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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of writers. \nReadings by Kate Folk\, J.P. Grasser\, Sarah McColl\, and sam sax\nHosted by Peter Kline \nKate Folk is a fiction writer whose work has appeared most recently in Zyzzyva\, The New York Times Magazine\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and One Story\, and is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly. She’s an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and is writing a novel about a clandestine service that allows people to outsource their emotional and intellectual labor. \nA current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, J.P. Grasser is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah\, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief for Quarterly West. Find him online at www.jpgrasser.com. \nSarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and StoryQuarterly\, which nominated her essay on singer-songwriter Connie Converse for a Pushcart Prize. She has received fellowships from Ucross\, the Millay Colony\, and the MacDowell Colony\, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow. She’s based in Los Angeles. \nsam sax is a queer\, Jewish writer and educator\, the author of Madness\, winner of The National Poetry Series\, and Bury It\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, and other journals. In 2018\, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-11/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater\, “a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane.”–Ann Packer \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 27\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between hunger and art\, duty and desire\, and\nloss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members\nof their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. The adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. \nSarah Stone’s is the author of The True Sources of the Nile. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares\,\nStoryQuarterly\, The Believer\, The Millions\, and The Writer’s Chronicle\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Visit her online at www.sarahstoneauthor.com. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers 'Rolling this Way'
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: \nBeginnings\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019\, 6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\nSan Francisco \nTo submit work for consideration\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW Beginnings\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally: no submissions by representatives will be considered. Limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nLet the fun begin! \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-rolling-this-way/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YANovCon at the Millbrae Library
DESCRIPTION:The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today’s top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates these amazing talents). This free half-day celebration will include panel discussions\, author hangouts\, and book signings with at least twenty award-winning\, notable\, and new YA novelists including: \n2018 Printz Medal winner Nina LaCour\, 2018 Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly\, Kristin Elizabeth Clark\, J.H Diehl\, Heidi Kling\, Mitali Perkins\, Hugo-nominated Mark Oshiro\, 2018 Beatty and Stonewall Book Award winner Dashka Slater\, Robin Benway\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Akemi Dawn Bowman\, Kayla Cagan\, Brandy Colbert\, William C. Morris Award Finalist Kelly Loy Gilbert\, C.G. Watson\, E. E Charlton-Trujillo\, Adib Khorram\, Pura Belpré Award-winner Meg Medina\, Randy Ribay\, Lisa Super\, and unexpected guests! \nBooks will be available to purchase on site thanks to our wonderful partnership with Books Inc.! \nNot only will you get to connect with your favorite authors about their writing and publishing process\, we are also working with local organizations to help shine a light on the issues teens face inside the home and how they demonstrate their resilience. We’re constantly impressed with the strength our teens show and want to highlight their courage. \nWhile we don’t require an RSVP to attend\, we are giving out random free prizes randomly to those who attend and RSVP in advance. \nAnticipated schedule: \n\n12-1 Early arrivals\, book sale\, and community fair (the first 200 to arrive will get a free totebag)\n1-2 Opening session\n2:25-3:05 1st breakout sessions\n3:15-3:55 2nd breakout sessions\n4:05-5:05 Author one-on-ones\n5:05-5:45 All author book signing\n\nThere is ample parking at Millbrae Library\, but we highly recommend carpooling and using public transit to reduce your impact on the environment. Millbrae Library is easily accessible via samTrans\, Bart\, and Caltrain. \nTo encourage literacy and writing for students in 6th-12th grades\, YANovCon is also sponsoring a Teen Short Story Contest. Visit your local library for information and enter here (coming soon). \nCheck out #YANovCon on Instagram\, Twitter\, and Facebook! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, January 26\, 2019 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nMillbrae Library\n1 Library Avenue\n\nMillbrae\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanovcon-at-the-millbrae-library/
LOCATION:Millbrae Library\, 1 Library Avenue\, Millbrae\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\,\nnurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. Hallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. Hallie Iglehart Austen began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-4/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books\, 138 North Main Street\, Sebastopol\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190124T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T213000
