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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-grief-healing-w-writing-music/
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SUMMARY:Launch Event for American Geography in Honor of Barry Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Radius Books and The Green Arcade invite you to join Sandra S. Phillips\, Debra Gwartney\, Toby Jurovics\, and Beverly Dahlen to celebrate the launch of AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAND USE FROM 1840 TO THE PRESENT\, including live readings of recent work from Robert Adams and Barry Lopez.\n\nBooks signed by Sandra Phillips can be ordered from The Green Arcade’s Online Shop: www.TheGreenArcade.com \n\nHere is the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q5YOD4eKT12vqHqyW534EA\n\nDrawing primarily from the vast permanent collection of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, American Geography charts a visual history of land use in the United States.\n\n\nFrom the earliest photographic records of human habitation to the latest aerial and digital imagery\, from nearly uninhabited desert and isolated mountainous territories to suburban sprawl and densely populated cities\, this compilation offers an increasingly nuanced perspective on the American landscape. \nDivided by region\, these photographs address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions: from the Midwestern prairies and agricultural traditions of the South\, to the riverine systems in the Northeast\, and the environmental challenges and riches of the far West. \nAmerican Geography provides a complex\, thought-provoking survey featuring work from Robert Adams\, Dawoud Bey\, Barbara Bosworth\, Debbie Fleming Caffery\, William Eggleston\, Mitch Epstein\, Terry Evans\, LaToya Ruby Frazier\, Emmet Gowin\, Lee Friedlander\, Dorothea Lange\, An-My Lê\, Trevor Paglen\, Wendy Red Star\, Mark Ruwedel\, Victoria Sambunaris\, Stephen Shore\, Alec Soth\, and Carleton E. Watkins\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-event-for-american-geography-in-honor-of-barry-lopez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nNews alert\, nonfiction fans! Litquake has secured the participation of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning biographer T.J. Stiles for our Seismic Salon series. Called “a superb researcher” by the Washington Post\, Stiles received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, and the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography (as well as the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction) for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He is also author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War\, which was a New York Times notable book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. A Guggenheim fellow\, he has taught creative nonfiction at Columbia. He currently serves on the governing boards of the Authors Guild\, the Organization of American Historians\, and the Society of American Historians. And if politics are your thing\, T.J. loves to talk about that as well. \nBuy T.J. Stiles’ books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Becky Albertalli with Leah Johnson
DESCRIPTION:We could not be more excited: #1 New York Times bestselling author\, rom com queen\, and longtime favorite Becky Albertalli will be joining us for a virtual event to chat about Kate In Waiting\, a buoyant and endearing new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in love\, life\, and yes\, theater. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContrary to popular belief\, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway. But when Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school\, everything goes off-script. Turns out\, communal crushes aren’t so fun when real feelings are involved. This one might even bring the curtains down on Kate and Anderson’s friendship. \nBecky Albertalli is the author of William C. Morris Award winner and National Book Award longlist title\, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (now a hit film\, Love\, Simon); the acclaimed The Upside of Unrequited; and the New York Times bestsellers Leah on the Offbeat\, What If It’s Us (cowritten with Adam Silvera)\, Yes No Maybe So (cowritten with Aisha Saeed)\, and Love\, Creekwood: A Simonverse Novella. \nBecky will be chatting with Leah Johnson\, author of the bestselling  You Should See Me in a Crown that was the inaugural Reese’s Book Club YA pick\, was named one of Cosmo’s 15 Best Young Adult Books of 2020\, an Indies Introduce pick\, and a Junior Library Guild selection. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that we have a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during our virtual events. In the event that someone joins the event who is not there to celebrate the author\, the store will immediately remove any disrespectful comments and remove this individual from the event. Once removed\, they cannot rejoin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/becky-albertalli-with-leah-johnson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Heidi Kühn - Breaking Ground: From Landmines to Grapevines\, One Woman's Mission to Heal the World (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:Both a memoir and a call to action\, this book is a gripping account of the author’s quest to eradicate landmines from the face of the earth. \nHeidi Kühn’s commitment to fostering peace and raising awareness has been a driving force in her life—from her early days as a student at the University of California\, Berkeley\, to her time as a reporter in Juneau\, Alaska\, covering the Exxon Valdez oil spill and US-Russia relations. After overcoming a potentially terminal cancer diagnosis that threatened everything she held dear\, Heidi became determined to rid the world of another form of cancer that has plagued the world for decades—landmines—in regions as far-flung as Croatia\, Vietnam\, and Afghanistan. \nInspired by her work of the late Princess Diana\, Heidi began the humanitarian organization Roots of Peace from the basement off her Northern California home. She gained the support of famed Napa Valley vintners Robert Mondavi and Mike Grgich\, and soon her mines-to-vines. mission began to take hold. \nIn this powerful memoir\, Heidi tells the Roots of Peace story\, guiding the reader from the early days in which she built her vision to her current presence on the global