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SUMMARY:You're Going To Die
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…\n\nThursday\, May 9\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: http://bit.ly/YG2D_May9\nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is Cash Only at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while 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-3/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190510T123000
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch: Brandon Brown
DESCRIPTION:Poet Brandon Brown presents work in dialogue with the exhibition “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Many of the poets speaking in this bi-weekly series are rooted in the New Narrative tradition\, an experimental writing movement and theory that evolved in San Francisco. \n“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen” presents the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist\, Surrealist\, and activist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892-1972) in dialogue with ten contemporary artists to examine the complex and empowered representation of fluid identity. \nBrandon Brown is the author of several books of poetry\, most recently “The Four Seasons” (Wonder) and “The Good Life” (Big Lucks). He is a regular contributor to “Art In America\,” and was the inaugural winner of the Toni Beauchamp Critical Art Writing Prize in 2018. Recent work has also appeared in “Frieze\,” “Open Space\,” “Berkeley Poetry Review\,” and “Fanzine.” He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books and edits the zine “Panda’s Friend.” \nFREE with regular admission as follows: General Admission\, $14; Students with a valid ID and Seniors\, $12; Members and Youth 18 and under\, free. \nPresented by Contemporary Jewish Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-brandon-brown/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190510T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190510T203000
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents: WORD! Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… \nDragons feast on negative words \nSmart phones keep it real \nBooks fight to exist \nDance speaks louder than words \nCigarettes get fired up \nLost languages are found \n& Pigeons speak out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-word-short-plays-by-short-people-2/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190511T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190511T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011232
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SUMMARY:Managing California: Governor Newsom's Chief of Staff Ann O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Ann O’Leary is Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff. In that role\, she is charged with helping to manage the 5th largest economy in the world. She is one of most important political figures in California and she is the one is the room. How is she thinking about her role? How will she help the Governor prioritize and strategize? What are her goals? Who is this incredible woman? \nCome join the discussion and meet Ann! \nMore about Ann below: \nAnn O’Leary is Chief of Staff to the Governor of California\, Gavin Newsom. Prior to joining the Governor’s office\, O’Leary was a law partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where she focused her practice on representing tech companies\, philanthropies and non-profit organizations\, and led numerous pro bono efforts. O’Leary brings decades of experience in government\, politics\, social policy\, and non-profit leadership. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Co-Executive Director of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project. She co-founded the national non-profit organization\, the Opportunity Institute\, as a continuation of her work as Senior Vice President of Next Generation– where she launched a national early childhood education initiative “Too Small to Fail” in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation. \nEarlier in her career\, she was a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; Executive Director of UC Berkeley Law’s Center on Health\, Economic and Family Security; the legislative director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; and a policy advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President William Jefferson Clinton. O’Leary has served on numerous non-profit boards\, including KQED\, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR and PBS affiliate; the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings\, which works in key communities across the South to equip incarcerated young people with the academic\, workforce and social emotional skills they need to be successful; and\, the East Bay Community Law Center\, which provides free legal services to low-income community members. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College\, a M.A. in Education Policy from Stanford University\, and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. Ann is the proud mother of a 6th grader and 3rd grader\, and is the first Chief of Staff to a California Governor to hold the job while parenting school age children (and she is a very grateful co-equal coparent with Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Goodwin Liu).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/managing-california-governor-newsoms-chief-of-staff-ann-oleary-2/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190511T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 11\, 2019:\n \nMallory O’Meara (The Lady From the Black Lagoon)\nKate Hope Day (If\, Then)\nJoanna Robinson (Vanity Fair)\nAndrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-21/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190512T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011232
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190512T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190512T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011232
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190512T020627Z
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SUMMARY:LOTERIA READING SERIES\, No. 2: La Muerte\, El Nopal\, La Sirena
