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SUMMARY:Jane Smiley: Golden Age
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and St. Johns Presbyterian Church present: \nHosted by Kris Welch \nadvance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006  or Books Inc\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moes\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Diesel a Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloways  S.F. – Modern Times. $15 door\, KPFA benefit   www.kpfa.org/events \nFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume of her acclaimed American trilogy  a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond. Combining intimate drama\, emotional suspense\, and a full command of history\, Golden Age brings to a magnificent conclusion the century-spanning portrait of this unforgettable familyand the dynamic times in which theyve loved\, lived\, and died: a crowning literary achievement from a beloved master of American storytelling. \nJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels\, including A Thousand Acres\, which was awarded the Pultizer Prize\, and most recently\, Some Luck and Early Warning\, the first volumes of The Last Hundred Years trilogy. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she has received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California. \nPraise for earlier novels in the trilogy: \nStaggeringa masterpiece in the makingIntimate\, miraculousan American saga every bit as ambitious as Updikes magnum opus  USA Today \nAudaciously delicious\, impeccably drawn…Every character steals our heart. We read these lives\, and we find our own.  Chicago Tribune \nWondrousA good reminder that the big juicy novel is ascendant againThe surprises are irresistible. Smiley develops lives that are rich\, mysterious\, and constantly changingThe events become mesmerizing\, the reading compulsive.\nThe Washington Post \nGolden Age takes readers from 1987 up to 2020\, lending a prophetic eye to the world beyond the pages. Theres much to admire: Smileys attention to detail in each and every year; her knowledge of politics\, environmentalism\, and genetics; her humor; her stripped back prose. … Smiley chronicles 20th-century life like few have\, with the same scope and fastidiousness of Phillip Roth\, Saul Bellow\, and John Updike. Miami New Times \nKris Welch is a veteran KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a grandmother.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-smiley-golden-age/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Winston Smith w/ V. Vale
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books teams up with 924 Gilman to present Winston Smith (illustrator of Dead Kennedy’s: Fresh Fruit for for Rotting Vegetables) in conversation with V. Vale (founder of RE/SEARCH: San Francisco’s longest running punk rock publication). \nPresented as part of “Mosh Lit:” A Pegasus Books and 924 Gilman Event Series \nDead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of their generation. Their debut full-length\, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables\, in particular\, is regularly voted among the top albums in the genre. Fresh Fruit offered a perfect hybrid of humor and polemic strapped to a musical chassis that was as tetchy and inventive as Jello Biafra’s withering broadsides. Those lyrics\, cruel in their precision\, were revelatory. But it wouldn’t have worked if the underlying sonics were not such an uproarious rush\, the paraffin to Biafra’s naked flame. \nDead Kennedys’ continuing influence is an extraordinary achievement for a band that had practically zero radio play and only released records on independent labels. They not only existed outside of the mainstream but were\, as V. Vale of Search and Destroy noted\, the first band of their stature to turn on and attack the music industry itself. The DKs set so much in motion. They were integral to the formulation of an alternative network that allowed bands on the first rung of the ladder to tour outside of their own backyard. They were instrumental in supporting the concept of all-ages shows and spurned the advances of corporate rock promoters and industry lapdogs. They legitimized the notion of an American punk band touring internationally while disseminating the true horror of their native country’s foreign policies\, effectively serving as anti-ambassadors on their travels. \nThe book uses dozens of first-hand interviews\, photos\, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group who would become mired in controversy almost from the get-go. It applauds the band’s key role in transforming punk rhetoric\, both polemical and musical\, into something genuinely threatening—and enormously funny. The author offers context in terms of both the global and local trajectory of punk and\, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes individual band members have on the evolution of the band\, attempts to be celebratory—if not uncritical. \n“We have a sense of humor and we’re not afraid to use it in a vicious way if we have to. In some ways\, we’re cultural terrorists\, using music instead of guns.“\n—Jello Biafra\, Dead Kennedys \n  \nPunk art surrealist Winston Smith\, a master of “hand-carved“ collage\, has been crafting his thought-provoking art since the 1970s. Smith first became known for his collaborations with punk legends Dead Kennedys and his numerous album covers\, inserts\, and flyers for the band in their formative years. His technique of cutting out by hand and gluing each individual element has inspired a generation of artists. His published collections include Act Like Nothing’s Wrong\, Artcrime\, and All Riot on the Western Front. \nIn 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy\, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. It was published at City Lights Bookstore\, where V. Vale worked\, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. In 1980\, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale released books which include Jello Biafra\, Henry Rollins\, Lydia Lunch\, and many other Punk notables\, RE/SEARCH is actually best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winston-smith-w-v-vale/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Karavatos + Noor Al-Samarrai
