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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die Presents: GRIEF & HEALING w/Writing & Music
DESCRIPTION:a YG2D Workshop \nThis 4-session communal workshop offers a chance to creatively express ourselves & engage with our own [& collective] grief & healing through writing & music. It’s a chance to connect to community\, remember we’re not alone\, and tap into our innate wisdom to creatively face our unique experiences of being mortal. \nFOUR SESSIONS! \nWHEN: Wednesdays\, April 7th-April 28th\nTIME: 7-8:45p\nLOCATION: ZOOM\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $80-250 \nWe offer the workshop on a sliding scale\, but ask about further financial support if you need it to attend!\n***Two (2) full scholarships are available for BIPOC*** \nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \nFOR MORE DETAILS EMAIL: ned@yg2d.com\nEVENT ON FACEBOOK
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: K.S. Komireddi / Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host K.S. Komireddi for his first book Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India. Please note our early start time of 12pm PT. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Malevolent Republic here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nHailed as the world’s largest democracy and feted by the Trump administration in events like “Howdy Modi” in Houston\, India is rapidly mutating into a plebiscitary autocracy under the sectarian rule of Prime Minister Modi. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present\, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right\, convenient distortions of India’s past\, and demeaning bribes to minorities that led to Modi’s rise. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists\, Komireddi argues\, India will become Pakistan by another name. An incandescent narrative history of the world’s largest democracy\, Malevolent Republic is also a passionate argument for the reclamation of India’s soul. \n“Kapil Komireddi ranks high among the wisest\, most astute\, and most humane observers of modern India” – David Frum\, The Atlantic \n“Written with passion and savagery\, this is a polemical and highly readable short history of modern India from Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi” – Gideon Rachman\, The Financial Times \n“K.S. Komireddi is the V.S. Naipaul of his generation … arresting\, essential\, devastating” – The Spectator \n“In precise and sharp language\, Malevolent Republic takes readers on a terrifying and yet illuminating journey through the rapidly transforming political\, social\, and religious landscape of Modi’s India” – Rafia Zakaria\, The Times Literary Supplement \n“Komireddi is one of the most thoughtful and thorough journalists writing today. His range of interests is impressive in its breadth and cosmopolitanism. His is a rare voice that can comment on global affairs from a truly comparative perspective” – Amitav Ghosh\, author of the Ibis trilogy. \nAbout the author\nK.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi was born in India\, and was educated there and in England. His commentary\, criticism\, and journalism—from South Asia\, Europe\, and the Middle East—have appeared\, among other leading publications\, in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Economist\, the Indian Express\, the Guardian\, the Los Angeles Times\, TIME\, Foreign Policy\, the Spectator\, and the Jewish Chronicle. In 2019\, his oped highlighting the Indian government’s brutality in Kashmir provoked an angry demonstration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters outside the offices of Washington Post in Washington\, DC. A highly regarded observer of modern India\, Komireddi is one of only 2\,300 individuals Modi follows on Twitter (Modi himself has 66 million followers). He is a contributor to Monocle24 radio. Malevolent Republic is his first book. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-k-s-komireddi-malevolent-republic-a-short-history-of-the-new-india/
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SUMMARY:Alonzo King in conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Alonzo King in conversation with Steven Winn \nWednesday\, April 14\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \n \n\n\nHailed as a visionary choreographer\, Alonzo King is altering the way we look at ballet. King calls his works “thought structures” created by the manipulation of energies that exist in matter through laws\, which govern the shapes and movement directions of everything that exists. He has guided Alonzo King LINES Ballet with his unique artistic vision since 1982. A former commissioner for the city and county of San Francisco\, and a writer and lecturer on the art of dance; his contributions appear in the books Masters of Movement: Portraits of American Choreographers and in Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alonzo-king-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick & Kris Welch: Taking a Long Look\, a Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nVIVIAN GORNICK with KRIS WELCH\nTaking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature and Feminism \nTAKING A LONG LOOK: ESSAYS ON CULTURE\, LITERATURE AND FEMINISM IN OUR TIME is described by Publishers Weekly as “illuminating and a welcome addition to this astute critic’s oeuvre.” \nVivian Gornick has brought together 40 years of  her work. Alternately crackling with energy or lucid with insight\, the essays show us one of America’s most beloved critics at her best. She tackles subjects familiar and not\, from feminism\, literature\, and culture to race\, science\, and ecology. Many of these essays are now out of print\, and several have been revised to reflect Gornick’s initial editorial intent. Featuring a new introduction\, Taking A Long Look illuminates one of the main themes present throughout Gornick’s work: that the painful process of knowing one’s self is what connects us all. \nExploring the lives of Alfred Kazin\, Mary McCarthy\, Philip Roth\, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Gornick’s incendiary essays\, first published in the Village Voice\, on the women’s liberation movements of the 70s; plus many a New York story\, these essays show us one of America’s most beloved critics at her best. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice\, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movements in the 1970s\, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments-ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times-The Odd Woman and the City\, and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader\, as well as the classic text on writing\, The Situation and the Story. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a devoted  grandmother. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivian-gornick-kris-welch-taking-a-long-look-tickets-137661131149
