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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #62 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 5th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 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. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option on the FB event; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Virtual Get Lit #62\nTime: Jul 21\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85418275879 \nMeeting ID: 854 1827 5879\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85418275879# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,85418275879# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 854 1827 5879\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcQv42kspd \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jennifer Steil & Ava Homa
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 Jennifer Steil (Exile Music: A Novel) & Ava Homa (Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This 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 Exile Music and/or Daughters of Smoke and Fire 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\nExile Music by Jennifer Steil \nAs a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s\, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic\, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer\, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall\, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler’s rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family’s identity\, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor\, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds\, where they can escape the growing tensions around them. \nBut in 1938\, Orly’s peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first\, and soon Orly\, her father\, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz\, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows\, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood\, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains\, Orly’s mother grows even more distant\, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass\, the war ends\, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home\, or is the pull of her past in Europe—and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese—too strong to ignore? \n\nJennifer Steil is an award-winning novelist and memoirist who lives in many countries. She left the United States in 2006 to take a job as editor of a newspaper in Sana’a\, Yemen\, where she lived for four years. Her first book\, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky\, was inspired by her Yemeni reporters. She began writing her first novel\, The Ambassador’s Wife\, after she was kidnapped when pregnant with her daughter. That experience became the first scene of the novel. She and her infant daughter were evacuated from Yemen after her husband Tim Torlot\, a British diplomat\, was attacked by a suicide bomber. They lived in Amman\, Jordan\, until his posting ended and he could join them in London. In 2012\, they moved to La Paz\, Bolivia. Early in her time there\, Steil met Jewish Bolivians whose families had fled the Nazis in Europe during World War II. Their stories inspired her third book\, Exile Music\, just released by Viking. She now lives in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. \n  \n  \n\nDaughters of Fire and Smoke by Ava Homa \nSet in Iran\, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage\, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother Chia\, influenced by their father’s past torture\, imprisonment\, and his deep-seated desire for justice\, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts\, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online\, she finds herself in grave danger as well. \nDaughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family\, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. \n  \n  \nAva Homa is a writer\, journalist\, and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her collection of short stories\, Echoes from the Other Land\, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Prize\, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship. Daughters of Smoke and Fire is her debut novel which has received much acclaim. For more information please visit at www.AvaHoma.com \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Zach St. George Discusses his new book\, The Journeys of Trees
DESCRIPTION:Science reporter Zach St. George joins us to discuss his new book\, The Journeys of Trees: A Story About Forests\, People\, and the Future (W.W. Norton). \nThis virtual event will be broadcast on our Crowdcast Channel. Register here. \nAbout The Journeys of Trees\nForests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts\, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction\, the whole forest begins to migrate\, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today\, however\, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions\, invasive pests transported through global trade—threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all\, the climate is changing faster than ever before\, and forests are struggling to keep up. \nA deft blend of science reporting and travel writing\, The Journeys of Trees explores the evolving movements of forests by focusing on five trees: giant sequoia\, ash\, black spruce\, Florida torreya\, and Monterey pine. Journalist Zach St. George visits these trees in forests across continents\, finding sequoias losing their needles in California\, fossil records showing the paths of ancient forests in Alaska\, domesticated pines in New Zealand\, and tender new sprouts of blight-resistant American chestnuts in New Hampshire. Everywhere he goes\, St. George meets lively people on conservation’s front lines\, from an ecologist studying droughts to an evolutionary evangelist with plans to save a dying species. He treks through the woods with activists\, biologists\, and foresters\, each with their own role to play in the fight for the uncertain future of our environment. \nAn eye-opening investigation into forest migration past and present\, The Journeys of Trees examines how we can all help our trees\, and our planet\, survive and thrive. \nAbout Zach St. George\nZach St. George is a science reporter who has written for the Atlantic\, Scientific American\, and Outside\, among other publications. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in Baltimore\, Maryland.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kate Greene and Mary Roach
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 21 at 5pm PDT when Kate Greene discusses her new book Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space\, Exploration and Life on Earth with Mary Roach on Zoom \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83001791380 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83001791380#  or +12532158782\,\,83001791380#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 830 0179 1380\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb0jsKzm1b\n \nPraise for Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars \n“In her thoughtful\, well-written account of the mission\, Greene not only discusses what it was like to spend several months cooped up indoors with five strangers and limited resources but also reflects on what this and other space missions can teach us about ourselves and life on Earth.”–Physics Today \n“This stirring\, smart\, and truly original debut begins with questions and then progresses beyond facile answers\, into even less answerable questions. Along the way\, Greene charts a course that is propulsive\, discursive\, and pure pleasure to read\, whether it is exploring boredom\, guinea pigs\, pineapple\, grief\, or deep space. Like a conversation with your smartest\, most fun friend\, each essay travels an unexpected and exhilarating path\, more often between people than planets\, examining the distances between who we were and who we have become\, what we expected and what we have found in this life.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“A prescient look at humans alone\, separate from the world they once knew. Truly a book for our times.”–Sarah Stewart Johnson\, author of The Sirens of Mars\n \nAbout Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars \nWhen it comes to Mars\, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets\, the engines\, the fuel. But upon arrival\, what will it actually be like? \nIn 2013\, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is\, along with five fellow crew members\, she embarked on NASA’s first HI-SEAS mission\, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i. For four months she lived\, worked\, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome\, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters\, as well as the nature of boredom\, dreams\, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. \nIn Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars\, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanity’s broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life\, of the standard\, able-bodied astronaut and Greene’s brother’s disability\, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage\, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple\, of departure and return. \nBy asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe\, Greene has written a remarkable\, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now\, as a pre-Mars species\, poised on the edge\, readying for launch.
