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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Familiar
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on April 11\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a familiarly spectacular night of readings as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Familiar.” \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nJasmin Darznik is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her debut novel Song of a Captive Bird (Ballantine Books\, 2018) is a fictional account of Iran’s trailblazing woman poet\, Forugh Farrokhzad. jasmine-darznik.com \n  \nYalitza Ferreras is a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories 2016\, various journals\, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press\, 2014) and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women (University of Georgia Press\, 2016). www.yalitza.com \n  \nChristina Hoag was a foreign correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade\, writing for Time\, Business Week\, New York Times\, among many others. She is the author of the noir crime novel Skin of Tattoos (Martin Brown Publishing\, 2016) and Girl on the Brink (Fire and Ice YA\, 2016). She also writes nonfiction\, co-authoring Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence (Turner Publishing\, 2014). \n  \nMiah Jeffra is author of the collections The First Church of What’s Happening (Nomadic Press 2017) and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! (forthcoming Sibling Rivalry Press 2019). Recent publications include The North American Review\, Fourteen Hills Review\, and The Nervous Breakdown. He is founding editor of queer literary collaborative\, Foglifter Press. miahjeffra.com \n  \nKimberly Kruge is a poet and translator based in central Mexico. She is the author of Ordinary Chaos (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, 2019) and High-Land Sub-Tropic (Center for Book Arts\, 2017; translation: Impronta Press\, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, The Iowa Review\, The Missouri Review\, and many other publications. She works to bring poetry in English and Spanish to new readers through translation and the organization of collaborative projects between writers from different countries. kimberlykruge.com \n  \nRolf Yngve’s first collection Dog Watches was recently published in December 2018 by Saddle Road Press. He first published short stories in the 1970’s when his work appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Short Stories. After retiring from thirty-five years in the US Navy\, he returned to the arts with publication in a number of journals including prize stories published in Indiana Review\, Glimmer Train\, Bosque Journal\, and others. www.rolfyngve.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)(3) non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-familiar/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dave Barry
DESCRIPTION:After Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry turned 70\, did he look to his friends for support? Did he find solace in the family around him? \nNot a chance. \nIn his new book\, Lessons from Lucy\, the laugh-out-loud columnist that the New York Times once called “the funniest man in America\,” looked to his dog Lucy for companionship and a model for how to grow old with grace. \nFrom his beloved dog\, Dave learns to live in the present\, let go of daily grievances\, and feel good in his own skin. Told with Dave’s signature humor and profound ability to find deep meaning in the everyday\, Lessons from Lucy illuminates the great joys of passing 40 and still feeling great. \nShare an evening with the writer who never fails to leave us looking at the world differently while making us laugh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-barry/
LOCATION:Aragon High School Theater\, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas\, San Mataeo\, CA\, 94402
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich
DESCRIPTION:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich\n\nGreen Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMarian Schwartz joins Sabrina Jaszi to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translations of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands and Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die. \nHorsemen of the Sands (Archipelago Books) contains two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: The Storm\, which takes place in a Soviet elementary school\, and Horsemen of the Sands\, a mystical tale about the real-life warlord R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, who fought both the Chinese and the Bolsheviks for control of Mongolia during the Russian Civil War\, which lasted six years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. \nIn The Storm\, a bombastic teacher lectures his young students on traffic accidents and family separation\, unwittingly stirring an emotional crisis. A lost wallet\, an office fling\, an upset stomach—the minutiae of life unveil the private tragedies at the heart of a school community. \nHorsemen of the Sands takes place a world away. An old herdsman entrances a young tank commander with the legend of Baron Ungern\, the real-life White Russian officer who conquered Mongolia. A foggy epic unfolds\, a tale of faith and revenge centering on a mysterious amulet\, said to make the wearer invincible. From the dim of the classroom to the vast Mongolian steppe\, Leonid Yuzefovich’s masterful novellas The Storm and Horsemen of the Sands drill straight to the core of human emotion. These Russian parables illuminate the fears\, passions\, and ambitions beneath the grandest acts and the tiniest gestures. \nOlga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die (Columbia University Press) tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.In the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. \nAfter her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well—to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translating-contemporary-russian-literature-marian-schwartz-on-olga-slavnikova-and-leonid-yuzefovich/
