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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT Poetry Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Blood Flower \nAn afternoon of local poets reading from their latest publications
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-poetry-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Michael McLaughlin + Raina J. Léon
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, February 19th at 3pm featuring Michael McLaughlin and Raina J. León. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nMichael McLaughlin’s debut book of poems is Countless Cinemas. Connie Post says\, “These poems are honest and hard-hitting\, sensual and erotic…Find a quiet seat in the theatre of your mind and absorb the carefully created cinematography of each script.” He is also the author of two novels and two poetry chapbooks and the artist-in-residence at Atascadero State Hospital\, a maximum security forensic facility\, and San Luis Obispo County Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools. A former Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County\, he runs the Central Coast’s Live from the Core poetry/performance series and is the founding editor of USC’s The Southern California Poetry Anthology. \nRaina J. León’s new book of poems is sombra: (dis)locate. Tara Betts says\, “…León’s new collection…hints at the shadows within history\, languages\, sexuality\, loss\, grief\, and violence unveiled in poems that span countries\, the enigmatic specter of Josephine Baker flouting conventions of respectability and race\, and the brutalities that split peoples’ emotional cares like simple apples.” Her previous collections include Canticle of Idols and Boogeyman Dawn. She also has a 2016 chapbook\, Profeta without Refuge. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly promoting and publishing LatinX arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-w-michael-mclaughlin-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux + Lauren Levin
DESCRIPTION:Sunnylyn Thibodeaux will read to celebrate the release of her new chapbook\, What’s Going On\, along with Lauren Levin\, whose book\, The Braid\, is fresh out from Krupskaya\, at 2pm on Sunday\, February 19th at Bird & Beckett Books: 653 Chenery Street at Diamond\, in San Francisco — two blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280. Please join us! \nSunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of AS WATER SOUNDS (Bootstrap Press\, 2014) and PALM TO PINE (2011) and the forthcoming Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2017). Small books include 20/20 Yielding (Blue Press\, 2005)\, Hidden Driveways Ahead\, Room Service Calls (Lew Gallery\, 2009)\, United Untied (Private Edition\, 2008) and What’s Going On (Bird & Beckett. She co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. \nLauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) as well as several chapbooks\, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves\, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2012). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sunnylyn-thibodeaux-lauren-levin/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions: Missing You
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: MISSING YOU–an investigation of queer memory in The Mission// \nCo-sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society// \nJoin us for a night of film\, storytelling and drag\nFebruary 18\, 2017\nBrava Theatre\n$10 pre-sale/ $15 at the door\n \nGet your tickets here:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/j5hsfro \nFeaturing:\n▼ The legendary ¡VIVA 16! documentary by Augie Robles and Valentín Aguirre\n▼ Storytelling by STILL HERE\n▼ Drag performance by Persia and special guests. \nShort narrative: This event investigates queer memory in The Mission. Through storytelling\, film and drag it is meant to unearth and materialize queer ghosts that linger in The Mission and investigate the transformations of memory and place. \n▼YOUR MEMORIES CAN BE PART OF THE SHOW! ▼\nWe’re collecting memories and creating a cosmology of queer memory. Share yours here:\nhttps://goo.gl/forms/Rc1W8KZAp6eMwbwZ2 \nABOUT–\n¡VIVA 16!\nThis film celebrates the emergence of a queer Latinx community in San Francisco. Using interviews and footage shot directly in queer Latinx spaces\, Valentin Aguirre and Augie Robles premiered this short documentary (27.5 minutes) in 1994. From Esta Noche\, to La India Bonita\, to AIDS activists ¡VIVA 16! bears witness to a resilient world of queer latinidad in and around 16th Street before the onslaught of gentrification. \nSTILL HERE\nStill Here San Francisco amplifies the voices and experiences of Queer/LGBTQI people raised in San Francisco. Still Here disrupts the assumption that everyone in San Francisco is from somewhere else and exposes essential narratives about coming out\, loss\, HIV/AIDS\, class and economic disparity\, and the meaning of home and family in a “gay mecca.” By sharing their San Francisco stories\, Still Here’s artists re-imagine\, re-invent\, and re-examine San Francisco’s (queer) history and remind us that they are steadily “Still Here.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-missing-you/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Lescroart w/ K.J. Howe
