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SUMMARY:Peter LaBerge & Rebecca Foust Falkirk Center
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, the Marin County Poet Laureate\, is the author of four books of poetry: Paradise Drive (2015)\, which won a Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award\, a National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry\, a San Francisco Book Festival Award for Poetry\, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Poetry; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of a Many Mountains Moving Press Book Prize; and God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (2010)\, a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Foust’s chapbooks include Mom’s Canoe (2009) and Dark Card (2008). Foust has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Frost Place\, where she was the 2014 Dartmouth poet-in-residence. She is on the board of the Marin Poetry Center\, a reader for the Northern California Book Award\, and assistant editor of fiction for Narrative magazine. She is an autism activist and a grassroots organizer. \nPeter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books\, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2015). His recent work appears in Best New Poets\, Crazyhorse\, Harvard Review\, Iowa Review\, Pleiades\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal\, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry. He lives in Redwood City\, California\, where he works as a content marketer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-laberge-rebecca-foust-falkirk-center/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: ‘VEXATION\, AMPLITUDE’ BY TOM STOLMAR
DESCRIPTION:FRI. NOV. 16TH\, 7PM \n  \nJoin Tom Stolmar and friends in celebrating the release of his new poetry collection\, Vexation\, Amplitude. \nLong overdue\, this collection of Tom Stolmar’s poems bottles his impulse-driven barely containable talent for stringing words together that convey unexpected emotional truths laced with comedy of the highest and lowest orders. In some poems\, Stolmar appears to have channeled Wallace Stevens by way of a mad Hungarian street performer on the San Francisco waterfront. His antics attract a crowd. Stick around and he will bring you gales of much-needed laughter and just before the rain starts\, move you to tears. \nklipschutz\n\nTom Stolmar’s Vexation\, Amplitude is one of the more aptly named poetry collections that I’ve read this year because\, again and again\, it describes perplexing human oscillations at apex. The work is that of a writer puzzling his way through transitions – of language\, of art\, of meanings\, of eras\, of aging\, of bonds and breaking bonds. The poems flip tones\, and topics\, and approaches\, and directions\, but Stolmar remains on edge\, or on the edge\, throughout. This is a book from the edge\, a familiar human edge of passion and self-doubt and plunging forward. The pieces vacillate from complex examinations of mind and self\, “We draw inspiration/ from those who truly look/ at such a cost; time being infinite/ and your eyes the gesture of a clock…” to pure joyous wordplay. This is the work of a fella who’s been dedicated to writing for decades and it shows\, and who has been known to do backflips in the middle of a reading\, and that shows too. \nrichard loranger
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-vexation-amplitude-by-tom-stolmar/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Gina Arnold / Half A Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Gina Arnold for the launch of her new book\, Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella. Please join us! \n  \n  \nFrom baby boomers to millennials\, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong\, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature\, films\, journalism\, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era\, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals\, including the Newport Folk Festival\, Woodstock\, Altamont\, Wattstax\, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival\, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that–far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves– these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light. \n  \n\n  \n“At a moment when music festivals proliferate as both music and marketing phenomena\, Gina Arnold deftly explores their fascinating history in this compulsively readable book. Arnold\, as always\, writes conversationally\, as if she’s actively thinking on the page—generating fresh ideas as they occur to her and following them in previously unexplored directions. That excites the reader’s own thinking—and makes this book inspiring and a great\, welcome pleasure.” –Anthony DeCurtis\, author\, Lou Reed: A Life  \n  \n“Half a Million Strong tracks the rapid rise of the festivalization of music\, and outlines what it means to truly love and live through music and to be in community with other people who do too. With this book\, Arnold offers a very necessary examination of just how we got here\, as well as a rich\, accessible history that is mandatory reading for anyone who has ever spent a day in a muddy field screaming along with their favorite band.” – Jessica Hopper\, author\, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic  \n  \n“From audience reactions to Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 to Wattstax in Los Angeles in 1972 to the lost U.S. Festival in the 1980s and beyond\, Gina Arnold’s wonderful individual take on what being at a rock festival means offers new insights by focusing not on the stage\, but on us\, the festival-going crowd.” – George McKay\, University of East Anglia \n  \n“A much-needed\, well-observed reevaluation of rock-and-roll audiences from a writer with decades in the trenches. An illuminating\, historically informed conversation-starter for anyone with a stake in a live music community.” – Jesse Jarnow\, author\, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-gina-arnold-half-a-million-strong-crowds-and-power-from-woodstock-to-coachella/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reese Erlich & Norman Solomon: The Iran Agenda Today
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nReese Erlich & Norman Solomon\nThe Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran and What’s Wrong with US Policy \nHosted by Sabrina Jacobs \nAdvance tickets: $12 at 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nBased on frequent\, first-hand reporting in Iran and the United States\, The Iran Agenda Today explores the turbulent recent history between the two countries and reveals how it has led to a misguided showdown over nuclear technology. Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich notes that all the major U.S. intelligence agencies agree Iran has not had a nuclear weapons program since at least 2003. He explores why Washington nonetheless continues saber rattling\, and he provides a detailed critique of mainstream media coverage of Iran. The book further details the popular protests that have rocked Tehran despite repression by the country’s own Deep State. Erlich offers insights on Iran’s domestic politics\, popular culture\, and diverse populations over this recent era. His analysis draws on past interviews with high-ranking Iranian officials\, the former shah’s son\, Reza Pahlavi\, and Iranian exiles in Los Angeles\, as well as his trip to Tehran with actor Sean Penn. In a starred review of Inside Syria\, Publisher’s Weekly wrote that Erlich’s “insights and conclusions are objective and valuable… essential reading for understanding the current turmoil in the Middle East.” \nNorman Solomon is the author of a dozen books including “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy\, where he coordinates the ExposeFacts.org program for whistleblowers and press freedom\, and co-founder of RootsAction.org. \nSabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude Awakening\, aired on KPFA\, Mondays 3:30-4pm. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reese-erlich-norman-solomon-the-iran-agenda-today/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:INVASIONS: Calvin Gimpelevich
