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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Egan joins us on Saturday\, June 9th to celebrate the paperback release of Manhattan Beach. \n\nPraise for Manhattan Beach \n\n“A bounteous miracle that makes you feel that past time\, and our time\, differently; everything becomes freshly energized\, infused with humanity\, vital\, sad\, and full of importance. To see the world through Egan’s eyes is to be moved\, through language\, to new adoration of the world. I don’t know a better writer working today. There is a generosity in her prose that is vastly enlivening to its reader and brings about that beautiful effect fiction sometimes causes: more\, and better-grounded\, fondness for reality\, just as it is.”—George Saunders \n\n“Manhattan Beach is so rich in detail and atmosphere; such an exploration of underworlds of all kinds\, filled with lessons on lifelines and buoyancy and how to bear life’s weight by diving deep into it. Jennifer Egan has masterfully conjured an era we are on the cusp of losing. Her novel is an absorbing story\, beautifully written. Its strands of subtle intrigue and quiet heroism make you reluctant to leave each page while eager to get to the next.”—M.L. Stedman \n\n“An unusually well written\, well researched\, emotionally satisfying page-turner . . . Manhattan Beach is the kind of book you can immerse yourself in happily.” –Heller McAlpin\, San Francisco Chronicle \n\nAbout Manhattan Beach \n\nThe daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nWith the atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft\, dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad\, one of the great writers of our time. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMANHATTAN BEACH (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$17.00\nISBN: 9781476716749\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Scribner Book Company – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n* Winner of the New York City Book Award\n* New York Times Bestseller \n* A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780307477477\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – March 22nd\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner\nPEN/Faulkner Award Finalist\nA New York Times Book Review Best Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE KEEP (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781400079742\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – July 10th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -the tower\, the last stand -is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOOK AT ME (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780385721356\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 8th\, 2002\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA National Book Award Finalist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780307387523\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel\, set in 1978\, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O Connor\, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith\, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEMERALD CITY (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780307387530\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing\, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives\, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-4/
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:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Adam Smyer (Knucklehead)\nChandler Klang Smith (The Sky Is Yours)\nNitasha Tiku (Wired)\nAdam Becker (What Is Real?) \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 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-12/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T160829
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beloved poet Tinker Greene is being forced to leave San Francisco! Join us for a celebration of his work and contribution to the poetry community . Also featuring Carrie Hunter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly\, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 7:00 (510/523-6957\, www.frankbettecenter.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-bryant-and-cher-wollard/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SHAZAM\, Linda and Carolyn at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event�\nFeaturing poets and birthday girls Linda Zeiser and Carolyn Stull-Zeiser as well as singer-songwriter SHAZAM\nHosted by Linda Zeiser\n$7 – $10 Admission includes raffle ticket for one of ten copies of THE HORIZONTAL POET by Jan Steckel\n6:30 – 7:30 Potluck: bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser.\nTo reserve open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, well in advance.\nWIP is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. Scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately not completely accessible).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shazam-linda-and-carolyn-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:Caroline Arden
DESCRIPTION:Launch for her debut YA novel\, The High Climber of Dark Water Bay \n“Arden has created the hero we have been waiting for in Young Adult Lit–Lizzie is authentic\, relatable and proves herself a force to be reckoned with. Engaging and immersive\, [her] writing is clean and crisp. Vivid imagery and concise storytelling combine to create a story for all ages.”–Kathleen Kaufman\, author of The Lairdbalor \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The High Climber of Dark Water Bay by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Lizzie is in trouble. She used to live a comfortable life with her loving father\, but after the stock market crash of 1929 and his sudden death\, she and her family now live in poverty. Lizzie is expected to help support the family\, but she can’t even cook without burning food. One day\, a letter arrives. Her wealthy uncle has offered her a paying job as a summer governess for her two young cousins at a remote logging camp\, so she travels alone into the wilderness of Vancouver\, British Columbia. To her horror\, she discovers that her uncle is missing from the camp. Penniless and stranded\, Lizzie’s worst fears are soon confirmed–she is being held hostage by the camp’s boss. “Accidents are easy to explain in the woods\,” he writes in a ransom letter to her uncle. Lizzie learns that in order to survive\, she will have to perform the most dangerous job at the camp–the high climber. She has one chance to save herself and return to her family. Her intelligence and bravery will be tested to the limit as she pulls on the climber harness to prove to everyone\, including herself\, what she is truly capable of. \nCaroline Arden holds an MFA in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. As a child she spent her summers at her grandparents’ home at a former logging camp in British Columbia. Now she lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-arden/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T150000