DESCRIPTION:There are twenty-five elite kidnap and ransom (K&R) specialists in the world. Only one is a woman: Thea Paris. And she’s the best in the business. \nIn The Freedom Broker\, twenty years ago\, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched\, paralyzed with fear. Returned after a harrowing nine months with his captors\, Thea’s brother has never been the same. \nThis life-shattering experience drove Thea to become what she is today: a world-class freedom broker. Most hostage-recovery work is done at the negotiation table\, but when diplomacy fails\, Thea leads Quantum Security International’s black-ops team on highly sensitive rescue missions to political hot spots around the globe. \nHer childhood nightmare resurfaces when her oil magnate father\, Christos Paris\, is snatched from his yacht off Santorini on his sixtieth birthday\, days away from the biggest deal of his career. The brutal kidnappers left the entire crew slaughtered in their wake\, but strangely\, there are no ransom demands\, no political appeals\, no prisoner release requests-just obscure and foreboding texts written in Latin sent from burner phones. \nKnowing the survival window for kidnap victims is small\, Thea throws herself into the most urgent and challenging rescue mission of her life-but will she be able to prevent this kidnapping from destroying her family for good? \nK.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest\, the annual conference of International Thriller Writers. A three-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner\, she completed her MA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She is an avid traveler who has raced camels in Jordan\, surfed in Hawaii\, and dove with the great whites in South Africa. She became fascinated by the kidnap and ransom (K&R) world after meeting Peter Moore\, a British computer consultant who became the longest-held hostage in Iraq and the only person to survive of the five men who were taken that day. This is her debut novel. \n………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. \nFrom New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart\, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected\, shattering\, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. \nKate loves her life. At forty-four\, she’s happily married to her kind husband\, Ron\, blessed with two wonderful children\, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes\, however\, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another couple\, Peter and Jill. Kate and Peter only exchange a few pleasant words but that night\, in bed with her husband\, Kate is suddenly overcome with a burning desire for Peter. \nWhat begins as an innocent crush soon develops into a dangerous obsession and Kate’s fixation on Peter results in one intense\, passionate encounter between the two. Confident that her life can now go back to normal\, Kate never considers that Peter may not be so willing to move on. \nNot long after their affair\, a masked man barges into the café Kate is sitting in with her best friend\, firing an assault weapon indiscriminately into the crowd. This tragedy is the first in a series of horrifying events that will show Kate just how grave the consequences of one mistake can be. \nAn explosive story of infidelity\, danger\, and moral ambiguity\, John Lescroart’s latest thriller Fatal will excite and satisfy both his current and new fans. \nJohn Lescroart is the author of twenty-five previous novels\, including the New York Times bestsellers The Ophelia Cut\, The Keeper\, and The Fall. He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lescroart-w-k-j-howe/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk Series: Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off the Workroom Artist Program’s Artist Talk Series is poet Maw Shein Win. Maw Shein Win will talk about various collaborations she has done with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers over her career. There will be a short Q&A afterwards; however feel free to ask questions throughout the talk. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nSuggested donations of $5-25 will be taken for admission at the door\, however nobody will be turned away through lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artist-talk-series-maw-shein-win/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:From All Points But the Center Brunch Reading
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Reading Series featuring 4-6 readers & performers\nfree mini writing workshop at 11am\nreadings begin at noon\nPotluck- Bring a dish to share! \nSuggested donation of $10 NOTAFLOF \nFeaturing Terrilynn Cantlon\, Jessica Hahn\, Shara DeShara and Nicia De’Lovely \nMini Writing Workshop with Mg Roberts! \nBios:\nDeShara Darshell is a MFA Candidate at California College of the Arts where she she studies Writing and a co-founder of the Daughter’s Tongue Coalition. DeShara is a Callaloo fellow and has released two poetry video on her Youtube channel\, Supershardom. She is also published in the latest edition of the Oakland Review\, and Art Cult Zine. You can find more of her work via her Instagram under the #butimcrazy hashtag.\nIG: Supershara\nFB Page: DeShara Darshell\nYoutube Supershardom \nJessica Erica Hahn was born on a renovated WWII ship off the coast of Florida to globetrotting parents\, but spent much of her life in San Francisco\, where she lives to this day. She’s a special education teacher by trade\, a mother of three\, a spontaneous traveler\, and an avid reader. She self published a couple of books in the 1990s\, and has had shorter\, more recent pieces in Peripheral Surveys\, Prime Number\, The Tonopah Review\, Prime Mincer\, Ontologica\, Wordrunner E-Chapbooks\, Holy Cow! Press\, and more! \nCheck out our community membership option at www.oaklandliminal.com/shop/ to attend more community events at LIMINAL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/from-all-points-but-the-center-brunch-reading/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Art and VR
DESCRIPTION:ARTandVR is taking over North Beach’s HACK Temple for an immersive exhibition of virtual reality\, electronic music\, visionary speakers\, and interactive art. \nDance between projections and light displays\, take in a tea ceremony\, and learn tips on creating a utopian future in the main cathedral. Find a comfy nook to lounge in our virtual meditation circle\, create new worlds\, or explore an alternate reality. \nBridging the gap between the art and tech communities of San Francisco\, ARTandVR serves as a platform for local artists and a petri dish for future creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/art-and-vr/
