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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Ingrid Rojas Contreras to discuss her novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree on Thursday\, August 16th at 7pm. \nSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogot \, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-presents-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clifford Mae Henderson\, Perfect Little Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to present award-winning author Clifford Mae Henderson for a book discussion and signing of her new novel set in Santa Cruz during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake\, Perfect Little Worlds. \nLucy can’t hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago\, her sister did the unthinkable. \nPortland\, Oregon\, 1989: Lucy Mustin\, living somewhat happily\, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she\, a lesbian\, can’t legally marry\, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz to help her autistic sister\, Alice\, care for their Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother. She knew the call was coming sooner or later. She’d just hoped it would be later. Mother issues. The possibility that resolution might be lost to dementia is a heartbreak she doesn’t feel like feeling. \nSanta Cruz\, California\, one week later: a trip to the family bakery ups the ante tenfold when the Loma Prieta/World Series Earthquake\, racking up a whopping 7.1 on the Richter scale\, traps the sisters below ground. There\, Alice reminds Lucy of a promise made to their mother many years ago\, a promise she plans to keep. \nClifford Mae Henderson\, also writing under the name Clifford Henderson\, was named after her grandmother Clifford who once wore a nightgown to a formal event because she liked it better than any of the dresses she could find. Clifford Mae has attempted to follow in her renegade grandmother’s footsteps\, spending as much time as possible trying to shake things up. Her novels have each garnered awards\, including a Foreword Review Book of the Year Award\, an Independent Publisher Book Award\, and a Golden Crown Literary Award. When not writing\, Clifford Mae and her life partner of over a quarter century run the Fun Institute\, an improv school in Northern California where they teach the art of collective pretending. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clifford-mae-henderson-perfect-little-worlds/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:John Copenhaver and Paddy Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nPaddy Hirsch and John Copenhaver discuss their new novels\, The Devil’s Half Mile and Dodging and Burning. \nAbout The Devil’s Half Mile \nSeven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America\, traders chafe at government regulations\, racial tensions are rising\, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians… 1799 was a hell of a year. \n  \nThanks to Alexander Hamilton\, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil’s Half Mile (aka Wall Street)\, but the young country is still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to solve his father’s murder\, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives\, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost. The body count is rising\, and the looming crisis could topple the nation. \n  \nAbout Dodging and Burning \nIn the summer of 1945\, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy\, mourning the loss of her brother\, Robbie\, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story “A Date with Death” and spending time with his best friend\, Jay Greenwood\, in Royal Oak\, VA. One unforgettable August day\, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman\, but when they arrive\, the body is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder\, starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body As Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective\, Bunny becomes increasingly skeptical of Jay\, and begins her own investigation into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of clues that place doubt on Jay’s story about the photograph. She journeys to Washington\, D.C.\, where she is forced to confront the brutal truth about her dear friend–a discovery that triggers a series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of estrangement between her and Ceola.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-copenhaver-and-paddy-hirsch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 16\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FRIDAY SHOW!!!!\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1728945 \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-16/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Locascio and Kate Folk
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Locascio discusses her new novel\, Open Me with Kate Folk. \n\nPraise for Open Me \n\n“Locascio’s story of a young American abroad is unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer \n  \n“Through the care of her tremendous observations and the beauty of her prose\, Lisa Locascio writes a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity. This is a story of many important layers\, but one of the many reasons it remains distinct in my mind is because of its honesty about our complicated\, yearning physical selves. A remarkable\, fearless debut.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Color Master \n  \n“Captivating and darkly clever\, Locascio’s debut melds self-discovery and self-abnegation with raw\, muscular grace.  By turns beguiling\, guileless\, and penetratingly felt\, this book seethes with eroticism\, both physical and emotional—you won’t dare to pry yourself away from it.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n  \n“An evocative and compelling remapping of Bluebeard’s Castle for our times. In Open Me\, Locascio offers a daring\, unapologetic\, and vital exploration of female desire.”—Emily Fridlund\, author of History of Wolves \n  \n“A lush\, evocative novel you won’t be able to put down. Open Me is a masterful debut.”