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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.
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SUMMARY:Jillian C York in conversation with Ben Tarnoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing Jillian York’s new book \nSilicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism \npublished by Verso 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———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n\n\nHow Google\, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy \n\n\nWhat is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics\, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation\, Jillian C. York charts the war over our digital rights. She looks at both how the big corporations have become unaccountable censors\, and the devastating impact it has had on those who have been censored. \nIn Silicon Values\, leading campaigner Jillian C. York looks at how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations’ desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. She also looks at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. As a result our daily lives\, and private thoughts\, are being policed in an unprecedented manner. Who decides the difference between political debate and hate speech? How does this impact on our identity\, our ability to create communities and to protest? Who regulates the censors? In response to this threat to our democracy\, York proposes a user-powered movement against the platforms that demands change and a new form of ownership over our own data. \n\n\nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of  surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. She is based in Berlin.\n\nBen Tarnoff is the author of the books A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Jacobin\, and Lapham’s Quarterly\, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.\n\nLOGIC is a critical journal devoted to technology and society. Past issues have explored the effects of technology on culture. Each issues focusses on a specific theme. Past themes have included:  civic life in relation to technology\, explorations of the problems and possibilities big tech and big data create\, democracy in the face of ever accelerating technological advances\, gender and equality\, sex in relation to technology\, how bodies and technologies cross one another\, and much more. visit: https://logicmag.io
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Sue Monk Kidd (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny\, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings. \nIn her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction\, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee\, she is rebellious and ambitious\, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower\, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. \nTheir marriage evolves with love and conflict\, humor and pathos in Nazareth\, where Ana makes a home with Jesus\, his brothers\, and their mother\, Mary. Ana’s pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome’s occupation of Israel\, partially led by her brother\, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha\, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril\, she flees to Alexandria\, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold\, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history. \nGrounded in meticulous research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus’s life that focuses on his humanity\, The Book of Longings is an inspiring\, unforgettable account of one woman’s bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her\, while living in a time\, place and culture devised to silence her. It is a triumph of storytelling both timely and timeless\, from a masterful writer at the height of her powers. \nSue Monk Kidd‘s debut\, The Secret Life of Bees\, spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list\, has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States\, was turned into an award-winning major motion picture and a musical\, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel\, The Mermaid Chair\, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. Her third novel\, The Invention of Wings\, an Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 pick\, was also a #1 New York Times bestseller. She is the author of the acclaimed memoirs The Dance of the Dissident Daughter\, a groundbreaking work on religion and feminism\, and the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates\, written with her daughter\, Ann Kidd Taylor.
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