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SUMMARY:Chuck Forester: Eat\, Sleep\, Love
DESCRIPTION:Eat\, Sleep\, Love\, by Chuck Forester\, is a fond look back on a brief time when life opened up for gay men only to collapse with the deadly arrival of AIDS that marked the end of an era. It’s 1971 and Charlie McKey\, a young gay man from Point Reyes Station\, California\, arrives in San Francisco\, where free love and gay liberation abound. Newly out but open to experiencing the new wonders that suddenly surround him\, Charlie jumps in headfirst\, immersing himself in a no-holds-barred world of men\, drugs\, and endless sexual pleasure he’d never dreamed possible. \nChuck Forester came out in San Francisco in 1972 and participated in gay history as his generation created the Castro. Chuck worked for three San Francisco mayors and several non-profits\, and he has been writing for the past six years. His work includes the memoir\, Do You Live Around Here?\, and the novel Our Time: San Francisco in the 70s. His second novel\, Eat\, Sleep\, Love was released earlier this year.  Join us as Chuck reads from his new book\, and takes questions from the audience.  Eat\, Sleep\, Love will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-forester-eat-sleep-love/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Arax
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTHE DREAMT LAND:\nChasing Water and Dust Across California \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA vivid\, searching journey into California’s capture of water and soil–the epic story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders\, and ruin\, it has wrought \nMark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers\, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land\, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system\, built in the 1940s\, ’50s and ’60s\, that is straining to keep up with California’s relentless growth. \nThis is a heartfelt\, beautifully written book about the land and the people who have worked it–from gold miners to wheat ranchers to small fruit farmers and today’s Big Ag. Since the beginning\, Californians have redirected rivers\, drilled ever-deeper wells and built higher dams\, pushing the water supply past its limit. \nThe Dreamt Land weaves reportage\, history and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation’s biggest farmers–the nut king\, grape king and citrus queen–tell their story here for the first time.\nThis is a tale of politics and hubris in the arid West\, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth that is made to give more even while it keeps sinking. But when drought turns to flood once again\, all is forgotten as the farmers plant more nuts and the developers build more houses. \nArax\, the native son\, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta\, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned\, awe-inspiring\, tragic and revelatory. In the end\, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it. \nMark Arax is an author and journalist whose writings on California and the West have received numerous awards for literary nonfiction. A former staffer at the Los Angeles Times\, his work has appeared in The New York Times and the California Sunday Magazine. His books include a memoir of his father’s murder\, a collection of essays about the West\, and the best-selling The King of California\, which won a California Book Award\, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University\, and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Fresno\, California. \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Mark Arax: \n“[An] exhaustive\, deeply reported account… Few other journalists could have written a book as personal and authoritative… As Arax makes plain in this important book\, it’s been the same story in California for almost two centuries now: When it comes to water\, ‘the resource is finite. The greed isn’t.'”–Gary Krist\, The New York Times Book Review \n“In his sprawling\, provocative book The Dreamt Land\, journalist Mark Arax examines California’s long-building water crisis with the keen\, loving\, troubled eye of a native son… The Dreamt Land assumes an urgent\, personal tone and incorporates history\, memoir and the lives of larger-than-life personalities. Taken together\, it is a story biblical in scope and cautionary in tenor.”\n—Gerard Helferich\, The Wall Street Journal \n“Former L.A. Times reporter Mark Arax makes a riveting case that this expanse — 450 miles lengthwise from Shasta to Tehachapi; 60 miles across from the Sierra Nevada to the Coastal Range — as much as the world cities on its coast\, holds the key to understanding California …  a deeply reported work keenly alive to local subcultures.”\n—Stephen Phillips\, Los Angeles Times \n“Mark Arax’s monumental new book on California’s water system underscores the madness that makes the Golden State an agricultural powerhouse. [The Dreamt Land] is a compelling and powerful history of how power and greed shape the land\, and Arax has achieved a masterful distillation of how California got here\, warts and all.”\n—Civil Eats \n“The Dreamt Land weaves reportage\, history and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation’s biggest farmers–the nut king\, grape king and citrus queen–tell their story here for the first time.”\n—Chicago Review of Books \n“You can’t understand California without understanding water\, and no one is better at doing that than Mark Arax\, whose depth of knowledge about the Central Valley is organic and unparalleled. Plus\, he writes like a dream.”