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SUMMARY:Global Green New Deal: “Into the Portal\, Leave No One Behind”
DESCRIPTION:We need to move from crisis to justice with a global green new deal for people and the planet. \nOn May 19\, join Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein at 4:00 PM GMT+1/ 11:00 AM EDT/ 8:30 PM IST\, moderated by Asad Rehman\, to hear how we can begin this global transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/global-green-new-deal-into-the-portal-leave-no-one-behind/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T110000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Clare Beams & Rachel Vorona Cote
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. The first event features Clare Beams (The Illness Lesson) & Rachel Vorona Cote (Too Much). \nYou can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the date and join us! \nThis event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy The Illness Lesson and/or Too Much and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nThe Illness Lesson by Clare Beams \n“Brilliant\, suspenseful… A masterpiece.” – Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of City of Girls \nAt their newly founded school\, Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all\, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated\, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in 19th century New England. \nWhen a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town\, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But it’s not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: Rashes\, seizures\, headaches\, verbal tics\, night wanderings. One by one\, they sicken. Fearing ruin for the school\, Samuel overrules Caroline’s pleas to inform the girls’ parents and turns instead to a noted physician\, a man whose sinister ministrations — based on a shocking historic treatment — horrify Caroline. As the men around her continue to dictate\, disastrously\, all terms of the girls’ experience\, Caroline’s body too begins to betray her. To save herself and her young charges\, she will have to defy every rule that has governed her life\, her mind\, her body\, and her world. \nClare Beams’s extraordinary debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson\, Karen Russell and Aimee Bender\, and established Beams as a writer who “creates magical-realist pieces that often calculate the high cost of being a woman” (The Rumpus). Precisely observed\, hauntingly atmospheric\, as fiercely defiant as it is triumphant\, The Illness Lesson is a spellbinding piece of storytelling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-clare-beams-rachel-vorona-cote/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A virtual conversation with Amy Goodman\, Noam Chomsky & Stan Cox!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights & Democracy Now! \nThis event is free & will be broadcast on Crowdcast. Sign up here to attend! \nAmy Goodman in discussion with Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox about the prospects for the Green New Deal\, how the pandemic does–and does not—affect the struggle for climatic and economic justice\, among other relevant topics. \nAmy Goodman is a broadcast journalist\, syndicated columnist\, investigative reporter\, and the host Democracy Now!  She joins us from New York City. Stan Cox is the author of the new book The Green New Deal and Beyond just published by City Lights\, and joins us from Salina\, Kansas. Noam Chomsky\, author of the foreword to The Green New Deal and Beyond\, is a scholar\, academic\, and author of numerous books including Because We Say So with City Lights. He joins us from Tucson\, Arizona. \nWE THANK OUR CO-SPONSORS: Alternative Radio\,The Climate Mobilization\, CODEPINK\, Counterpunch\, The Gund Institute\, Haymarket Books\, The Institute for Social Ecology\, Post-Carbon Institute\, Post Growth Institute\,  Project Censored\, Research and Degrowth\, Truthout 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-virtual-conversation-with-amy-goodman-noam-chomsky-stan-cox/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:See Black Women
DESCRIPTION:‘See Black Women’ is presented as part of the Art+Action Coalition’s COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign\, which aims to inspire and galvanize Census participation by all communities. This two-part conversation held in collaboration with Art+Action Coalition Partners YBCA and Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)\, will take place LIVE on Tuesday\, May 19 and Tuesday\, May 26 from 4-5:15pm (PST) on YBCA and MoAD’s Facebook pages. \nTo insist upon being seen and heard is an act of resistance. Telling one’s story\, recording a community’s legacy\, and creating visual representations of one’s ancestry are methods of resisting erasure. During these two conversations\, the participants seek to answer questions including: How do we cite and honor our existence? How do we ensure our labor is acknowledged and our stories are heard for us to receive our fair share—both in civic and artistic arenas? \nThe first talk includes Erica Deeman / @erica_deeman\, Lava Thomas/ @lavathomas \, Angela Hennessy /@thehouseofhennessy and Sage Stargate. \nThe second on 5/26 with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo /@bluekaza\, Tahirah Rasheed\, Asya Abdrahman/ @asyaabdrahman\, & Sam Vernon / @samevernon \nBoth panels are curated and moderated by Ashara Ekundayo @blublakwomyn under her #ArtistAsFirstResponder platform \nFor more information about the See Black Women panel conversation visit: https://ybca.org/event/2020-see-black-women/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-black-women/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alissa Carpenter with Jen Oleniczak Brown - How to Listen and Be Heard (Zoom Livestream)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 19\, 5:00pm • Free Zoom Livestream Event • Presented with Shack 15\nModerated by Jen Oleniczak Brown \nToo often\, people avoid difficult conversations; but these discussions often need to happen to bring people together so we can all succeed. \nThere’s no denying that our workplaces are more diverse than ever. Age\, race\, gender—there are so many different perspectives and experiences being brought to the table. And the best employees and leaders know that harnessing the power of these differences will build stronger teams\, ideas\, and organizations. But how do we do this? If we all think\, feel\, and act so differently\, how do we get anything done? \nThe first step is recognizing that these differences exist. And that they’re here to stay. We need to respect and embrace our varied viewpoints\, and then we can start to communicate across (not against) them. \nHow to Listen and How to Be Heard shows you how to bridge the conversation gap and use your unique voice to start powerful conversations. This book is about learning how to communicate with\, through\, and alongside what makes us different. It’s about open dialogue and practical tools that get everyone on the same page—or at least in the same room. It’s not about quick fixes or the absence of conflict; it’s about working toward authentic communication in the workplace—for managers\, employees\, and colleagues from all fields. It’s about remembering that we’re all here to work together. \nAlissa Carpenter is a multigenerational workplace expert and owner of Everything’s Not Ok and That’s OK\, where she provides training\, consulting\, and speaking services to organizations all over the world. Carpenter has delivered a TEDx talk on authentic workplace communication\, and has been featured in media outlets including Forbes\, ABC\, FOX\, and CNN Money. \nJen Oleniczak Brown is the Founder of The Engaging Educator (EE)\, a women-owned and operated company dedicated to helping people find their unapologetic\, authentic\, and best voice/communication style through improv-based education. Her work has been featured in Fast Company\, Forbes\, Bustle\, and Moneyish. She is also the author of Improv(E): Using Improv to Find Your Voice\, Style\, and Self.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alissa-carpenter-with-jen-oleniczak-brown-how-to-listen-and-be-heard-zoom-livestream/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T180000
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SUMMARY:Cara Black with Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Peter Maravelis \nTwo masters of crime fiction discussing the writing of fiction that takes place in World War Two Europe. They explore topics that closely parallel many of the issues of the day as well as discussing the challenge and complexities of placing one’s writing in a dynamic historic period. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nBooks for this event may be purchased at BOOKSHOP.ORG at the following links : \n>To purchase Three Hours in Paris click here< \n>To purchase The American Agent: A Masie Dobbs Novel click here< \n———— \nCara Black’s most recent book is \nThree Hours in Paris \nPublished by Soho Press \nCara Black\, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel\, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity—and drive—to take on Hitler himself. Cara Black is also the author of the bestselling Aimee Leduc Series. The most recent release being Murder in Bel-Air published by Soho Books. \nVisit: www.carablack.com \n— \nJacqueline Winspear’s essay “Writing about War” will be published in the new anthology \nPrivate Investigations: Mystery Writers On The Secrets\, Riddles and Wonders In Their Lives \npublished by Seal Press \nJacqueline Winspear is the author of the Masie Dobb’s Series\, following the exploits of the renowned psychologist and investigator Masie Dobbs through her exploits in WW2 London. The most recent novel in the series is The American Agent (number 15) published by Harper Collins. Additional books in the series include: To Die But Once; In This Grave Hour; Journey to Munich and many others. \nVisit: www.jacquelinewinspear.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-with-jacqueline-winspear/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #60 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-60-music-by-tba-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #60 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-60-music-by-tba-3/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
