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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Amir Ahmadi Arian / Then the Fish Swallowed Him
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel\, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \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 book and we’ll deliver it 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\nYunus Turabi\, a bus driver in Tehran\, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago\, he is decidedly apolitical – even during the driver’s strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking point\, and Yunus has reached his. \nHandcuffed and blindfolded\, he is taken to the infamous Evin prison for political dissidents. Inside this stark\, strangely ordered world\, his fate becomes entwined with Hajj Saeed\, his personal interrogator. The two develop a disturbing yet interdependent relationship\, with each playing his assigned role in a high stakes psychological game of cat and mouse\, where Yunus endures a mind-bending cycle of solitary confinement and interrogation. In their startlingly intimate exchanges\, Yunus’s life begins to unfold—from his childhood memories growing up in a freer Iran to his heartbreaking betrayal of his only friend. As Yunus struggles to hold on to his sanity and evade Saeed’s increasingly undeniable accusations\, he must eventually make an impossible choice: continue fighting or submit to the system of lies upholding Iran’s power. \nGripping\, startling\, and masterfully told\, Then the Fish Swallowed Him is a haunting story of life under despotism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-amir-ahmadi-arian-then-the-fish-swallowed-him/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels -- A Different Kind of Escape
DESCRIPTION:As society grinds to a halt around us\, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands\, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the daily drama of the pandemic. In this conversation\, authors Jean Hegland & Susan M. Gaines discuss “nerd novels\,” those books whose characters\, plots\, and themes depend on some specialized body of knowledge. Examples include Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” (2012)\, Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” (2013)\, Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead\,” and most of A.S. Byatt’s and Richard Powers’ novels. Tonight’s conversation covers the concept of the nerd novel\, as well as the special challenges and rewards of reading and writing them\, and invites questions and discussion from the virtual audience. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJean Hegland\nJean Hegland is the author of three novels and a book of creative nonfiction. Her first novel\, “Into the Forest\,” has been translated into 17 languages\, adapted as a film starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood\, and a French graphic novel. Set in a near future that bears an eerie… Read More →\n\n \nSusan M. Gaines\nSusan M. Gaines is the author of the nerd novels “Accidentals” and “Carbon Dreams\,” as well as the science narrative “Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal About Earth History.” Her stories have appeared in the “North American Review\,” “Missouri Review\,” “Best of the West… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-nerd-novels-a-different-kind-of-escape/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT
DESCRIPTION:Stories of triumph and perseverance\, hope\, support\, and love from times of plague and pandemic\nODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT\nTuesday\, May 26\, 6pm PT/9pm/ET \nWe’re taking the salon online! Join speakers from both the San Francisco and New York City chapters for an evening of stories of strength\, silver linings\, and kicking ass during some of history’s darkest chapters. \nUnfettered from our usual theaters on opposite coasts\, we are excited to bring a first ever line up of Odd Salon Fellows from both cities together for this\, our first online salon. \nEven during the worst of days of history – then as now – individuals have stepped up to make a difference\, communities have rallied together\, unlikely heroes have emerged\, and resilient art forms have flowered\, inspired and informed by the shared experience endured. \nFeaturing Odd Salon Fellows Christopher Reeves\, JR Pepper\, Matt Codner\, Kate O’Donnell\, Alexander Razo Myers\, and San Francisco Producing Curator Isolde Honore. \n~Story specifics to be announced.~ \nCurated and hosted by Odd Salon Co-founders Annetta Black and Tre Balchowsky \nThis event will livestream for free. Paid tickets go to support Odd Salon during this unexpected hiatus from live salons\, and all paid levels come with extra perks\, including both limited-edition print and digital access to our first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\, featuring related reading and art\, resources\, and supplemental material from our speakers\, related to the talks featured in our RESILIENT salon and related stories. \nTickets: \nFREE: Save the date with a free RSVP\, and we’ll remind you when the show is coming up\n$15: RSVP + Digital access to the first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\n$25: RSVP + Print copy of our limited first edition of the Odd Salon Journal\n$50: RSVP + Receive both digital access and the print journal\, plus something strange (but nice) in the mail from Odd Salon\nDonation tickets in any amount are also available. \nDiscounts on all tiers available to 2020 Members of Odd Salon with membership access code. \nGET TICKETS / FREE RSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-online-resilient/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T180000