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:Translator Marian Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:  \nMarian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. \n\nAbout The Man Who Couldn’t Die \nIn the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him–and his pension–alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life–and the means and meaning of their own lives–by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.After her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well–to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \nAbout Horsemen of the Sands \nHorsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: “Horsemen of the Sands” and “The Storm.” The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, also known as the “Mad Baltic Baron\,” a military adventurer whose intense fascination with the East drove him to seize control of Mongolia during the chaos of the Russian Civil War. “The Storm” centers on an unexpected emotional crisis that grips a Russian elementary school on an otherwise regular day\, unveiling the vexed emotional bonds and shared history that knit together its community of students\, teachers\, parents\, and staff. \nAbout Marian Schwartz \nMarian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction\, history\, biography\, criticism\, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times’ bestseller The Last Tsar\, by Edvard Radzinsky\, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov\, Ivan Goncharov\, Yuri Olesha\, and Mikhail Lermontov\, and Leo Tolstoy. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Best Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translator-marian-schwartz/
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:MICHAEL LEWIS
DESCRIPTION:MICHAEL LEWIS\nAgainst The Rules\nIn Conversation with Jacob Weisberg\nThursday\, April 11\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJournalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Moneyball\, The Big Short\, Flashboys) talks to Jacob Weisberg about his new podcast\, AGAINST THE RULES\, where he explores the corrosion of fairness in courts of law\, Wall Street\, sports\, and the art world—to understand what it has done to our society\, mostly without our noticing. The seven-episode season takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (they’re in New Jersey). He speaks with a US Senator and the coach of the Golden State Warriors; the architect of the 9/11 settlement fund and a man who got rich off the 2008 financial crisis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Feliz Lucia Molina and Alli Warren at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series continues in April with a double program featuring Feliz Lucia Molina\, here from Chicago\, along with the Bay Area’s Alli Warren. Friday April 12\, they will each read their own work at The Green Arcade in San Francisco. (The prior night\, Thursday April 11\, Feliz is reading then joining Alli and the audience in conversation\, at The Poetry Center.) Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public.\n\nFeliz’ latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California\, Crystal Marys is a field study of social-media fatigue\, suburban youth\, Filipino immigrancy\, a denim day job in LA’s garment district\, and other sites of crystallized dis/enchantment. Molina traces life’s “beautiful unreliable narrative logic” by the devotional images of our times-the Virgin Mary\, emoji\, family photos\, profile pics\, etc. \n\nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-feliz-lucia-molina-and-alli-warren-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center at SF State Presents:  Feliz Lucia Molina
DESCRIPTION:Feliz’ latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California\, Crystal Marys is a field study of social-media fatigue\, suburban youth\, Filipino immigrancy\, a denim day job in LA’s garment district\, and other sites of crystallized dis/enchantment. Molina traces life’s “beautiful unreliable narrative logic” by the devotional images of our times-the Virgin Mary\, emoji\, family photos\, profile pics\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-at-sf-state-presents-feliz-lucia-molina/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Show Me as I Want to be Seen with Porchlight Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of storytelling presented in collaboration with Contemporary Jewish Museum and San Francisco’s storytelling series\, Porchlight. Each storyteller is sharing a personal story inspired by the CJM exhibition Show Me as I Want to be Seen. \nTaking the work of French Jewish artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894–1954) along with her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892–1972) as its starting point\, Show Me as I Want to Be Seen examines the complex and empowered representation of a fluid identity. Claude (born Lucy Schwob) and Marcel (born Suzanne Malherbe) are recognized as pioneers in their bold representations of an unfixed self. \nThis exhibition positions their work in dialogue with ten contemporary artists whose artworks—in mediums ranging from painting and sculpture to video and 3-D mapping—also address the opaque\, constructed\, and shifting self. The contemporary artists in the exhibition are Nicole Eisenman\, Rhonda Holberton\, Hiwa K\, Young Joon Kwak\, Zanele Muholi\, Toyin Ojih Odutola\, Gabby Rosenberg\, Tschabalala Self\, Davina Semo\, and Isabel Yellin. Show Me as I Want to Be Seen is on display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum from February 7 to July 7\, 2019. \nExperience live storytelling exploring our understanding of self and the fluidity of identity. \nShown here: Tschabalala Self\, Perched\, 2016. Oil\, acrylic\, flashe\, handmade paper\, fabric\, and found material. Courtesy of the artist and Kate Werble Gallery\, New York. Photo: Elizabeth Bernstein.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-me-as-i-want-to-be-seen-with-porchlight-storytelling/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell in Conversation with Yael Goldstein Love
