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SUMMARY:Conversation with Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Undaunted
DESCRIPTION:When was the last time you got to spend your Friday night with a Member of Congress? Now’s your chance! Any not just any member but the fierce advocate and fighter Congresswoman Jackie Speier! Come meet Congresswoman Speier and hear about her new book\, Undaunted\, after her experience surviving Jonestown. She will be signing the book as well. \nMore info below! \nCongresswoman Jackie Speier is the U.S. Representative for California’s Fourteenth Congressional District\, which includes southwestern San Francisco\, most of San Mateo County including Burlingame\, Daly City\, Colma\, Foster City\, Half Moon Bay\, Pacifica\, Redwood City\, San Bruno\, San Carlos\, San Mateo\, and South San Francisco. \nShe’s been in Congress since 2008 and an elected official in California since 1986! \nShe is a recognized champion of women’s rights\, personal privacy\, and consumer safety—as well as an avowed opponent of government inefficiency and waste. In November 2017\, Congresswoman Speier coauthored the #MeTooCongress Act to overhaul how sexual harassment and assault are reported and mediated on Capitol Hill\, and in 2018 she was named one of “Politico’s 50” for these efforts. She is co-author of This Is Not the Life I Ordered. Speier received a BA in political science from the University of California at Davis and a JD from UC Hastings College of the Law. For more information\, visit www.speier.house.gov/about. \nAbout Undaunted: \nForty years after the Jonestown massacre changed her life\, U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier tells her extraordinary story in UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back (Little A/Amazon; November 6\, 2018; Hardcover: $24.95; Trade Paperback Original: $14.95; Kindle Ebook: $4.99). UNDAUNTED shares the personal struggles—as a widow\, a mother\, and an outspoken victim of gun violence—that have shaped Congresswoman Speier’s unwavering dedication to her constituents and to fighting for what’s right\, and fighting against waste\, fraud\, abuse\, and corruption. \nIn November 1978\, 28-year-old Jackie Speier\, a congressional legal adviser\, was part of the fateful delegation to investigate cult leader Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown\, Guyana. While helping victims to escape\, the delegation was ambushed on the tarmac and Speier was shot five times at point-blank range. Her injuries were near-fatal\, and after 22 hours in a cargo hold\, she was miraculously rescued and brought home to the United States to embark on a long and harrowing recovery. \nHer experiences inspired her work in public service\, and in 2008 she was elected to Congress\, filling the seat of longtime mentor Leo Ryan\, who was killed in Jonestown. But her path was not without significant challenges\, as Speier recounts in UNDAUNTED. Despite ongoing health struggles stemming from the shooting\, and personal tragedies including the loss of her husband while she was pregnant with her second child\, Speier continued to blaze an unparalleled path in regional and national politics. \nShe writes\, “With the hindsight of forty years\, I see that my baptism by gunfire guided me into the life I was meant to live: one of public service\, one that would ignite the courage to make my voice heard\, and one that would carry with it a visceral appreciation for each new day.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversation-with-congresswoman-jackie-speier-undaunted/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available\, tickets at the door will be $15. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is for mature audiences only. If you have any questions about the content\, don’t hesitate to reach out to events AT booksmith DOT com. Generally speaking\, we’d suggest the show is suitable for ages 18+. \n  \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WORKAROUNDS
DESCRIPTION:featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act)\, Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys)\, James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory)\, Dinika Amaral\, and Ralph Paone\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday January 17th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-workarounds/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyndsay Faye\, The Paragon Hotel
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop is delighted to welcome Lyndsay Faye\, author of the best-selling staff favorites Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham\, for a reading and signing of her new novel\, The Paragon Hotel—a historical thriller which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel. \nPraise for The Paragon Hotel \n“This historical novel\, which carries strong reverberations of present-day social and cultural upheavals\, contains a message from a century ago that’s useful to our own time: ‘We need to do better at solving things.’ A riveting multilevel thriller of race\, sex\, and mob violence that throbs with menace as it hums with wit.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Faye once again vividly illuminates history with her fiction…. remarkably fluid fiction\, framed as a love letter and based in fact.”—Booklist (starred review) \n“From the opening scene\, this novel had me in its grip. Faye delivers a riveting story filled with unforgettable characters and stunning prose\, while never flinching from the painful truths surrounding America’s legacy of racial injustice. A remarkable\, significant novel.”—Fiona Davis\, bestselling author of The Masterpiece \n“Full of wry wit\, dark humor and magnificent period details\, THE PARAGON HOTEL is a wickedly poetic tour de force.”—Laura Lane McNeal\, national bestselling author of Dollbaby \n“Gangsters and prostitutes\, nightclub singers and dodgy cops\, an African-American hotel under constant threat of violence… Lyndsay Faye drops us right in the middle of the tumult of the Prohibition Era\, bringing to life one of the darker times in our nation’s history with wit and heart.”—Lauren Willig\, New York Times-bestselling author of The English Wife \n“A novel at once thrilling and wise\, historic and timely. ‘Nobody’ is somebody who will stay with you long after you turn the last page.”—Natasha Solomons\, New York Times-bestselling author of House of Gold \nLyndsay Faye is the author of five critically acclaimed books: Jane Steele\, which was nominated for an Edgar for Best Novel; Dust and Shadow; The Gods of Gotham; also Edgar-nominated; Seven for a Secret; and The Fatal Flame. Faye\, a true New Yorker in the sense she was born elsewhere\, lives in New York City with her husband\, Gabriel. \n  \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. Please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com with any ADA acommodation requests by January 15th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyndsay-faye-the-paragon-hotel/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi in conversation w/ Joshua Sperling about his new book "A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger"