DESCRIPTION:Author Calvin Gimpelevich is touring the West Coast in support of INVASIONS: the debut short fiction collection\, just out from Instar Books! Come out to Wolfman Books at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, November 15\, for an evening of rad new trans fiction by Calvin\, as well as work from other local LGBT writers! \nMore on Invasions: http://www.instarbooks.com/books/invasions.html \n“Invasions blew my mind. Flipping between speculative worlds deeply rooted in realness and emotion and more familiar landscapes that tip on the edges of personal apocalypses\, Gimpelevich’s writing is strong and sure\, taking us places we really haven’t been. I’m hooked.”–Michelle Tea \nAbout Calvin: Calvin Gimpelevich was born in San Francisco and has lived around the West Coast. A recipient of awards from Artist Trust\, Jack Straw Cultural Center\, the Speculative Literature Foundation\, 4Culture\, CODEX/Writer’s Block\, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, his work has appeared in Electric Literature\, Plentitude\, cream city\, THEM\, and other publications. He has cats. \nLocal featured readers TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invasions-calvin-gimpelevich/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo \n\n\n\ncelebrating the release of \nAll That is Evident is Suspect \nedited by Ian Monk and Daniel Levin Becker \npublished by McSweeney’s \n\n\n\nSince its inception in Paris in 1960\, the OuLiPo—ouvroir de littérature potentielle\, or workshop for potential literature—has continually expanded our sense of what writing can do. It’s produced\, among many other marvels\, a detective novel without the letter e (and a sequel of sorts without a\, i\, o\, u\, or y); an epic poem structured by the Parisian métro system; a story in the form of a tarot reading; a poetry book in the form of a game of go; and a suite of sonnets that would take almost 200 million years to read completely. \nLovers of literature are likely familiar with the novels of the best-known Oulipians—Italo Calvino\, Georges Perec\, Harry Mathews\, Raymond Queneau—and perhaps even the small number of texts available in English on the group\, including Warren Motte’s Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature and Daniel Levin Becker’s Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature. But the actual work of the group in its full\, radiant collectivity has never before been showcased in English. (“The State of Constraint\,” a dossier in issue 22 of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, comes closest.) \nEnter All That is Evident is Suspect: the first collection in English to offer a life-size picture of the group in its historical and contemporary incarnations\, and the first in any language to represent all of its members (numbering 41 as of April 2018 ). Combining fiction\, poetry\, essays and lectures\, and never-published internal correspondence—along with the acrobatically constrained writing and complexly structured narratives that have become synonymous with oulipian practice—this volume shows a unique group of thinkers and artists at work and at play\, meditating on and subverting the facts of life\, love\, and the group itself. It’s an unprecedentedly intimate and comprehensive glimpse at the breadth and diversity of one of world literature’s most vital\, adventurous presences. \nTopics to be discussed: Sharks as poets and vice versa\, the Brisbane pitch drop experiment\, novel classifications for real or imaginary libraries\, the monumental sadness of difficult loves\, the obsolescence of the novel\, the symbolic significance of the cup-and-ball game\, holiday closures across the Francophone world\, what happens at Fahrenheit 452\, Warren G. Harding’s dark night of the soul\, Marcel Duchamp’s imperviousness to conventional spacetime laws\, bilingual palindromes\, cartoon eodermdromes\, oscillating poems\, métro poems\, metric poems\, literary madness\, straw cultivation. \nDaniel Levin Becker is reviews editor for the Believer and has been a member of the Oulipo since 2009. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature published by Harvard University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-levin-becker-on-the-oulipo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday November 15th\, 7-9pm. \ndetails TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the life and work of Lucia Berlin
DESCRIPTION:with David Berlin\, Lydia Kiesling\, Rachel Khong\, Jim Nisbet\, and Robin Sloan \ncelebrating the release of two new books: \nWelcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters \nand \nEvening in Paradise: More Stories \nboth published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nabout Welcome Home: \n\n\n\nA compilation of sketches\, photographs\, and letters\, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin \nBefore Lucia Berlin died\, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home\, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful\, romantic\, and tragic life. \nFrom Alaska to Argentina\, Kentucky to Mexico\, New York City to Chile\, Berlin’s world was wide. And the writing here is\, as we’ve come to expect\, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers\, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise. \nabout Evening in Paradise: \n\n\n\nA collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin \nIn 2015\, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women\, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer\, to wild\, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR\, Time\, Entertainment Weekly\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune\, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. \nEvening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin stories—a jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin’s hungry fans. \nLucia Berlin (1936–2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s\, 1970s\, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago\, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley\, New Mexico\, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s\, she took a visiting writer’s post at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001\, in failing health\, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. \nvisit: http://luciaberlin.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-life-and-work-of-lucia-berlin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Joseph Fink / Alice Isn't Dead