DESCRIPTION:discussing Serpell’s new novel The Old Drift\, an electrifying debut that has already garnered three starred advance reviews and accolades from multiple writers. \n“Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical\, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place\, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s\, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined\, brilliantly constructed\, and staggering in its scope\, this is an astonishing novel.”–Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 12\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the UC Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing. \nYael Goldstein Love is co-fouder and Editorial Director of the digital literary studio Plympton. She is also the author of the novels Overture and The Passion of Tasha Darsky\, which are actually the same novel. She is currently completing her second novel\, set during the Haitian Revolution. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-yael-goldstein-love/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli\nWhy do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric\, accessible prose\, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. \nFor most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time\, but the more scientists learn about it\, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal\, moving steadily from past to future\, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one\, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy\, science and literature\, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective\, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. \nAlready a bestseller in Italy\, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing\, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent\, culturally rich\, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Literary Discussions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Fire\, Rain\, Darkness: Three New Books from Sixteen Rivers Press
DESCRIPTION:Fire\, Rain\, Darkness: Three New Books from Sixteen Rivers Press\n\nApril 13 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nCAMILLE NORTON\, BARBARA SWIFT BAUER & MAYA KHOSLA\nBook Signing\, Meet the poets\,\nHear their new works.\nDoors 6:30 p.m.\, Reading 7:00 p.m.\nThree new Sixteen Rivers Press poets are pleased to present their works at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. Their books are A Folio for the Dark by Camille Norton (winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series for Corruption\, published by Harper Perennial in 2005)\, Rain\, Like a Thief\, by Barbara Swift Brauer (author of At Ease in the Borrowed World) and All the Fires of Wind and Light\, by Maya Khosla (winner of the 2003 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize for Keel Bone\, published by Bear Star in 2003). \n  \nPrice: $10.00 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fire-rain-darkness-three-new-books-from-sixteen-rivers-press/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Elaine C. Brown & Kelliane Parker at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event featuring poets\nKelliane Parker & Elaine C. Brown (AKA Poet E. Spoken)\nwith open mic\nHosted by Linda Zeiser\n$7 – $10 Admission includes raffle ticket for 1 of 8 copies of Julia’s book DETOURS\n6:30 – 7:30 Potluck: bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser. To reserve open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, well in advance. \nElaine C. Brown aka Poet E. Spoken is the co-host of My Word Open at Café Leila in Berkeley. Poet E. Spoken has featured and performed at open mics across the country\, combining free style poetry with history to get people not only to understand what’s going on in this world but motivate them to change mindsets. \nKelliane Parker is a queer Latinx poet. She co-hosts My Word Open Mic. She has featured throughout the Bay Area. Her work has been published in several anthologies and featured in an art and poetry collaboration\, “Have You Heard Us Yet?” She is an activist\, giving voices to survivors of sexual assault and dissociative disorders.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-c-brown-kelliane-parker-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linda Zeiser":MAILTO:ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T160000
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SUMMARY:Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California contributors read