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SUMMARY:Sex\, Art and Power: Writer to Writer with Garth Greenwell and Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Keiko Lane\nProgram will air Tuesday May 19th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn our Writer to Writer series\, two writers who are fans of each other’s work come together for a conversation. Garth Greenwell’s most recent book\, Cleanness\, was described in Harpers as “an electrifying portrait of sex’s power to lacerate and liberate\, to make and unmake our deepest selves…The book’s sex scenes unfold like revelations\, effortlessly braiding inner drama with precisely choreographed intimacy.” And Greenwell\, writing in The New Yorker\, has called Lidia Yuknavitch’s sex scenes “remarkable among current American novelists\, not just for their explicitness but for the way she uses them to pursue questions of agency\, selfhood\, and the ethical implications of making art.” Come listen in as two of contemporary literature’s most incendiary writers talk about the relationships between queer bodies and sex\, language and literary citizenship\, and the moral and artistic complexities of desire and power. Moderated by Keiko Lane\, writer\, poet\, and former faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarth Greenwell\, Cleanness\nLidia Yuknavitch\, Verge \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sex-art-and-power-writer-to-writer-with-garth-greenwell-and-lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way at Bookshop Santa Cruz
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 May 17th. \n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds\, a radical investigation into the bird way of being\, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think. \n“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring\, and lately\, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have\, for years\, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives\, how they communicate\, forage\, court\, breed\, survive. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities\, abilities we once considered uniquely our own–deception\, manipulation\, cheating\, kidnapping\, infanticide\, but also\, ingenious communication between species\, cooperation\, collaboration\, altruism\, culture\, and play. \nSome of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of–well–birdness: A mother bird that kills her own infant sons\, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own. Young birds that devote themselves to feeding their siblings and others so competitive they’ll stab their nestmates to death. Birds that give gifts and birds that steal\, birds that dance or drum\, that paint their creations or paint themselves\, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call–and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. \nDrawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan\, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect\, in plumage\, form\, song\, flight\, lifestyle\, niche\, and behavior\, birds vary. It’s what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said\, when you have seen one bird\, you have not seen them all. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Genius of Birds\, which has been translated into twenty languages and the forthcoming The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and many other publications\, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a Bunting Fellowship\, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-ackerman-the-bird-way-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:The Editor by Steven Rowley | A GGP Virtual Book Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Tuesday\, May 19 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen’s favorite books\, THE EDITOR by Steven Rowley. We expect Steven Rowley to join us! \n  \nZoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82390231644 \nWe’ll be playing excerpts of the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. You can get your audiobook here: bit.ly/LibroEditor \nIf you’d prefer paper\, here’s a link to our website where you can order a copy for shipment from our warehouse: bit.ly/GGPEditor \n“What happens when you write that novel and it finally finds a home at a publishing house? If it’s 1992 and your editor is Jackie O\, you are forced to look deeper and answer the questions you been avoiding your whole life — this is a must-read for any aspiring writer!”— Kathleen \nApril 2019 Indie Next List \n“Steven Rowley’s new novel is exactly the balm I needed in today’s climate. Focusing on a young writer who discovers that his editor is none other than Jackie Kennedy Onassis\, the book explores both romantic and familial relationships in a humorous and touching manner. Although the writing is wickedly barbed and the zingers fly at the speed of a 1940s rom-com\, The Editor is so much more. There is real heart in the writing as well as real love between the characters. It’s a true delight and the kind of book people who loved Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine or Less will truly enjoy. Just be prepared with a box of tissues and your favorite cocktail (Jackie would suggest daiquiris).” \n— William Carl\, Wellesley Books\, Wellesley\, MA \nDescription \nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break\, with a little help from the most famous woman in America. \nAfter years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City\, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie–or