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with world renowned poet performer Nicholas Karavatos accompanied by musical guest Jeff Kelley\, and renaissance performance artist and “Jill of all trades” Noor Al-Samarrai. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there): https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-karavatos-noor-al-samarrai/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Hundy: Poems in Translation
DESCRIPTION:co-sponsored by the low residency MFA in translation at Mills College \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection is The Spoonlight Institute\, published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Recent work has appeared at Annex Press\, Across the Margin\, and Hambone. He has lived in the Bay Area since the mid-1970s and publishes a portrait gallery on flickr of poets reading. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism is forthcoming this fall from City Lights. \nCarlota Caulfield is a poet\, translator and literary critic. She is the author of eleven books of poems\, amongst them At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire and The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory)\, El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria) / Il Libro de Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria). She has translated into Spanish selections of poems by the American writer Jack Foley\, and by the Irish poets Eavan Boland\, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, Rita Ann Higgins\, Paula Meehan\, Medbh McGuckian\, Sara Berkeley and Catherine Walsh. Amongst her published translations into English are poems by Regino E. Boti\, José Angel Valente\, and Gustavo Vega. \nElana Chavez is a writer and urban gardener living in Oakland. \nBrenda Hillman has published nine collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press\, including Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013). With Garrett Caples and Paul Ebenkamp\, she co-edited Richard O. Moore’s Particulars of Place (Omnidawn\, 2105). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College where she is the Filippi Professor of Poetry. \nGeraldine Kim is the author of Povel (Fence\, 2005) and Parallel Play (Fence\, forthcoming)\, the play Donning Cheadle\, and the chapbooks Things I’d Let You Do To Me and no face\, just boobs. She is also the Reviews Editor for the blog Weird Sister. \nAva Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker poet and visual artist. During the last couple of years\, many of her poems appear in various publications such as Streetnotes\, AMERARCANA\, Eleven Eleven\, Dusie… Her recent chapbook\, Triangle Squared\, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. \nBorn in Mexico\, based in Oakland\, Hugo García Manríquez is a poet and translator. \nJanice Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants. Her first book of poetry about her mom\, microchips for millions\, critiques the Silicon Valley and its exploitation of immigrant women workers\, and will be published by Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA)\, Inc. Her second book\, like a solid to a shadow about fatherlessness\, grieving\, and family lineages is also forthcoming from Timeless\, Infinite Light. She is the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts\, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego. She teaches English at San José City College and Skyline College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-hundy-poems-in-translation/
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:Indy Press Night ft. Ig Publishing w/ Carswell + Tanner
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new novels \nMetaphysical Ukulele \nby Sean Carswell \n& \nMissile Paradise \nby Ron Tanner \nboth books published by Ig Press \nAbout Metaphysical Ukulele: \nMixing the flair of literary invention with real events in the lives of some of our most well-known writers—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding The Blue Dahlia screenplay hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O’Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord\, a ukulele player who may or may not be Thomas Pynchon\, among others—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of the literary life and turns it into exquisite fiction\, with a ukulele thrown in to each story for good measure. At times heartbreaking\, at times absurd\, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life\, and what is literature. \nSean Carswell is the author of the novels Drinks for the Little Guy\, Train Wreck Girl\, and Madhouse Fog\, and the short story collections Barney’s Crew and Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University\, Channel Islands. \nAbout Missle Paradise: \nIn the Marshall Islands\, an island-nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was once a testing ground for nuclear bombs\, American engineers and programmers are making and testing missiles while their “hosts\,” the indigenous Marshallese\, sweep their streets and clean their houses. It’s 2004\, the Iraq war is heating up\, and 9/11 is fresh in everyone’s minds. Following four interconnected story lines—the meltdown of a burned-out cultural liaison who has “gone native” and bitterly resents his role in keeping the Marshallese down; a young programmer who has lost his leg in a reckless solo sailing journey; the struggles of a young widow with two children whose husband drowned in a mysterious diving accident; and the destructive spiral of a Marshallese teenager whose American girlfriend rejects him when she returns to the States—Missile Paradise is an extraordinary novel that deals with the major social and political issues of our time\, including racism\, represented by the relationship between the Americans who enjoy life on Kwajalein and the subservience of the native Marshallese\, who live on the neglected and trash-strewn island of Ebeye; and climate change—the climax of the novel is a great storm and flood which forces the Marshallese on Ebeye to flee to Kwajalein. \nRon Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal\, a Pushcart Prize\, a New Letters Award\, a Best of the Web Award\, a Maryland Arts Council grant\, and many others. