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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Susan Alexander Red Diana
DESCRIPTION:Author Susan Alexander will discuss her most recent book “Red Diana”\, a psychological thriller. Set in San Francisco\, the book is a sequel to “A Quicker Blood”.\n \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-susan-alexander-red-diana/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Damon Krukowski
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \n  \n \nWays of Hearing \nby Damon Krukowski \nforward by Emily Thompson \npublished by MIT Press \n\nA writer-musician examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time\, space\, love\, money\, and power. \nOur voices carry farther than ever before\, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In this book\, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time\, space\, love\, money\, and power. In Ways of Hearing—modeled on Ways of Seeing\, John Berger’s influential 1972 book on visual culture—Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Just as Ways of Seeing began as a BBC television series\, Ways of Hearing is based on a six-part podcast produced for the groundbreaking public radio podcast network Radiotopia. Inventive uses of text and design help bring the message beyond the range of earbuds. \nEach chapter of Ways of Hearing explores a different aspect of listening in the digital age: time\, space\, love\, money\, and power. Digital time\, for example\, is designed for machines. When we trade broadcast for podcast\, or analog for digital in the recording studio\, we give up the opportunity to perceive time together through our media. On the street\, we experience public space privately\, as our headphones allow us to avoid “ear contact” with the city. Heard on a cell phone\, our loved ones’ voices are compressed\, stripped of context by digital technology. Music has been dematerialized\, no longer an object to be bought and sold. With recommendation algorithms and playlists\, digital corporations have created a media universe that adapts to us\, eliminating the pleasures of brick-and-mortar browsing. Krukowski lays out a choice: do we want a world enriched by the messiness of noise\, or one that strives toward the purity of signal only? \nDamon Krukowski is a writer and musician. Author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World\, he has taught writing and sound (and writing about sound) at Harvard University. He was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nVisit Damon’s website: http://www.dadadrummer.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damon-krukowski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell - - How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Jenny Odell to discuss her new new book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, on Thursday\, March 18th at 7pm. \nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 18\, 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/jenny-odell-how-to-do-nothing/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Presti: Mind Beyond Brain
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Apr 18\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe Basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nMind Beyond Brain is about expanding an empirical science of mind and consciousness. One way forward in developing an expanded science of mind is to take seriously empirical data for phenomena that are not accounted for within the current explanatory framework – the anomalies within contemporary science. The discussion in this book is placed in the context of the contemporary dialogue between Buddhism and science – specifically neuroscience\, psychology\, and physics – a conversation that has evolved substantially over the last 35 years. Despite many developments that have arisen from this conversation\, an important aspect that has not thus far been much appreciated is the engagement of complementary worldviews – one wherein mind is a relatively late evolutionary addition\, and another wherein mind and world are far more deeply and interdependently related. \nDavid Presti teaches neurobiology\, psychology\, and cognitive science at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he has been on the faculty for 28 years. For ten years he worked in the clinical treatment of substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco. And for the last 15 years he has been teaching neuroscience and dialoguing about science with Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in India\, Nepal\, and Bhutan. He is author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016) and Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism\, Science\, and the Paranormal (2018).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-presti-mind-beyond-brain/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lori Gottlieb with Irvin D. Yalom
DESCRIPTION:Lori Gottlieb is the bestselling author\, therapist and speaker behind the Dear Therapist advice column at The Atlantic. In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, Gottlieb offers a bird’s eye-view into the therapist’s office in a book that is part clinician’s journal\, part memoir\, part reckoning with the experience of living. Literary with a spot of self-help\, Kirkus calls Gottlieb’s latest “an irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition\,” while Susan Cain goes even further: “Wise\, warm\, smart\, and funny… if you have even an ounce of interest in the conundrum of being human\, you must read this book.” \nWith a degree from Stanford\, a successful writing career\, kids\, and years of experience in private practice under her belt\, Gottlieb most prizes her credentials as “a card-carrying member of the human race.” She advocates healing and a healthy life through the revision of our own well-worn personal stories. \nJoin this brilliant\, down-to-earth and talented human being as she visits Kepler’s for a conversation with the legendary Irvin D. Yalom\, bestselling author of Love’s Executioner and Professor Emeritus at Stanford. \nTogether\, these two great minds will explore Gottlieb’s book\, therapeutic practice\, and what it means to grow in connection with others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-gottlieb-with-irvin-d-yalom/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lydia Fitzpatrick