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate writer Joshua Sperling’s new book\, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. We love John Berger here at Wolfman and we couldn’t be more excited about this book! Sperling “draws on first-hand\, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available\, to dig beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience.” Yes\, please! Sign us up for that! Even better\, Joshua Sperling will be in conversation with one of our local faves and New Life Quarterly columnist\, Zoé Samudzi\, who is also a Berger enthusiast. \nThe two will be in conversation about how Joshua came to the book\, their different connections to Berger\, delineate some themes or dialectical tensions at the heart of the book and ask you how these are pertinent to each’s current work and activism\, including the processes of collaboration\, the role of self-questioning and doubt during transitional political moments\, the motive-force of love in activism\, working inside/outside of academia\, and so much more! \nCopies of A Writer of Our Time will be available. You don’t want to miss this! \nJoshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Guernica\, Film Quarterly\, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine\, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College. \nZoé Samudzi is a Sociology doctoral student at the University of California-San Francisco\, and writer and photographer. She is the co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies\, and critical approaches to science in service of a multidisciplinary means of articulating Blackness(es).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi-in-conversation-w-joshua-sperling-about-his-new-book-a-writer-of-our-time-the-life-and-work-of-john-berger/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:AZATI SEHATTI at Books Inc. Mountain View
DESCRIPTION:Family nurse practitioner\, nutritional consultant and health educator Azati Sehatti discusses her critical guides The Inner Control Is the True Control: Making Lasting Lifestyle Changes and The Inner Control Is the True Control Workbook. \nThe Inner Control Is The True Control empowers you to make lasting lifestyle and behavioral changes. It embarks on this journey by helping you to cultivate principles and values that prompt positive internal dialogues and support mindfulness\, compassion\, and forgiveness. As you gain awareness\, cultivate self-compassion\, and learn to forgive and let go of resentments\, you become empowered to engage in responsible self-care. No longer behaving automatically\, you make better choices\, feel more in control of your lives\, and sustain your lifestyle changes during times of stress. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 17\, 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/azati-sehatti-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:Book Launch with TONY PLATT at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Tony Platt\, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society\, UC Berkeley\, discusses his groundbreaking new work\, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States\, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration\, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt\, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice\, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked\, arrested\, incarcerated\, catalogued\, and regulated in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls traces the disturbing history of punishment and social control\, revealing how the criminal justice system attempts to enforce and justify inequalities associated with class\, race\, gender\, and sexuality. Prisons and police departments are central to this process\, but other institutions – from immigration and welfare to educational and public health agencies – are equally complicit. \nPlatt argues that international and national politics shape perceptions of danger and determine the policies of local criminal justice agencies\, while private policing and global corporations are deeply and undemocratically involved in the business of homeland security. \nFinally\, Beyond These Walls demonstrates why efforts to reform criminal justice agencies have often expanded rather than contracted the net of social control. Drawing upon a long tradition of popular resistance\, Platt concludes with a strategic vision of what it will take to achieve justice for all in this era of authoritarian disorder. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 17\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-with-tony-platt-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:Rachel Roy & Ava Dash: 96 Words for Love
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Roy & Ava Dash: 96 Words for Love\n\n\n\n\n\n01/17/2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiction\n\n\n\n\nReading/Talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEver since her acceptance to UCLA\, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies\, and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true path. A modern retelling of the classic Indian legend of Shakuntala and Dushyanta\, 96 Words for Love is a coming-of-age story about finding yourself in unexpected places. \nRachel Roy is the daughter of an Indian immigrant father and Dutch mother. Rachel is the founder and creative director of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist for using your voice to cultivate change in the world and to design the life you wish to live. Ava Dash is the daughter of fashion designer Rachel Roy. Ava works with young adults that have aged out of the foster care system as well as former sex trafficked girls in India. Inspired from her travels with her mother\, Ava hopes to start a give back business that provides critical resources to educate and empower the girls she has met on her travels to India. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-roy-ava-dash-96-words-for-love/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stevan Allred and Renee Macalino Rutledge