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SUMMARY:MEG WOLITZER In Conversation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn her many novels\, such as The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\, The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, and The Wife\, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into the lives of others. A feminist thread runs through Wolitzer’s work\, particularly her groundbreaking essay\, “The Second Shelf\,” an examination of the underrepresentation of women writers. But nowhere is the subject of power more deeply investigated than in her newest novel\, The Female Persuasion. Campus assault\, intergenerational feminist debate\, mentorship\, friendship\, and ambition make for a timely story\, enriched by Wolitzer’s subtle mastery of character. The book confirms Wolitzer’s position as one of the most accomplished writers of our time\, and “an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page” (Lena Dunham). \nAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, The Table Comes First\, and most recently\, At the Strangers’ Gate. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer-in-conversation-with-adam-gopnik/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MEG WOLITZER
DESCRIPTION:MEG WOLITZER\nIn Conversation with Adam Gopnik\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn her many novels\, such as The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\, The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, and The Wife\, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into the lives of others. A feminist thread runs through Wolitzer’s work\, particularly her groundbreaking essay\, “The Second Shelf\,” an examination of the underrepresentation of women writers. But nowhere is the subject of power more deeply investigated than in her newest novel\, The Female Persuasion. Campus assault\, intergenerational feminist debate\, mentorship\, friendship\, and ambition make for a timely story\, enriched by Wolitzer’s subtle mastery of character. The book confirms Wolitzer’s position as one of the most accomplished writers of our time\, and “an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page” (Lena Dunham). \nAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, The Table Comes First\, and most recently\, At the Strangers’ Gate. He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Roupenian / You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian for her debut story collection\, You Know You Want This. Please join us! \n  \nYou Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex\, then seeing them have sex… until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless\, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed\, long-haired\, pink-cheeked coworker. \n  \nSpanning a range of genres and topics — from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural — these are stories about sex and punishment\, guilt and anger\, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel\, revolt and arouse\, scare and delight in equal measure. And\, as a collection\, they point a finger at you\, daring you to feel uncomfortable–or worse\, understood–as if to say\, “You want this\, right? You know you want this.” \n  \n\n  \nKristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard College and holds a PhD in English from Harvard\, as well as an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She’s the author of the short story “Cat Person”\, published in The New Yorker and selected by Sheila Heti for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. She is currently at work on a novel. Photo by Elisa Roupenian Toha. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of You Know You Want This\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-roupenian-you-know-you-want-this-cat-person-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Pipher: This is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age\nIt’s one of our American ironies: our culture values older women less\, just as they come into the fullness of experience and wisdom. Women “of a certain age” have greater self-acceptance; the losses they’ve lived can give them deeper appreciation of each day’s gifts. But the passage of time offers no escape from the misogyny every woman wades through daily. And that’s compounded by a new barrier: ageism. \nIn her new book Women Rowing North\, Mary Pipher probes the world of aging women with insight and compassion— just as she did the struggles of adolescent girls in her landmark bestseller\, Reviving Ophelia. Pipher explores how women can build resilience against both new and lingering challenges. “If we can keep our wits about us\, think clearly\, and manage our emotions skillfully\,” she writes\, “we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly\, if we have good maps and guides\, the journey can be transcendent.” \nJoin us for KLF’s ongoing This Is Now series with host Angie Coiro\, as she welcomes Mary Pipher— daughter\, sister\, mother\, grandmother\, caregiver\, clinical psychologist\, and treasured cultural anthropologist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-pipher-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-tickets-52694285025?aff=web\n\nPosted in Premier Event\, This Is Now
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-pipher-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kristin Wilson\, Others’ Milk
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, JANUARY 24\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 22nd. \n  \nBreastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork\, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others’ Milkillustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be—an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood in which “successful” breastfeeding proves one’s maternal mettle. \nExceptional breastfeeders find creative ways to feed and care for their children—such as by inducing lactation\, sharing milk\, or exclusively pumping. They want to adhere to the societal ideal of giving them “the best” but sometimes have to face off with dogmatic authorities in order to do so. Kristin J. Wilson argues that while breastfeeding is never going to be the feasible choice for everyone\, it should be accessible to anyone. \nKRISTIN J. WILSON is chair of the anthropology department at Cabrillo College in Aptos\, California. She is the author of Not Trying: Infertility\, Childlessness\, and Ambivalence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristin-wilson-others-milk/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:The Fiction of Amparo Dávila