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Fitzpatrick discusses her debut novel\, Lights All Night Long. \n\nPraise for Lights All Night Long \n“Lights All Night Long is as delicious as it is dazzling—a mystery I was tempted to read in one sitting as well as a startling\, clear-eyed exploration of what holds us together\, regardless of location or distance. Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely observed\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s debut shines as brightly as its title.”—Chloe Benjamin\, author of The Immortalists \n“For readers drawn to literary thrills\, Lights All Night Long offers drugs\, sex\, and murder\, but this supple\, sparkling novel is really about tender souls navigating unfamiliar terrain and human bonds warm enough to thaw snowbanks. The indecipherable language of loss\, love\, and longing is normally impossible to understand. At last\, thankfully\, we have Lydia Fitzpatrick to interpret it.”—Adam Johnson\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. Lydia Fitzpatrick writes with cinematic clarity about life on margins of contemporary Russia and America. The result is one of the most propulsive\, un-put-downable literary novels I’ve read in ages.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“This intricate\, capacious\, startlingly inventive novel is so vivid\, and rings so true\, that its characters have taken up permanent residence in my imagination. What an accomplishment.”—R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A cross-cultural coming-of-age story that breaks your heart in the best way. Full of tender hopes and hard truths\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s first novel marks the debut of a gifted storyteller.”—Maggie Shipstead\, author of Seating Arrangements \n  \nAbout Lights All Night Long \nFifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world–the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions–is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie\, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter\, has miraculously taken an interest in him. \nBut all is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir\, the magnetic rebel to Ilya’s dutiful wunderkind\, back in their tiny Russian hometown. The two have always been close\, spending their days dreaming of escaping to America. But when Ilya was tapped for the exchange\, Vladimir disappeared into their town’s seedy\, drug-plagued underworld. Just before Ilya left\, the murders of three young women rocked the town’s usual calm\, and Vladimir found himself in prison. \nWith the help of Sadie\, who has secrets of her own\, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir’s innocence. Piecing together the timeline of the murders and Vladimir’s descent into addiction\, Ilya discovers the radical lengths to which Vladimir has gone to protect him–a truth he could only have learned by leaving him behind. \nA rich tale of belonging and the pull of homes both native and adopted\, Lights All Night Long is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-fitzpatrick/
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:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Hampton\n\n\n\n\nPresents Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 18\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lydia Fitzpatrick and Tony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Fitzpatrick discusses her debut novel\, Lights All Night Long with Tony Marra. \n\nPraise for Lights All Night Long \n“Lights All Night Long is as delicious as it is dazzling—a mystery I was tempted to read in one sitting as well as a startling\, clear-eyed exploration of what holds us together\, regardless of location or distance. Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely observed\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s debut shines as brightly as its title.”—Chloe Benjamin\, author of The Immortalists \n“For readers drawn to literary thrills\, Lights All Night Long offers drugs\, sex\, and murder\, but this supple\, sparkling novel is really about tender souls navigating unfamiliar terrain and human bonds warm enough to thaw snowbanks. The indecipherable language of loss\, love\, and longing is normally impossible to understand. At last\, thankfully\, we have Lydia Fitzpatrick to interpret it.”—Adam Johnson\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. Lydia Fitzpatrick writes with cinematic clarity about life on margins of contemporary Russia and America. The result is one of the most propulsive\, un-put-downable literary novels I’ve read in ages.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“This intricate\, capacious\, startlingly inventive novel is so vivid\, and rings so true\, that its characters have taken up permanent residence in my imagination. What an accomplishment.”—R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A cross-cultural coming-of-age story that breaks your heart in the best way. Full of tender hopes and hard truths\, Lydia Fitzpatrick’s first novel marks the debut of a gifted storyteller.”