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SUMMARY:Paul Lisicky / Later: My Life at the Edge of the World with Ryan Van Meter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Paul Lisicky back to the store for his new book\, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World. Please join us! \nWhen Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s\, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time\, known for its values of inclusion\, acceptance\, and art. In this idyllic haven\, Lisicky searches for love and connection and comes into his own as he finds a sense of belonging. At the same time\, the center of this community is consumed by the AIDS crisis\, and the very structure of town life is being rewired out of necessity: What might this utopia look like during a time of dystopia? \nLater dramatizes a spectacular yet ravaged place and a unique era when more fully becoming one’s self collided with the realization that ongoingness couldn’t be taken for granted\, and staying alive from moment to moment exacted absolute attention. Following the success of his acclaimed memoir\, The Narrow Door\, Lisicky fearlessly explores the body\, queerness\, love\, illness\, and belonging in this masterful\, ingenious new book. \n\nPaul Lisicky is the author of five books\, including The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts\, among others. He teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — 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 Later\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-lisicky-later-my-life-at-the-edge-of-the-world/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anders Carlson-Wee and Maria Gillam
DESCRIPTION:Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of The Low Passions\, published by W.W. Norton in 2019. His work has appeared in The Paris Review\, BuzzFeed\, Ploughshares\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Poetry Daily\, The Sun\, Best New Poets\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Camargo Foundation\, Bread Loaf\, Sewanee\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference\, he is the winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and lives in Cincinnati. \nMaria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP\, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers\, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book All That Lies Between Us. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College\, editor of the Paterson Literary Review\, and has been appointed a Bartle Professor at Binghamton University-SUNY\, and Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing. She has published 23 books including Paterson Light and Shadow and What Blooms in Winter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anders-carlson-wee-and-maria-gillam/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Nancy Au\, Alexandra Mattraw\, Tiff Dresson\, Tomas Moniz Readings
DESCRIPTION:NANCY AU’s essays and stories appear in many journals including Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Foglifter\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at CSU Stanislaus\, and is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize\, and has won Redivider’s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her full-length collection\, Spider Love Song & Other Stories\, is longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. www.peascarrots.com \nALEXANDRA MATTRAW is a Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at Cultural Society (2018)\, and two of her chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press (2013\, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Jacket2\, Interim\, Volt\, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist\, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its ninth year. We fell into weather is her second full-length book of poems. \nTIFF DRESSEN lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary\, a (slender) full length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy playing the role of urban flâneur as well as setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nTOMAS MONIZ edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and released his debut novel\, Big Familia. He’s the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and was awarded the 2018 SPACE Ryder Farm residency in NY. He was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Novel. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-au-alexandra-mattraw-tiff-dresson-tomas-moniz-readings/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One): with Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja \nThis event\, supported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs\, is free and open to the public. \nPhoto: video stills\, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco\, February 7\, 1986. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \n“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest\na day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two)\nThursday March 19\, 2020\n7:00 pm Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume\n@ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nFeatured video: \nPat Parker and Audre Lorde\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco: February 7\, 1986 \nAudre Lorde\, Poetry Center reading at San Francisco State: September 26\, 1974
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-am-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing-poetry-and-protest-a-day-in-honor-of-audre-lorde-and-pat-parker-part-one-with-judy-grahn-jewelle-gomez-and-avotcja/
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:Poetry Flash presents Maria Mazziotti Gillan\, Matthew Siegel\, and Richard Silberg