—T.C. Boyle\, author of The Harder They Come \n\nAbout Open Me \n\nRoxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program–a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Soren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Soren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss. But as their relationship deepens\, Soren’s temperament darkens\, and Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a mysterious local outsider whom she learns is a refugee from the Balkan War. \n  \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, from a magnetic new voice in fiction\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locascio-and-kate-folk/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gretchen McNeil with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Discover the true horror of social media in #murdertrending by critically-acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil Think Scream Queens meets The Hunger Games\, in which seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera is wrongfully convicted and sent to a prison island where  convicts are hunted down and their deaths are streamed on social media for “spikes.” With its morbid\, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and twisty\, gasp-inducing mystery\, this novel has already been optioned for development by television studio ABC Signature. \nWelcome to the near future\, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society’s most infamous convicted felons\, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0.  Can Dee  prove she’s innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis dark\, unique\, and intelligent novel comments on the horrors of social media\, and draws upon the fascination with today’s trend of murder in entertainment\, such as Serial and Making a Murderer. \nGretchen McNeil is the author of I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl \, the Don’t Get Mad duology\, and the YA horror novels Possess\, 3:59\, Relic\, and Ten which was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was adapted as the Lifetime original movie Ten: Murder Island in 2017. \nGretchen will be chatting with Stephanie Kuehn\, author of the William C Morris Award winning Charm and Strange\, Complicit\, The Smaller Evil\, Delicate Monsters\, and When I Am Through With You. Booklist has praised her work as “Intelligent\, compulsively readable literary fiction with a dark twist.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gretchen-mcneil-with-stephanie-kuehn/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, August 19\, 1pm-3:30pm\nthis month: Jarvis Subia\nEdwin Markham House in History Park\n1650 Senter Road\, San José\, CA 95112\nAdmission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side. \nJarvis Subia\, San Jose’s 2018 Grand Slam Poetry Champ and a youth poetry workshop facilitator\, will be facilitating a poetry and personal story writing workshop. This will include elements such a check in\, word pallets\, poetry from current spoken word artists\, group discussion\, open sharing\, and writing prompts. The purpose of this 2 hour workshop would be to generate drafts of writing hopefully to be read on stage. This is a continuation of the workshop Jarvis began last month. If you attended that one\, you can benefit from the new material. I you missed that one\, you will not be at a disadvantage.. \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-2/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:David Corbett with Cara Black
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with David Corbett (The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday) and Cara Black (Murder on the Left Bank) for their new books. Please join us! \n  \nThe Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday\nby David Corbett \n  \nThe most notorious love letters in American history–supposedly destroyed a century ago—mysteriously reappear and become the coveted prize in a fierce battle for possession that brings back to life the lawless world evoked in the letters themselves. \n  \nLisa Balamaro is an ambitious arts lawyer with a secret crush on her most intriguing client: former rodeo rider and reformed art forger\, Tuck Mercer. In his newfound role as an expert in Old West artifacts\, Tuck gains possession of the supposedly destroyed correspondence between Doc Holliday and his cousin and childhood sweetheart\, Mattie—who would become Sister Mary Melanie of the Sisters of Mercy. \n  \nGiven the unlikelihood the letters can ever be fully authenticated\, Tuck retains Lisa on behalf of the letters’ owner\, Rayella Vargas\, to sell them on the black market. But the buyer Tuck finds\, a duplicitous judge from the Tombstone area\, has other\, far more menacing ideas. \n  \nAs Lisa works feverishly to make things right\, Rayella secretly enlists her ex-marine boyfriend in a daring scheme of her own. \n  \nWhen the judge learns he’s been blindsided\, he rallies a cadre of armed men for a deadly standoff reminiscent of the moment in history that made Doc famous: The Gunfight at the OK Corral. \n  \n  \nDavid Corbett worked for the San Francisco private investigation firm of Palladino & Sutherland\, and played a significant part in a number of high-profile criminal and civil litigations\, as well as numerous other drug\, murder\, and fraud cases. Corbett is the author of The Devil’s Redhead\, Done for a Dime\, Blood of Paradise\, Do They Know I’m Running? The Mercy of the Night\, The Devil Prayed and Darkness Fell. His short fiction stories have appeared twice in Best American Mystery Stories. He also contributed chapters to The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet\, serial audio thrillers that now have been combined into a single hard cover version titled Watchlist. In 2013 he published his writing guide The Art of Character\, which national bestseller Elizabeth Brundage called “a writer’s bible that will lead to your character’s soul.” He teaches and gives seminars and workshops at conferences throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Mexico; he’s a regular contributor to the writers’ blog Writer Unboxed; and his articles on craft and theory have appeared in the New York Times\, Narrative\, Writer’s Digest (where he is a contributing editor)\, The Writer\, Zyzzyva\, MovieMaker\, Bright Ideas\, Crimespree