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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder - - Notes from Cyberground
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 26\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling\, on Tuesday\, February 26th at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Matthew Zapruder. \nAmerica under Donald Trump. Russia under Vladimir Putin. Many have ridiculed them. None have done so with such scathing wit as Mikhail Iossel. From a youth spent in the USSR to a life remade in the USA\, Iossel shares the brunt of this experience on Facebook\, where thousands follow his blistering posts on Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia\, and his lyrical\, eerily timely reflections on life under totalitarianism. Notes from Cyberground brings together a choice selection of Iossel’s aphorisms\, ranging from a few words to a few hundred words. Each chapter covers a month from Election Day 2016 to October 2018. Even when comical\, this gem of a book is dead serious. It will bring solace to anyone who feels distressed by today’s surreal politics \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMikhail Iossel\, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants to Know (W. W. Norton) and coeditor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive\, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House\, 2010)\, is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal and the founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international program. Back in the Soviet Union\, he worked as an electromagnetic engineer/submarine demagnetizer and as roller-coaster security guard\, and belonged to the organization of samizdat writers\, Club-81. He came to the US in 1986\, at the age of thirty\, a whole and complete life behind him\, and started writing in English in 1988. Among his awards are Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Stegner Fellowships. His stories and other prose\, in English and in translation to several languages\, have appeared in NewYorker.com\, Guernica\, Literarian\, AGNI\, North American Review\, Threepenny Review\, Interia\, Boulevard\, Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-w-matthew-zapruder-notes-from-cyberground/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nSophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon \nby Maxine Gordon (Author)\, Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword)\, Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) \npublished by University of California Press \nSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)\, one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography\, history\, and memoir\, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began\, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition\, the blend of research\, anecdote\, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter\, “Man\, you ought to leave your karma to science.” \nDexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums\, on film\, and in jazz lore–even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom\, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son\, father\, husband\, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself. \n\n\nMaxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. As an oral historian and archivist in the fields of jazz and African American cultural history\, Sophisticated Giant fulfills the promise she made to her late husband\, jazz saxophonist and Academy Award-nominated actor Dexter Gordon\, to complete his biography.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-gordon-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-jazz-legend-dexter-gordon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. \nFor more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi <iranyi@me.com> \n  \nPosted in BOOK CLUB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nWith his stunning debut novel\, There There\, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and where they live. The fierce and sorrowful novel grapples with the complex and painful history of a multigenerational Native American family living in Oakland\, at once celebrating their rich spiritual heritage and illuminating the profound consequences of systematic discrimination. A recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. He does not take the responsibilities and impact of his public voice lightly\, telling PBS that “when people think the only way to be Native or the only way to look Native is based on a historical\, head-dressed feathered image\, you have already disappeared.” \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, music critic\, and the author of Who We Be\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\, and We Gon’ Be Alright. He is the former Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and currently serves as Vice President of Narrative\, Arts\, and Culture at Race Forward
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our February author Rebecca Gomez Farrell will discuss her novel Wings Unseen and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nRebecca Gomez Farrell writes all the speculative fiction genres she can conjure up. Her first fantasy novel\, Wings Unseen\, debuted in August 2017 from Meerkat Press. You can find her short stories in over 20 anthologies\, magazines\, and websites including Dark Luminous Wings\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and Fright into Flight. Becca co-leads the 400-member strong East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup group and organizes a chapter of the national Women Who Submit writing organization\, which encourages female writers to send their work out for publication. She also co-moderates Facebook resource groups for female-identifying writers and is a regular participant in the Bay Area literary reading scene. Becca’s food\, drink\, and travel blog\, theGourmez.com\, has garnered multiple accolades and influences every tasty bite of her fictional worldbuilding. Fiction Website: RebeccaGomezFarrell.com. Social Media: @theGourmez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-gomez-farrell-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