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nChallenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \nBOOKSHOP.ORG \nArguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account\, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change\, sweatshop labour\, police abuse\, and economic deprivation. \nIn Accountability Democracy\, Kaufman pairs each of these issues with an operation of power — the large scale influence of multinational corporations; the power of governments; the authority of financial markets; and the control inherent in systems of meaning — and using case studies like the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and the killing of Eric Garner\, forcefully demonstrates the difficulty in challenging this nexus of power. \nYet\, advancing a positive message\, Kaufman maintains that this network is not omnipotent and can be questioned if we develop ‘mechanisms of accountability’ which allow us to conceptualise the nature of these restrictions and the action required to resist them. Kaufman provides then\, a model for ethical living that allows us to investigate and appreciate our own connection to the powerful forces that control our world. \n\n\nCynthia Kaufman is the Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action at De Anza College\, USA\, where she also teaches Philosophy. She is the author of two books on social change Getting Past Capitalism: History\, Vision\, Hope (2012) and Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change (2003). She is a lifelong activist for social change and has worked on issues such as tenants’ rights\, police abuse\, union organizing\, international politics\, and most recently climate change.
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SUMMARY:Gail Tsukiyama (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:Kepler’s is thrilled to announce an event with Gail Tsukiyama\, the acclaimed and bestselling author of 8 novels\, and a staff favorite who embodies the best of Bay Area literature. Born in San Francisco to a Chinese mother from Hong Kong and a Japanese father from Hawaii\, Tsukiyama’s talent has garnered an equally international reach and literary acclaim. She has spoken to large crowds at book festivals from Sydney to Hong Kong\, and was one of a few authors selected to speak at the first-ever Library of Congress National Book Festival. The Samurai’s Garden is a staple of college curriculums\, and Tsukiyama has won both an Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miller Literary Award. \nIn short\, this is one dynamically talented speaker you don’t want to miss. \nThe Color of Air\, Tsukiyama’s latest evocative historical novel\, portrays a family grappling with its past against the backdrop of Hawai’i’s sugar plantations. \nDr. Daniel Abe quietly returns home to Hawai’i after the traumatic loss of a patient\, boarding a ship to the Big Island right as the Mauna Loa begins to stir. On the island\, Daniel’s uncle and childhood friend await his arrival while internally contending with their own connections to the young man and his family. Each character holds secrets in a private world as the volcano comes to life. \nThese interweaving storylines alternate between a volcanic 1935 to a time decades prior— a rich\, vibrant\, bittersweet celebration of lifelong bonds the characters feel to one another and to their immigrant community. In the backdrop of Mauna Loa\, old secrets kept below the surface now threaten to blend inescapably with the present. Don’t miss Tsukiyama as she delves into this triumphant work of fiction. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts L. E. Modesitt\, Jr. for new book "Quantum Shadows"
DESCRIPTION:USA Today bestselling author L.E. Modesitt Jr. talks about his new standalone science fiction novel\, Quantum Shadows.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOrder your copy of Quantum Shadows now! \nL. E. Modesitt\, Jr. is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante\, the Ecolitan novels\, the Forever Hero Trilogy\, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer\, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot\, a legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman\, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City\, Utah. \nModesitt’s latest novel\, Quantum Shadows\, is a masterful blend of religion and myth in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world for a philosophical cross-genre tale. \nWelcome to Heaven\, a world where the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon – a god\, or a prophet of god. Corvyn\, also known as the Shadow of the Raven\, is an incredibly powerful air spirit. When an unknown force burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre in the shape of a trident\, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly wield that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another Fall of humankind\, and if he doesn’t stop it\, mankind will not rise from these ashes. \nWith overtones of some of the genre’s greatest writers\, such as Roger Zelanzy and Gene Wolfe\, Modesitt create a formidable and elegant world with intricate detail and powerful imagination that will appeal to lifelong fans and newcomers alike.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop invites you to join us online for an event with acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) to celebrate her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most—both personally and politically—whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
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