DESCRIPTION:Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose poems make up “Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California” (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2018). http://www.scarlettanager.com/ “Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan\, is not only a beautiful and thorough anthology but an homage to California\, its varieties of landscapes\, and the amazing poetry it has evoked. Like no other collection in its focus\, it presents for the reader experiences of life and personal perspectives on the region while also providing an invaluable resource for teachers of creative writing and literature and the ecology\, habitats\, and species of the state.” — Pattiann Rogers\, recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry http://www.scarlettanager.com/fire-and-rain.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fire-rain-ecopoetry-of-california-contributors-read/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T170000
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Ron Campbell\, Grace Grafton\, and Sarah Haba\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190414T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T040502
CREATED:20190227T021501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T021501Z
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190414T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190414T173000
DTSTAMP:20260408T040502
CREATED:20190409T030011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T125613Z
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SUMMARY:LOTERIA READING SERIES No. 1: La Luna\, La Arãna\, La Estrella
DESCRIPTION:LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 1: La Arãna\, La Luna\, La Estrella \nAn afternoon reading with \nRaina J. León \nThea Matthews \nMK Chavez \nSunday\, April 14th\, 2019 \nDoors: 4PM \nProgram: 4:30PM \nFree Entry \nInstitute Of advanced Uncertainty \n@ McRoskey 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT \n1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loteria-reading-series-no-1-la-luna-la-arana-la-estrella/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty\, P.O. Box 460908\, San Francisco\, 94146
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Institute Of advanced Uncertainty":MAILTO:advanceduncertainty@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190415T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T040502
CREATED:20190409T063007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T063007Z
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SUMMARY:New Poetry & 100 Years of Ferlinghetti at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:Shauna Hannibal\, Fernando Martí\, and Zack Rogow\, three poets with new collections\, read from their work and from the work of Lawrence Ferlinghetti at “New Poetry & 100 Years of Ferlinghetti\,” the Odd Mondays for April 15. Celebrate National Poetry Month and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s first century at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. 7pm start. Free admission and free refreshments–including birthday cake! \nHere’s more about the poets who are reading:\nShauna Hannibal is the author of Hannibal (Forklift Books\, 2017)\, her debut collection of poetry which Laura Kasischke has called “a wildly important and game-changing book by a poet whose sensibility brings us\, through poetry\, an entirely new way of seeing the world\, ourselves in it\, and the art of the poem.” She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson. She lives in San Francisco near Golden Gate Park and is working on her 2nd book while training to become a massage therapist. \nFernando Martí is a poet\, story-writer\, printmaker\, architect\, and housing activist. Originally from Ecuador\, he has been deeply involved in San Francisco’s struggles for affordable housing\, community land and climate justice since the mid-90s. His work reflects his formal training in urbanism\, his roots in rural Ecuador\, and his current residence in the heart of Empire. His poetry and prints inhabit the space between ancestral traditions of place and utopian construction in the age of catastrophic climate change. His artwork can be seen regularly on justseeds.org\, and his writing has appeared in publications as varied as El Tecolote\,Left Turn and Shelterforce\, as well as a ‘zine called Amor y Lucha. \nZack Rogow is the author\, editor\, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His poetry collections include Irreverent Litanies; as well as The Number Before Infinity\, and Talking with the Radio. His coauthored play Colette Uncensored had a staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC\, and ran in London and San Francisco. Rogow’s blog\, Advice for Writers\, has more than 200 posts. He serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. www.zackrogow.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-poetry-100-years-of-ferlinghetti-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-25/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190415T210000
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CREATED:20190227T033821Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Ronald Sauer & Agnetta Falk followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Ronald Sauer & Agnetta Falk followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-ronald-sauer-agnetta-falk-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group -- In the Midst of Winter