stage\, where she has worked with presidents\, prime ministers\, landmine survivors\, and religious leaders from around the world to spread a message of peace and recovery. In the years since the founding of Roots of Peace\, its agricultural projects have made tremendous progress to fight against landmines\, revitalizing devastated land and uplifting the lives of countless people in the process. \nThrough recalling her journey\, Heidi reveals the remarkable change an ordinary person can inspire. Her story is one of faith\, healing\, and the compassion needed to grow a more peaceful world. Breaking Ground will encourage you to do the extraordinary and help plant the seeds of change for a brighter future. \nHeidi Kühn is the founder and CEO of Roots of Peace\, which has impacted over 1.1 million farmers and family members\, spanning seven countries. Thanks to Roots of Peace\, over one hundred thousand landmines and unexploded ordnances have been removed since 2001. Her numerous awards include the 2002 Alumni of the Year Award for Excellence in Achievement from UC Berkeley\, the 2005 World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations Peace & Security Award\, the 2006 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship\, the 2007 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefitting Local Communities\, and the 2019 Mahatma Gandhi Seva Medal. Heidi is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a former CNN reporter and producer. She lives in San Rafael\, California\, with her husband\, Gary\, with whom she has four children—Brooks\, Tucker\, Kyleigh\, and Christian. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heidi-kuhn-breaking-ground-from-landmines-to-grapevines-one-womans-mission-to-heal-the-world-online-event/
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CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mira Sethi
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new fiction collection \nAre You Enjoying? \npublished by Alfred Knopf \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———– \nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home–including the bedroom–these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent. \n\nMira Sethi is an actor and a writer. She grew up in Lahore and attended Wellesley College\, after which Sethi worked as a books editor at The Wall Street Journal. She has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Guardian. Sethi regularly appears in mainstream Pakistani drama series on television. She lives in Lahore\, Karachi\, and San Francisco. \nreading from her new fiction collection \nAre You Enjoying? \npublished by Alfred Knopf \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———– \nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home–including the bedroom–these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent. \n\nMira Sethi is an actor and a writer. She grew up in Lahore and attended Wellesley College\, after which Sethi worked as a books editor at The Wall Street Journal. She has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Guardian. Sethi regularly appears in mainstream Pakistani drama series on television. She lives in Lahore\, Karachi\, and San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mira-sethi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Jewelle Gomez
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, April 22 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail Address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nREGISTER IN ADVANCE VIA ZOOM TO RECEIVE A LINK TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtce2vrzwiEt0a_Tbt0aZXjd2UWKjmTNNB \nOnce you register\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Jewelle Gomez \nJewelle Gomez\, (Cape Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway) is a novelist\, essayist\, poet\, educator\, and public speaker. She’s the author of eight books including the first Black Lesbian vampire novel\, THE GILDA STORIES\, which has been in print more than 25 years and was recently optioned by Cheryl Dunye for a TV mini-series. Her work has appeared numerous anthologies including “Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora\,” and “Red Indian Road West.” Her plays about James Baldwin and Alberta Hunter have been produced in San Francisco and New York City. Follow @VampyreVamp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-jewelle-gomez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Cook\, Eat\, Repeat: Nigella Lawson with Yotam Ottolenghi
DESCRIPTION:COOK\, EAT\, REPEAT: Nigella Lawson in Conversation with Yotam Ottolenghi \nJoin two of the most internationally renowned and beloved food writers\, Nigella Lawson and Yotam Ottolenghi\, in a lively conversation to mark the publication of Nigella’s highly anticipated new cookbook\, COOK\, EAT\, REPEAT: Ingredients\, Recipes\, and Stories. This exclusive event is hosted in collaboration with a group of fantastic independent bookstores across the American West. \nNote: Due to the time difference\, this event will be recorded live-to-tape in advance and aired exclusively on April 22\, 2021 at 6:00PM PT / 7:00PM MT / 8:00PM CT on Crowdcast. Please submit any questions you have ahead of time and yours may be answered during the event!  \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO THIS SPECIAL EVENT! \nCOOK\, EAT\, REPEAT is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food\, all written in Nigella Lawson’s engaging and insightful prose. Whether asking “what is a recipe?” or declaring death to the “guilty pleasure\,” Nigella brings her wisdom about food and life to the fore while sharing new recipes that readers will want to return to again and again. As Nigella herself says\, “food\, for me\, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it\, reflect deeply on it\, learn from it; it provides comfort\, inspiration\, meaning\, and beauty…More than just a mantra\, ‘cook\, eat\, repeat’ is the story of my life.”  \nNigella Lawson is an internationally renowned food writer and cooking show host with eleven bestselling books to her name\, including How to Eat and How to be a Domestic Goddess and\, most recently\, At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking. Several successful TV series have made her a household name around the world. \nYotam Ottolenghi is the restauranteur and chef-patron of four London-based Ottolenghi delis\, as well as the NOPI and ROVI restaurants. He is the author of eight best-selling cookery books. Amongst several prizes\, Ottolenghi SIMPLE won the National Book Award and was selected as best book of the year by the New York Times. Yotam has been a weekly columnist for the Saturday Guardian for over thirteen years and is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Yotam lives in London with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-cook-eat-repeat-nigella-lawson-with-yotam-ottolenghi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters & Greater Good Science Center present Amanda Ripley with Jason Marsh / High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley are thrilled to present Amanda Ripley for her new book High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. She’ll be in conversation with GGSC executive director Jason Marsh. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order High Conflict here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book \nWhen we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics\, at work\, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. \nThat’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That’s good conflict\, and it’s a necessary force that pushes us to be better people. \nHigh conflict\, by contrast\, is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud\, the kind with an us and a them. In this state\, the normal rules of engagement no longer apply. The brain behaves differently. We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and\, at the same time\, more and more mystified by the other side. \nNew York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free. \nOur journey begins in California\, where a world-renowned conflict expert struggles to extract himself from a political feud. Then we meet a Chicago gang leader who dedicates his life to a vendetta—only to find himself working beside the man who killed his childhood idol. Next\, we travel to Colombia\, to find out whether thousands of people can be nudged out of high conflict at scale. Finally\, we return to America to see what happens when a group of liberal Manhattan Jews and conservative Michigan corrections officers choose to stay in each other’s homes in order to understand one another better. \nAll these people\, in dramatically different situations\, were drawn into high conflict by similar forces\, including conflict entrepreneurs\, humiliation\, and false binaries. But ultimately\, all of them found ways to transform high conflict into something good\, something that made them better people. They rehumanized and recatego­rized their opponents\, and they revived curiosity and wonder\, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right. \nPeople do escape high conflict. Individuals—even entire communities—can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame\, if they want to. This is a mind-opening new way to think about conflict that will transform how we move through the world. \nAbout the authors \nAmanda Ripley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World and The Unthinkable. She writes for The Atlantic\, Politico\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. \nJason Marsh is the executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and the founding editor in chief of the center’s award-winning online magazine\, Greater Good\, which engages 1 million readers each month. He is also the founding producer of the GGSC’s online course and podcast–both called The Science of Happiness--which have reached millions of students and listeners worldwide. Marsh has co-edited three anthologies of Greater Good articles: The Compassionate Instinct\, Are We Born Racist?\, and The Gratitude Project; his own articles for Greater Good have explored everything from the psychology of the bystander to the reasons why he should finally start meditating. His writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the opinion section of CNN.com. Previously\, he worked as a reporter and producer at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco\, as a documentary producer\, and as a kindergarten teacher. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-greater-good-science-center-present-amanda-ripley-with-jason-marsh-high-conflict-why-we-get-trapped-and-how-we-get-out/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Connection and Community
DESCRIPTION:The American Dream as it has been defined for more than a century is about the well-paying job\, the nuclear family\, and upward mobility. But what both clouds and defines that dream is the distance between us\, our neighbors\, and that we\, our communities\, are defined by the dichotomy of winners and losers. What has been lost in many people’s day to day and in the larger American Dream is the key element that helped many of us to succeed in the first place-community. \nJoin author and activist Mia Birdsong and CIIS Director of Diversity and Inclusion Rachel Bryant for a conversation on reclaiming family\, friendship\, and communities. Sharing insights from her book\, How We Show Up\, Mia shows that what separates us isn’t only the ever-present injustices built around race\, class\, gender\, values\, and beliefs\, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. Mia highlights how we can return to our inherent connectedness to find strength\, safety\, and support in vulnerability and generosity\, in asking for help\, and in being accountable. \nDiscover how showing up-literally and figuratively-points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we want. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/birdsong-mia-april-22-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-connection-and-community/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Discussion of THE JACKPOT | Author Michael Mechanic in conversation with Dashka Slater
