi Jezewska Stevens with Rita Bullwinkel: The Exhibition of Persephone Q
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJessi Jezewska Stevens discusses her new novel\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for The Exhibition of Persephone Q \n“A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q’s perspective is skewed and searching at once\, and through her eyes\, we see afresh not only New York’s post-9/11 landscape but also the world of art\, and love\, and the process of becoming.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Finally a book that exposes how dull Occam’s Razor has become after all these years. Adroitly crafted\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a fun\, urbane look at the faulty heuristics of perception and authenticity. Proof positive that in the age of Photoshop and Trumpian Denialism\, the simplest explanation no longer applies.” —Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n“The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a resonant and uncanny novel\, a moving meditation on “how casually one version of reality detaches from the truth; it peels away naturally\, like damp wallpaper in a neglected room.” Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a promising\, persuasive new writer\, and I will be surprised if this doesn’t turn out to be one of the strongest debut novels of 2020.” —Justin Taylor\, Bookforum \nAbout The Exhibition of Persephone Q \nPercy is pregnant. She hasn’t told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband—certainly she means to—but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now\, instead of sleeping\, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood\, all the while fretting over her marriage\, her impending motherhood\, and the sinister ways the city is changing. \nAmid this alienation—from her husband\, home\, and rapidly changing body—a package arrives. In it: an exhibition catalog for a photography show. The photographs consist of a series of digitally manipulated images of a woman lying on a bed in a red room. It takes a moment for even Percy to notice that the woman is herself . . . but no one else sees the resemblance. \nPercy must now come to grips with the fundamental question of identity in the digital age: To what extent do we own our own image\, and to what extent is that image shaped by the eyes of others? \nCapturing perfectly the haunted atmosphere of Manhattan immediately after 9/11—and the simmering insanity of America ever since—Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a darkly witty satire about how easy it is to lose ownership of our own selves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessi-jezewska-stevens-the-exhibition-of-persephone-q/
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:Bawdy Storytelling's 'ISLAGIATT'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-islagiatt/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
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SUMMARY:My Word Open MIC Welcomes Tureeda Mikell & Barbara Saunders
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing powerful women poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-word-open-mic-welcomes-tureeda-mikell-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T203000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions among fiction\, the essay\, and poetry. She was the 2018–19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ On Our Mind program\, a yearlong series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading-group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018.  Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nPrageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\nreading and in conversation\nThursday March 12\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and ATA: Artists’ Television Access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-dodie-bellamy-and-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora
DESCRIPTION:The Mycological Society of Marin is proud to announce Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora. \nJoin us for this special After Hours mushroom talk where David Arora will explore some of the many contemporary myths about wild mushrooms spawned and reinforced by the Internet. Arora is an American mycologist\, naturalist\, and author of two popular mushroom field guides\, Mushrooms Demystified and All the Rain Promises and More. \nDoors open for the Marin Mycological Society’s meeting at 6:30pm\, followed by the mushroom talk at 7:00pm. Wine reception for registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Limited seating. Registration opens February 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-mushrooms-demythified-with-david-arora/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:On Astrology and Real Relationships
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to friendship\, family\, and romance\, we all want the same things: to love and be loved\, to communicate\, to fight fair\, and to feel okay in our own skin. \nBeloved Bay Area astrologer and host of the popular podcast\, Ghost of a Podcast\, Jessica Lanyadoo has turned her skills towards relationships and matters of the heart\, doing the math on why we are the way we are\, and why our actions might not reflect our desires. \nJessica’s first book\, Astrology for Real Relationships\, is a modern\, practical guide to relationships of all kinds designed to help everyone understand their blind spots\, blocks\, and fears so they can make choices that leave them happy and fulfilled. Jessica offers astrological tools to illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family\, your friends\, and yourself. \nJoin Jessica for an evening full of real talk about attraction\, dating\, sex\, frenemies\, self-love\, and how to deal with family. Discover how to build and maintain strong connections-with your crushes\, your spouse\, your boss\, or your mom-and uncover and get what you really want in relationships\, not what you think you should want. \n$20. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/full-calendar/lanyadoo-jessica-march-13-2020 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-astrology-and-real-relationships/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miah Jeffra's The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Reading and Release
DESCRIPTION:Help Alley Cat give a big congratulations to Miah Jeffra on their newest book\, The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Featuring a star-studded slew of readers including: Carson Beker\, Jennifer Lewis\, Juli Delgado Lopera\, Monique Mero and Baruch Porras-Hernandez! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miah-jeffras-the-fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T210000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Deb Olin Unferth: Barn 8