DESCRIPTION:WILLIE PERDOMO  \nJOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE  \nBARABARA JANE REYES \nCurated by ➬ MK CHAVEZ  \n  \nSUNDAY\, MAY 12th\, 2019   \nDoors ➬ 4PM | Program ➬ 4:30PM \nFREE ENTRY \n  \nINSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY \n@ McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT \n1687 MARKET STREET (@ GOUGH)\, S.F.\, CA \nBART ➬ Van Ness Station\nMUNI METRO ➬ F | K | L | M | N | 6 | 7
URL:https://litseen.com/event/loteria-reading-series-no-2-la-muerte-el-nopal-la-sirena/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190512T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190512T190000
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SUMMARY:Jo Lendle
DESCRIPTION:Seagull Books\, in conjunction with City Lights and the Goethe Institut San Francisco present \nJo Lendle \nreading from and speaking about \nAll The Land \nby Jo Lendle \nTranslated by Katy Derbyshire \npublished by Seagull Books \nHow\, in 1930\, did Alfred Wegener\, the son of minister from Berlin\, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth\, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In All the Land\, Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegener’s extraordinary journey from his childhood in Germany to the most unforgiving corner of the planet. \nAs Lendle shows\, Wegener’s life was anything but ordinary. Surrounded by children at the orphanage his parents ran\, Wegener was driven by his scientific spirit in search not only of answers to big questions\, but of solitude. Though Wegener’s life ended in tragedy during his long winter in Greenland\, he left us with a scientific legacy: the theory of continental drift\, mocked by his peers and only recognized decades after his death. Lendle gives us the story of this great adventurer\, of the experiences that shaped him\, resulting in a tale that is both thrilling and tender. \nJo Lendle is a German author and head of Hanser Verlag\, Munich. \nSeagull Books (estd 1982) has been crafting books with an eye to both exceptional content and radical design. What began as an instinctive and highly risky business of publishing books—books on theatre\, visual arts\, alternative cinema\, philosophy\, culture—continues to be a passionately felt need of the hour: manuscripts that need to see the light of day\, to reach a readership\, to stimulate minds\, to change outlooks. \nThe Goethe-Institut is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes\, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations. Around 246\,000 people take part in these German courses per year. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jo-lendle/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190513T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011233
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by John Garry\, hosted by Jim Barnard\, open mic
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by John Garry\, hosted by Jim Barnard\, open mic\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-john-garry-hosted-by-jim-barnard-open-mic/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190514T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190514T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011233
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T211651Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.\nEnjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square/
LOCATION:jessie Square\, 536 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190514T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190514T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011233
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SUMMARY:New Queer Books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Charlie Jane Anders\, Sara Cahill Marron\, Joseph Cassara\, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez read from their new books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco on Tuesday\, May 14\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission\, free wine and donuts\, and door prizes at 7 sharp to reward the punctual! \nHere’s more info on the authors and their books:\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. Her fiction has won the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, Crawford\, Sturgeon and Lambda Literary Awards. She hosts the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series and co-hosts the Hugo nominated podcast “Our Opinions Are Correct”. \nSara Cahill Marron is a writer from New York City currently living in Washington\, D.C.\, studying to become a lawyer. Her book REASONS OF THE LONG T’UM is available through Broadstone Books\, independent bookstores\, and online. She has been published in the Dark Matter Journal\, Chagrin River Review\, Foliate Oak Magazine\, Gravel\, OUT/CAST\, Crab Fat Magazine\, The Newton Literary Review\, FLARE\, and others. Read more of her work here: saracahillmarron.com \nJoseph Cassara was born and raised in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES (Ecco\, 2018)\, which is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, the Edmund White Award for Best Debut Novel\, and was the winner of the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the California State University\, Fresno. \nBaruch Porras Hernandez is the author of the chapbooks I MISS YOU\, DELICATE and LOVERS OF THE DEEP FRIED CIRCLE\, both published by Sibling Rivalry Press. He recently had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer Radar Productions 2019 poetry tour. He is a two-time winner of Literary Death Match\, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry and in Playwriting. He’s been featured with Writers with Drinks\, has performed several times LitQuake\, Quiet Lightning\, and lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-queer-books-at-perfectly-queer-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer SF":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190514T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190514T210000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:Young Adults 14-17! Elizabeth Acevedo\n\n\n\n\npresents With the Fire on High\, a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent\, pride\, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. \n“Acevedo has done it again: the multi-award-winning author of The Poet X here delivers perfection… This sophomore novel is simply stunning.”