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 15th\n7:00pm\n\nEast Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende\, on Monday April 15th at 7pm. \nAn instant New York Times bestseller\, In the Midst of Winter is about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People). \nDuring the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory\, Richard Bowmaster\, a lonely university professor in his sixties\, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega\, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala\, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house\, seeking help. At a loss\, the professor asks his tenant\, Lucia Maraz\, a fellow academic from Chile\, for her advice. \nAs these three lives intertwine\, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed\, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected\, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice\, the art of survival\, and the essential nature of—and our need for—love. \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, April 15\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-in-the-midst-of-winter/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Herbert Marcuse:Philosopher of Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Apr 15\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nHerbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a little-known German scholar when he became one of the 20th century’s most unlikely pop stars: a celebrity philosopher. In the 1960s\, his argument for a “principled utopianism” catalyzed the ideals of a rebellious generation\, and Marcuse became an intellectual guide for activists and revolutionaries around the world. The legacy of his contribution to a radical shift of consciousness has resonated in social-change movements ever since. \nThis comics-format biography brings Marcuse’s life\, work\, and times to a new generation. From his youth in Weimar Germany and early studies with Martin Heidegger\, to his emigration from Nazi Germany along with colleagues of the Frankfurt School\, to his rise as one of its major theorists along with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin\, to his status as a countercultural icon\, readers are introduced to the theories and circumstances that made Marcuse into one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. \nMentor to a young Angela Davis and often referred to as the unofficial faculty advisor to the New Left\, Marcuse’s controversial critique of the “comfortable unfreedoms” of post-WWII capitalism entered popular consciousness with the 1964 publication of One-Dimensional Man\, which sold over 100\,000 copies in its first years in print. His argument for the possibility of a more humane and sustainable world was grounded in a personal knowledge of the violence of authoritarianism\, and the risk of its resurgence. Perennially relevant\, radical\, and inspiring\, Marcuse’s concept of the Great Refusal —”the protest against that which is”—is a guide for our times. \nPRAISE \n“Nick Thorkelson’s exploration of the ideas and personality of Herbert Marcuse is exactly the sort of comic book I have longed to read. It is engaging\, artful\, and explores the world of revolutionary ideas. Books like this keep the fire going inside.”––Joe Sacco \n“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Y. Davis\, from the foreword \n“Thorkelson’s graphic life of Herbert Marcuse is a riotous romp through 20th-century philosophy. The story of a man who exists at the eye of storm of ideas\, of movements and of social strategies. With workers and students on the streets of Paris once more\, Marcuse’s life and work has never been more relevant.”––Kate Evans\, author of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nNick Thorkelson is a cartoonist living in Boston. He has done cartoons on local politics for The Boston Globe and in support of organizations working on economic justice\, peace\, and public health. He is the co-author and/or illustrator of The Earth Belongs to the People\, The Underhanded History of the USA\, The Legal Rights of Union Stewards\, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism\, and Economic Meltdown Funnies\, and has contributed to a number of nonfiction comics anthologies. He is working on a graphic novel about the end of the Sixties\, A Better World Is Possible. Nick also moonlights as a musician\, animator\, graphic designer\, and painter. \nAndrew T. Lamas teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania\, is co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Temple University Press\, 2017)\, and serves on the boards of the International Herbert Marcuse Society\, the Radical Philosophy Review\, and the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/herbert-marcusephilosopher-of-utopia/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T200000
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SUMMARY:The Effect of Tech on San Francisco with Cary McClelland and Kim-Mai Cutler
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists\, and known as the birthplace of the Beats and the LGBTQ movement\, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. \nThe richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes\, and cracks in the city’s facade–rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions–have started to show. \nWho has been displaced? How has San Francisco become the City emplematic of wealth disparity? What are the intersections between racism\, gentrification\, wealth creation\, and politics amongst all of these changes. \nHere to be in conversation are Cary Mclelland\, who wrote the book Silicon City to investigate how the growth of the digital economy has affected San Francisco and journalist Kim-Mai Cutler. \n\nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-effect-of-tech-on-san-francisco-with-cary-mcclelland-and-kim-mai-cutler/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190416T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T040502