and other outlets. \n  \n\n  \nMurder on the Left Bank\nby Cara Black \n  \nA confession fifty years in the making puts everyone’s favorite Paris d t ctive tr’s chic\, Aim e Leduc\, on a collision course with the “Hand\,” a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops among who masterminded her father’s murder–and among whose ranks he might have once found membership. When a friend’s child is kidnapped while wearing her daughter’s hoodie\, Aim e realizes that the case has crossed into the realm of the personal in more ways than one. \n  \nA dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of ric Besson\, a lawyer in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. The old man\, an accountant\, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades\, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession–he’s waited 50 years to make it\, and now it can’t wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc\, Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney\, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc\, Besson’s courier–his assistant and nephew–is murdered\, and the notebook disappears. \n  \nGrief-stricken ric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aim e Leduc to find the notebook\, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She’s not sure which she’s more afraid of\, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father’s name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. Ultimately that’s the reason she must take the case\, which leads her across the Left Bank\, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries. \n\n  \nCara Black is the author of eighteen books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series. She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, and her books have been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens with doors at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-corbett-with-cara-black/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen\nEmily Benedict has come to Mullaby\, North Carolina\, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew\, she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby\, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. \nAnd a neighbor\, Julia Winterson\, bakes hope in the form of cakes\, not only wishing to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also dreaming of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits\, the unexpected fits right in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-17/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dr. Dan Siegel
DESCRIPTION:NB: This event will be held at the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center at 555 Middlefield Rd.\, Atherton\, CA. \nDr. Dan Siegel’s work has been nothing short of game-changing. \nHis books\, like Mindsight\, Parenting from the Inside Out\, and The Whole-Brain Child\, offer unprecedented insight into the complexity of our children’s minds. Shedding the unapproachable jargon of dense neuroscience\, Siegel illustrates\, in clear and illuminating prose\, the logic of how we think and why we develop certain patterns of intuition over others. For decades\, his work has made our minds and the minds of our children accessible to us as they have never been before. \nNow\, he turns his attention to mindfulness. Introducing\, “The Wheel of Awareness”\, Siegel presents a potentially life-changing tool to support anyone\, at any level of meditation\, in cultivating more focus\, presence\, and peace in their day-to-day life. Endorsed by everyone from Deepak Chopra to Goldie Hawn and from Arianna Huffington to Sharon Salzberg\, Siegel’s most recent work promises to reshape the way we come to meditation. \nOne of the most engaging speaker’s on any subject\, join Siegel as he presents his new book: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-dan-siegel/
LOCATION:Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center\, 555 Middlefield Rd\, Atherton\, 94027\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - August 2018 edition
DESCRIPTION:It’s August\, and Hazel Reading Series is back after the summer break!\nJoin us for a late-summer night of poetry and prose by women. \nFeaturing\nCharity Yoro nominated by Sophia Aguinagua\nCiera-Jevae Gordon nominated by Hazel Series\nMei Li Ooi nominated by Sasha Wright\nVenuri Siriwardane nominated by Simmi Aujla\nWesley Cohen nominated by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\nGuest reader: Heather June Gibbons \nHosted by Sara Marinelli \n5-10$ Suggested donations. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover\, and her poems have appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she lives in San Francisco\, where she teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \nCiera-Jevae Gordon is a Richmond native Spoken Word teaching artist. She serves her community as Poet Laureate while facilitating poetry workshops for both 10-13 year olds\, and 14-21 year olds. Her mission is bring liberation\, light\, and love to every space she is blessed to be in\, while uplifting the lives of Black women and girls in particular. \nWesley Cohen is a writer and editor living in Davis\, California. Her work has been featured by Joyland Magazine\, Entropy\, and some other places. She is a 2017 Writing By Writers fellow. She is the marketing coordinator at Yellow Pear Press\, and serves as prose editor of Foglifter Journal. Wesley’s work lives at wesleyocohen.com. \nVenuri Siriwardane is a writer and researcher with an eye on immigration policy\, social media culture\, and South Asian-American affairs. She spent five years as a business journalist in the New York area\, then switched gears to earn her master’s degree in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics. She lives in San Francisco and dreams of writing a novel that validates the experiences of young women of color. \nCharity Yoro is a freelance writer raised in Hawai’i and based in San Francisco. She is the founder of Women of Words\, a global community of women-identified writers; Gathering of Wands\, an online writing circle series; and the co-host of HerMana\, a forthcoming podcast featuring curious conversations with women artists & entrepreneurs. Charity is currently writing a poetry collection on the theme of belonging while pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at USF. \nHaving grown up in a muslim country in the 80’s\, Mei Li Ooi is especially interested in exploring the ways women are policed and the ways they police themselves. She’s currently working on a novel that looks at how women try to gain control of their bodies in ways that are considered morally wrong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-august-2018-edition/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:an evening with williwaw
