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Pardon My Spanglish, ¡Porque Because!: One Man's Guide to Speaking the Habla
Bill Santiago
- Thursday, September 4
- 7:30 PM
Full of indispensable tips and witty observations, Pardon My Spanglish is a hilarious celebration of Latino culture. Readers will learn vital lessons in linguistics and answers to perrenial questions like, Why is People en Español not simply called Gente? (Quirk Books)
Comedian Bill Santiago has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Que Locos, American Latino and Comedy Central's Premium Blend.
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You can also catch Santiago at the Brava Theater on September 20th for his performance, The Funny of Latin Dance.
Tickets for the Brava performance are on sale at Modern Times Bookstore.
For more information, check out Brava's Upcoming Season of Theatrical Productions and Bill Santiago's website.
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
Slavoj Žižek
- Friday, September 5
- 7:30 PM
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbor"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think? Beginning with these and other equally provocative questions, Žižek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.
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West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
Tamim Ansary
- Satruday, September 6
- 5:00 PM
One City One Book Event
San Francisco Public Library and One City One Book partners are excited to explore and celebrate San Francisco author Tamim Ansary's memoir with an unparalleled series of book discussions, author events and more. In West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story, we travel at Ansary's side, as he gives us rare access to Afghan culture—from the time of "old Afghanistan," through Soviet rule, and later the Taliban.
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Slingshot: 32 Postcards by Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker
- Monday September 8
- 7:00 PM
PM Press: Indie Press of the Month
Disguised as a book of innocent postcards, Slingshot is a dangerous collection of Eric Drooker's most notorious posters. Plastered on brick walls from New York to Berlin, tattooed on bodies from Kansas to Mexico City, Drooker's graphics continue to infiltrate and inflame the body politic.
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Sacred Commerce: Business as a Path of Awakening
Terces and Matthew Engelhart
- Wednesday, September 10
- 7:00 PM
Owners of Café Gratitude offer a manual for building a spiritual community at the workplace—a vital concept in an age when work consumes the bulk of most adults' working time. Stressing that every business is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of both clients and employees, the Engelharts share the tools they've learned in their own enterprises to fulfill this vision. (Atlantic Books)
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All That's Left
Jack Hirschman
- Thursday, September 11
- 7:30 PM
A powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned-laureate Jack Hirschman. The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series is a passionate and moving volume from one of America's most distinguished poets.
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Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine
Jen Angel
- Monday September 15
- 7:00 PM
Indie Press of the Month
This analysis of Clamor Magazine—a now defunt publication covering radical politics, culture, and activism, is presented as a case study on how movement projects and organizations deal with vital but rarely discussed issues such as management, sustainability, ownership, structure, finance, decision making, power, diversity, and vision.
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the space between
Aimee Suzara
- Tuesday, September 16
- 7:30 PM
Filipino-American writer/performer and educator Aimee Suzara uses poetry, theatre and movement to explore themes of home, migration and the body. Celebrate the launch of her poetry chapbook with us!
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Frank B. Wilderson
- Wednesday September 17
- 7:30 PM
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress, that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro retells a story most Americans assume we already know, with a sometimes awful, but ultimately essential clarity about racial politics and our own lives.
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CELL/SELF: a reading of freedom from the prison industrial complex and the health industrial complex
Margo Perin & Multi-Generational Writers & Spoken Word Poets
- Thursday, September 18
- 7:00 PM
Join our good friend and regular collaborator Margo Perin as she brings together writers of all generations to share their life experiences. Perin is the founder and director of Write & Rise, an organization that provides free writing and publishing programs for adults and youth working towards freedom from incarceration in jail and prison, for the formerly incarcerated upon reentering society, and for at-risk youth at group homes and substance treatment centers.
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From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography Of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
Robert Hillary King
- Monday, September 22
- 7:00 PM
Indie Press of the Month
A triple header event on political prisoners, incarceration, and struggle. Celebrate the launch of King’s autobiography with us and get updated on the Angola 3 campaign. Denis O’Hearn, author of Nothing But an Unfinished Song and Andrej Grubacic, co-author of Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations On Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History join to discuss paths to liberation.
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Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español
- Tuesday, September 23
- 7:00 PM
Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for eight years. Books are available for 10% off at the store. The discussions are lively and fully in Spanish.
September's selection is El Búfalo de la Noche by Guillermo Arriaga. Tras el suicidio de su mejor amigo, Manuel se ve acosado por la sombra de la enfermedad mental de aquel, por su mundo de violencia y por la tortuosa relación sentimental con su novia, que fue inicialmente pareja de Gregorio, el amigo muerto; citas no cumplidas, extraños mensajes y la sombra de un policía que aparece como vengador de una infidelidad que lo llevó a la locura.
Escrita con la agilidad de un guión cinematográfico y con un fondo de personajes urbanos que se mueven en los márgenes de la delincuencia, esta novela confirma a su autor como uno de los mejores escritores mexicanos de las últimas generaciones. Con tono existencial que da cuenta de los aspectos más crudos de la sociedad de nuestro tiempo, esta obra de suspenso trae personajes bien construidos, atractivos y que se ven inmersos en una atmósfera cercana tanto a la novela macabra como a la prosa de Franz Kafka.
Guillermo Arriaga is an author, screenwriter and producer. His award-winning screenplays include Babel, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Amores Perros, and 21 Grams.
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities
Ching-In Chen, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Zueikha Mahmood
- Wednesday, September 24
- 7:30 PM
Two years in the making, this zine/book explores the nitty gritty of what community accountability strategies look like in real life, and describes many concrete ways to build safety from violence and accountability in our communities. CARA, UBUNTU, Philly's Pissed, Mango Tribe, Ana Maurine Lara and many other individual contributors are included in this long-awaited zine. Co-sponsored by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Bay Area.
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Real Cost Of Prisons Comix and Let Freedom Ring
Lois Ahrens & Matt Meyer
- Monday September 29
- 7:00 PM
Indie Press of the Month
These two new anthologies chronicle the tenacious and multifaceted work of prisoners and their allies in the fight for freedom. Real Cost of Prisons Comix presents how hundreds of thousands of prisoners and their allies have made the grisly facts and devastating effects of mass incarceration accessible through comics. With a two-decade sweep, Let Freedom Ring chronicles the essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunals verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and to secure their freedom. Longtime activists and authors Ashanti Alston and Rita ‘Bo’ Brown, along with author Ruth Wilson Gilmore join the discussion.
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Illegal People and The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
David Bacon, Fekkah Mamdouh, and Rinku Sen
- Tuesday, September 30
- 7:30 PM
A vital discussion on the global corporate economy, U.S. immigration policy, and reform. Illegal People (Beacon Press) shows how the United States' trade and economic policy abroad, in seeking to create a favorable investment climate for large corporations, creates conditions to displace communities and set migration into motion. The Accidental American (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U. S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Co-sponsored by Colorlines magazine.
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Gay Shame Weekly Meetings
- Saturdays
- 5:30 PM
Gay Shame seeks nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. Come to a general meeting: all are welcome.
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