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Peace, Love, and Anarchy: Manic D + PM Press (As Part of LITCRAWL 2011)

Oct.11.2011

Peace, Love, and Anarchy: Manic D + PM Press (As Part of LITCRAWL 2011)

(As Part of LITCRAWL 2011: Phase 3)
Peace, Love, and Anarchy: Manic D + PM Press

A rollicking ride through the ins and outs of Bay Area fresh fiction, transgender love, and no politics as usual for adventurous book lovers.

Hosted by PM Press' Terry Bisson & Manic D's Jen Joseph.
Readings from Summer Brenner, Justin Chin, Morty Diamond, Owen Hill & Jon Longhi.

Saturday, 15 October, 8:30-9:30 pm. Free!

Casa Bonampak
1051 Valencia St. b/w 21 & 22
San Francisco, CA

http://litcrawl.org/sf/events/event/peace-love-and-anarchy-manic-d-pm-pr...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.10.2006

Gutted

While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia-a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu-to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. In addition to his father's illness, Chin was managing his own health and medical annoyances...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.30.2005

Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms

Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms is a collection of these performance art texts, along with documents and scripts, that represent Chin’s performance work from 1993-2001. Whether playing native, tourist, or other, the performer questions our--as well as his own--assumptions, prejudices, and consumption of cultural beings and commodities. These works explore themes of...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.15.2001

Harmless Medicine

Marked by maturity and poetic vision, Harmless Medicine is fiercely devoted to the margins of queer life in the generation after the first wave of the AIDS epidemic. In more than 40 pieces, Chin fearlessly delivers everything from his first exposure to science ("Magnified") to a mail order fantasy experience ("I Buy Sea Monkeys"); from backroads travel in Asia...

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PUBLISHED: May.05.2007

Burden of Ashes

A literary dreamscape in which the landscapes of childhood, homelands, bodies, lovers, and desires succumb to whimsy, revision, and denial. With wild grace, Chin bounds through actual events and imagined outcomes-in a place where killing snakes, stern discipline, family pets, and childhood vacations share equal time with unrequited love, the mournful specters of ex-lovers, imagined...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.15.1998

Mongrel : Essays, Diatribes & Pranks

In a time when memoirs are often less than they claim to be and essays do not say enough, Justin Chin breaks onto the scene with a collection that is a combination of confession, tirade, journalism, and practical joke.Mongrel is a cross-section of Chin's imagination and experiences that calls into question what it means to be an Asian-American in San Francisco, the effect your...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.04.1997

Bite Hard

Bite Hard, a collection of poetry, fiction, and performance pieces by Justin Chin, weaves together a vision of otherness that is unique in gay writing. Chin, who was born in Malaysia, raised in Singapore, and is now living in San Francisco, writes from queer pan-Asian experience: outsiderness times two. Whether describing a series of bad ex-boyfriends (he has had seven named...

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Oct.11.2011 - 9:32 am

Another LITQUAKE!

Another Litquake is upon us! I remember that very first one 12 years ago when it was still called Litstock, and held one late afternoon at the bandstand at Golden Gate Park amidst...

Sep.01.2010 - 7:52 pm

meow

I wrote up a version of this entry more than a year ago but never ended up posting it. This time, here goes: It's been a little more than two years now that I've had Moz. He's a...

Dec.21.2007 - 6:10 pm

Anytown Bingo

Feeling a little crowded? Waiting at some endless breadline ? Stuck at a book fair that just won't end? Left in the car at the mega-mall with the windows only rolled down slightly...

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Dec.30.2001

Harmless Medicine

Published by San Francisco Chronicle

The title, of course, is howlingly ironic. If San Francisco poet Justin Chin is laughing, it's just a gag reflex against a particularly bitter pill. A gay, punk-rock Chinese...

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Audio: Ex-Boyfriends Named Michael (1995)

Audio: My Fissurectomy (1998)

Audio: C*********'s Blues (1998)

About Justin

Born in Malaysia, raised & educated in Singapore, shipped to the U.S. by way of Hawaii, and now living in San Francisco. Author of 3 books of poetry, all published by Manic D Press: Bite Hard (1997); Harmless Medicine (2001), a finalist in the Bay Area...

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