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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (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
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LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Nina Renata Aron & Julian Tepper
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. This event features Nina Renata Aron (Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women\, Addiction\, and Love) & Julian Tepper (Between the Records). \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 Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls and/or Between the Records 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\nGood Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women\, Addiction\, and Love by Nina Renata Aron \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, Jezebel\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nBetween the Records by Julian Tepper \nJules and Adam Newman’s complex\, often hostile\, relationship has long fueled their music careers as they followed in their father’s footsteps. After the release of their debut record\, and while struggling to write tracks for the followup\, the brothers begin to clash. Jules\, the younger brother\, feels cast aside and ignored by Adam\, who has long been accustomed to having things his own way. From the studio to the stage and across the countless miles in between\, Julian Tepper’s third novel is a moody and heady work of autofiction based on his days in the Natural History\, which he and his brother formed in 2001. Between the Records examines brothers\, fathers\, rock and roll\, and the personal demons therein — both musical and familial. \n  \n  \n  \nJulian Tepper is the author of three novels\, Between the Records\, Ark and Balls\, and the essay\, ‘In Which Phillip Roth Gave Me Life Advice.‘ His work has appeared in The Paris Review\, Playboy\, The Daily Beast\, The Huffington Post\, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:City Lights Authors on the Road: Funeral Diva - Pamela Sneed
DESCRIPTION:Artists and activists reflect on organizing for gay liberation amidst the AIDS pandemic. \nArtists and activists including Pamela Sneed and Bill T. Jones speak with moderator Kia LaBeija about their reflections on the various stances of their respective generations\, the rise of identity politics\, and the day-to-day realities of creativity and activism within that environment. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nPamela Sneed is a poet\, professor\, and performer\, and the author of Sweet Dreams\, Kong\, and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery\, and the forthcoming book Funeral Diva\, published by City Lights this October. She has performed at the Whitney Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Poetry Project\, New York University\, Pratt University\, Smack Mellon Gallery\, The High Line\, Performa\, Performance Space\, Joe’s Pub\, The Public Theater\, BRIC\, and more. She is a member of the online faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute where she teaches Human Rights and Writing Art. \nBill T. Jones is a multi-talented artist\, choreographer\, dancer\, theater director and writer\, and Associate Artist for the 2020 Holland Festival. Mr. Jones has received major honors including the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award\, 2013 National Medal of Arts to a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He has won multiple Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and was named “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure” in 2000 by the Dance Heritage Coalition. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director\, Co-Founder and Choreographer of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company\, founded in 1982 with his late partner Arnie Zane\, and has created over 140 works for his company. He is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts\, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing\, presenting\, and educating.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: jessica Care moore / We Want Our Bodies Back
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host jessica Care moore for her new book of poems\, We Want Our Bodies Back. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note the early start time of 5:30pm PST. \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\nOver the past two decades\, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet\, performer\, publisher\, activist\, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice\, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving\, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power\, and express the pain\, sadness\, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate\, Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny\, criminalization\, hatred\, stereotypes\, sexual assault\, objectification\, patriarchy\, and death threats. \nWe Want Our Bodies Back is an exploration — and defiant stance against — these many attacks.
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Literary Page Turners
DESCRIPTION:Page turners are usually associated with genre or popular fiction rather than literary fiction. In this discussion\, Melanie Abrams\, Laura Mazer\, and Kate Milliken will talk about what readers\, agents\, and editors are looking for when it comes to plot. We’ll talk about marketability\, but also how to write a beautifully crafted narrative while still making readers turn pages. 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\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nMelanie Abrams\nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley and is a photographer and developmental editor.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nKate Milliken\nKate Milliken is author of the short story collection If I’d Known You Were Coming and the novel Kept Animals. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, anthologized in the California Prose Directory\, New Writing from the Golden State\, and received runner-up for the Rick… Read More →\n\n\n  \n  \n \nLaura Mazer\nLaura Mazer is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates\, Inc. Before becoming an agent\, she was the executive editor of Seal Press\, a boutique imprint of the Hachette Book Group\, and the managing editor of Counterpoint and executive editor of its imprint Soft Skull Press.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes debut novelist C Pam Zhang for an online event about her new book\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Zhang will be in conversation with fellow debut novelist Kawai Strong Washburn (Sharks in the Time of Saviors). In Zhang’s electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\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! \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” —Emma Donoghue\, author of Room \nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. \nKawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Today\, he lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. Sharks in the Time of Saviors is his first novel.
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