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SUMMARY:Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black
DESCRIPTION:  \n \ncelebrating the release of \nDead Men’s Trousers \nby Irvine Welsh \npublished by Melville House \n\nThe gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme – a scheme one of them won’t survive. It’s an action-packed\, hilarious and rollicking trip\, as well as a moving elegy to the crew. \n\n\n\nIrvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh\, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith\, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse. At sixteen\, he left school\, took various jobs\, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he spent his free time exploring the London punk scene\, then moved back to Edinburgh to renew his studies. Back home\, and inspired by the nineties rave scene\, he ran into some fascinating characters he immortalised later\, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content\, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame\, precipitated further by the release of the film\, by Danny Boyle\, three years later. Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in the US. \nAlan Black is a writer and served as the former literary manager of San Francisco’s famous bookish venue Edinburgh Castle Pub. His work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon.com\, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is cofounder of the Scottish Cultural and Arts Foundation and coeditor of Public House\, an anthology. He has also authored the book Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach (Plume/Penguin) and co-authored the book The Glorious World Cup (with David Henry Sterry – NAL/Penguin) \nPraise for Irvine Welsh & Dead Men’s Trousers … \n“Raunchy\, profane\, violent\, and frequently hilarious… Dead Men’s Trousers delivers a strangely life-affirming dose of dark absurdity\, ensuring that\, if this is the last we see of these characters\, they won’t soon be forgotten.” – *STARRED* Booklist \n“Unfolds like a Keystone Kops version of Ocean’s 11… Welsh’s entire oeuvre crackles with idiomatic energy and brio\, and this rollicking novel is no different.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Welsh’s peculiar talent is finding the comedy in sex\, addiction\, betrayal\, and death\, and he handles the job so deftly that the novel nearly qualifies as comfort reading even in gross-out mode.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS \n“Blisteringly funny…” —New York Times Book Review \n“It is funny\, unflinchingly abrasive\, authentic\, and inventive\, unerringly on-and off-the pulse. It is a true cult\, the kind of novel you press on perfect strangers. It validates a world fiction hasn’t recognized before.” —Time Out \n“Irvine Welsh writes with skill\, wit\, and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.” —Nick Hornby\, Sunday Times \n“Irvine Welsh writes with style\, imagination\, wit\, and force\, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.” —The Times Literary Supplement \n“Irvine Welsh is the real thing-a marvelous admixture of nihilism and heartbreak\, pinpoint realism (especially in dialect and tone) and almost archetypal universality. —David Foster Wallace
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irvine-welsh-in-conversation-with-alan-black/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Najwa Zebian / Sparks of Phoenix
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Najwa Zebian\, to celebrate her new book\, Sparks of Phoenix. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Sparks of Phoenix\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \n  \nIn Sparks of Phoenix — Zebian’s third book of poetry — she takes her readers on a powerful journey of healing. \nAs the phoenix emerges from its ashes\, Zebian emerges ablaze in these pages\, not only as a survivor of abuse\, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understand\, reclaim\, and rise above a history of pain. The book is divided into six chapters\, and six stages of healing: Falling\, Burning to Ashes\, Sparks of Phoenix\, Rising\, Soaring\, and finally\, A New Chapter\, which demonstrates a healthy response to new love as the result of authentic healing. With her characteristic vulnerability\, courage\, and softness\, Zebian seeks to empower those who have been made to feel ashamed\, silenced\, or afraid; she urges them\, through gentle advice and personal revelation\, to raise their voices\, rise up\, and soar. \n  \n\n  \nNajwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author\, speaker\, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age\, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels. The search for a home what Najwa describes as a place where the soul and heart feel at peace was central to her early years. When she arrived in Canada at the age of sixteen\, she felt unstable and adrift in an unfamiliar place. Nevertheless\, she completed her education\, and went on to become a teacher as well as a doctoral candidate in educational leadership. Her first students\, a group of young refugees\, led her back to her original passion: writing. She began to heal her sixteen-year-old self by writing to heal her students. Since self-publishing her first collection of poetry and prose in 2016\, Najwa has become an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Drawing on her own experiences of displacement\, discrimination\, and abuse\, Najwa uses her words to encourage others to build a home within themselves; to live\, love\, and create fearlessly. \n  \n\n  \n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Sparks of Phoenix\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Sparks of Phoenix to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– RSVP is not necessary\, but appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/najwa-zebian-sparks-of-phoenix/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 5\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk & Chelsea Coleman \nADDITIONAL MARCH SHOW ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: https://sforce.co/2BDvO7q\nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is Cash