LOCATION:HACK Temple\, 906 Broadway\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Five-Fingered Mitten: A Michigan-ish Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian hosts a special historic reading featuring five writers with ties to Washtenaw County\, Michigan. \nVisiting writers and current Michiganders David Kuhnlein and Addy Malinowski will be joined by local writers and ex-Michigan residents Kellie Nadler\, Yalitza Ferraras\, and Amy Berkowitz. \nAbout our writers: \nAccording to his friends David Kuhnlein’s work is “disgusting”. He coaxes unconscious material to the surface by dangling his body like a worm above the page. His recent collection of essays titled Anything but Surgery explores the relationship between sexuality\, disease\, chronic pain\, and surrender. David Kuhnlein is a writer\, filmmaker and farmer living and working in Ypsilanti\, Michigan. Some of his work can be found on his blog: cryoutinanimals.tumblr.com \nAddy Malinowski is a noise musician and poet from the Detroit area. Addy would like to think he’s investigating intersecting affective realities of addiction\, social-disease\, and memory in his work and would like to thank his friends and fellow creatures the trees\, birds\, and land-mammals for their sustained generosity & love. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the co-organizer of Sick Fest\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. In 2014\, she was the inaugural Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Writing Award; this is likely the first time she’s mentioned her MFA in a bio. She moved from Ann Arbor to San Francisco almost seven years ago and has no regrets. \nYalitza Ferreras was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories\, Colorado Review\, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize\, and is the recipient of fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists\, the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and Voices of Our Nation. She was raised in New York and the Dominican Republic\, and currently lives in San Francisco where she is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. \nKellie Nadler is a somatic writer and artist whose work can be found in the Oaken Transformations Art and Sculpture Walk\, Oxford Magazine\, Dressing Room Poetry Journal\, and the Rukeyser Living Archive. She’s a non-traditional educator\, working to bring students’ social and emotional needs into classroom learning. She’s taught incarcerated women\, college students\, at-risk teens\, and illiterate adults. She was teaching creative writing at Eastern Michigan University before she decided to uproot and move to the East Bay\, where she’s been living for the past couple of months.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-five-fingered-mitten-a-michigan-ish-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Katie Kitamura reads from and discusses her novel\, A Separation. \nPraise for Katie Kitamura: \n“A slow burn of a novel that gathers its great force and intensity through careful observation and a refusal to accept old\, shopworn narratives of love and loss.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“The burnt landscape\, the disappearance of a man\, the brilliantly cold\, precise\, and yet threatening\, churning tone of the narrator—make A Separation an absolutely mesmerizing work of art.” —Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“Profound and gripping. I had that rare sense of feeling like I was in a creation specifically made out of words\, that couldn’t have been made out of any other substance. Kitamura combines the calm complexity of Joseph Conrad with the pacing and reveal of Patricia Highsmith. This novel is a wonder and a pleasure.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and Little Labors \n“Hemingway’s returned to life—and this time\, he’s a woman.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n\nAbout A Separation: \nA mesmerizing\, psychologically taut novel about a marriage’s end and the secrets we all carry. \n\nA young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter\, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life\, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go and search for him\, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart\, she’s not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild landscape\, she traces the disintegration of their relationship\, and discovers she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. \n\nA story of intimacy and infidelity\, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create for ourselves. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared\, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting stylistic masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished\, and transfixed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-kitamura/
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:Gerald Fleming + Lynne Knight