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nDeb Olin Unferth discusses her new novel\, Barn 8\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Barn 8 \n“Barn 8 is a novel like no other: An urgent moral fantasia\, a post-human parable\, a tender portrait of animal dignity and genius.”—Dana Spiotta \n“Deb Unferth’s hilarious\, off-kilter genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilization. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens. You are really really going to love these chickens . . .”—Jenny Offill \n“Like Flannery O’Connor\, Deb Olin Unferth does things entirely her own way\, and that way is impossible to describe. . . . This very funny and absurd novel is also as serious as the world.”—Zachary Lazar \n“I leap to read anything Deb Olin Unferth writes\, and her latest book\, Barn 8\, is further proof of her singular talent\, her gigantic heart. While Unferth’s characters try to save hens\, her miracle of a novel might\, in turn\, save you.”—R.O. Kwon \nAbout Barn 8 \nAn unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers \nTwo auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious\, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. \nDeb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices\, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter\, a former director of undercover investigations\, hundreds of activists\, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens\, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters\, their earnest efforts to heal themselves\, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. \nFunny\, whimsical\, philosophical\, and heartbreaking\, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity\, razor-sharp wit\, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama\, a tour de force for our time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth-barn-8/
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:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:reading from Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical\, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes.\n\n\nFrom the best-selling author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. \nRose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903\, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later\, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes\, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together\, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and\, over the next dozen years\, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman\, Big Bill Haywood\, Eugene V. Debs\, John Reed\, Margaret Sanger\, Jack London\, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control\, earning her notoriety as “one of the dangerous influences of the country” from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw\, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began. \nBy a master of narrative nonfiction\, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich\, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time.\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of ten books. King Leopold’s Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“Although the stuff of fairy tale—penniless immigrant factory worker marries old-money millionaire\, then uses her fortune and influence to fight for the laboring classes—the story Adam Hochschild tells in Rebel Cinderella is as taut and true as a well-tuned violin.  Rose Pastor Stokes comes alive as a woman of passionate conviction and rare imaginative power\, restored by Hochschild to her rightful place in the history of America’s rise to world prominence in the first decades of the twentieth century.”\n––Megan Marshall\, author of Elizabeth Bishop \n“Through the lens of a remarkable marriage\, Adam Hochschild draws a vivid portrait of the Gilded Age – of immigrants\, sweatshops\, tenements\, strikes\, enclaves of patrician privilege\, and a ‘citadel of socialism’ on a private island.  At the center of it all is Rose\, whose extraordinary story ends as anything but a fairy tale.”\n––Jean Strouse\, author of Morgan: American Financier \n“Adam Hochschild recounts the incredible story of Rose Pastor Stokes\, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who toiled in a cigar factory\, met and married a rich socialite\, and became an infamous socialist firebrand. The book is chock-full of fascinating characters and stories\, with Stokes and her comrades often recounting their dramatic lives in their own words.”\n––Tyler Anbinder\, author of City of Dreams \n“Lucidly written and painstakingly researched\, this is a joy to read\, cementing Pastor in her rightful place with other progressive figures of the time.”\n––Library Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Women's History Month: Poetry Reading/Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley celebrates Women’s History Month with Asian American Poets Laureate. Aileen Cassinetto and Maw Shein Win will lead a poetry reading followed by an open mic and everyone is welcome to join! \nAbout the Poets: \nAileen Cassinetto is the current Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Widely anthologized\, Aileen is the author of the poetry collections\, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems\, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. She is also the publisher of Paloma Press\, an independent literary press established in 2016 which is set to release its 19th book in Spring 2020. aileencassinetto.com \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press\, 2016). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. mawsheinwin.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-womens-history-month-poetry-reading-open-mic/
LOCATION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T170000
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CREATED:20200204T022024Z
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Li: Brave New Medicine w/ Anna O'Malley