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink back to the store for his new novel\, Alice Isn’t Dead. Join us! \n  \nPLEASE NOTE: this is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including one copy of Alice Isn’t Dead. One ticket per person—no exceptions. Tickets must be purchased in advance—each ticket costs the price of 1 book + tax. Last-minute tickets may be available at the door; if so we will announce closer to the event. \n  \nThis isnt a story\, its a road trip. So starts Alice Isn’t Dead. \n  \nKeisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife\, Alice\, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching\, presuming she was dead\, Keisha held a funeral\, mourned\, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife\, again and again\, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isnt dead\, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. \n  \nFollowing a line of clues\, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver\, and begins searching for Alice. In her search for her missing wife\, she will stumble on a forgotten American history of secret deals and buried crimes\, an inhuman serial killer who has picked her as his next target\, and an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nations highway system — uncovering a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman. \n  \nAlice Isn’t Dead expands the story told in the hit podcast of the same name\, which has had over 6 million downloads in its first 10-episode season\, and is one of the most downloaded fiction podcasts of all time. Its also being made into a TV series — Mr. Robot executive producer Kyle Bradstreet has been tapped to write and executive produce a TV adaptation of Alice Isnt Dead\, along with Fink. The series is in development at USA Network and Universal Cable Productions. \n  \n— \nJoseph Fink is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale. He created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isnt Dead podcasts.  In 2016\, Fink and Cranor launched the podcast network Night Vale Presents which features fiction and non-fiction podcasts. He lives with his wife in New York. For more on Welcome to Night Vale\, visit: welcometonightvale.com. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPLEASE NOTE: \n>> This is an in-store event. The cost of admission is equal to the cost of one copy of Alice Isn’t Dead + tax.\n>> If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of any of Joseph’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.\n>> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n>>  Important signing and photo information TBA soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-joseph-fink-alice-isnt-dead/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating the publication of Red Moon. Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MFA in Writing Program Reading Series presents Ottessa Moshfegh
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, NOVEMBER 13 7:45 – 9:30 p.m.\nLone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\n\n\n\nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of the novels My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen\, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award\, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize\, and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her story collection\, Homesick for Another World\, was a New York Times Notable Book. Moshfegh has received the Pushcart Prize\, the O. Henry Award\, a Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally from Boston\, she lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-in-writing-program-reading-series-presents-ottessa-moshfegh/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kat Gardiner\, Sea of Bees and Rose Droll
DESCRIPTION:Kat Gardiner discusses her new book from Father/Daughter Records\, Little Wonder: A Micro-Fictionalized Account of Honest Failure. With musical performances by Sea of Bees and Rose Droll. \n\nAbout Little Wonder \n\nKat Gardiner’s debut collection of microfiction\, Little Wonder\, springs from the year she spent in Anacortes\, Washington. Young and idealistic\, she and her husband moved to town to open a café and music venue in the hopes of finding a home there. \n  \nThe experiment lasted exactly one year. \n  \nIn interconnected fragments\, Little Wonder reads like a series of love notes to a former self. Characters navigate frustration\, loss\, heartbreak\, but they also come into new versions of themselves. Little Wonder sheds light on the idea that joy and pain are often two sides of the same coin — and that being alive in this world can necessitate embracing both. \n  \n“Is it because spring is nature’s rebirth that our emotions get so attached to it? All of the descriptions of the town and the feelings there are so accurate and truthful and achy… I can see the sun sinking down over Anacortes at the end of every page. Little Wonder has the ache of Raymond Carver\, the honesty\, the vulnerability. It’s so melancholic and honest and beautiful.” – Kyle Field (Little Wings) \n  \nAbout Kat Gardiner \n\nBorn in Oklahoma\, raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and currently based in Detroit\, Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction\, Little Wonder\, springs from the year Gardiner spent in Anacortes\, Washington\, during her early twenties. Young and idealistic\, she opened a coffee shop and music venue with her husband in the hopes of finding a home in the city’s artistic community. The experiment lasted exactly one year. Gardiner closed the coffee shop and moved away from Anacortes\, ending a stressful and dreamlike chapter in her life. \n\nGardiner studied creative writing at Bennington College in Vermont\, and later took workshops with Tom Spanbauer\, the creator of the technique known as Dangerous Writing\, in Portland\, Oregon. In developing her craft\, she found herself drawn to microfiction\, citing Lydia Davis as a touchstone. “There’s something powerful in succinct details\,” Gardiner says. Writing in short\, interconnected fragments enabled her to revisit the year spent in Anacortes with a new sense of perspective. Little Wonder reads like a series of love notes to a former self\, or a collection of Polaroids made golden with age. Gardiner’s characters navigate frustration\, loss\, and heartbreak\, but they also come into new versions of themselves\, a transformation they may not recognize in the moment. Through poignant vignettes furnished generously with detail\, Gardiner looks into what it means to enter the world and realize that the world is not nearly as amenable to change as an optimistic young person might think. “It’s been liberating to make art out of both the painful and the joyous parts of that experience\,” she says. With Little Wonder\, she’s shed light on the idea that joy and pain are often two sides of the same coin — and that being alive in this world can necessitate embracing both. \n  \nAbout Sea of Bees \n\nSea of Bees is the musical project of Julie Ann Bee\, or Jules as everyone calls her. She sings\, writes the songs\, and plays lots of musical instruments. \n\n“If I had to sum her up in a sentence\, she’s sort of a female Sparklehorse. Her music is rooted very much in folk and rock but wildly experimental; some crazy\, beautiful\, wonderful sounds on her new album “Songs for the Ravens.” On my top 10 for the year.” -Robin Hilton\, NPR radio host \n\n“An unrelenting sense of wide-eyed beauty. The album ends up sounding like some sort of collision between Elliot Smith and The Mamas and the Papas. A talent for elegant\, cathartic songwriting. Build a Boat to the Sun is completely endearing.” The 405 \n\n“I’m not entirely sure why I love this album so much… …That which I cannot put my finger on\, is the mysterious\, wonderful\, and addictive qualities of this album as a whole. Bravo to Jules and her Sea of Bees.” -Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) \n\nAbout Rose Droll \n\nI’m a songwriter based in San Francisco. I’ve been playing piano since I was 7\, and now I play a few other instruments as well. I write and record solo\, and occasionally have a few friends sing on my songs. My music has been called haunting by a few different people\, so maybe that’s accurate. My favorite color is pink and my favorite animal is the cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-gardiner-sea-of-bees-and-rose-droll/
