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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Lysley Tenorio & Sameer Pandya
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 Lysley Tenorio (The Son of Good Fortune) & Sameer Pandya (Members Only). \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 The Son of Good Fortune and/or Members Only 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\nThe Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio \nExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries)\, he carefully avoids the spotlight. \nBut Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother\, Maxima\, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather\, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago\, on Excel’s tenth birthday\, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago\,” she told him\, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. \nCasting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood\, Excel takes a leap\, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters\, old hippies\, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible\, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider? \nThrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful\, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other. \nLysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress\, named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares\, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nMembers Only by Sameer Pandya \nFirst the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way\, he wonders: where does he\, a brown man\, belong in America? \nRaj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child\, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged\, he lives mostly happily in California\, with a job at a university. Still\, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times\, especially at their tennis club\, a place he’s cautiously come to love. \nBut it’s there that\, in one week\, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect\, he makes a racist joke. The committee turns on him\, no matter the years of prejudice he’s put up with. And worse still\, he soon finds his job is in jeopardy after a group of students report him as a reverse racist\, thanks to his alleged “anti-Western bias.” \nHeartfelt\, humorous\, and hard-hitting\, Members Only explores what membership and belonging mean\, as Raj navigates the complicated space between black and white America. \nSameer Pandya is the author of the story collection The Blind Writer\, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His fiction\, commentary\, and cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications\, including the Atlantic\, Salon\, Sports Illustrated\, ESPN\, and Narrative Magazine. He teaches creative writing and South Asian and Asian American literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Members Only is his first novel. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #1 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, with Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley. \nEvent co-sponsored by Burning Books (Buffalo\, NY) and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – Buffalo. \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———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register\n————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #1\, happening on Tuesday\, August 4th at 1PM PST / 4PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Burning Books in Buffalo\, NY. Please consider supporting Burning Books by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nShane Burley is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin\, In These Times\, Salon\, Truthout\, etc.
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SUMMARY:David Sheff Local writer discusses his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row
DESCRIPTION:David Sheff\, author of Beautiful Boy\, joins us for a virtual event for his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row. \nThis event will be held on Crowdcast. Register here. \n“This book shows vividly how\, even in the face of the greatest adversity\, compassion and a warm-hearted concern for others bring peace and inner strength.” — His Holiness the Dalai Lama \n“I’m a friend of Jarvis Masters\, so I know the truth of this book\, but I want to hail its power. I believe it will encourage many people to examine their own lives and their unrealized potential for awareness\, generosity\, commitment\, and courage.” —Rebecca Solnit\, author of Men Explain Things to Me \nAbout The Buddhist on Death Row\nJarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach\, California\, his house was filled with crack\, alcohol\, physical abuse\, and men who paid his mother for sex. He and his siblings were split up and sent to foster care when he was five\, and he progressed quickly to juvenile detention\, car theft\, armed robbery\, and ultimately San Quentin. While in prison\, he was set up for the murder of a guard—a conviction which landed him on death row\, where he’s been since 1990. \nAt the time of his murder trial\, he was held in solitary confinement\, torn by rage and anxiety\, felled by headaches\, seizures\, and panic attacks. A criminal investigator repeatedly offered to teach him breathing exercises which he repeatedly refused. Until desperation moved him to ask her how to do “that meditation shit.” With uncanny clarity\, David Sheff describes Masters’s gradual but profound transformation from a man dedicated to hurting others to one who has prevented violence on the prison yard\, counseled high school kids by mail\, and helped prisoners—and even guards—find meaning in their lives. \nAlong the way\, Masters becomes drawn to the principles that Buddhism espouses—compassion\, sacrifice\, and living in the moment—and he gains the admiration of Buddhists worldwide\, including many of the faith’s most renowned practitioners. And while he is still in San Quentin and still on death row\, he is a renowned Buddhist thinker who shows us how to ease our everyday suffering\, relish the light that surrounds us\, and endure the tragedies that befall us all. \nAbout David Sheff\nDavid Sheff is the author of multiple books including the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy\, which was recently turned into a movie starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, Outside\, Rolling Stone\, Wired\, Fortune\, and elsewhere. His piece for The New York Times\, “My Addicted Son\,” received an award from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions.
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