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SUMMARY:Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nSome of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays \npublished by 2 Dollar Radio \nWith luminous insight and fervent prose\, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays\, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now\, travels from Washington DC to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty\, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America. \nThe essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection\, multiple choice questions\, screenplays\, and imagined talk-show conversations\, while traversing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry’s personal journey is arresting and beguiling\, while announcing the author’s arrival as a formidable American voice. \nWhat has been said about Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: \n*A “Most Anticipated Book of 2019” —LitReactor\, The A.V. Club\, Big Other \n“Beautiful\, brilliant\, bold… Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. These essays are ballads\, images from the self\, isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land. These are songs of identity and sexuality and expectations the world has of African American males from those perspectives. Here’s hoping this book will mark the start of a long and varied journey for Perry. If the goal of a literary traveler is to show how connected we are to one another\, his debut collection is an assured indication of deeper glories yet to come.”\n—Christopher John Stephens\, PopMatters \nAndre Perry is an essayist and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and his work has appeared in The Believer\, Catapult\, Granta and other journals. He co-founded Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival\, a celebration of music and literature\, as well as the multidisciplinary festival of creative process\, Witching Hour. He continues to live and work in Iowa City. This is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-perry-some-of-us-are-very-hungry-now/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein\, Boys & Sex
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 26th. \n\nThe author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men\, once again offering “both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it” (Washington Post). \nPeggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground\, shattered taboos\, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls–steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity–which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex\, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken\, revealing how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. \nDrawing on comprehensive interviews with young men\, psychologists\, academics\, and experts in the field\, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word “hilarious” robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity\, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths\, hard lessons\, and important realities of young male sexuality in today’s world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men. \nPeggy Orenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, she has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter. \n“Expertly written…. [A] candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity.”– Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n \n“Peggy Orenstein has done something rare. She has listened to young men in ways that have allowed them to speak candidly about the fraught world of their sexuality\, and she has been true to the complexities of their experiences — their hopes but also the fears\, shame\, pressures and angers that cause them to violate others and corrode their capacity for care and love. What they say is scary and heartbreaking and vitally important for us all to hear. This is a bracing\, insightful\, humane\, engaging\, invaluable book. And it charts the course for real change.”–Richard Weissbourd\, Senior Lecturer and Faculty Director of Making Caring Common\, Harvard Graduate School of Education \n“As a psychotherapist who’s raising a boy\, I can’t think of a more important book for our times. Eye-opening and nuanced\, this compassionate exploration of boys’ sexual lives gives voice to their deepest struggles and should be mandatory reading for anyone who cares about the next generation–which is to say\, all of us.”–Lori Gottlieb\, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone \n“Peggy Orenstein dared to do what so many of us are afraid of: actually ask boys about sex and then listen to what they had to say. She has given boys the opportunity to speak honestly about their feelings around sexuality\, pornography\, gender\, consent and so much more. Their answers are illuminating\, often times surprising–and essential.”–Nick Kroll\, co-creator\, writer\, and star of Big Mouth \n\n“Forget what you thought you knew about boys and sex. Here\, at last\, is an honest book about the sexual lives of boys and young men; the good\, the bad\, the endlessly complicated and emotionally fraught. Peggy Orenstein has peeled back typical male bravado and exposed the raw hearts of boys struggling to navigate a confusing sexual landscape. Boys & Sex is a crucial contribution to the long overdue conversation about masculinity.”–Michael Ian Black\, author\, comedian\, and actor
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein-boys-sex/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Bob Perelman\, Norman Fischer\, James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Norman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On a Train at Night and Untitled Series: Life As It is. His latest prose works are Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion and The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path. His website is http://www.normanfischer.org/ \nBob Perelman will be reading from his new book\, Jack and Jill in Troy (Roof\, 2019). He is the author of numerous poetry collections\, including Iflife\, Virtual Reality\, The First World and Ten to One: Selected Poems. He collaborated with his wife\, the painter Francie Shaw\, on Playing Bodies. His latest critical book is Modernism the Morning After. He taught at UPenn for 25 years and now lives in Berkeley. \nJames Sherry is the author of 10 books of poetry and prose. He is editor of Roof Books and president of the Segue Foundation\, Inc. in New York City. … He lives in New York City with his wife\, Deborah Thomas\, publisher of Extra!\, the magazine of Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-perelman-norman-fischer-james-sherry/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel\, Creatures. \nPraise for Creatures \n“Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It’s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body\, smell the sea life\, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families\, yes\, but it’s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It’s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year.”—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things \n“Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness\, sweetness\, pain\, history\, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current\, in Creatures. On Winter Island\, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection\, fracture\, deprivation\, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland\, and as isolating. Like water\, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous\, jewel-tone debut.” —Sarah Gerard\, author of Sunshine State \n“At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart\, Van Meter explores alcoholism\, absence\, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths.”—Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces \nAbout Creatures \nOn the eve of Evangeline’s wedding\, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island\, the groom may be lost at sea\, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there\, in this mesmerizing\, provocative debut\, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush\, wild land off the coast of Southern California. \nEvie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father\, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana\, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements\, the sea\, and the creatures living within it\, he also left her to parent herself. With wit\, love\, and bracing ashes of anger\, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment\, guilt and forgiveness\, betrayal and grief—and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. \nLyrical\, darkly funny\, and ultimately cathartic\, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crissy-van-meter-creatures/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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