Mrs. Onassis\, as she’s known in the office–has fallen in love with James’s candidly autobiographical novel\, one that exposes his own dysfunctional family. But when the book’s forthcoming publication threatens to unravel already fragile relationships\, both within his family and with his partner\, James finds that he can’t bring himself to finish the manuscript. \nJackie and James develop an unexpected friendship\, and she pushes him to write an authentic ending\, encouraging him to head home to confront the truth about his relationship with his mother. Then a long-held family secret is revealed\, and he realizes his editor may have had a larger plan that goes beyond the page… \nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny\, poignant\, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever–both as a writer and a son. \nAbout the Author \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles. \nPraise For… \nOne of: \nNPR’s Favorite Books of 2019 \nEsquire’s “Best Books of 2019 (So Far)” \nSouthern Living’s “25 Beach Reads Perfect for Summer” \nPopSugar’s “Buzzy Books to Read This Spring” \nTown & Country’s “Must-Read Books of Spring 2019” \nCosmopolitan’s “13 Best Books Coming Out in April”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-editor-by-steven-rowley-a-ggp-virtual-book-chat-on-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody on Paul Valéry
DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody discusses his translation of The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry. \nAbout The Idea of Perfection \nA fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry\, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. \nHeir to Mallarmé and the symbolists\, godfather to the modernists\, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers\, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot\, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems\, it turns out\, are inseparable from another\, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. \nBehind the published works\, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet\, there hides another story\, a private life of the mind\, that has its record in 28\,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at\, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet\, nor his occasional sketchbook\, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought\,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent\, as rigorous\, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. \nThe Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse\, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse\, The Young Fate\, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody\, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice\, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Author \nPaul Valéry is one of the major figures of twentieth-century French literature. After a promising debut as a young symbolist in Mallarmé’s circle\, Valéry withdrew from public view for almost twenty years\, and was almost forgotten by 1917 when the publication of the long poem La Jeune Parque made him an instant celebrity. He was best known in his day for his small output of highly polished lyric poetry\, and posthumously for the 28\,000 pages of his Notebooks. He died in 1945. \nNathaniel Rudavsky-Brody was born in Columbus\, Ohio. He has translated the work of French and Belgian poets\, including Benjamin Fondane\, for which he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. He is the author of two volumes of poetry in French and one in English\, and has worked as a typesetter\, a programmer\, and a private tutor in Greece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-rudavsky-brody-on-paul-valery/
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:Oakland Virtual Slam ft. Joyce Lee!
DESCRIPTION:GANG GANG. We might be stuck inside but that doesn’t mean we can’t come together and have a poetry slam! We’ll be hosting the slam on zoom and Bay Poets Unite will be live streaming our virtual slam on facebook\, youtube\, and twitter! We got a $50 prize for 1st place! \n📝Workshop starts at 7:15 PM on Zoom (Meeting ID: 868-4725-4912)\n🎙Virtual Slam starts at 8:15 PM on our facebook page! \nSign Up List for the Virtual Slam. Deadline is Mon 11:59pm (https://forms.gle/nmF9ZtqFWR23XnLY7) \nOur feature is the amazing Joyce Lee:\nJoyce Lee is an International storyteller and performance poet. Her performances of her own creative non-fiction writing constantly receive standing ovations and encores from her fans and personal heroes. \nJoyce Lee is an explorer of emotional and physical life. She travels the world and writes but is not a travel writer\, instead\, each place she wanders\, each country\, is allotted by her to introduce its own spirit. Joyce listens to that spirit and takes notes. Sometimes the note is a memory\, sometimes a story\, but every time a poetic gift to her audience. She currently resides in Bogota\, Colombia with plans to move to elsewhere in 2020 to complete her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-virtual-slam-ft-joyce-lee/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic":MAILTO:oakslambooking@gmail.com
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