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from \nWe Cast A Shadow \npublished by One World \n——— \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———- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at these links : \n>Purchase We Cast A Shadow here< \n>Purchase The Revisioners here< \n———– \n\nAbout We Cast a Shadow: \n“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout\, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white \nLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “Stunning and audacious . . . at once a pitch-black comedy\, a chilling horror story and an endlessly perceptive novel about the possible future of race in America.”—NPR \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST \n“You can be beautiful\, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic\, where anyone can get their lips thinned\, their skin bleached\, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. \nIn this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence\, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father\, our narrator just wants the best for his son\, Nigel\, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes\, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? \nThis electrifying\, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison\, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka\, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov. We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit\, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love. \nPraise for We Cast a Shadow \n“We Cast a Shadow asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask\, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose\, hilarious wordplay and great heart. . . . Love is at the core of this funny\, beautiful novel . . . . At any moment\, Ruffin can summon the kind of magic that makes you want to slow down\, reread and experience the pleasure of him crystallizing an image again. . . . Read this book.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) \n“A full-throated novelistic debut of ferocious power and grace . . . a story that refracts the insanity of the world into a shape so unique you wonder how this book wasn’t there all along.”—Lit Hub \n“Propulsive . . . We Cast a Shadow proves that the eeriest works of speculative fiction are those that hit closest to home.”—Vulture \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a winner of the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, The Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, \, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin-in-conversation-with-margaret-wilkerson-sexton-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Diana Divecha\nProgram will air Tuesday May 26th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn a world where so much is competing for a child’s attention\, how do you raise a reader? Becoming a reader\, at any stage of a child’s development\, has huge cognitive\, emotional\, and social benefits that last a lifetime. But which books to choose? How to help your child turn to books over TV and games\, much less carve out time to dive headlong into a book? There’s no one better than New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul to show us how instilling a lifelong love of reading in your child can be easy\, fun\, and rewarding. \nBased on a New York Times article that went viral with its insightful advice\, How to Raise a Reader\, co-authored with New York Times Book Review children’s books editor Maria Russo\, is more relevant than ever now that schools are closed\, kids are sheltering in place\, and parents are casting about for learning and bonding opportunities that are constructive\, comforting\, and simple. In a lively conversation with developmental psychologist Diana Divecha of the Yale Child Study Center\, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence\, and Greater Good Science Center\, Paul will show us how to give kids of all ages one of the greatest and most joyful gifts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Paul and Maria Russo\, How to Raise a Reader \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-raise-a-reader-with-pamela-paul-of-the-new-york-times/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Phuc Tran: Sigh\, Gone
DESCRIPTION:Phuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh\, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books\, Punk Rock\, and the Fight to Fit In. \nPraise for Sigh\, Gone \n“The United States was already a better country because Phuc Tran refused to change his name. Then he went even further in changing this country by giving us this bold\, funny\, and profane memoir: a portrait of a young punk refugee and of heartland America itself\, each of them as defiant and compelling as the other.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of Pulitzer-Prize winning The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“I like to think that had I been born a much cooler\, male\, Vietnamese version of myself\, Sigh\, Gone is the book I would have written. This glorious memoir is a reminder of the transformative power of literature and a tribute to friendships\, music\, and the unique kindness of Americans. I loved it!” —Firoozeh Dumas\, New York Times bestselling author of Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without An Accent \n“I started reading this book and couldn’t stop. Phuc Tran has written the Great American Nerd-Punk Boyhood Memoir\, a story that’s rollicking and laugh-out-loud funny while also offering a piercingly profound look at race\, the challenges of assimilation\, and the inherently defiant act of growing up. Earnest\, observant\, and diamond-sharp\, this is a new voice of unmistakable talent. I’ll follow this writer anywhere.” —Sara Corbett\, coauthor of New York Times best-selling A House in the Sky \nAbout Sigh\, Gone \nFor anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong\, Sigh\, Gone shares an irreverent\, funny\, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. \nIn 1975\, during the fall of Saigon\, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania\, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis\, The Scarlet Letter\, The Iliad\, and more\, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration\, feelings of isolation\, and teenage rebellion\, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. \nAppealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat\, Running with Scissors\, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced and The Refugees\, Sigh\, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse\, racism\, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s\, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature\, and in the subculture of punk rock\, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phuc-tran-sigh-gone/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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