DESCRIPTION:Stevan Allred discusses his new novel\, The Alehouse at the End of the World with Renee Macalino Rutledge. \n\nAbout The Alehouse at the End of the World \n\nWhen a fisherman receives a mysterious letter about his beloved’s demise\, he sets off in his skiff to find her on the Isle of the Dead. The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the sixteenth century\, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess\, drunken revelry\, bio-dynamic gardening\, and a narcissistic\, bullying crow\, who may have colluded with a foreign power. A raucous\, aw-aw-aw-awe-inspiring romp\, Stevan Allred’s second book is a juicy fable for adults\, and a hopeful tale for out troubled times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stevan-allred-and-renee-macalino-rutledge/
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:BINDERY: Jeremy N. Smith / Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Jeremy N. Smith for Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien”. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she arrived at MIT in the 1990s\, Alien was quickly drawn to the school’s tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking.” Within a year\, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning. \n  \nAfter a stint at the storied\, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory\, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons—and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while “hacking” at MIT. The company tested its clients’ security by every means possible—not just coding\, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C-suite. \n  \nAlien now runs a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world’s biggest and most vulnerable institutions—banks\, retailers\, government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm\, old-school deception\, and next generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering\, cybersecurity finally gets the rich\, character-driven\, fast-paced treatment it deserves. \n  \n\n  \nJeremy N. Smith writes regularly for the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, and Discover\, and he and his work have been featured by CNN\, NPR News\, and Wired\, among other outlets. Born and raised in Evanston\, Illinois\, he is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Montana. \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 Breaking and Entering\, and/or any of Jeremy’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-jeremy-n-smith-breaking-and-entering-the-extraordinary-story-of-a-hacker-called-alien/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Trounstine
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nSegregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities \nfrom Cambridge University Press \nSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century\, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing\, amenities (such as parks)\, and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation – first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms\, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics\, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services – from schools\, to safe neighborhoods\, to clean water. \nJessica Trounstine teaches in the School of Social Sciences\, Humanities\, and Arts\, University of California\, Merced \nAdvance praise: \n‘This is a terrific and timely book. Trounstine analyzes one of the pillars of structural racism and how it was built cumulatively to become something that on the surface looks like the workings of a color-free market. While big outcomes seldom derive solely from a single factor\, Trounstine does a superb job of placing the political dominance of white homeownership in a long and consequential directory.’ Clarence Stone\, Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy\, The George Washington University \n‘Segregation by Design is one of the best books on urban politics in years. Trounstine takes on fundamental issues of segregation and inequality across cities and shows how policies meant to guarantee equal access to public services have often had perverse consequences. The book is beautifully written\, erudite\, and interesting on virtually every page. We need more books like this.’ Christopher Berry\, William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor\, University of Chicago \n‘Trounstine’s effective use of primary and secondary historical evidence and a wide range of quantitative data and methods results in a convincing argument about the role of local government actors in generating residential segregation. This book is a compelling and important contribution to the large literature on the causes and consequences of geographic segregation in the US.’ Elisabeth R. Gerber\, Jack L. Walker\, Jr Professor of Public Policy\, Associate Dean\, Ford School of Public Policy\, University of Michigan \n‘Trounstine fills an enormous hole in our understanding of how segregation evolved in the United States.’ J. Eric Oliver\, University of Chicago
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-trounstine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MATT COYLE with TERRY SHAMES at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Joining Books Inc. in Berkeley for an evening of thrills and chills with award-winning mystery writer Matt Coyle sharing his intriguing new novel\, Wrong Light: Rick Cahill #5. Matt will be in conversation with Mystery Writers of America member Terry Shames\, author of the charming Samuel Craddock mystery series. \n\nAbout Wrong Light: Perfect for hard-boiled PI and Noir fans who like a tainted hero living by his own code.\n\nNaomi Hendrix’s sexy voice hovering over the radio waves isn’t the only thing haunting the Southern California nights. A demented soul is stalking Naomi\, hiding in the shadows of the night\, waiting for the right moment to snatch her and fulfill a twisted fantasy.\nWhen Naomi’s radio station hires PI Rick Cahill to protect Naomi and track down the stalker\, he discovers that Naomi is hiding secrets about her past that could help unmask the man. However\, before Rick can extract the truth from Naomi\, he is thrust into a missing person’s case–an abduction he may have unwittingly caused. The investigating detective questions Rick’s motives for getting involved and pressures him to stop meddling.