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories)\, Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel)\, and From Animal House to Our House (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University-Maryland and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project. \nIg Publishing produces original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment\, and political and cultural nonfiction. Their Young Adult imprint\, Lizzie Skurnick Books\, is devoted to bringing back the very best in young adult literature\, from the classics of the ’30s and ’40s to the thrillers and social issue novels of the ’70s and ’80s.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/indy-press-night-ft-ig-publishing-w-carswell-tanner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elisha Cooper
DESCRIPTION:In Falling\, the award-winning children’s book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter’s illness in this frank\, moving\, and beautiful memoir. \nElisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children’s books\, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is “throw like a girl\,” so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë’s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game\, everything changes. Surgery\, sleepless nights\, treatments\, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoë starts kindergarten\, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer games and hot chocolates in cafés regularly interrupted by anxious visits to the hospital. And Elisha is forced to balance his desire to be a protective parent—even as he encourages his girls to take risks—against the increasing helplessness he feels for his child’s well-being\, and his own. \nElisha Cooper is the author of Train\, Farm\, Homer\, and\, most recently\, 8: An Animal Alphabet. His children’s book\, Beach\, won the 2006 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Dance! was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Other books include A Year in New York and the memoir Crawling: A Father’s First Year. He lives with his family in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elisha-cooper/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Mark Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:In March\,1979\, a young street hustler in San Francisco stumbles into an emergency room with lungs so congested he can barely breathe. Seen by a perplexed medical resident\, the patient becomes the first of many thousands to die from a yet-to-be named plague. Sensing Light is a raw\, compelling novel that follows the personal and professional lives of the men and women on the front lines of the emerging AIDS epidemic. \nThis breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson\, a leading Bay Area HIV/AIDS physician\, follows the lives of three people from vastly different backgrounds who are thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives. Kevin\, a gay medical resident from working class Boston\, has just moved to San Francisco in search of acceptance of his own sexual identity. Herb\, the supervising physician\, struggles with his emotional rigidity in the exhausting world of one of the nation’s toughest hospitals. And Gwen\, a divorced mother with a teen daughter\, looks for a sense of self and security while completing her medical training. \nMark A. Jacobson is a professor of medicine at UCSF and an attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital. He began his internship days after the CDC reported a mysterious\, fatal form of immunodeficiency in five gay men and soon after was assigned responsibility for critically ill patients with this syndrome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-jacobson/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Happy Hour Stories Celebrates PRIDE!
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus on Solano’s story time for adults celebrates SF Pride month with readings celebrating LGBTQI writing! Featuring guest readers TBA.\n\n\nAbout Happy Hour Stories: \nCreated in 2014 by Pegasus on Solano’s Elizabeth Freeman and Manuela Aronofsky\, Happy Hour Stories is a special story time – for adults! \n\nEvery last Tuesday of the month\, short stories on a theme are read aloud by Pegasus employees and friends…. Served up with a refreshing drink\, and light snacks. \nPast Happy Hour Stories themes have included a celebration of Black History Month\, LGBTQ Pride\, California-inspired fiction\, and school stories; with special guests such as local authors Elizabeth Rosner\, Darryl Brock\, Nia King\, and Alex Gino\, as well as the Oakland-based band Halcyonaire\, and various professional actors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-hour-stories-celebrates-pride/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show
DESCRIPTION:The Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show brings together local poets (MPC members from all over the Bay Area) to read their own or others’ work aloud. In groups of no more than five\, these poets hold forth at coffee houses\, bookstores\, libraries\, the occasional bar\, and some civic sites. The shows are short (one hour and change)\, punchy\, pithy\, informal\, and well attended. \nThe Marin Poetry Center is a local organization dedicated to the development and appreciation of poetry. It has a number of activities and programs; please visit its website at marinpoetrycenter.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-traveling-show/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rikki Ducornet