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 22\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of JACKPOT: HOW THE SUPER-RICH REALLY LIVE—AND HOW THEIR WEALTH HARMS US ALL with local author Michael Mechanic in discussion with Dashka Slater (author of THE 57 BUS and ESCARGOT). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795898890. \nOrder your copy of JACKPOT at http://bit.ly/ggpJackpot\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/JackpotAB. \nDescription\n\nA senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich\, showing the fascinating\, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. \nHave you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies\, surviving war and peace\, expansions and recessions\, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot\, the big exit\, the life-altering payday\, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019\, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape “essential” day jobs and cramped living spaces\, bury our debts\, buy that sweet spread\, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion—to ponder the social\, psychological\, and societal downsides of great affluence and the fact that so few possess it. \nWhat is it actually like to be blessed with riches in an era of plagues\, political rancor\, and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access\, how problematic the downsides? Does the experience differ depending on whether the money is earned or unearned\, where it comes from\, and whether you are male or female\, white or black? Finally\, how does our collective lust for affluence\, and our stubborn belief in social mobility\, explain how we got to the point where forty percent of Americans have literally no wealth at all? \nThese are all questions that Jackpot sets out to explore. The result of deep reporting and dozens of interviews with fortunate citizens—company founders and executives\, superstar coders\, investors\, inheritors\, lottery winners\, lobbyists\, lawmakers\, academics\, sports agents\, wealth and philanthropy professionals\, concierges\, luxury realtors\, Bentley dealers\, and even a woman who trains billionaires’ nannies in physical combat\, Jackpot is a compassionate\, character-rich\, perversely humorous\, and ultimately troubling journey into the American wealth fantasy and where it has taken us. \nAbout the Author\n\nMichael Mechanic\, the author of JACKPOT\, is a longtime East Bay resident\, Oakland Tech parent\, and senior editor at Mother Jones magazine. He is also the former managing editor of the East Bay Express and a graduate of UC Berkeley\, where he majored in biochemistry and earned a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism. Mechanic has won numerous awards for his writing\, including a “best feature” award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for a piece about illegal cockfighting culture. \nPraise For… \n\n“Economic inequality has never been more gaping in the United States\, which makes it the perfect time to read Jackpot\, Michael Mechanic’s entertaining and eviscerating peek behind the velvet curtains and into the real lives of America’s Super-Rich. Mechanic provides an eyeopening exposé of the myriad ways in which our nation’s political system unfairly enriches those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom. His myth-busting conclusion is that everyone loses\, even the lucky few who have hit the jackpot.” —JANE MAYER\, author of Dark Money \n“Eye-opening…. often a gleeful sendup of the absurd eccentricities of the superrich…. A scathing but fair indictment of how the mindless worship of wealth makes us all poorer.” —Kirkus Reviews \n  \nAbout Dashka Slater\n\nDashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk. An award-winning journalist who writes about criminal justice and other topics for such publications as The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones\, she is also the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. Learn more at www.dashkaslater.com.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Andri Snaer Magnason and Rebecca Solnit In conversation about On Time and Water
DESCRIPTION:Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books present a special Earth Day conversation featuring Rebecca Solnit and Icelandic writer Andri Snaer Magnason. The two will discuss Magnason’s new book\, On Time and Water (Open Letter Books). \n“It is difficult to express to someone who has not read [On Time and Water] how wonderful and how horrifying—in a nutshell\, how truly vital—this book is. Magnason has created a masterpiece\, staunchly scientific and highly informative\, yet utterly raw in its humanity.”—Asymptote Journal \nThis pre-recorded conversation will premiere on our Crowdcast channel in celebration of Earth Day 2021. \nThis is a free event\, but we encourage you to pay what you will or purchase the book to support the bookstore and Orion Magazine. All ticket sales will be split between the organizations. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout On Time and Water\nA few years ago\, Andri Snaer Magnason\, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals\, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn’t a specialist\, he said; it wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional\, psychological\, poetic or mythological context\,” he told him\, “then no one will really understand the issue\, and the world will end.” \nBased on interviews and advice from leading glacial\, ocean\, climate\, and geographical scientists\, and interwoven with personal\, historical\, and mythological stories\, Magnason’s response is a rich and compelling work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change–and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future. Moving from reflections on how one writes an obituary for an iceberg to exhortation for a heightened understanding of human time and our obligations to one another\, throughout history and across the globe\, On Time and Water is both deeply personal and globally-minded: a travel story\, a world history\, and a desperate plea to live in harmony with future generations. Already a massive bestseller in Iceland\, and selling in two dozen territories around the world\, this is a book unlike anything that has yet been published on the current climate emergency. \nAbout Andri Snaer Magnason and Rebecca Solnit\nAndri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction\, children’s fiction\, and non-fiction. In 2009\, Magnason co-directed the documentary Dreamland\, which was based on his book Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation (forthcoming from Open Letter). In 2010\, Magnason was awarded the Kairos Prize\, presented to outstanding individuals in the field of intercultural understanding. Magnason ran for president of Iceland in 2016 and came third out of nine candidates. \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andri-snaer-magnason-and-rebecca-solnit-in-conversation-about-on-time-and-water/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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