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SUMMARY:Erica Jong and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:Kanbar Auditorium\, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center\n200 N San Pedro Rd\, San Rafael \nThis special event is cosponsored by the Marin JCC and Red Hen Press. \n \nFear of Flying\, Erica Jong’s first and most famous novel\, published in 1973\, blew conventional thinking about women\, marriage and sexuality out of the water\, selling over 37 million copies and translated into over 45 languages including Chinese and Arabic. Her novel articulated what women thought but which\, through decades of silent complicity with the status quo\, was never voiced. \nIn the four decades since Fear of Flying\, she has published over 25 books in 45 languages\, including 9 works of fiction as well as celebrated non-fiction volumes. She has switched between fiction\, non-fiction and poetry\, becoming one of the most evocative poets of her generation with seven published volumes\, and winning Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize.  Her awards include: The Fernanda Pivano award The Sigmund Freud Award\, the Deauville Award and The United Nations Award for excellence in literature. \nThis reading celebrates her new book of poetry\, The World Began with Yes\, from Red Hen Press. In a dark time\, these poems celebrate life. \nFrancesca Bell’s poems appear in many magazines including B O D Y\, burntdistrict\, ELLE\, Flycatcher\, New Ohio Review\, North American Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Prairie Schooner\, Rattle\, Spillway\, Tar River Poetry\, and Zone 3. She has been nominated ten times for the Pushcart Prize and won the 2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle. Her translations\, from Arabic and German\, appear in Berkeley Poetry Review\, Blue Lyra Review\, Circumference | Poetry in Translation\, Four by Two\, Laghoo\, and The Massachusetts Review. She co-translated Shatha Abu Hnaish’s book of poems\, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat\, 2017)\, and Red Hen Press will publish her first collection\, Bright Stain\, in 2019. She is the events coordinator for the Marin Poetry Center and the former poetry editor of River Styx.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-jong-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:The Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, 94903
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190416T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T210000
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SUMMARY:Philosopher of Utopia: Celebrating the New Graphic Biography of Herbert Marcuse
DESCRIPTION:Nick Thorkelson\, Andrew T. Lamas\, and a special guest TBD \ndiscussing the new book \nHerbert Marcuse\, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography \nby Nick Thorkelson\, edited by Paul Buhle and Andrew T. Lamas\, with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis & published by City Lights Books \nThis comics-format biography brings Marcuse’s life\, work\, and times to a new generation. From his youth in Weimar Germany and early studies with Martin Heidegger\, to his emigration from Nazi Germany along with colleagues of the Frankfurt School\, to his rise as one of its major theorists along with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin\, to his status as a countercultural icon\, readers are introduced to the theories and circumstances that made Marcuse into one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. \nMentor to a young Angela Davis and often referred to as the unofficial faculty advisor to the New Left\, Marcuse’s controversial critique of the “comfortable unfreedoms” of post-WWII capitalism entered popular consciousness with the 1964 publication of One-Dimensional Man\, which sold over 100\,000 copies in its first years in print. His argument for the possibility of a more humane and sustainable world was grounded in a personal knowledge of the violence of authoritarianism\, and the risk of its resurgence. Perennially relevant\, radical\, and inspiring\, Marcuse’s concept of the Great Refusal —”the protest against that which is”—is a guide for our times. \n“Nick Thorkelson’s exploration of the ideas and personality of Herbert Marcuse is exactly the sort of comic book I have longed to read. It is engaging\, artful\, and explores the world of revolutionary ideas. Books like this keep the fire going inside.”––Joe Sacco \n“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Y. Davis\, from the foreword \nNick Thorkelson is a cartoonist living in Boston. He has done cartoons on local politics for The Boston Globe and in support of organizations working on economic justice\, peace\, and public health. He is the co-author and/or illustrator of The Earth Belongs to the People\, The Underhanded History of the USA\, The Legal Rights of Union Stewards\, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism\, and Economic Meltdown Funnies\, and has contributed to a number of nonfiction comics anthologies. He is working on a graphic novel about the end of the Sixties\, A Better World Is Possible. Nick also moonlights as a musician\, animator\, graphic designer\, and painter. \nAndrew T. Lamas teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania\, is co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Temple University Press\, 2017)\, and serves on the boards of the International Herbert Marcuse Society\, the Radical Philosophy Review\, and the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/philosopher-of-utopia-celebrating-the-new-graphic-biography-of-herbert-marcuse/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Richtel\, An Elegant Defense
