City Lights at 60: Math, Science & Literature Panel | SF

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City Lights at 60: Literary Event Series | SF

San Francisco’s City Lights is perhaps one of the most well known bookstores in the country, if not the world. It was fertile ground for the Beat Generation and continues to serve as the cornerstone of the city’s literary community.

City Lights at 60 is a special series of anniversary events in the bookstore and throughout the city hosted by some of the editors, writers, artists, and friends of City Lights.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
OuLiPo | City Lights at 60: Literary Event Series | SF

Come to City Lights Books for a brief multimedia presentation of OuLiPo group’s origins and trajectory by Daniel Levin Becker, followed by a panel discussion involving Oulipians Paul Fournel and Hervé Le Tellier, moderated by Peter Maravelis. Q&A follows.

Since 1961, the OuLiPo — ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or workshop for potential literature — has been borrowing mathematical and scientific theories to develop new structures for literary creation. In its explorations, the workshop has rejuvenated age-old forms, such as the sonnet, the sestina, and the lipogram, and created new delights like the subway poem, the N+7 technique, and the first choose-your-own-adventure fiction in history.

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