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:Kat Gardiner (Little Wonder) with Sea of Bees and Rose Droll
DESCRIPTION:Born in Oklahoma\, raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and currently based in Detroit\, author Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction\, Little Wonder\, fictionalizes the experience of opening and closing a music venue and café with her husband in the small Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes\, Washington in 2008. An adult coming-of-age story told in fragments\, Little Wonder explores the bittersweet love affair that takes place between despair and hope whenever you try with all your heart to do something you believe in\, and fail. \nKat Gardiner reads excerpts from Little Wonder along with acoustic performances by Sea of Bees & Rose Droll.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-gardiner-little-wonder-with-sea-of-bees-and-rose-droll/
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:Karen Finley
DESCRIPTION:Karen Finley \n\n\n\nOpening statement by Amy Scholder \ncelebrating the release of \nGrabbing Pussy \nBy Karen Finley \npublished by OR Books \nIn a breathless cascade of poetry and prose\, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. \nBased on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery (“Wickedly funny”—The New York Times)\, Finley explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump\, Hillary and Bill Clinton\, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner\, and latterly Harvey Weinstein. \nStanding in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl\, Finley’s words jolt the reader into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy\, the disparity of gender\, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finley’s exhilarating canter. \nKaren Finley is a performance artist whose work has long provoked controversy and debate. She has performed at the Lincoln Center (NYC)\, the ICA (London)\, the Steppenwolf (Chicago)\, and the Bobino (Paris). Her art is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles\, among other places. She has received numerous awards\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two Obies\, two Bessies\, and a Ms. magazine Woman of the Year Award. Her previous books include Shock Treatment\, Enough is Enough\, Living It Up\, A Different Kind Of Intimacy\, George and Martha\, and The Reality Shows. Finley is a professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University. \nAmy Scholder has been editing and publishing progressive and literary books for over twenty-five years. Her visionary style has brought high visibility to her authors\, and has been praised for its contribution to contemporary literature and popular culture. She has served as editorial director of the Feminist Press\, editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press\, US publisher of Verso\, founding co-editor of HIGH RISK Books/Serpent’s Tail\, and editor at City Lights Books. Over the years\, she has published the work of Sapphire\, Karen Finley\, June Jordan\, Kate Bornstein\, Kathy Acker\, David Wojnarowicz\, Dorothy Allison\, Mary Gaitskill\, Joni Mitchell\, Kate Millett\, Elfriede Jelinek\, Muriel Rukeyser\, Laurie Weeks\, Justin Vivian Bond\, Virginie Despentes\, Ana Castillo\, and many other award-winning authors. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-finley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Brian Posehn / Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with comedian\, actor\, and forever nerd Brian Posehn for his new memoir Forever Nerdy: Living My Dorky Dreams and Staying Metal. Please join us! \n  \n“I’m a full-blown nerd\,” Posehn writes in the preface. “And by full-blown nerd\, I mean I’m obsessed with a bunch of cool stuff that dumb people think is uncool\, like comics\, Dungeons & Dragons\, action and horror movies\, and HEAVY FUCKING METAL.” \n  \nForever Nerdy is a collection of stories from his life that amount to a celebration of growing up nerdy and different. Brian\, now middle-aged with a wife\, child\, and thriving career\, still feels like an outsider and is as big a nerd as ever. But that’s okay\, because in his five decades of nerdom he’s discovered that the key to happiness is not growing up. You can be a nerd forever and still become a beloved comedian\, writer\, and actor. Or\, as Brian introduces himself\, “a mildly successful\, not-so-widely known stand-up comic\, writer\, and actor mostly known for playing weirdos and half-wits in sitcoms.” \n  \nWe learn of his retreats to the Dunbar Elementary school library which\, of all places\, is where his obsession with KISS began; his watching Jaws repeatedly at his local movie theatre in the summer of ’75; the lethal combo of being super tall and super skinny with dorky black framed glasses\, pimples\, and braces; reading The Exorcist for the first time; getting kicked out of the house by his mother at 19; and that he inherited the dark side of his humor from Grandpa and the crass side from Nana. \n  \n\n  \n“Everyone has an origin story. For comedians\, they’re usually pretty sad\, tortured\, and depressing. Brian Posehn’s is no different\, and yet he’s so different. Forever Nerdy is a memoir about being brave enough to take your torture and find a way to make it your bliss\, and is so fun to read you’re gonna wish you took even longer poops.”  – Sarah Silverman\, author of The Bedwetter  \n  \n“Forever Nerdy is the only book on Brian Posehn and his curious\, eventful\, sad\, sometimes tragic\, defiant\, fun\, loopy life that you will ever need to read. Throw away all the others on this subject matter and get this one! Joyce had his Ulysses\, now Posehn has his Forever Nerdy to engage your eyeballs and wile away your hours\, whether you’re stuck in Omaha\, or in an airport\, or on the toilet\, or perhaps in a toilet on an airplane over Omaha (a trifecta). Buy it\, read it\, commit it to memory\, and you can be on my team on trivia night!” – Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul\, Breaking Bad\, and Mr. Show  \n  \n\n  \nBrian Posehn has appeared on Lady Dynamite\, The Big Bang Theory\, New Girl\, The Sarah Silverman Program\, and was a writer and performer on HBO’s Mr. Show. He co-produced Netflix’s With Bob and David and starred in the dark indie comedy Uncle Nick. He hosts and produces the Nerd Pokerpodcast and co-wrote a run of Marvel’s Deadpool. His next project is a comedy metal album titled Offenders of the Fake\, featuring members of Anthrax\, Dethklok\, Slayer\, and Soundgarden. \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Forever Nerdy\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-brian-posehn-forever-nerdy-living-my-dorky-dreams-and-staying-metal/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Chung and Daniel Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Chung discusses her new memoir All You Can Ever Know with Daniel Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for All You Can Ever Know \n\n“This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing\, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story\, then widens her aperture to illuminate all of us. All You Can Ever Know is full of insights on race\, motherhood\, and family of all kinds\, but what sets it apart is the compassion Chung