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nBrightfellow \npublished by Coffee House Press \nA feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets\, sweating cocktails\, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater\, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy\, who takes him in\, and Asthma\, who enchants him\, and all is found\, then lost. A fragrant\, voluptuous novel of imposture\, misplaced affection\, and emotional deformity. \nAn artist and writer\, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Forrest Gander\, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely\, including\, most recently\, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago\, Chile. \nCritical Praise for the work of Rikki Ducornet: \n“Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.”—The Nation \n“Rikki Ducornet\, in the effervescent and airy Brightfellow\, deftly executes a hefty lightness\, the lightest of a bright\, light touch that delights and spontaneously combusts right before our eyes. Like an unbounded baron in the trees\, like a goat boy on the loose in the groves of academe\, this book inscribes a lofty scaffolding of amazing mazes\, canopies of wonder. Ignited luminescence\, irresistible levitation\, iridescent images—the words skip like philosophic stones through a saturated and shimmering exhalation.” —Michael Martone\, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg\, Indiana \n“Ducornet—surrealist\, absurdist\, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers\, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.”—Jeff VanderMeer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rikki-ducornet/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Finding Fontainbleau & My Brain on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Finding Fontainbleau: An American Boy in France & My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. Finding Fontainbleau This charming memoir recounts the adventures of Thad Carhart\, his parents and siblings\, in the provincial town of Fontainebleau\, France\, in the 1950s. My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. In 1962\, after a misguided foray towards a career in advertising\, Leonard Pitt took the ultimate cure– a trip to Paris. He stayed seven years. While performing and teaching\, he studied the origins of the ballet\, the history of early American popular music\, the pre-Socratic philosophers\, the European witch hunt\, the history of Paris\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/finding-fontainbleau-my-brain-on-fire/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:California Writers Club: Molly Giles
DESCRIPTION:Molly Giles has published four award-winning collections of stories: Rough Translations\, which won The Flannery O’Connor Prize\, the Boston Globe Award\, and The Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award; Creek Walk\, which won The Small Press Best Fiction Award\, the California Commonwealth Silver Medal for Fiction\, and was a New York Times Notable Book; Bothered\, which won the Split Oak Press Flash Fiction Award and\, most recently\, All The Wrong Places\, which won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. She has also published a novel\, Iron Shoes\, which has won no prizes at all\, and an ebook of stories\, Three For The Road. Her stories have been included in numerous anthologies including The O. Henry and the Pushcart Prize (twice) and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Marin Arts Council\, and the Arkansas Arts Council. \nMolly has taught fiction writing at San Francisco State University\, University of Hawaii in Manoa\, San Jose State University\, the National University of Ireland at Galway\, and The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She has edited many published writers and mentors through the Path to Publishing program at Book Passage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-writers-club-molly-giles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Sloane Crosley
DESCRIPTION:Kezia\, Nathaniel\, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties\, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives—Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool kid\, selling his wares in Hollywood; and the Eeyore-esque Victor\, just fired from a middling search engine. They soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel. \nIn the midst of all this semi-merriment\, Victor passes out in the mother of the groom’s bedroom. He wakes to her jovially slapping him across the face. Instead of a scolding\, she offers Victor a story she’s never even told her son\, about a valuable necklace that disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France. And so a madcap adventure is set into motion\, one that leads Victor\, Kezia\, and Nathaniel from Miami to New York and L.A. to Paris and across France\, until they converge at the estate of Guy de Maupassant\, author of the classic short story “The Necklace.” \nHeartfelt\, suspenseful\, and told with inimitable spark and wit\, The Clasp is a story of friends struggling to fit together now that their lives haven’t gone as planned\, of how to separate the real from the fake. Such a task might be possible when it comes to precious stones\, but is far more difficult to pull off with humans. \nSloane Crosley is the author of the bestsellers I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a Thurber Prize finalist) and How Did You Get This Number. A frequent contributor to The New York Times\, she lives in Manhattan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sloane-crosley/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Max Porter w/ Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Here he is\, husband and father\, scruffy romantic\, a shambolic scholar–a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden\, accidental death\, and there are his two sons who\, like him\, struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness\, while the boys wander\, savage and unsupervised.\nIn this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow–antagonist\, trickster\, goad\, protector\, therapist\, and babysitter. This self-described “sentimental bird\,” at once wild and tender\, who “finds humans dull except in grief”\, threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories\, Crow’s efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it\, grow up. \nPart novella\, part polyphonic fable\, and part essay on grief\, Max Porter’s extraordinary work combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths\, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. \nMax Porter works in publishing. He lives in South London with his wife and children. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is his first book. Watch a video teaser and read an excerpt from Grief is the Thing with Feathers. \nAnthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe\, and now resides in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter-w-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elin Hilderbrand