DESCRIPTION:The highly protracted world tour lives ever on\, as our amp’d uke comrade williwaw applies a sonic salve to the Paris of the West with some fine films as visual counterpoint. Sounds\, sights and perpetual fog. \n  \nTranslation: live scores of Scottish film\, with processed ukelele! Come grab a drink or two and settle in for a squall. \n  \nHere’s an example of what a williwaw experience might look like: \n  \n \nwilliwaw : www.donkeyscratch.com\nwillicamp : williwaw.bandcamp.com\nwillicloud : www.soundcloud.com/williwaw\nwillitube : www.youtube.com/user/donkeyscratch \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 8pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-williwaw/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180821T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180604T234255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T234255Z
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SUMMARY:Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds by Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds is a lighthearted but legitimately helpful illustrated field guide for what to do in the face of 50 of our most feared—or frustrating—animals. From mountain lions to moose\, bears to bees\, rats\, raccoons\, mice… even lice!  As humans encroach on wild places\, encounters with animals have become increasingly commonplace. But what are the rules for facing a moose up close? Do you run from a coyote or stand your ground? How deadly\, really\, are black widow spiders\, rattlesnakes\, and sharks? \nPacked with expert tips\, fascinating animal facts\, and harrowing true tales (from writers like Peter Orner and Samin Nosrat)\, Look Big is a must-have survival guide for outdoor\, urban\, and suburban adventurers alike. If you have ever feared the approach of a grizzly\, the spray of a skunk\, or an army of cockroaches in the kitchen\, this book is for you. \nRachel Levin is the first San Francisco restaurant critic for Eater and a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, Outside\, Sunset\, and elsewhere. Look Big is her first book. byrachellevin.com \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Levin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/look-big-and-other-tips-for-surviving-animal-encounters-of-all-kinds-by-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180821T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T033019Z
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SUMMARY:North Beach Poetry Reading with Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray read their works as part of Tuesdays at North Beach\, a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. \nSteven Gray has lived in San Francisco since the 1970s and reads his work all over town. Sometimes he accompanies other poets on guitar. He has two books of poetry: Shadow on the Rocks (2011)\, and Jet Shock and Culture Lag (2012). He also writes reviews for Litseen. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and her work has been featured in several anthologies\, including “Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story” (Outpost 19) and the upcoming “I Just Wanna Testify: Poems About Detroit Music” (Michigan State University Press) and “America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience” (Sixteen Rivers Press). \nThe library in North Beach is at 850 Columbus.  After the reading some of us will go to Specs to recover from a rarified exposure to the spoken word. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/north-beach-poetry-reading-with-heather-bourbeau-and-steven-gray/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180821T220000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180731T235105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180731T235105Z
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SUMMARY:ELIXIR
DESCRIPTION:Tales of alchemical brews & magical medicines; marvelous mixtures\, dubious concoctions & potions passed as perfect remedies\nELIXIR\nTuesday\, Aug 21\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \n~Speakers & Stories TBA~ \nCurated by Tre Balchowsky \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails and conversation; talks begin at 7:30 \nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21 \nArtwork by Imogen Speer \nGET TICKETS>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elixir/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T184500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180821T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180818T223356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T223414Z
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night : Kelechi Ubozoh
DESCRIPTION:at PianoFight: 144 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 6:45pm – 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-kelechi-ubozoh/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180821T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180713T003656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T003656Z
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SUMMARY:D. Wystan Owen presents OTHER PEOPLE'S LOVE AFFAIRS