brings to every facet of her search for identity and every person portrayed in these pages. This book should be required reading for anyone who has ever had\, wanted\, or found a family―which is to say\, everyone.” ―Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n\n“Adoption is neither an incident nor a process―it is an evergreen story of lives growing and resisting simple definitions. Chung’s All You Can Ever Know takes the grammar of adoption―nouns\, verbs\, and direct object―and with extraordinary integrity remakes them into a narrative about what it means to be a subject. A primary document of witness\, Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty\, wisdom\, and love. Her search and what she discovers offer us life’s meaning and purpose of the very highest order.” ―Min Jin Lee\, author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko \n\n“This book will break your heart in all the best ways. Nicole Chung’s intimate exploration of motherhood\, race\, and identity is a beautiful personal story that also reveals something profound about our culture and country. I didn’t want it to end.” ―Jessica Valenti\, author of Sex Object \n\n“I’ve been waiting for this writer\, and this book―and everything else she’ll write―and now it is here.” ―Alexander Chee\,author of The Queen of the Night \n\nAbout All You Can Ever Know \n\nWhat does it mean to lose your roots―within your culture\, within your family―and what happens when you find them? \nNicole Chung was born severely premature\, placed for adoption by her Korean parents\, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood\, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting\, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life\, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up―facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see\, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer\, becoming ever more curious about where she came from―she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. \nWith the same warmth\, candor\, and startling insight that has made her a beloved voice\, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up\, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound\, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets―vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-chung-and-daniel-mallory-ortberg/
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:BOOKSMITH: Timothy Denevi / Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Timothy Denevi(Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD) for his new book Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism. Please join us! \n  \nHunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking\, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism\, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it\, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw the danger of Richard Nixon early and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice\, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits\, sustained by drugs\, mania\, and little else. For ten years\, he cast aside his old ambitions\, troubled his family\, and likely hastened his own decline\, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history. \nThis timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics\, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth. \n  \n\n  \n  \nTimothy Denevi is an assistant professor in the MFA program at George Mason University\, and the nonfiction editor of Literary Hub. His first book\, Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD was published in 2014. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and his work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Time\, The Paris Review\, andNew York Magazine\, among others. He has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tim lives near Washington\, DC with his wife and children. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Freak Kingdom and/or Hyper\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-timothy-denevi-freak-kingdom-hunter-s-thompsons-manic-ten-year-crusade-against-american-fascism/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Idra Novey with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung
DESCRIPTION:Idra Novey discusses her new novel Those Who Knew with Marie Mockett and Bernice Yeung. \n\nPraise for Those Who Knew \n\n“There’s an urgent timeliness to this story of the crimes committed by a powerful man\, but Idra Novey’s riveting\, formally brilliant novel transcends any particular moment. Those Who Knew is a devastating inquiry into the way lofty ideals can serve as cover for brutal impulses\, the way struggles for control of the body politic wreak havoc on actual bodies. Most of all\, it’s an indictment\, at once fierce and compassionate\, of the collective silence that implicates us all in irrevocable wrongs.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“Genius. That’s what I kept thinking as I read this novel that somehow combines an invented island\, a political bookstore\, fragments of a stage production\, and a story that’s at once a damning critique of craven self-interest and a tale about our inescapable connectedness. Idra Novey has written an irreverent\, magical\, perfect puzzle of a book.”—Cristina Henriquez\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“Those Who Knew is a beautiful novel about that which we cannot deny\, in ourselves or others\, and the price we are too often willing to pay for what we think is like freedom.”—Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night \n\nAbout Those Who Knew \n\nOn an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime\, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who’s been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead\, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. \nWhy didn’t Lena speak up then\, and will her family’s support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman’s death is wrong? \nWhat follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. Those Who Knew confirms Novey’s place as an essential new voice in American fiction. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/idra-novey-with-marie-mockett-and-bernice-yeung/
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:Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury\, editors of Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION: Editors Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury discuss Sanctuary: A Collection of Poetry and Prose. \n\nAbout Sanctuary \n\nWhen we started this project eight months ago\, we had no way of knowing how bad things would get or how timely the final product would be. The idea of sanctuary has become a flashpoint. Empathy and kindness seem\, on the surface\, to have taken a backseat to hatred\, nationalism\, and fear. Yet\, while some spew hatred\, still more speak out on behalf of kindness. Such scenarios are playing out around the world\, as war and economic and environmental pressures have driv- en people from their homes\, seeking sanctuary and too often being turned away or worse. \n  \nThe fifty pieces you find here were gleaned from over 700 sub- missions. They explore the concept of sanctuary from angles direct and oblique\, political and comical\, religious and secular. \n  \nSome approach the sanctuary itself\, the structure or the institu- tion. Nancy Cook’s two stories\, Illuminations and Illusions and The After- life\, were written during a residency in a 19th century insane asylum\, the stories pulled from old newspapers and brought to life in her deft prose. Several