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Li in conversation with Anna O’Malley about her book\, Brave New Medicine. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine at Commonweal Garden. \nAbout Brave New Medicine\nIn this revelatory memoir\, Doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her disabling autoimmune illness\, the limitations of Western medicine\, and her hard-won lessons on healing–mind\, body\, and spirit. \nLi had it all: a successful career in medicine\, a loving marriage\, children on the horizon. But it all came crashing down when\, after developing an autoimmune thyroid condition\, mysterious symptoms began consuming her body. Test after test came back “within normal limits\,” baffling her doctors–and baffling herself. Housebound with two young children\, Li began a solo odyssey from her living room couch to find a way to heal. \nBrave New Medicine details the physical and existential crisis that forces a young doctor to question her own medical training. She dives into the root causes of her illness\, learning to unlock her body’s innate intelligence and wholeness. Li relates her story with the insight of a scientist\, and the humility and candor of a patient\, exploring the emotional and spiritual shifts beyond the physical body. \nMillions of people worldwide are affected by autoimmune disease. While complex conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are gaining attention\, patients struggling with these mysterious ailments remain largely dismissed by their doctors\, families\, and friends. This is the harsh reality that doctor-turned-“difficult patient” Li faced firsthand. \nDrawing on cutting-edge science\, ancient healing arts\, and the power of intuition\, this memoir offers support\, validation\, and a new perspective for doctors and patients alike. Through her story\, you can find the wisdom and heart to start your own healing journey\, too. \nAbout the participants\nCynthia Li\, MD\, graduated from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center\, and has practiced internal medicine in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center\, San Francisco General Hospital\, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic for the homeless. She currently serves on the faculty of the Healer’s Art program at the UCSF School of Medicine\, and has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine. She lives in Berkeley\, CA\, with her husband and their two daughters. \nAnna O’Malley is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin in 2005\, and completed her residency training at the University of California-San Francisco in 2008. She was certified in Integrative Medicine in 2010 upon completion of the University of Arizona’s Program in Integrative Medicine. Her other interests include social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and enjoying life. When not working\, she can be found hiking the hills of Marin\, dancing\, savoring yummy food\, reveling in the beauty of nature\, and sharing the mysteries and joys of life with her daughters Lila and Elsa and husband Jeffery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-li-and-anna-omalley/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T180000
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SUMMARY:MCD Book Signing: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
DESCRIPTION:The Museum of Craft and Design is thrilled to welcome Bill Burnett and Dave Evans\, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Designing Your Life”\, for a free book signing event in our museum store. On March 14\, 2020\, Burnett and Evans will be signing their brand new book “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Find Happiness”. \nCopies of “Designing Your Life”\, “Designing Your Work Life”\, and “The Designing Your Life Workbook” will be available to purchase in the museum store and online at sfmcd.org. The book signing will take place from 4-6 PM on Saturday\, March 14 and is free and open to the public. \nWhen “Designing Your Life” was published in 2016\, Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans taught readers how to use design thinking to build meaningful\, fulfilling lives. The book became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Now\, in “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work”\, Burnett and Evans apply that transformative thinking to the place where we spend more time than anywhere else: work. \n“Increasingly\, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving work landscape\,” writes Burnett and Evans. Chapter by chapter\, Designing Your Work Life shows us how to design and create positive changes wherever we are in our career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience\, or you decide it’s time to move on\, Burnett and Evans show us how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive\, engaged\, satisfying\, and fun. \nFree \nhttp://sfmcd.org sbrosales@sfmcd.org 415-773-0303
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcd-book-signing-bill-burnett-and-dave-evans/
LOCATION:Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third Street\, San Francisco\, 94107
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T200000
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Babylon Salon Spring 2020 Performance
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJoin us on Saturday\, March 14 for Babylon Salon’s quarterly reading and performance series\, with readings from Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8\, forthcoming in March; Wait Till You See Me Dance; Revolution)\, C. Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills is Gold\, forthcoming in April)\, Taymour Soomro (fiction in the New Yorker\, Southern Review\, and Ninth Letter)\, and more\, along with a musical performance by Rachel “Lightning” Rose (Jefferson Starship). \nWHERE: The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco. FREE ADMISSION. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. http://www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-spring-2020-performance/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T210000
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:An LGBTQ+ Open Mic hosted by the folks at Alley Cat Books!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T213000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nSusan Fowler (Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber)\nStephen van Dyck (People I’ve Met from the Internet)\nMiah Jeffra (The First Church of What’s Happening) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-27/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T133000
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CREATED:20200131T202126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T203039Z
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SUMMARY:Zine Party ///Paula Salemme + Ariel Cooper
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-party-paula-salemme-ariel-cooper/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T160000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Admission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org \nThe Markham House and map:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-4/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T170000