DESCRIPTION:Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s latest book of poems is What Blooms in Winter. Marge Piercy has said\, “Gillan contains some of the most honest poems about marriage and family a reader is likely ever to come across. The craft is there\, the well chosen word or phrase\, but the power of these poems comes also from the truth in them that is moving and rare.” She’s published fifteen books of poetry. With her daughter Jennifer she’s co-edited four anthologies\, including Unsettling America and Identity Lessons. Editor of the Paterson Literary Review\, her honors include\, among many others\, the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers and the American Book Award for her collection All That Lies Between Us. \nMatthew Siegel’s book of poems is Blood Work. Mark Doty says\, “This unexpected book—a genuine contribution to the literature of illness—centers on containment: how we contain our blood\, how blood is contained in tubes and vials\, how sometimes we do not seem contained by our bodies\, and sometimes the body seems to contain nothing\, and even how in the face of control or self-reliance leaking away\, we might manage to contain ourselves\, to feel held\, to feel held in place.” His book won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry from University of Wisconsin and was a finalist for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection from Forward Arts Foundation in the UK. His poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Cincinnati Review\, The Guardian\, PBS NewsHour\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he is a Professor of Humanities and Sciences at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \nRichard Silberg’s latest book of poems is The Horses: New and Selected Poems\, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. D. Nurkse said\, “Dynamic\, kaleidoscopic\, shot through with a thousand faces and voices too real to be characters\, Richard Silberg’s work is a Chaucerian pilgrimage to strange and uncannily familiar places.…The Horses is a deeply serious\, wild\, and powerful contribution to American letters.” He’s published six collections\, including\, most recently\, Deconstruction of the Blues\, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award-winner\, also nominated for the Northern California Book Award. Associate Editor of Poetry Flash\, he is also a critic and a translator\, whose co-translation of Korean poet Ko Un’s The Three Way Tavern won the 2007 Northern California Book Award for Translation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-maria-mazziotti-gillan-matthew-siegel-and-richard-silberg/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
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SUMMARY:Andrew Altschul
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Altschul discusses his new novel\, The Gringa. \nPraise for The Gringa \n“The Gringa bites off an impressive chunk of American—and Peruvian—history with dynamic prose. It’s an exciting addition to the literature of terrorism and revolution.” —KARAN MAHAJAN\, author of The Association of Small Bombs \n“What every even slightly conscious American writer is trying to figure out right now is how to write about the state of America without clambering atop a soapbox. This is the considerable achievement of Andrew Altschul’s The Gringa.” —DAVID SHIELDS\, author of Reality Hunger \n“An extraordinary novel…powerful and provocative\, stylish and smart\, culturally relevant and emotionally astute.” —MOLLY ANTOPOL\, author of The Unamericans \nAbout The Gringa \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-altschul/
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:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 18\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us as the fourth group of our 2nd year graduate students read their work. Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College. \n\nSarah Benjamin (Poetry)\nElli Levin (Fiction)\nVicky Quistgaard (Creative Nonfiction)\nRachel Telljohn (Poetry)\n\n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring 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. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-15/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Baudelaire Fractal \npublished by Coach House Books \nA debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson\, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning\, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be\, it’s no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she’s taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the poète maudit\, she shuttles between London\, Vancouver\, Paris\, and the French countryside\, moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present\, from rented room to rented room\, all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity\, poverty\, and the perfect jacket. .. Part memoir\, part magical realism\, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet’s life\, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the inimitable Lisa Robertson. \nPoet and essayist Lisa Robertson has held residencies at the California College of the Arts\, Cambridge University; University of California\, Berkeley; UC San Diego; and American University of Paris. Her books include Cinema of the Present\, Debbie: An Epic (nominated for the Governor General’s Award in Canada)\, The Men\, The Weather\, R’s Boat (poetry) and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (essays). Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House) was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010\, and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. She currently lives in France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-robertson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Our featured poet is: Clara Hsu!\nfrom 7:30-9:30pm at PianoFight:\n144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. \nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-8/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Harry Dodge discusses his new book\, My Metorite: Or\, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing. \nPraise for My Metorite \n“Dodge has offered a new\, luminous angle on autobiography that not only traces where the body has been–but also what it loves\, how it thinks and feels within the potent intellectual and physical detritus of its lived world. Reading this book is like being bathed in the bright\, gritty sear of a comet’s tail. But the mark it leaves is stunningly terrestrial: a thumbprint of a mind on paper–singular in erudition\, hurtfully wonder-struck\, and true.” —Ocean Vuong \n“Harry Dodge’s voice and vision are singular\, but his genius is for revealing how each of us is plural. This is a beautiful record of his loves and deaths and ways