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, APRIL 16\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 14th. \nThe immune system impacts every aspect of our lives\, including sleep\, mood\, fitness\, nutrition\, brain function and aging\, and is the ultimate key to wellness and longevity. And yet\, it is widely misunderstood. Many people operate under the misconception that they can “boost” their immune system to stay healthy. The truth is the immune system is an incredibly intricate balance within the body (its complexity rivals that of the human brain). The more we understand about how this “elegant defense” operates\, the more we can improve our lives. \nMagnificently reported and soulfully crafted\, An Elegant Defense is the first major narrative exploration of the immune system. Through science and storytelling\, Richtel describes the remarkable discovery of the immune system over the last seventy years and explains in vivid detail how this complex system works\, how we interact with it\, and the risks we inflict on ourselves when we meddle with its natural balance. \nRichtel brings the science to life through the stories of four intimate and extraordinary medical stories: a cancer patient risen from the grave\, an HIV patient considered a medical marvel\, and two “invisible” women who suffer the stark injustice of autoimmunity. The story of Jason Greenstein\, a close friend of the author\, is particularly poignant as Richtel recounts Jason’s fight with cancer and astounding reaction to experimental treatment. \nThroughout the narrative\, Richtel accessibly weaves leading-edge scientific discovery through interviews and anecdotes from dozens of the world’s leading scientists. The breadth of his research and reporting is remarkable\, including insight into the work of immunologist James Allison\, who just this month won the Nobel Prize for his work disrupting the communication between cells and the immune system to “trick” cancer. The strides made by the immunologists in the book offer a glimpse at a future of longer\, more comfortable life and of authentic understanding of the forces that drive survival. \nBut Richtel argues that the most powerful first-line of health lies within each of us: our behavior\, our attitudes\, and the choices we make. Whether common knowledge or counterintuitive advice\, An Elegant Defense will enlighten readers about how every facet of life connects to the immune system. Richtel explores fascinating questions – from why boosting your immune system is a myth to what’s behind the explosion of autoimmune disorders in recent decades (a concern for 50 million Americans). \nAmong the thought-provoking topics Richtel explores in the book: \n\n\nWhy you should avoid using antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers \n\n\nThe close connection between mental health and the immune system \n\n\nWhy women are more likely to get sick than men \n\n\nThe impact of obesity and modern diets on the immune system and gut health \n\n\nWhy parents shouldn’t freak out when kids eat dirt or pick their noses \n\n\nWhy Amish people have fewer allergies than the rest of the population \n\n\nThe frontline of cancer treatments\, and whether immunotherapy is the wonder fix some have promised \n\n\nAre there “superviruses” that may be resistant to drugs and spread like wildfire across the globe? \n\n\nHow modern life and our “always on” culture puts unprecedented stress on the very system that keeps us healthy \n\n\n  \nRichtel also reflects on a striking paradox: immunology\, once a backwater science and now arguably the center of modern medicine\, has given us two profound gifts. One is a trove of medicine so powerful it can revive a cancer patient from their deathbed\, reverse a deadly autoimmune disorder\, and tinker with our immune systems at the deepest\, molecular level.  But the second gift is a little-grasped lesson that these tools are desperate\, last-line measures. Eventually\, death comes for us all\, and Richtel explains why our immune system is complicit in this inevitability from the day we’re born. \nPerfect for readers of popular science and books like The Emperor of All Maladies and I Contain Multitudes\, An Elegant Defense will illuminate truths about the literal bodyguard within us all.  I hope you’ll take a close look at this advance copy and consider a review or other coverage in the spring.  And please let me know if you’d like additional review copies or more information. \nMATT RICHTEL is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles he expanded into his first nonfiction book\, A Deadly Wandering (2014)\, an investigation of a fatal distracted-driving crash\, about which the New York Times Book Review hailed\, “It deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high-school curriculums.” A New York Times bestseller\, A Deadly Wandering was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Christian Science Monitor\, Kirkus Reviews\, Winnipeg Free Press\, and Amazon.com. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air\, PBS NewsHour\, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco\, California. Visit him online at www.mattrichtel.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-richtel-an-elegant-defense/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Literary Cafe presents: An Evening with Erica Jong