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SUMMARY:Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante at East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, March 15th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante. \nJudy Halebsky’s new book of poems is Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)\, was a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Katy Peterson says\, “Under the spell of Bashõ’s haiku\, but written in a voice entirely its own\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look good. It makes me want to make dinner\, make love\, make noise.” She’s the author of three previous collections\, the first of which\, Sky = Empty\, won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, she moved to the Bay Area to study poetry. Then\, after college\, she received a fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture to study Japanese literature at Hosei University in Tokyo\, She lives now with her family in Oakland and directs the low-residency MFA program at Dominican University. \nSusan Briante’s latest book of poems is The Market Wonders. Juliana Spahr said of it\, “Poetry’s conventions tend to assume that poetry does not need to bother itself with the economic machinations of something like the Dow. These conventions are wrong and Susan Briante’s The Market Wonders proves it. This is poetry that is only the richer for how it weaves the economics that shape our daily lives into it.” She’s published two previous collections\, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and coordinates the writing program Field Studies Southwest\, which brings MFA students to the U.S.-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups. She hosts the radio program Speedway and Swan and lives in Tucson\, Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judy-halebsky-susan-briante-at-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T200000
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Shurin launches his new book\, The Blue Absolute\, a collection of prose poetry that resembles hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-at-the-green-arcade/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Katie Burke / Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:To outsiders\, the Bay Area is intrinsically linked to tech hubs and counterculture. But what about San Francisco’s kid culture? In her new book\, “Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco\,” Katie Burke explores the experience of kids ages five to nine living in one of the country’s most iconic cultural hubs. \nThe book also includes thoughtful discussion questions designed to draw laughs\, explore various topics from silly to serious\, and facilitate discussion. \nWriter of Noe Kids\, a column of kid profiles for San Francisco neighborhood newspaper The Noe Valley Voice\, Katie Burke brings city kids’ personalities and perspectives to the page\, leading readers to see the joys and challenges to being a San Francisco kid. \nOne five-year-old tries to articulate the city’s aroma\, “I smell a delicious smell\, and it always smells like San Francisco. I don’t know what the smell is\, so I can’t really tell it to people\, but it smells different from ice cream.” \nBut it isn’t all about parks and ice cream. Drawing on her experience being an aunt to six nieces and two nephews (all of whom grew up in major cities)\, Burke unearths an often hidden and unasked perspective on the city’s more complicated subjects –– from homelessness to immigrant parents. By leaning in and crouching down to see a child’s point of view\, Burke shows us a part of San Francisco we never knew. \n\nKatie Burke is a family law attorney and writer in San Francisco. Prior to entering law school\, she earned a master’s degree in counseling. She owns Burke Family Law and writes Noe Kids\, a monthly column for The Noe Valley Voice\, in which she spotlights children ages four to twelve who live in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood\, after interviewing them on various themes. She also regularly contributes judicial and attorney profiles to San Francisco Attorney\, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s magazine. Burke has been published by HarperCollins\, the L.A. Times\, The Journal of Law and Social Challenges\, Trial Insider\, BASF Bulletin (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s newspaper)\, Legal by the Bay (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s blog)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Examiner\, The Fairfield Citizen-News\, The SoMa Literary Review\, Women’s Voices\, The Sitting Room\, The Compass\, Culture-Voice\, and The Street Spirit. She has been broadcast for KQED\, read at Litquake\, and taught writing at City College of San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 5:30pm; event starts at 6pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Urban Playground\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-katie-burke-urban-playground-what-kids-say-about-living-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T203000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit / Recollections of My Nonexistence
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the inimitable Rebecca Solnit reading from and discussing her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed and will be at the Internet Archive HQ\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are on sale now. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged to ensure admission. Unless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nIn Recollections of My Nonexistence\, Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco\, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor\, hopeful\, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that\, when she was nineteen\, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. \nSolnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her\, the street harassment that unsettled her\, the trauma that changed her\, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women\, including her. Looking back\, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women\, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for womens rights. \nShe explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer — books themselves\, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender\, family\, and joy could be\, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since\, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others. \n\nRebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books\, including A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, River of Shadows\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape\, Gender\, and Art\, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003\, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco. \n\n*** Please note *** \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to the author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of the book\, order below and put your request in the special field. \nFacebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-recollections-of-my-nonexistence/
LOCATION:Internet Archive\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T210000
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SUMMARY:Wyoming by JP Gritton Reading and Release!