DESCRIPTION:Gerald Fleming’s new book\, One\, will appear in fall from Hanging Loose Press in New York. His other books are The Choreographer\, longer prose poems (Sixteen Rivers Press\, San Francisco)\, Night of Pure Breathing\, prose poems (Hanging Loose)\, and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (Sixteen Rivers). He’s also written three books for teachers\, including Rain\, Steam\, and Speed (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). His work has appeared in many magazines over the decades\, including New Letters\, Western Humanities Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, New World Writing\, Hanging Loose\, and many others. Between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review\, and currently edits the limited-edition vitreous magazine One (More) Glass. Fleming taught in the San Francisco Public Schools for thirty-seven years\, and lives most of the year in Northern California\, part of the year in Paris. \nLynne Knight is the award-winning author of four full-length collections\, the most recent of which is Again\, published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. Her work has appeared in a number of journals\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ontario Review\, Poetry\, and Southern Review. Her awards and honors include publication in Best American Poetry\, the Prix de l’Alliance Française 2006\, a PSA Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, the 2009 RATTLE Prize\, and an NEA grant. I Know (Je sais)\, her translation with the author Ito Naga of his Je sais\, appeared in 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerald-fleming-lynne-knight/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is delighted to host the launch party for Ethel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him. Ethel will read from the book and be in conversation with Edan Lepucki\, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us! \nThe Weight of Him tells the story of Billy Brennan. At four hundred pounds\, Billy can always count on food. From his earliest memories\, he has loved food’s colors\, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better\, until the day Billy’s beloved son Michael takes his own life. \nBilly determines to make a difference in Michael’s memory and undertakes a public weight-loss campaign\, to raise money for suicide prevention—his first step in an ambitious plan to save himself\, and to save others. However\, Billy’s dramatic crusade appalls his family\, who want to simply try to go on. \nDespite his crushing detractors\, Billy gains welcome allies: his community-at-large; a co-worker who lost his father to suicide; a filmmaker with his own dubious agenda; and a secret\, miniature kingdom that Billy populates with the sub-quality dolls and soldiers he saves from disposal at the toy factory where he works. But it is only if Billy can confront the truth of the suffering and brokenness within and around him that he and others will realize the recovery they need. \nSet in rural\, contemporary Ireland\, The Weight of Him is an unforgettable\, big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives. \n————————–————————–———\n“The Weight of Him is an achingly sad\, achingly lovely novel that speaks to the essential core of our shared human experience. I will not soon forget it. Ethel Rohan\, a prodigiously skilled short story writer\, has proved herself\, in this debut novel\, to be a master of the long form as well.” — Robert Olen Butler\, author of Perfume River \n“In The Weight of Him Ethel Rohan shows herself to be one of those rare\, courageous writers who dare to take on the ‘ordinary’ and show just how extraordinary it really is. A brave and moving book.” — John Banville\, author of The Blue Guitar \n“Ethel Rohan is a writer of great courage and emotional intelligence. She can also tell a damn good story. The Weight of Him is about loss and about life. It is involving\, terrifying and ultimately quite beautiful.” — Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me\n————————–————————–——— \nEthel Rohan’s debut novel\, The Weight of Him\, won the inaugural Plumeri Fellowship. She is the author of two story collections\, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone\, the former longlisted for The Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. An award-winning short story writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, World Literature Today\, Tin House Online\, GUERNICA Magazine\, The Stinging Fly\, and many others. Raised in Dublin\, Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco and received her MFA in fiction from Mills College\, CA. She is a member of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the New York Times bestselling novel\, California. Her next novel\, Woman No. 17\, will be published in May. She’s a contributing editor at The Millions and the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ethel-rohan-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Story Is the Thing: Kepler’s Quarterly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the second installment of the Story Is the Thing\, Kepler’s quarterly reading series on the theme That Electrifying Moment. \nJeanne Althouse‘s  flash fiction and longer stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies\, including Matter Press\, Shenandoah\, Pif Magazine\, Pindeldyboz \, Madison Review\, Hawaii Review\, the MacGuffin\, Red Rock Review\, Referential\, and Jewel\, a publication of Gray Sparrow Press. Her story\, “Goran Holds his Breath” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An early draft of her first novel was finalist in the Augury Books Editor’s Prize. \nAngela Pneuman is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart and the short story collection Home Remedies. She is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford\, where she has taught creative writing since 2001. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Iowa Review\, and many other literary journals. Recently she joined the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference as its executive director. \nShobha Rao is the author of the collection of short stories\, An Unrestored Woman\, published in March 2016. Kirkus Reviews called An Unrestored Woman “stunning and relentless.” She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. She has been a resident at Hedgebrook and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \nTanya Rey‘s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta\, The Nervous Breakdown\, McSweeney’s\, Catapult and others. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Writers Grotto\, Hambidge Center for the Arts\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, UCross Foundation and Blue Mountain Center. She lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. \nRick Trushel tutors recent immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala\, helping them improve their spoken and written language skills. Recently he’s had short pieces published at 101 Words and The SUN magazine. He likes to procrastinate\, as he erroneously believes his writing improves when he does this. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also a finalist for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Warner‘s short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine\, Santa Monica Review\, Mid-American Review\, Narrative\, and many other literary magazines. He is also the author of All Her Father’s Guns\, a novel from Numina Press which satirized U.S. politics back in the days when that was even possible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-keplers-quarterly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Oki Sogumi + Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Poets Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino read from new work\, and engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nOki Sogumi first surfaced in Seoul\, Korea c. 1988 and resides in Philadelphia\, USA. Her chapbooks include Underglazy (Portable Press at Yo-Yo labs) and Smear Jelly Dreaming A goo daughter & Time Travel and Friendship (Museum of Expensive Things). She is currently writing a sci-fi novella (forthcoming from Publication Studio Oakland) that chronicles the end of the world.\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oki-sogumi-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170117T013502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T035145Z
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SUMMARY:To Live + Write in Alameda Story Slam
DESCRIPTION:To Live & Write in Alameda and Books Inc. proudly present Alameda Story Slam! February’s theme will be “Unrequited.” Join us for an evening full of original stories and fun!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/to-live-write-in-alameda-story-slam/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170131T054758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T054758Z
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SUMMARY:Nina LaCour
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Nina LaCour back to the store to discuss and sign her new young adult novel\, We Are Okay\, on Thursday\, February 16th at 7:00 pm. This will be Nina’s publication party and all are welcome and encouraged to attend. \nYou go through life thinking there’s so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone\, your wallet\, and a picture of your mother.\nMarin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks\, not even her best friend Mabel\, but even thousands of miles away from the California coast\, at college in New York\, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now\, months later\, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break\, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.\nAn intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch\, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you\nlove. \nNina LaCour is the author of the award-winning Hold Still and the widely acclaimed The Disenchantments. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher\, she now writes and parents full time. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Nina lives with her family in Richmond\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-lacour/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T200000
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CREATED:20170114T084519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T122857Z
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee w/ Elaine Petrocelli
DESCRIPTION:Profoundly moving and gracefully told\, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations\, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover\, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life. \nSo begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. In Japan\, Sunja’s family members endure harsh discrimination\, catastrophes\, and poverty\, yet they also encounter great joy as they pursue their passions and rise to meet the challenges this new home presents. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, they are bound together by deep roots as their family faces enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for The Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, The Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel+Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee-w-elaine-petrocelli/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170216T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170117T013133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T013133Z
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown\, a separate\, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer authentic experiences\, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love\, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. \nSix women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic\, science\, and art intersect. \nInspired by the pulps\, film noir\, and screwball comedy\, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages. \nEllen Klages is the author of two acclaimed historical novels: The Green Glass Sea\, which won the Scott O Dell Award\, and the New Mexico Book Award; and White Sands\, Red Menace\, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story\, “Basement Magic”\, won a Nebula Award and Wakulla Springs\, co-authored with Andy Duncan\, was nominated for the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus awards\, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco\, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages/
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:20170215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20161201T023315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T083440Z