DESCRIPTION:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anya-martin-and-nick-mamatas-2/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christie Aschwanden / Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden for her new book Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery. More information to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nIn recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves\, foam rollers\, electrical muscle stimulators\, and sleep trackers. \n  \nIn Good to Go\, Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates whether drinking Gatorade or beer after training helps or hinders performance; she examines the latest trends among athletes\, from NFL star Tom Brady’s infrared pajamas to gymnast Simone Biles’ pneumatic compression boots to swimmer Michael Phelps’ “cupping” ritual; and she tests some of the most controversial methods herself\, including cryochambers\, float tanks\, and infrared saunas. \n  \nAt a time when the latest recovery products and services promise so much\, Good to Go seeks answers to the fundamental question: Do any of them actually help the body recover and achieve peak performance? \n  \n\n  \nChristie Aschwanden is the lead writer for science at FiveThirtyEight and health columnist for the Washington Post. A finalist for the National Magazine Award\, her writing has appeared in Outside\, Discover\, Smithsonian and O\, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Colorado. \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 with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \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 Good to Go\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christie-aschwanden-good-to-go-what-the-athlete-in-all-of-us-can-learn-from-the-strange-science-of-recovery/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing
DESCRIPTION:More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give tips on how to finish a book and share interesting stories from their writing journeys. The talk will be followed by Q&A\, book signing\, and refreshments provided by the writers. The program will be conducted in Mandarin. \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-chinese-writers-discuss-their-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Best of Bawdy' (10 PM\, SF)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday February 23rd\, 2019\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 9:30 PM\, Stories at 10:00 PM\n\n\n(NOTE: This is our Late Show)\n\n\nGeneral Admission $25 in Advance / $30 at the Door\n\nOr see BOTH SHOWS with a Full Evening Wristband!\n\n\nWant to sample Bawdy Storytelling? Listen to our podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nYou choose the Winners! The evening includes:\n❤ Best of Bawdy Survey coming soon\n\n❤ Hosted by Bawdy’s Founder\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ Music by the inimitable Rachel Lark\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nOn Saturday February 23rd\, come to Bawdy – the birthday candle you just can’t blow out – to celebrate TWELVE YEARS of Groundbreaking Storytelling-with-an-Edge.\n\n\nFor this big Anniversary blowout\, we’ll have the notorious and heroic onstage to tell their own scandalously revealing tales\, so expect a star-slutted event that will leave no turn un-stoned\, go behind the green door\, and give you everything you’ve come to love about Bawdy.\n\n\nFor the past Dozen years\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together on the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between.\n\n\n \n\n\nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! VIP Packages will be chock full of brand new bawdiness to take home with you. Our VIP & Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone – our Anniversary shows always SELL OUT.\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 6:30 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\n\n\n\nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Best of Bawdy’ (10 PM\, SF)? Contact Bawdy Storytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-best-of-bawdy-10-pm-sf/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling "Dirty Dozen"
DESCRIPTION:Saturday February 23rd\, 2019\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM\, Stories at 7:00 PM\n\n\n(NOTE: This is our Early Show)\n\n\nTickets $25 in Advance / $30 at the Door\n\nOr see BOTH SHOWS with a Full Evening Wristband!\n\n\nWant to sample Bawdy Storytelling? Listen to our podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nThis Evening of Stories and Songs includes:\n❤ Artist\, Educator & ‘SuperNova of Kink’ Midori\n❤ More Storytellers to come – stay tuned!\n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by Rachel Lark\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nOn Saturday February 23rd\, come to Bawdy – the birthday candle you just can’t blow out – to celebrate TWELVE YEARS of Groundbreaking Storytelling-with-an-Edge.\n\n\nFor this big Anniversary blowout\, we’ll have the notorious and heroic onstage to tell their own scandalously revealing tales\, so expect a star-slutted event that will leave no turn un-stoned\, go behind the green door\, and give you everything you’ve come to love about Bawdy.\n\n\nFor the past Decade (plus 2)\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together on the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between.\n\n\n \n\n\nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! VIP Packages will be chock full of brand new bawdiness to take home with you. Our VIP & Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone – our Anniversary shows always SELL OUT.\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 6:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\n\n\n\nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling Celebrates a Dirty Dozen (7:00 PM\, SF)? Contact Bawdy Storytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-dirty-dozen/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory\, is available from Oakland’s own Nomadic Press. James will read his poems\, then sit for an interview; audience discussion will follow the interview. A month before the reading a free chapbook of James Cagney’s poems will be available at all BPL branches