DESCRIPTION:Alley Cat Books presents a reading of JP Gritton’s newest book\, Wyoming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wyoming-by-jp-gritton-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T210000
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SUMMARY:1968 + Global Cinema w/ Author and Editor Christina Gerhardt
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Christina Gerhardt\, who will discuss her recent three books about 1968. \n1968 and Global Cinema puts cinemas of the long 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries\, considering them in tandem histories of 1968 and the interplay among social movements globally. Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory studies the Red Army Faction (RAF)\, a German left-wing armed struggle group that existed from 1970 to 1998\, presenting the historical and political context out of which they emerged\, in post-fascist era West Germany and globally as the Cold War set in and self-liberation and self-determination wars were waged. Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 considers Germany’s political cinema of the long sixties.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1968-global-cinema-w-author-and-editor-christina-gerhardt/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Eugene Ostashevsky and Brandon Brown at Moe's Books
DESCRIPTION:Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator based in Berlin and New York. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections in English: Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2005)\, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008)\, and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (New York Review of Books\, 2017). \nWriting in LARB\, Boris Dralyuk calls The Pirate a “raucous modern-day Anatomy of Melancholy\, a seriocomic linguistic performance the likes of which we rarely see\, in any tongue. It is a beautiful song\, broadcast by an outcast whose language is all his own.” The Italian newspaper Il Manifesto speaks of The Pirate’s “poetics of immigration.” The German edition of the book\, translated by Uljana Wolf and Monika Rinck\, was awarded the International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster\, with the jury praising the original’s “polyphonic and polyglot verbal acrobatics” and linguistic multiplicity. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Ostashevsky’s work “argues that one must have\ndistance from language\, and also an awareness that no language is only ‘mine’; it is rather many languages of different times and speakers that collide or coalesce under the name ‘English.’ Every\nlanguage is\, in a sense\, a parrot language.” For another German reviewer\, The Pirate “deconstructs the strategies of linguistic exclusion concealed by such concepts as “indigenous\,” “refugee\,” and “native language.” A short opera based on The Pirate by the Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti has recently premiered at the Venice Biennale. \nAs translator and scholar\, Ostashevsky focuses mainly on Russian avant-garde and underground literature. His translation\, with Matvei Yankelevich\, of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (New York Review of Books\, 2013) won the 2014 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He was also the editor and co-translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern\, 2006)\, as well as of a number of books of contemporary Russian poetry\, including Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Endarkenment (Wesleyan\,\n2014). He is currently working on puns in Russian Futurist and European avant-garde poetry and painting circa 1913\, and preparing an English-language edition of Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows\, the first book of Futurist visual poetry. \nAs visiting professor and writer-in-residence at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin\, Ostashevsky leads seminars on translingual literature. He is also Clinical Professor at the Liberal Studies program at NYU. \nBrandon Brown is the author of several books\, most recently The Four Seasons (Wonder) and The Good Life (Big Lucks). His work has recently appeared in Art in America\, Frieze\, Open Space\, Believer\, and Berkeley Poetry Review. He is an editor at Krupskaya\, and edits as well the zine Panda’s Friend. Atelos will publish his next book\, a long poem called Work. He lives in El Cerrito\, California\, under the shade of Albany Hill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eugene-ostashevsky-and-brandon-brown-at-moes-books/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson at Point Reyes Books
DESCRIPTION:Poet Lisa Robertson visits Point Reyes to discuss her debut novel\, The Baudelaire Fractal. \nAbout The Baudelaire Fractal\nOne morning\, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris … This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism\, part feminist ars poetica\, part history of tailoring\, part bibliophilic anthem\, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting\, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel. \n“As far as I’m concerned\, it’s already a classic.” – Anne Boyer \n“Robertson’s debut novel\, for those interested in the possibilities of fiction\, is not to be missed.” – Publishers Weekly \n“A new Lisa Robertson book is both a public event and a private kind of bacchanal.” – Los Angeles Review of Books. \nAbout Lisa Robertson\nLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet and essayist currently living in France. Born in Toronto in 1961\, she was a longtime resident of Vancouver\, where in the early 90s she began writing\, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, and in 2018\, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University\, Princeton\, UC Berkeley\, California College of the Arts\, Piet Zwart Institute\, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and American University of Paris\, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada\, the US\, and Europe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-robertson-at-point-reyes-books/
LOCATION:Point Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Sierra Crane Murdoch: Yellow Bird w/Lauren Markham