pieces deal with shelters\, both animal and human. Leslie Muzingo’s story\, Heroes on the Ceiling\, and Joyce Kryzak’s essay\, In the Whispering Breezes\, explore the experience of adults and children at bat- tered women’s shelters\, while Jennifer Stuart’s story\, House for Girls\, in- troduces us to youthful victims of human trafficking\, and Gayla Mills’s essay\, Becoming Human\, brings us inside an animal shelter and the heart of one who works there. \n  \nOther authors approached sanctuary from the point of view of those who seek it: refugees and escapees of both the innocent and the criminal kind\, sometimes blurring the lines between. Michelle S. Myers’s essay\, Communion on the Road\, relates her experience escorting “barely documented” Central American asylum seekers to submit their applications\, and Jennifer Stuart’s story\, The Other Side\, gives us a mo- ment in the life of one such refugee on the first steps of her journey to America. Caroline Taylor’s story Creature of Habit\, Charlotte Platt’s\, Claim Sanctuary\, and John M. Floyd’s\, The Blue Delta\, tell the stories of fugitives whose quest for sanctuary have very different ends\, while Jesse Falzoi’s story\, With Every Thought\, tells of a bittersweet experience housing a Syrian family before they move on to their new lives. \n  \nSeveral pieces are harder to pin down\, but the concept is still there. Gina Grande’s flash piece\, Drag\, explores the safety to be found in physical self-transformation\, while Scott Archer Jones’s story\, Con- tentment\, introduces us to an aging hedonist who seeks comfort in the hand of a friend\, and Sage Kalmus’s story\, The First Lo’ihian\, places one young man’s sanctuary 50\,000 years in his future\, on an island that today is just beginning to be born. Ed McCourt’s essay\, What We Leave on the Curb\, finds solace in the face of death\, in the rebirth of a bicycle\, while a physician-priest seeks sanctuary in the bottle in Nick Bouch- ard’s story\, Father Pearson’s Last Day. \n  \nIt’s a cold and disquieting world out there. I hope you find some comfort in these pages and will offer the same to any strangers who show up at your checkpoints or wash up on your shore. \n  \n–S.C.\, June 2018 \nSunnyvale\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susannah-carlson-and-peter-bradbury-editors-of-sanctuary/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky
DESCRIPTION:Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky \ncelebrating the release of \nSon of Amity \nby Peter Nathaniel Malae – published by Oregon State University Press \nThree lives on the verge of ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika\, a half-Samoan ex-con from California\, seeks to deliver justice to his sister’s rapist; Michael\, a five-tour Iraq War Marine\, faces the cracked mirror of his own embattled soul; and Sissy\, a recent convert to Catholicism\, must resist the lure of ruthless self-judgment and discover what love is. \nDetermined to escape the past\, these characters find themselves sharing the same torn-down house\, bordering tweaker poverty and bucolic wine country. Violence and penance\, family and legacy\, recidivism and post-traumatic stress disorder linger with the heavy rain of desperation. At the center of this storm is five-year old Benji\, whose wide-eyed energy and openhearted faith could show all of them how to still be saved. \nIn this unforgettable tale\, award-winning author Peter Nathaniel Malae explores the depths of human pain and trauma with cultural authority. Son of Amity is a novel whose voices cry out with truth and vulnerability\, never betraying that slight tilt toward hope needed to make the long\, hard trek to tomorrow. \nPeter Nathaniel Malae is the author of the novels\, Our Frail Blood and What We Are; the story collection\, Teach the Free Man; and the play\, “The Question.” A former Steinbeck\, MacDowell\, Arts Council Silicon Valley\, and Oregon Literary Arts Fellow\, Malae lives in western Oregon. \nAlan Soldofsky is the author of the poetry colleciton\, In the Buddha Factory\, from Truman State University Press. He is also co-editor with poet David Koehn of Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody by Donald Justice. In addition he has published three chapbooks of poems: Kenora Station\, Staying Home\, and most recently a chapbook that includes a selection of poems by his son\, the poet Adam Soldofsky\, Holding Adam / My Father’s Books. His poems\, articles\, essays\, interviews\, and book reviews have appeared widely in periodicals including The Antioch Review\, The Crab Orchard Review\, The Georgia Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Greensboro Review\, Grand Street\, The Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Nation\, The North American Review\, Poetry East. Chelsea\, Narrative\, Poetry Flash\, Quarry West\, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. \n“From the farthest\, wettest corner of war-damaged America\, Peter Nathaniel Malae brings us the story of a family bound by a shared history of violence\, and liberated by the miracle of shared mercy. Written with immense intellect and swagger\, Son of Amity imbues the street-level realities ofour times — in our cities\, towns\, prisons\, and psyches — with the power of myth.”  — Jon Raymond\, author of Freebird and The Half-Life
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-nathaniel-malae-in-conversation-with-alan-soldofsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sarah Cooper / How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Sarah Cooper for her new book How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women. Please join us! \n  \nAmbitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world\, female leaders need to make sure they’re not perceived as pushy\, aggressive\, or competent. In How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings\, Sarah Cooper\, author of the bestselling 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings\, illustrates how women can achieve their dreams\, succeed in their careers\, and become leaders\, without harming the fragile male ego. \n  \nChapters include\, among others\, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women\,” “How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It\,” and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they’re saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of “inaction items” designed to challenge women to be less challenging. \n  \nAnd\, when all else fails\, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact\, it may even lead to a quick promotion! \n  \n\n  \nSarah Cooper is a blogger\, vlogger\, and comedian whose satirical blog TheCooperReview.com pokes fun at corporate culture\, the tech world\, and everything in between. After 15 years working for companies like Google and Yahoo!\, she knows her subject well. Her “10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” post has circled the globe\, with 5 million views and counting. Her work has appeared on The Washington Post\, Fast Company\, Business Insider\, Huffington Post\, and countless more. Sarah lives with her husband in San Francisco and enjoys 90s rock\, standup comedy\, and both sunny and cloudy days equally. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The Bindery’s bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings\, and/or any of Sarah’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sarah-cooper-how-to-be-successful-without-hurting-mens-feelings-non-threatening-leadership-strategies-for-women/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AL MADRIGAL in Conversation with Adam Savage
