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SUMMARY:J.D. Moyer - - The Guardian
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel\, The Guardian\, on Thursday\, September 26th at 7pm. \nIn the year 2737\, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano\, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem\, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter\, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village\, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation. Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana\, the tentacle-enhanced ‘Squid Woman’\, while protecting a secret that could change the course of humanity and civilization. The Guardian\, the sequel to the The Sky Woman\, is a story of colliding worlds and the contested repopulation of a wild Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners\, and exciting\, original voices. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJ.D. Moyer lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, daughter\, and mystery-breed dog. He writes science fiction\, produces electronic music in two groups (Jondi & Spesh and Momu)\, runs a record label (Loöq Records)\, and blogs at jdmoyer.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/j-d-moyer-the-guardian/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Naomi Klein / On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal\, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nOn Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now. \nFor more than a decade\, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate\, she argues that only this kind of bold\, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time. \nThese long-form essays\, based on her extensive research and reporting\, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical\, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more\, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act. \nWith dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest\, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico\, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change\, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanitys greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity. \n\nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Author photo by Suzanne DeChillo for The New York Times. \n\n*** Please note *** \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference.\n– Signing and additional details coming soon.\n– This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.\n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of On Fire\, order below and put your request in the special field. If you’d like to request signed copies of any of Naomi’s other books\, order here and be sure to add your request in the special
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-klein-on-fire-the-burning-case-for-a-green-new-deal/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.
DESCRIPTION:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL\nin conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal\, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nOn Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now. \nFor more than a decade\, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate\, she argues that only this kind of bold\, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time. \nThese long-form essays\, based on her extensive research and reporting\, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical\, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more\, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.\n​\nWith dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest\, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico\, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change\, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanity’s greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity. \n——————- \nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Author photo by Suzanne DeChillo for The New York Times. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery.\n​\nAbout Mother Jones: Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment\, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education\, climate change\, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website\, social-media presence\, videos\, podcasts\, email newsletters\, and print magazine. Our fellowship program is one of the premier training grounds for emerging investigative storytellers. Founded in 1976\, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington\, DC\, and New York. We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you\, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.” \n​This event is co-presented by The Leap\, Sunrise Movement\, and The Intercept. \n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson's A Frank O'Hara Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kantor and Connie Lewallen discuss the life and work of Bill Berkson and his book A Frank O’Hara Notebook. \nAbout Bill Berkson \nBorn in New York City on August 30\, 1939\, William Craig Berkson studied at Brown University\, Columbia University\, the New School for Social Research\, and New York University’s Institute for Fine Arts. \nDuring the 1960s\, Berkson took on editorial roles at ARTNews\, Arts\, and the Museum of Modern Art. He also served as the associate producer of a public television art program and taught literature and writing courses at the New School and Yale University. \nIn 1970\, Berkson moved to Northern California\, where he began editing and publishing poetry books and magazines under the Big Sky imprint. He also taught in the California Poets in the Schools program. \nBerkson soon returned to regularly writing art criticism\, contributing to publications such as American Craft\, Aperture\, Artforum\, Art in America\, Art on Paper\, Modern Painters\, and others. In 1984\, he began teaching art history and poetry at the San Francisco Art Institute—where he also directed the Letters and Science and public lectures programs—until 2008. \nBerkson’s honors include two Fund for Poetry Awards\, the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Goldie Award for Literature\, and a Poets Foundation Grant\, along with fellowships from the Briarcombe Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. He divided his time between New York City and San Francisco. Berkson died on June 16\, 2016. \nAbout A Frank O’Hara Notebook \nA fascinating account of Frank O’Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York\, told through notes\, images\, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson. \nPoet and art critic Bill Berkson (1939-2016) had planned for many years to write a lengthy study on his friend and mentor Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) but died with the project still incomplete. This volume reproduces the sketchbook in which Berkson gathered notes\, images\, and poems about O’Hara\, focusing on his memories of their collaborations in New York\, from their initial meeting in 1960 to O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966. A Frank O’Hara Notebook offers a fascinating first-person account of the heyday of O’Hara’s creative life\, and memorably sketches the heady social milieus of the poetry and art worlds of New York that O’Hara inhabited in the early 1960s. In addition to an exact-scale photographic reproduction of Berkson’s handwritten notebook\, this volume includes a typesetting of Berkson’s notes and two texts on O’Hara derived from these notes published under Berkson’s direction\, titled “A Frank O’Hara File” and “What Frank O’Hara Was Like.” The book shows the evolution of Berkson’s ideas from notes to fragmentary phrases and sentences into finished pieces of writing. Ultimately\, this collection reveals as much about Berkson’s writing practice as it does about his famous subject and friend. \nThe book’s translation of Berkson’s handwritten notes and collaged material into type honors the idiosyncratic format of Berkson’s handwritten text\, precisely following the line breaks\, capitalizations\, and drawn graphic elements in the holograph. The book also includes an introduction by fellow New York School poet Ron Padgett and an afterword by Berkson’s wife\, curator Constance Lewallen. \n 
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Woodson / Red at the Bone
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the beloved New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodsonfor her new novel\, Red at the Bone. Please join us! \nTwo families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time\, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length\, Jacqueline Woodson’s extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences\, decisions\, and relationships of these families\, and in the life of this child. \nAs the book opens in 2001\, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends\, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince\, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier\, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody’s mother\, for her own ceremony — a celebration that ultimately never took place. \nUnfurling the history of Melody’s parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment\, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs\, the tolls they’ve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity\, ambition\, gentrification\, education\, class and status\, and the life-altering facts of parenthood\, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives — even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. \n\nJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She received the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award\, and is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming\, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award\, a Newbery Honor\, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. In 2015\, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her recent adult book\, Another Brooklyn\, was a National Book Award finalist\, and her new adult book\, Red at the Bone\, is coming in September 2019. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults\, middle graders and children; among her many accolades\, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner\, a four-time National Book Award finalist\, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include The Other Side\, Each Kindness\, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers\, Show Way\, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle’s Boys\, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and the winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. Author photo by Tiffany A. Bloomfield. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 Red at the Bone\, order below and put your request in the comments field; for any of Jacqueline’s other books\, order here and be sure to do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-woodson-red-at-the-bone/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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