Only at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-19/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eva Hagberg Fisher with Tabitha Soren / How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Eva Hagberg Fisher for her first book\, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship. Eva will be in conversation with Tabitha Soren. Please join us! \n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs\, alcohol\, therapists\, boyfriends\, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it\, but always temporarily. Then\, at age thirty\, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey\, and when her illness hit a critical stage\, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable\, she needed help\, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. \nHow to Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person’s life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship\, and the recovery — of many stripes — that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut\, delivered by a caring soul\, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with empathy\, pain\, fear\, and the secret truths inside all of us\, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart — and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy. \n  \n\n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher‘s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, Tin House\, Wallpaper*\, Wired\, Guernica\, and Dwell\, among other places. She lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTabitha Soren left a successful career in television in 1999 to start another one as a photographer. Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Oakland Museum of California; Transformer Station\, Cleveland\, Ohio; Pier 24 Photography\, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art\, Indiana; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, New Orleans. Her work has been featured in Dear Dave\, McSweeney’s\, Vanity Fair\, New York Times Magazine\, Blink\, Slate\, New York\, Sports Illustrated\, California Sunday Magazine\, and ESPN The Magazine. She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery\, Los Angeles \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Loved\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eva-hagberg-fisher-with-tabitha-soren-how-to-be-loved-a-memoir-of-lifesaving-friendship/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki\, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life\, and the lessons we can draw from them\, in his new book\, Wise Guy. \nGuy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple’s original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He’s widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship\, venture capital\, marketing\, and business evangelism\, which he’s shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that\, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii\, a grandson of Japanese immigrants\, who loved football and got a C+ in 9th grade English. \nWise Guy\, his most personal book\, is about his surprising journey. It’s not a traditional memoir but a series of vignettes. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul\, because these stories (like those in the Chicken Soupseries) reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. \nFor instance\, you’ll follow Kawasaki as he . . . \n* Gets his first real job in the jewelry business–which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. \n* Disparages one of Apple’s potential partners in front of that company’s CEO\, at the sneaky instigation of Steve Jobs. \n* Blows up his Apple career with a single sentence\, after Jobs withholds a pre-release copy of the Think Different ad campaign: “That’s okay\, Steve\, I don’t trust you either.” \n* Reevaluates his self-importance after being mistaken for Jackie Chan by four young women. \n* Takes up surfing at 62–which teaches him that you can discover a new passion at any age\, but younger is easier! \nKawasaki covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes\, “I hope my stories help you live a more joyous\, productive\, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this\, then that’s the best story of all.” \n\nGuy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist Canva\, an online graphic-design tool. He’s also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was previously the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His 14 books include The Art of the Start\, Enchantment\, Selling the Dream\, and The Art of Social Media. He has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA\, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He and his wife\, Beth\, have four children. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 3rd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki-wise-guy-lessons-from-a-life/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:LOGIC Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC A magazine about technology \nHost: Jim Fingal\, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey\, Alexis C. Madrigal\, Fred Turner\, Ellen Ullman\, and Julia Carrie Wong \nTwo years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights. They are a print magazine about technology that publishes three times per year\, with a small digital footprint. A great deal of enthusiasm has been generated by LOGIC. They continue to expand their editorial line to generate better conversations about technology and its effects on culture. \nTo celebrate the second anniversary of Logic’s launch\, join us for a conversation at City Lights about the state of technology writing. \nHow are writers telling the story of technology? And how has the way they are telling that story changed in recent years\, as a string of revelations and scandals fosters a darker mood about the role of technology in our lives? \nTo discuss these questions\, we’ll hear from friends of the magazine who write about technology in different genres: \nMegan Rose Dickey is a senior reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity\, inclusion and social justice. She also covers the on-demand economy\, artificial intelligence and transportation. \nAlexis C. Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. \nFred Turner is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand\, the Whole Earth Network\, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism\, and a professor of Communication at Stanford University\, where he studies media\, technology and American cultural history. \nEllen Ullman is a computer programmer\, writer\, and novelist.  Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Wired\, The New Yprkl Times and Salon.  She is the author of a novel\, The Bug\, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine\, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. She lives in San Francisco. \nJulia Carrie Wong is a technology reporter for Guardian US\, based in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-turns-two/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DOOMED