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Bruce H. Feingold
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Haiku poet Bruce Feingold will read his poems\, then sit for an interview and discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-bruce-h-feingold/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180608T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180608T210000
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SUMMARY:Poe Ballantine
DESCRIPTION:Poe Ballantine discusses his new novel\, Whirlaway. \nPraise for Poe Ballantine \nPoe Ballantine is the most soulful\, insightful\, funny\, and altogether luminous “under-known” writer in America. He knocks my socks off\, even when I’m barefoot. —TOM ROBBINS\, Tibetan\nPeach Pie \nPoe Ballantine is brilliant. —CHERYL STRAYED\, Wild \nWhirlaway is a fever dream of my favorite things: horse racing\, records\, booze\, insanity\, and women. What a strange and crazed comedic ride. Ballantine’s writing is like no other. —WILLY\nVLAUTIN\, The Free \nAbout Whirlaway \nEddie Plum\, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital\, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run\, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets\, the telepathic dog\, laments the loss of Sofia\, his madhouse lover\, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend\, Shelly Hubbard\, a fellow horseplayer\, record collector/dealer\, and hardcore loner\, who tells him about his brother\, Donny\, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help\, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes\, the madhouse lover\, and the police\, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway\, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients\, horseplayers\, and record collectors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poe-ballantine/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T223000
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2rOcW0A \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-13/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Medea Benjamin Inside Iran: The Real History & Politics of Iran
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & Project Censored present \nMEDEA BENJAMIN\nInside Iran: The Real History & Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran \nHosted by Mickey Huff \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access \nMedea Benjamin\, one of America’s best-known and most effective activists\, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange\, is the author of Drone Warfare and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S-Saudi Connection. In 2012 she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize\, and in 2014 the Gandhi Peace Award. \nNow Medea has written the first general-audience progressive book on Iran’s history and politics\, recounting Iran’s history from the pre-colonial period through the CIA-engineered coup that in 1953 overthrew the country’s democratic leadership\, to its emergence as the only nation (other than Russia\, of course) both Democrats and Republicans regularly denounce. Benjamin draws upon her firsthand experiences with Iranian politicians\, activists and everyday citizens to provide a deeper understanding of the extraordinary complexities of Iranian society and the national role in the region. \nIn 1979 the Iranian Revolution brought a Shia theocracy to the 80 million inhabitants of the Middle East’s second largest country. In the decades since\, bitter relations have persisted between the U.S. and Iran. Yet how is it that Iran has become the primary target of American antagonism\, when Saudi Arabia – a regime far more repressive – has become one of America’s closest allies? \nTackling the contradictions in Iran’s system of government\, its religion\, and its citizens’ way of life\, Inside Iran cuts sharply through the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding U.S.-Iranian relations to present a realistic and hopeful case for the two nations’ future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/medea-benjamin-inside-iran-the-real-history-politics-of-iran/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nKai Carlson-Wee reads from his new poetry collection\, Rail. \n\nPraise for Rail \n\n“Rail is a lovely book\, strong and inspired.” ―Robert Bly \n“This is a wholly unique and powerful collection of poems. The sense of purpose puts one in mind of Whitman’s ‘Song of the Open Road.’ Encounters with fellow vagabonds recalls the tramp-poetry of Vachel Lindsay. But the darker need to search for meaning in the American plains and points farther west―a vastness forlorn and almost unknowable―belongs to the particular vision of this poet. His journey through our national ambiguity discovers a flicker in our roots\, a spark popping from obscurity that rises into the heavens. The lived experience behind these deft and subtle poems seems necessary\, and reiterates the fact that resilience is not only a feature of the American character\, it is a recurring tenet of American art.” ―Maurice Manning  \n“Brotherly love\, a sense of displacement and lost time\, and the deep care that reminds us of our humanity\, form the heart of this book. These poems are a scavengers guide\, a survivalist manifesto\, a reminder of the way our daily experiences can fuel and forge our faith. A hauntingly beautiful and unusual debut.” ―Dorianne Laux \n“Equal parts dithyramb and lament\, the great American bardic tradition celebrates lonesome wandering even as it hungers for enduring communion. Kai Carlson-Wee is a worthy inheritor of its dusty mantle\, worn by Whitman and Kerouac before him\, and Rail is a moving testament to the territories of freight trains\, Minnesota roads\, dumpster diving\, and brotherhood. ‘The road goes on. With or without us.’ Yes\, but how much better to have this unforgettable music to guide the way.” ―Campbell McGrath \n\nAbout Rail \n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems―a “verse novella” in documentary form―build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAIL (POULIN #41) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Kai Carlson-Wee\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781942683582\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: BOA Editions – April 24th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee/
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:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Headlands Center for the Arts presents their writers in residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, Manhattan Beach
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Egan\, Manhattan Beach\nThursday\, June 7\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel\, Manhattan Beach. Tickets for this special offsite event (at Peace United Church) are on sale below and at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz and KAZU. \nArrive early and join us for a wine reception at 6:30! \nTicket packages are $20 and include one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only\, no book included) is available for $7 when purchasing a ticket package. PURCHASE TICKETS BELOW OR AT BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ. \n“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda\, Bookshop Head Book Buyer  \nMANHATTAN BEACH: \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \nYears later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \n“A magnificent achievement\, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” ( The Boston Globe)\, “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” ( Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men in a dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. \nJennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Times Magazine. \nThe Humanities Institute\, UC Santa Cruz\, event cosponsor: The Humanities Instituteis a hub for academic research\, cross-discipline collaboration\, and public engagement. We incubate ideas and foster innovation by funding projects\, centers\, and research clusters that enable faculty and students to work on some of the biggest problems of our day. \nKAZU\, event cosponsor: 90.3 KAZU NPR for Monterey\, Salinas\, and Santa Cruz. KAZU’s mission is to serve the communities in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties by broadcasting local\, national and international news and cultural programming that informs and enriches the lives of its listeners. \nJennifer Egan Book & Ticket Package\n$20.00 \nSKU: EGAN1FOR1 \nCompanion TicketNo Companion TicketPlease add one Companion Ticket to my Ticket Package Purchase \nYou may choose to purchase one additional companion ticket with your purchase of an event ticket package. \nManhattan Beach—GET IT SIGNED!\n$17.00 \nSKU: S9781476716749 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Manhattan Beach signed at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Wednesday\, June 6th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-manhattan-beach/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Call Me By Your Name
DESCRIPTION:June is Pride\, so let’s do that one mainstream queer book that doesn’t end in tragedy! BYO Peach. \n  \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Bindery (1727 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now! \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCall Me by Your Name (Paperback)\n\nBy Andre Aciman\n$17.00\nISBN: 9780312426781\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Picador USA – January 22nd\, 2008\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoose Lips: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck (Paperback)\n\nBy Casey A. Childers\, Amy Stephenson\n$15.99\nISBN: 9781455566426\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Grand Central Publishing – September 27th\, 2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-call-me-by-your-name/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Resoundings
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESOUNDINGS at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday June 7th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature readings accompanied by the music of Makram Abu-Shakra. Readers will be Karen Bjorneby (Hurricane Season)\, Marianne Villanueva (Jenalyn)\, Nick Johnson (Music for Mussolini)\,                judy b (Stories For Airports)\, Edmund Zagorin (Craquelure)\, and others. With guest MC Lael Gold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resoundings/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books @ City Lights : Destruction of Man by Abraham Smith and The Terraformers by Dan Hoy