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading\, talk\, and signing of Min Jin Lee‘s new novel\, Pachinko; a tour de force following one Korean family through the generations. The story begins in early 1900s Korea with Sunja\, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family\, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame and ruin them. Deserted by her lover\, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs\, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith\, family\, and identity. \n  \nThere is a long and troubled history of legal and social discrimination against Koreans living in Japan\, even those who have partial ethnic Korean background. Some never disclose their heritage\, although it can follow them in their identification papers and government records. While writing Pachinko\, Min Jin (who herself was born in Korea before moving to the United States) lived in Japan with her husband and son and interviewed dozens of ethnic Koreans about their family histories. Min Jin wanted to acknowledge their stories when so much of their lives had been denied\, erased and despised. \n  \nPachinko is a popular type of adult pinball game\, which originated in Japan in the first half of the twentieth-century. Those who run and operate pachinko parlors\, many of them of Korean ethnicity\, are looked down upon socially\, but some parlors can generate immense fortunes. Many Korean-Japanese families today have some original ties to the pachinko industry. Struggling to find their place in Japanese society\, Sunja’s family finds work in the pachinko business and attempts to build their lives in a new land. \nMin Jin Lee’s debut novel\, Free Food for Millionaires\, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for the Times (London)\, NPR’s Fresh Air\, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, Times (London)\, Vogue\, Travel + Leisure\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times Magazine\, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for Chosun Ilbo\, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York City with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/min-jin-lee/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T213000
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CREATED:20161129T055920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055920Z
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SUMMARY:Natalie Bazsile
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel\, Queen Sugar\, adapated for TV by writer/director Ava DuVernay of Selma and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for the OWN network. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014\, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Baszile has a MA in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-bazsile/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170114T085838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T035317Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrics + Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics and Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T210000
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CREATED:20170114T085512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T085512Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Farnsworth
DESCRIPTION:A launch and reading to celebrate the publication of A Train Through Time: A Life\, Real and Imagined. \nThis beautiful memoir by the former PBS NewsHour correspondent not only recounts her years spent reporting from danger zones such as Cambodia and Iraq\, but also a more personal side. The newly motherless Farnsworth\, nine years old\, tells the story of her cross-country train trip with her father where she searches for her mother at each stop. \nWeaving a child’s experiences with memories from her life in journalism\, Farnsworth explores how she came to cover mass death and disaster. While she never breaks the tone of a curious investigator\, she easily moves between her nine-year-old self and the experienced journalist. Imagination is at play in her childhood adventures and in her narrative control\, always with great purpose. She openly confronts the impact of her childhood on the route her life has taken. And\, as she provides one beautifully crafted depiction after another\, we share her journey\, coming to know the acclaimed reporter as she discovers herself. Beautifully imagined\, beautifully executed\, this memoir will resonate with many readers for years to come. \nElizabeth Farnsworth is a filmmaker\, foreign correspondent\, and former chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her 2008 documentary\, The Judge and the General\, co-directed with Patricio Lanfranco\, aired on television around the world\, winning many awards. She has reported from Cambodia\, Vietnam\, Chile\, Haiti\, Iraq\, and Iran\, among other places. She grew up in Topeka\, Kansas\, where her ancestors were pioneers. She has a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.A. in history from Stanford University. She lives in Berkeley  with her husband\, attorney Charles Farnsworth. \nShe has received three Emmy nominations and is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award\, which is often considered the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer\, which is also administered by Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-farnsworth/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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CREATED:20170114T084749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T084749Z
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SUMMARY:David Hartsough w/ Norman Solomon