—Maggie Shipstead\, author of Seating Arrangements \n  \nAbout Lights All Night Long \nFifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world–the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions–is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie\, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter\, has miraculously taken an interest in him. \nBut all is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir\, the magnetic rebel to Ilya’s dutiful wunderkind\, back in their tiny Russian hometown. The two have always been close\, spending their days dreaming of escaping to America. But when Ilya was tapped for the exchange\, Vladimir disappeared into their town’s seedy\, drug-plagued underworld. Just before Ilya left\, the murders of three young women rocked the town’s usual calm\, and Vladimir found himself in prison. \nWith the help of Sadie\, who has secrets of her own\, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir’s innocence. Piecing together the timeline of the murders and Vladimir’s descent into addiction\, Ilya discovers the radical lengths to which Vladimir has gone to protect him–a truth he could only have learned by leaving him behind. \nA rich tale of belonging and the pull of homes both native and adopted\, Lights All Night Long is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-fitzpatrick-and-tony-marra/
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:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers and Musical guests: tba \nWith your host Bloodflower \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Darius James
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University and New York Review Books in conjunction with City Lights present an afternoon with \nDarius James \n \ncelebrating the eagerly awaited re-release of his seminal novel \nNegrophobia: An Urban Parable \nintroduction by Amy Abugo Ongiri \npublished by New York Review Books \nDarius James’s scabrous\, unapologetically raunchy\, truly hilarious\, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind\, a performance on the page\, a work of poetry\, a mad mix of genres and styles\, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel\, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets\, Muslims beat conga drums\, Negroes have numbers for names\, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all\, after going on a weird trip for the ages\, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed. \nDarius James is a writer and spoken-word performance artist. He is also the author of That’s Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss ‘Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury); Voodoo Stew; and Froggie Chocolate’s Christmas Eve. His writing has appeared in multiple publications\, including The Village Voice\, Vibe\, and Spin\, and he is the co-writer and narrator of the 2012 film The United States of Hoodoo. He makes his home in Connecticut. \nPraise for the work of Darius James \nLuridly funny and unsparingly smart\, Negrophobia is American arcana of the highest order. And like all truly cool books\, destined to forever be ahead of its time.\n—Paul Beatty \nDarius James is a great writer.\n—Kathy Acker \nI opened James’s book only to topple into hell. In fact\, Negrophobia is the black version of American Psycho.\n—Dany Laferrière\, Los Angeles Times \nI read Negrophobia when I was still in grad school. . . . It was one of those good but rare occasions when I thought there might be one other person in the world that would get what I was doing.\n—Kara Walker\, DB Artmag \nComic\, manic\, and amazing\, [Negrophobia] tells more about American race relations than all of the walking dead suburban experts\, academics\, and think tank whores who tell their fellow suburbanites about how it feels to be black.\n—Ishmael Reed \nJarring\, outrageous images hurtle from nearly every page of this postmodern vivisection of the contemporary African American condition…. There is imagination and wicked humor in all of this\, as well as some piercing insight.\n—Publishers Weekly \nThis is a novel of exposure\, not solution. Those willing to take the ride will find language and imagery that provide an understanding of everything offensive and American. To see Bubbles dragged through the mire of racial and sexual taboos is to experience the reclamation of the icons and stereotypes that are the signposts of relations among Americans. It’s not an altogether pleasant experience. No one who reads Negrophobia is playing in the dark — just lost in it. The novel\, however\, is no more unpleasant an experience than\, say\, having a police baton swung at your body\, or having a steel-tipped boot kick you a few hundred times after you’ve been dragged out of your tractor-trailer. With its feet firmly planted in the satiric tradition of Voltaire Ishmael Reed\, John Kennedy Toole\, and Okot p’Bitek\, James’s book is both timely and necessary.\n—Christian Haye\, The Village Voice \nWild\, non-stop phantasmagoria…In style\, theme\, and tone\, the work of performance artist James is somewhat reminiscent of Ishmael Reed or Amiri Baraka\, but his dialog is snappier. The vibrant prose makes for lively reading. Highly recommended.\n—Library Journal \nThe black version of American Psycho…One says to oneself: Either this guy is literally crazy or I’m in the presence of a real writer…Something very serious has occurred to the American psyche\, and that this thing is tied to racism\, and that Darius James’ delirium was necessary to explain it.\n—Dany Laferriere\, Los Angeles Times \nA pop-schlock phantasmagoria that owes as much to William Burroughs as it does to S. Clay Wilson. James’s raucous debut is by far the best novel to emerge from New York’s Lower East Side literary scene.\n—Kirkus \nDarius James is a great writer.