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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 5th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT \nJordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh \n Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJordan Blashek and Christopher Haugh’s just-released book\, Union: A Democrat\, a Republican\, and a Search for Common Ground\, is the story of the two friends’ three-year journey across America. One a Republican and one a Democrat\, they traveled together through 44 states and along 20\,000 miles of road to find out exactly where the American experiment stands at the close of the second decade of the 21st Century. \nJordan is a military veteran and businessman from Los Angeles. After college\, he spent five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer\, serving two combat tours overseas\, in Afghanistan and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Yale Law School\, Stanford Graduate School of Business\, and Princeton University. He is based in New York\, where he invests in entrepreneurial efforts to grow the American middle class as part of Schmidt Futures\, a new philanthropic venture created by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. \nChristopher is a speechwriter and journalist from the Bay Area. He attended UC Berkeley and Oxford University and started speechwriting as an intern in the Obama White House. He went on to join the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff where he served as a speechwriter to the Secretary. In 2018\, he graduated from Yale Law School where he was a Yale Journalism Scholar. Chris is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Colin Dickey
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 5 at 5:00pm PDT as Colin Dickey discusses his new book\, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters\, Alien Encounters\, and Our Obsession with The Unexplained on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85998503448 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85998503448#  or +12532158782\,\,85998503448#\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 +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 859 9850 3448\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcvSfo0QxC\n \nAbout The Unidentified \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\, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in\, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. \nEnter 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\, explaining that today’s Illuminati is yesterday’s Flat Earth: 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. \n\nAbout the Author \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:VIRTUAL: Aimee Bender in conversation with Ploi Pirapokin / The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host a virtual event with Aimee Bender for her new novel\, The Butterfly Lampshade\, her first since New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake came out in 2010. She’ll be in conversation with Ploi Pirapokin. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n> This is a ticketed event – tickets can be purchased in advance here. Tickets are only $5 and can be applied toward the purchase of The Butterfly Lampshade; if you purchase the book from us\, there’s no need to buy a ticket (but if you decide during the event you want a copy of the book we’ll be happy to refund your $5 ticket). We will send connection information to ticket/book holders the day before the event. \n\n\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? \nTold in the lush\, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language\,” The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world\, and a broken love between mother and child. \n\n\nAimee Bender is the author of the novels The Color Master\, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller\, An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Mark Miller. \nPloi Pirapokin is the Nonfiction Editor at Newfound Journal and the co-editor of The Greenest Gecko: An Anthology of New Asian Fantasy forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2021. Her work is featured in Tor.com\, Apogee Journal\, The Offing\, The Bellingham Review\, Fiction International\, and more. She lives in San Francisco.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: David Sheff\, The Buddhist on Death Row
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with David Sheff about his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place\, which Anna Lamott describes as “a beautiful\, profoundly spiritual book\, and a page-turner. Jarvis Jay Masters’ transformation\, from an unloved child of violence and poverty to Buddhist teacher on Death Row\, is thrilling. Reading it changed me\, threw the lights on\, opened and gentled my heart. I’m going to give it to everyone I know.” \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nAfter an incomprehensibly harsh childhood\, imprisonment for armed robbery\, and then being sentenced to death row for the murder of a prison guard in 1986—a crime he claims he did not commit—Jarvis spiraled into a depression. Figuring he had nothing to lose\, he tried meditation and likened it to the George Clinton lyric\, “Free your mind and your ass will follow.” He was taken in as a student by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and came to view his circumstances as the greatest gift. It led to his spiritual awakening\, changed his life path from violence to peace\, and instilled a sense of purpose to heal the suffering. What place could house more suffering than behind bars? Over the course of three years\, David Sheff made more than 200 trips to death row\, recorded more than 150 hours of conversations\, and spoke with Masters for countless hours by phone. Though not a Buddhist himself\, Sheff learned a multitude of lessons from all the time he’s spent with Masters\, which he shares with readers. This is a profound book about one man’s capacities for learning\, enduring\, and ultimately\, inspiring others—capacities we all share. \n“This book celebrates a liberation not gained by guns and gangs\, prison breaks and murder\, but by sitting with one’s breath and believing in the perfection of the Universe and all who strive and suffer within it.  The Buddhist on Death Row is a deeply useful reminder that we can all be free regardless of where we are placed.” —Alice Walker\, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning The Color Purple \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. \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! \n\nPraise for The Buddhist on Death Row \n“I’m grateful to be Jarvis Masters’ teacher in part because he has taught me so much.  I have rarely encountered anyone who expresses the essence of Buddhism in a clearer\, more moving way than he does\, and I deeply admire how David Sheff has captured that hard-won wisdom in this book.”\n—Pema Chödrön\, Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart \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.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Men Explain Things to Me \n“This profound\, gorgeous book displays the miraculous human capacity to find redemption\, and even joy\, no matter who or where we are. Jarvis Masters’ story proves that we are all united by our suffering and by our potential to help others who suffer.”\n—Sr. Helen Prejean\, author of Dead Man Walking
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