DESCRIPTION:Here’s to Us is an emotional\, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. \nCelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon’s shocking death in his favorite place on earth\, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage\, his (messy\, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon’s three wives\, his children\, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals\, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life and his heart. But as they slowly let go of the resentments they’ve held onto for years and remember the good times\, secrets are revealed\, confidences are shared\, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together\, for better or worse–and the women he loved find new ways to love again. \nElin Hilderbrand does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston.Here’s to Us is her seventeenth novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elin-hilderbrand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160623T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160623T223000
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SUMMARY:Word Performances: Private Parlor Show
DESCRIPTION:Word Performances with Arisa White\, Colleen McKee\, Pitta of the Mind\, Damien Alvarez\, Cybele Zufolo Siegel\, Todd Siegel\, Zarina Zabrisky\, Simon Roggue\, & Daniel Berkman – Private Parlor Show\nThursday Jun 23\, 2016\nDoors: 7:30 PM\nShow: 8:00 PM (ends at 10:30 PM) \n12 and over \n$10 in advance and $15 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-performances-private-parlor-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160623T213000
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CREATED:20160602T002610Z
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SUMMARY:Terry McMillan: I Almost Forgot About You
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books present: \nAn Evening with TERRY McMILLAN\nI Almost Forgot About You\nHosted by Sabrina Jacobs \nadvance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moes\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Diesel a Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloways S.F. – Modern Times. $15 door\, KPFA benefit www.kpfa.org/events \nTerry McMillans novels have always been about telling the uncensored truth about friends\, family\, lovers\, and oneself. Through addictively revealing conversations including an instructive one about the sexual prowess of men who made the A listMcMillans narrator is the ideal running commentator on what smart women do to reach the pinnacle of success and what they must do to get the hell out before its too late. Its a story about both reinvention and acceptances\, told in McMillans quintessential voice\, now even more expansive\, prismatically perceptive\, and laugh-aloud generous in how we talk about love and all its wonders.\nAmy Tan\, New York Times bestselling author\nof The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement \nThe warmth and wisdom we have come to expect from Terry McMillan are on full display and you wont be able to walk away from Georgia and her exuberant life. This is that thrilling kind of novel that reminds us how sometimes\, fairy tales happen when we least expect them\, if only we open ourselves to possibility.\nRoxane Gray\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and An Unnamed State \nFor nearly thirty years Terry McMillan has been entertaining readers with novels bursting with warmth\, humor\, and a fearless\, tell-it-like-it-is honesty. Beginning with her acclaimed debut novel\, Mama\, her New York Times bestselling books include Waiting to Exhale\, A Day Late and a Dollar Short\, The interruption of Everything\, How Stella Got Her Groove Back\, Getting to Happy \, Disappearing Acts\, and now I Almost Forgot About You\, a bold\, inspiring story of second chances and next chapters. \nReaders will find her signature charm\, acerbic wit\, and spot-on depictions of modern life and culture on full display. \nHost Sabrina Jacobs is the volunteer host and producer of A Rude Awakening\, a cultural and political affairs show aired on KPFA. Prior to her own show\, she got her start as an intern six years ago and moved on to news reporting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-mcmillan-i-almost-forgot-about-you/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime INTERRUPTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature Anne Germanacos (Tribute)\, Tony Robles (Cool Don’t Live Here No More)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, Genine Lentine (Poses)\, and Luciano Aldana. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-interruptions/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160621T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160621T210000
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SUMMARY:Chinaka Hodge
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nDated Emcees \npublished by City Lights Books (Sister Spit Imprint). With Tongo Eisen-Martin & RyanNicole.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinaka-hodge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Moby: Porcelain