\n—Kathy Acker \nDarius James is one of the funniest writers in America\, and one of the most serious. His subject is the big one: slavery; his questions are the big ones: who is slave to what?\n—George Trow \nComic strip\, sci-fi flick\, vaudeville\, black-faced minstrel show\, and lyrical poem all rolled into one. Negrophobia is a funky\, raunchy\, angry\, hilarious nightmare vision of black culture. A ferocious send-up of African-American stereotypes and white racism. Darius James bursts into literature with a wild\, surrealistic imagination.\n—Catherine Texier \nDarius James is a dazzling scenarist\, a wanton imagist and a nubile perpetrator of the great felony on new literature. This is a writer of blazing intensity. Forever may he wave.\n—Joel Rose \nThis book is not a novel but a curse which will explode in your mind and cause your bottom to drop out. Of all the neo-hoodoo cosmogonic jesters\, Darius James proves himself to be the most promising.\n—Steve Cannon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/darius-james/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris\nWho needs to be talked into reading this comic genius?? Sedaris is so smart and funny\, such a master of observation\, that he is calling the seminars away from our usual fiction to immerse us in his hilarious world. Leavened with some of his smartest humor\, this volume encompasses not only Sedaris’s singular childhood but the hazards of growing older. We will take a close look at how his humor works\, how structure impacts the essays and why diction is key in any good writing. I can almost guarantee a significant lift in mood as soon as you settle in to this work by the man Oprah Magazine rightly calls the “funniest writer in America.” \nA copy of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is included in the price of the Seminar and should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Nathaniel Rich / Losing Earth: A Recent History
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Nathaniel Rich for his new book Losing Earth: A Recent History\, based on the New York Times Magazine special issue “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change\,” also currently in development as a TV series by Apple and Anonymous Content. Join us for the one Bay Area chance to see the author present the most urgent story of our times\, brilliantly reframed and beautifully told\, live and in person. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nBy 1979\, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change — including how to stop it. Over the next decade\, a handful of scientists\, politicians\, and strategists\, led by two unlikely heroes\, risked their careers in a desperate\, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story\, and ours. \n  \nThe New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade\, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon — the subject of news coverage\, editorials\, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age\, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. \n  \nNow expanded into book form\, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer\, more intimate terms. It reveals\, in previously unreported detail\, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day\, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past\, our future\, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth\, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here\, and how we must go forward. \n  \n\nNathaniel Rich is the author of the novels King Zeno\, Odds Against Tomorrow\, and The Mayor’s Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New Orleans. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n–  Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n–  Signing and additional details coming soon. \n–  This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n–  If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Losing Earth\, and/or any of Nat’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n–  RSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-nathaniel-rich-losing-earth-a-recent-history/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets Joseph Noble and Todd Melicker
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Apr 22\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nTodd Melicker regularly communes with the fog of San Francisco’s Outer Richmond. His most recent book is this the body / if hovers is just out from lyric& Press.rendezvous\, his first book\, was published by Rescue Press in 2013 as the winner of the second annual Black Box Prize. He is the author of the chapbooks the immaculate autopsy (Achiote Press) and king & queen (LRL Editions). His work can also be found in VOLT\, jubilat\, Verse\, and Tupelo Quarterly. \nJoseph Noble’s poetry has appeared in Hambone\, OR\, New American Writing\, Five Fingers Review\, The New Review of Literature\, Eleven Eleven\, and other journals. Three of his essays on the poet George Oppen have appeared in Talisman\, Aufgabe\, and Sagetrieb. He has published three books of poetry\, An Ives Set (2006\, lyric& Press)\, Antiphonal Airs (Skylight Press\, 2013)\, and Within Hearing (2018\, lyric& Press) and a chapbook\, Homage to the Gods (Berkeley Neo-Baroque\, 2012). He also plays flutes and saxophones in the quartet Ouroboros (https://ouroborosquartet.bandcamp.com)\, the trio Ornithos Loom (https://ornithosloom.bandcamp.com)\, the woodwind trio Echo’s Bones\, and the duo Chamber Cloud\, and played in the now defunct band Cloud Shepherd (http://cloud-shepherd.bandcamp.com). His website is: http://www.josephnoble
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-joseph-noble-and-todd-melicker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-7/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with ALLIE LARKIN at Books Inc. in The Marina
