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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir
DESCRIPTION:Editors (and Moe’s workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic’s latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! \nBerkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir\, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. \nBrand-new stories by: Barry Gifford\, Jim Nisbet\, Lexi Pandell\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Mara Faye Lethem\, Thomas Burchfield\, Shanthi Sekaran\, Nick Mamatas\, Kimn Neilson\, Jason S. Ridler\, Susan Dunlap\, J.M. Curet\, Summer Brenner\, Michael David Lukas\, Aya de León\, and Owen Hill. \nJerry Thompson is a bookseller\, poet\, playwright\, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising\, edited by G. Winston James\, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing\, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of both Oakland Noir \nOwen Hill is the author of two crime novels\, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double\, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
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LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Queens of Mystery: Writer to Writer with Meg Gardiner and Rachel Howzell Hall
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Laurie King\nProgram will air Tuesday May 5th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegistration (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\n“Suspense is like a woman\,” said Hitchcock. “The more left to the imagination\, the more the excitement.” Well\, these two women are coming for Hitchcock’s crown with some of the most spine-tingling\, sophisticated thrillers being written today. Meg Gardiner\, bestselling novelist and president of Mystery Writers of America\, was fittingly called “Hitchcockian” by USA Today. She specializes in heroines with big brains\, from FBI agents to forensic psychiatrists to firecracker journalists (Stephen King called her Evan Delaney novels “the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years”). And Rachel Howzell Hall\, author of the Detective Elouise Norton series\, has created an unforgettable protagonist described by The New York Times as “someone you want on your side.” Hall’s newest\, which ABC News calls her “breakout novel\,” is They all Fall Down\, a wickedly clever mystery set on a pristine—and deadly—island paradise in Mexico. \nListen to these two leading ladies of suspense as they crack the case of how to make readers stay up all night. Moderated by Laurie King\, an Edgar Award-winning author of detective fiction and President of the Northern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Gardiner\, The Dark Corners of the Night\nRachel Howzell Hall\, They All Fall Down\nLaurie King\, Beginnings \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Paul Yamazaki
DESCRIPTION:Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \n\n\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nPaul Yamazaki is the chief book buyer at City Lights Booksellers and has been a life-long booktrade advocate serving on many boards of non-profits and literary organizations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-paul-yamazaki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel Death in Her Hands. \nPraise for Death in Her Hands \n“When it comes to evoking the jagged edge of contemporary anxiety there might not be a more insightful writer working today than Moshfegh. That is if the boundless dark potential of the human psyche is your thing. If it’s not\, this atmospheric\, darkly comic tale of a pathologically lonely widow and the thrills lurking in her sylvan retreat might not be for you. But\, sophisticated reader that you are\, you’re not afraid of the dark. Right?” —The Millions \n“Perhaps the most jarring genre of fiction is the kind that takes you deep into the gradual unraveling of a person’s mind. Moshfegh does a masterful job with Death In Her Hands\, which follows a protagonist who believes she’s solving a murder. The book moves seamlessly from suspenseful to horrifying\, retaining the reader’s attention all the while.” —Marie Claire \n“Ottessa Moshfegh is always a must-read\, and her latest combines ‘horror\, suspense and pitch-black comedy’ to deliver a fascinating tale guided by an unreliable narrator.” —Paste\, 25 Most Anticipated Novels of 2020 \nAbout Death in Her Hands \nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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