DESCRIPTION:Third Man Books @ City Lights\n\ncelebrating new books by Dan Hoy and Abraham Smith\n\n  \nDestruction of Man \nby Abraham Smith \n& \nThe Terraformers \nby Dan Hoy \n  \nabout Abraham Smith: \nAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books\, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books\, 2014); Hank (Action Books\, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books\, 2007). In 2015\, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press)\, a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Provincetown\, MA\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently\, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man\, his book-length poem about farming\, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books. \n  \nabout The Terraformers: \nThe second title in Third Man Books “C” chapbook series\, Dan Hoy’s latest collection of poetry chronicles the last days of an expedition stranded on a desolate planet and beset by depression\, sabotage and failing equipment. In The Terraformers\, human life is mediated by domes and pressure suits\, and the history of human beings is buried in ecocide\, oppression and longing for the infinite\, even if (or because) “the infinite / is death for us.” \n  \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns. Visit http://thirdmanbooks.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tapestries of Shadow and Light: Three Writers and the Legacy of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Meet authors Rachel Hall\, Elizabeth Rosner and Hilary Zaid as they read from their work and discuss how the Holocaust continues to resonate in their lives and in their writing. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Laurel Book Store. \nMore about the authors: \nRachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms (BkMk Press)\, which was selected by Marge Piercy for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize. Winner of the Phillip McMath Post Publication Award\, Heirlooms was also the runner-up for the Edward Wallant award\, and finalist for the Balcones Prize for Fiction\, the Montaigne Medal\, and the Eric Hoffer Award. It was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. Rachel’s short stories and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Black Warrior Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Gettysburg Review\, Guernica\, and New Letters\, which awarded her the Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction. She has received other honors and awards from Lilith\, Glimmer Train\, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences\, Ragdale\, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts\, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her family’s wartime papers and photographs\, the inspiration for these stories\, are housed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC. \nElizabeth Rosner is an internationally award-winning novelist\, poet\, and essayist\, whose books have been translated into ten languages. Her national-bestselling first novel\,The Speed of Light\, won Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize of 2001\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Her second novel Blue Nude and her third novel Electric City were named by The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR among the best books of 2006 and 2014\, respectively. \nBorn in Schenectady\, New York\, Rosner is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors\, and much of her work is inspired by the impact of their experiences on her imagination and identity. Her newest book\, Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, published in fall 2017\, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and in The New York Times. She holds degrees from Stanford\, UC Irvine\, and the University of Queensland in Australia\, and she lives in Berkeley. \nHilary Zaid is the author of Paper is White\, a novel. A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, she is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tapestries-of-shadow-and-light-three-writers-and-the-legacy-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
DESCRIPTION:Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians\, Yossi Klein Halevi directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in his new taut and provocative book\, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.” \nYossi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University\, he co-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Yossi is the author of “Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation\,” published by HarperCollins in 2013\, which won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. \nYossi writes for the op-ed pages of leading American newspapers. He is also author of the 2001 book\, “At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land\,” which has been called “a permanent masterwork” by author Cynthia Ozick and “extraordinary and heartbreaking…a book full of wonders” by the former Archbishop of Canterbury\, Dr. Rowan Williams. \nYossi’s first book\, “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist\,” told the story of his teenage attraction to\, and subsequent disillusionment with Jewish militancy. The New York Times called it “a book of burning importance.” \nHe has been active in Middle East reconciliation work and serves as chairman of Open House\, an Arab Israeli-Jewish Israeli center in the town of Ramle\, near Tel Aviv. \nYossi was one of the founders of the now-defunct Israeli-Palestinian Media Forum\, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian journalists. He was a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem from 2003-2009. \nBorn in New York\, Yossi has a BA in Jewish studies from Brooklyn College and an MS in journalism from Northwestern University. He moved to Israel in 1982 and lives in Jerusalem with his wife\, Sarah\, a landscape designer. They have three children. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event for $30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/letters-to-my-palestinian-neighbor/
LOCATION:Cubberley Theatre\, 4000 Middlefield Road\, T2\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Mariko Tamaki / Supergirl: Being Super