DESCRIPTION:Join internationally bestselling author Allie Larkin for a Book Launch celebrating her charming new novel\, Swimming for Sunlight. \nWhen recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida\, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers–finding hope and renewal in unexpected places\, in this sweet novel perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Claire Cook. \nAspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful\, faithful rescue dog\, Barkimedes. While she figures out what to do next\, she heads back to Florida to live with her grandmother\, Nan. \nBut Katie quickly learns there’s a lot she doesn’t know about Nan–like the fact that in her youth Nan was a mermaid performer in a roadside attraction show\, swimming and dancing underwater with a close-knit cast of talented women. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch\, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook\, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes\, but first\, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water. \nAs Katie’s college love Luca\, a documentary filmmaker\, enters the fray\, Katie struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety\, and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own\, in this thoughtful\, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 23\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-with-allie-larkin-at-books-inc-in-the-marina/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dirty Old Women Read Erotica
DESCRIPTION:Donna George Storey’s goal is to change the world one sexy story at a time. She is the author of Amorous Woman\, an erotic novel based on her own experiences living in Japan.  Her adults-only tales have appeared in nearly two hundred publications including Dirty Old Women: Erotica by Women of Experience\, Penthouse\, and Ageless Erotica. She will read from her work-in-progress\, a short story collection of her greatest hits\, each accompanied by an essay on the craft of erotica writing and a meditation on the ways our society’s myths about sexuality keep us all from realizing our potential for pleasure. \nChris Orr is a founding member of the Elderotica writing group in the East Bay. Her specialty is short fiction with humor and hotness. She appears from time to time in Oakland Magazine with “around town” pieces. Back in the 70s\, Chris had a blast publishing Plexus\, a newspaper\, created by a collective of radical feminists. \nAs always\, we start with an open mic that’s open to all. Featured readings begin at 8 pm at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster at 21st St.\, Oakland. This event is free\, inclusive and accessible!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirty-old-women-read-erotica/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Seminar: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris\nWho needs to be talked into reading this comic genius?? Sedaris is so smart and funny\, such a master of observation\, that he is calling the seminars away from our usual fiction to immerse us in his hilarious world. Leavened with some of his smartest humor\, this volume encompasses not only Sedaris’s singular childhood but the hazards of growing older. We will take a close look at how his humor works\, how structure impacts the essays and why diction is key in any good writing. I can almost guarantee a significant lift in mood as soon as you settle in to this work by the man Oprah Magazine rightly calls the “funniest writer in America.” \nA copy of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is included in the price of the Seminar and should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-seminar-lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our April book at the March Book Club meeting (3/27)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on March 28 while supplies last. \nAPRIL’S BOOK CLUB PICK: \nWILD MILK\nby Sabrina Orah Mark \nWILD MILK is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words\, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything you’ve read. \n“The stories drift in the way of the best fairy tales—released from dependence on narrative sensibility to become both more odd and more true than any mere fiction…Stories in which laughter is sometimes the only response to sorrow\, beauty is strange\, and love is fierce and unending. A necessary book for our perilous age.”—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nSabrina Orah Mark has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Glenn Schaeffer Foundation\, and The National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of WILD MILK (Dorothy\, a publishing project\, 2018) as well as the poetry collections TSIM TSUM and THE BABIES\, both from Saturnalia Books. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and in the anthologies\, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and The Best American Poetry 2007. \n  \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to facilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around literature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-3/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
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SUMMARY:Ed Bok Lee