\nWhile Rick pursues Naomi’s stalker and battles the police\, evil ricochets from his own past and embroils Rick in a race to find the truth about an old nemesis. Is settling the score worth losing everything?\n\n\nAbout An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock: When the Jarrett Creek Fire Department is called to douse a blaze on the outskirts of town\, they discover a grisly scene: five black young people have been murdered. Newly elected Chief of Police Samuel Craddock\, just back from a stint in the Air Force\, finds himself an outsider in the investigation headed by the Texas Highway Patrol. He takes an immediate dislike to John Sutherland\, a racist trooper \nCraddock’s fears are realized when Sutherland arrests Truly Bennett\, a young black man whom Craddock knows and respects. Sutherland cites dubious evidence that points to Bennett\, and Craddock uncovers facts leading in another direction. When Sutherland refuses to relent\, Craddock is faced with a choice that will define him as a lawman–either let the highway patrol have its way\, or take on a separate investigation himself. \nAlthough his choice to investigate puts both Craddock and his family in danger\, he perseveres. In the process\, he learns something about himself and the limits of law enforcement in Jarrett Creek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-coyle-with-terry-shames-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:LYNDSAY FAYE at Books Inc. in Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Lyndsay Faye\, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and Gods of Gotham\, will discuss her exciting new historical thriller\, The Paragon Hotel\, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel. \nThe year is 1921\, and “Nobody” Alice James is on a cross-country train\, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead\, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line. \nShe befriends Max\, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem\, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city\, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton\, the stately Mavereen\, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine\, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers—burning crosses\, inciting violence\, electing officials\, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice\, along with her new “family” of Paragon residents\, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods. \nWhy was “Nobody” Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon’s denizens live in fear—and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel\, Davy Lee\, come from in the first place? And\, perhaps most important\, why does Blossom Fontaine seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc. in Alameda\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA 94501
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyndsay-faye-at-books-inc-in-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190116T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190116T200000
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SUMMARY:The State of the LGBT Rights Movement in the US - What are we fighting for?
DESCRIPTION:In the last two years many of the gains the LGBT rights movement fought so hard for have either wiped away or are in serious danger. What’s the prognosis for the movement? How worried should we be? What are we fighting for in this time of uncertainty? Are we a unified voice? Who might we be leaving behind? \nIn a time of close to full legal equality what is the full picture of LGBT life in America and our equal status and treatment in everyday life? \nComing to Manny’s to go deep on this topic is the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Kate Kendall\, Cecilia Chung\, Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Transgender Law Center\, and Strategist for the #BornPerfect Project and 2018 #Out100 awardee Mathew Shurka. \nMore about our speakers below: \nKate Kendall: \nKate Kendell leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights\, a national legal organization advancing the civil and human rights of LGBTQ people and their families. NCLR’s legal\, policy\, and legislative victories set important precedents that improve the lives of all LGBTQ people and their families across the country. Kate will be stepping down from her position at the end of 2018. \nKate grew up Mormon in Utah and received her J.D. degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1988. After a few years as a corporate attorney she was named the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. \nIn 1994 she accepted the position as Legal Director with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and made the move to San Francisco. In 1996 Kate was named as NCLR’s Executive Director. Under Kate’s leadership\, NCLR won custody and family law cases\, achieved victories on behalf of LGBT athletes\, won protections for LGBTQ students and elders and secured asylum for over 300 clients. NCLR was lead on the California marriage equality case in 2008 and was later part of the team of attorneys to secure national marriage equality in the 2015 US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges. Together with GLAD\, NCLR filed a federal lawsuit challenging Trump’s transgender military ban in August 2017\, which secured a nationwide preliminary injunction stopping the ban from moving forward. \nDuring Kate’s 24-year career\, NCLR’s budget has grown from $500\,000 to more than $5 million; the number of staff members has increased by 25; and the organization now has both West Coast and East Coast offices in San Francisco and Washington\, D.C. \nKate acts as the primary spokesperson on behalf of NCLR to the media. She has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, BBC\, NPR\, Fox News\, MSNBC\, CNN\, and dozens of on-line blogs. Kate is also a visible and vibrant social media voice. \nKate lives in San Francisco with her wife Sandy. They have two children Julian\, 22 and Ariana\, 16. \nCecilia Chung:\nCecilia Chung\, Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Transgender Law Center\, is nationally recognized as an advocate for human rights\, social justice\, health equity\, and LGBT equality. She was the former Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and is currently serving on the Health Commission. Cecilia has been working tirelessly on the local\, national and international levels to improve access to treatment for transgender people and people living with HIV\, and to erase stigma and discrimination through education\, policy\, advocacy\, and