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes\, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas\, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits\nODD SALON: DOOMED\n  \nFeaturing: \nTamar Baskind ~ Emanuel Ringelblum & the Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto \nLeonard Apeltsin ~ Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes Wrong \nLin Lawhn ~ Caledonia\, Conquered: How a Parcel of Rogues Doomed Scottish Independence \nKyle Weaver ~ Neitzche in a Nutshell: A Legacy of Miserable Counterculture \nNatalie Descalzi ~ The Alleged Arctic Conquests of Admiral Byrd \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan ~ History Distilled: Star Crossed Sodas & Lost Elixirs \nCurated by Christian Cagigal \nTuesday\, March 5th 2019 \n  \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \n*Discounted Early Bird Tickets are available only up to Midnight\, Monday Feb18.* \n  \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \n \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doomed/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 5\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nMorgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma\, loneliness\, sexuality\, racism\, and objectification. Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop\, Best American Poetry\, the New York Times\, the Nation\, and more. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and the recipient of a 2017 NEA in Literature Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-4/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! \nCurated by Christine No + Chad Koch\, submissions are open through Feb 6. \nThe Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, site of Quiet Lightning 125. Photo by Aubrie Pick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-6/
LOCATION:The Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, 1625 Post St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. \nMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness\, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes\, an ethnography of ancestral grief\, and an inventory of figureheads\, idioms\, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive\, joke and declaration\, songs of congregation and self-conception.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE WHOLE-BRAIN CHILD: NEUROSCIENCE OF THE DEVELOPING BRAIN WITH DR. DANIEL SIEGEL
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Steven Winn\nMonday\, March 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Daniel Siegel is a leading expert on psychiatry and psychotherapy\, focusing on the brain’s impact on the well-being of children and adults. A clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine\, and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center\, Dr. Siegel is the author and editor of multiple articles\, essays\, anthologies\, and textbooks on neurobiology\, both for the professional world and the public. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute\, an educational organization that teaches courses in developing mindfulness through examination of interpersonal relationships and biological processes. Dr. Siegel has additionally written five parenting books\, which use facets of neurobiology as the basis for healthful child-rearing. His most recent book\, Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence\, takes a close look at the science that underlies meditation and mindfulness\, and teaches readers how to cultivate an attentive state of being in order to develop a healthier\, happier\, brain and life.\n\n\nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Good Housekeeping\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. He is the author of Come Back\, Como.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-whole-brain-child-neuroscience-of-the-developing-brain-with-dr-daniel-siegel/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki
DESCRIPTION:A veritable icon of Silicon Valley\, Kawasaki is the author of 14 books\, including staples in the entrepreneur’s library like The Art of the Start. After working with some of the biggest tech companies in the world\, including a stint at Apple in the 1980s\, this guru of guerilla marketing went on to become the poster of reinvention\, solo-prenuership\, and a champion of self-branding. Today\, he’s a chief evangelist for Canva\, an online graphic-design tool\, a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz\, and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. \nIn his most revealing book yet\, Guy shares personal stories from his childhood in Hawaii\, his education at Stanford and UCLA\, the ups and downs of working for Steve Jobs\, and taking up surfing at 60 — proving that you are never too old to learn something new. \nWise Guy is an utterly original and profoundly intimate look at the power of self-reflection. Always the clear-eyed mentor\, Guy invites us all to find the deeper truth in the smallest moments of our life. Join one of Silicon Valley’s biggest stars as he returns to Kepler’s to share the pivotal lessons he’s learned in his 30+ years in the valley — you might just learn a thing or two about surfing along the way!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
