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SUMMARY:On Lighthouses: Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\nJoin Pilsen Community Books and Two Lines Press for an event with Jazmina Barrera and Eula Biss in celebration of Barrera’s new book On Lighthouses\, out this May from Two Lines Press! \n***Register on Eventbrite for a link to the livestream sent to you the day of the event.*** \n“After spending sufficient time inside a lighthouse\, who wouldn’t begin to hear a song in the sound of the machinery\, a voice in the wind or the waves?” \nFar from home\, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her\, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses—those structures whose message is “first and foremost\, that human beings are here.” \nStarting with Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather\, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline\, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf\, Edgar Allan Poe\, Ingmar Bergman\, and many others. \nIn trying to “collect” lighthouses by obsessively describing them\, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing\, collecting\, and how\, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history\, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone—from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one—concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless\, guiding light. \n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nJazmina Barrera\n\n\nJazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media\, such as Nexos\, Este País\, Dossier\, Vice\, El Malpensante\, Letras Libres and Tierra Adentro. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University\, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She was a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nEula Biss\n\n\nEula Biss is the author of three books: On Immunity: An Inoculation\, a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction; Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays\, winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award for criticism\, and a collection of poetry\, The Balloonists. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, an NEA Literature Fellowship\, and a Jaffe Writers’ Award. She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer\, Gulf Coast\, Denver Quarterly\, Third Coast\, and Harper’s. Eula Biss and John Bresland are the Chicago-based band STET Everything.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-lighthouses-jazmina-barrera-in-conversation-with-eula-biss/
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff and Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Tuesday May 12th at 5:00pm PDT for Anne Raeff discussing her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nZoom Login \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86713675612 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86713675612#  or +12532158782\,\,86713675612#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 867 1367 5612\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbB2mGR0oN \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-and-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Denvir in conversation with John Washington
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new titles from Verso Books \nAll-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It \nand \nThe Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond \nboth published by Verso Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———- \n>Click here to purchase The Dispossessed< \nClick here to purchase All American Nativism< \n  \nWhat has been said about the work of Dan Denvir and John Washington: \nPraise for All-American Nativism \n\n“As Daniel Denvir’s exceptional book shows\, the history of US immigration politics is central to understanding how our many crises have converged in this moment. It’s precisely the kind of analysis our movements need to pry open the fissures of the current order\, and join in common struggle for a better world.” \n– Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough \n\n\n\n“This is the book we need\, a searing work of scholarship that explains how we entered the current hellscape of American politics and what we have to do to get out. The roots of white nativism are deep\, as Denvir’s book makes clear\, but like all roots can be pulled up and killed. All-American Nativism will help us do so.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“In this timely book\, Daniel Denvir tackles an important question: what is old and what is new in Trump’s nativism? Denvir helps us understand both the historical roots and the more recent routes by which ‘build the wall’ came to be the central rallying cry of racial-nationalism. A must-read for anyone who wants to know how we got here.” \n– Mae Ngai\, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America \n\n\n“All American Nativism excavates the history of anti-immigrant politics in the United States and reveals a difficult truth: Donald Trump is the symptom\, and not the cause\, of a bipartisan consensus underlying the current war on immigrants. In this sense\, Denvir’s book is an invaluable tool for organizers and activists who subscribe to what Paulo Freire meant by praxis\, where reflection and action are required to bring about transformative change.” \n– Pablo Alvarado\, National Day Laborer Organizing Network \n\n\n“All-American Nativism powerfully explores the deep roots of nativism in national life as well as how Trump’s agenda is itself the culmination of the policies and the logic pursued for decades by both major parties. In the process\, Daniel Denvir masterfully demonstrates the relationship between today’s debates over immigration and ongoing struggles against neoliberal austerity\, mass incarceration\, and the violence of the security state. In this way\, the book not only offers a diagnosis of the present\, but also a stirring vision of solidarity and change. This is an essential and profound work\, providing critical insights about the American experience and where to go from here.” \n– Aziz Rana\, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom \n\n\n“Traces the development of anti-immigrant sentiment.” \n– Cora Currier\, The Intercept \nWhat has been said about The Dispossessed \n\n“In an era of massive and unprecedented human migration\, John Washington documents in his poignant book how the poverty and violence powerful nations inflict on poor countries is a major reason so many flee their lives and families. Offering expansive historical analysis of how ancient religions\, cultures\, and societies understood the imperative of welcoming the outsider\, particularly those seeking safety from harm or death\, and contrasting it with our current world order\, Washington has written one of the most important books of our time on one of the most dire systematic injustices on our planet. I read this book in one sitting because I simply couldn’t put it down.” \n– Jeremy Scahill\, author of Dirty Wars \n\n\n\n“The Dispossessed is one of the most beautiful and wrenching books I’ve read in a long time. We are becoming a stateless world\, as the combined effects of climate change\, war\, and struggles of resources push people from their land and their homes. John Washington’s book offers no easy answers\, but in its empathy\, it is a guide for how we confront the crisis with decency.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“John Washington delivers an absorbing\, harrowing\, and deeply moving reportage that renders the most thorough and critical assessment of the US asylum system that I have ever read.” \n– Todd Miller\, author of Empire of Borders \n\n\n“John Washington is a rarity in the world of Central American migration. He doesn’t parachute into tragedy. He travels with humility and seeks to understand\, not to reaffirm his hypotheses. This is a book from someone who has been understanding for a long time. I’ve been covering migration in Central America\, Mexico\, and the United States for thirteen years\, and I can say with complete conviction: Read this book.” \n– Óscar Martinez\, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-denvir-in-conversation-with-john-washington/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON SF: VIRTUOSO