DESCRIPTION:Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation \ncelebrating the release of \nThe Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila \nby Amparo Dávila \ntranslated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson \npublished by New Directions Publishing \nLike those of Kafka\, Poe\, Leonora Carrington\, or Shirley Jackson\, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying\, mesmerizing\, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. \nWith acute psychological insight\, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire\, paranoia\, insomnia\, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession\, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife\, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow\, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long. \nAmparo Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928. She has published several collections of short stories and for a time worked as Alfonso Reyes’s secretary. In recent years a massive resurgence of interest has acknowledged her as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. Awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1977\, she was honored with the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2015. \nA former Mellon Public Scholar\, Audrey Harris holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nMatthew Gleeson is a writer\, translator\, and co-editor of Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fiction-of-amparo-davila/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MICHELLE CADY at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Health & wellness coach Michelle Cady discusses her quintessential lifestyle guide\, Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition\, Fitness. Brimming with practical tips for finding balance in your busy urban lifestyle\, Self-Care in the City will not only make you feel unstoppable\, but will also give you an edge. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cady-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:RANDY SHAW at Books Inc. Mountain View
DESCRIPTION:Randy Shaw\, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic\, discusses his compelling new book\, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. \nGeneration Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. From San Francisco to New York\, Seattle to Denver\, and Los Angeles to Austin\, Generation Priced Out tells the stories of tenants\, developers\, politicians\, homeowner groups\, and housing activists from over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis and criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and racial inequality. Randy Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities\, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Defying conventional wisdom\, Shaw demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n317 Castro Street\n\nMountain View\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/randy-shaw-at-books-inc-mountain-view/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Ian S. Port / The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts former SF Weekly music editor Ian S. Port for the Bay Area launch of his first book\, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender\, Les Paul\, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll. Please join us! \n  \nIn the years after World War II\, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock ‘n’ roll — and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar\, the Esquire\, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered\, Gibson\, the largest guitar manufacturer\, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul — whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought — to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender\, Les versus Leo. \n  \nWhile Fender was a quiet\, half-blind\, self-taught radio repairman from rural Orange County\, Paul was a brilliant but egomaniacal pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s–including bluesman Muddy Waters\, rocker Buddy Holly\, the Beatles\, Bob Dylan\, and Eric Clapton–adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By the time Jimi Hendrix played “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969 on his Fender Stratocaster\, it was clear that electric instruments–Fender or Gibson–had launched music into a radical new age\, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. \n  \n\n  \n“More than an essential\, colorful\, and gripping history of the electric guitar\, The Birth of Loud introduces Ian Port\, the best new non-fiction writer of the past twenty years.” — Daniel J. Levitin\, author of This Is Your Brain on Music \n  \n“Ian Port’s found a way to tell the story of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll–for some of us\, among the postwar American stories\, those that help define who we feel ourselves to be–in beautifully-evoked dual portraits of the men who made the instruments. In doing so\, he re-situates this story in its context so neatly it is as if it had never been told before at all.” — Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude \n  \n\n  \nIan S. Port is an award-winning writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone\, Village Voice\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Believer\, among others. He is also the former music editor of the San Francisco Weekly. A California native and lifelong guitar player\, he now lives in New York with his wife\, Lindsay. The Birth of Loud is his first book. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-ian-s-port-the-birth-of-loud-leo-fender-les-paul-and-the-guitar-pioneering-rivalry-that-shaped-rock-n-roll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nSketchtasy \nfrom Arsenal Pulp Press \nSketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together\, and everything falls apart: it’s an urgent\, glittering\, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. \nThis is Boston in 1995\, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa\, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen\, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions\, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades\, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity\, willful apathy\, and the spectre of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? \nSketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels\, and the editor of five non-fiction anthologies. Her memoir The End of San Francisco won a Lambda Literary Award\, and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest book is the novel Sketchtasy. Mattilda lives in Seattle. \nPraise for Sketchtasy \nIf Sketchtasy doesn’t become a classic\, we are doomed. Mattilda has such complete command of craft here that she is able to evoke experience rather than simply describe it. Whether or not we identify with her characters\, she lets us into their hearts and perceptions through sheer talent\, raw honesty\, and the sophisticated ability to handle word order\, duration\, pacing\, and soul. The form of this novel is determined organically from the emotions at their core. A lesson in how to write\, how to remember\, how to grapple with history. -Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse \nI thought it was impossible that Sycamore could get any better\, but Sketchtasy is a vivid masterpiece that rivals the likes of Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. It’s dangerous\, hilarious\, scary\, and transcendentally beautiful. Sycamore’s prose is so searing\, you might want to read it with sunglasses. -Jake Shears\, singer; author of Boys Keep Swinging \nEvery sentence in Sketchtasy is a living thing\, fierce and funny and a little bit dangerous — a voice made of coke dust and club lights\, cut with crackling insight. I was completely addicted to the story of Alexa’s search for connection\, set in the gritty Boston nightclub scene in the 90s. Nobody writes like Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore — most writers wouldn’t dare try. -Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nReading Sketchtasy is like a night of stealing other people’s drinks\, or a much-needed slap to the face\, or a little of both. Bold\, glittering\, wise\, fun\, the novel as found poem alive in the mouth of this truth-telling queen\, making her way through a wasteland of other people’s lies (and a few of her own)\, and looking for something near paradise. Follow her and live. -Alexander Chee\, author of The Queen of the Night \nSketchtasy is a breakneck spree through a cultural moment\, scratching off the patina of nostalgia to show how urgently relevant it still is. If you’ve heard her read\, you know Sycamore’s voice is one in a zillion. She’s at her very best here. –Shelf Awareness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190123T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Art of Relevance
DESCRIPTION:How can you re-ignite your community and create greater participation? \nJoin us for an informal discussion of Nina Simon’s recent book\, The Art of Relevance\, followed by the chance to chat and network with people who work in museums\, zoos\, aquariums\, parks\, historical organizations\, and nature centers. \nNina Simon has been described as a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine for her audience-centered approach to design. “Whether you work in museums or libraries\, parks or theaters\, churches or afterschool programs\, relevance can work for you. Relevance is not something an institution can assign by fiat. Your work matters when it matters to people—when THEY deem it relevant\, not you. The Art of Relevance will help you identify the people you seek to engage\, empathize with their concerns and interests\, and develop authentic ways to invite them into your work on their own terms.” (From www.artofrelevance.org). \nYou can read the book for free online. \nThis free event is open to the public\, but will be of special interest to professionals and aspiring professionals from museums and related fields. You do not have to have read the book to come to the discussion! \nCo-hosted by Cultural Connections\, a community of Bay Area museum professionals who meet regularly to exchange ideas\, share resources\, and inspire creativity and action. We value diversity\, pushing boundaries\, being responsive\, and professional development. To learn more\, please visit our website.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-discussion-the-art-of-relevance/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T213000
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SUMMARY:BJ MILLER In Conversation with Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n Through his writing\, teaching\, and work with the San Francisco Zen Center and University of California\, San Francisco\, BJ Miller has spearheaded a nationwide effort to change the way we think about and approach death and dying. Rather than hospitalization and endless attempts at sustaining life\, Miller advocates a mindful\, human-centered model of care that embraces dying not as a medical event\, but rather as a universally shared life experience. Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative care physician and educator. He has been on faculty at The University of California\, San Francisco since 2007\, where he has worked in all settings of care: hospital\, clinic\, residential facility\, and home. He now sees patients and families at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. \nPico Iyer is the author of many books including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Man Within My Head\, The Art of Stillness\, and Autumn Light (April 2019). An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bj-miller-in-conversation-with-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BJ MILLER