DESCRIPTION:AL MADRIGAL\nIn Conversation with Adam Savage\nSaturday\, November 10\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAl Madrigal‘s stand-up comedy blends political satire with personal stories of marriage\, family\, and fatherhood. Madrigal is best known for his role as the “Senior Latino” correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewartwhere he helped shed light on racism and anti-immigrant sentiments in the U.S. and had the chance to “drive tanks\, swim with manatees\, go to Mexico City and make a fake drug deal.” Since leaving The Daily Show\, Madrigal has been busy doing stand-up; releasing a comedy special Shrimpin’ Aint’ Easy\, in which he applies his comedic insight to topics like “cilantro politics\,” anger management\, and a wild tale of seafood revenge; and co-founding the All Things Comedy podcast network with Bill Burr. Madrigal currently stars in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here\, a series about stand-up in the 1970s. \nAdam Savage is an industrial special effects designer and former co-host of The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters with Jamie Hyneman. He is currently an editor at Tested.com and co-hosts the podcast Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/al-madrigal-in-conversation-with-adam-savage/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:writers with drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Nov. 10\, 2018:\n \nRachel Khong (Goodbye\, Vitamin)\nKirstin Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)\nAchy Obejas (The Tower of the Antilles)\nTara Sim (Chainbreaker\, Firestarter)\nL.A. Kauffman (How to Read a Protest)\nTammy Stoner (Sugar Land) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-17/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181109T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T101729
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: So It's Come to This: A Going Away Party
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith’s everything Amy Stephenson is moving to New York so soon and throwing a going away party before she takes off. You’re invited! Everyone is invited! Come send her off in true Booksmith fashion: laughter\, tears\, hugs\, drinks\, books\, obviously\, and probably a fair amount of shouting. \n  \nRead all about it here. And do join us! \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated so we know how many snacks to get!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-so-its-come-to-this-a-going-away-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20181031T221842Z
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SUMMARY:PETER SAGAL In Conversation with Michael Krasny
DESCRIPTION:PETER SAGAL\nIn Conversation with Michael Krasny\nFriday\, November 9\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nPeter Sagal is the host of NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Prior to the popular quiz show\, Sagal had a varied career including stints as a playwright\, screenwriter\, stage director\, actor\, extra in a Michael Jackson video\, travel writer\, essayist\, ghostwriter\, and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine. His first book\, The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How To Do Them\, is a series of essays about bad behavior. On the verge of turning forty\, Sagal started running seriously\, eventually completing fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles. In The Incomplete Book of Running\, Sagal explores body image\, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism\, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. \nMichael Krasny is a Professor of English and American Literature and author of the books Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life\, Let There Be Laughter\, and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993\, he has been the host of Forum\, a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-sagal-in-conversation-with-michael-krasny/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTION\n\n\n\nA Rare Friday night Bawdy…and OMG\, the Games are Back! The Games are Back! \nFriday\, November 9th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThese ‘Ouch\, that smarts!’ stories & songs include: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Internet Legend Ouchy the Clown\n \n❤ Best of Bawdy winner Matt Matthews \n❤ YOU? Pitch your story of Sex/Kink/Gender to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by November 1st \n❤ Custom Bawdy songs by Creature Hole \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #DoublePenetration \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Sexual Folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage\, Bona Fide Storytelling and BawdySlam shows. \nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Marie Claire Magazine\, Esquire & Uproxx as a ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ creature hole is a garlic man & chikn cover band. best described as disturbing\, yet catchy. this weird pop duo met in olympia\, wa in 2011. they’ve been performing together ever since then throughout the PNW and even touring the US! \n* No refunds or exchanges. \n* Lineup subject to change. \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/48479/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:‘KEROUAC ON RECORD’ WITH MICHAEL GOLDBERG & JOHNNY HARPER
DESCRIPTION:Michael Goldberg is the author of “Bob Dylan’s Beat Visions (Sonic Poetry)\,” and interviewed Richard Meltzer for the recently released collection Kerouac on Record\, edited by Simon Warner and Jim Sampas. He will be joined by musician Johnny Harper\, performing covers of 1960s-era Bob Dylan songs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerouac-on-record-with-michael-goldberg-johnny-harper/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181108T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181108T213000
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SUMMARY:Maxine Hong Kingston & Gary Gach: Pause\, Breathe\, Smile
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nMAXINE HONG KINGSTON + GARY GACH\nPause\, Breathe\, Smile: Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough\nHosted by Kris Welch \nTickets: $12 advance\, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, Benefits KPFA Radio\, Info: kpfa.org/events \nPause…breathe… smile Three small words each containing a universe of wisdom. With these words we are invited to bring the practice of mindfulness into every moment of our lives. This handbook by Gary Gach supports the cultivation of awareness\, compassion and joy. The awakening of mindfulness will be discussed by Gary and Maxine Hong Kingston. \nMaxine Hong Kingston\, daughter of Chinese immigrants\, is a poet\, memoirist\, and fiction writer who was born in Stockton\, California\, and educated at the University of California-Berkeley. \nHer honors include the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Medal\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature\, the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Literary Awards. \nWriting for students of all levels\, Gary Gach draws on 50-plus years of study and practice to present this elegant\, accessible demonstration of three central aspects of mindful living. This simple process will “water your own innate seeds of awakening to help you pave your own path to total fulfillment and peace.” \n“A lovely offering of wisdom\, practices\, and kindness to help foster a mindful life and a compassionate heart” – Jack Kornfield\, author of “No Time Like the Present” \nGARY GACH is a writer\, mystic\, and lifelong meditator who has engaged in many roles: actor\, bookstore clerk\, dishwasher\, hospital administrator\, office temp\, stevedore\, teacher and trypographer. Lay-ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008\, he has authored eight previous books\, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and grandmother. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-hong-kingston-gary-gach-pause-breathe-smile/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Endangered Species\, Enduring Values: An Anthology Of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of readings from Endangered Species\, Enduring Values: An Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers and Artists of Color with contributors Shizue Seigel\, Francee Covington\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Gail Mitchell\, Tony Robles\, and Dr. Sriram Shamasunder. \n\nAbout Endangered Species\, Enduring Values \n\nAn Anthology of prose\, poetry and artwork by San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color ENDANGERED SPECIES\, ENDURING VALUES is a guide to the real San Francisco-the seldom-heard 58% of the population that brings color and diversity to the city in every sense of the word. Includes than 150 pieces by more than 70 creatives of color with roots in Native America\, Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, the Caribbean\, the Middle East\, and Europe. Contributors include current SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, and artists\, curators\, physicians\, educators\, poets\, performers\, and activists for unions\, LGBT\, mental health\, housing and more. \n\nAbout The Contributors \n\nShizue Seigel\, editor of Enduring Species; Enduring Values\, is a Japanese American writer and visual artist. Her five books include Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown and In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment. Her prose and poetry have been published in All the Women in My Family Sing\, Your Golden Sun Still Shines\, Cheers to Muses\, InVasian and other anthologies\, and in Eleven Eleven\, Away Journal\, Persimmon Tree\, Whirlwind Magazine\, among others. She leads monthly Write Now! Writing workshops at the San Francisco Public Library\, and  is a two-time recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission and a VONA Fellow\, Her artwork has been exhibited at SOMArts Cultural Center\, Arts at CIIS\, the Thoreau Center\, UC Santa Barbara\, the Kinsey Institute and other venues. \nFrancee Covington. During a successful TV career as a producer\, director and writer of news\, documentaries\, public affairs and magazine shows\, Francee Covington worked at television stations WCBS in New York\, WBZ Boston and in San Francisco at KGO\, KPIX\, and KQED.  She later formed her own video production company and led it for more than twenty years.  Her clients included numerous Fortune 500 companies\, The Oprah Show\, and city and state agencies.  Active in the community\, she currently serves on the San Francisco Fire Commission.  She’s retired\, lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a poet and information architect. She grew up in Hilo HI and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Tule Review\, Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown: An Anthology\, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her poetry manuscript\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, was awarded the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson literary award in 2014. She is currently engaged in the study of several paranormal phenomena\, including alien encounters\, Marian apparitions\, Sinéad O’Connor\, and Bitcoin. \n  \nGail Mitchell\, author of Bone Songs\, received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She is a native San Franciscan who draws from her Black and Muskogee\, Creole and Italian heritage. In the beginning was the word and I’ve drawn on it\, to map the internal terrain and make sense of the external world\, to investigate life and death\, traversing a language that leaves me spellbound.  I pick words like gems to make the right necklace to go out into the world. I think of jewelry as amulets to protect and of course as adornment to help one shine. I am a jeweler and a poet. I am a maker. It is a must a desire that runs as deep as breath. \nTony Robles was born and raised in San Francisco of Filipino and African American heritage. His books  Cool Don’t Live Here No More—A Letter to San Francisco (2015) and Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike (2017) were published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press.  He is the author of 2 children’s books\, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish and Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel\, published by Children’s Book Press. In 2017\, he was awarded a San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission and short-listed for poet laureate of San Francisco. He carries on the legacy of his late uncles\, Al Robles\, activist poet and scholar\, and Russell Robles\, co-founder of SOMArts Cultural Center\, by serving as board president of the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and working for housing and senior rights. \nDr. Sriram Shamasunder\, a poet and doctor at UCSF\, has spent the better part of the last 10 years working in Burundi\, Haiti\, Rwanda and India. He is interested in health equity and narrative equity\, working towards a world where lives are of equal value both the health care we deliver and the stories we highlight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/endangered-species-enduring-values-an-anthology-of-san-francisco-area-writers-artists-of-color/
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:BOOKSMITH: Jonathan Lethem / The Feral Detective
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jonathan Lethem for The Feral Detective\, his first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn. With him in conversation is Michael Chabon. Please join us! \n  \nPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter\, Arabella\, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer\, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly\, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble—caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist\, mysteriously\, can end. Phoebe’s trip to the desert was always going to be strange\, but it was never supposed to be dangerous… \n  \n\n  \nJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels\, including The Fortress of Solitude\, Dissident Gardens\, Chronic City\, andMotherless Brooklyn\, winner of National Book Critics Circle Award.  A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship\, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and The New York Times\, among others. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California. Author photo by Amy Maloof. \n  \nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps & Legends\, Gentlemen of the Road\, Manhood for Amateurs\, Telegraph Avenue\, Moonglow\, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. He lives in Berkeley\, California with his wife\, novelist Ayelet Waldman\, and their children. Author photo by Sarah Lee. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, with mature themes. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of The Feral Detectives\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jonathan-lethem-the-feral-detective/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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