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creating Leonardo: Celebrating 500 Years of Leonardo’s Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars and performers for a two-day program of lectures\, dramatic readings and music to celebrate and explore the cultural contributions of Leonardo da Vinci and the mythologized legacy that has developed over the 500 since his death. In 1519 da Vinci died in France and a myth was born. Now considered the quintessential “Renaissance man” his paintings and drawings continue to inspire and his inventions still fascinate us. Presenters include Paula Findlen (Stanford)\, Martin Kemp (Oxford)\, Kip Cranna (SF Opera)\, Monica Azzolini (University of Bologna) Pamela O. Long (MacArthur Fellow) and Deborah Loft (College of Marin). The program features a performance by the men’s classical vocal ensemble Clerestory\, and a spoken word performance by acclaimed Bay Area actor James Carpenter.\n \nThe program takes place on Friday\, February 22\, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm\, and Saturday\, February 23\, from 10am to 4pm\, at Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, located in downtown San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creating-leonardo-celebrating-500-years-of-leonardos-legacy/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THERE 28
DESCRIPTION:THERE 28  will be Friday\, February 22\, 2019\, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele\, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande\, and poet MK Chavez\, also of Oakland. Musical guests TBA. \nTHERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco Chronicle! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the (usually) third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-28/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:George Higgins & Charlotte Innes
DESCRIPTION:George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There\, There (White Violet Press\, 2013)\, Joan Aleshire wrote\, “this book deepens our knowledge of how to live in the world\,” and Dan Tobin wrote\, “these are poems of ‘perfect contact’ in which the soul inevitably ascends\, even if it’s through a kill hole in the skull. There\, There is an auspicious debut.”  His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa)\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, Poetry Flash\, Salamander\, and Fugue\, among others. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College where he was a Holden Fellow. He is also a Cave Canem Fellow. He performs completely improvised one act plays with the improv troupe the (i)ncidentalists. \n(Photo: Jon Rou)\nCharlotte Innes is the author of Descanso Drive(Kelsay Books\, 2017)\, a first book of poems\, and two chapbooks\, Licking the Serpent (2011) and Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles (2009)\, both with Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in many publications including The Hudson Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Tampa Review and Rattle. They have also been anthologized in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque Books\, 2015) and The Best American Spiritual Writing for 2006 (Houghton Mifflin\, 2006)\, amongst others. A former newspaper reporter\, she has also written on literary topics for the Los Angeles Times\, The Nation and other publications. Although she is originally from England\, she has lived for almost 30 years in Los Angeles where she has taught journalism at the University of Southern California\, as well as English\, journalism\, and creative writing at high schools throughout the Los Angeles area. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-higgins-charlotte-innes/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes
DESCRIPTION:Oakland poet and actor\, George Higgins\, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, and others. About his collection There\, There\, Joan Aleshire wrote\, “…this book deepens our knowledge of how to live in the world\,” and Dan Tobin wrote\, “…these are poems of ‘perfect contact’ in which the soul inevitably ascends\, even if it’s through a kill hole in the skull.”  Charlotte Innes has had poems appear in The Hudson Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Rattle\, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond\, and others. About her collection Descanso Drive\, Sarah Maclay wrote\, “Urgent\, muscular\, rapt\, distilled—at times like a melding of Plath and Boland—and as unnervingly prescient as it is attentive to and haunted by both the historical and personal past…” and Rick Mullin wrote\, “…finely-crafted poems\, beautifully voiced\, that carry us from her native England to her new home in California.” A limited open reading and a brief interview with the featured poets will be included.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourth-friday-formal-george-higgins-and-charlotte-innes/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY: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/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marina Mularz
DESCRIPTION:Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection\, Welcome to Freedom Point. \n\nPraise for Welcome to Freedom Point \n“Fresh\, witty\, delightfully weird\, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused with quirky charm\, youthful energy\, and the palpable sense of age-old loneliness that can sneak up and gut you. A collection of deeply human contradictions.”– GINA FRANGELLO Author of A Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting \nAbout Welcome to Freedom Point \nIt’s all happening in the small town of Freedom Point\, Wisconsin Karlee Starr explores the rhythms of young love and snot-soaked heartache on a middle school dance floor. Thirteen-year-old Jacob Kentor suffers an identity crisis at Hooters. Desperate yeti hunting conceals the death of a marriage. A motivational speech ends in arrest. Equal parts humor and heartbreak\, Welcome to Freedom Point dissects the thrills and spoils of small-town adolescence in a series of linked stories that captures the essence of what it means to come of age…at any age. In the spaces between each uproarious episode\, the good people of Freedom Point collectively celebrate–or simply survive–the deeply human art of aiming for more one uncomfortable leap at a time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-mularz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gloria Steinem: More Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
