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SUMMARY:Regulatory Hacking: A conversation with Evan Burfield and Tim O’Reilly
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 13 for a discussion with Evan Burfield\, author of Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups\, and Tim O’Reilly\, Code for America board member and founder of O’Reilly Media. \nAs startups use technology to shape the way we live\, work\, and learn\, they’re taking on challenges in sectors like healthcare\, infrastructure\, and education\, where failure is far more consequential than a humorous chat with Siri or the wrong package on your doorstep. These startups inevitably have to interface with governments responsible for protecting citizens through regulation. \nIn his book\, Burfield explores how to scale a business in an industry deeply intertwined with government. He posits that “regulatory hacking” doesn’t mean “cutting through red tape”; it’s really about finding a creative\, strategic approach to navigating complex markets. \nEvan Burfield is the cofounder of 1776 and CEO of Union\, where he works with startups around the world tackling important challenges in areas like education\, health\, energy\, transportation\, food\, and financial services. As an angel investor and venture capitalist\, Evan has invested in more than 40 startups with world changing ideas\, from Silicon Valley to Nairobi. \nDATE & TIME \nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 \nNetworking 5:30-6 p.m. \nDiscussion 6-7 p.m. \nBook signing 7-7:30 p.m. \nLOCATION \nManny’s \n3092 16th St. (at Valencia) \nSan Francisco\, CA 94103
URL:https://litseen.com/event/regulatory-hacking-a-conversation-with-evan-burfield-and-tim-oreilly/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Labor Law
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 13\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTransformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges for regulating work for the common good. But it also presents opportunities for a fresh start. This lecture will examine some of the recent radical changes in the law of the workplace in California and nationwide. \nCatherine Fisk is the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at Berkeley. She teaches and writes on the law of the workplace\, on the legal profession\, and on free speech and freedom of association. Her most recent book is Writing for Hire: Unions\, Hollywood\, and Madison Avenue(Harvard U Press 2016) and her next book will be on labor protest and labor lawyers in the mid-twentieth century. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagining-labor-law-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Labor Law
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining Labor Law\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTransformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges for regulating work for the common good. But it also presents opportunities for a fresh start. This lecture will examine some of the recent radical changes in the law of the workplace in California and nationwide. \nCatherine Fisk is the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at Berkeley. She teaches and writes on the law of the workplace\, on the legal profession\, and on free speech and freedom of association. Her most recent book is Writing for Hire: Unions\, Hollywood\, and Madison Avenue(Harvard U Press 2016) and her next book will be on labor protest and labor lawyers in the mid-twentieth century. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagining-labor-law/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190212T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190212T210000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. \n\nPraise for Wild Geese Sorrow \n“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet\, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced\, affecting\, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice to the Angel Island poets\, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”— David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace \n“Jeffrey Leong’s Wild Geese Sorrow is a marvelous translation of the wall poems written by Chinese held at Angel Island\, California\, from 1910-1940\, during their immigration review. His keenly nuanced translations follow the lineation of the original poems and juxtapose images that show their classical poetic lineage. Most importantly\, he humanizes each speaker by articulating the emotional pressure behind each poem. In a time of antiimmigrant sentiment\, this book is important reading for all Americans.”—Arthur Sze\, author of The Red-Shifting Web \n“This beautiful book is haunted by the sad and angry presence of nameless men who carved their feelings into Angel Island walls. Leong’s translations and sequencing\, footnotes\, and historical contextualization gift us with a glimpse into a world we might otherwise never know. Why did these men leave home? What were their thoughts about families and villages they left behind? How did they view their detention\, jailers\, and interrogators? Leong unveils the diversity of their personalities and social backgrounds. These poems are at the foundation of Asian American literature and are an essential contribution to American literary history.” — Elaine H. Kim\, Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\nAbout Wild Geese Sorrow \nWild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island by Jeffrey Thomas Leong is the first new translation in almost 40 years and takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by the Chinese immigrant detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate the detainee experience\, the poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, deportation. Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, so essential to our contemporary policy debates. \nWild Geese Sorrow presents Leong’s 20+ years of writing experience into a moving collection that offers readers: \n• 70 newly-translated Angel Island Chinese wall poems presented in the original Chinese characters and with their English translations on facing pages\n• Brief foreword by David Wojahn\, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet\, tying Angel Island poetry to the great World traditions of protest literature\n• A robust introduction contextualizing these poems with Chinese immigrant history at Angel Island\, classical T’ang poetry\, literary expressions of personal and political outrage\, and the difficulties of translation for the 21st century American reader\n• Extensive endnotes which provide essential cultural\, historical and linguistic context for the work\n• A small glossary of places\, names and terms\n• A full bibliography of resources on Chinese American immigrant history\, T’ang era poetry\, and the practice of literary translation\n• A complete finding list for the mostly untitled and anonymously-written poems\n• Chapter heading photographs of wall poems in situ\, historical events\, and physical site \n“But what purpose did these wall poems serve to their original authors? Given the basic education received by these new immigrants\, their act of writing poetry was transformational; by taking hardship and expressing it artistically\, they elevated it to the archetypal\,” says Leong. “An expression of personal feeling may be therapeutic in a Western sense\, but for these immigrants it was also communal\, literally on the walls of the barracks in which they were detained and for all their compatriots to see.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-leong-on-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
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:Sisters in Crime
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join Sunnyvale-Cupertino Branch for an interesting panel discussion by “Sisters in Crime.” Refreshments will be served. Books will be available to purchase. Proceeds go to the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund. This year’s panel is: \nJoAnn Ainsworth who writes thrillers and suspense stories with a paranormal twist. \nNancy Tingley who has had extensive experience as a scholar of Asian art. \nDiana Chambers whose background includes an Asian importing business\, costume design and script writing in Hollywood. \nJudith Newton\, Professor Emerita in Gender\, Sexuality\, Women Studies at UC Davis. \nAndrew MacRae who writes “Cozy Noir” stories. \nDonation $15 to Legal Advocacy Fund. \nPresented by AAUW Sunnyvale-Cupertino.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sisters-in-crime/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church\, 728 Fremont Avenue\, Sunnyvale\, 94087
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190212T190000
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:reading from here new novel \nHazards of Time Travel \npublished by Harper Collins \n\n\nAn ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society\, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates \n“Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”—but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel  is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \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\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. 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-7/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer-sf/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Trust\, Betrayal\, Cheetos
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a new monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a single prompt. (“Happy Endings” is a loooose directive for each writer to do with what they will.) A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and the panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Trust\, Betrayal\, Cheetos \nThis month’s participating writers: Jenny Xie\, TBDs\, and January’s winner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-trust-betrayal-cheetos/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories: Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted byMy Life\, My Stories and sponsored by Blurb Books! \n  \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of seniors in our community. We match a volunteer with one senior\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give seniors a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. \nWe’ll be feeling all the love this evening. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner\, we’re asking our senior speakers to tell a story about their love for family\, a partner\, the city of San Francisco… you name it! You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \n  \n\n6:00pm: Doors open\n6:30pm-8:00pm: Four unique seniors tell their stories and MLMS volunteers talk about their experience working with their author\n8:00pm-8:30pm: Q&A\n\n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. All ticket sales from the event will go directly to My Life\, My Stories to help more seniors preserve their legacy. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nDoors open at 5:30pm. Show starts at 6pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan: Women\, Ritual\, Ecology in India
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nVANDANA SHIVA + VIJAYA NAGARAJAN\nWomen\, Ritual\, Ecology in India \nadvance tickets: $12: :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nVandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, environmental activist\, food sovereignty advocate\, and alter-globalization author. Currently based in Delhi\, she has authored more than twenty books\, Including Who Really Feeds the World?\, The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology and Making Peace with the Earth. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander\, Edward Goldsmith\, Ralph Nader\, Jeremy Rifkin) and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices\, as evidenced by her interview in the book Vedic Ecology. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993\, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize”. \nVijaya Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. \nEvery day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kolam\, a ritual design made of rice flour\, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Propelled by a lifelong interest and deeply informed research\, Nagarajan provides a poetic and surprising entry into the layered complexities of Hindu culture. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories\, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions–beauty\, history\, gender\, literature\, religion\, anthropology\, mathematics\, and ecology. