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SUMMARY:The Racket #22: PETS
DESCRIPTION:We love pets. We love videos of other people’s pets licking lemons or getting stuck in boxes or smiling like they’ve just huffed down a special cigarette. We love them dearly and we can’t wait to see what dark or devious or delightful paths our readers take us down in terms of them. \nThe Readers: \nDB Finnegan\nJared Roehrig\nKrista Varela Posell\nMk Chavez\nThea Sullivan\nJ. K. Fowler\nAyodele Nzinga \nAlso\, free beer. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-22-pets/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Russell Hill
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 23\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement street location. \n \nPlease join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, August 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Russell Hill to read from his new novel\, The Egret. \n\nA hit and run driver pinwheeled his daughter’s car into the waters of Tomales Bay and his life is turned upside down. Then the sheriff’s detective tells him he may have found the driver\, a rich man who lives nearby. Fueled by his anger and an overwhelming desire for revenge\, he plots ways to make his daughter’s killer suffer and die. Like the predatory egret\, he stalks his victim\, waiting for the right moment to strike. Drowning in the sea\, rattlesnakes and crude bombs are parts of his obsessive pursuit\, leading to the inevitable violence of what he imagines to be the final strike of the egret’s sharp beak. \n  \nRussell Hill is the author of three Edgar-nominated novels as well as several other books. His work has been translated into French\, German\, Polish\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, and one novel\, The Lord God Bird\, had been optioned for a movie. Hill is an avid fly fisherman\, has written for outdoor magazines\, and has taught writing for forty years. He and his wife still live in California where he has spent most of his life. \n  \nPraise for The Egret \n“I was so engrossed by The Egret that I read it in one straight sitting. It’s brilliant\, concise\, poetic\, gritty and deceptively simple with all the dark undercurrents of anger and nostalgia.” – Max Jourdan\, London filmmaker
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Martha Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church present \nMARTHA NUSSBAUM\nTHE MONARCHY OF FEAR \nFor decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist\, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her full attention to the terrible political standoff that has polarized America since the Trump election. Although today’s atmosphere is heavily marked by partisanship\, divisive rhetoric\, and the seeming total inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another\, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters\, journalists and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization\, automation and the high costs of higher education have produced feelings of utter powerlessness in millions of people in the U.S. Similar issues trouble European unity. \nThat sense of powerlessness and a pervasive underlying fear bubble into resentment and blame: blame of immigrants\, blame of Muslims\, blame of other races\, blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame played a hefty role in the election of Trump – and the vote for Brexit\, Nussbaum argues that it can in fact be found on all sides of the political spectrum-confusingly intertwined\, however\, with reasonable arguments aiming at greater justice. She insists that retribution is always a bad response to fear\, and she articulates a clear politics of constructive work and hope. \nMartha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics\, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She has written more than twenty books. \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, East Bay Books\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-nussbaum-the-monarchy-of-fear/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Ada Limon and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:   \n\nAda Limon discusses her new poetry collection\, The Carrying\, with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for The Carrying \n\n“[Ada Limón’s] new collection is her best yet\, a much needed shot of if not hope\, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty.”―NPR \n\n“In her dazzling\, precise\, transformative collection\, The Carrying\, Ada Limón offers us meditations on mortality\, womanhood\, the body\, and that which grows in the earth\, all the while slyly positing: How we should treat each other in this precarious life? Like humans\, is her answer. Like humans.”―Jami Attenberg\, author of The Middlesteins \n\n\n“Ada Limón teaches me that language can still surprise me. She shows me that the juxtaposition of words not previously joined can catch me off-guard\, make me feel that shimmer of resonance\, of curiosity.”―Signature \n\nAbout The Carrying \n\nFrom National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying―her most powerful collection yet. \nVulnerable\, tender\, acute\, these are serious poems\, brave poems\, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility―“What if\, instead of carrying / a child\, I am supposed to carry grief?”―and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza\, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us\, as ever\, the persistence of hunger\, love\, and joy\, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then\, / I’ll take it\,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” \nIn Bright Dead Things\, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power\, heavy with blood”―“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks\, no\, it knows\, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection\, that heart is on full display―even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream\, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-limon-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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