–Booklist \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of With the Fire on High by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEver since she got pregnant freshman year\, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions–doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen\, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks\, turning her food into straight-up goodness. \nEven though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates\, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by\, once Emoni starts cooking\, her only choice is to let her talent break free. \nElizabeth Acevedo is the author of The Poet X\, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\, the Michael L. Printz Award\, the Pura Belpré Award\, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. She is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo lives with her partner in Washington\, DC. You can find out more about her at www.acevedowrites.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-acevedo/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190514T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190514T210000
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SUMMARY:Julie Orringer and Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:Julie Orringer (The Invisible Bridge) joins Michael Chabon (Moonglow) for a conversation about The Flight Portfolio\, Orringer’s new historical novel set in occupied Europe and based on the true story of American journalist Varian Fry’s extraordinary rescue of Jewish artists and writers threatened by the Nazis including Hannah Arendt\, Max Ernst\, Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall. \n“No book this year could possibly compare with The Flight Portfolio: ambitious\, meticulous\, big-hearted\, gorgeous\, historical\, suspenseful\, everything you want a novel to be.”\n– Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less \n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nJulie Orringer\nJulie Orringer is the bestselling author of the novel The Invisible Bridge and the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater\, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She is the winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships… Read More →\n\n \nMichael Chabon\nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps and Legends… Read More →\n\n\n\n\nTuesday May 14\, 2019 7:00pm – 9:00pm\nJewish Community Center of San Francisco\, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118\n  Featured Event\, ticketed
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-orringer-and-michael-chabon/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190514T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190514T213000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Aatif Rashid | Portrait of Sebastian Khan
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nSebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major who’s as much a connoisseur of members of the opposite sex as he is of Pre-Raphaelite paintings\, Sebastian starts dating Fatima\, a Muslim American determined to transition smoothly from campus life to a stable white-collar professional career. Sebastian’s membership in Model United Nations\, though\, takes him to college campuses all around North America\, testing his commitment to Fatima and his readiness for adulthood. PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN is a humorous coming-of-age novel about a charismatic but emotionally stunted Muslim American Don Draper\, who wins as many hearts as he breaks. \nAatif Rashid is the author of Portrait of Sebastian Khan. He’s published short stories in The Massachusetts Review\, Metaphorosis\, and Arcturus\, and nonfiction in The Los Angeles Review of Books as well as online on Medium. He currently writes weekly for The Kenyon Review Blog about fiction writing and literature. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-aatif-rashid-portrait-of-sebastian-khan/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190514T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190611T213000
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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is a mashup of photography\, poetry\, and prose set to a live score\, featuring the photography of Brittany Powers. The reading explores love\, relationships\, sexuality\, and gender. Featured readers include: Julie Kramer\, Thea Matthews\, K.R. Morrison\, Jared Roehrig\, Nay Saysourinho and Mackenzie Studebaker. With musical guest: Chloe Zelma Studebaker from Zelma Stone🎈🎉📚 \nTickets: $15 in advance\, $20 day of show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-3/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell
DESCRIPTION:Litquake and MoAD present… \nNamwali Serpell’s electrifying debut\, THE OLD DRIFT\, is the first novel ever to tell the story of Zambia from its very beginnings to the present day—and beyond. \nCrossing centuries\, borders\, and genres\, THE OLD DRIFT tells a sweeping tale of a small African country as it comes into being\, and the trials and tribulations of its people. Their stories\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis\, form an epic meditation on what it means to be human. \nWith playful language\, Serpell masterfully blends historical fiction\, fairy-tale fables\, romance\, and science fiction. On each page\, she turns stereotypes and tropes on their heads\, unsettling the stories we think we know about Africa\, from colonialism to migration\, gender to race\, poverty to politics\, and nationhood to technology. Through THE OLD DRIFT’s cast of vivid characters—including Zambia\, which proves to be a character itself—Serpell shows that\, if to err is human\, then even the slightest error can still be a powerful force for transformation. Incisive\, expansive\, and subversive\, THE OLD DRIFT announces Namwali Serpell as a major new literary talent. \n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nNamwali Serpell\nNamwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, is forthcoming with Hogarth (Penguin Random House) in 2019.She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story\, “The Sack.” In 2014\, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nWednesday May 15\, 2019 6:30pm – 8:00pm\nMuseum of African Diaspora 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94105\n  Featured Event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell/
