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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Ethan Nosowsky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 28 at 5pm PDT when Marie Mutsuki Mockett discusses her new book\, American Harvest: God\, Country\, and Farming in the Heartland\, with Ethan Nosowsky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82971702082 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82971702082#  or +12532158782\,\,82971702082#\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: 829 7170 2082\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcpi8FxVYp\n \nPraise for American Harvest \n“Books enable readers to broaden their lives\, and this one—in which Marie Mutsuki Mockett joins a crew harvesting wheat—is a doozy\, as Studs Terkel’s were. . . . I never knew a person on a wheat-harvesting crew\, and now I do\, thanks to Mockett’s vivid and true account.”—Annie Dillard \n“An extraordinary feat of empathy set against a land of reds\, whites\, and blues\, American Harvest doesn’t just speak to the great divide—it dares to bridge it.”—Marlon James \n“Mockett\, writing with a gentle self-consciousness\, offers a compassionate portrait of conservative evangelicals\, along with lucid musings on agricultural science\, Native American history\, and the quiet majesty of the Great Plains.”—The New Yorker \nAbout American Harvest \nAn epic story of the American wheat harvest\, the politics of food\, and the culture of the Great Plains \nFor over one hundred years\, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska\, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett\, who grew up in bohemian Carmel\, California\, with her father and her Japanese mother\, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. \nIn American Harvest\, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth\, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho\, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide\,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields\, attends church\, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life\, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white\,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. \nAmerican Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs\, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity\, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors\, Jon Sack\, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) \ncelebrating his new graphic novel \nWindows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \n———–– \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———— \nThe book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase WINDOWS ON THE WORLD here< \n————- \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners. \nJacqueline Obradors is an actor and has appeared in numerous feature film that include Six Days\, Seven Nights (1998)\,  Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo (1999)\, Tortilla Soup (2001)\, A Man Apart(2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She has also appeared on the television crime drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005.) She is currently featured on the TV series Bosch and will be starring in the forthcoming film “Palm Springs.” \nJay Walsh play Vocals\, Guitars\, and Piano for the musical combo DOUGLAS FIR.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOKS & BREWS: Colin Dickey\, The Unidentified
DESCRIPTION:Our popular Books + Brews summer event series returns in a modified form this season. For the first of two events\, we are teaming up with Discretion Brewing to host an online event with Colin Dickey\, author of The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters\, Alien Encounters\, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained. Tune into our Crowdcast event from the comfort of home while you enjoy one of Discretion’s tasty beverages—they suggest their Book Club Pale Ale will pair beautifully with the book that Publishers Weekly calls\, “A thought-provoking and deliciously unsettling guide into the stranger corners of American culture.” (Shipping and book/beer pick up options to come.)\n\n\nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \nAmerica’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomena… \nIn a world where rational\, scientific explanations are more available than ever\, belief in the unprovable and irrational—in fringe—is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens\, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster\, it seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in\, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey\, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics\, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America’s wildest fringe beliefs—from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials\, or possibly both\, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam\, to the museum containing the last remaining “evidence” of the great Kentucky Meat Shower—investigating how these theories come about\, why they take hold\, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious\, wry\, brilliant in his analysis\, yet eminently readable. \nColin Dickey is a writer\, speaker\, and academic\, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly\, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death\, a collective of artists\, writers\, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world’s relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California\, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich discusses his latest book\, The Desert Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Ben Ehrenreich visits Point Reyes to discuss his new book\, Desert Notebooks (Counterpoint). \nPresented in conjunction with Mesa Refuge. \nAbout Desert Notebooks\nNational Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nDesert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time–the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present–unflinching\, urgent–and yet timeless and profound. \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” —Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \nAbout Ben Ehrenreich\nBen Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Los Angeles Times. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Haiti\, Cambodia\, El Salvador\, and Mexico. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. He is the author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
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SUMMARY:Beach Read by Emily Henry | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 28\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Emily Henry’s new novel\, BEACH READ. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89360940741. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPBeachRead\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GGPBeachReadAB. \nJune 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“What do you get when you cross a disillusioned romance author with a Hemingway wannabe? A compulsively readable book where you kind of hope for your train to be delayed so you can spend a few more minutes with January and Gus. These two\, saddled with writer’s block\, make a pact to write the other’s genre. Literary snobbery is (rightfully) called out\, and the two begin to navigate a friendship outside of writing as they explore the other’s process. Reader\, I loved it.”\n— Audrey Huang\, Belmont Books\, Belmont\, MA \nDescription\n\nTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! \n“Original\, sparkling bright\, and layered with feeling…”—Sally Thorne\, author of The Hating Game \nA romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. \nAugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after\, he kills off his entire cast. \nThey’re polar opposites. \nIn fact\, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months\, they’re living in neighboring beach houses\, broke\, and bogged down with writer’s block. \nUntil\, one hazy evening\, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy\, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage\, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really. \nAbout the Author\n\nEmily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies\, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites. \nPraise For…\n\n“Once I started Beach Read I legit did not put it down.”—Betches \nOne of… \nThe New York Times Book Review’s Summer Romance Reads\nEntertainment Weekly’s Hottest Summer Reads of 2020\nOprah Magazine’s Best Beach Reads of Summer 2020\nBetches’ 20 Books to Read in 2020\nSheReads’ Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020\nGoodreads’ Big Books of Spring\nPopsugar’s 25 Exciting New Books Coming Out in May\nBustle’s Most Anticipated May Titles\nShondaland’s Five Books to Read in May\nTheSkimm’s 11 Buzzy Books for Your Imaginary Beach Bag\nGood Morning America’s 25 Novels You’ll Want to Read this Summer\nThe New York Post’s Required Reading\nGood Housekeeping’s 25 Best Beach Reads\nHuffington Post’s Best Books to Read during Quarantine\nCNN’s Perfect Summer Reads\nLitHub’s Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List\nBookRiot’s 6 Captivating New Books \n“Reader\, I swooned!  Beach Read is a breath of fresh air. My heart ached for January\, and Gus is to die for – a steamy\, smart and perceptive romance. I was engrossed!”—Josie Silver\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
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