of making\, but even its most intimate moments open out\, become portals to other possible worlds. No genre can hold this book. It is a work of tender force\, prying open every category. My Meteorite is breathtaking—or breathgiving\, because the whole thing oxygenates discourse\, makes me feel alive.” —Ben Lerner\n \n“Captivating. My Meteorite holds you in its thrall like a brilliant friend—so vulnerable\, hot\, funny\, and casually weird that you don’t notice the profundity until you’re already walloped by it. Dodge juxtaposes the tenderest of human details with hungry\, brain-splitting inquiries into the very premise of life\, and these shifts in scale are incredibly moving and provocative. Don’t forget to notice that Dodge is a masterful writer; that’s how he pulls this whole thing off.” —Miranda July \n“A thought-filled\, deeply moving and personal book. The past\, present\, and future collide like Harry’s meteorite to earth. Life is tenderly felt\, questioned\, and affirmed within the pages of this exquisite prose.” —Catherine Opie\n \n“Riveting. A freewheeling\, feral romp through the wilderness of consciousness and connection!” —Eula Biss\n\n“Harry Dodge’s fierce intelligence and love permeates and shapes every line of this book which is redolent with loss\, desire\, and truth. Expansive in scope and intimate in detail\, Dodge’s account of becoming a self while living in a world defined by community\, lifts the spirit as it feeds the mind. A major achievement.” —Hilton Als\n\n“Harry’s book is ‘outside’ the book. Why should you read it? You’re out there too. I could say this is the smartest memoir I ever read but that’s pulling us back to the safe place. We are animals\, machines\, friends\, reading things and we’ve never been talked to this way before. Seductive and wise\, My Meteorite is the conversation you want.” —Eileen Myles  \nAbout My Metorite \nAn expansive\, radiant\, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know \nIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter\, the nature of consciousness\, and the bafflements of belonging. \nStructured around a series of formative\, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life\, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner\, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild\, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical\, the raw and the surreal\, the transgressive and the heartbreaking\, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world\, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-dodge/
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:Get Lit #58 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-58-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:William J. Drummond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nPrison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News \nfrom University of California Press \nSan Quentin State Prison\, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest\, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008\, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. \nPrison Truth tells the story of how prisoners\, many serving life terms\, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars\, introducing us to Arnulfo García\, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News\, after a twenty-year shutdown\, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers\, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated\, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform. \nWilliam J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California\, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal\, where he covered the civil rights movement\, and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was a local reporter\, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem\, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley\, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-j-drummond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sierra Crane Murdoch: Yellow Bird w/Lauren Markham
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Sierra Crane Murdoch to read from her new book\, Yellow Bird:Oil\, Murder\, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country on Tuesday\, March 17th at 7pm. She will be joined in conversation by Lauren Markham. \nWhen Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009\, she found her home\, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota\, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence\, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition\, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests\, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later\, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker\, Kristopher “KC” Clarke\, had disappeared from his reservation worksite\, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone\, and few people were actively looking for him. \nYellow Bird traces Lissa’s steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke’s disappearance. She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe\, changed by its newfound wealth\, and that of the non-Native oilmen\, down on their luck\, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption\, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written\, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart\, funny\, eloquent\, compassionate\, and—when it serves her cause—manipulative. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation\, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nSierra Crane Murdoch\, a journalist based in the American West\, has written for The Atlantic\, The New Yorker online\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Orion\, and High Country News. She has held fellowships from Middlebury College and from the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a MacDowell Fellow. \nLauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley\, California. Her work has appeared in VQR\, VICE\, Orion\, Pacific Standard\, Guernica\, The New Yorker.com\, on This American Life\, and elsewhere. Lauren earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded Fellowships from the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism\, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship\, the Mesa Refuge\, and the Rotary Foundation. For the past decade\, she has worked in the fields of refugee resettlement and immigrant education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sierra-crane-murdoch-yellow-bird-w-lauren-markham/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson at Point Reyes Books
