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SUMMARY:Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes celebrates City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16\, Invocation To Daughters. Reading together with David Brazil.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Gauld w/ Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is pleased to welcome acclaimed Guardian cartoonist Tom Gauld as he presents a best-of collection of literary humour cartoons — Baking with Kafka. With Tom will be Mallory Ortberg—join us! \nIn his inimitable style\, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist\,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian\, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper\, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed\, concise comics. \nFrom sarcastic panels about the health hazards of being a best-selling writer to a list of magical items for fantasy writers (such as the Amulet of Attraction\, which summons mainstream acceptance\, Hollywood money\, and fresh coffee)\, Gauld’s cartoons are timely and droll—his trademark British humour\, impeccable timing\, and distinctive visual style sets him apart from the rest. Lauded both for his frequent contributions to New Scientist\, The Guardian and The New York Times\, and his Eisner-nominated graphic novels\, Tom Gauld is one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today. In Baking with Kafka\, he proves this with one witty\, sly\, ridiculous comic after another. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-gauld-with-mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010) and My Daughter La Chola (2013). He serves on the poetry editorial team for Fence magazine and as contributing editor to The Volta. He is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk-2/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maxine Chernoff + Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Camera is Maxine Chernoff’s 16th book of poems. Her previous book\, Here\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, as were 2 of her 6 works of fiction. Her book of stories Signs of Devotion was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. In 2013 she won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 the PEN USA Translation Award for a co-translation of the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin. She is former editor of New American Writing and professor and former chair of the Dept of Creative Writing at SFSU. She has taught in Exeter\, England\, Prague\, and St Petersburg\, Russia\, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her eighth poetry collection\, Peace\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other books include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, Lovers in the Used World\, and Tall Stranger\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley’s translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014\, and was named one of the top ten poetry books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly. She co-translated (with Domenic Stansberry) Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto\, On Feeble Love & Bitter Love (Molotov Editions\, 2016). Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University since 1994 and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-chernoff-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Live! w/ Dr. Dawn McGuire
DESCRIPTION:Neurologist and poet Dawn McGuire will be in conversation with Tom Donahoe and read selections from her latest poetry collection “American Dream With Exit Wound\,” which is inspired by her work with post 9/11 veterans. Produced by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation\, Live! from the Library is free and open to the public.   RSVPs are encouraged and can be made online at www.wclibrary.org/live or by phone at 925.935.5395. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-w-dr-dawn-mcguire/
LOCATION:Walnut Creek Library\, 1644 North Broadway\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94596\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Hodgman
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith can’t wait to host writer\, comedian and actor John Hodgman for his new book Vacationland! \nAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts\, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. \nDisarmed of falsehood\, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair\, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. \nVacationland collects these real life wanderings\, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams\, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache\, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. \nThough wildly\, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual\, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties\, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser\, weird dads that they are. \nJoin us! Click here for tickets. \n  \n  \nJohn Hodgman is a writer\, comedian\, and actor. He is the author of three New York Timesbestselling books: The Areas of My Expertise\, More Information Than You Require\, and That Is All. After an appearance to promote his books on The Daily Show\, he was invited to return as a contributor\, serving as the show’s “Resident Expert” and “Deranged Millionaire.” This led to an unexpected and\, frankly\, implausible career in front of the camera. He has performed comedy for the president of the United States\, at a TED conference\, and in a crypt in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn\, New York. He is the host of the popular Judge John Hodgmanpodcast\, in which he settles serious disputes between real people\, such as “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” He also contributes a weekly column under the same name for The New York Times Magazine. \n  \nSigning and other details coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hodgman/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-8/