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vandana-shiva-and-vijaya-nagarajan-women-ritual-ecology-in-india/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Roger McNamee: This Is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:The warnings are coming from inside the house. \nMark Zuckerberg\, Sheryl Sandberg\, and Roger McNamee are denizens of the same enchanted world: Silicon Valley’s inner circle. And they used to all be on the same page\, each playing their part growing Facebook into an internet phenomenon— until it hit unprecedented reach and influence. Then they weren’t on the same page any more. \nMcNamee was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Facebook\, as both a musician and an investor. But he grew disenchanted as he watched the negatives pile up: privacy issues. Screen addiction. Disinformation and political manipulation. Even spying. Digging into the technology and psychology involved\, he grew more alarmed at “business models that drive companies to maximize attention at all costs”. \nNow Roger McNamee has teamed with others from the tech world to challenge our new normal – to persuade us that internet titans Facebook and Google present an urgent existential threat to users and society. Does his new book Zucked make a persuasive case? \nJoin us for an evening of This Is Now with Angie Coiro to find out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roger-mcnamee-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kim Hyesoon\, Don Mee Choi\, Forrest Gander\, and Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of  Death\, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest Gander and Brenda Hillman will also treat us to a reading of their poems and translations. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Autobiography of Death \nThe title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of Death (New Directions)\, consists of forty-nine poems\, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history\, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death\, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death\, Kim’s most compelling work to date\, at once reenacts trauma and narrates death—how we die and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors\, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten\, bombed\, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm\,” a poem about individual pain\, illness\, and meditation. \n\nAbout Kim Hyesoon \nKim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent poets of South Korea. Along with several female poets of the 1980s and 1990s\, Kim has developed a new terrain of poetry that has been described as “combative\, visceral\, subversive\, innovative\, and ontologically feminine\,” and which continues to flourish. \nAbout Don Mee Choi \nDon Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War(Wave Books\, 2016) and The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books\, 2010) and has translated the work of several contemporary Korean women poets\, such as Ch’oe Sŭng-ja\, Kim Hyesoon\, and Yi Yŏn-ju. Her translations include Anxiety of Words (Zephyr Press\, 2008)\, Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers(Action Books\, 2008)\, All the Garbage of the World\, Unite! (Action Books\, 2011)\, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books\, 2014)\, and I’m OK\, I’m Pig (Bloodaxe Books\, 2014). \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He is the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was a NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \nAbout Brenda Hillman \nBrenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry\, all published by Wesleyan University Press\, the most recent of which is Practical Water (2009). With Patricia Dienstfrey\, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood(Wesleyan\, 2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College\, where she is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-hyesoon-don-mee-choi-forrest-gander-and-brenda-hillman/
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:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Radio Free Vermont
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben\, on Monday February 11th at 7pm. \nAs the host of Radio Free Vermont–“underground\, underpowered\, and underfoot”–seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an “undisclosed and double-secret location.” With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson\, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont\, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now\, he and his radio show must remain untraceable\, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen\, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. \nIn Radio Free Vermont\, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that’s become more popular than ever–seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry\, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare\, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of ‘Ethan Allen Day’ and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty\, biting\, and terrifyingly timely\, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben’s fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement. \n  \n\n\n\n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, February 11\, 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-radio-free-vermont/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Books\, Bitters\, & Chocolate! A Valentine's Party at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:Red wine\, chocolate\, & words of love! Join Odd Mondays for its Valentine’s party Books\, Bitters\, & Chocolate!\, Monday\, February 11\, from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Authors Jennifer Barone Poetry\, Rebekah Eppley\, and Peg Alford Pursell read about love\, illustrator Carmen Cortez prepares love bitters\, Michael’s Chocolates will have Valentine’s chocolates for sampling and sales\, and there’ll be free red wine for all! No-host dinner nearby at 5:30pm\, Haystack Restaurant\, 3881 24th St. \nHere’s more about the participants!\nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: SAPOROSO – POEMS OF ITALIAN FOOD & LOVE. She is the host of the monthly WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and has been a featured poet at LitQuake\, SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, and more. She won the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach\, where she resides\, and has been published in literary journals such as the Marin Poetry Center Anthology\, CCSF’s Forum\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit:jenniferbarone.wordpress.com \nMaria del Carmen Cortez (Carmen) is an Herbalist\, Permaculturalist\, and Medicine Maker. Her passions are gardening\, growing her own medicine\, and creating art. She was born in Purepero\, in the state of Michoacan\, Mexico\, with an extended family of storytellers who also instilled in her a love of plant medicine. She grew up as a migrant farm worker in the San Joaquin Valley and currently lives in Oakland. \nRebekah Eppley holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University\, a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a BFA in Writing\, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College. She published a chapter in an oral history collection\, Nine Lives\, Uncovering the Wealth of Life Stories Within our Nursing Homes and her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines such as the Santa Clara Review\, Watchword Press\, and Lodestar Quarterly. She lives in Oakland with her wife\, Carmen Cortez\, and works as a librarian at the Dimond Branch of the Oakland Public Library. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of SHOW HER A FLOWER\, A BIRD\, A SHADOW\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction\, and selected for the annual “5 over 50” feature in Poets & Writers Magazine (2017). A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST\, a collection of stories\, will be published by Dzanc Books July 2019. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Joyland magazine\, Connotation Press\, and Permafrost. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and the founder and director of WTAW Press\, an independent publisher of exceptional literary books. Learn more at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael’s Chocolates is a San Francisco-based chocolatier\, which makes small-batch handcrafted chocolates and confections. They proudly feature their Good Food Awards 2018 Winner\, Lemon Burst Bonbon Collection\, and also offer special Seasonal Collections\, in addition to popular items such as Salted Caramels and Old Potrero Rye Whiskey Bonbons. www.michaelschocolates.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-bitters-chocolate-a-valentines-party-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Harmon Guest House
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Valentine’s Day a little early with Red Light Lit on the rooftop of Harmon Guest House in Healdsburg\, CA. Spend the day roaming wine country and the evening exploring love\, relationships\, and sexuality through poetry\, storytelling\, and song. \nThe show features musician Josiah Johnson (The Head and The Heart)\, local investigative journalist and experiential humorist\, Scott Keneally; San Francisco-based musician and poet\, Sarah Bethe Nelson; Red Light Lit’s editor\, Jennifer Lewis; and memoir and essayist\, Allyson Darling; with musical accompaniment by musician\, songwriter\, and film composer\, David Williams. Come early for drinks\, bites\, and views from the Harmon Rooftop. See menu items here : https://harmonguesthouse.com/the-rooftop/ \nTickets are $20 and includes a personal poem typed on-demand by Allyson Darling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-harmon-guest-house/
LOCATION:Harmon Guest House\, 227 Healdsburg Ave\, Healdsburg\, CA\, 95448
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:A MOVEABLE FEAST
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our first poetry event of 2019! We’ll have 3 local poets telling tales of lands far away and the one you dearly love. \nhosted by Aakash Tayagi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1381967425268268/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-moveable-feast/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poverty Scholarship 101
DESCRIPTION:with Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and friends \nPoverty Scholarship – Poor People-led Theory\, Art \, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth is a revolutionary poor people-led theory and solutions based text book that also comes with a downloadable curriculum is finally released by poet\, author and poverty skola Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and other POOR Magazine family in tandem with the six following POOR press publications: \nDear\, Godd By: Queennandi Xsheba\nDear\, Godd is a selection of intimate prayers between a uncrowned Queen enduring the Amerikkkan struggle and her relationship with the divine. \nThe Making of Aunti Vol II By: Aunti Frances Moore \nThe Making of Aunti Vol 2 is a compelling chronicle of a young black girl’s bitter sweet journey growing up in the 60s and 70s after the death of her mother. In her 2nd book\, the author recaps her pilgrimage thru racism\, self hatred & revolution in the 60s and 70s. \nIshy-Me’s Stranger Danger Saga  By: Ziair Cornish Hughes \nIllustrations by: Amir Hughes Cornish\nHey Fellow LoveLife Culture\, LoveOlutionary’s and LoveOloper’s join me and my brothers on my stranger danger quest. It’s an Anti-Bullying Campaign to keep us kids SAFE. IshyME wants to help you HAVE a voice… \nMass Driver: Disabled Detective’s Murder on the Moon – By Bruce Allison\nThis book is about two genres put together: Science Fiction and Hardboiled Detective. The main character is Bruce Allison\, a dyslexic private detective\, as he solves a murder case on the moon. \nSKELETAL BLACK – By Dee Allen\nPoverty. Arson. Gentrification. Combined with the unwritten law of American class society–in order for one to move up and win\,  Oakland performance poet Dee Allen returns with his 4th POOR Press book \nKrip Hop Komics: Graphic Novel Series #1 – By Leroy Moore\n1980’s Little Leroy has a physical disability and walks with a walker. He is always coming to a cypher in the Bronx\, NY from Hartford\, CT by Greyhound\, Flash-forward to 2018 Krip-Hop’s Superhero\,a Black teenage disabled girl named Roxanne… \nTiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused\, incarcerated poverty scholar\, revolutionary journalist\, lecturer\, poet\, visionary\, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio\, daughter of a houseless\, disabled mama Dee\, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She has authored over 200 stories and blogs on poverty\, racism\, incaceration and displacement. With her Mama Dee- she co-founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a poor and indigenous people-led skool\, as well as several cultural projects such as the Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto\, welfareQUEENs\, the Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los pobres\, Hotel Voices( to name a few. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America\, co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution\, Born & Raised in Frisco and her second book- Poverty ScholarShip -Poor People Theory\, Arts\, words and Tears Across Mama Earth A PeoplesTeXt will be released in 2018-19. In 2011 she co-launched The Homefulness Project – a landless peoples\, self-determined land liberation movement in the Ohlone/Lisjan/Huchuin territory known as Deep East Oakland\, \,and co-founded a liberation school for children\, Deecolonize Academy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poverty-scholarship-101/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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 sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash - - Kelsay Books/Aldritch Press w/ Rachel Dacus\, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas\, Eileen Malone\, Kathleen McClung\, Lenore Weiss\, Andrena Zawinski
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, February 10th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by poets from Kelsay Books/Aldritch press: Rachel Dacus\, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas\, Eileen Malone\, Kathleen McClung\, Lenore Weiss\, Andrena Zawinski. \nPoet and novelist Rachel Dacus’s collection\, Gods of Water and Air\, is deliciously diverse. Poems and tales of horseback riding\, ballet class\, a bipolar rocket scientist parent\, a commercial fishing immigrant community abound. She is also author of The Renaissance Club\, a time travel novel\, and the poetry collections Femme au Chapeau and Earth Lessons. Her writing has appeared in Atlanta Review\, Boulevard\, Prairie Schooner\, The Pedestal\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review\, as well as in anthologies. \nCarol Lynn Stevenson Grellas’s new book of poetry is On the Edge of the Ethereal. Sam Rasnake\, editor of Blue Fifth Review\, calls it\, “a dark and beautiful book filled marvelously with the nature of loss\, pain and its evasion\, leaving\, things left unsaid\, ‘inhaling a world gone wrong’…Grellas is a remarkable poet with an unflinching eye and ear for details. The writing is a powerful\, rewarding journey\, not to be missed.” She is an eight-time Pushcart nominee and a four-time Best of the Net nominee. A Red Ochre Press Chapbook contest-winner\, her work has appeared in many magazines including The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She has published other collections\, including her chapbook\, Things I Can’t Remember to Forget. \nEileen Malone has published her poetry in over 500 literary journals and anthologies\, some of which have earned significant awards\, including four Pushcart nominations. Her newest book is It Could Be Me\, Although Unsure. Her previous books include Letters with Taloned Claws and I Should Have Given Them Water. She founded and now directs the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition and its Awards Event at San Francisco Main Library. She has taught for California Poets in the Schools and at Bay Area community colleges\, and hosted an online interview show for Cable Access TV San Francisco. \nKathleen McClung’s new book is The Typists Play Monopoly. Almost the Rowboat is her previous collection. Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies including Southwest Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Ekphrasis\, Atlanta Review\, California Quarterly\, and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, Shirley McClure\, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes\, she is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, and associate director and sonnet sponsor/judge for the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. She teaches at Skyline College\, where she directs Women on Writing: WOW! Voices Now\, on campus. She is a 2018-2019 writer-in-residence for Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nLenore Weiss received an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University where she won the Clark-Gross Award (judged by Paul La Farge) and the Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue Contest. She recently won first prize in the Alexandria Quarterly Press small stories series for her flash fiction chapbook\, Holding on to the Fringes of Love. Her three poetry collections form a trilogy about being mortal: Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island\, Two Places\, and The Golem. In reviewing Two Places\, Nina Serrano wrote\, “Weiss’ mind travels like the speed of light from the real\, to the symbolic and the surreal.” \nAndrena Zawinski’s poetry has received accolades for free verse\, form\, lyricism\, spirituality\, and social concern. Landings is her recent Kelsay Books collection. In Landings\, she presents poems that embrace the worldwide condition of women\, immigrants\, and the working class alongside reverence for the natural world. Rebecca Foust lauds the collection “as a book that offers wisdom and solace and one you will take comfort in reading again and again.” Her other books include Something About\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, a Kenneth Patchen Prize in Poetry winner. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, February 10\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-kelsay-books-aldritch-press-w-rachel-dacus-carol-lynn-stevenson-grellas-eileen-malone-kathleen-mcclung-lenore-weiss-andrena-zawinski/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks - Be the first to buy Charlie Jane's new novel!
