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SUMMARY:Fanny Howe\, Alice Lyons\, Linda Norton online reading
DESCRIPTION:Fanny Howe\, Alice Lyons and Linda Norton read from their work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFanny Howe is an American poet\, novelist\, and short story writer. She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. Today\, Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets\, although her writing career began during the 1960s with a series of paperback original novels she published under the pseudonym Della Field. Howe has continued to publish novels throughout her career\, including the recently republished Bronte Wilde (2020). She has also continued to publish in the essay form. Some of her essays have been collected\, including The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003). Howe lives in New England. Her most recent collection of poems is Love and I (Graywolf 2019). \nAlice Lyons is a writer whose work embraces the visual arts. She is author of a novel\, Oona (Lilliput Press\, 2020)\, and three collections of poetry\, including The Breadbasket of Europe (Veer Books\, 2016).She was a 2015/16 Radcliffe Fellow in Poetry and New Media at Harvard. Born in Paterson\, New Jersey\, she has lived in the West of Ireland for more than twenty years. \nLinda Norton is a visual artist and writer. She is author of Wite Out: Love and Work (Hanging Loose\, 2020) and The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011) which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a writing consultant with the LEAD Project and the labor union Unite Here\, and an instructor at San Francisco State University. Born in Boston\, Norton lives in Oakland.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Stephen Haff / Kid Quixotes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Stephen Haff for his new book\, Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students\, Their Teacher\, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible. 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\nThe unlikely yet inspiring true story of a teacher struggling with mental illness\, a silent daughter of an undocumented mother\, and the amazing one-room schoolhouse that helped them find their voices\, heal their pain\, and become empowering models of resilience. \nAfter seven years at a high school with metal detectors and armed police\, Yale-educated teacher Stephen Haff suffered a breakdown. Doctors later diagnosed him with bi-polar depression. Inspired by his former students\, Haff formed a reading group that eventually became Still Waters in A Storm\, an after-school program in Bushwick\, Brooklyn. techniques from outside standard educational practices—Drawing from his experiences\, Haff developed a new teaching method using AA meetings\, Quaker prayers\, psychotherapy\, and even Buddhist meditation circles to create a more empathetic and collaborative environment. In this fluid\, welcoming space\, Stephen and his students found solace and something else: their voices. All agreed that at Still Waters there would only be one rule: everyone listens to everyone. And this one rule has unlocked their incredible potential. \nOver the years\, Still Waters’ students have studied Latin\, played violin and now they have taken on a new challenge: translating episodes from the classic Don Quixote into English from Spanish. With the help of dictionaries and the approval of acclaimed Don Quixote translator\, Edith Grossman\, the Still Waters students created a modern travelling musical\, The Traveling Adventures of Kid Quixote\, which has been performed across New York City. \nThe star of Kid Quixote is six-year-old Sarah Sierra. Before Still Waters\, Sarah was silent. But now she has many stories to tell\, from her mother’s journey across the desert to America on a tiger to a girl-knight that defeats giants made of ice who lock up children. At Still Waters\, these students\, led by Sarah\, have found their voices and are using them to deliver a message of diversity\, tolerance\, love\, optimism\, and resilience essential to us all.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Pico Iyer\, Autumn Light
DESCRIPTION:online event with bestselling author Pico Iyer who will be in-conversation with Alan Christy about his new book\, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells—a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence\, mortality\, and grief—and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan\, now in paperback. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \n\nThis is a free event. The books may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n\nAUTUMN LIGHT: SEASON OF FIRE AND FAREWELLS: \nReturning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death\, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead\, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age\, children scatter\, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften\, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before\, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance\, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted. \nA BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO JAPAN: \n“Arguably the greatest living travel writer” ( Outside magazine)\, Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But\, as he is the first to admit\, the country remains an enigma even to its long-term residents. In A Beginner’s Guide to Japan\, Iyer draws on his years of experience—his travels\, conversations\, readings\, and reflections—to craft a playful and profound book of surprising\, brief\, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. He recounts his adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation hall to a love hotel\, from West Point to Kyoto Station\, and from dinner with Meryl Streep to an ill-fated call to the Apple service center in a series of provocations guaranteed to pique the interest and curiosity of those who don’t know Japan—and to remind those who do of its myriad fascinations. \nPICO IYER is the author of eight works of nonfiction and two novels. A writer for Time since 1982\, he is a frequent contributor to The New York Times\, Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Financial Times\, and many other magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. He splits his time between Nara\, Japan\, and the United States. \nALAN CHRISTY got his PhD in History at the University of Chicago in 1996. He has been with the History Department at UC Santa Cruz since 1995\, with a two-year stint as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo from 2004-2006. He studies the history of Japan\, especially historical memory\, historical consciousness and the legacies of war and empire. He is the Director of the Okinawa Memories Initiative\, a transnational public history project that explores the postwar Okinawan-American relationship in Okinawa and throughout the Pacific region. He is also the Provost of Cowell College.
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