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on November 9\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito (333 Caledonia Street) for readings on the theme of “Adventures” with the following acclaimed authors. Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. \nErin Byrne is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art\, Life\, and Travel in France\, winner of the Paris Book Festival Award\, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco\, and writer of The Storykeeper film. Her travel essays\, poetry\, fiction\, and screenplays have won numerous awards\, including three Grand Prize Solas Awards for Travel Story of the Year\, the Reader’s Favorite Award\, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist\, and an Accolade Award for film. She is occasional guest instructor at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris and teaches on Deep Travel trips. Her screenplay\, Siesta\, is in pre-production in Spain\, and she is working on a novel set in the Paris Ritz during the occupation\, Illuminations. \nMarcia DeSanctis is the New York Times bestselling author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go(Travelers’ Tales\, 2014). She is a former television news producer who has worked for Barbara Walters\, ABC\, CBS\, and NBC News. Her work has appeared in Vogue\, Marie Claire\, Town & Country\, O the Oprah Magazine\, National Geographic Traveler\, More\, Tin House\, and The New York Times\, and other publications. She is the recipient of four Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism\, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year for her essays from Rwanda\, Haiti\, France\, and Russia. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her second collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, was published in 2015. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays\, and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW\, and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. \nJeff Greenwald is the author of six books\, including The Size of the World(for which he created the first internet travel blog)\, Scratching the Surface and Snake Lake\, a memoir set in Nepal during the 1990 democracy revolution. The 25th anniversary edition of his Shopping for Buddhas was released in 2014. He also serves as Executive Director of EthicalTraveler.org\, a global alliance of travelers dedicated to human rights and environmental protection. \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, Why We Broke Up\, We Are Pirates and All The Dirty Parts. As Lemony Snicket\, he is the author of far too many books for children\, including All The Wrong Questions and A Series of Unfortunate Events\, which has been adapted for film and television. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married\, and their kid. \nKimberley Lovato is a freelance writer and Francophile with articles and essays published in magazines\, newspapers\, websites\, and anthologies\, including National Geographic Traveler\, Virtuoso Life\, American Way\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, BBC.com\, travelandleisure.com\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, Vignettes and Postcards from Morocco\, and many more. She is the author of Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves\, the Society of American Travel Writers’ Gold Medal book in 2012\, and her latest edible read is called Unique Eats & Eateries: San Francisco (Reedy Press\, 2017). \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Night Language (Rare Bird Books\, November 2017) and The Luminist (US/Hawthorne; Italy/Neri Pozza; Israel/Kinneret)\, and is the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb. Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-adventure/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Eugenides
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Eugenides bestselling novels\, including Middlesex\, The Marriage Plot\, and The Virgin Suicides\, show him to be an astute observer of the crisis of adolescence\, sexual identity\, self-discovery\, and what it means to be an American in our times.  His new short story collection Fresh Complaint continues that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of “Baster” to the wry\, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail” (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997)\, this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who\, envious of other people’s wealth during the real-estate bubble\, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and\, in “Bronze\,” a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling\, beautifully written\, and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace\, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-eugenides/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Kolodny + Carolyne Wright
