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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:City Lights Authors on the Road: Whistleblower at the CIA - Melvin A. Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Melvin Goodman\, PhD\, Retired CIA and State Department Analyst\, Author \nThe whistleblower is essential to congressional oversight\, investigative journalism\, and the public’s awareness of important national and international security issues. Mel Goodman will address his own experiences as a whistleblower in testifying to the Senate intelligence committee in 1991 to block the confirmation of Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence. He will also discuss such whistleblowers as Edward Snowden\, Chelsea Manning\, the CIA whistleblower at the White House\, and the recent case of Dr. Rick Bright at the Department of Health and Human Services. The lack of protection for whistleblowers in the intelligence community will also be assessed. \nA Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the event. Cost is $5 \nQuestions? Contact Deborah Wilbur at dwilbur [ @] benderjccgw.org
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Bonnie Tsui & Jennifer Steinhauer
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 Bonnie Tsui (Why We Swim) & Jennifer Steinhauer (The Firsts). \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 Why We Swim and/or The Firsts 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\nWhy We Swim by Bonnie Tsui \nWe swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure\, for exercise\, for healing. But humans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now\, in the twenty-first century\, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n  \n  \nBonnie Tsui is the author of the new book Why We Swim. A journalist and longtime contributor to The New York Times\, she is also the author of American Chinatown\, the winner of the Asia/Pacific American Award for Literature and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. She lives\, swims\, and surfs in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Firsts: The Inside Story of The Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer \nIn the November 2018 midterms\, the greatest number of women in history were elected to Congress. It was a group diverse in background\, age\, professional experience\, and ideology. And from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad” to a group with national security backgrounds calling themselves “the Badasses\,” from the first two Native American women to the first two Muslim women\, all were swept into office on an enormous wave of grassroots support. \nHere\, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer chronicles these women’s first year in Congress\, following their shift from trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms\, offices\, visits back home with their constituents\, and conversations in the halls of the Capitol\, she probes the question: Will Washington\, with its hidebound traditions and overpriced housing and petty power struggles\, change the changemakers? Or will this Congress\, which looks a little more like today’s America\, truly be the start of something new? \nVivid and smart\, The Firsts delivers fresh details\, inside access\, historical perspective\, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring\, controversial\, talented\, and rebellious—do something surprising: make Congress essential again. \nJennifer Steinhauer has covered numerous high-profile beats in her twenty-five-year reporting career at the New York Times\, from City Hall bureau chief and Los Angeles bureau chief to Capitol Hill. She won the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline Reporting Award in 2006 for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina. She has written a novel about the television business\, and two cookbooks. \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks\, is delighted to welcome bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius of Birds) for an online event celebrating her new book\, The Bird Way\, 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. This virtual event will include a beautiful 30-minute presentation by Ackerman\, as well as a Q&A with the audience. \nRegistration for this Crowdcast event will begin soon. Sign up for our emails to be the first to know. \n If you’d like to make a donation\, you may do so here. \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. 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. In THE BIRD WAY\, Ackerman shows us extraordinary behaviors\, including 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. Drawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. \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.
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SUMMARY:Oona Out of Order | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 30\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Margarita Montimore’s new novel\, OONA OUT OF ORDER. \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89347970109. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at bit.ly/GGPOonaHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/OonaAB. \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK \n“With its countless epiphanies and surprises\, Oona proves difficult to put down.” —USA Today \n“By turns tragic and triumphant\, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful\, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read.” —The Guardian \nA remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment\, even if those moments are out of order. \nIt’s New Year’s Eve 1982\, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen\, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics\, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins\, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own\, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order… \nHopping through decades\, pop culture fads\, and much-needed stock tips\, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising\, magical\, and heart-wrenching\, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time\, the endurance of love\, and the power of family. \nAbout the Author\n\nMargarita Montimore is the author of Asleep from Day and Oona Out of Order\, a national bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College\, she worked for over a decade in publishing and social media before deciding to focus on the writing dream full-time. Born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn\, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and dog.
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