visibility. \nBorn Perfect: \nIn June 2014\, NCLR launched Born Perfect: The Campaign to End Conversion Therapy by passing laws across the country to protect LGBT children and young people\, fighting in courtrooms to ensure their safety\, and raising awareness about the serious harms caused by these dangerous practices. \nFew practices hurt LGBT youth more than attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity through conversion therapy\, which can cause depression\, substance abuse\, and even suicide. \nBut some mental health providers continue to subject young LGBT people to these practices—also known as “reparative therapy\,” “ex-gay therapy\,” or “sexual orientation change efforts”—even though they have been condemned by every major medical and mental health organization in the country. \nNCLR has been working to protect LGBT youth from these practices for more than 20 years\, securing legislation protecting youth from these dangerous practices in California in 2012\, New Jersey in 2013\, Washington\, D.C. in 2014\, Oregon and Illinois in 2015\, Vermont in 2016\, and Connecticut\, Nevada\, New Mexico\, Rhode Island in 2017\, and Washington state\, Maryland\, Hawaii\, New Hampshire\, and Delaware in 2018. Today\, we are working with legislators and LGBT leaders in dozens of other states and helping bring similar protections to the rest of the country. We believe that every LGBT child is born perfect and that any young person’s identity as lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, or transgender should be honored\, celebrated\, and supported. \nWe are committed to ending these dangerous and stigmatizing practices across the country once and for all—relegating them to the dustbin of history\, and ensuring every child knows they were #BornPerfect \nMathew Shurka is a survivor of conversion therapyand full-time advocate in the fight to end these dangerous and discredited practices. Born and raised in Great Neck\, New York\, he was 16 years old when he came out to his father about being gay. From that time until he was 21\, he endured seeing four conversion therapists in four different states. Today\, the 27-year-old is out and proud\, a dedicated LGBTQ advocate\, and a member of the #BornPerfect Advisory Committee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-state-of-the-lgbt-rights-movement-in-the-us-what-are-we-fighting-for/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ANA ARANDA at Books Inc. Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally exhibited artist Ana Aranda in celebration of her delightful new bilingual picture book\, ¡Our Celebración!: ¡la Celebracion! (Ages 5+) \nIt’s a sunny summer day. Come join the crowd headed for the parade! Marvel at the people riding motorcycles\, bicycles\, tricycles\, and unicycles. Duck out of the way as firefighters spray water on hot spectators. Clap to the music as bands of musicians playing clarinetes\, saxophones\, flautas\, trumpets\, and drums march by. Feast on lemonade\, watermelon\, tacos\, and ice cream. Wave to the corn princess as her float passes by. Then take cover when a quick rain shower comes\, followed by a bright rainbow. Back in the town plaza as night falls\, marvel at the sparkling fireworks that end the day’s festivities. Pop\, pop\, pop! ¡Bón\, bón\, bón! With engaging text and imaginative\, whimsical illustrations\, this story is the perfect way to enjoy a summer day–and learn some Spanish too. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-aranda-at-books-inc-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190115T213000
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SUMMARY:Brittany Ackerman and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:Brittany Ackerman discusses her new memoir\, The Perpetual Motion Machine\, with Francesca Bell. \n\nAbout The Perpetual Motion Machine \n\nInspired by a brother’s high school science project–a perpetual motion machine that could save the world–the Perpetual Motion Machine is a memoir in essays that attempts to save a sibling by depicting the visceral pain that accompanies longing for some past impossibility. The collection has been a science project in its study of memory\, in the calculation and plotting of the moments that make up a childhood. The preparation has been “in the field” in that it is built upon the gathering of lived experience; the evidence is photo albums\, family interviews\, and anecdotes from friends. The project has been one giant experiment–to see if they can all make it out alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittany-ackerman-and-francesca-bell/
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:Incantatory Prophet: Raúl Zurita / Norma Cole and Forrest Gander in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Norma Cole and Forrest Gander discuss and read from the work of one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets\, Raúl Zurita \ncelebrating the release of \nINRI \nby Raúl Zurita\, translated by William Rowe\, forward by Norma Cole \npublished by New York Review Books \nIn 2001\, the president of Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The victims had been flown up in planes and\, after having their eyes gouged out\, were ejected over the mountains and deserts of Chile or the Pacific Ocean. Raúl Zurita’s INRI (these are of course the letters nailed to the cross on which Jesus was crucified\, identifying him as Jesus Christ\, King of the Jews) is a visionary\, prescient response to this atrocity\, an agonized and deeply moving elegy for the dead in which the whole of Chile\, with its snow-covered cordilleras\, fields of wild flowers\, empty spaces\, and the sparkling sea beyond\, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of its lost children and their living and risen body. This incantatory\, prophetic work—prophetic in the same way that Jeremiah and Isaiah are prophetic\, which is to say unapologetically political— is one of the great poems of our new century. \nRaúl Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets. After Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 military coup\, Zurita’s poetry sought to register the violence and atrocities committed against the Chilean people and the corruption of the Spanish language. During Pinochet’s dictatorship\, Zurita published a trilogy of books (Purgatory\, Anteparadise\, and The New Life)\, and helped to form the Colectivo de Accion de Art. \nNorma Cole is a poet\, translator\, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities\, Where Shadows Will\, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. To Be At Music: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her visual work has been shown at 2nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto\, Canada\, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \nPraise for the work of Raúl Zurita \nBecause redemption is not possible in this world as it is\, the murderers unconsciously betray themselves: in brutal opposition to the pouring of libations into the earth for future good harvests\, Pinochet’s regime harvests humans and dumps them into the holes of the earth: the oceans & volcanoes. These deaths cannot be understood and this poem is not for understanding. Zurita’s INRI asks without asking: what forms may avenge our avalanche of unjust deaths.\n—Helen Dimos
