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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
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LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Solidarity: From Third World Liberation Front to Black Lives Matter
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online conversation with authors Juanita Tamayo Lott\, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Harvey Dong moderated by Janie Chen. \nRegister for access to Zoom event \nPanelists:\nJuanita Tamayo Lott grew up in the Fillmore/Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco in the 1950s. She was part of the historic 1968 SF State BSU/TWLF strike and served on the planning committee for the School of Ethnic Studies in 1969. Coming full circle\, she served on the planning committees for the respective 50th anniversary commemorations in 2018 and 2019. In graduate school at the University of Chicago\, she studied survey research\, human ecology\, demography\, statistics and sociology. Her Washington\, D.C. career was as a manager and senior demographer/statistician in the federal statistical system\, including the U.S. Census Bureau. Juanita directed the first Office of Asian American Affairs in the federal government in the 1970s. In 2007 she co-founded Filipino American Studies at the University of Maryland. The Juanita Tamayo Lott Collection resides in The Library of Congress. \nGolden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies\, SF State. A Memoir by Juanita Tamayo Lott \nDr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes where she lives on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. In January of 1968 she was the first Native American student enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley. While attending UC Berkeley\, Dr. War Jack participated as the first Native American component of the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide effort in establishing Native American Studies\, African American Studies\, Chicano Studies and Asian Studies. In 1969\, Dr. War Jack and students united together to take over Alcatraz Island\, which ended the Indian Termination policies. \nNative Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight For Survival and Life by Dr. LaNada War Jack \nHarvey Dong is a second-generation Chinese American who was active in TWLF-UC Berkeley strike for Ethnic Studies and the struggle to save the International Hotel (1969-1977). In 2002\, he received his PhD in Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley. He is currently a lecturer in Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley and teaches Asian American history\, Chinese American history and Asian American Contemporary Issues. In 2016\, he received the American Cultures Ronald Takaki Teaching Award and in 2018\, the Chancellor’s Public Scholar Faculty Fellowship. He is currently a humanities advisor for the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s project series on social justice\, and is involved in the operations of Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, promoting Asian American authors. \nPower of the People Won’t Stop: Legacy of the TWLF at UC Berkeley by Harvey Dong \nModerator: Janie Chen was born and raised in Oakland\, Janie is a rising senior at UC Berkeley studying sociology and ethnic studies. She works at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, where she became the co-editor of Power of the People Won’t Stop. Her current research looks into the cultural nuances of family reunification for formerly incarcerated Asian American and Pacific Islanders. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Diane Cook in conversation with Rahawa Haile / The New Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Man V. Nature author Diane Cook for her anticipated debut novel\, The New Wilderness. She’ll be in conversation with Rahawa Haile. Please join us! \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it 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\nBea’s five-year-old daughter\, Agnes\, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City—an over-populated\, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives—is destroying her lungs. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore\, because there is nowhere else to go. But across the country lies the Wilderness State\, the last swath of open\, protected land left. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. People are forbidden. Until now. \nBea\, Agnes\, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers\, this new community wanders through the grand country\, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers\, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. As the group slowly learns to live and survive on the unpredictable and often dangerous land\, its members battle for power and control and betray and save each other. The farther they roam\, the closer they come to their animal soul. \nTo her dismay\, Bea discovers that\, in fleeing to the Wilderness State to save Agnes\, she is losing her in a different way. Agnes is growing wilder and closer to the land\, while Bea cannot shake her urban past. As she and Agnes grow further apart\, the bonds between mother and daughter are tested in surprising and heartbreaking ways. \nYet just as these modern nomads come to think of the Wilderness State as home\, its future is threatened when the Government discovers a new use for the land. Now the migrants must choose to stay and fight for their place in the wilderness\, their home\, or trust the Rangers and their promises of a better tomorrow elsewhere. \n\nDiane Cook is the author of the story collection Man V. Nature\, which was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award\, Believer Book Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and were anthologized in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She received a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her debut novel The New Wilderness is available August 11\, 2020. Author photo by Katherine Rondina. \n  \n  \nRahawa Haile is the author of the forthcoming In Open Country\, a book about her Appalachian Trail trek in 2016. She lives and writes in Oakland. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have The New Wilderness sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-diane-cook-in-conversation-with-rahawa-haile-the-new-wilderness/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Karen Tei Yamashita\, Sansei and Sensibility
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book\, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast soon.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“An elegantly written\, wryly affectionate mashup of Jane Austen and the Japanese immigrant experience. . . . Yamashita’s reimagining of Austen is sympathetic and funny—and as on target as the movie Clueless.” —Kirkus\, starred review \n“Karen Tei Yamashita contends with the Western canon in this astute\, pitch-perfect\, and wryly funny short story collection. . . . A genuine pleasure to read.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This hilarious new collection of stories and essays will make you chuckle\, though underneath the humor is deft critique. Marie Kondo’s tidying up is juxtaposed with a tour of World War II internment camps. Sexist techno-orientalism and the meaning of Godzilla are reexamined. Local treasure\, UCSC professor emerita\, and acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has written a book about the Japanese American experience both entertaining and vital in this era of anti-immigration politics.” —Jason\, Bookshop Santa Cruz bookseller \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-karen-tei-yamashita-sansei-and-sensibility/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Guests of Rubies are welcome to join; please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom.] \nJoin us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. \nWe encourage you to purchase THE FIXED STARS from a local bookstore! Pre-order here from Green Apple Books and received a signed book plate: https://www.greenapplebooks.com/pre-order-new-titles-0 \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author  \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-110874659090
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