\n—Mark Bittman\, author of Food Matters  \n“The Dreamt Land is the book Mark Arax was born to write. Nuanced\, deeply researched\, and profoundly personal\, it offers\, through its history of agriculture in California\, a deep dive into the soul of the state. Arax knows the territory; he has written about rural California for many years. This is his crowning achievement\, a work of reportage that is also a work of literature. It belongs on the short list of great books about the state.”—David L. Ulin\, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles\, and editor of the Library of America’s Collected Didion \n“This is a stunning book. Biblical drama played against the harsh sun and earth of California’s Central Valley. Exodus\, diaspora\, parting the waters\, sowing and reaping\, Godlike dominion: it’s all in here.  The Dreamt Land calls up Steinbeck and Didion\, but it rests squarely on its own words\, memories\, and stories beyond mere comparison.”—William Francis Deverell\, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West \n“A sweeping\, engrossing history of his native California focused on the state’s use\, overuse\, and shocking mismanagement of water….Arax reveals the consequences to land and wildlife of generations of landowners who have defiantly dug\, dammed\, and diverted California’s waters.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n“Arax brings a reporter’s precision of language\, a researcher’s depth of perception\, and a born storyteller’s voice to this empathetic but unsentimental look at the history\, present\, and uncertain future of a once-arid region restructured into one of the country’s most productive.”\n—Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-arax/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis w/R. O. Kwon / LAUNCH for Cantoras
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis w/R. O. Kwon / LAUNCH for Cantoras\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nBody:\n\n\nThe Bindery hosts a special evening to launch Carolina De Robertis‘ new novel\, Cantoras. She’ll be in conversation with R. O. Kwon. Please join us! \nFrom the highly acclaimed\, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango\, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who\, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship\, find one another as lovers\, friends\, and ultimately\, family. \nIn 1977 Uruguay\, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped\, raped\, and tortured\, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet Romina\, Flaca\, Anita “La Venus\,” Paz\, and Malena–five cantoras\, women who “sing”–somehow\, miraculously\, find on another and then\, together\, discover an isolated\, nearly uninhabited cape\, Cabo Polonio\, which they claim as their secret sanctuary. Over the next thirty-five years\, their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo\, the city they call home\, as they return\, sometimes together\, sometimes in pairs\, with lovers in tow\, or alone. And throughout\, again and again\, the women will be tested–by their families\, lovers\, society\, and one another–as they fight to live authentic lives. \nA genre-defining novel and De Robertis’s masterpiece\, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love\, community\, forgotten history\, and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking\, Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn. \n\n“Carolina’s writing\, as always\, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution — and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again\, I was lifted\, then gently set down again — either through tears\, rage\, or laughter. Days later\, I am still inside this song of a story.” – Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award winner and author of Red at the Bone \n“Cantoras is a wise\, brilliantly compassionate\, wide-ranging novel about women in Uruguay\, and about the power and realities of love. Carolina De Robertis is a force: prepare to be astonished.” – R. O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“A lyrical\, richly sensory novel about a group of renegade cantoras — slang for queer women — who claim a beach refuge during the worst years of the dictatorship in Uruguay\, and beyond. Together they steal time from oppression of all kinds\, unspooling the infinity of themselves. Pointedly relevant to our own dangerous age\, Carolina De Robertis has gifted us a majestic work of song and imagination\, a handbook to survival for us all.” – Cristina García\, author of Here in Berlin \n\nCarolina De Robertis is a writer of Uruguayan origins and the author of The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international best seller The Invisible Mountain. Her novels have been translated into seventeen languages and have garnered a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and numerous other honors. She is also a translator of Latin American and Spanish literature and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. \nR. O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago/Little Brown (U.K.)\, and it is being translated into five languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications\, the novel is an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Pick and an Indies Introduce selection.The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book\, Los Angeles Times First Book Prize\, and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Prize. Kwon’s next novel\, as well as an essay collection\, are forthcoming. \n  \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of Carolina’s other books\, order here and include your request in the comments field; for R. O.’s book\, order here and do the same. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-w-r-o-kwon-launch-for-cantoras/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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