DESCRIPTION:An evening of discussion between lifleong activists and authors David Hartsough and Norman Solomon \ncelebrating David Hartsough’s recently released book \nWaging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist \nfrom PM Press \nAn evening to discuss the current political climate and how we can move forward constructively and powerfully. We will hear stories of courageous nonviolent responses to racism\, war and violence during sixty years of organizing actions and movements for peace and justice in the US and around the world. What has worked and what are some of the lessons learned as we build campaigns and movements to challenge Trump’s extremist policies? Where do we find hope in the gloom of the Trump presidency? The American people may be more motivated and ready to get actively involved than any time since the 1960’s. We do have the power if we mobilize it to completely change the future course of our country. \nAbout Waging Peace: \nDavid Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin\, Castro’s Cuba\, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. \nWaging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire\, educate\, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.\, Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. It is the story of one man’s effort to live as though we were all brothers and sisters. \nEngaging stories on every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the major historical events of the past sixty years\, including the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States and the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the Soviet Union\, Kosovo\, Palestine\, Sri Lanka\, and the Philippines. \nHartsough’s story demonstrates the power and effectiveness of organized nonviolent action. But Waging Peace is more than one man’s memoir. Hartsough shows how this struggle is waged all over the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence and war. \nPraise: \n“Peace will only come when all of us become the change we wish to see in this world. David Hartsough became that change and has spent the best part of sixty years working to bring peace to our troubled world. His book is one that every peace-loving person must read and learn from.” —Arun Gandhi\, president\, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) \n“It has been my privilege to work with David Hartsough over the years and to be arrested and jailed with him for nonviolent civil disobedience. I highly recommend Waging Peace to every American who wishes to live in a world with peace and justice and wants to feel empowered to help create that world.” —Daniel Ellsberg\, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers \n“When great events happen\, such as the falling of the Berlin Wall\, we must never forget that people like David Hartsough and many others have worked hard to prepare the ground for such ‘miracles.’ David’s belief in the goodness of people\, the power of love\, truth\, and forgiveness and his utter commitment to making peace and ending war will inspire all those who read this book.” —Mairead Maguire\, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate\, Peace People\, Northern Ireland \n“David Hartsough has lived an exemplary nonviolent life. Waging Peace highlights the numerous ways he has done this in many troubled parts of the world as well as in the United States.” —Martin Sheen\, actor \n“If you want to know what it means to live a ‘life well lived\,’ read David Hartsough’s masterful book. It is not only a page turner\, but it will probably transform the way you look at your own life—your priorities\, your lifestyle\, your future.” —Medea Benjamin\, cofounder of Code Pink and Global Exchange \n“Over thirty years ago with great trepidation I went through nonviolence training in order to join the blockade at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.   David Hartsough was my trainer\, and his personal stories inspired me to put myself on the line for what I believed in.   Later I went on to become a trainer myself\, and for some years Hartsough and I were in a training collective together.   Now he’s compiled his tales of moments of crisis and his life story into this wonderful book.   Waging Peace will inspire anyone who is concerned with social and environmental justice\, and will help you formulate your own approach to the activism so crucial now for the world!”\n—Starhawk\, Author\,The Fifth Sacred Thing\, San Francisco \n“Waging Peace is a collection of powerful and moving stories about how one remarkable person has acted on his belief that peace is possible. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to help create the world we all hope and pray for. Be prepared to be empowered!”\n—Parker J. Palmer author of Healing the Heart of Democracy\, Let Your Life Speak\, and The Courage to Teach
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hartsough-w-norman-solomon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170114T083929Z
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SUMMARY:Simone White
DESCRIPTION:Readings begin at 6:30pm\, are free & open to the public\, and will take place in the Hearst Field Annex\, room D37\, at UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simone-white/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170214T223000
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CREATED:20170202T045803Z
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SUMMARY:Sex Fail Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Sex Fail Storytelling features tales of Sex and Romance gone awry!\nYou’ll laugh\, You’ll cry\, You’ll hopefully learn from our mistakes. There will be 2 shows 7pm and 9pm! \nFeaturing Stories by:\nJamie DeWolf host of critically acclaimed variety show Tourettes Without Regrets \nThe QUEEN of Dirty Stories Dixie De La Tour creator of Bawdy Storytelling. \nSan Francisco’s Favorite Jack of All Trades Poet\, Writer\, Comedian\, and Voice of Shipwreck: Baruch Porras-Hernandez \nSinger\, Writer\, and Burlesque Super Star Magnoliah Black!\n\nAnd your host and storyteller the always effervescent Wonder Dave! \nThere will also be some special guest burlesque performances! your admission to the show includes free entry to the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theatre Strip Club.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sex-fail-storytelling/