DESCRIPTION:Poet Lisa Robertson visits Point Reyes to discuss her debut novel\, The Baudelaire Fractal. \nAbout The Baudelaire Fractal\nOne morning\, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris … This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism\, part feminist ars poetica\, part history of tailoring\, part bibliophilic anthem\, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting\, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel. \n“As far as I’m concerned\, it’s already a classic.” – Anne Boyer \n“Robertson’s debut novel\, for those interested in the possibilities of fiction\, is not to be missed.” – Publishers Weekly \n“A new Lisa Robertson book is both a public event and a private kind of bacchanal.” – Los Angeles Review of Books. \nAbout Lisa Robertson\nLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet and essayist currently living in France. Born in Toronto in 1961\, she was a longtime resident of Vancouver\, where in the early 90s she began writing\, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, and in 2018\, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University\, Princeton\, UC Berkeley\, California College of the Arts\, Piet Zwart Institute\, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and American University of Paris\, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada\, the US\, and Europe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-robertson-at-point-reyes-books/
LOCATION:Point Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Eugene Ostashevsky and Brandon Brown at Moe's Books
DESCRIPTION:Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator based in Berlin and New York. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections in English: Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2005)\, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008)\, and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (New York Review of Books\, 2017). \nWriting in LARB\, Boris Dralyuk calls The Pirate a “raucous modern-day Anatomy of Melancholy\, a seriocomic linguistic performance the likes of which we rarely see\, in any tongue. It is a beautiful song\, broadcast by an outcast whose language is all his own.” The Italian newspaper Il Manifesto speaks of The Pirate’s “poetics of immigration.” The German edition of the book\, translated by Uljana Wolf and Monika Rinck\, was awarded the International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster\, with the jury praising the original’s “polyphonic and polyglot verbal acrobatics” and linguistic multiplicity. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Ostashevsky’s work “argues that one must have\ndistance from language\, and also an awareness that no language is only ‘mine’; it is rather many languages of different times and speakers that collide or coalesce under the name ‘English.’ Every\nlanguage is\, in a sense\, a parrot language.” For another German reviewer\, The Pirate “deconstructs the strategies of linguistic exclusion concealed by such concepts as “indigenous\,” “refugee\,” and “native language.” A short opera based on The Pirate by the Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti has recently premiered at the Venice Biennale. \nAs translator and scholar\, Ostashevsky focuses mainly on Russian avant-garde and underground literature. His translation\, with Matvei Yankelevich\, of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (New York Review of Books\, 2013) won the 2014 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He was also the editor and co-translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern\, 2006)\, as well as of a number of books of contemporary Russian poetry\, including Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Endarkenment (Wesleyan\,\n2014). He is currently working on puns in Russian Futurist and European avant-garde poetry and painting circa 1913\, and preparing an English-language edition of Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows\, the first book of Futurist visual poetry. \nAs visiting professor and writer-in-residence at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin\, Ostashevsky leads seminars on translingual literature. He is also Clinical Professor at the Liberal Studies program at NYU. \nBrandon Brown is the author of several books\, most recently The Four Seasons (Wonder) and The Good Life (Big Lucks). His work has recently appeared in Art in America\, Frieze\, Open Space\, Believer\, and Berkeley Poetry Review. He is an editor at Krupskaya\, and edits as well the zine Panda’s Friend. Atelos will publish his next book\, a long poem called Work. He lives in El Cerrito\, California\, under the shade of Albany Hill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eugene-ostashevsky-and-brandon-brown-at-moes-books/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
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SUMMARY:1968 + Global Cinema w/ Author and Editor Christina Gerhardt
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Christina Gerhardt\, who will discuss her recent three books about 1968. \n1968 and Global Cinema puts cinemas of the long 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries\, considering them in tandem histories of 1968 and the interplay among social movements globally. Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory studies the Red Army Faction (RAF)\, a German left-wing armed struggle group that existed from 1970 to 1998\, presenting the historical and political context out of which they emerged\, in post-fascist era West Germany and globally as the Cold War set in and self-liberation and self-determination wars were waged. Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 considers Germany’s political cinema of the long sixties.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1968-global-cinema-w-author-and-editor-christina-gerhardt/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Wyoming by JP Gritton Reading and Release!