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes D. Wystan Owen to discuss his story collection\, Other People’s Love Affairs\, on Tuesday\, August 21st at 7pm. \nIn the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen’s debut collection\, the people of Glass\, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast\, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets\, captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present. Each story takes us into the lives of characters reaching earnestly and often courageously for connection to the people they have loved. Owen observes their heartbreaks\, their small triumphs\, and their generous capacity for grace. \nA young nurse\, reeling from the disappearance of her mother\, forges an unlikely friendship with a local vagrant. A young boy is by turns dazzled and disillusioned by a trip to the circus with a family friend. A widower revisits the cinema where\, as a teenager\, he and an older woman shared trysts that both thrilled and baffled him. A woman is offered fragile\, uneasy forgiveness for a cruel act from years ago. And in the title story\, a shopkeeper’s vision of the woman she loved is upended by the startling revelation of a secret life. Surprising and powerful\, and in the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce\, William Trevor\, and Elizabeth Strout\, Owen’s interconnected stories strike a deep and resounding emotional chord. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nD. Wystan Owen holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and essays have appeared in A Public Space\, the American Scholar\, Literary Hub\, and the Threepenny Review. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom\, he now lives in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-wystan-owen-presents-other-peoples-love-affairs/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180821T220000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180702T212011Z
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #39 (MUSIC BY TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-39-music-by-tbd/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180822T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180726T225847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T225847Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Authors read other Queer Authors
DESCRIPTION:Queer authors Natasha Dennerstein\, Gar McVey-Russel\, Anand Vedawala\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett read from their favorite Queer authors.\nLaurel Bookstore will be closing at the end of August\, and this is our final event there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-authors-read-other-queer-authors/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180822T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180721T030635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180721T030635Z
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nAt Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing \n402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz \nEvent #4 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nHave you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 40 seconds (and we’ll have a timer). Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our hosts at SCMB are offering a $1-price on a single pint of any of their flagship beers for all event attendees who bring a book to swap. Thanks SCMB! \nThis event is free and open for anyone 21+ to attend. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book you are willing to give away to participate in this event.* \n\nAbout the series… \nBookshop’s popular summer event series returns! Books & Brews combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Five book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses (and one distillery!) this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. \nBONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store (or print one here). Get it stamped at three or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing\, 402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180822T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180822T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180719T012301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180719T012301Z
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SUMMARY:D. Wystan Owen
DESCRIPTION:D. Wystan Owen discusses his new story collection\, Other People’s Love Affairs. \n\nPraise for Other People’s Love Affairs \n\n“I think this is an absolutely brilliant book from an extraordinarily gifted writer…The stories are patient\, exquisite\, written with an attention to and reverence for character that astonishes me. D. Wystan Owen writes…stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating—loudly\, devastatingly—again and again.”—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n\n“D. Wystan Owen’s sentences are so breath-catchingly elegant\, his paragraphs so honed for gut-punching power and depth\, reading him is a full body experience. The stories of Glass\, as subtle as they are profound\, reveal us to ourselves in all our emotional complexity\, all our loneliness and striving. Think Munro\, think Welty\, think even\, Mansfield—and understand that like the collections by those masters of the short form\, this book is strong medicine for a heart-broken world.”—Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n\n“D. Wystan Owen has a keen eye for what falls outside the spotlight and what’s hidden underneath the surface. Writing in the tradition of Chekhov\, William Trevor\, and Alice Munro\, Owen’s stories remind us that the thrills and the dangers of living oftentimes go hand-in-hand with the everydayness of life. In these stories no loss is too small\, each moment counts. Owen is not a trendy writer\, but a classic one.”—Yiyun Li\, author of Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n\nAbout Other People’s Love Affairs \n\nIn the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen’s debut collection\, the people of Glass\, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast\, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets\, captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present. Each story takes us into the lives of characters reaching earnestly and often courageously for connection to the people they have loved. Owen observes their heartbreaks\, their small triumphs\, and their generous capacity for grace. \nA young nurse\, reeling from the disappearance of her mother\, forges an unlikely friendship with a local vagrant. A young boy is by turns dazzled and disillusioned by a trip to the circus with a family friend. A widower revisits the cinema where\, as a teenager\, he and an older woman shared trysts that both thrilled and baffled him. A woman is offered fragile\, uneasy forgiveness for a cruel act from years ago. And in the title story\, a shopkeeper’s vision of the woman she loved is upended by the startling revelation of a secret life. Surprising and powerful\, and in the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce\, William Trevor\, and Elizabeth Strout\, Owen’s interconnected stories strike a deep and resounding emotional chord.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-wystan-owen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180823T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180817T032938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T032938Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #22: PETS
