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Bookswap with Paul Lisicky
BOOKSWAP featuring PAUL LISICKY!
Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Paul Lisicky, author of Famous Builder and The Burning House. He'll be joining us at Bookswap to celebrate the release of The Narrow Door, a memoir about friendship, love, and loss.
Lisicky pays careful attention to the constellation of people moving in, moving through, and moving on from his life. The Narrow Door explores friendship among artists, through distance and catastrophe, and what it means to be truly vulnerable.
So, this time around, we're asking you to bring a book about friendships. You'll talk about it in groups, and hear about the books that other people brought. At the end, we'll have a big, rowdy, white elephant swap, and you'll leave with a new favorite.
We'll also have local artisan cheese, per uszh, this time from Tomales Farmstead Creamery! In 2013, Tomales Farmstead Creamery began producing artisanal goat and sheep cheeses from their organic farm in Marin County. Since the dairy goat and sheep industry is still in its infancy in the US, Toluma Farm is doing their part to move the industry forward in the Bay Area and provide an amazing product as well. They are committed to educating kids and adults by offering tours on the first Sunday of each month and an array of other events.
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PAUL LISICKY is the author of five books: Lawnboy, Famous Builder, The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, and The Narrow Door, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in January 2016. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Fence, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Rumpus, Unstuck, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a Fellow. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia, PA and teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, the low residency program at Sierra Nevada College, and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He is the editor of StoryQuarterly and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
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Doors at 6:30PM. Tickets must be purchased in advance, and they do sell out.
Ticket includes dinner, drinks, swag, and 20% off any and all purchases you make on the night of Bookswap.
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LocationThe Booksmith (View)
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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