DESCRIPTION:Alley Cat Books presents a reading of JP Gritton’s newest book\, Wyoming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wyoming-by-jp-gritton-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit / Recollections of My Nonexistence
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the inimitable Rebecca Solnit reading from and discussing her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed and will be at the Internet Archive HQ\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are on sale now. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged to ensure admission. Unless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nIn Recollections of My Nonexistence\, Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco\, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor\, hopeful\, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that\, when she was nineteen\, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. \nSolnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her\, the street harassment that unsettled her\, the trauma that changed her\, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women\, including her. Looking back\, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women\, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for womens rights. \nShe explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer — books themselves\, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender\, family\, and joy could be\, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since\, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others. \n\nRebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books\, including A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, River of Shadows\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape\, Gender\, and Art\, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003\, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco. \n\n*** Please note *** \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to the author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. 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. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of the book\, order below and put your request in the special field. \nFacebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-recollections-of-my-nonexistence/
LOCATION:Internet Archive\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Katie Burke / Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:To outsiders\, the Bay Area is intrinsically linked to tech hubs and counterculture. But what about San Francisco’s kid culture? In her new book\, “Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco\,” Katie Burke explores the experience of kids ages five to nine living in one of the country’s most iconic cultural hubs. \nThe book also includes thoughtful discussion questions designed to draw laughs\, explore various topics from silly to serious\, and facilitate discussion. \nWriter of Noe Kids\, a column of kid profiles for San Francisco neighborhood newspaper The Noe Valley Voice\, Katie Burke brings city kids’ personalities and perspectives to the page\, leading readers to see the joys and challenges to being a San Francisco kid. \nOne five-year-old tries to articulate the city’s aroma\, “I smell a delicious smell\, and it always smells like San Francisco. I don’t know what the smell is\, so I can’t really tell it to people\, but it smells different from ice cream.” \nBut it isn’t all about parks and ice cream. Drawing on her experience being an aunt to six nieces and two nephews (all of whom grew up in major cities)\, Burke unearths an often hidden and unasked perspective on the city’s more complicated subjects –– from homelessness to immigrant parents. By leaning in and crouching down to see a child’s point of view\, Burke shows us a part of San Francisco we never knew. \n\nKatie Burke is a family law attorney and writer in San Francisco. Prior to entering law school\, she earned a master’s degree in counseling. She owns Burke Family Law and writes Noe Kids\, a monthly column for The Noe Valley Voice\, in which she spotlights children ages four to twelve who live in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood\, after interviewing them on various themes. She also regularly contributes judicial and attorney profiles to San Francisco Attorney\, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s magazine. Burke has been published by HarperCollins\, the L.A. Times\, The Journal of Law and Social Challenges\, Trial Insider\, BASF Bulletin (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s newspaper)\, Legal by the Bay (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s blog)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Examiner\, The Fairfield Citizen-News\, The SoMa Literary Review\, Women’s Voices\, The Sitting Room\, The Compass\, Culture-Voice\, and The Street Spirit. She has been broadcast for KQED\, read at Litquake\, and taught writing at City College of San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 5:30pm; event starts at 6pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 Urban Playground\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-katie-burke-urban-playground-what-kids-say-about-living-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Shurin launches his new book\, The Blue Absolute\, a collection of prose poetry that resembles hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-at-the-green-arcade/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante at East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, March 15th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante. \nJudy Halebsky’s new book of poems is Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)\, was a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Katy Peterson says\, “Under the spell of Bashõ’s haiku\, but written in a voice entirely its own\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look good. It makes me want to make dinner\, make love\, make noise.” She’s the author of three previous collections\, the first of which\, Sky = Empty\, won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, she moved to the Bay Area to study poetry. Then\, after college\, she received a fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture to study Japanese literature at Hosei University in Tokyo\, She lives now with her family in Oakland and directs the low-residency MFA program at Dominican University. \nSusan Briante’s latest book of poems is The Market Wonders. Juliana Spahr said of it\, “Poetry’s conventions tend to assume that poetry does not need to bother itself with the economic machinations of something like the Dow. These conventions are wrong and Susan Briante’s The Market Wonders proves it. This is poetry that is only the richer for how it weaves the economics that shape our daily lives into it.” She’s published two previous collections\, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and coordinates the writing program Field Studies Southwest\, which brings MFA students to the U.S.-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups. She hosts the radio program Speedway and Swan and lives in Tucson\, Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judy-halebsky-susan-briante-at-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Admission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org \nThe Markham House and map:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-4/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Zine Party ///Paula Salemme + Ariel Cooper