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Melissa Febos and R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 14 AT 6PM PT WHEN MELISSA FEBOS DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, GIRLHOOD\, WITH R.O. KWON ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88638955882\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88638955882#  or +12532158782\,\,88638955882#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdaYqnjjvP \nPraise for Girlhood \n“In this book\, Febos proves herself to be one of the great documenters of the terrible and exquisite depths of girlhood. Here\, that terrible and beautiful aeon is dissected\, sung over\, explored like ancient ruins. These essays are moss and iron—hard and beautiful—and struck through with Febos’ signature brilliance and power and grace. An essential\, heartbreaking project.” —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties \n“Melissa Febos just revived me in the most spectacular way. Girlhood blazes through the stories we’ve been told with a dazzling fury and a brilliant beauty. Whatever we are or were\, this is a map to a new becoming. Between the intellect and the body a third term emerges\, dissolving binaries and reinventing the space of erotic power and creativity. A fuck-all guide to resilience and reclamation\, a breathtaking reimagination of who we might be in spite of what we’ve been told. Girlhood will bring you back to life.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge and The Book of Joan \n“Melissa Febos is part poet\, part theorist\, and all writer. In this lyrical\, searching\, profound\, and personal collection\, Febos examines childhood\, femaleness\, and love in its many forms with a sensuous ferocity that is all her own.” —Ariel Levy\, author of The Rules Do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs \nAbout Girlhood \nFor readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison\, a poignant\, universal story of the forces that shape girls and of a world where women are rarely free to define themselves. \nIn her dazzling new book\, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be a girl and the realities of growing up female in a world that prioritizes the feelings\, perceptions\, and power of men at girls’ expense. \nFebos was eleven when her body began to change\, and almost overnight\, the way people spoke to\, looked at\, and treated her changed with it. As she grew\, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. But in her thirties\, Febos began to question the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety\, happiness\, or freedom\, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. \nBlending investigative reporting\, memoir\, and scholarship\, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger\, hurt\, and grief women have long been taught to deny.\nFierce and breathtaking\, written with Febos’ characteristic lyricism and searing insights\, Girlhood is an anthem for women\, a powerful exploration of the forces that seek to confine them\, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood on a lifelong journey of discovery. \nAbout Melissa Febos \nMelissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and Publishing Triangle Award finalist. Her essays have appeared in Tin House\, The Believer\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. Febos is the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary and serves on the directorial board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-melissa-febos-and-r-o-kwon/
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SUMMARY:Willie Vlautin in conversation with Megan Abbot
DESCRIPTION:discussing Willie Vlautin’s new book \nThe Night Always Comes \npublished by Harper Collins \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————- \nAward-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family. \nBarely thirty\, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs\, some illegally\, she’s been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland’s housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years\, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it’s their last best chance to own their own home—and obtain the security they’ve never had. While she has enough for the down payment\, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price. But a week before they’re set to sign the loan papers\, her mother gets cold feet and reneges on her promise\, pushing Lynette to her limits to find the money they need. \nSet over two days and two nights\, The Night Always Comes follows Lynette’s frantic search—an odyssey of hope and anguish that will bring her face to face with greedy rich men and ambitious hustlers\, those benefiting and those left behind by a city in the throes of a transformative boom. As her desperation builds and her pleas for help go unanswered\, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious\, frenzied spiral. In trying to save her family’s future\, she is plunged into the darkness of her past\, and forced to confront the reality of her life. \nA heart wrenching portrait of a woman hungry for security and a home in a rapidly changing city\, The Night Always Comes raises the difficult questions we are often too afraid to ask ourselves: What is the price of gentrification\, and how far are we really prepared to go to achieve the American Dream? Is the American dream even attainable for those living at the edges? Or for too many of us\, is it only a hollow promise? \nWilly Vlautin is the author of the novels The Motel Life\, Northline\, Lean on Pete\, The Free\, and Don’t Skip Out on Me. He is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. He lives outside Portland Oregon. \nMegan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels The Turnout\, Give Me Your Hand\, You Will Know Me\, The Feber\, Dare Me\, The End of Everything\, Bury Me Deep\, Queenpin\, The Song Is You\, and Die A Little. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Salon\, the Guardian\, Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times Magazine\, and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections\, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger\, the International Thriller Writers Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO’s David Simon show\, The Deuce\, she is now co-creator\, executive producer and show-runner of Dare Me\, based upon her novel\, for the USA Network and\, internationally\, Netflix. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/willie-vlautin-in-conversation-with-megan-abbot-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Daniel Lieberman\, Exercised
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Harvard University professor Daniel Lieberman\, bestselling author of The Story of the Human Body\, will join us to discuss his new book\, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. If exercise is healthy (so good for you!)\, why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising—not to mention sitting\, sleeping\, sprinting\, weight lifting\, playing\, fighting\, walking\, jogging\, and even dancing. \n“Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship\, wit\, and enthusiasm. This is easily one of my favorite books of the year.” —Bill Bryson\, New York Times best-selling author of The Body \nRegister here for this free Crowdcast event! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nIn this myth-busting book\, Daniel Lieberman\, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity\, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise—to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world\, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk\, run\, dig\, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. \nExercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes\, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise. \nDrawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology\, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable\, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much\, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us. \nDANIEL E. LIEBERMAN is Edwin M. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He is the author of the national best seller The Story of the Human Body: Evolution\, Health\, and Disease and Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rearding. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
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