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SUMMARY:Alta Live: Mark Bittman and Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION:Food doesn’t just keep us alive—it’s a vital and constantly evolving part of our global culture. Author and food journalist Mark Bittman’s new book\, Animal\, Vegetable\, Junk\, digs into the history of what\, why\, and how we eat. He’ll be joined by chef and author Alice Waters for a conversation about everything from slow versus fast food to regenerative agriculture to how we teach future generations to eat. Waters’s forthcoming book\, We Are What We Eat\, will be published in June. Their hour-long discussion will be moderated by Alta Journal editor and publisher Will Hearst\, and the event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nMark Bittman has been a leading voice in global food culture and policy for more than three decades. His first cookbook\, Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking\, was published in 1994 and remains in print; since then\, he has written or cowritten 30 others\, including the How to Cook Everything series. A former New York Times columnist\, television host\, and regular on Today\, Bittman has received six James Beard Awards\, four IACP Awards\, and numerous other honors. \nBittman is also the editor in chief of the Bittman Project\, a newsletter and website focusing on all aspects of food\, from political to delicious. His most recent book is Animal\, Vegetable\, Junk: A History of Food\, from Sustainable to Suicidal. \nAlice Waters is a chef\, an author\, a food activist\, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California (est. 1971). She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995\, she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project\, which advocates for a free regenerative school lunch for all children and a sustainable-food curriculum in every public school. \nIn 2015\, Waters was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama\, proving that eating is a political act and that the table is a powerful means to advancing social justice and positive change. She is the author of 16 books\, including her critically acclaimed memoir\, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook; The Art of Simple Food; The Art of Simple Food II; and Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea. Her latest work\, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto\, will be available in June 2021.• \n\n\n \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN\n\n\n\nAnimal\, Vegetable\, Junk: A History of Food\, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman\nHoughton MifflinBookshop.org \n$28.00\n\nBUY THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPENGUIN PRESS\n\n\n\nWe Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Waters\nPenguin PressBookshop.org \n$26.00\n\nBUY THE BOOK
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Booksmith and Mother Jones presents: Your Computer is on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Mother Jones present Your Computer is on Fire\, an evening of conversation between Mother Jones data and interactives editor Sinduja Rangarajan and two editors of the new anthology Your Computer Is on Fire\, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip\, along with contributor Halcyon M. Lawrence (pictured above\, clockwise from top left). \nPlease note our start time of 5pm PT. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Your Computer Is on Fire here. 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\nTechno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality\, marginalization\, and biases woven into our technological systems. \nThis book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality\, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality\, marginalization\, and biases in our technological systems\, showing how they are not just minor bugs to be patched\, but part and parcel of ideas that assume technology can fix—and control—society. \nThe essays in Your Computer Is on Fire interrogate how our human and computational infrastructures overlap\, showing why technologies that centralize power tend to weaken democracy. These practices are often kept out of sight until it is too late to question the costs of how they shape society. From energy-hungry server farms to racist and sexist algorithms\, the digital is always IRL\, with everything that happens algorithmically or online influencing our offline lives as well. Each essay proposes paths for action to understand and solve technological problems that are often ignored or misunderstood. \nContributors \nJanet Abbate\, Ben Allen\, Paul N. Edwards\, Nathan Ensmenger\, Mar Hicks\, Halcyon M. Lawrence\, Thomas S. Mullaney\, Safiya Umoja Noble\, Benjamin Peters\, Kavita Philip\, Sarah T. Roberts\, Sreela Sarkar\, Corinna Schlombs\, Andrea Stanton\, Mitali Thakor\, Noah Wardrip-Fruin \nAbout the speakers\nSinduja Rangarajan is the data and interactives editor at Mother Jones. She previously worked at Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting\, where her series on the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley led to many tech giants publicly releasing their data. Her work has won several awards\, including the National Edward Murrow Award in 2019. She wrangles and analyzes datasets to tell stories and finds innovative ways to report on issues by collaborating with academics. She started her journalism career as a Google News Lab Fellow in 2015. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Mumbai and a master’s from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Email her tips at srangarajan@motherjones.com and follow her on Twitter @cynduja. \nMar Hicks is an author\, historian\, and professor doing research on the history of computing\, labor\, technology\, and queer science and technology studies. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light\, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks’s multiple award-winning book\, Programmed Inequality\, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers\, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. Their new work looks at resistance and queerness in the history of technology. They also have a new co-edited book coming out in Spring 2021 from MIT Press called Your Computer Is On Fire\, about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures. Read more at: marhicks.com. \nKavita Philip is a historian of science and technology who has written about nineteenth-century environmental knowledge in British India\, information technology in post-colonial India\, and the intersections of art\, science fiction\, and social activism with science and technology. She is author of Civilizing Natures (2004)\, and Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction (forthcoming\, MIT Press)\, as well as co-editor of five volumes curating new interdisciplinary work in radical history\, art\, activism\, computing\, and public policy. \nHalcyon M. Lawrence is an assistant professor of technical communication and information design at Towson University. She has over 20 years of professional experience as a technical trainer\, technical writer\, and usability practitioner.  Her research focuses on speech intelligibility and the design of speech interactions for voice technologies\, particularly for under-represented user populations.  She holds a Ph.D. in Technical Communication from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  Her latest publication\, “Siri Disciplines” is published in Your Computer is on Fire from MIT Press. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections\, Water/Music and So Forth\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84930241583\n\nAbout Water/Music\nExploring the space between nature and culture\, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy\, they move with ease from narrative to meditation\, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory\, and from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water / Music embraces and celebrates life’s mystery and the soul’s repose amid “talismans at twilight\, the whir of birds.”\n\nAbout So Forth\nA lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom).\n\nWith irony\, in mourning tinged with eros\, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage\, aging\, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory\, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae\, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence “Legende of Good Women\,” with pre-Socratic philosophers\, and with lovers\, children\, and strangers—the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary\, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred.
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SUMMARY:Jhumpa Lahiri - Whereabouts (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade. \nExuberance and dread\, attachment and estrangement: in this novel\, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement\, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home\, an engaging backdrop to her days\, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house\, parks\, bridges\, piazzas\, streets\, stores\, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother\, mired in a desperate solitude after her father’s untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work\, where she never quite feels at ease\, she has girl friends\, guy friends\, and “him\,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year\, as one season gives way to the next\, transformation awaits. One day at the sea\, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat\, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language\, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. \nJhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies\, The Namesake\, Unaccustomed Earth\, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction\, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards\, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal\, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia\, for In altre parole.
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