DESCRIPTION:Gayle Brandeis (The Book of Dead Birds)\nChris Denson (Crushing the Box)\nLisa Margonelli (Underbug)\nLaleh Khadivi (The Age of Orphans)\nCharlie Jane Anders (The City in the Middle of the Night) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-be-the-first-to-buy-charlie-janes-new-novel/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Works in Progress\, An Open Mic for Women (a WOMEN-ONLY event\, all women welcome). We will be remembering our departed sister\, the poet Julia Vinograd. 6:30 potluck\, 7:30 performance\, $7-$10 suggested donation. If you can’t pay\, please help with set-up and clean-up. Please contact your host Linda Zeiser at ‭(510) 701-1022‬ or ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com well in advance to reserve your open mic slot for poetry\, prose\, music\, showing your visual art\, dance\, drama\, or whatever creative work you have in progress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-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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SUMMARY:JAD ABUMRAD In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn 2002\, Jad Abumrad began tinkering with an idea for a new kind of radio program\, an open-ended radio “laboratory” that would explore science\, philosophy\, and human experience. He created Radiolab\, which has since evolved into one of public radio’s most popular programs. In 2016\, Abumrad launched the podcast More Perfect\, a series about how the Supreme Court shapes everything from marriage and money to public safety and sex. More Perfect connects listeners to the decisions made inside the court\, and explains what those rulings mean for us. As described by The New Yorker\, “the show is often subtly astonishing. It’s both sobering in its thoughtful investigations of the United States government’s unfairness to many of its own citizens and quietly optimistic in its desire to make us understand.” \nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jad-abumrad-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190208T210000
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CREATED:20190103T082721Z
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SUMMARY:Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
DESCRIPTION:Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy discuss their new book\, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Your Emotions At Work. \n\nPraise for No Hard Feelings \n“A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don’t belong in the workplace\, No Hard Feelings offers a path towards a future I want to work in: an emotionally expressive\, yet respectful (and high-performing!) workplace.”—Susan Cain\, author of Quiet and Chief Revolutionary at Quiet Revolution \n“No Hard Feelings is both a charming\, sparkling read and a clear-eyed roadmap to harnessing the things that make us most human into tools that will make you more productive\, effective\, and happier at work. A must read for every leader and every aspiring leader.”  —Laszlo Bock\, CEO of Humu and author of Work Rules! \n“No Hard Feelings dispels the myth that there’s no place for emotions at work. You can’t communicate clearly unless you’re aware of your own emotions\, and the emotions you’re sparking in others. You can’t build productive relationships at work if you’re showing up like a robot. This book will help you build the emotional discipline you need to succeed.”--Kim Scott\,author of Radical Candor \n“If you’ve ever thought it’s best to check your emotions at the office door\, this book will change your mind. It’s full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative\, collaborative\, and productive.”–Adam Grant\, New York Times bestselling author of Originals\, Give and Take\, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg \n\nAbout No Hard Feelings \nA visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional. \nHow do you stop the office grouch from ruining your day? How do you enjoy a vacation without obsessing about the unanswered emails in your inbox? If you’re a boss\, what should you do when your new\, eager hire wants to follow you on Instagram? \nThe modern workplace can be an emotional minefield\, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We’re expected to be authentic\, but not too authentic. Professional\, but not stiff. Friendly\, but not an oversharer. Easier said than done! \nAs both organizational consultants and regular people\, we know what it’s like to experience uncomfortable emotions at work – everything from mild jealousy and insecurity to panic and rage. Ignoring or suppressing what you feel hurts your health and productivity — but so does letting your emotions run wild. \nOur goal in this book is to teach you how to figure out which emotions to toss\, which to keep to yourself\, and which to express in order to be both happier and more effective. We’ll share some surprising new strategies\, such as:\n*   Be selectively vulnerable: Be honest about how you feel\, but don’t burden others with your deepest problems.\n*   Remember that your feelings aren’t facts: What we say isn’t always what we mean. In times of conflict and miscommunication\, try to talk about your emotions without getting emotional.\n*   Be less passionate about your job: Taking a chill pill can actually make you healthier and more focused. \nDrawing on what we’ve learned from behavioral economics\, psychology\, and our own experiences at countless organizations\, we’ll show you how to bring your best self (and your whole self) to work every day.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-fosslien-and-mollie-west-duffy/
