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SUMMARY:Elif Shafak
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussing her new novel \n10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World \npublished by Bloomsbury 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———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \nShortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage\, NPR\, Washington Post\, and The Economist \nA moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times\, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. \nIn the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul\, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby\, she remembers her life-and the lives of others\, outcasts like her. \nTequila Leila’s memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces\, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions\, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul\, Leila makes her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking\, finding a home in the city’s historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark\, violent world\, but Leila is tough and open to beauty\, light\, and the essential bonds of friendship. \nIn Tequila Leila’s death\, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life\, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end\, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion. \nElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She writes in both Turkish and English\, and has published 18 books\, 11 of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 54 languages. Her latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; and chosen Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her previous novel\, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey\, the US and the UK\, including St Anne’s College\, Oxford University\, where she is an honorary fellow. \nShe is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women’s rights\, LGBT rights and freedom of speech\, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people “who will give you a much needed lift of the heart”. Shafak has judged numerous literary prizes\, and chaired the Wellcome Prize and is presently judging the Orwell Prize.\nvisit: www.elifshafak.com
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SUMMARY:James Sullivan - Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Tom Barbash\nThursday\, December 19\, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event \nIn the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly told account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II\, that gave as good as it got\, and that was later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk. \nMore than the story of a single\, savage engagement\, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa\, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio\, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage\, so prolonged\, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After a three-month overhaul and with a reputation rising as the “fightin’est ship” in the Navy\, Plunkett (DD-431) plunged back into the war at Omaha Beach on D-Day\, and once again into battle during the invasion of Southern France—perhaps the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre. \nFeaturing five incredibly brave men—the indomitable skipper\, who will receive the Navy Cross; the gunnery officer\, who bucks the captain every step of the way to Anzio; a first lieutenant\, who’s desperate to get off the ship and into the Pacific; a seventeen-year-old water tender\, who’s trying to hold onto his hometown girl against all odds\, and another water tender\, who mans a 20mm gun when under aerial assault—the dramatic story of each plays out on the decks of the Plunkett as the ship’s story escalates on the stage of the Mediterranean. Based on Navy logs\, war diaries\, action reports\, letters\, journals\, memoirs\, and dozens of interviews with the men who were on the ship and their families\, Unsinkable transcends historical appreciation of a single military ship to become a timeless evocation of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives. \nJames Sullivan was born and raised in Quincy\, Massachusetts\, and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has written for The New York Times and National Geographic Traveler\, the magazine. He lives with his family outside Portland\, Maine\, 3.4 miles from the birthplace of film director John Ford\, who steamed into Omaha Beach on Plunkett. \nTom Barbash is the author of the novels The Dakota Winters and The Last Good Chance and the non-fiction books On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11; A Story of Loss and Renewal\, which was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and other publications\, and have been performed on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.
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