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Odd Salon VIRTUOSO on Tues\, May 12 at Public Works\, San Francisco\n\n\nVIRTUOSO\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEarly bird tickets go on sale on April 7 through Friday April 17 only. \n~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, May 12 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-virtuoso/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Parenting in a Time of Crisis: Christine Carter\, Sarah Jaquette Ray and Madeline Levine
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dacher Keltner\nProgram will air Tuesday May 12th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nParents all over the world are facing a dilemma: what do we tell children about threatening truths\, from COVID-19 to climate change? How do we balance their need to be informed and prepared with their equally important right to experience the carefree joy of youth and dream of the future? These questions are more urgent than ever at a time when our kids’ routines\, schedules\, and ideas of normalcy have been completely upended—and when parents are struggling to answer their children’s questions in a way that doesn’t undermine kids’ baseline of stability and structure. \nAuthor\, speaker\, and coach Christine Carter\, Ph.D. draws on her own parenting experiences\, as well as the latest scientific research in psychology\, sociology\, and neuroscience\, to give advice for living\, working\, and parenting with greater joy and meaning. In her recent book\, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World\, New York Times bestselling author and psychologist Madeline Levine seems to have anticipated the needs and struggles of families during this crisis. Environmental pioneer Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is an essential toolkit for the climate generation—and the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time: one that\, as we’re learning\, worsens pandemics. We couldn’t ask for a better trio of guides to empower us with the knowledge and insight to parent well in these trying times. Moderated by Dacher Keltner\, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Carter\, The New Adolescence \nMadeline Levine\, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World\nSarah Jaquette Ray\, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\nDacher Keltner\, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/parenting-in-a-time-of-crisis-christine-carter-sarah-jaquette-ray-and-madeline-levine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir with Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of the the new crime fiction anthology \nBerkeley Noir \nEdited by Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill \npublished by Akashic Books \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-noir-with-jerry-thompson-and-owen-hill/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Francesca Bell and Len Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Francesca Bell and Len Anderson. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-francesca-bell-and-len-anderson-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Francesca Bell and Len Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Francesca Bell and Len Anderson. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-francesca-bell-and-len-anderson/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Katie Burke: Urban Playground
DESCRIPTION:Katie Burke discusses her new book Urban Playground: What Kids Say about Living in San Francisco. \nPraise for Urban Playground \n“In this charming\, warm-hearted\, often very funny book\, Katie Burke takes us into the minds of children—a place we should all spend more time! Not only a wonderfully insightful kid’s eye guide to San Francisco\, Urban Playground is also an interactive manual for getting into the minds of your own—and your friends’—children. Reading its sweet—and sometimes quirky—interviews\, is to see San Francisco with the freshest eyes possible.”—JANIS COOKE NEWMAN\, author of A Master Plan for Rescue \n“If you’re seeking the honest truth from kids\, you will find few better resources than Urban Playground\, by San Francisco writer Katie Burke. Burke’s StoryCorps-like interviews\, quoting kids on everything from pupusas to Pride Week\, reveal that the Bay Area remains a fertile ground for smart\, confident\, and fun-loving kids. Says a seven-year-old girl who’s on the road to becoming an archaeologist\, ‘It usually takes about maybe a month or a year to dig up one dinosaur.’ After reading this book\, I wouldn’t be surprised if she or another San Francisco kid figured out how to dig one up sooner!.”—SALLY SMITH\, Editor and Co-Publisher\, The Noe Valley Voice \n“Children make the best tour guides. In Katie Burke’s lively Urban Playground series\, young city-dwellers share how they experience all aspects of city life\, from restaurants\, holidays\, people\, and parks to pets\, schools\, sports\, shops\, and activities. Their observations are moving and thought-provoking\, and reveal what makes a city interesting and unique. This book will appeal to adults and kids who wish to see (and re-see) San Francisco.”—CHRISTINA CLANCY\, author of The Second Home \nAbout Urban Playground \nRural areas cover 97 percent of the United States–yet more than 80 percent of the US population lives in urban areas. What is life like for the millions of children who populate our nation’s cities?\nIn Urban Playground\, Katie Burke interviews fifty children\, ages five to nine\, who live in San Francisco. In each conversation\, she explores one of ten different themes–family\, school\, pets\, vacation\, work\, heroes\, holidays\, favorite foods\, talents\, and sports–followed by insights on the topic. She rounds out each segment with five questions for adults and kids to discuss after they’ve read it together\, encouraging open\, honest dialogue about young readers’ thoughts on the subject matter at hand. Future books in the series will expand into other major U.S. cities. Fun\, accessible\, and interactive\, Urban Playground is an important window into the ways children in cities think about and describe the most important aspects of their lives–which is every aspect of their lives. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-burke-urban-playground/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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