DESCRIPTION:We love pets. We love videos of other people’s pets licking lemons or getting stuck in boxes or smiling like they’ve just huffed down a special cigarette. We love them dearly and we can’t wait to see what dark or devious or delightful paths our readers take us down in terms of them. \nThe Readers: \nDB Finnegan\nJared Roehrig\nKrista Varela Posell\nMk Chavez\nThea Sullivan\nJ. K. Fowler\nAyodele Nzinga \nAlso\, free beer. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-22-pets/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180823T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180730T234404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180730T234404Z
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SUMMARY:Russell Hill
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 23\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement street location. \n \nPlease join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, August 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Russell Hill to read from his new novel\, The Egret. \n\nA hit and run driver pinwheeled his daughter’s car into the waters of Tomales Bay and his life is turned upside down. Then the sheriff’s detective tells him he may have found the driver\, a rich man who lives nearby. Fueled by his anger and an overwhelming desire for revenge\, he plots ways to make his daughter’s killer suffer and die. Like the predatory egret\, he stalks his victim\, waiting for the right moment to strike. Drowning in the sea\, rattlesnakes and crude bombs are parts of his obsessive pursuit\, leading to the inevitable violence of what he imagines to be the final strike of the egret’s sharp beak. \n  \nRussell Hill is the author of three Edgar-nominated novels as well as several other books. His work has been translated into French\, German\, Polish\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, and one novel\, The Lord God Bird\, had been optioned for a movie. Hill is an avid fly fisherman\, has written for outdoor magazines\, and has taught writing for forty years. He and his wife still live in California where he has spent most of his life. \n  \nPraise for The Egret \n“I was so engrossed by The Egret that I read it in one straight sitting. It’s brilliant\, concise\, poetic\, gritty and deceptively simple with all the dark undercurrents of anger and nostalgia.” – Max Jourdan\, London filmmaker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russell-hill/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180823T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180823T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180712T214930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180712T214930Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church present \nMARTHA NUSSBAUM\nTHE MONARCHY OF FEAR \nFor decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist\, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her full attention to the terrible political standoff that has polarized America since the Trump election. Although today’s atmosphere is heavily marked by partisanship\, divisive rhetoric\, and the seeming total inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another\, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters\, journalists and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization\, automation and the high costs of higher education have produced feelings of utter powerlessness in millions of people in the U.S. Similar issues trouble European unity. \nThat sense of powerlessness and a pervasive underlying fear bubble into resentment and blame: blame of immigrants\, blame of Muslims\, blame of other races\, blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame played a hefty role in the election of Trump – and the vote for Brexit\, Nussbaum argues that it can in fact be found on all sides of the political spectrum-confusingly intertwined\, however\, with reasonable arguments aiming at greater justice. She insists that retribution is always a bad response to fear\, and she articulates a clear politics of constructive work and hope. \nMartha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics\, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She has written more than twenty books. \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, East Bay Books\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-nussbaum-the-monarchy-of-fear/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180823T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180823T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T182851
CREATED:20180719T012550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180719T012550Z