DESCRIPTION:Susan Kolodny’s new book of poems is Preserve. Robert Thomas says\, “Susan Kolodny’s moving new collection begins with her arrival in Botswana and tells the story of a journey that transforms her understanding of herself and her own culture…Kolodny is unsentimental about the challenges that game preserves face…and the book itself becomes a Preserve she creates to save a world whose survival is at risk.” Her first collection is After the Firestorm. She’s also a psychoanalyst and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and its Inhibition. \nCarolyne Wright’s new book of poems is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems. David Axelrod says\, “The language of Carolyne Wright’s poems is as rich\, diverse\, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world\, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens\, their history\, turmoil\, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage.” Author of numerous previous collections\, including A Change of Maps\, she is co-editor of Raising Lily Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace\, a groundbreaking anthology. She is also a translator who has published five books of translation from both Spanish and Bengali. In addition\, she has published a book of essays\, and has received a Fulbright and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Seattle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-kolodny-carolyne-wright/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Memorial for Joe Pachinko
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by William Taylor\, Jr. \nJoe Pachinko was born 1960 in Oakland\, California. In 2003\, through his Superstition Street Press\, he republished Beat icon Lenore Kandel’s groundbreaking work The Love Book\, which was banned and suppressed upon its original release in 1966. He is the author of the novel SWAMP!\, and two poetry collections: The Urinals of Hell\, and Stumpfucker Cavalcade. His second novel\, Geek City Apocalypso was published in 2012 by Last Gasp. \nBeloved poet Joe Pachinko has left the building. Join us for a celebration of his life and work. \nPachinko’s work\, and tributes to the late poet will be read by the following: \n\nBrenda Knight\nNicole Henares\nChristopher Robin\nBrian Morrisey
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-for-joe-pachinko/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Rocklin: The Night Language
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is happy to welcome David Rocklin for The Night Language. Please join us! \nThe Night Language tells the story of a young man\, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia)\, who is taken from his home and the Abyssinian war to the court of Queen Victoria—a world he knows nothing about. With him is Philip Layard\, a young apprentice to one of the doctors on the battlefield in Abyssinia\, who becomes Alamayou’s guardian\, only friend\, and eventually\, the love of his life. When Parliament accuses Alamayou of murder\, the young prince is sentenced to return to Abyssinia\, where he will be executed. \nHis only hope comes from the very thing that cannot be uttered: the unexpected and forbidden love between Alamayou and Philip. \nInspired by true events\, The Night Language is a unique novel of love\, loss\, and the consequences of repressive societies. \n— \n“Not since Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient have I read a novel in which a character—the story and skinsong of Alamayou–has haunted language\, history\, and heart so intensely. If you read one novel this year\, let it be The Night Language. It is still possible for a reader’s heart to be broken back open.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water \n— \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger. \n— \nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of The NIght Language\, please follow this link and place your order\, filling out the special request field: http://www.booksmith.com/book/9781945572487
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-rocklin-the-night-language/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lucha Libro: The Bay Area's First Literary Wrestling Competition
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions presents Lucha Libro\, the Bay Area’s first-ever literary wrestling competition\, taking place at The Park Gym on Saturday\, November 11th\, 2017. Lucha Libro will feature five emerging queer and trans writers of color facing off in a live writing challenge in front of screaming fans.  The winner will have a chapbook published by Foglifter in Summer 2018. \n  \nPresented in collaboration with Foglifter\, The Booksmith\, Quiet Lightning\, and Dog Eared Books\, Lucha Libro happens on Saturday\, November 11th\, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in the ring at Park Gym in the legendary Castro District\, at 1960 Harrison St\, San Francisco\, California 94103. Tickets are $10 at the door. Writers must submit work by October 1st\, and the five final contestants will be announced on November 1st. \n  \nInspired by Peru’s own literary wrestling competitions\, intended to break down barriers to publication and challenge elitism in the literary world\, RADAR Productions’ Lucha Libro provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for emerging queer and trans writers of color to share their work in front of a live audience. \nRADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based queer literary arts non-profit organization. RADAR Productions serves queer audiences and artists in San Francisco through free and affordable literary arts programs that authentically reflect Queer communities’ experiences. RADAR creates a platform for emerging queer artists\, commissions the creation of new work\, and gives voice to innovative Queer writers and artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucha-libro-the-bay-areas-first-literary-wrestling-competition/