CREATED:20170324T014133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061839Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-23/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, March 3rd for an intimate evening of poetry at the next installment of Bazaar Writers Salon. \nReadings by Esther Lin\, Austin Smith\, Melissa Stein\, and Amos White\nHosted by Peter Kline \nEsther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of The Ghost Wife\, winner of the 2018 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship\, and was awarded the Crab Orchard Review’s 2018 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel\, Crazyhorse\, Indiana Review\, Pleiades\, Ploughshares\, Triquarterly\, and elsewhere. Currently she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow and organizes for the Undocupoets\, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community. \nAustin Smith is the author of two poetry collections\, Almanac and Flyover Country\, both published through the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His poems have appeared in numerous journals\, including The New Yorker\, Poetry Magazine\, Ploughshares\, New England Review and Threepenny Review. He has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant in prose. He currently teaches courses in poetry\, fiction\, environmental literature and documentary journalism at Stanford University\, and lives in Pescadero\, California. \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA\, Pushcart Prize\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nAmos White is an awarded American haiku poet and author\, producer and civil rights activist. He is recognized for his vivid literary imagery and breathless poetic interpretations. Amos is published in several national and international reviews and anthologies. He is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, Executive Producer and Host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show\, and President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series\, and board member with the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM). www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-12/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
CREATED:20190131T112411Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics\, East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, wheelchair accessible\, 3:00 (510/653-9965\, ebbooksellers.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-a-reading-by-keith-emmons-moondrifter-reverie-and-lisa-rosenberg-a-different-physics/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
CREATED:20190131T103930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T103930Z
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Peter H. Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:From the creator of the New York Times bestsellers The Word Collector and I Am Human comes an empowering story about finding your voice and using it to make the world a better place. In Say Something! beloved artist and author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us\, each and every day\, have the chance to say something: with our actions\, our words\, and our voices. \n The world needs your voice.\nIf you have a brilliant idea… say something!\nIf you see an injustice… say something! \nPerfect for kid activists everywhere\, Reynolds reminds readers of the undeniable importance and power of their voices. There are so many ways to tell the world who you are\, what you are thinking\, and how you’ll make it better. The time is now: Say Something! \nPeter H. Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of many books for children\, including The Dot\, Ish\, Happy Dreamer\, The Word Collector\, and I Am Human. His books have been translated into over twenty-five languages around the globe and are celebrated worldwide. In 1996\, he founded FableVision with his brother\, Paul\, as a social change agency to help create “stories that matter\, stories that move.” \nSay Something! is a perfect way to start a conversation about how kids can make a difference in their world. Join us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-peter-h-reynolds/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190302T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
CREATED:20190129T215448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T215448Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Spring Reading \nSaturday\, Mar 2\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n—\nJoe Loya\nJoe Loya’s essays and book reviews have been published in dozens of national newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed memoir  The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber\, and wrote and performed a one-man show of the same name at the Thick House in San Francisco. He has appeared on CBS News\, CNN\, MSNBC\, FOX’s O’Relly Factor\, and other TV shows to comment on cultural events. In 2007 the documentary Protagonist featured the story of his radical life change. He is one of the founders of Own Your Story and he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel A Kind of Freedom was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\, with her family.\n\n\nSarah Stone \nSarah Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater (WTAW Press) appeared on the Millions Most Anticipated list for October and LitHub’s 21 Books You Should Read This October. Her previous novel\, The True Sources of the Nile\, has been taught in courses on literature\, ethics\, and the rhetoric of human rights. It was a BookSense 76 selection\, has been translated into German and Dutch\, and was included in Geoff Wisner’s A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa. She’s the co-author\, with her spouse and writing partner Ron Nyren\, of the textbook Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Scoundrel Time; Ploughshares; StoryQuarterly; The Believer; the San Francisco Chronicle; The Millions; The Writer’s Chronicle; Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear\, Risk\, and Hope; and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Stanford Continuing Studies. \nMaw Shein Win\nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese-American poet and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, Poetry International\, Fanzine\, and others. She is a member of the SF Writers’ Grotto and is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California. Along with Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. A collaborative book with paintings by artist Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press (2016). Her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in April 2018 and was a #2 City Lights Books bestselling paperback.