LOCATION:The Mitchell Brother’s O’Farrell Theatre\, 895 Ofarrell Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170131T054148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T054148Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Auster
DESCRIPTION:Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park\, Invisible\, The Book of Illusions\, and The New York Trilogy\, among many other works. In 2006\, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Inventive and dexterously constructed\, Auster’s new book 4 3 2 1 tells the story of Archibald Isaac Ferguson in four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Auster is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nTeju Cole is a writer\, art historian\, and photographer. He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. Cole is the author of three books\, a novella\, Every Day is for the Thief; a novel\, Open City; and an essay collection\, Known and Strange Things. This year\, Cole became the first writer ever to be named finalist for two PEN America literary awards (for Known and Strange Things).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-auster/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T132236
CREATED:20170114T082907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T143523Z
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer + Kit Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Norman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, his latest poetry collections are Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015) Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan 2010 (Tinfish\, 2014)\, and The Strugglers (Singing Horse\, 2013).  Just out from Chax a collection of tanka (very brief poems): any would be if. In 2015 Universiity of Alabama Press brought out a collection of essays\, Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. Fischer lives with his wife Kathie on a cliff overlooking the Pacific at Muir Beach. \nKit Robinson was born in Evanston\, Illinois\, grew up in Cincinnati\, went to Yale\, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. He is the author of Marine Layer (BlazeVOX)\, Catalan Passages (Streets and Roads)\, Determination (Cuneiform)\, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems\, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry)\, and many other books of poetry\, including collaborations with Ted Greenwald\, A Mammal of Style (Roof) and Takeaway (c_L Books).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-and-kit-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170213T210000
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CREATED:20170202T045125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T045125Z
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SUMMARY:George Saunders
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Dana Spiotta \nFollowing the release of George Saunders’ last collection of short stories\, Tenth of December\, the New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story raved “George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year.” A MacArthur “genius\,” Saunders returns to the JCCSF to discuss his first novel\, Lincoln in the Bardo\, an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic\, historical framework into a thrilling supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. In conversation with Dana Spiotta\, author of Innocents and Others and Stone Arabia. Featuring a reading from Lincoln in the Bardo by Word for Word Performing Arts Company. \n“The best short-story writer in English – not ‘one of\,’ not ‘arguably\,’ but the best.”\n– Mary Karr\, Time
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-saunders/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jason Rekulak
DESCRIPTION:Jason Rekulak\, publisher of Quirk Books\, where he has acquired a dozen New York Times-bestsellers\, shares his dazzling debut novel\, The Impossible Fortress. The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White\, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune. For three teenage boys Billy\, Alf\, and Clark who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women\, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure and impossible to attain. So\, they hatch a plan to steal it.\nThe heist will be fraught with peril: a locked building\, intrepid police officers\, rusty fire escapes\, leaps across rooftops\, electronic alarm systems\, and a hyperactive Shih Tzu named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Failed attempt after failed attempt leads them to a genius master plan: they’ll swipe the security code to Zelinsky’s convenience store by seducing the owner’s daughter\, Mary Zelinsky. It becomes Billy’s mission to befriend her and get the information by any means necessary. But Mary isn’t your average teenage girl. She’s a computer loving\, expert coder\, already strides ahead of Billy in ability\, with a wry sense of humor and a hidden\, big heart. But what starts as a game to win Mary’s affection leaves Billy with a gut-wrenching choice: deceive the girl who may well be his first love or break a promise to his best friends.\nAt its heart\, The Impossible Fortress is a tender exploration of young love\, true friends\, and the confusing realities of male adolescence with a dash of old school computer programming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-rekulak/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:In this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, insightful portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. \nA Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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