LOCATION:The Park Gym\, 1960 Harrison St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS: BOOK LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for This is for the mostless by Jason Magabo Perez. Special guests: Aimee Suzara\, Janice Lobo Sapigao and Jason Bayani. \nTHIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS (WordTech Editions\, 2017)\, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez’s debut book\, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems\, essays\, fictions\, and oral histories. Moving against discipline and genre\, from city to city\, barrio to barrio\, these stories and sympathies are filled with familia and trauma\, and cast with wildly divergent figures as iconic as Don Cheadle and Mandy Moore\, and as obscure as Cobra Commander and Perez’s own mother\, a Filipina migrant nurse who in 1976 was framed by the FBI for murder. Ultimately\, Perez celebrates and mourns the multiple migrations and afterlives of grandmothers\, gangsters\, girlfriends\, superheroes\, and poets. This book is about and most definitely for all of the mostless. \n“Jason Magabo Perez pulls me into his stories like the ink of a comic book or opening hook. He drops 1972\, Redlands\, Manila\, the smell of eucalyptus\, Raid and fried fish\, and ain’t no ipis will interrupt this flow. All the aunties\, cousins and homies are here\, and there’s an earnest\, tender urgency in these verses and jagged lines and tangles that refuse to forget. He makes me want to listen.” – JAI ARUN RAVINE\, AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF SIAM \n“When the poet you are reading raises pen to sky and cuts its belly open\, revealing river of ancestor hair\, uncut\, uncombed\, rife with angels and stories\, and holds it aloft\, unsorted\, to show you you–historical\, non-fictional\, truthfully and wholeheartedly loved\, shivering silver sardine in the oily tin of our im/migrant story…then the poet you are reading is Jason Magabo Perez\, and you are blessed. Read this book like postdated scripture\, and be loved.” – DENIZEN KANE\, POET/EMCEE\, TYPICAL CATS \n“These poems mark the time of millennial southern California\, the time of brown boyhood\, the time after death and before birth. ‘A time when we’re beginning to notice that we are so death & so penniless. / So penny-skinned.’ Perez asks how to live in the wake of violence and disconnection and a girl asks the alphabet. A balm of persistence\, commemoration becomes a promise of a time beyond time: ‘Today\, we’re coloring the king.'” – KIMBERLY ALIDIO\, AUTHOR OF AFTER THE PROJECTS THE RESOUND \n“This is for the mostless is a smartly forged momentum and memento\, a forward-thinking look back. From one line to the next\, Jason Magabo Perez can compel a tear or noisy nostalgia; mostly\, we are asked-with the urgency of justice and artful storying-to take all things that happen in our suburbs\, cities\, and histories deeply and consciously personal.” – VEJEA JENNINGS\, AUTHOR OF FREE LUNCH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-for-the-mostless-book-launch/
LOCATION:Arkipelago Books\, 1010 MISSION ST\, SAN FRANCISCO\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171111T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks November
DESCRIPTION:Ben Loory (Tales of Falling and Flying)\nStephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries)\nAnnalee Newitz (Autonomous)\nMaggie Shen King (An Excess Male)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-november/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Poetic Exploratory w/ Dick Brown
DESCRIPTION:What is a poem?\nOur time together will be an exploratory of the poem: its origins and evolution\, its purposes\, its forms and surprises\, and\, above all\, its great powers and pleasures. \nWe will explore how a poem is constructed to gain its specific reason for being. \nSince poems are often questions more than answers\, open discussion will be highly valued. \n(Handouts will be made available) \nBring a favorite poem to share. \nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. \nDick attended the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference several times.  He a founder of the Marin Poet Laureate Program and the monthly poetry reading for the Marin Board of Supervisors. \nHe is the organizer of the biannual Real Men Write Poetry event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetic-exploratory-w-dick-brown/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Elevate Reading w/ Park\, Stein\, Chavez\, + Orth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this special event at Artist Television Access with four of the latest ELEVATE residents! ELEVATE is a collaboration between Real Time and Space and Small Press Traffic to provide studio space and performance opportunities to experimental writers.