LOCATION:MoAD\, 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new novel \nPermission \npublished by Coach House Books \n\nA grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix in this haunting and erotic debut. When Echo’s father gets swept away by a freak current off the Los Angeles coast\, she enters a state of paralysis. The failed young actress seeks solace in the best way she knows: by losing herself in the lives of others. This time it’s with her new neighbor\, a dominatrix named Orly who works out of her suburban home\, and who introduces Echo to a whole new world of desire. But Orly’s fifty-something houseboy won’t quite let Echo slip into sweet oblivion? Set among the bright colors of L. A.\, Permission is a kind of love story about three people sick with dreams and expectations who turn to the erotic for comfort and cure. As they stumble through the landscape of desire\, they ask themselves: how do I want to be loved? \n“Saskia Vogel’s provocative debut novel\, Permission\, is like a trick box full of sliding panels. Her protagonist\, jarred loose from her life by the accidental death of her father\, finds that the boundaries she’s always taken as given begin to slide open\, revealing secret zones of power and sexuality within the world and within herself. Beautifully written\, mysterious and compelling. ” – Janet Fitch \nSaskia Vogel grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on the themes of gender\, power\, and sexuality for publications such as The White Review\, The Offing\, and The Quietus . Previously\, she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. \nvisit:  saskiavogel.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JARED DIAMOND In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt
DESCRIPTION:JARED DIAMOND\nIn Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt\nWednesday\, May 15\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJared Diamond is a renowned geographer and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns\, Germs\, and Steel. His books explore philosophical and scientific subject matter candidly and with compelling detail. His most recent book\, Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis and Change\, is the final volume in a trilogy (preceded by Guns\, Germs\, and Steel and Collapse) chronicling the rise and fall of civilizations around the globe. This final volume looks to both the past and the future\, bringing historical\, geographic\, anthropological\, economic\, and personal lenses to the apocalyptic questions surrounding our world today. Diamond’s scientific research covers the birds of New Guinea and other Southwest Pacific Islands\, and he additionally works toward promoting sustainable environmental policy in his role as a director of the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International. He lives and works in Los Angeles\, where he is a professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nRoy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years and currently teaches at University of California\, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He was previously president of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences. His past interviews for City Arts & Lectures include Desmond Tutu\, Doris Kearns Goodwin\, Madeleine Albright\, and Brian Greene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jared-diamond-in-conversation-with-roy-eisenhardt/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Randall
DESCRIPTION:David Randall discusses his new book\, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague. \n\nPraise for Black Death at the Golden Gate \n“David K. Randall has created a meticulously researched history that unfolds like a thriller. I raced through this book in two days (horribly\, the span of time it took bubonic plague to fell a victim). The unlikely heroes—bacteriologists and public health officers with long\, flowing beards—battle villains most vile: racism\, rotten politics\, disregard for science\, and Yersinia pestis. Black Death at the Golden Gate is both a page-turner and a cautionary tale: those villains still lurk.” —Mary Roach\, New York Timesbest-selling author of Grunt \n“A haunting detective tale packed with villains and heroes\, Black Death at the Golden Gate shows how bigotry and greed almost brought a major U.S. city to ruin—and how science and courage saved it. The events in this book may be a hundred years old\, but its message is as urgent as ever.” — Jason Fagone\, author of the national bestseller The Woman Who Smashed Codes \n“David K. Randall is a spellbinding writer. He has turned a critical chapter of medical history into a riveting tale that reads like a detective novel\, chock-full of scandals and intrigue…Read Black Death at the Golden Gatebecause it’s a page-turner\, but more important\, read this book because the issues Randall spotlights resonate today.” — Randi Epstein\, author of Aroused \n\nAbout Black Death at the Golden Gate \nFor Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King\, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6\, 1900\, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin–a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience\, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained\, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. \nTo local press\, railroad barons\, and elected officials\, such a possibility was inconceivable–or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat\, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process\, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation\, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco\, examined gory black buboes\, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. \nIn the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson\, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread–the only hope of saving San Francisco\, and the nation\, from a gruesome fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-randall/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 15\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-10/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist\, Michael Kroll
DESCRIPTION:Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces\, some award-winning\, most of which focus on our own criminal justice system and\, in particular\, the death penalty. Hear him read from his works and discuss his varied interests and memoir-writing experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-journalist-and-anti-death-penalty-activist-michael-kroll/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux - poets!
