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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/using-invented-and-foreign-languages-as-tools-for-world-building-a-fiction-workshop-with-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Donna Leon
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nGuests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this thrilling conversation. Please note the 12 pm PDT start time. Reserve your spot early! \n*** \nDonna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti is one of the most likable\, captivating characters in mystery: incisive\, principled\, and dogged yet cultured\, this hard-driving detective has a uniquely soft edge\, and his fierce protectiveness of Venice and its people have long made Brunetti a reader favorite. The protagonist of Leon’s iconic Venice-based mystery series has been almost as loved as Leon for decades. \nOn March 16th\, Kepler’s Literary Foundation is thrilled to present the 30th book in Brunetti’s saga\, Transient Desires. Leon herself will join us for an exciting in-conversation webinar to share the new novel\, talk shop about the mystery genre\, the Venice she loves\, and more. Whether you’re a new reader or have followed every installment of Brunetti’s mysteries\, it’s time to celebrate— because this novel has all of the hallmarks that make Leon’s mysteries unputdownable. \nWhen two young American women return with brutal injuries after joyriding in the Laguna with local young men\, hawk-eyed Brunetti questions why their escorts vanish so quickly after bringing the injured women to the hospital. Following that thread\, Brunetti uncovers what a gut-wrenching\, complex case that leads to technically brilliant and ruthlessly organized criminals operating underground in the beautiful\, storied city. As pursuit of justice takes Brunetti further afield\, he must rely on new colleagues whose truthfulness and motivations are not always clear. Absorbing and richly atmospheric\, with a keen insight into human failing plus all of Leon’s finesse for finely plotted twists\, the 30th Brunetti mystery will be an absolute delight for diehard fans and new readers alike. \nJoin us for an engrossing escape to Venice with Donna Leon online with Kepler’s this March. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-leon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sky Nelson-Isaacs - Leap to Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:An investigation into the physics of light and our journey toward healing\, connection\, and wholeness. \nThe reductionism and materialism of our modern world make it easy to imagine everything can be cleanly broken down into smaller and smaller parts. Yet the straightforward example of light in a hologram\, which can’t be reduced to its parts\, points to an underlying interconnected reality—a wholeness. Physicist Sky Nelson-Isaacs uses numerous familiar examples—rainbows\, music\, photography—to illustrate a fundamental wholeness found in nature. \nJust as light is filtered as it passes through a filmstrip\, Nelson-Isaacs points out that our human experience is filtered through thoughts and feelings. This view provides an explanation as to why\, in our daily lived reality\, we can feel so broken and not-whole. Nelson-Isaacs weaves together cutting-edge ideas into the nature of space and time and original research\, with a compelling message of urgency. The filters we use to make choices everyday hide important information from us\, leading us away from experiences of flow. Through synchronicities\, we are led to life lessons tailored to our readiness for change. Nelson-Isaacs reconsiders the view of time itself\, suggesting that we live not just in this moment but on a timeline of history\, part of a wave moving from our past into our future. Every choice we make shifts what is available to us. Can we learn to rethink our lives and reality to remove our filters and realize the wholeness that we have inherent in ourselves and in our world? Yes\, says Nelson-Isaacs—and once we do that\, we can use the multiverse of possibilities to make choices that help us heal and grow into a greater sense of ourselves. \nSky Nelson-Isaacs is a theoretical physicist\, speaker\, author\, and musician. He has a masters degree in physics from San Francisco State University\, with a thesis in String Theory\, and a BS in physics from UC Berkeley. Nelson-Isaacs has dedicated his life to finding his own sense of purpose\, beginning as a student of the Yogic master Sri Swami Satchidananda when he was less than five years old. Discovering an early fascination with holograms and some of the most fundamental questions in physics\, he has sought for over two decades to establish a connection between synchronicity\, physics\, and real life using research and original ideas. An educator with nine years of classroom experience\, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sky-nelson-isaacs-leap-to-wholeness/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:One City One Book: Chanel Miller
DESCRIPTION:One City One Book: Chanel Miller\nTue Mar 16th 6:00pm – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nLitquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection\, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event\, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art\, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. \nClick here to register and buy books. \nUniversally acclaimed and rapturously reviewed\, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking New York Times bestselling memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe\, but as Chanel Miller the writer\, the artist\, the survivor\, the fighter” (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators\, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable\, and\, ultimately\, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book\, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, People\, and NPR\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian-American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. Her contribution to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ special issue #WeToo: A Reader details her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member\, and the healing process she went through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-city-one-book-chanel-miller/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chanel Miller in conversation with journalist Robynn Takayama
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library is honored to announce its 16th Annual One City One Book selection\, Chanel Miller’s\, Know My Name. \nChanel Miller will join Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the CA court system.  Zoom doors will open at 5:50. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, NPR and the Washington Post\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. \nTakayama has contributed to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ #WeToo Reader. In it\, she shares her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member and the healing process she went through. \nFor Spanish or Cantonese\, please register. Closed captioning will be available in English. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/16/author-chanel-miller-conversation-journalist-robynn-takayama sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
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SUMMARY:Kim Addonizio & Friends
