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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 EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lane Moore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, July 6 at 6pm PDT when Lane Moore joins us to discuss her book How to Be Alone: If You Want To\, and Even if You Don’t on Instagram Live. \n\nPraise for How to Be Alone \n“Lane Moore is one of the most talented people I know and I’m so glad even more people will be able to read her words.”— Mara Wilson\, author of Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame \n“How to Be Alone feels like peeling back your best friend’s skull and jumping into her brain. Lane is so open and funny and honest; I never want to be alone if it means I can’t have her with me. What a gift.” — Samantha Irby\, New York Times bestselling author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“How to Be Alone is like a song that pops up on the radio and lifts your spirits . . . so special\, elegant\, and true. It’s spectacular and truly personal. This book is with me every day\, and it helps so much.”—  Caroline Kepnes\, author of You\, Hidden Bodies\, and Providence \n\nAbout How to Be Alone \nThe former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant\, funny\, and deeply moving first book. \nLane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page\, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles\, including being her own parent\, living in her car as a teenager\, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all\, she looked to movies\, TV\, and music as the family and support systems she never had. \nFrom spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth\, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor\, anxiety\, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift. \nHow to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved\, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life\, who tries to have genuine\, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all\, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words. \n\nAbout the Author \nLane Moore is an award-winning comedian\, writer\, actor\, and musician. The New York Times called her comedy show Tinder Live “ingenious.” Her comedy and her band\, It Was Romance\, have been praised everywhere from Pitchfork to Vogue\, and her writing has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to The Onion. She is the former sex and relationships editor at Cosmopolitan\, where she received a GLAAD Award for her groundbreaking work expanding the magazine’s queer coverage. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog-child\, Lights. You can follow Lane at @HelloLaneMoore on Instagram and Twitter or visit LaneMoore.org.
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWe are thrilled to celebrate with Kepler’s favorite Daniel Mason for his new book\, A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth. Join us online as we raise a glass to an incredible collection of literature. If you’ve read Mason\, best-selling author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner\, you already know that this new book of short stories is one that you don’t want to miss. \nIncluding nine stories of human endurance\, vivacity\, and accomplishment that range from a balloonist’s unexpected discovery to multiple medical marvels\, Mason’s writing will help you soar\, believe in minor miracles\, and explore the human condition. If you loved Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone but have never read Mason\, this book is the perfect introduction to a writer who will sweep you away. \nA professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University\, Mason’s previous novels have been translated into 28 languages\, adapted for the opera and theater\, and marked bestseller lists across the world. At times funny and irreverent\, always moving and deeply urgent\, the stories in this new collection— among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner— cap a fifteen-year project. \nJoining the discussion to interview Mason is Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer\, another longtime Kepler’s favorite. Greer has authored six works of fiction\, including the bestsellers Less and The Confessions of Max Tivoli. \nTogether\, these two titans in literature will transport you to a different world through a discussion of one of the most revered bastions of American letters: finely crafted\, utterly original\, and richly imagined short stories. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as the webinar can fill up quickly. Free registrations are limited in quantity; to support the author and Kepler’s\, please consider with-book access if you are able. ** 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo Bicchieri » Grey Rosado » Rhea Dhanbhoora » Richelle Lee Slota | Jennifer Ng » Nora Boxer » Steven Hill » Steven Gray » Lilian Wang » D.S. Black » Caroline Goodwin » Noah Sanders » Kelly Gray » Amy Smith » Dawn Angelicca Barcelona\nWe’ll be streaming at this link (pw in link).\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 846 3452 8987\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \n\n\n\nThanks to everyone who sent in work for our virtual show on 7/6! We received 75 submissions and accepted 21 (28%).  Curators extraordinaire Edmund Zagorin & Nazelah Jamison have put together a show FEATURING ALL OF TODAY’S LAMENTABLE HITS: the novel coronavirus\, systemic racism\, capitalism\, the patriarchy\, fear\, anxiety\, shame\, and premature\, unnecessary death. Join us for community alchemy as we move together from Mississippi to Beirut\, through family disconnects and isolation to the intersections of longing and belonging. \nAll selected authors will perform on 7/6 as part of a literary mixtape\, without introductions or banter. They will also be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 106\, featuring cover art by nkiruka oparah! “Fuzzy Room” is pictured above. \nThe show is free and all ages. If you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’re committed to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n\n\n\nStats for this show \n\nWe accepted 21 out of 79 submissions (28%)\n9 authors are making their QL debut (43%)\n12 authors are returning (57%)\n\nDiana Donovan (3x\, last time was 5/4/20)\nChristopher Dizon (1x\, 5/4/15)\nPaolo Bicchieri (1x\, 11/5/18)\nGrey Rosado (8x\, last time was 7/1/19)\nRichelle Lee Slota (2x\, last time was 1/6/20)\nSteven Hill (1x\, 7/1/19)\nSteven Gray (7x\, last time was 7/2/18)\nD.S. Black (2x\, last time was 1/1/18)\nCaroline Goodwin (1x\, 11/5/12)\nNoah Sanders (1x\, 11/4/19)\nKelly Gray (1x\, 3/2/20)\nAmy Smith (1x\, 1/6/20)\n\n\n25 have never attended a QL (32%)\n40 have read at QL before (51%)\n7 have never been published (9%)\n1 is being published for the first time\nThe largest age groups of submitters were:\n\n19-29 (19%)\n30-39 (33%)\n40-56 (19%)\n\n\n\nPrior to this show\, we have produced 133 events featuring 1\,584 individual performances by 825 different authors and 113 visual artists in 91 venues\, as selected by 65 curators. \n\nAbout the curators \nElizeya Quate (Edmund Zagorin) is a writer dwelling mysteriously both inside and outside this exact sentence. Quate’s work has appeared in Joyland\, Entropy\, Big Lucks\, Sleepingfish\, sparkle + blink\, the 2016 novel The Face of Our Town (Kernpunkt Press) and the 2018 chapbook cra-que-lure (Finishing Line Press). A resident of Schema\, Quate hosts the monthly performance art event Make It Look Like An Accident. \nNazelah Jamison is a performance poet\, actor\, vocalist\, and emcee. She is an East Coast transplant\, former organizer of the Oakland Poetry Slam and sometimes reluctant superhero. Her first book of poetry\, Evolutionary Heart\, was released in Fall of 2016 on Nomadic Press. Nazelah gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.
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