All Event Books 10% Off   She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff Annalee Newitz   - Thursday, February 1   - 7:30 PM Bringing together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and aren’t afraid to match wits with men or computers, She’s Such a Geek celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. Annalee Newitz is a regular contributer to the San Francisco Bay Guadian. top of page Taqism Zaid Shlah Edge & Fold Paul Hoover   - Wednesday, February 7   - 7:30 PM New College creative writing professor Zaid Shlah is joined by fellow poet Paul Hoover for a reading from his first book of poetry Taqism. Shlah’s poetry has appeared in literary magazines and journals in both Canada and the U.S. and in May of 2005, he was awarded the American Academy of Poets Award. His first book, Taqism, is an examination of Arab culture intertwined deeply with Albertan sensibilities. top of page Criminal of Poverty: Growing up Homeless in America Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia   - Thursday, February 8   - 7:00 PM Tiny, aka, Lisa Gray-Garcia, revolutionary poet, journalist, welfareQUEEN, teacher, member of the Po Poets Project, editor of POOR Magazine, and co-founder of The FAMILY Project, daughter of Dee and mama of Tiburcio will read from her memoir. In Criminal of Poverty, Tiny paints a vivid portrait of her and her mother’s struggle with poverty, homelessness, and the growing criminalization of poor folks in America. Tiny will be joined by her fellow welfareQUEENS, Po' Poets, and authors from POOR Magazine's small press project, POOR Press. top of page Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire Sarah Katherine Lewis   - Tuesday, February 13   - 7:30 PM Daphne Gottlieb writes, “Lewis delivers a book free of sexphobia hysteria or sex-positive posturing...Indecent explains what it’s really like to make sex your job.” Pithy, sometimes sarcastic, and always brutally honest, in Indecent Lewis recounts her decade’s worth of experience in various realms of the sex industry with a sharp-eye and an outrageously caustic humor. top of page Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series   - Thursday, February 15   - 7:30 PM Ecstatic Monkey Literary Promotions is a San Francisco-based organization that helps writers and small presses publicize their work by hosting readings and other literary events, facilitating publishing relationships between writers and presses and creating a community among new literary voices. Readers TBA. top of page The Architecture of Language Quincy Troupe At New College of California, 777 Valencia St   - Saturday, February 17   - 6:30 PM Former California poet laureate and winner of two American Book Awards, Quincy Troupe, will read from his new collection of poetry. The Architecture of Language speaks to a contemporary America locked in celebrity, hurricane Katrina, political division, war in Iraq, and the culture war. This event is cosponsored by the Writing and Consciousness Program at New College and Modern Times Bookstore. top of page The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer Dean Baker   - Wednesday, February 21   - 7:30 PM In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, he argues, conservatives rely on a range of “nanny state” policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It’s time for the rules to change, he says. Join us as Baker discusses how sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes – decent wages, good jobs and affordable health care. top of page No Te Rajes and Victoria de Todos los Santos Caitlin Manning   - Thursday, February 22   - 7:00 No Te Rajes, a 30 minute documentary by Manning and the Videoactivista collective, tracks the movement of peaceful civil disobedience that took over the heart of Mexico City for 49 days this summer and provides context for the current social movements there. Manning will also screen a documentary by the Mal de Ojo collective on the widespread grassroots movement in Oaxaca City, Victoria de Todos los Santos. Screenings will be followed by live phone hookup with movement people in Oaxaca. top of page Spanish Book Group/ Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español   - Tuesday, February 27   - 7:00 PM This Spanish language book group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for seven years. Modern Times is proud to be their new host. For February the group will be discussing Cuentos de amor, de locura, y de muerte by Horacio Quiroga. For March the group will be reading Las intermitencias de la muerte by Jose Saramago. Books are available at the store. top of page Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology Clarissa Rojas, Andrea Smith, Nadine Naber, and Andrea Ritchie   - Wednesday, February 28   - 7:00 PM In the tradition of the revolutionary anthology This Bridge Called My Back, the INCITE! Anthology is an urgent, bold, and essential intervention in the war against women of color, their communities, and, ultimately, us all. Join us as esteemed editors Rojas, Smith, Naber, and Ritchie discuss the intersecting ways in which various forms of interpersonal and state violence and oppression exist in the lives of women of color and the innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. top of page