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SUMMARY:Battle of the Brains 2017: A Pub Quiz in Support of SPD
DESCRIPTION:~ YOU’RE INVITED! ~ \nMonday\, 8th May\, 2017\nDoors at 6:30\nEvent at 7 \n*Will you and your friends win bragging rights to become the BRAINIEST GANG IN THE BAY AREA* \n*Can you dethrone last year’s champions – Alan Bernheimer’s team\, the BFFs of Small Press Distribution?* \n*Are you looking forward to more brain-bending questions such as the 2016 classic\, “What is a LEMNISCATE?” (clue: it is not a lemon riding a skateboard)*\n\n~*~ \nJoin us at this classic pub quiz\, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table\, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary\, some not). \nWho can sport the nerdiest glasses? Who will be quickest to turn in their answer sheet? Who will snag all the pitchers of beer (we’re looking at you\, booksellers)? I can’t wait to find out what 2017’s Battle will bring. Can you? \nHOW IT WORKS: Each team captain gathers 8 people for your team. Each team will need to raise $500 prior to the event to get in. Of course\, each team member could just put in $65 or so\, but to lower that cost you can crowdsource donations for each team by creating a team page at our ~Crowdrise~. \nhttps://www.crowdrise.com/BATTLEOFTHEBRAINS2017 \nWant to be a ♥ TEAM CAPTAIN?\nLooking to join a TEAM? \nemail trisha@spdbooks.org and she can help. \nCome for canapes\, drinks\, lots of friendly competition. Stay for prizes – one for the team that raises the most money and\, of course\, one for the winner of the pub quiz itself!
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LOCATION:Lake Merritt Sailboat House\, 568 Bellevue Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Manic D Press Authors
DESCRIPTION:Authors representing Manic D Press will read from their works. Readers will be Daphne Gottlieb\, Thea Hillman\, Ailvin Orloff\, + Larry-Bob Roberts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-manic-d-press-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alia Malek
DESCRIPTION:Alia Malek discusses her new book\, The Home That Was Our Country\, with Micheline Marcom. \n\nPraise for The Home That Was Our Country \n\n“In The Home That Was Our Country\, Alia Malek masterfully weaves together the personal and the political\, and in so doing creates an unforgettable portrait of modern Syria in all its complexities and tragedies. Malek renders multiple generations of family\, friends and neighbors vividly but unsentimentally\, and what emerges is a portrait of a great people held back by tyranny. As Syria suffers through its darkest days\, she reminds us of the humans behind the statistics. Completely engrossing and lucid\, the book explains Syria’s devolution better than anything I’ve read.”―Dave Eggers \n“What Alia Malek has done in The Home That Was Our Country is nothing short of extraordinary. With deep love and clear-eyed honesty\, she weaves together the story of a family and the history of a country. Malek addresses the personal and the political like no other writer I have read recently. This book is an urgent and necessary read.”―Laila Lalami\, author of THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT \n“Alia Malek’s beautiful\, arresting portrait of a Syrian family over generations takes you straight to the heart of that country’s agony. Malek brings you inside the intimate world of a Damascus apartment building\, while weaving in her own experiences as a journalist-laying bare the struggle for freedom like no other work I know. The Syrian war is perhaps the most profound moral and political crisis of our era\, and this unforgettable book will forever change the way you see it and the Middle East.”―Anand Gopal\, author of NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING \n\nAbout The Home That Was Our Country \n\nAt the Arab Spring’s hopeful start\, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment\, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent’s decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building\, past and present\, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims\, Christians\, Jews\, Armenians\, and Kurds-who worked\, loved\, and suffered in close quarters\, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family’s home as the country comes apart\, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship\, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria’s future.\nThe Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched\, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history\, society\, and politics. Teeming with insights\, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history\, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-malek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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