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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\nLitquake is excited to welcome Natalie Baszile\, author of the New York Times bestseller Queen Sugar (now a series on OWN network) to our Seismic Salon series! Natalie has made the leap from fiction to nonfiction in her newest book\, We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers Land and Legacy\, which is published April 6. This anthology of poetry\, essays\, and interviews examines Black people’s connection to the American land\, from Emancipation to today. Natalie has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2014\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Lenny Letter\, The Bitter Southerner\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The Rumpus\, and a number of anthologies. \nBuy Natalie Baszile’s 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.
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michelle Zauner & Bowen Yang
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017). In a new memoir\, Crying in H Mart\, Zauner reflects on her experience being raised by a Korean immigrant in the Pacific Northwest\, and particularly her memories related to food. When her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and Zauner moved back to Oregon to care for her\, she was forced to reckon with her identity and upbringing. Zauner writes about the process of beginning to chase down her mother’s history\, culture\, and the flavors of Korea to re-gain the feeling of home in the wake of her loss. \nBowen Yang is a featured player on Saturday Night Live\, where he wrote for one season before moving on-screen. He can also be seen recurring on Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora From Queens\, as well as in the TV shows Broad City\, High Maintenance\, Jon Glaser Loves Gear\, and the upcoming series Girls5eva. He is the co-host of the popular comedy podcast “Las Culturistas\,” along with fellow comedian Matt Rogers. This past year\, Yang was featured in TIME as one of “23 People Who Are Changing What’s Funny Right Now\,”as well as one of their TIME 100 NEXT: Artists\, and was featured in this year’s Out100 list. \nPhoto Credits: \nBarbora Mrazkova \nMary Ellen Matthews/NBC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-zauner-bowen-yang/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Durbin and Alex Dimitrov
DESCRIPTION:Kate Durbin celebrates her new collection of poetry \nHOARDERS \npublished by Wave Books \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. Link coming soon! \n———– \nIn Hoarders\, Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard\, from Barbies to snow globes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium\, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects a cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender. In the absurdist tradition of Kafka and Beckett\, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition. \n“Though the swift-moving spectacle of the television show invites viewers to cast easy judgment on these hoarders\, Durbin employs poetry’s slower speed to show a more complicated picture. Instead of using [these stories] to make us feel better about ourselves for not being hoarders\, she indicts aspects of American culture we all participate in—religion\, capitalism—and reveals our complicity\, all the while dropping a lot of sight gags in the process.” —Rich Smith\, The Stranger  \nKate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. Her books of poetry include E! Entertainment\, The Ravenous Audience\, and ABRA\, which won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize. Durbin was the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence in Brisbane\, Australia in 2015. Her art and writing have been featured in the New York Times\, Art in America\, Artforum\, the Believer\, BOMB\, poets.org\, the American Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. She has shown her artwork nationally and internationally at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle\, The PULSE Art Fair in Miami\, MOCA Los Angeles\, the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Los Angeles\, peer to space in Berlin\, and more. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems\, including the upcoming Love and Other Poems\, as well as the chapbook American Boys. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry. He was the former senior content editor at the Academy of American Poets\, where he edited Poem-A-Day and American Poets. He has taught creative writing at Princeton University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College\, among other institutions. With Dorothea Lasky\, he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. Dimitrov lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-durbin-and-alex-dimitrov/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece\, Shuggie Bain
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Stuart enraptured readers worldwide in 2020 when his heart-stopping debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, took the world’s top literary award\, the Booker Prize. While Stuart may have seemed like an overnight success\, Shuggie Bain was a labor of love that drew from his own history of childhood poverty\, hardship\, and devotion to a mother whose addiction struggles were intensified by a broken system. This tender and wrenching story has been compared to Angela’s Ashes in its emotional power and mesmerizing writing style. Shuggie Bain may have been translated into over 20 languages\, but it’s the author’s own Glasgowian dialect—immediate\, accessible\, hypnotic—that’ll take up residence in your mind forever. \n  \nStuart is interviewed by Casey Gerald\, who gained fame with a viral TED talk\, “The Gospel of Doubt.” Like Stuart\, Gerald grew up queer\, shaped by poverty and parental addiction. He’s another “success story\,” having made his way through Yale and Harvard Business School\, but his memoir There Will Be No Miracles Here\, praised by Marlon James as “the most urgently political\, most deeply personal\, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time\,” refuses to reduce his story to an “American dream” parable. This conversation between two rare souls will question myths\, mine deep emotional territory\, and examine how we break old cycles while still honoring where we came from. \nGet your Ticket\n  \n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here \n]
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