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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: David Eagleman\, Livewired
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book\, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view\, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology\,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher\, bold vision\, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Vanessa Veselka / The Great Offshore Grounds
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Zazen author Vanessa Veselka for her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  If you’d like a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nOn the day of their estranged father’s wedding\, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle\, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats\, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except\, instead of money\, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality\, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another\, as well as their definitions of freedom. \nMoving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North\, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds\, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve\, linguistic vitality\, and undeniable tenderness. \n\nVanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen\, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA\, and her nonfiction in GQ\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Atavist\, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been\, at various times\, a teenage runaway\, a sex worker\, a union organizer\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR. \n\n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.
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SUMMARY:ACCENTED | Nobody Ever Dies featuring Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen will host a conversation featuring Thao Nguyen from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down for ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora \nThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED\, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers\, poets\, artists\, actors\, filmmakers\, scholars\, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. \nHosted by Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer\, with co-host appearances by the She Who Has No Master(s) Collective\, guests will engage in virtual conversations and discussions regarding their work\, their stories\, and their communities\, with live Q&A sessions following each event.\n—\nThis installation of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora show will be Thursday\, August 27th at 7:30 pm\, hosted by Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and will feature musician\, songwriter\, and producer Thao Nguyen\, leader of the rock band Thao and The Get Down Stay Down. Thao has toured nationally and internationally for over 15 years\, and her latest album Temple was released in May on Ribbon Music. She recently performed for NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert and one of her most recent music videos for Phenom\, plays on the familiar format of being on a Zoom video call. She also produced the documentary Nobody Dies\, about her trip to Vietnam with her mother in 2015\, 20 years after the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam\, as a first-person storytelling of her experience as a daughter of Vietnamese refugees returning to a long lost homeland. \nAbout the Guests:\nThao Nguyen is a musician\, songwriter and producer. She is the leader of the rock band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and has toured nationally and internationally for over 15 years. Her latest album Temple was released in May on Ribbon Music. Visit https://www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com/ for more information. \nAbout the Host:\nViet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer\, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\, The Refugees\, and Race and Resistance: Literature\, Politics and Asian America. His most recent book was Chicken of the Sea\, done with his son Ellison. His next book is The Committed\, the sequel to The Sympathizer. \nDVAN is partnering with Eastwind Books of Berkeley for all book sales and shipping\, and books from featured authors will be available on https://asiabookcenter.com for a discounted price. \nAll funds raised for ACCENTED will go towards supporting DVAN’s mission to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora and connect them to diasporic communities all over the globe. \nThis program is sponsored by the DVAN@SFSU Project of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.\nFor more information about the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) please visit our website at https://dvan.org or follow us on Instagram (@weare_dvan) \nDVAN believes that the stories\, imaginaries\, and poetics of a thriving Vietnamese diaspora can unite our global community. Our mission is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese voices. DVAN presents nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora and to promote understanding and dialogue within our community\, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees\, immigrants\, survivors\, and descendants\, and our stories must be heard.
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