\n\n\nIrving Ruan \nIrving Ruan is a writer\, actor\, comedian\, playwright\, and engineer. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Funny Or Die\, CollegeHumor\, and elsewhere. He is also an editor for Slackjaw and a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He graduated from the University of California\, San Diego with a degree in Computer Science and has studied improv\, sketch writing\, and satire at The Second City in Chicago. Irving lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-4/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
CREATED:20190112T042350Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC Open Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190301T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Record Listening Night: 1972
DESCRIPTION:After Hours – Record Listening Night: 1972\nFriday\, March 1st · 7:00pm \nThe year of the Watergate break-in\, the first Price is Right\, and the release of The Godfather. Pick your favorite song from 1972 and share your memories of what the music means to you (optional). Bring your own vinyl or choose from a collection hand-picked by Mill Valley Music’s Gary Scheuenstuhl. Indulge in refreshments as DJ Jim Welte spins your favorite songs from 1972. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, March 1\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Adult \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-record-listening-night-1972/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T210000
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SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Bring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate – Oakland Samuel Getachew! \nSpecial Guest Performance By: \nIsha Clarke of Destiny Arts- born\, raised\, and educated in Oakland\, Isha grew up surrounded by the art and culture that permeates this amazing city. Inspired by her surroundings\, Isha is a poet who love dance and other art forms. She hopes that her writing inspires and energizes listeners. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm (must be 19 or under to sign up). First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teen-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
CREATED:20190130T233422Z
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SUMMARY:What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:***Friday\, March 1st\, Wolfman Books\, Downtown Oakland\, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By \nAlec West\nPhilip Staley\nLena Nicodemus\nJoseph Kim \nAlec West is a 26 year old East Bay native. He has worked with incarcerated youth as a mentor and writing instructor. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington with a degree in activism\, organic agriculture and creative writing. When he’s not writing you can find him at music events and poetry slams\, hiking in the woods\, or splitting lanes down Martin Luther King or San Pablo on his bike. He is working on a Master’s in Education as an education specialist and hopes to become a special education teacher. “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is his first book. \n“What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is a collection of prose poetry based on the author’s experiences growing up in the Bay Area. The work focuses on themes of addiction\, rebellion and hope as characters struggle against a world that would grind them up. Through disaster\, the book brings the reader into the highs and lows of living life with eyes open\, leaping and landing heart-first. Survival comes at a cost\, but the lessons learned can bring healing across generations. \nPhilip Staley is a psychiatric nurse in the Bay Area and a contributor to the Green Windows Writing Anthology. \nWith over a decade of occult research and perfecting the art of the mental health report\, Philip’s writing focuses on the underworld components of emotional landscapes. He manages to weave tension\, humor\, and a melancholy sovereignty into relatable fiction narratives. \nPhilip has been a near lifelong writer\, cultivating plots and storylines for numerous roleplaying groups. His professional duties have taken him through the most desperate locales of several cities\, and these experiences have shaped his writing and polished the neo-noir lens\, through which he evaluates the world. \nAs a Bay Area writer\, Philip Staley enjoys field trips to unconventional locations with a laptop\, some headphones\, and a daring sense of curiosity. \nLena Nicodemus is a writer/therapist/human originally from Baltimore\, Maryland and now settled in Oakland. By day she works with children with autism and their families and by night she writes sometimes biting\, sometimes gentle works ranging in topics from explorations of the fear about not having enough time to survival humor about rape culture. \nLena’s work has appeared in local publications and performances such as Quiet Lightning\, Bay Area Generations\, and the Green Windows anthology. \n“Lena Nicodemus’ writing expands our own world. She moves through her life with her heart open\, curious\, and demanding then gifts her listeners by recreating in rich detail on paper the people and places she knows: from unanswered telephones to the variety of expressions possible on a child’s face; handmade bowls to grumpy voices. Her writing can bounce off the walls with anger or deepen a silence with intense love and compassion or demand answers to questions we didn’t realize we had. Her writing is always authentic and always relevant\, even to those with a different experience.”\n-Peggy Simmons\, founder of Green Windows
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-happened-when-i-stopped-watching-tv-book-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T190000