DESCRIPTION:Mariko Tamaki\, author of the Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award-winning This One Summer\, and Eisner Award-nominated artist Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer) combine forces for Supergirl: Being Super​​​​​​! This is the Girl of Steel as you’ve never seen her before. A truly innovative origin story\, a coming-of-age tale of “Being Super\,” full of heart with added teenage irony. \n  \nWelcome to Midvale\, home to Liberty High School and an unusual girl named Kara Danvers. While it may seem like your ordinary town\, girls like Kara make it extraordinary. She’s super-strong\, she can fly and she crash-landed on Earth in a rocket ship. But for Kara Danvers\, winning the next track meet\, celebrating her 16th birthday and surviving her latest mega-zit are her top concerns. \n  \nNow Kara’s incredible powers are kicking into high gear–and people she trusted are revealing creepy ulterior motives. The time has come for her to choose between the world where she was born and the only world she’s ever known. \n  \n\n  \n  \n“A gateway for new readers.” – Hollywood Reporter \n  \n“This is the most grounded\, authentic Supergirl I’ve ever read.” – The Mary Sue \n“A comic book that was long overdue. ”  – SYFYWIRE \n  \n\n  \n \nMariko Tamaki is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Oakland\, California. She is the author of Saving Montgomery Sole and the co-creator\, with Jillian Tamaki\, of This One Summer\, which received the prestigious Eisner and Ignatz awards as well as Caldecott and Printz honors. Her growing slate of critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels includes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\, Tomb Raider\, Adventure Time\, She-Hulk\, Lumberjanes\, Supergirl: Being Super and New Super-Man. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Supergirl\, and/or any of Mariko’s books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupergirl: Being Super (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Joelle Jones (Illustrator)\n$16.99\nISBN: 9781401268947\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: DC Comics – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLumberjanes: The Moon Is Up (Hardcover)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Brooklyn Allen (Illustrator)\, Boom! Studios\n$14.99\nISBN: 9781419728686\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Amulet Books – May 8th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLumberjanes: Unicorn Power! (Lumberjanes #1) (Hardcover)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Brooklyn Allen (Illustrator)\n$14.99\nISBN: 9781419727252\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Amulet Books – October 10th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTomb Raider Volume 2 (2017) (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\, Phillip Sevy (Illustrator)\, Tula Lotay (Illustrator)\n$19.99\nISBN: 9781506701622\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Dark Horse Books – May 23rd\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe-Hulk Vol. 2: Let Them Eat Cake (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki (Text by (Art/Photo Books))\, Georges Duarte (Illustrator)\n$17.99\nISBN: 9781302905682\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Marvel Comics – January 23rd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe Hulk\, Volume 1: Deconstructed (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki (Text by (Art/Photo Books))\, Nico Leon (Illustrator)\n$17.99\nISBN: 9781302905675\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Marvel Comics – July 25th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaving Montgomery Sole (Paperback)\n\nBy Mariko Tamaki\n$9.99\nISBN: 9781250104403\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Square Fish – April 18th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-mariko-tamaki-supergirl-being-super/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ANDREW WEATHERS/ROOTLESS/FOREST FLORO
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of relaxing ambient electronic music and dreamy acoustic sounds by Andrew Weathers (TX)/Rootless (LA) / and Oakland’s own Forest Floor. Doors open at 7:20. Show at 7:30. 5-10 dollar donation NOTALOTOF \nAndrew Weathers:\nhttps://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-tree \nRootless:\nhttps://cabinflooresoterica.bandcamp.com/album/cfe-66-sculptures-deep-within-the-cave \nForest Floor:\nhttps://forestfloorpragmatism.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-weathers-rootless-forest-floro/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mostly Flash With a Dash of Haiku
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Sara McAulay\, Amos White\, Jon Sindell\, Jacqueline Doyle. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mostly-flash-with-a-dash-of-haiku/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui and Meron Hadero
DESCRIPTION:The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives \nEdited by Viet Thanh Nguyen \nfrom Abrams Image \n \nPulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer)\, and contributors Thi Bui (The Best We Could Do) and Meron Hadero discuss their new anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Nguyen\, himself a refugee\, The Displaced brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum. The publisher will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book\, a minimum of $25\,000 annually\, to The International Rescue Committee (IRC)\, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid\, relief\, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. \nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975\, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books including The Sympathizer\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a recently published story collection\, The Refugees\, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nMeron Hadero was born in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia and lived in Germany before arriving in the United States as a refugee. She has been published in Best American Short Stories\, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI\, the Missouri Review\, Boulevard\, e O ng\, Indiana Review\, e Normal School\, and Addis Ababa Noir. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and O Assignment. She lives in Oakland and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nThi Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child. She studied art and law and thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer\, but became a public school teacher instead. Bui lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her son\, her husband\, and her mother. A Different Pond by Bao Phi\, illustrated by Thi Bui\, was named a 2018 Caldecott Honor Book. The Best We Could Do is her debut graphic novel. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-meron-hadero/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlie LeDuff presents SH*TSHOW!