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMitochondrial Night: Poems \nfrom Coffee House Press \nPoems that trace paths through time\, genealogy\, and geography\, locating the generational legacy of history. \nTaking mitochondrial DNA as his guide\, Ed Bok Lee explores familial and national legacies\, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems\, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn\, and in her cry generations of women’s voices echo. Stories\, both benign and traumatic\, travel as lore and DNA. Using lush\, exact imagery\, whether about the corner bar or a hilltop in Korea\, Lee is a careful observer\, tracking and documenting the way that seemingly small moments can lead to larger insights. \nEd Bok Lee is the author of Whorled (Coffee House Press) and a recipient of a 2012 American Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Lee is the son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea. Lee grew up in South Korea\, North Dakota\, and Minnesota\, and was educated there and on both U.S. coasts\, Russia\, South Korea\, and Kazakhstan. He teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. Other honors include the Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award) and a PEN Open Book Award. \nPraise for Ed Bok Lee \n“There is a nomadic beauty to Ed Bok Lee’s Whorled\, which pulses with raw political anger and vital lyricism.” —The Guardian \n“These poems work in powerful concert to give body to an entire world of beauty\, terror\, loss\, grief\, and joy. The strength and magnetism of Lee’s voice come from his mind’s profound awareness of a person’s embeddedness in a context simultaneously personal and archetypal; social\, historical\, political\, and cosmic.” —Li-Young Lee \n“Like mitochondrion\, from whence this exhilarating book’s title comes\, the poet’s eye and spirit are ubiquitous\, examining and probing the tangled bloodlines of our social and political networks\, and the parasitic heft we are exerting on the world’s chest. Formally protean and polyphonic\, the poems change shapes and registers in a thrilling and often poignant chase after their truth. Ed Bok Lee’s Mitochondrial Night is a thrilling book by a gifted poet at the height of his powers.” —Khaled Mattawa \n“In Mitochondrial Night\, Ed Bok Lee takes us on an intimate journey through space and time\, introduces us to people and places we have and have not met\, to center us in our humblest humanity. Lee is a shaman\, he rides with his pen into the vast darkness of our pasts\, centers us in our present\, and then makes the fearless leap into the imagined\, the predestined future. He looks to raise from the dead the spirits of wars lost\, wars long forgotten\, the wars being waged now\, and he does so with a light\, lonely hand. This collection is explosive; it shatters the boundaries of self in the service of art.” —Kao Kalia Yang \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-bok-lee/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and The Open Chamber
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 24 7 – 9 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews\, Journals\, and Ephemera\, on Joanne Kyger (forthcoming from Wave Books\, 2017)\, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry\, including Royals (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Language Arts (Wave Books\, 2014)\, Stranger in Town (City Lights\, 2010)\, Expensive Magic (House Press\, 2008)\, and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and University Press Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-necessary-darkness-barbara-guest-and-the-open-chamber/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PIERRE JARAWAN at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Internationally-acclaimed writer Pierre Jarawan shares his astounding debut novel\, The Storyteller. \nSamir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home\, Germany\, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets\, love\, and friendship\, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls away the curtain of grim facts and figures portrayed in the media and shows an intimate truth of what it means to come from a country torn apart by civil war. With this beautiful and suspenseful story\, full of images\, Jarawan proves to be a masterful storyteller himself. \nPierre Jarawan is the son of a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father’s love of telling imaginative bedtime stories\, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet\, received the City of Munich literary scholarship (the Bayerische Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller\, and was chosen as Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper AZ. His debut novel The Storyteller was a Spiegel bestseller in Germany\, proclaimed Book of the Month by the leading Dutch television talk show DWDD\, and received unanimous rave reviews from the European press. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pierre-jarawan-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Myla Goldberg / Feast Your Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Myla Godberg reading from her new novel Feast Your Eyes. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us for Myla’s only Bay Area appearance! \n  \nFeast Your Eyes\, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art\, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother\, America’s Bravest Mother\, America’s Worst Photographer\, or America’s Greatest Photographer\, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club\, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha\, Lillian is arrested\, thrust into the national spotlight\, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. \n  \nNarrated by Samantha\, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha’s memories\, interviews with Lillian’s friends and lovers\, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and letters — a collage of stories and impressions\, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated\, above all\, to a vision of beauty\, truth\, and authenticity. \n  \n\n  \n“A riveting portrait of an artist who happens to be a woman.