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SUMMARY:Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nCome enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children’s book series “Too-Tall Foyle“. \nAdonal Foyle – is a retired NBA player\, a published author\, national speaker\, and consultant. Adonal currently serves as the Community Ambassador for the World Champion Golden State Warriors. \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, book signing with Adonal\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-storyteller-series/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190228T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190228T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
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SUMMARY:Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nTranslators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true literary icons” (Literary Hub)—João Gilberto Noll—celebrating the release of Lord\, Two Lines Press’s third novel from the Brazilian legend called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine. \nCalled “masterful\, sensuous\, and disquieting” by Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza\, Lordis the intense follow-up to Noll’s Quiet Creature on the Corner and Atlantic Hotel. Morris\, who translated two Noll titles for Two Lines Press and holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University\, joins with Edgar Garbelotto\, who has translated Lord\, for a fascinating\, in-depth conversation. \nFind out just how one translates Noll’s quietly surreal sentences\, and how translators carefully maintain Noll’s atmosphere of menace and the surreal that many American critics have compared to the films of David Lynch. Also learn about Noll’s unique perspective on questions of identity\, his subversive reworking of classic noir tropes\, and the queer identity that underlies his highly original literary aesthetic. \n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nJoão Gilberto Noll\n\n\nJoão Gilberto Noll (1946–2017) is the author of nearly twenty books. His work appeared in Brazil’s leading periodicals\, and he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation\, King’s College London\, and the University of California at Berkeley\, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti\, and the recipient of more than ten awards in all\, he died in Porto Alegre\, Brazil\, at the age of 70.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nEdgar Garbelotto\n\n\nEdgar Garbelotto’s translations have appeared in venues including the Kenyon Review and Asymptote. An MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois\, he is the author of the novel Terra Incognita\, written in both Portuguese and English.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nAdam Morris\n\n\nAdam Morris has a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of João Gilberto Noll’s Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press\, 2017) and Quiet Creature on the Corner (Two Lines Press\, 2016)\, and Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House Books\, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely\, including in BOMB magazine\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lord-edgar-garbelotto-and-adam-morris-on-joao-gilberto-noll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190228T213000
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SUMMARY:WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 28\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film\, What is Democracy? (2018)\, collapses time and space\, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question\, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame\, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The Guardian)\, and features the political activists and thinkers Cornel West and Silvia Federici. Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her essays have been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, n+1\, The New York Times\, and The Baffler\, where she is a contributing editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-is-democracy-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-astra-taylor/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTAMP:20260403T185040
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SUMMARY:James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nTens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book form for the first time\, Meditations Across The King’s River is inspired by James’s travels throughout the Caribbean and West Africa as an Ifa priest. Here\, readers will find hope\, encouragement\, and wisdom to sustain them on their soul’s journey. \nAbout the Author \nJames Weeks is the producer of the upcoming documentary film\, Across The King’s River. He is also a babalawo\, or priest in the Ifa spiritual tradition\, an award-winning photographer\, and a journalist who has published in Parenting magazine\, the S.F. Weekly\, Reggae Beat\, The Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis. James is a native of St. Croix\, U.S. Virgin Islands and currently lives in Oakland with his wife and youngest son. To learn more\, visit his website www.acrossthekingsriver.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-weeks-meditations-across-the-kings-river/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jen Beagin