DESCRIPTION:Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux – poets!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-boughn-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-poets/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:reading from and discussing her new novel \nThe Old Drift \nfrom Hogarth Books \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n\nNamwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel\, The Old Drift\, is forthcoming with Hogarth (Penguin Random House) in 2019. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story\, “The Sack.” In 2014\, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39\, a Hay Festival project to identify the most promising African writers under 40. In 2011\, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her first published story\, “Muzungu\,” was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2009\, shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize\, and anthologized in The Uncanny Reader. You can read her writing in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, Tin House\, Triple Canopy\, The Believer\, n+1\, McSweeney’s\, Bidoun\, Cabinet\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The L.A.Review of Books\, Public Books\, The Guardian\, and in these six short story anthologies.  She is associate professor of English at UC Berkeley. Her first book of literary criticism\, Seven Modes of Uncertainty\, was published in 2014 by Harvard UP. Visit: www.namwaliserpell.com \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic living in Oakland\, California\, where he works as the reviews editor of The Believer. His work has appeared in Bookforum\, The Nation\, and Slate. \nAdvance praise for THE OLD DRIFT: \n“Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical\, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place\, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s\, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined\, brilliantly constructed\, and staggering in its scope\, this is an astonishing novel.”\n—Publishers Weekly (starred) \n“In this smartly composed epic\, magical realism and science fiction interweave with authentic history\, and the ‘colour bar\,’ the importance of female education\, and the consequences of technological change figure strongly. It’s also a unique immigration story showing how people from elsewhere are enfolded into the country’s fabric… Serpell’s novel is absorbing\, occasionally strange\, and entrenched in Zambian culture—in all\, an unforgettable original.”\n—Booklist (starred) \n“Comparisons with Gabriel García Márquez are inevitable and likely warranted. But this novel’s generous spirit\, sensory richness\, and visionary heft make it almost unique among magical realist epics.”\n—Kirkus (starred) \n“It’s hard to believe this is a debut\, so assured is its language\, so ambitious its reach\, and yet The Old Drift is indeed Namwali Serpell’s first novel\, and it signifies a great new voice in fiction. Feeling at once ancient and futuristic\, The Old Drift is a genre-defying riotous work that spins a startling new creation myth for the African nation of Zambia…Serpell’s voice is lucid and brilliant\, and it’s one we can’t wait to read more of in years to come.”\n—Nylon\, “50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019” \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.”\n—CARMEN MARIA MACHADO\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n\n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience—each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.”\n—ALICE SEBOLD\, author of The Lovely Bones\n\n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!”\n—ALEXANDRA FULLER\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight\n\n“It’s difficult to think of another novel that is at once so sweepingly ambitious and so intricately patterned\, delivering the pleasures of saga and poetry in equal measure. The Old Drift is an endlessly innovative\, voraciously brilliant book\, and Namwali Serpell is among the most distinctive and exciting writers to emerge in years.”\n—GARTH GREENWELL\, author of What Belongs to You \n“The Old Drift is a dazzling genre-bender of a novel\, an astonishing historical and futuristic feat\, a page-turner with a plot that consistently and cleverly upends itself. Playfully poetic and outright serious at once\, it is one of the most intelligent debuts I’ve read this year. No matter your reading preference\, there’s something in it for you.”\n—CHINELO OKPARANTA\, author of Under the Udala Trees\n\n“If\, as she writes\, ‘history is the annals of the bully on the playground\,’ then in The Old Drift\, Namwali Serpell wreaks havoc on the Zambian annals by rewriting the past\, creating a new present\, and conjuring an alternative future. In refusing to be bound by genre\, Serpell is audacious and shrewd. This is a Zambian history of pain and exploitation\, trial and error\, and hope and triumph.”\n—JENNIFER MAKUMBI\, author of Kintu\n\n“The Old Drift is an extraordinary meditation on identity\, the history of a nation\, love\, politics\, family\, friendship\, and life. Serpell’s prose is dazzling. Darting back and forth through the decades and mixing different genres\, Serpell has delivered an original\, remarkable\, magical work that both delights and challenges.”\n—CHIKA UNIGWE\, author of On Black Sisters Street
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:All the Sweeter
DESCRIPTION:Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. \n\nAbout All The Sweeter \nAll the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family’s adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face\, including the complications that accompany transracial adoptions\, helping children understand adoption\, relationships with birth parents\, and raising a traumatized child. Each year\, over 50\,000 children are adopted from the US Foster Care System. \n  \nInformative and diverse in scope\, All the Sweeter provides a resource to families considering adoption\, families in the process of adoption\, and families who have already adopted children from foster care–with the ultimate goal of facilitating a better life for the children they bring into their lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/all-the-sweeter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES
DESCRIPTION:    \nInsideStorytime QUIDDITIES\, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater)\, Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes)\, Vincent Chu (Like A Champion)\, Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility)\, and others\, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday May 16th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-quiddities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Lights\, Camera\, Fashun
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Lights\, Camera\, FASHUN \nThis month’s participating writers: Liz Owuor\, Kar Johnson\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-lights-camera-fashun/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Hansman
DESCRIPTION:Heather Hansman discusses her new book\, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. \nPraise for Down River \n“Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo raft trip down the Green River is more than a terrific adventure story. She ably explains why water in the West doesn’t concern only the West and why simple answers to water questions are never as simple as they seem.” David Owen\, author of Where the Water Goes\n“History\, politics\, science\, reportage\, and adventure all whirl together in Downriver\, a deeply researched and intimate exploration of water’s uncertain fate in the American West. In this narrative journey along the Green River\, Heather Hansman navigates turbulent waters and diverse worldviews with compassion\, grit\, and an overriding respect for complexity. This book is graced with insights that can only be won with a paddle in hand and a sense of our collective future at stake.” Kate Harris\, author of Lands of Lost Borders\n“In her journey down the Green River\, Heather Hansman brilliantly captures the complexity of the Colorado River through the lens of its largest tributary.  Her balanced and thoughtful investigation into the river’s many uses\, the colorful characters that depend on it\,and those who have dedicated careers to it will leave readers questioning their own biases and wanting to learn more about the landscape\, its people\, and its future. Downriver is a must read for those interested in the Colorado River and the future of the West.” Matt Rice\, Director\, Colorado River Basin Program \nAbout Down River \n\nThe Green River\, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River\, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches\, cities\, national parks\, endangered fish habitats\, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country\, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams\, slaked off by irrigation\, and dried up by cities\, the Green is crucial\, overused\, and at risk\, now more than ever. \nFights over the river’s water\, and what’s going to happen to it in the future\, are longstanding\, intractable\, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter\, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening\, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey\, in a one-person inflatable pack raft\, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers\, city officials\, and other people met along the way\, Downriver is the story of that journey\, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-hansman/
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:Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration
DESCRIPTION:America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience\, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election\, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states\, high schools and nursing homes\, big cities and small towns—with the voices of poets from other countries and other times. From Virgil and Dante to Claudia Rankine and Mai Der Vang\, from Milton to Merwin\, from Po Chü-i to Robin Coste Lewis\, these voices—now raucous\, now muted\, now lyric\, now plain—join together here in dissent and in praise\, in grief and alarm\, in vision and hope. Local poets will read selections from this inspiring volume.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-anthology-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic
DESCRIPTION:Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic\n\n\n\n\n\n05/17/2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Nonfiction\n\n\n\n\nReading/Talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the age of nineteen\, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest\, toughest horse race”\, an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1\,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim\, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia\, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. \nRiders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby\, a course that recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan\, and many fail to finish. Prior-Palmer had no formal training. She was driven by her own restlessness\, stubbornness\, and a lifelong love of horses. She raced for ten days through extreme heat and terrifying storms\, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration\, exhaustion and bruising falls\, she decided she had nothing to lose. Each dawn she rode out again on a fresh horse\, scrambling up mountains\, swimming through rivers\, crossing woodlands and wetlands\, arid dunes and open steppe\, as American television crews chased her in their Jeeps. \nTold with terrific suspense and style\, in a voice full of poetry and soul\, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead\, against all odds\, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race. \nLara Prior-Palmer was born in London in 1994. She studied conceptual history and Persian at Stanford University. In 2013\, she competed in the 1\,000-kilometer Mongol Derby in Mongolia\, sometimes described as the world’s toughest and longest horse race\, and became the first woman to win the race\, and the youngest person ever to finish. Rough Magic is her first book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage San Francisco \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lara-prior-palmer-rough-magic/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
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