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n  \n“Reading Myla Goldberg’s Feast Your Eyes reminded me of other unlikely adventure stories\, like Hillary’s summit of the Himalayas\, or Shackleton’s return from Antarctica. Only here the human constraints are still more challenging: making art as a single mother in a twentieth century dominated\, and distorted\, by men. This is an unflinching\, deeply moving portrait of the artist\, and a bravura performance in and of itself. I loved this book.” – Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour \n  \n\n  \nMyla Goldberg is the bestselling author of Feast Your Eyes\, The False Friend\, Wickett’s Remedy\, and Bee Season\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize\, and a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award\, the NYPL Young Lions award\, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award. It was adapted to film and widely translated. In addition to her novels\, she has written an essay collection\, a children’s book\, and short stories that have appeared in Harper’s. She teaches in the fiction programs at Sarah Lawrence and NYU and has been known to sing and play accordion and banjo in the Brooklyn art-punk band The Walking Hellos. She was also the subject of a song by The Decemberists\, “Song for Myla Goldberg.” She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jason Little and their two daughters. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Feast Your Eyes\, and/or any of Myla’s books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/myla-goldberg-feast-your-eyes/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 24\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Returns to read from her latest Maisie Dobbs novel The American Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:Jane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of Yeah No and My Enemies\, both from The Song Cave\, as well as several chapbooks. Her work has been most recently published or reviewed in The Believer\, Omniverse\, and The New York Times. She is co-editor and co-founder (with Lyn Hejinian and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press\, and she works for Small Press Distribution. \nGRADUATE STUDENT READING SERIES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Neda Atanasoski in conversation with Kalindi Vora
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new book \nSurrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures \npublished by Duke University Press \n(part of the Perverse Modernities Series edited by Lisa Lowe and Jack Halberstam) \nIn Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots\, artificial intelligence\, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies\, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms\, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness\, settler colonialism\, and patriarchy are fundamental to human—machine interactions\, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future\, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work\, exploitation\, dispossession\, and capitalist accumulation. Yet\, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human—more rational killers\, more efficient workers\, and tireless companions—the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \nKalindi Vora is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. \nPerverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.  Books in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres.  Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death.  The project also highlights intellectual “perversities\,” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neda-atanasoski-in-conversation-with-kalindi-vora/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cherrie Moraga
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed artist\, Cherríe Moraga delivers a poetic\, heart-wrenching reflection on her mother’s complex relationship to America and the pioneering\, queer Latina feminist daughter who continues down the path of identity forged by her battle-tested matriarch. \nAs a child\, Elvira was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. Leaving California in the late-1920s\, she became a cigarette girl in Jazz-age Tijuana\, meeting a wealthy white man who taught her life lesson of power\, sex\, and opportunity. In her old age\, she suffered under the yoke of Alzheimer’s. In relief against the extraordinary story of Elvira’s life\, is Cherríe’s own journey. Through Native Country of the Heart and her mother’s trials\, Moraga traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of the pueblo. \nMeet Cherríe Moraga – co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back and cofounder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press – one of the most influential artist activists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Franny Choi and sam sax / Soft Science
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Franny Choi (Floating\, Brilliant\, Gone)\, in town to read from her second collection of poems\, Soft Science. Joining her is sam sax (Madness and Bury It). Don’t miss this evening of readings with these phenomenal young poets! \n  \nIn Franny Choi’s highly-anticipated collection\, Soft Science\, she uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer\, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems guides readers as Choi asks questions not just of identity\, but of consciousness — of how to speak and love\, in a world filled with strange (and sometimes violent) distances. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology\, gender\, violence\, erasure\, agency\, and loneliness. And we’re asked to examine the biggest question: “What does it mean to be human?” \n  \n\n  \n“Wearing a crown of sonnets like a dime store tiara\, Franny Choi’s cyborg cephalopod is a creature of unending amazements\, unfurling tendril after tendril—some surgical\, some sensual\, some weaponized\, some rubberized—brandishing hypodermics\, vibrators\, cigarettes\, smartphones\, or simply snapping in time to the beat. With uncanny tonal and technical dexterity\, she can play upon your emotions\, tickle your sweet spot\, then press all of your buttons at once. At once raw and radiant\, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness\, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.” – Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre  \n  \n“In Soft Science\, the reigning consciousness is split\, human teetering into machine\, machine forced to demonstrate its humanness via acts of ritual testing\, a passion play in which alienation seeks authenticity and dissociation pursues kin. Franny Choi’s generous inventiveness transmutes the book’s violent lore into a ferocious tenderness. In its conceptual heft\, formal virtuosity\, queer imagination\, multi-dexterous approach to language\, and tonal intricacy\, Soft Science is a crucial book for our time – perhaps the book for our time.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \n  \n“Franny Choi’s Soft Science offers an exceptional exploration both of all that comprises the intimate and of all that consumes the communal in our lives. Whether tracking the adventures of the ‘cyborg’ or eavesdropping on conversations between sisters\, it’s all the same world. These striking poems ring through with a singular voice\, creating a society that helps us understand our own. When you open a book of poems\, ‘isn’t that what you came to see?’ Choi builds a world not only of striking beauty and lucid politics\, but also\, more importantly\, with love.” – A. Van Jordan\, author of The Cineste \n  \n\n  \nFranny Choi is a poet\, performer\, editor\, and playwright. She is the author ofFloating\, Brilliant\, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, American Poetry Review\, the New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Senior News Editor for Hyphen\, cohost of the Poetry Foundation’s podcast VS\, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection\, Soft Science\, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2018. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan\, she is currently based near Detroit\, MI. Author photo by Qurissy Lopez. \n  \nsam sax is a queer\, jewish\, poet\, & educator. He’s the author of Madness(Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, author of four chapbooks & winner of the Gulf Coast Prize\, The Iowa Review Award\, & American Literary Award. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Poetry Magazine + other journals. He’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press & will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University this Fall. Author photo by Hollis Rafkin-Sax. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Soft Science\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/franny-choi-and-sam-sax-soft-science/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, outgoing poet laureate of Marin County will host this event\, welcoming the new poet laureate and honoring previous poets laureate. The evening will feature brief readings by all. \nRebecca’s books include Paradise Drive (Press 53 Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin won the 2018 Swan Scythe chapbook prize and is forthcoming in 2019. Recognitions include the Cavafy and James Hearst Poetry Prizes\, the Lascaux and American Literary Review Fiction Prizes\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Passionate about literature for everyone\, not just the educated elite\, and about using it to further social justice\, Foust is happy to be able to promote these goals as Marin Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for the online magazine\, Women’s Voices for Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration-2/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Foust & Nicholas Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust’s book Paradise Drive  won the 2015 Press 53 Prize for Poetry\, and was widely reviewed in such venues as the Times Literary Supplement\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, Huffington Post\, Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, and Hudson Review.  Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize\, God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Small Press Distribution\, 2010)\, winner of the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Poetry\, and Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card\, recipients of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Poetry Prize in consecutive years\, 2008 and 2009. Recognitions include the Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, the Lascaux Flash Fiction Prize\, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, Sewanee and the Frost Place.  She is Marin County Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change. \nNicholas Friedman’s debut book\, Petty Theft (Criterion Books\, 2018)\, is the winner of the The New Criterion Poetry Prize. B. H. Fairchild called Petty Theft a “brilliant\, beautifully crafted first book” by a poet “who remembers the art of poetry\, practices it superbly\, and so\, like Keats\, is able to offer us the music of Truth ‘proved upon our pulses’\,” and Charles Martin called it “a first book of exceptional achievement.” His poems have appeared in The New York Times\, POETRY\, Yale Review\, and other venues. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-foust-nicholas-friedman/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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