\n_________________\nNOVEMBER 12\, 2017\na reading & performance with\nthe four recent ELEVATE residents: Steve Orth\, MK Chavez\, Suzanne Stein and Julian Francis Park \nat ARTIST TELEVISION ACCESS\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, 94107 \nevent admission suggested donation of $6-12 \nJULIAN FRANCIS PARK has poems in Blind Field (forthcoming)\, Entropy\, HOLD (forthcoming)\, Horny Poetry Review (forthcoming)\, and Writing w/o Walls\, narrative excerpted in Queen Mob’s Tea House\, reviews in Jacket2 and Tripwire\, and a chapter\, “On the Historical Conditions of Accumulation\,” in Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Julian does intake for Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic\, and facilitates a free\, weekly writing workshop with the Bay Area Public School at the Omni Commons. Julian also works on Omni’s newsletter\, The Commoner. Tweets @jfpark3 \nSUZANNE STEIN’s publications include The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Hole in Space. With Steve Benson\, she is the author of Do Your Own Damn Laundry\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011-2012. She is the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nOakland-based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis (2016\, Nomadic Press) a full-collection of her work\, Dear Animal\, was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Chavez’s work has been published widely in print and online. Her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself In The Ruins\, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Award. \nSTEVE ORTH is from Kansas City\, MO and has lived in the Bay Area since 2000. With Lindsey Boldt\, he began publishing small books\, under the moniker Summer BF Press\, which published many classics such as Typing Wild Speech by Dana Ward\, The Truth About Ted by Bruce Boone\, and many others. Steve also edited Where Eagles Dare Magazine and curated Hybrid Moments Reading Series. He was a founding member of the short lived\, but memorable\, La Commune Books & Café\, a collectively owned bookstore in Oakland\, CA. Steve is also a writer\, and his latest\, Cyborg Legs (OMG! Press\, 2015) is a fable involving grocery stores.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elevate-reading-w-park-stein-chavez-orth/
LOCATION:Small Press Traffic\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with David Sedaris\, author of previous bestsellers Naked  and Me Talk Pretty One Day and regular National Public Radio contributor\, at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts for One Night Only on November 12 at 7:00pm.  This is a unique opportunity to see the best-selling humorist in an intimate setting.  As always\, Sedaris will be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections\, as well as a Q&A session and post-show books signing.  This event follows the release of his newest book\, Theft By Finding Diaries (1977 – 2002)\, which comes out on May 30\, 2017. Get your tickets today at DavidSedarisOnTour.com!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Center for the Performing Arts\, 255\, Almaden Blvd\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171113T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171113T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Non-Fiction November
DESCRIPTION:Authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Peter Gajdics\, and Julia Serano read from and discuss their works of non-fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-non-fiction-november/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nTechnicians of the Sacred\, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa\, America\, Asia\, Europe\, and Oceania\, Revised and Expanded\, 50th Anniversary \npublished by University of California Press \nHailed by Robert Creeley as “both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight” and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century\, Jerome Rothenberg’s landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets\, artists\, musicians\, and other readers\, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing “primitive” and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry\, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries\, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication\, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures\, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Willis
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book\, Alive: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include Address\, Meteoric Flowers\, Turneresque\, The Human Abstract\, and Second Law. She is also the editor of Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She taught poetry at Mills College from 1995 to 2002. In 2015 she joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-willis/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T203000
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SUMMARY:Rosemary Manno + Clif Ross
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosemary-manno-clif-ross/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:STEVE ZOLNO at Books Inc. in The Marina
DESCRIPTION:Management and Educational Consultant Steve Zolno discusses his encouraging and timely book\, The Future of Democracy: Lessons from the Past and Present to Guide Us on Our Path Forward. \nWhat is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it. \nIncludes the section: Guide to Voting in a Democracy \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-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:Nan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poetry\, Rope Bridge and Unfinished City\, and her poems have appeared in The New Republic\, Slate\, Ploughshares\, Tikkun\, Gulf Coast\, and other magazines and anthologies. Her awards and honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award\, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nan-cohen/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T200000