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Charlie LeDuff to the store to discuss his new book\, Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great\, on Wednesday\, June 6th at 7pm.  \nA daring\, firsthand\, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America\, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President–at every turn\, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy\, Charlie LeDuff was there \nIn the Fall of 2013\, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency\, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes\, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The whole country is bankrupt and on high boil. It’s a shitshow out there. No one in the bubbles of Washington\, DC.\, New York\, or Los Angles was talking about it–least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But\, then\, perhaps on a whim\, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called\, “The Americans\,” and\, along the way\, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. \nFor three years\, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars\, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial\, political\, social\, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely\, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing\, education\, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians\, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away\, replaced only by social media\, part-time work\, and opioid addiction. \nSh*tshow is that true\, tragic\, and distinctively American story\, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. Old-school\, gonzo-style reporting\, LeDuff confronts the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. \nAbout the Author \nCharlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist\, formerly at the New York Times and the Detroit News\, and currently on Detroit’s Fox 2 News. He was one of several reporters who worked on the New York Times series “How Race Is Lived in America\,” which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. LeDuff has covered the war in Iraq\, crossed the border with Mexican migrants\, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of 9/11. The author of Detroit\, US Guys\, and Work and Other Sins\, he lives near Detroit. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, June 6\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great (Hardcover)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9780525522027\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Press – May 22nd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrowse For Books\n\nPeruse our shelves \n\n\n\nBestsellers\n\nFiction & Poetry Bestsellers \nNonfiction Bestsellers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletter\n\nSign up \n\n\n\nAudio\n\nYour audiobook needs await you at Libro.fm \nCouldn’t make it to an event? See here for audio! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHours & Directions | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Return Polic
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Vigilance is No Orchard - Poets Hazel White\, Denise Newman and Jennifer S. Cheng
DESCRIPTION:Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard\, just published by Nightboat Books. And also of Peril as Architectural Enrichment\, from Kelsey Street Press. In 2016\, she completed with poet Denise Newman a two-year public poetry project\, Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek\, bioticportal.com\, a collaboration with the UC Botanical Garden\, at Berkeley\, supported by a Creative Work Fund grant. Her poetry has appeared in New American Writing\, Denver Quarterly\, Elderly\, and Fence. She grew up on farms in England\, and works in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of UC Davis. \nIn Vigilance Is No Orchard\, Hazel White records her haunting romance with the Valentine Garden\, a famous garden\, now a ruin\, in Montecito\, California\, designed by landscape architect Isabelle Greene. White is jealous of Greene’s power to affect a dynamic experience of space\, tries to make language play faithfully in the game coursing between the body and Greene’s fiercely stirring landscape. Her poems dwell in shelter and view\, and time passing. They chase animation and survival\, forage and repair\, the act of making\, accumulation\, authority of form\, and realize a dream of overflow\, which gives way to loss\, as in flowering. \nDenise Newman’s poetry collections are Future People\, The New Make Believe\, Wild Goods\, and Human Forest. She is the translator of Azorno and The Painted Room\, both by the late Danish poet\, Inger Christensen\, and Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt\, which won the 2015 PEN Translation Award and an NEA Fellowship. She teaches at the California College of the Arts. \nJennifer S. Cheng writes at the intersection of essay and poetry. Her debut book\, House A \, was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and she is the author of the new collection MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize.Her writing appears in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, AGNI\, The Literary Hub\, Black Warrior Review\, DIAGRAM\, The Normal School\, Guernica\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN HK anthology)\, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas\, Connecticut\, and Hong Kong\, she is a longtime resident of the Outer Sunset neighborhood in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vigilance-is-no-orchard-poets-hazel-white-denise-newman-and-jennifer-s-cheng/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Charlie LeDuff / Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff (Detroit: An American Autopsy)\, reading from and discussing his new book Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great. \n  \nPlease join us! \n  \nA daring\, firsthand\, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America\, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President — at every turn\, Charlie LeDuff was there. \n  \nIn the Fall of 2013\, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency\, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes\, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The American people were at a breaking point. The country was going broke and on high boil. No one in the bubbles of Washington\, DC.\, New York\, or Los Angles was talking about it — least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But\, then\, perhaps on a whim\, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called “The Americans”\, and\, along the way\, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. \n  \nFor three years\, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars\, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial\, political\, social\, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely\, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing\, education\, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians\, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away\, replaced only by social media\, part-time work\, and opioid addiction. \n  \nSh*tshow is that true\, tragic\, and distinctively American story\, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. A soul-baring\, irreverent\, and iconoclastic writer\, LeDuff speaks the language of everyday Americans\, and is unafraid of getting his hands dirty. He scrambles the tired-old political\, social\, and racial categories\, taking no sides — or prisoners. Old-school\, gonzo-style reporting\, this is both a necessary confrontation with the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. \n  \n\n  \nCharlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, formerly at the New York Time sand the Detroit News\, and Detroit’s Fox 2 News. LeDuff has covered the war in Iraq\, crossed the border with Mexican migrants\, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of 9/11. The author of Detroit\, US Guys\,and Work and Other Sins\, he lives near Detroit. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 6 for Silent Reading Party (which ends at 7:30pm). This event begins at 8pm. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sh*tshow!\, and/or any of Charlie’s books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great (Hardcover)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9780525522027\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Press – May 22nd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetroit: An American Autopsy (Paperback)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$18.00\nISBN: 9780143124467\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – January 28th\, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUS Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man (Paperback)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143113065\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Penguin Books – April 1st\, 2008
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-charlie-leduff-shtshow-the-countrys-collapsing-and-the-ratings-are-great/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 5\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nJazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, June 5\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pamela Druckerman
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of Bringing Up Bébé; and Lust In Translation. She was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, the Financial Times and Marie Claire. She has appeared as a commentator on the Today Show\, Oprah.com\, BBC Women’s Hour\, National Public Radio\, Public Radio International\, Al Jazeera International\, France24 and CNBC. \nThe in-between decades … if you’re in them\, you know what they are. Your parents have stopped trying to change you. You get bored scrolling down to your birth year. There’s at least one sport your doctor forbids you to play. The internationally bestselling author of Bringing Up Bebe returns with a (midlife) coming of age story that will have you absolutely following out of your seat!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pamela-druckerman/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling show
DESCRIPTION:First reading of the season! This year we are offering a showcase of our own board members in a Cavalcade of Marin Poetry Center Board Member Stars: Sandy Cross\, Susan Gunter\, Roy Mash and Meryl Natchez\, hosted by Siân Killingsworth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-summer-traveling-show/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Michael Pollan\, How to Change Your Mind
DESCRIPTION:OFFSITE & TICKETED: Michael Pollan\, How to Change Your Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 5\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome back Michael Pollan\, author of five New York Times bestsellers\, for a discussion and signing of his latest book\, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness\, Dying\, Addiction\, Depression\, and Transcendence. Pollan will be in conversation with author and journalist David Bienenstock. This off-site and ticketed event\, cosponsored by 90.3 KAZU\, will take place at Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz. Ticket packages are $33 and include one copy of How to Change Your Mind. Purchase tickets below or in the store. \nFor the past 25 years\, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where nature and culture intersect; on our plates\, in our farms and gardens\, and\, now\, in the plants and fungi humans use to alter consciousness. His unique and elegant blend of science\, history\, travel writing\, and first person reportage\, has inspired millions of readers to look at familiar experiences in a whole new light while sparking vital national conversations about our relationship to the natural world. In his new book\, Pollan explores these same themes while charting bold new territory. HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness\, Dying\, Addiction\, Depression\, and Transcendence is Pollan’s brilliant and brave investigation into psychedelic drugs and what they reveal about the human mind\, the self\, and our connection to the natural world and each other. \nMichael Pollan is the author of seven previous books\, including Cooked\, Food Rules\, In Defense of Food\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire\, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine\, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California\, Berkeley. \nDavid Bienenstock is the author of How to Smoke Pot (Properly)\, and co-creator of the podcast Great Moments in Weed History w/ Abdullah and Bean. A contributor to VICE\, GQ\, Motherboard\, the Guardian\, and other publications\, he has been profiled by The New Yorker\, Vanity Fair\, Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, LA Weekly\, Food & Wine\, Slate\, and elsewhere\, while making frequent media appearances\, including on CNN\, NPR\, MSNBC\, HBO and Fox News. \nKAZU\, event cosponsor: 90.3 KAZU NPR for Monterey\, Salinas\, and Santa Cruz. KAZU’s mission is to serve the communities in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties by broadcasting local\, national and international news and cultural programming that informs and enriches the lives of its listeners. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pollan Ticket & Book Package\n\n$33.00\nSKU: HTCHANGE1FOR1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $33 and include ONE ticket for entry to our June 5th event with Michael Polla at the Peace United Church\, and one copy of his new book How to Change Your Mind. \nTickets cannot be shipped\, must be PREPAID\, and must be picked up at Bookshop Santa Cruz or at Will Call (starting at 6:30) at the Peace United Church \nThe publication date How to Change Your Mind is May 15th\, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of How to Change Your Mind\, either at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after May 15th\, 2018 or at the venue on the night of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-pollan-how-to-change-your-mind/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw\, Norman Fischer\, and Tiff Dressen
DESCRIPTION:This is a book launch and celebration for Alexandra Mattraws new book\, small siren. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, was published this spring at Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nAbout small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’ She makes it real.”\n— Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n—Gillian Conoley \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018 from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is. His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-norman-fischer-and-tiff-dressen/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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