URL:https://litseen.com/event/incantatory-prophet-raul-zurita-norma-cole-and-forrest-gander-in-conversation/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190115T203000
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SUMMARY:A NIGHT OF POETRY WITH THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS
DESCRIPTION:TUES. JAN. 15TH\, 6:30PM \nJoin us as we kick off the new year with our friends and neighbors reading their latest poems and works in progress. \nFeatured readers include: \n\nChristopher Bernard (with Mark Weiman)\nMark Bittner\nKate Greene\nLucy Johns\nRichard Slota\nDylan Tweney
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-poetry-with-the-telegraph-hill-dwellers/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Local Leaders Series: SF Parks and Recreation General Manager Phil Ginsburg
DESCRIPTION:Each month at Manny’s we’ll be featuring one local leader for the community to meet\, engage with\, ask questions\, and learn about who they are\, their story\, and what drives them and their work. \nGet excited because for January we’ll be bringing in our awesome General Manager of the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department\, Phil Ginsburg\, to Manny’s. This is your chance to meet the person most involved in the day to day life of our Parks! \nAbout Phil: \nBefore becoming the General Manager of San Francisco Parks and Recreation Phil was the Deputy City Attorney and Chief of Staff to Mayor Gavin Newsom. He’s been in this job for 9 years and 6 months!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/local-leaders-series-sf-parks-and-recreation-general-manager-phil-ginsburg/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JENN STROUD ROSSMAN at Books Inc. in The Marina
DESCRIPTION:Pushcart Prize-nominee Jenn Stroud Rossman shares her witty debut novel\, The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh. \nIt’s 2002 in Silicon Valley. 9/11’s still fresh\, the dot-com bubble has burst\, and holy calamity is raining down on 14-year-old Chad Loudermilk. His father is about to lose his job\, his mother isn’t the same since Chad’s grandma died\, and as one of the few black kids at tony Palo Alto High School\, Chad’s starting to wonder about his birth parents. Next door lives dot-com mogul Scot MacAvoy\, with his luxury SUV and his gardeners and his beautiful wife and his time to play video games with Chad\, all making the Loudermilk family’s struggle to stay afloat seem that much harder. It’s going to be a tough year for the Loudermilks. \nTHE PLACE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH is wise and witty novel about the Silicon Valley that’s not covered in the fawning features in The New York Times. It’s a place where the working class\, blended Loudermilk family grapple with issues of race and inequality\, all while trying to keep a smile on their faces. In the spirit of the works of Celeste Ng and Angela Flournoy\, this is a big-hearted page-turner that will make you laugh\, cry\, and think all at once. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, January 14\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenn-stroud-rossman-at-books-inc-in-the-marina/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190114T150000
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group: Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
DESCRIPTION:Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard\nNOTE: Cynthia Haven literary critic and local author will join us to discuss her book at this month’s meeting. Please be sure to RSVP! \nRené Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era–a provocative sage who offered a bold\, sweeping vision of human nature\, human history\, and human destiny. \nIn this first-ever biographical study\, Cynthia L. Haven traces the evolution of Girard’s thought in parallel with his life and times\, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare. Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most controversial and original minds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group-evolution-of-desire-a-life-of-rene-girard/
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:20190112T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190112T170000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Jan. 12\, 2019:\n \nColin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp)\nSimon Sheppard (Man on Man: The Best of Simon Sheppard)\nIzzy Oneiric (The Year Is Sunday: a lyric memoir)\nJohn Briscoe (Crush: The Triumph of California Wine)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-19/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190111T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190111T213000
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CREATED:20181231T234213Z
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SUMMARY:JEFF TWEEDY In Conversation with George Saunders
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n“Jeff [Tweedy] is our great\, wry\, American consolation poet. I don’t mean this abstractly: to see him play is to find yourself in a crowd of people being actively consoled—being moved\, reassured\, validated\, made to feel like part of a dynamic aural friendship.” – George Saunders. \nFounding member and frontman of Wilco\, Jeff Tweedy is also known for his self-titled solo project\, which most recently yielded the album Warm\, his first album featuring solely original songs. His memoir\, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)\, offers insight into his lifelong intimate relationship with music\, and the projects created along the way\, including Uncle Tupelo\, his band prior to Wilco. In 2014\, Tweedy performed a world tour following the release of an album under the name Tweedy\, a collaboration with his son Spencer. \nGeorge Saunders is the author of nine books\, including multiple short story collections\, and the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo. He is a long-time contributor to The New Yorker\, frequently writing for the “Shouts & Murmurs” column. Saunders currently teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-tweedy-in-conversation-with-george-saunders/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190110T213000