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most iconic DJs of our time\, Porcelain is a funny and harrowing account of the NYC club scene in the ’80s and ’90s. When Moby arrived in New York\, he was not only a poor\, skinny kid from Connecticut\, but also a Christian\, a vegan\, and a teetotaler. This was during the time when dance music was still largely underground in clubs like Palladium\, Mars\, and Limelight. By the end of the decade\, Moby contemplated the end in his career and put everything into one last project―the multimillion-selling album Play. Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place. \n  \nTickets must be purchased in advance\, at this link. Prices: \n>> $30 one book / one ticket \n>> $45 one book / two tickets \n  \nPorcelain will be available on May 17th\, and you can pick up your book at the event during check-in. If you would like to coordinate in-store pick up ahead of time\, please contact events at booksmith dot com. \n  \nImportant caveats: \n>> This is a program based around Moby’s memoir Porcelain\, not a musical performance. Moby will only be signing copies of Porcelain. He will not sign any merchandise. \n>> Regarding photos: You can take photos of Moby in the signing line or during the program\, but NO posed photos or selfies with him will be allowed. \n>> Doors open at 6pm\, the program will begin at 7pm\, the signing will be held after the program. Wristbands for the signing line will be given on a first come\, first served basis upon arriving at the venue. However\, please note\, the signing could takeseveral hours to complete. Personalizations are not guaranteed. \n>> This is an 18+ show. Please bring photo ID. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Tickets are for standing room only. \n>> To inquire about a seat\, or for any other questions\, please email events at booksmith dot com before June 19th. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moby-porcelain/
LOCATION:DNA Lounge\, 375 11th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zoe Zolbrod w/ Brian Hurley
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell\, she wasn’t sure what to expect\, or what to say. In a kaleidoscopic series of experiences\, Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another\, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia\, meets and marries her husband\, and gives birth to her children. She traces the development of her sexuality\, her relationships with men\, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research\, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman’s reckoning with a past she can’t always explain\, and a life lived in search for the right words. \nZoe Zolbrod’s work has appeared in Salon\, The Nervous Breakdown\, The Weeklings\, and The Rumpus\, where she serves as the Sunday Editor. Her debut novel Currency won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston\, Illinois\, with her husband and children. \nBrian Hurley is Books Editor at The Rumpus\, Curator of the Critical Hit Awards at Electric Literature’s blog The Outlet\, and Co-Editor of Fiction Advocate. \nCopies of The Telling will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-zolbrod-w-brian-hurley/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160621T203000
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline\, Author\, The Girls \nClaire Bidwell Smith\, Grief Therapist\, mother and author of “The Rules of Inheritance” and “After This: When Life is Over\, Where Do We Go?”–Moderator \nThe Girls\, the forthcoming\, highly-anticipated debut novel by Emma Cline\, tells the story of Evie\, a young woman who gets drawn into the mysterious world of a gang of girls and quickly finds herself immersed in their world and in over her her head. \nEmma’s writing has been praised by everyone from Lena Dunham to Mark Haddon for her deeply insightful observations about girls and the women they become. Emma rose to prominence when she signed a three book deal in 2014\, at the age of 25. \nJoin INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club of California for a riveting evening with Emma. \nThis is a Good Lit event\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-emma-cline/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160620T210000
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CREATED:20160601T011846Z
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SUMMARY:Natashia Deón in Conversation w/ Kaitlin Solimine
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Natashia Deón’s debut novel\, Grace. She will be in conversation with Kaitlin Solimine\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nFor a runaway slave in the 1840s south\, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own\, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling\, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There\, amidst a revolving door of gamblers\, prostitutes\, and drunks\, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often. \nThe product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey\, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles\, Josey has never known her mother\, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come. \nDeftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping\, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom\, love\, and motherhood\, told in a dazzling and original voice set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natashia-deon-in-conversation-w-kaitlin-solimine/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reek bell + Jai Arun Ravine
DESCRIPTION:Come see Reek bell and Jai Arun Ravine at our June 20th Cantíl reading! Entry is FREE and open to the public. Donations welcome. Qilombo is wheelchair accessible. \nJai Arun Ravine is a writer\, dancer and graphic designer currently living in Philadelphia. As a mixed race\, mixed gender and mixed genre artist\, their work arises from the simultaneity of text and body and takes the form of video\, performance\, comics and handmade books. Jai’s first full-length book\, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS\, POEMS\, KNOTS\, re-imagines immigration history and attempts to transform cultural inheritances of silence. Their short film TOM/TRANS/THAI approaches the silence around female-to-male (FTM) transgender identity in the Thai context and has screened internationally. THE ROMANCE OF SIAM (Timeless\, Infinite Light) is their second book. jaiarunravine.com \nReek bell is a queer mixed-media artist based in Oakland\, from South Jersey. Her work reflects experiences within blackness\, resistance\, friendship\, and exhaustion. A poet since third grade\, she embraces melancholy\, values intimacy\, magic\, and militancy. twitter.com/reekokay \nCantíl is a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about Cantíl\nhere: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reek-bell-jai-arun-ravine/