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:Alexandra Bracken and Tamara Ireland Stone
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Bracken is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series\, (the movie was released in August of this year and starred Amandla Stenberg)\, Passenger\, and Wayfarer. Her middle grade Prosper Redding series balances magic\, humor\, and heart and is about a modern New England boy who must rid himself of the ancient demon inhabiting his body and break his family’s curse. She sold her first book\, Brightly Woven\, as a senior in college\, worked in children’s book publishing as an editorial assistant and then in marketing\, and now writes full time. \nTamara Ireland Stone is the author of Time and Time Again\, a collection of her two novels Time Between Us and Time After Time\, as well as the New York Times bestseller Every Last Word. Her middle grade Click’d series features Allie Navarro’s explorations in computer programming and weaves together middle school friendship\, first crushes\, and serious coding skills that will have readers cheering Allie on from the first page to the last. She is a Silicon Valley native and has worked in the technology industry all her life\, first testing Atari game boards in her parents’ garage\, and later\, co-founding a woman-owned marketing strategy firm where she worked with some of the world’s largest software companies. She’s passionate about promoting STEM education for girls. \nDon’t miss this chance to hear two amazing authors showcase their wonderful middle grade sequels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-bracken-and-tamara-ireland-stone/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:'Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change'
DESCRIPTION:The best-selling author of “Subliminal” and “The Drunkard’s Walk” teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain. \nIn this startling and provocative look at how the human mind deals with change\, Leonard Mlodinow shows us how to unleash the natural abilities we all possess so we can thrive in dynamic and troubled times. Truly original minds capitalize when everyone else struggles. And most of us assume that these abilities are innate\, reserved for a select few. But Mlodinow reveals that we all possess them\, that we all have encoded in our brains a skill he terms elastic thinking-and he guides us in how to harness it. \nDrawing on groundbreaking research\, Mlodinow outlines how we can learn to let go of comfortable ideas and become accustomed to ambiguity and contradiction; how we can rise above conventional mindsets and reframe the questions we ask; and how we can improve our ability to solve problems and generate new ideas-critical skills for achieving professional and personal success in our quickly morphing world. \nLeonard Mlodinow’s previous books include the best sellers “Subliminal” (winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science writing award)\, “The Drunkard’s Walk” (a New York Times Notable Book)\, “War of the Worldviews” (with Deepak Chopra) and “The Grand Design” (with Stephen Hawking)\, as well as “The Upright Thinkers”\, “Feynman’s Rainbow” and “Euclid’s Window.” His most recent book is “Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change.” He also wrote for the television series “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” \nNamed to the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist. \nPaperback copies of the book will be available for sale at the event for $16 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto. \n$18 General Public | $15 Members and J-Pass holders | $12 Students with ID. \nPresented by The Oshman Family JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elastic-unlocking-your-brains-ability-to-embrace-change/
LOCATION:Oshman Family JCC\, Freidenrich Conference Center\, Room F-401\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Barry Eisler
DESCRIPTION:Barry Eisler served three years with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. He worked as a technology lawyer. He has been at various times a startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan. In his instantly bestselling John Rain series\, a lifetime of experience came to a crossroads. He followed with the un-put-downable stories of sharp-shooting assassin Dox; and sex-crimes detective\, turned martial arts expert\, Livia Lone. \nIn his new book THE KILLER COLLECTIVE\, Barry Eisler offers a true magnum opus. In this long-awaited novel\, Eisler assembles the most dangerous team yet: John Rain\, Livia Lone\, Dox\, and a cast of his most volatile characters travel across Seattle\, Paris\, and Japan to confront their most treacherous enemy yet … one who could sit at the highest levels of the U.S. Government. \nEisler’s thrillers have earned a range of awards from the Barry Award to the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller. His work is included in numerous “Best of” lists and has been translated into nearly twenty languages. Don’t miss your chance to meet one of the Bay Area’s most exciting writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-eisler-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Johannes Lichtman