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CREATED:20171025T011423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011423Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: "Queer Femme Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Gr Keer hosts an evening of “Queer Femme Poetry” with readers Vanessa Rochelle Lewis\, Maya Chinchilla\, Rona Luo\, and Crystal Azul Barr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-femme-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Hilton Obenzinger
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for Hilton Obenzinger’s new book\, Treyf Pesach: \nBlasphemy is holy—and exciting\, outrageous literature in Treyf Pesach (Unkosher Passover). Novelist Paul Auster declares that this book “strikes with all the force of an exploding bomb—because it speaks the truth.” This collection of poems presents radical departures from traditional rituals\, formats and conventions: alternative Passover Seders\, Yom Kippur liturgy\, Thanksgiving prayers\, psalms and other poems in the form of proclamations\, resolutions\, jazz improvisations\, incantations\, rants\, orations\, comic monologues\, oil spills\, life spills\, songs\, visions\, undocumented documents\, borders\, suns\, farewells\, minutes of meetings\, talk-stories\, and all accompanied by provocative drawings of Treyf Passover Seder plates by artist Charles Steckler. In this book the symbolic plate is arrayed with treyf (un-kosher food) and the story of the Exodus with untypical meanings\, whiskey instead of wine\, recounting the continual slavery of wars and military occupations. The poems in Treyf Pesach have taken place over the course of years and various occasions\, from vicious aggressions\, to absurd walls\, to smallpox blankets\, to oil spouting across the Gulf\, and more\, all framed by the first months of the Trump regime. Some have been read out loud at Seders\, Yom Kippur services\, Thanksgiving Day benedictions\, Sunday fellowships\, and other ceremonies. But those are the exceptions. For the most part Treyf Pesach has been placed under arrest and shoved across the borders of respectability. Hilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism\, and is the recipient of the American Book Award. According to poet Diane di Prima\, “he is the American Jonathan Swift.” \nHilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism. His books include This Passover or the Next I Will Never be in Jerusalem\, which received the American Book Award\, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain and the Holy Land Mania\, New York on Fire\, a*hole: a novel\, and the oral history Running through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg. Recently\, he has published his autobiographical novel Busy Dying and How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience. Born in Brooklyn\, he graduated Columbia University in 1969\, taught elementary school on the Yurok Indian reservation\, nursery school in San Francisco\, ran an offset press at a community print shop in San Francisco’s Mission District\, worked as a commercial writer for business and industry\, and taught writing\, literature and American Studies at Stanford University. He is currently Associate Director of the Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilton-obenzinger/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Selz
DESCRIPTION:Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning author. Her debut memoir Unstill Life\, published by W.W. Norton in 2014\, received the best memoir of the year award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and was listed as one of the best books of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, MORE Magazine\, the L.A. Times\, and Newsday. She writes art criticism for Art Papers\, Hyperallergic\, and the Huffington Post. Selz is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction and was a New York Moth Story Slam Winner. Selz is currently writing the biography of the artist\, Sam Francis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-selz/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:The fifth installment of the Story Is the Thing Quarterly Reading Series is only a month away! Join us on November 16th at 7:30 PM for an evening of storytelling with seven local literary stars\, reading on the theme “The Unsent Letter.” We’ll start with light refreshments at 7:00 PM. \nReaders this time will be David Denny\, Joyce Kiefer\, Michael David Lukas\, Chiseche Salome Mibenge\, Marian Palaia\, Austin Smith\, and Rebecca Winterer. \nDavid Denny’s fiction has recently appeared in Narrative\, Catamaran\, and New Ohio Review. His short story collection\, The Gill Man in Purgatory\, is now available from Shanti Arts. He is also the author of three poetry collections: Man Overboard\, Fool in the Attic\, and Plebeian on the Front Porch. More information at daviddenny.net. \nJoyce Kiefer is a lifelong Bay Area resident.  She majored in English and Journalism at San Jose State. She has had poetry published in several award winning collections including Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood\, and Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women\, Wash and Word. Joyce has also had feature pieces published in the San Jose Mercury News and was a regular contributor to The Columnists. She contributes travel pieces to Bay Area Family Travel and has had memoir pieces appeared in By the Bay and Cooking Up Stories.” Joyce enjoys writing memoir\, travel experience\, and wry commentary on the small things in life that turn out to be bigger than we think. Read her blog: http://lifeinthepursuit.blogspot.com. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau in March 2018. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, and VQR. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, is forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau in March 2018. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, and VQR. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nChiseche Salome Mibenge is the author of Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender From The War Narrative (UPenn Press\, 2013). She studied Law in Zambia\, her country of birth and received her PhD in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University in 2010. She is a human rights educator\, writer\, and editor and blogs at chisechemibenge.com. Chiseche is an awardee of the Columbia Journal of Literature and Art winter 2017 contest for her short story\, The Protected Party. \nMarian Palaia’s first novel\, The Given World\, (Simon and Schuster\, 2015) was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, a finalist for the VCU/Cabell Award\, and recognized by Kirkus as a Best Novel of 2015. She lives in San Francisco\, California and in Missoula\, Montana with her Mongolian Barking Shepherd\, Tupelo. \nAustin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. His poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Poetry Magazine\, Narrative Magazine\, Threepenny Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Yale Review\, Sewanee Review\, Ploughshares and New England Review\, amongst others. His first collection of poems\, Almanac\, was chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published in 2013. A second collection\, Flyover Country\, will be published by Princeton in the fall of 2018. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction\, Smith teaches poetry\, fiction\, documentary journalism and environmental literature classes at Stanford University. \nRebecca Winterer is the author of The Singing Ship\, awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. Shes received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo; and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol.  She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in San Francisco\, California with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Red\, Yellow\, Green: Alejandro Saravia + María José Giménez
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\n\nAlejandro Saravia\n\n\nAlejandro Saravia was born in Cochabamba\, Bolivia\, and since 1986 has lived in Quebec\, where he works as a journalist. His publications include the novel Rojo\, amarillo y verde (2003)\, Borealis Antología Literaria de El Dorado (Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca Editores\, Ottawa\, 2011)\, Dieciocho voces de la poesía hispano-canadiense (Acento Editores\, Guadalajara\, México\, 2009)\, Cuentos de nuestra palabra en Canadá: primera hornada(Editorial Nuestra Palabra\, Toronto\, 2009)\, Las imposturas de Eros\, cuentos de amor en la posmodernidad (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2009)\, The Fourth River (Chatham University\, Pittsburgh\, 2009) Retrato de una nube\, Primera antología del cuento hispano canadiense (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2008)\, La poésie prend le métro (Éditions Adage\, Montréal\, 2004) and Boreal\, Antología de poesía latinoamericana en Canadá(Editorial Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca\, Ottawa\, 2002).He is co-director of Montreal’s Hispanic-Canadian collective The Apostles Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMaría José Giménez\n\n\nMaría José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet and translator. Recipient of a 2016 Gabo Prize for Translation and fellowships from the NEA\, The Banff International Literary Translation Centre\, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment\, María José is co-director of Montreal’s collective The Apostles Review and Assistant Translation Editor for Drunken Boat.\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 16\, 2017 | 7:30PM\n\nRSVP\n\nBolivian-Canadian writer Alejandro Saravia and poet and translator María José Giménez discuss his new novel\, Red\, Yellow\, Green\, the first to be translated into English\, as well as the tumultuous existence of the exile\, the crossings of language\, and Latino-Canadian literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-yellow-green/
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:Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline’s fiction has appeared in Tin House\, Granta\, and The Paris Review\, and she was the recipient of the 2014 Paris Review Plimpton Prize. Her debut novel\, The Girls\, was named one of the best books of the year by NPR\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Esquire\, Vogue\, Publishers Weekly\, and more. \n“The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story\, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry…a spellbinding story. Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension\, in a summer of Longing and Loss.”\n– The New York Times \n“Emma Cline has an unparalleled eye for the intricacies of girlhood\, turning the stuff of myth into something altogether more intimate. She reminds us that behind so many of our culture’s fables exists a girl: unseen\, unheard\, angry. Thi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emma-cline/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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