LOCATION:Qilombo\, 2313 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160619T213000
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CREATED:20160601T011417Z
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SUMMARY:LUNADA Summer Solstice Season Closer
DESCRIPTION:featuring Denise Benavides and Trey Amos \nOpen Mic Sign up: 7:15pm / 8-10 spots on the list / 5 min. ea. \nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-summer-solstice-season-closer/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160617T210000
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SUMMARY:Joe Clifford Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Downtown hosts the launch party for December Boys – a new thriller by local author Joe Clifford  \nJay Porter\, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire\, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse\, Jay meets Nicki\, a young college intern\, who tips him off to a possible scandal – first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks. He learns that long-time family nemeses\, Adam and Michael Lombardi\, may have a stake in the scheme. Is Jay’s mission to help these kids a legitimate crusade? Or is his thirst for revenge driven by the guilt he feels over his own junkie brother’s death? These questions conspire to tear apart tranquility and drive a wedge between Jay and his wife Jenny. With help from new friend Nicki\, and a couple of old friends\, Jay finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind\, putting everything – and everyone he loves – at risk in pursuit of the truth. \nJoe Clifford is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. He also produces Lip Service West\, a “gritty\, real\, raw” reading series in Oakland\, CA. Joe is the author of three books: Choice Cuts\, Wake the Undertaker\, and Junkie Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-clifford-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Bloom: Reading #50
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nMembers of MIXED WRITES\, a group of mixed race women writers\, will honor Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice—the most light-filled day of the year\, by reading work on the theme of fathers and inner light. \nWe will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom\, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele\, Maria T. Allocco\, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams). \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nMARIA T. ALLOCCO is a South Korean and Italian Voices of Our Nation alum and was an Academy of American Poets Prize winner by age twenty. Her pieces have been featured on KPFA andMutiny Radio\, and performed for SOMArts\, LitQuake\, Kearny Street Workshop\, The Intersection For The Arts\, and The San Francisco International Arts Festival. Her work has been published inThe Lantern Review\, Fusion Magazine\, Monday Night\, Sparkle and Blink\, and in the new book Pariahs: Writing From Outside The Margins. She’s a co-founder of the bay area’s first mixed race meditation group\, and teaches yoga to ‘at-risk’ youth. Find her at: writetoheal.us \nJACKIE GRAVES believes in the transformative power of words. She is currently working on a memoir of healing that celebrates family\, spirituality\, and sisterhood. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including residencies at the Julia and David White Artist Colony\, Jentel Artist Residence Program\, Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, and Soapstone\, a Writing Retreat for Women. She received theCity of Oakland Spoken Word Fellowship\, the Ardella Mills Prize for Fiction\, and was a finalist in the Poets & Writers California Voices Contest. She teaches English at Laney College. \nAUDREY T. WILLIAMS is an Oakland-based writer. She is a VONA alum\, and working towards an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at CCA. Audrey is currently writing the manuscript for “Chutney and Chitlins\,” a mixed-race family memoir that makes use of hybrid creative nonfiction using narratives and images. The book begins with stories from her African-American father as he joined thenewly integrated US Marines in the late 1950’s (possibly the first African American US Marine sent to US embassy duty in Rangoon\, Burma). In Burma\, he mets Audrey’s mother\, whose heritage is a mixture of European and South Asian ancestry (Anglo-Indian-Burmese). Her website:audreyTwilliams.com. \nABOUT THE BLOOM\nThe Bloom is a literary series featuring Bay Area writers\, where a past reader curates five readers around a theme. It’s an entertaining evening of diverse voices and personal style\, bridging narratives and communities. It was founded by Margaret Bacon\, Tara Dorabji\, and Jason Wyman in the summer of 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bloom-reading-50/
LOCATION:Mercury Cafe\, 201 Octavia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Benefit Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, June 17\, 2016 acclaimed poets Kazim Ali\, Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman\, Cathy Park Hong\, Patricia Spears Jones\, and Sharon Olds will read from their poetry in the First Congregational Church of Berkeley in the Bay Area. \nAt this gathering of the tribe\, all staff poets from this year’s Community of Writers Summer Poetry Workshop in Squaw Valley will raise money for the Poetry Programs financial aid and scholarships. Books by the poets will be available for purchase and signing. \nFor more information\, call  (530) 470-8440 or email info@communityofwriters.org. \nTickets are $25 advance/$30 at the door for general admission and $15 advance/$20 at the door for students (with current student ID). Group discounts are available in advance for $20. \nDirections \nThe venue is located on the south side of the UC Berkeley campus and just one block below (west) of historic Telegraph Avenue. \nPublic Transportation\nYou can reach the venue by a number of public transit options. They are about 6 blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART Station. You can check their