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-party-paula-salemme-ariel-cooper/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nSusan Fowler (Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber)\nStephen van Dyck (People I’ve Met from the Internet)\nMiah Jeffra (The First Church of What’s Happening) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-27/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:An LGBTQ+ Open Mic hosted by the folks at Alley Cat Books!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T200000
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Babylon Salon Spring 2020 Performance
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJoin us on Saturday\, March 14 for Babylon Salon’s quarterly reading and performance series\, with readings from Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8\, forthcoming in March; Wait Till You See Me Dance; Revolution)\, C. Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills is Gold\, forthcoming in April)\, Taymour Soomro (fiction in the New Yorker\, Southern Review\, and Ninth Letter)\, and more\, along with a musical performance by Rachel “Lightning” Rose (Jefferson Starship). \nWHERE: The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco. FREE ADMISSION. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. http://www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-spring-2020-performance/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T180000
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SUMMARY:MCD Book Signing: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
DESCRIPTION:The Museum of Craft and Design is thrilled to welcome Bill Burnett and Dave Evans\, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Designing Your Life”\, for a free book signing event in our museum store. On March 14\, 2020\, Burnett and Evans will be signing their brand new book “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Find Happiness”. \nCopies of “Designing Your Life”\, “Designing Your Work Life”\, and “The Designing Your Life Workbook” will be available to purchase in the museum store and online at sfmcd.org. The book signing will take place from 4-6 PM on Saturday\, March 14 and is free and open to the public. \nWhen “Designing Your Life” was published in 2016\, Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans taught readers how to use design thinking to build meaningful\, fulfilling lives. The book became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Now\, in “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work”\, Burnett and Evans apply that transformative thinking to the place where we spend more time than anywhere else: work. \n“Increasingly\, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving work landscape\,” writes Burnett and Evans. Chapter by chapter\, Designing Your Work Life shows us how to design and create positive changes wherever we are in our career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience\, or you decide it’s time to move on\, Burnett and Evans show us how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive\, engaged\, satisfying\, and fun. \nFree \nhttp://sfmcd.org sbrosales@sfmcd.org 415-773-0303
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcd-book-signing-bill-burnett-and-dave-evans/
LOCATION:Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third Street\, San Francisco\, 94107
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Li: Brave New Medicine w/ Anna O'Malley
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Li in conversation with Anna O’Malley about her book\, Brave New Medicine. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine at Commonweal Garden. \nAbout Brave New Medicine\nIn this revelatory memoir\, Doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her disabling autoimmune illness\, the limitations of Western medicine\, and her hard-won lessons on healing–mind\, body\, and spirit. \nLi had it all: a successful career in medicine\, a loving marriage\, children on the horizon. But it all came crashing down when\, after developing an autoimmune thyroid condition\, mysterious symptoms began consuming her body. Test after test came back “within normal limits\,” baffling her doctors–and baffling herself. Housebound with two young children\, Li began a solo odyssey from her living room couch to find a way to heal. \nBrave New Medicine details the physical and existential crisis that forces a young doctor to question her own medical training. She dives into the root causes of her illness\, learning to unlock her body’s innate intelligence and wholeness. Li relates her story with the insight of a scientist\, and the humility and candor of a patient\, exploring the emotional and spiritual shifts beyond the physical body. \nMillions of people worldwide are affected by autoimmune disease. While complex conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are gaining attention\, patients struggling with these mysterious ailments remain largely dismissed by their doctors\, families\, and friends. This is the harsh reality that doctor-turned-“difficult patient” Li faced firsthand. \nDrawing on cutting-edge science\, ancient healing arts\, and the power of intuition\, this memoir offers support\, validation\, and a new perspective for doctors and patients alike. Through her story\, you can find the wisdom and heart to start your own healing journey\, too. \nAbout the participants\nCynthia Li\, MD\, graduated from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center\, and has practiced internal medicine in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center\, San Francisco General Hospital\, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic for the homeless. She currently serves on the faculty of the Healer’s Art program at the UCSF School of Medicine\, and has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine. She lives in Berkeley\, CA\, with her husband and their two daughters. \nAnna O’Malley is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin in 2005\, and completed her residency training at the University of California-San Francisco in 2008. She was certified in Integrative Medicine in 2010 upon completion of the University of Arizona’s Program in Integrative Medicine. Her other interests include social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and enjoying life. When not working\, she can be found hiking the hills of Marin\, dancing\, savoring yummy food\, reveling in the beauty of nature\, and sharing the mysteries and joys of life with her daughters Lila and Elsa and husband Jeffery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-li-and-anna-omalley/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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