DESCRIPTION:BJ MILLER\nIn Conversation with Pico Iyer\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n Through his writing\, teaching\, and work with the San Francisco Zen Center and University of California\, San Francisco\, BJ Miller has spearheaded a nationwide effort to change the way we think about and approach death and dying. Rather than hospitalization and endless attempts at sustaining life\, Miller advocates a mindful\, human-centered model of care that embraces dying not as a medical event\, but rather as a universally shared life experience. Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative care physician and educator. He has been on faculty at The University of California\, San Francisco since 2007\, where he has worked in all settings of care: hospital\, clinic\, residential facility\, and home. He now sees patients and families at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. \nPico Iyer is the author of many books including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Man Within My Head\, The Art of Stillness\, and Autumn Light (April 2019). An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bj-miller/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Hadley\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to read from her new novel\, Late in the Day. \n“Perceptive\, finely wrought….Hadley is a writer of the first order\, and this novel gives her the opportunity to explore\, with profound incisiveness and depth\, the inevitable changes inherent to long-lasting marriages.”– Publishers Weekly \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Late in the Day by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this latest from Hadley. Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later\, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. \nIn the wake of this profound loss\, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach\, with his generous\, grounded spirit\, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable\, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer\, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships\, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past\, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. \nLate in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships\, to expose how\, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives\, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters’ thoughts and interactions\, Tessa Hadley once again “crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural.” (Washington Post) \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\, Everything Will Be All Right; The Master Bedroom; The London Train\, and Clever Girl\, and two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JAMIE WEIL at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Writer and youth mental health advocate Jamie Weil shares her powerful novel for young adults\, First Break. \nWhen your first break from home is your first break with reality … Paige Masters knows something isn’t quite right\, but figures once she gets to college\, life will get better. Instead\, it gets worse. Desperate to quiet the voices in her head telling her to kill herself\, Paige overdoses on her roommate’s sleeping meds\, her ticket to the university emergency room and\, from there\, a 72-hour hold at an adolescent psychiatric facility that turns into months that feel like they’ll never end. Inside those cotton-candy-pink walls\, Paige turns 18\, and discovers that adulthood brings a whole new set of rights. When she checks herself out\, she is ill-prepared for what comes next. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamie-weil-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190121T210000
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CREATED:20170324T014132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061838Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-22/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190119T213000
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SUMMARY:David St. John & Jane Mead
DESCRIPTION:David St. John has won many significant prizes\, including both the Rome Fellowship and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters\, the O.B. Hardison Prize for teaching and poetic achievement from the Folger Shakespeare Library\, and the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from Beyond Baroque. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe is the author of eleven collections of poetry\, including Study for the World’s Body (1994)\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and more recently the The Auroras (2012)\, The Window (2014)\, and The Last Troubadour: Selected and New Poems (2017). St. John is also the author of a volume of essays\, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us (1995) and is coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (2009). He teaches at University of Southern California. \n  \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n\n \n  \nJane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry: The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996)\, The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001)\, The Usable Field (2008)\, Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014)\, and World of Mad and Unmade (2016). Mead is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Lannan\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim foundations. She has taught at Colby College\, Washington University\, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was for many years poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University. Mead is currently on the faculty of the Drew University Low-Residency MFA program. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-st-john-jane-mead/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190118T210000
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SUMMARY:Austin Smith and Dora Malech
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers welcomes Austin Smith and Dora Malech to read from their books Flyover Countryand Stet. Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land\, to animals\, to refugees\, to the people of distant countries\, and to one another. In Stet\, Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject\, exploring what it means to make or break a vow\, to create art out of a life in flux\, to reckon with the body’s bounds\, and to arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/austin-smith-and-dora-malech/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190118T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190118T200000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190117T220000
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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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