website for the schedule of BART trains that serve this area. \nA number of AC Transit bus routes pass close to the doors (click on the links for route maps: 1\, 51B\, 49\, 52\, 851\, and F. These routes would take you to the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Channing Way which is about three blocks west of the church: 18\, 800. \nParking \nThere is a parking lot behind the church with limited spaces available. It can be entered from the Channing Street side of the building. Otherwise street parking is nearby\, and there are several lots in downtown Berkeley a short walk away. \nSponsor \nThis Event is Underwritten by Deborah Dashow Ruth  Deborah is a poet\, playwright\, alum and long-time supporter of the Community of Writers. She is sponsoring the event to help poets who\, without the financial aid this even provides\, would be unable to attend the summer program. \nGet Involved! \nBecome a Sponsor or Give to the Poetry Scholarship Fund \nWe are looking for volunteers! We need help with: \nPromoting the event during the months of April and May.\nCrowd-wrangling on the evening of June 17.\nSelling Books at the event. \nIf you are interested in helping (and in a free ticket to the event)\, please contact us: info@communityofwriters.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-of-writers-at-squaw-valley-benefit-reading/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Negin Farsad: How To Make White People Laugh
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Malihe Razazan \nadvance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006  or Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moes\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Diesel a Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloways   S.F. – Modern Times. $15 door\, KPFA benefit   kpfa.org/events \nHow To Make White People Laugh is the first book by the writer\, director and star of\nthe hit documentary The Muslims Are Coming! Her autobiographical essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post 9/11 world  reveal the power of comedy to combat racism.  In this candid\, often hilarious book\, Farsad reveals her personal experience being the other in a contemporary American culture that often fears\nanything deemed foreign. She confides a youthful longing to be African-American or Mexican at various points. \nWriting bluntly about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss\, Farsad takes a long and clarifying look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of Black or White or Muslim  and what  happens when white culture defines everything. She explores what it means to have a hyphenated identity. She discusses how we can effectively combat racism\, stereotyping\, and exclusion. Her particular genius is in openly confronting these issues with wit\, humor\, and incisive intellect. \nBorn in Connecticut\, Negin Farsad was raised in Southern California. Aspiring for a career in politics\, she attended Cornell University in New York\, majoring in government as well as theater arts\, until she realized that her deeper passion was for writing and performing. On graduating\, she settled in New York City and attended Columbias School of International and Public Affairs\, where she earned two masters degrees. Evenings she spent writing and performing comedy. In 2011 she was named by the Huffington Post one of the 50 Funniest Women.  Her comedic routines often featured frank\, sharp-witted views on politics\, sex and the culltural dynamics of navigating her Iranian family. In 2013 she gave a TED Talk in social justice comedy. Her first musical\, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Her solo show Bootleg Islam  appeared in the DC\, Dallas and Chicago Comedy Festivals.  She produced\, directed and performed on MTV and Comedy Central and was a regular contributor to The Young Turks television show. Her films include: The Muslims Are Coming\, Nerdcore Rising\, A Cricket in the Court of Akbar\, Hot Bread Kitchen\, and Iran-ing on Empty.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/negin-farsad-how-to-make-white-people-laugh/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Series #3
DESCRIPTION:Candace Eros Diaz | Louise Mathias | The Bayonettes | Kamikaze Palm Tree \nCurated by Sara Mumolo\nhttp://www.proartsgallery.org/event/hybrid-series-3/ \nPro Arts Gallery is excited to announce the third of its Hybrid Series events—blurring the traditional boundaries between artistic disciplines. \nCandace Eros Diaz is the recipient of a 2015-2016 Steinbeck Fellowship out of The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She is a former San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Fellow\, and will be a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow this summer. She is the Coordinator of Admissions and Student Services for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency and her work has appeared in MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She is currently at work on a historical creative nonfiction novel about her women ancestors. She lives in Oakland\, CA and can be found at www.candaceerosdiaz.com. \nLouise Mathias is the author of two books of poems\, Lark Apprentice\, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize\, and The Traps (Four Way Books)\, as well as a chapbook Above All Else\, the Trembling Resembles a Forest\, chosen by Martha Ronk for the Burnside Review Chapbook competition. Raised in England and Los Angeles\, for the last seven years she has lived in Joshua Tree\, California\, where she drives around the Mojave taking photos and writing poems about wildflowers\, desolation\, sex and trash. \nThe Bayonettes are a raw rock trio from the Bay Area. Check out their magic HERE: https://thebayonettes.bandcamp.com/ \nKamikaze Palm Tree is a two-person art experiment from Oakland. Check out their sound HERE: https://kamikazepalmtree.bandcamp.com/ \n*This event is made possible with matching grant by Poets & Writers\, Inc.\nBeverage sponsor: Ordinaire Wine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hybrid-series-3/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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