DESCRIPTION:Johannes Lichtman discusses his new novel\, Such Good Work. \n\nPraise for Such Good Work \n\n“I honestly can’t think of a novel I would more want to be reading in the very particular now of our world. Lichtman’s narrator is an everyman (albeit a singular one) who just wants to be good—that slipperiest of ambitions—and yet his efforts pretty much always go wrong. But also they don’t. Wisely comic and tremendously moving\, Such Good Work thinks in detail about immigration\, addiction\, privilege\, power and loneliness; but it does so by mining the seemingly inconsequential for its true profundity. Lichtman never falls for the siren song of self-seriousness\, and that is part of what makes his novel feel so accurate\, and so important. In being open to complexity\, and sensitive to absurdity\, Such Good Work gets at the wholeness and difficulty and beauty of lives both ordinary and extraordinary.”—RIVKA GALCHEN\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Johannes Lichtman has given us a powerful\, unsparingly honest portrayal of a soul in torment\, trying to find his way to a decent life.  How to love\, how to work–how to live\, however modestly\, with meaning and purpose inside a self that for too long has used booze and drugs to avoid the hard work of being human.  Building a genuine self\, that’s an inside job\, and in Such Good Work Lichtman delivers a deeply affecting novel of one young man’s struggle to be whole.”—BEN FOUNTAIN\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n\nAbout Such Good Work \n\nA timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving\,” about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö\, Sweden\, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning. \nJonas Anderson might be an excellent teacher if he weren’t addicted to drugs. Instead\, at age twenty-eight\, he’s been fired from yet another creative writing position after assigning homework like\, visit a stranger’s funeral and write about it. \nJonas needs to do something drastic and\, as a dual American-Swedish citizen\, he knows Sweden is an easy place to be a graduate student and a difficult place to be a drug addict. The year is 2015 when he arrives in Malmö\, a city trying to cope with the arrival of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees. Driven by an existential need to “do good\,” Jonas volunteers with an organization that teaches Swedish to the desperate and idling young refugees. But one young man\, Aziz\, will force Jonas to question whether “doing good” can actually help another person. \nSuch Good Work is a darkly funny work of autofiction that asks us to consider how one should go about being a good person in our modern world. In his striking debut novel\, Johannes Lichtman’s uses pathos and humor to grapple with simple yet necessary questions—Such Good Work begs you to consider the person you are\, as well as the person you hope to be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johannes-lichtman/
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:Esmé Weijun Wang - - The Collected Schizophrenias w/ Caille Millner
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her new new book The Collected Schizophrenias\, on Thursday\, February 7th at 7pm. She will be joined by Caille Milner \nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. \nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification(Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have been in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and listed in Best American Essays 2017. Her awards include the Barnes and Noble Emerging Writers Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, February 7\, 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/esme-weijun-wang-the-collected-schizophrenias-w-caille-millner/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Analicia Sotelo
DESCRIPTION:Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7\, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art \nTHURSDAY\nFebruary 7\, 2019\n7PM \nSan José\, Museum of Art\n110 S. Market Street\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Assistant Professor of Spanish Vanessa Fernandez – plus a book sale and signing. \nAnalicia Sotelo’s debut poetry collection Virgin is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. At every step\, these poems seduce with history\, folklore\, and sensory detail—grilled meat\, golden habañeros\, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power\, deceit\, relationships\, and ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/analicia-sotelo/
LOCATION:San Jose Museum of Art\, 110 Market St\, San José\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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