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SUMMARY:Ada Limon and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:   \n\nAda Limon discusses her new poetry collection\, The Carrying\, with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for The Carrying \n\n“[Ada Limón’s] new collection is her best yet\, a much needed shot of if not hope\, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty.”―NPR \n\n“In her dazzling\, precise\, transformative collection\, The Carrying\, Ada Limón offers us meditations on mortality\, womanhood\, the body\, and that which grows in the earth\, all the while slyly positing: How we should treat each other in this precarious life? Like humans\, is her answer. Like humans.”―Jami Attenberg\, author of The Middlesteins \n\n\n“Ada Limón teaches me that language can still surprise me. She shows me that the juxtaposition of words not previously joined can catch me off-guard\, make me feel that shimmer of resonance\, of curiosity.”―Signature \n\nAbout The Carrying \n\nFrom National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying―her most powerful collection yet. \nVulnerable\, tender\, acute\, these are serious poems\, brave poems\, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility―“What if\, instead of carrying / a child\, I am supposed to carry grief?”―and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza\, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us\, as ever\, the persistence of hunger\, love\, and joy\, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then\, / I’ll take it\,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” \nIn Bright Dead Things\, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power\, heavy with blood”―“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks\, no\, it knows\, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection\, that heart is on full display―even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream\, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-limon-and-matthew-zapruder/
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:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: TBD AND TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features TBD and TBD! Music by TBD! \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/telegraph-open-mic-features-tbd-and-tbd-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Katie Henry Launch for Heretics Anonymous
DESCRIPTION:Katie Henry\n\n\n\n\nLaunch for Heretics Anonymous\, her hilarious debut YA novel about a band of misfits who set out to challenge their strict Catholic school\, one nun at a time. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 24\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Michael walks through the doors of Catholic school\, things can’t get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again\, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class\, Michael thinks he might have found one\, and a fellow atheist at that. Only this girl\, Lucy\, isn’t just Catholic . . . she wants to be a priest. \nLucy introduces Michael to other St. Clare’s outcasts\, and he officially joins Heretics Anonymous\, where he can be an atheist\, Lucy can be an outspoken feminist\, Avi can be Jewish and gay\, Max can wear whatever he wants\, and Eden can practice paganism. \nMichael encourages the Heretics to go from secret society to rebels intent on exposing the school’s hypocrisies one stunt at a time. But when Michael takes one mission too far–putting the other Heretics at risk–he must decide whether to fight for his own freedom or rely on faith\, whatever that means\, in God\, his friends\, or himself. \nKatie Henry grew up in the Elmwood and now lives in New York City. She received her BFA in dramatic writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a published playwright\, specializing in theater for young audiences. Her plays have been performed by high schools and community organizations in over thirty states. Visit her at www.katiehenrywrites.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-henry-launch-for-heretics-anonymous/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:RETURN TO THE PEOPLES
DESCRIPTION:FRI. AUGUST 24TH\, 7PM \npresented by \nWORLD POETRY MOVEMENT\nMedellin\, Colombia \nTHE REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE\nSan Francisco \nCorporatism is the fascism that is manifesting in governments throughout the world by producing nationalist and populist leaders of negation and powerful military forces bent on war. Like students murdered en masse in schools in the U.S.\, like the tsunami of women jailed as drug offenders because work under capitalism makes body and soul miserable\, the World Poetry Movement (WPM) and the Revolutionary Poets Brigades say: Basta! Enough! \n\nROBERT ANBIAN\nMAHNAZ BADIHIAN\nLISBIT BAILEY\nJUDITH AYN BERNHARD\nKRISTINA BROWN\nBOBBY COLEMAN\nPAULINE CRAIG\nJOHN CURL\nAGNETA FALK\nFRANCISCO HERRERA\nMARTIN HICKEL\nJACK HIRSCHMAN\nJESSICA LOOS\nKAREN MELANDER MAGOON\nSARAH MENEFEE\nBARBARA PASCHKE\nJAMI PROCTOR-XU\nGIOVANNI ROMANO\nKIM SHUCK\nSan Francisco Poet Laureate\nMICHAEL WARR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-the-peoples/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kids 10 & up! Pablo Cartaya
DESCRIPTION:Presenting Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish. One boy’s search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle grade novel\, for fans of Ghost andSee You in the Cosmos. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, August 25\, 2018 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcus Vega is six feet tall\, 180 pounds\, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you’re only in the eighth grade\, you’re both a threat and a target. \nAfter a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension\, Marcus’s mom decides it’s time for a change of environment. She takes Marcus and his younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they don’t remember or have never met. But Marcus can’t focus knowing that his father–who walked out of their lives ten years ago–is somewhere on the island. \nSo begins Marcus’s incredible journey\, a series of misadventures that take him all over Puerto Rico in search of his elusive namesake. Marcus doesn’t know if he’ll ever find his father\, but what he ultimately discovers changes his life. And he even learns a bit of Spanish along the way. \n\nPablo Cartaya’s novels explore identity\, place\, and the spaces in-between. His debut novel about a boy standing up for his community\, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora\, received three starred reviews. When Pablo isn’t writing\, he’s spending time with his family or dreaming of his next visit to Puerto Rico. Learn more about Pablo at pablocartaya.com and follow him on Twitter @phcartaya.\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kids-10-up-pablo-cartaya/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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