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SUMMARY:ANGELA Y. DAVIS & IBRAM X. KENDI
DESCRIPTION:ANGELA Y. DAVIS & IBRAM X. KENDI\nIn Conversation with Jeff Chang\nThursday\, January 10\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nA teacher\, writer\, scholar\, and activist\, Angela Y. Davis first received national attention in 1969\, after being removed from her teaching position at UCLA for her social activism and membership to the Communist Party. In 1970\, she was placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” on false charges\, which culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. During her sixteen-month incarceration\, a massive international “Free Angela Davis” campaign was organized\, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance\, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison-industrial complex\, and the author of books including Freedom is a Constant Struggle and Women\, Race & Class. \nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s next book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, will be published in 2019. \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, music critic\, and the author of Who We Be\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\, and We Gon’ Be Alright. He is the former Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and currently serves as Vice President of Narrative\, Arts\, and Culture at Race Forward.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/angela-y-davis-ibram-x-kendi/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190110T220000
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SUMMARY:Raise the Bay: In Her Voice
DESCRIPTION:Speak Your Truth presents its fourth event\, “Raise the Bay: In Her Voice” on January 10\, 2019. Raise the Bay will highlight female-identifying singer/songwriters and spoken word artists in the Bay Area. \nAll of the proceeds from this event (and all of our Speak Your Truth events) directly benefit our education programming\, which aims to diversify the next generation of music industry professionals. \nSpeak Your Truth takes place every other month on our Tier One stage (the top tier of The UC Theatre)\, a 250 capacity nightclub space that provides a platform for emerging local artists to share their talents on stage. For more information\, or to donate directly to the Speak Your Truth event series\, please visit this page. \n$10.00. \nPresented by The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raise-the-bay-in-her-voice/
LOCATION:The UC Theatre Taub Family Music Hall\, 2036 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190110T213000
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents a Special Celebration: WTAW 9th Anniversary!
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on January 10\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration: Our 9th anniversary! A spectacular line up of authors will help us ring in the new year and kick off another year of Why There Are Words: Nisha Batsha\, Jack Boulware\, Lydia Kiesling\, Dickson Lam\, Huda Al-Marashi\, Caille Millner Nayomi Munaweera\, and Jeremy Vasquez. \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nNishant Batsha‘s fiction and essays have been published in TriQuarterly\, The Offing\, and The Caribbean Review of Books\, among others. He is currently revising his novel trilogy. www.nishantbatsha.com \n  \nJack Boulware is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, journalist\, and author of three books\, including the Bay Area punk oral history Gimme Something Better (Penguin Books\, 2009). He is a co-founder and Executive Director of San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival. www.jackboulware.com \n  \nLydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State (MCD\, September 2018)\, which was longlisted for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. She is the editor of The Millions and her writing has appeared at outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, and Slate. www.lydiakiesling.com \n  \nDickson Lam is the author of Paper Sons: A Memoir (Autumn House Press\, March 2018). His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, The Kenyon Review Online\, The Rumpus\, and others. He is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College. dicksonlam.net \n  \nHuda Al-Marashi is the Iraqi-American author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story (Prometheus Books\, November 2018). Other writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, the LA Times\, al Jazeera\, and elsewhere. www.hudaalmarashi.com. \n  \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification (Penguin Press\, 2008). Her fiction has been published in Zyzzyva\, Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories. Her essays have been well published and listed in Best American Essays. She is a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. www.caillemillner.com \n  \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel\, Island of a Thousand Mirrors (St. Martin’s Press\, 2014)\, won multiple awards and was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. Munaweera’s award-winning second novel\, What Lies Between Us\, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016. She has work forthcoming in the Anthology\, What I Don’t Talk About With My Mother\, (Simon and Schuster\, 2019). \nJeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, activist and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist he has performed at many community events and correctional facilities. With his latest published book\, Unshackled\, he has been called to free people through story-telling and vulnerability. www.jeremymichaelvasquez.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S..The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, www.wtawpress.org. For more information visit www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Thomas Kohnstamm: Lake City