DESCRIPTION:Jen Beagin discusses her new novel\, Vacuum in the Dark \n\nPraise for Jen Beagin \n“How can you resist a love story in which the object of desire is named Mr. Disgusting? Like Denis Johnson\, Jen Beagin is able to find humanity and wonder (and yes\, love) in some of the most forlorn and hopeless corners of our world.”— Tom Perrotta\, author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers \n“Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin is like one of those old-fashioned classics by Charles Bukowski or John Fante or\, more recently\, Denis Johnson\, a shambling\, lyrical dispatch from the dive bars and the flop houses where the downtrodden\, divested of hope\, livelihood\, good health\, and any number of other markers of respectability\, nevertheless retain full possession of their hearts and minds\, their integrity\, their souls\, too\, perhaps–and no one nearly as triumphantly as Mona Boyle\, Beagin’s heart-breaking hero & alter-ego. Rare is the encounter with such a frank and unflinching voice reporting from life on the edge\, and rarer still the humor and compassion that Beagin manages to locate in some of the country’s\, and the psyche’s\, darkest corners. This book invaded my dreams\, took over my conversation\, and otherwise seduced me totally.”— Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End \n“Jen Beagin has one of the freshest voices I’ve read in years – funny\, wise\, whip-smart and compassionate. I tore through Pretend I’m Dead with a deep sense of affection for all of its beautifully flawed characters and their bittersweet lives.”— Jami Attenberg\, author of The Middlesteins and All Grown Up \n\nAbout Vacuum in the Dark \nMona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos\, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend—a junkie named Mr. Disgusting\, long story—and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing\, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark\, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. \nDark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster\, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who—with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares—reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood\, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth\, Mona winds up on an eccentric\, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future. \nThe only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of. \nA constantly surprising\, laugh-out-loud funny novel about an utterly unique woman dealing with some of the most universal issues in America today\, Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable\, astonishing read from one of the freshest voices in fiction today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jen-beagin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel\, author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Will Durst\nCome to the scathing! Join Russian émigré Iossel (journalist\, novelist) and the Bay’s most illustrious political satirist Durst in what will be a raucous and biting exchange. Why suffer?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-author-of-notes-from-cyberground-trumpland-and-my-old-soviet-feeling/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nayomi Munaweera
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\nFebruary 28\, 2019\n7PM \nMLK Library\, Room 225/229\nSan José State University\nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Professor of English Revathi Krishnaswamy – plus a book sale and signing. \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel\, Island of a Thousand Mirrors was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Northern California Book Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for the Asian Region and was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. Munaweera’s second novel\, What Lies Between Us was hailed as one of the most exciting literary releases of 2016 from venues ranging from Buzzfeed to Elle magazine. It won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award. Munaweera teaches at Mills College and at the Ashland University low-residency MFA Program. She holds writing workshops in Sri Lanka through a program called Write to Reconcile in which she co-teaches with legendary writer\, Shyam Selvadurai. Their aim is to use writing as a tool of reconciliation and healing for survivors of the civil war in that nation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nayomi-munaweera/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents a panel discussion on the future of artificial intelligence and the nature of human existence. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nAdvances in artificial intelligence have forever altered the way we live — from Alexa in your living room to autonomous vehicles and drone warfare — and AI is poised to define the coming decades for better or worse. Tech giants\, including Google and Facebook\, are engaged in an AI arms race\, while Elon Musk\, the late Stephen Hawking\, and other thought leaders have warned that unsupervised\, self-improving machine learning poses a major threat to society. So where is AI headed next\, and how will this rapidly emerging technology impact our world? \n  \nIn Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI\, science world luminary John Brockman has assembled twenty-five of the most important scientific thinkers to discuss the groundbreaking opportunities and potential dangers that AI presents. The result is an unparalleled round-table examination of the mind\, thinking\, intelligence\, and what it means to be human. \n  \nJoining us for an evening of conversation are four Bay Area contributors: \n  \n–  Chris Anderson: former EIC of Wired; cofounder and CEO of 3DRobotics.\n–  Anca Dragan: UC Berkeley professor; cofounder of the prestigious Berkeley AI Research Lab. \nLeading the panel is Possible Minds editor John Brockman\, founder of the powerhouse international literary and software agency Brockman\, Inc. as well as the publisher of Edge.org\, an online salon that the Guardian has called the worlds smartest website. \n  \nPlease join us! \n  \n\n  \n“Pithy essays on artificial intelligence. . . . Readers . . . will not find a better introduction than this book.” – Kirkus \n  \n“While the [Possible Minds] authors disagree on the answers\, they agree on the major question: what dangers might AI present to humankind? Within that framework\, the essays offer a host of novel ideas. . . . Enlightening\, entertaining\, and exciting reading.” – Publishers Weekly \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n  \n– Duration of event is subject to authors’ preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Possible Minds\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-possible-minds-twenty-five-ways-of-looking-at-ai/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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