DESCRIPTION:Gloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez\, moderated by Lauren Schiller. \nThursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 7 p.m.\nThe Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94114\nGeneral Admission $20; Students $15 \nWhat is Gloria Steinem thinking about today in our era of #MeToo and intersectionality? How can today’s feminists learn from our foremothers\, and vice versa? We’ll celebrate an updated\, third edition of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions\, originally published in 1983 – a book that has sold over half a million copies\, and counting. As author Susan Faludi (Backlash) put it\, Outrageous Acts “will always be… a required feminist reader.” From satires to moving tributes\, confessions (yes\, the Playboy bunny essay is in here) and analyses\, the book includes classics along with new material. \nSteinem will talk with artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez of CultureStrike\, and Lauren Schiller\, host of Inflection Point from KALW will moderate the conversation. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from an ever-relevant icon in a smart\, sassy conversation that will provoke and inspire you. \nSpecial promo! Join Women Lit at any level and receive many benefits\, including a complimentary ticket (more at higher donation levels!)\, priority seating\, and first access to the book signing line for the Steinem event. \n$20.00. \nPresented by Bay Area Book Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gloria-steinem-more-outrageous-acts-and-everyday-rebellions/
LOCATION:The Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 21 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI eat crumbs out of the baby’s neck\nI’m glad there are no great poems by women\nI’m glad there are no great poems by Jews\nI’m glad there are no great poems about motherhood\nI’m glad no great poems have ever been written. \n—Lauren Levin\, from The Braid \nThe Poetry Center presents Poetry Center Book Award winner Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid\, (Krupskaya Books)\, together with award judge Melissa Mack. Both poets read from their work\, then engage in conversation with each other and the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \n\nMany of the books I read for the Poetry Center Book Award spoke to me\, were doing urgent and interesting work\, shared vital rhythms\, sounds\, forms\, and concerns. But The Braid rose. It articulated and worried—as in worked\, as in worried—some of my (and I would venture to say ‘our’) most pressing concerns. What I’m looking for is a way to join with the world / and love won’t let me do that any more than hatred will. And the way it did so was expansive and specific\, so good at the vague grammar of consciousness and the precision of “personal” experience. Maybe I should call this poem that refuses to stop / ‘the care-giver’ / or ‘the shepherdess’ or ‘the murderess’… Levin’s long poems made of long lines allow tenderness and aggression to coexist\, like in the game Levin plays with daughter Alejandra\, “Little bee\, little bee\, don’t sting your mama” / while she nudges my face with her mouth and nose … / and shouts into my mouth\, STING! Also\, the principal of the braid as a combinatory form in which the source materials remain fully themselves\, even when brought together\, I found so respectful and responsible in this era of cooption\, merging\, networks. Different bodies at different times in different places have different experiences. The obvious things are worth saying instead. Once\, my niece\, five years old or so\, told me\, of a party she’d been to\, “There was a part where I didn’t feel included.” I felt included in this braid alright. Levin’s examination of whiteness as the pastoral—willful innocence and a desire to be soothed\, to be able to exit the scene at any time—and of persistent anxiety was gripping. But I do believe that it is meaningful / where relief and solace come from // If I am not afraid / because I have been listening to Reagan speeches / vs. if I am not afraid // Because the bravery of my murdered friends / has taken my fear away / That is a meaningful distinction. The Braid is rigorous and uncomfortable and beautiful and I am glad to have picked it for this award and I hope everyone reads it.\n—Melissa Mack\, judge’s citation for the Poetry Center Book Award\n\nLauren Levin is a poet\, mixed-genre writer and art critic\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) and Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). Their gender identity is some mix of belated queer\, Jewish great-aunt\, and aspirational Frank O’Hara. They are still figuring it out. They live in Richmond\, CA\, are from New Orleans\, LA\, and are committed to queer art\, intersectional feminism\, being a parent\, and anxiety. \nMelissa Mack is the author of The Next Crystal Text (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) and the chapbook Includes All Strangers (Hooke Press\, 2014). Her work has also appeared in a variety of anthologies\, journals\, poet’s theater\, and that most ephemeral of forms\, the public reading. She organizes with the Oakland Summer School\, a collaborative\, non-institutional space of gathering & study created by a group of activists\, artists\, and educators\, and she lives and works in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-center-book-award-reading-lauren-levin-and-melissa-mack-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chloe Aridjis
