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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:In 2011\, when she was in her late fifties\, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine\, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined\, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. \nBefore they met\, both had believed they were done with marriage\, and even after they married\, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then\, just after their one year wedding anniversary\, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed\, as they battled his illness together\, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple—to be a true partner and to have one. \nThis is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance\, a marriage cut short by tragedy\, and Joyce’s return to singleness on new terms\, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching\, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss. \nJoyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth\, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children\, and makes her home in Lafayette\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to have Jesmyn Ward in the store for her latest novel\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing. Please join us! \nCarrying the torch of Faulkner and As I Lay Dying\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing tells the emotional journey taken by Leonie\, a single mother addicted to drugs\, her son Jojo\, 13\, and his toddler sister\, Kayla—who have been raised by their grandparents Pap\, who tries to teach Jojo how to be a man\, and Mam\, who is sick with cancer—to Parchman Farm\, the Mississippi State Penitentiary where Jojo and Kayla’s white father is being released from prison. Ghosts and spirits hover over Ward’s narrative\, which hums with ambition\, complexity\, heartache\, rich visuals\, and violence. \nIn Sing\, Unburied\, Sing\, Ward shows us life on the gulf coast of Mississippi—lush and menacing and marked by a precise rural vernacular—and life within a family weighted by history and poverty but bonded by love. Rich with Ward’s distinctive\, musical language\, it is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature by a writer at the top of her game. \nJesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novelsWhere the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones\, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoirMen We Reaped\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010\, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elise Paschen + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Elise Paschen and Tess Taylor read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nPraise for Elise Paschen \n“The Nightlife is not only a beautiful and inventive collection\, it’s an important contribution to this period in American poetry. Paschen’s voice shows us how―given all the choices in form\, voice\, subject\, and vision―a poet might make the art her own through the force of her personal brilliance\, and a generous and idiosyncratic sensibility. In this work it is as if ‘. . . she unhinged every / window . . .’ These are poems you return to not only for the music and the detail―equally powerful through her wide-angle lens as under her magnifying glass―but to puzzle out how she managed it. So much craft in work that reads so freely\, seems to have issued forth so effortlessly\, but also from some supernatural source\, poems that read as if the poet were ‘. . . trying to put back / the wild fury she had released.’ This is poetry that reminds us of all the power and possibilities of poetry itself.”―Laura Kasischke\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space\, in Chains \n\nPraise for Tess Taylor \n“(This) lapidary\, moving book . . . shows that across thousands of years\, these smallest acts―to grow\, harvest\, mourn―still remain central to lyric utterance. Is such a pastoral sensibility possible in the mediated world of 21st century American life? Taylor’s answer is not only yes\, but to focus on the thousands of workers both here and abroad who live a life based on laboring with the earth. These subtle poems\, like those that explore her lineage to the Jefferson family in her first book\, are not without harder-to-confront agonies. As she draws the world… proximate to touch\, the intuited sense of apocalypse―whether ecological disaster\, or global political chaos―draws closer . . . (as well.)”―LitHub’s “30 Poets You Should be Reading” \n  \nAbout The Nightlife \n\nIn Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection\, Infidelities\, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book\, The Nightlife\, Paschen once again taps into dream states\, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls\,” she explores troubled love and relationships\, the danger of accident and emotional volatility. At the heart of the book is a dream triptych which retells the same encounter from different perspectives\, the drama between the narrative described and the sexual tension created there. \n  \nThe Nightlife demonstrates Paschen’s versatility and formal mastery as she experiments with forms such as the pantoum\, the villanelle and the tritina\, as well as concrete poems and poems in free verse. Throughout this poetry collection\, she interweaves lyric and narrative threads\, creating a contrapuntal story-line. The book begins with a dive into deep water and ends with an opening into sky. \n  \nAbout Work and Days \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elise-paschen-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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