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Sierra Crane Murdoch to read from her new book\, Yellow Bird:Oil\, Murder\, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country on Tuesday\, March 17th at 7pm. She will be joined in conversation by Lauren Markham. \nWhen Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009\, she found her home\, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota\, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence\, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition\, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests\, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later\, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker\, Kristopher “KC” Clarke\, had disappeared from his reservation worksite\, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone\, and few people were actively looking for him. \nYellow Bird traces Lissa’s steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke’s disappearance. She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe\, changed by its newfound wealth\, and that of the non-Native oilmen\, down on their luck\, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption\, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written\, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart\, funny\, eloquent\, compassionate\, and—when it serves her cause—manipulative. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation\, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nSierra Crane Murdoch\, a journalist based in the American West\, has written for The Atlantic\, The New Yorker online\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Orion\, and High Country News. She has held fellowships from Middlebury College and from the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a MacDowell Fellow. \nLauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley\, California. Her work has appeared in VQR\, VICE\, Orion\, Pacific Standard\, Guernica\, The New Yorker.com\, on This American Life\, and elsewhere. Lauren earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded Fellowships from the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism\, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship\, the Mesa Refuge\, and the Rotary Foundation. For the past decade\, she has worked in the fields of refugee resettlement and immigrant education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sierra-crane-murdoch-yellow-bird-w-lauren-markham/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William J. Drummond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nPrison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News \nfrom University of California Press \nSan Quentin State Prison\, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest\, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008\, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. \nPrison Truth tells the story of how prisoners\, many serving life terms\, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars\, introducing us to Arnulfo García\, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News\, after a twenty-year shutdown\, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers\, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated\, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform. \nWilliam J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California\, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal\, where he covered the civil rights movement\, and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was a local reporter\, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem\, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley\, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-j-drummond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #58 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-58-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Harry Dodge discusses his new book\, My Metorite: Or\, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing. \nPraise for My Metorite \n“Dodge has offered a new\, luminous angle on autobiography that not only traces where the body has been–but also what it loves\, how it thinks and feels within the potent intellectual and physical detritus of its lived world. Reading this book is like being bathed in the bright\, gritty sear of a comet’s tail. But the mark it leaves is stunningly terrestrial: a thumbprint of a mind on paper–singular in erudition\, hurtfully wonder-struck\, and true.” —Ocean Vuong \n“Harry Dodge’s voice and vision are singular\, but his genius is for revealing how each of us is plural. This is a beautiful record of his loves and deaths and ways of making\, but even its most intimate moments open out\, become portals to other possible worlds. No genre can hold this book. It is a work of tender force\, prying open every category. My Meteorite is breathtaking—or breathgiving\, because the whole thing oxygenates discourse\, makes me feel alive.” —Ben Lerner\n \n“Captivating. My Meteorite holds you in its thrall like a brilliant friend—so vulnerable\, hot\, funny\, and casually weird that you don’t notice the profundity until you’re already walloped by it. Dodge juxtaposes the tenderest of human details with hungry\, brain-splitting inquiries into the very premise of life\, and these shifts in scale are incredibly moving and provocative. Don’t forget to notice that Dodge is a masterful writer; that’s how he pulls this whole thing off.” —Miranda July \n“A thought-filled\, deeply moving and personal book. The past\, present\, and future collide like Harry’s meteorite to earth. Life is tenderly felt\, questioned\, and affirmed within the pages of this exquisite prose.” —Catherine Opie\n \n“Riveting. A freewheeling\, feral romp through the wilderness of consciousness and connection!” —Eula Biss\n\n“Harry Dodge’s fierce intelligence and love permeates and shapes every line of this book which is redolent with loss\, desire\, and truth. Expansive in scope and intimate in detail\, Dodge’s account of becoming a self while living in a world defined by community\, lifts the spirit as it feeds the mind. A major achievement.” —Hilton Als\n\n“Harry’s book is ‘outside’ the book. Why should you read it? You’re out there too. I could say this is the smartest memoir I ever read but that’s pulling us back to the safe place. We are animals\, machines\, friends\, reading things and we’ve never been talked to this way before. Seductive and wise\, My Meteorite is the conversation you want.” —Eileen Myles  \nAbout My Metorite \nAn expansive\, radiant\, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know \nIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter\, the nature of consciousness\, and the bafflements of belonging. \nStructured around a series of formative\, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life\, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner\, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild\, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical\, the raw and the surreal\, the transgressive and the heartbreaking\, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world\, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-dodge/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Our featured poet is: Clara Hsu!\nfrom 7:30-9:30pm at PianoFight:\n144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. \nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-8/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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