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nSea Monsters: A Novel \npublished by Catapult Press \nPulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division\, Nick Cave\, and Siouxsie and the Banshees\, an intoxicating portrait of Mexico in the late 1980s by this brilliant Guggenheim fellow and Prix du Premier Roman Étranger–winning author. \nOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City\, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead\, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás\, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness\, impulse\, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports\, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies\, nudists\, beachcombers\, and eccentric storytellers\, Luisa searches for someone\, anyone\, who will “promise\, no matter what\, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar\, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite\, the “Beach of the Dead.” \nMeanwhile\, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us. \nChloe Aridjis is a Mexican-American writer who was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic shows\, she lived for nearly six years in Berlin. Her debut novel\, Book of Clouds\, has been published in eight languages and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France. Aridjis sometimes writes about art and insomnia and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chloe-aridjis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:“The universe is made of stories\, not of atoms.” -Muriel Rukeyser\nReading starts at 7:30 pm.\nLight refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for our quarterly reading series\, Story is the Thing\, where stunning\, emerging voices can be heard alongside works from contemporary local masters. \nReading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \nJeanne Althouse\nFlash fiction by Jeanne Althouse has appeared in numerous literary journals. Her most recent flash story collection\, Boys in the Bank\, published by Red Bird Chapbooks\, came out in November 2018. Her story “Big Lies” was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest and “Goran Holds his Breath” was nominated by Shenandoah for the Pushcart Prize. \nJamel Brinkley\nJamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories (Graywolf Press/A Public Space Books)\, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in fiction and recipient of the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in The Best American Short Stories 2018\, A Public Space\, Ploughshares\, Gulf Coast\, The Threepenny Review\, Glimmer Train\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, and other places. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he’s currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. \nTsun Yuan Chen\nTsun Yuan Chen is a retired Head and Neck Surgeon\, born in Mainland China\, studied in Taiwan and Tokyo\, before arriving on these shores. He now divides his time between San Francisco\, Umbria and Provence with his life partner\, at home everywhere and nowhere\, making alienation a fine art of his life\, while maintaining an esprit from the East. \nAndrea Donderi\nAndrea Donderi grew up in Montreal and arrived in California via Toronto\, Chicago\, and Bloomington\, Indiana. She recently moved from a ramshackle backyard cottage on the peninsula to a house with chickens in Oakland. Andrea writes manuals for the guts of the Internet as well as essays and fiction. \nDavid Wystan Owen\nD. Wystan Owen is the author of Other People’s Love Affairs: Stories (Algonquin Books)\, an Amazon “Best Fiction & Literature of 2018” selection. His work has appeared in A Public Space\, LitHub\, The Threepenny Review\, The American Scholar\, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he now lives in Northern California where he serves as publisher of The Bare Life Review. \nKathy Wang\nKathy Wang grew up in Northern California and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Meet Author Jasmine Guillory
DESCRIPTION:Meet Jasmine Guillory\, a writer\, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. \nNew York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay called The Wedding Date “a charming\, warm\, sexy gem of a novel.” \nEntertainment Weekly gushed “Guillory writes with the fizzy effervescence of a glass of champagne\, and the entire book goes down just as easily (and quickly). The Wedding Date starts out as a fling\, but it makes us want a more long-term relationship with Guillory and her irresistible writing style.” \nKirkus Reviews called The Proposal “A charming book for the modern romance lover.” \nYou can find her online at @thebestjasmine on Twitter\, or at jasmineguillory.com. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing following the main event\, courtesy of East Bay Booksellers. \nWhen:\nThursday\, February 21\, 2019 – 6:30pm \nWhere:\nOakland Public Library: Main Library\nBradley Walters Community Room\n125 14th Street\nOakland\, CA 94612\nPhone: (510) 238-3134\nSee map: Google Maps
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-jasmine-guillory/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading in February: \nJenny Qi is a writer and scientist. Her essays and poems are published or forthcoming in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Rattle\, ZYZZYVA\, BLR\, Atticus Review\, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net\, and her first manuscript was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize. She has a PhD in Cancer Biology and works in science and health communications. She also co-hosts a storytelling podcast called Bone Lab Radio\, now in Season 2. Website: www.jqiwriter.com \nTony Aldarondo Is a Puerto Rican poet who has read his poetry from San Fran to Japan\, and in many venues throughout the bay area. He is an actor and a voiceover artist. And a member of the screen actors Guild\, and has toured the state of California with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He loves writing Poetry\, plays\, and music and is super excited to read at Pegasus Books. \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (University of Utah Press) and two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover (Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Best New Poets\, Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Francisco\, CA and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, the Writing Salon\, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth arts education non-profit. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared as a featured poet at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, Sacramento\, Vancouver\, and Mumbai. Nomadic Press will publish his first collection Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory in August. Visit his blog at https://thedirtyrat.blog/ \nYaccaira Salvatierra is an educator and art instructor living in San José. Her poems have appeared in Huizache\, Diálogo\, Puerto del Sol\, and Rattle\, among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, the recipient of the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in poetry\, the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and a nominee for a Pushcart Prize. Although she has lived in over seven cities in California\, San José has been home for the past 17 years where she lives with her two sons. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner
DESCRIPTION:It was a simple test. Yet\, the course of her life changed forever. \nDani Shapiro\, the award-winning author of bestselling novels like Hourglass\, Devotion\, and more\, grappled with the self-shattering results of a simple DNA test. \nOn TLC and in heart-warming ads\, DNA testing is nothing more than a high-tech family tree for the digital age\, an over-the-counter science experiment to deepen our own personal understanding ourselves. But millions of Americans are finding a different experience. \nIn this intimate and heart-wrenching new memoir from one of the great writers of our time\, comes the true story of how Dani Shapiro discovered that her father was not truly her biological father. Her Jewish identity\, relationship to her family and to herself—they all underwent seismic change in a heartbeat. Upending a lifetime of secrets and untold stories\, this innocuous decision left Shapiro grappling with results no one could have ever prepared her for. Inheritance is a tour de force of what family truly means\, raw and emotionally realized. \nJoin us for a powerful and peerless evening\, as Dani opens this profound chapter of her life in conversation with fellow writer and family historian Elizabeth Rosner of Survivor Café. \nThese two stunning Jewish-American authors describe a selfhood built against the backdrop of history\, secrets\, and the often-unknown stories of those who came before us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-in-conversation-with-elizabeth-rosner/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert
DESCRIPTION:reads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-brennert/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection\, The Lumberjack’s Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! \n  \n“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be\, as it is here\, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is\, in its manner\, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment\, on loss\, on transformation. Like its less humble relatives\, myth and parable\, it is pithy\, magical\, its many insights\, its cautions and clarifications\, unfolding in a chain of brief scenes and koan-like revelations. This is a book of unexpected lightness and buoyancy\, as necessary in our tense period as the more urgent confrontations.” –Louise Gluck \nA boldly original and visceral debut collection from the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition\, selected by Louise Gluck \nIn the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove\, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however\, instead of merely being severed\, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body\, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human\, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing\, time and memory\, and—finally—considering the act of storytelling itself. The lumberjack\, his hand\, and the axe that separated the two all become participants in the story\, with unique perspectives to share and lessons to impart. “I taught your fathers how to love\,” Axe says to the acorns and leaves around her. “I mean to be felled\, sliced to lumber\, & reassembled into a new body.” \nInflected with the uncanny enchantment of modern folklore and animated by the sly shifting of points-of-view\, The Lumberjack’s Dove is wise\, richly textured poetry from a boundlessly creative new voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Marlon James
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMarlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings\, John Crow’s Devil\, and The Book of Night Women\, all of which explore and retell twentieth-century Jamaica through a litany of perspectives.  His forthcoming novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the first in the Dark Star Trilogy\, a fantasy series rooted in African legend\, which James describes as an “African Game of Thrones” (Entertainment Weekly). Born in Kingston\, James was the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize in 2015. He has published short pieces in Black Noir\, Esquire\, Granta\, Harper’s\, The Caribbean Review of Books\, New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. In his 2016 viral video Are you Racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer\, he makes a case for more rigorous anti-racism\, as opposed to mere non-racist complacency. James lives and teaches in Minnesota\, and spends the rest of his time in New York
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marlon-james/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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