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers welcomes Thomas Kohnstamm to discuss his new new book Lake City. He will be in conversation with Broke-Ass Stuart Schuffman. The novel’s setting is Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood during the 2001 holiday season. In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy and at the peak of Seattle’s first wave of tech-boom gentrification–a wave that never quite made it to his neighborhood–Lane Beuche schemes how to win back his wife (and her trust fund). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paul Skenazy\, Temper CA
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, JANUARY 10\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\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 8th. \nJoy Temper grew up wandering the woods of Temper\, CA\, a Gold Rush town her family helped establish in the 1840s. When she returns to Temper for her grandfather’s funeral\, she discovers that the stories she’s long traded on about her hippie upbringing have little to do with reality. Her struggles to face who she once was\, and what she now desires\, force her to confront family secrets and long-suppressed memories in a novella both familial and romantic\, contemporary and historical. \n“Paul Skenazy’s fiction misbehaves. It swerves\, it revisits ground and digs deeper\, it confounds expectations. He has the gift of creating characters who are sympathetic not in spite of their prickliness but because of it\, and of depicting human bonds that are all the tenser for being so strong.”—Jonathan Franzen \n“This elegant and unforgettable novella pulls us into the secrets and desires of Joy Temper\, a woman carrying the weight of her family and a fair share of California history on her shoulders. Skenazy reminds us that our deepest wounds often make us most receptive and alive.”—Elizabeth McKenzie \n“This is a beautiful and fascinating book\, a skillfully constructed and dramatic story about hatred and profound affection within a difficult family. It’s a mystery tale about redefining a childhood and rediscovering many aspects of love. I was moved deeply throughout\, and consider Temper CA a small\, truly insightful and courageous masterpiece.”—John Nichols \nPaul Skenazy grew up in Chicago\, studied at the University of Chicago and Stanford\, and taught at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He has published essays\, stories\, and reviews in a range of newspapers and magazines\, as well as critical work on James M. Cain and other noir writers. He lives in Santa Cruz with the poet Farnaz Fatemi.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:ALISON HART at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Renowned local poet and writer Alison Hart shares her stunning work of literary fiction\, Mostly White. This special event will include a Reader’s Theater performance featuring Alison Hart\, Lady H a.k.a. Haninah Abdullah\, Cynthia Onetta Toliver\, Robert Fisher\, Gloria Fisher\, and Keith Grier. \nA family saga: four generations of mixed-race African American\, Native American\, and Irish women experience intergenerational trauma as well as the healing brought by nature and music\, leading to triumphant resilience. \nMostly White begins in 1890 when Emma\, a mixed-race Native American and African American girl\, is beaten by nuns and confined in a closet for speaking her language at an Indian Residential school in Maine. From there\, a tale that spans four generations of women unfolds. Emma’s descendants suffer the effects of trauma\, poverty\, and abuse while fighting to form their own identities and honor the call of their ancestors. \n\nAlison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American\, Passamaquoddy Native American\, Irish\, Scottish\, and English woman of color. Her poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015\, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2016) and elsewhere. Hart lives in Alameda\, California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 10\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA
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LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NYMBC Presents KIERSTEN WHITE & ADRIENNE YOUNG at Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club presents New York Times-bestselling author Kiersten White in celebration of Slayer–book one in her brand-new series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kiersten will be in conversation with Adrienne Young\, author of the much-buzzed debut fantasy Sky in the Deep. \n\nAbout Slayer: Into every generation a Slayer is born…\nNina and her twin sister\, Artemis\, are far from normal. It’s hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher’s Academy\, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers–girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Nina’s mother is a prominent member of the Watcher’s Council\, Nina has never embraced the violent Watcher lifestyle. Instead she follows her instincts to heal\, carving out a place for herself as the school medic.\nUntil the day Nina’s life changes forever.\nThanks to Buffy\, the famous (and infamous) Slayer that Nina’s father died protecting\, Nina is not only the newest Chosen One–she’s the last Slayer\, ever. Period.\nAs Nina hones her skills with her Watcher-in-training\, Leo\, there’s plenty to keep her occupied: a monster fighting ring\, a demon who eats happiness\, a shadowy figure that keeps popping up in Nina’s dreams…\nBut it’s not until bodies start turning up that Nina’s new powers will truly be tested–because someone she loves might be next.\nOne thing is clear: Being Chosen is easy. Making choices is hard.\n\nAbout Sky in the Deep: A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman\, part Vikings–and all heart.\nOND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.\nRaised to be a warrior\, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient\, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield–her brother\, fighting with the enemy–the brother she watched die five years ago.\nFaced with her brother’s betrayal\, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki\, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy\, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend\, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family.\nShe is given no choice but to trust Fiske\, her brother’s friend\, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together\, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske\, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating.
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LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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