DESCRIPTION:Erica Jong\, author of the acclaimed Fear of Flying\, reads selections from her new book of poetry\, The World Began with Yes (Red Hen Press). In a dark time\, poems celebrate life. The evening will include a poetry reading by Francesca Bell\, audience Q&A\, and book signings. \nFear of Flying\, Erica Jong’s first and most famous novel\, published in 1973\, blew conventional thinking about women\, marriage and sexuality out of the water\, selling over 37 million copies and translated into over 45 languages including Chinese and Arabic. Her novel articulated what women thought but which\, through decades of silent complicity with the status quo\, was never voiced. \nIn the four decades since Fear of Flying\, she has published over 25 books in 45 languages\, including 9 works of fiction as well as celebrated non-fiction volumes such as What Do Women Want?\, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Live\, an anthology on – well\, sex – called Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex\, that she edited\, and in 2012\, a Kindle Single\, A Letter to the President\, which bravely takes on the issues facing American women today. She has switched between fiction\, non-fiction and poetry\, becoming one of the most evocative poets of her generation with seven published volumes\, and winning Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize. Her awards include: The Fernanda Pivano award\, The Sigmund Freud Award\, the Deauville Award and The United Nations Award for excellence in literature. \n$8-$12. \nPresented by Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts @ The Osher Marin JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-cafe-presents-an-evening-with-erica-jong/
LOCATION:Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts\, 200 N. San Pedro Rd\, San Rafael\, 94903
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:JELANI COBB In Conversation with Hilton Als
DESCRIPTION:JELANI COBB\nIn Conversation with Hilton Als\nTuesday\, April 16\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He has also contributed essays and articles to the Washington Post\, The New Republic\, Essence\, Vibe\, The Progressive\, and TheRoot.com. Across his body of work\, Dr. Cobb regularly interrogates intersections of race\, social justice\, and American politics\, suffusing them with his characteristic incisiveness and wit. His awards include the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism\, and fellowships from the Fulbright and Ford foundations. Dr. Cobb was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Commentary\, “for combining masterful writing with a deep knowledge of history and a deft reporter’s touch to bring context and clarity to the issue of race at a time when respectful dialogue on the subject often gives way to finger-pointing and derision.”  He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War. \nHilton Als is an essayist\, author\, and has been the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker since 2012. Als received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism\, “for bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context\, particularly the shifting landscape of gender\, sexuality and race.”  He is the author of The Women\, and White Girls\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Non-fiction. His writing\, regardless of form\, explores race\, sexuality\, class\, art\, and American identity provocatively\, exploding the boundaries of the genre in which it is contained.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jelani-cobb-in-conversation-with-hilton-als/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:Lori Gottlieb\n\n\n\n\nPresents Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist\, Her Therapist\, and Our Lives Revealed. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-gottlieb/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:APRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMui Poopoksakul\n\n\nMui Poopoksakul is a lawyer turned translator with a special interest in contemporary Thai literature. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon’s The Sad Part Was and Moving Parts\, both from Tilted Axis Press. She is translating a novel and a story collection by Duanwad Pimwana\, both forthcoming in 2019 from Two Lines Press and Feminist Press\, respectively. A native of Bangkok who spent two decades in the U.S.\, she now lives in Berlin\, Germany.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nSaskia Vogel\n\n\nSaskia Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city\, Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Her debut novel Permission will be published in five languages in spring 2019. It’s being adapted for television. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team that organizes Viva Erotica\, an annual film festival in Helsinki that explores the art\, history\, and culture of sex on film.\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOKS & JOURNALS\nABOUT\nEDUCATION\nBLOG
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bright-mui-poopoksakul-in-conversation-with-saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell discusses her new book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. \nPraise for How To Do Nothing \n“Self-help for the collectively minded\, How to Do Nothing is as thoughtful and morally serious as it is fun to read. This book will change how you see the world.”—Malcolm Harris\, author of Kids These Days  \n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway \n“In a media and tech ecosystem simultaneously obsessed with “digital detox” and building personal brands\, How to Do Nothing is a breath of fresh air grounding readers in the complex\, interdependent actual ecosystems of the physical world. Jenny Odell writes with remarkable clarity and compassion. Each chapter reads like going on a fascinating walk through a park in conversation with an old friend (who happens to also be able to tell you about every single bird in the park\, which is awesome). It’s a book I already know I’ll be returning to and referencing for a long time.”—Ingrid Burrington\, author of Networks of New York    \nAbout How To Do Nothing \nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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