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new collection \nNow We’re Getting Somewhere: Poems \npublished by W.W. Norton \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. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world. \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. \nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. \nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-addonizio-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Naima Coster / What's Mine and Yours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host Naima Coster for her novel What’s Mine and Yours. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order What’s Mine and Yours here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students\, Gee and Noelle\, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years. \nOn one side of the integration debate is Jade\, Gee’s steely\, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss\, she is determined to give her son the tools he’ll need to survive in America as a sensitive\, anxious\, young Black man. On the other side is Noelle’s headstrong mother\, Lacey May\, a white woman who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn’t protect herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father\, Robbie. \nWhen Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students\, their paths collide\, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted\, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come. \nAs love is built and lost\, and the past never too far behind\, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive\, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years\, from the foothills of North Carolina\, to Atlanta\, Los Angeles\, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together. \n\nAbout the author\nNaima Coster is the author of Halsey Street\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Kweli\, the Paris Review Daily\, Catapult\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University\, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade\, in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-naima-coster-whats-mine-and-yours/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston and Jeneé Darden
DESCRIPTION:When LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth. Joining LaRayia is another powerhouse woman\, award-winning journalist and author\, Jeneé Darden. In addition to her essays and poetry\, Jeneé is the host of the weekly arts segment Sights and Sounds\, and covers East Oakland for KALW. If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed bookplate copies are limited and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-larayia-gaston-and-jenee-darden/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and novelist Kazim Ali discusses his new book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Northern Light\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a queer\, Muslim man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational? \nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused. \nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to. \nAbout Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz\nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light. \nNatalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem and When My Brother Was an Aztec\, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a USA fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kazim-ali/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robbie Arnott\, The Rain Heron
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott will discuss The Rain Heron\, his gripping new novel of myth\, environment\, adventure\, and an unlikely friendship.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d’état. High on the forested slopes\, she survives by hunting\, farming\, trading\, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit\, led by a young female soldier\, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical\, dangerous\, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story\, yet the soldier will not be deterred\, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. \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“Superb descriptions of nature and weather\, of human emotion and animal instinct\, by Australian novelist Arnott evoke a landscape that is both startlingly immediate and mysteriously otherworldly: the perfect setting for a tense narrative of eco-disaster and fragile endurance. At once an urgent thriller and an elegiac fable\, this mesmerizing tale is as lyrical as it is suspenseful.” ―Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robbie-arnott-the-rain-heron/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 16 AT 7PM PT WHEN LARAYIA GASTON DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, LOVE WITHOUT REASON: THE LOST ART OF GIVING A F*CK.\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL\nAS A PART OF THEIR WOMEN LIT #UNBOUND SERIES\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nFor questions regarding tickets\, please contact ticketing@baybookfest.org \nAbout the Event \nWhen LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth.  If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nDetails \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. All copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-larayia-gaston/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:DEACON KING KONG by James McBride | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of DEACON KING KONG by James McBride. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81138425681 \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpDeacon or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/DeaconAB \nOne of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” \nOprah’s Book Club Pick \nNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine \nA Washington Post Notable Novel \nFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water\, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. \nIn September 1969\, a fumbling\, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn\, pulls a .38 from his pocket\, and\, in front of everybody\, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. \nThe reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong\, James McBride’s funny\, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong\, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim\, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it\, the white neighbors\, the local cops assigned to investigate\, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon\, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters\, and Sportcoat himself. \nAs the story deepens\, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge\, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden\, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear\, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. \nBringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity\, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit\, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deacon-king-kong-by-james-mcbride-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #70
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker.\n\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\n\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\n\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\n\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-70/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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