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SUMMARY:Tokyo Ever After: Emiko Jean with Gloria Chao
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Eastwind Books\nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for Tokyo Ever After\, the latest from Emiko Jean. The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in this irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! Emiko will read from and discuss her work with Gloria Chao. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be livecasted on Facebook Live.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tokyo-ever-after-emiko-jean-with-gloria-chao/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Emiko Jean: Tokyo Ever After
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nCo-presented by Eastwind Books \nThe Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After\, a “refreshing\, spot-on” (Booklist\, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. In conversation with Gloria Chao\, the critically acclaimed author of American Panda\, Our Wayward Fate\, and Rent a Boyfriend. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emiko-jean-tokyo-ever-after/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:JoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch:What We Don't Talk About: Sex\, Authority
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom event: \nJoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch \nWhat We Don’t Talk About: Sex\, Authority and the Mess of Life \nWhat if we took sex out of the box marked “special\,” the contents of which are either the worst or best thing a person can experience\, and considered it within the complexity of human life in general? In this extraordinary book – in defiance of the long-standing media obsessions that turn every sexual topic into a morality tale of monsters and victims\, shame and virtue-journalist JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that in this searing indictment of modern sexual politics. \nFrom the criminalization of HIV to the frenzy over “pedophile priests\,” from unexamined assumptions about the murder of Matthew Shepard to the accusations made against Woody Allen\, from Brett Kavanaugh to Abu Ghraib\, Wypijewski takes some of the most famous stories of recent decades and turns them inside out. The result is a searing indictment of modern sexual politics. She exposes the myriad ways moral panic and a punitive culture are intertwined\, considering along the way the nature of pleasure\, censorship\, self-deception\, memory and much more. What emerges is a picture of a culture in which crude morality plays acted out in the media have contributed to an imprisoning embrace of the repressive power of the state. Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too\, Wypijewski insists\, and so must sexual politics\, if it is to make any sense at all. \nJoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. From 1982 to 2000\, she was an editor at the Nation magazine. She has written for the Nation\, Harper’s\,  CounterPunch\, the New York Times Magazine\, the Guardian\, and other publications. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, as well as a devoted mother and grandmother. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joann-wypijewski-kris-welchwhat-we-dont-talk-about-sex-authority/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 3rd at 6pm PT when Grace Perry is joined by Greg Mania to discuss her book\, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\n\nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay\n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You?\n\n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes\n\n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago\n\nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman\n\n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\n\n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell.\n\nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Show Us Your Spines QTPOC Resident's Reading (May/June)
DESCRIPTION:Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work with the SF Public Library Archives.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. Despite the pandemic\, RADAR is determined to make space for creatives\, so the residency lives on in the virtual world with the assistance of our Program Manager and SUYS co-conspirator\, Mason J. \nFor a month\, QTBIPOC writers work 1-on-1 with digital archives and QTBIPOC community members around a queer theme of their choice; writing/producing/directing pieces to be shared the following month at the Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work within the archives. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ \nJune 3rd\, 2021 \nvia TWITCH TV (twitch.tv/studsf) \n6:00pm – FREE \nFeaturing… \nNefertiti Asanti \nAshton Young \nSydney Latimer aka Divinewords \nJon Wai-Keung Lowe \n  \nLearn more about RADAR Productions and Show Us Your Spines at https://www.radarproductions.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-us-your-spines-qtpoc-residents-reading-may-june/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Stacy D. Flood / The Salt Fields: A Novella
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with Stacy D. Flood for his novella The Salt Fields. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe 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 events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nOn the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north\, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife\, the ghost of his drowned daughter\, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car\, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South—people seeking a new life\, whose motives\, declared or otherwise\, will change Minister’s life with devastating consequences. \n“Beautifully written and memorable.” \n– Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master \nAbout the author\nOriginally from Buffalo\, and currently living in Seattle\, Stacy D. Flood’s work has been published and performed nationally as well as in the Puget Sound Area. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, he has also been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon\, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts. In addition\, he is the recipient of the Gregory Capasso Award in Fiction from the University at Buffalo\, along with a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Author photo by Jennifer Richard Photography. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-stacy-d-flood-the-salt-fields-a-novella/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JUNE 3 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRACE PERRY IS JOINED BY GREG MANIA TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, THE 2000S MADE ME GAY: ESSAYS ON POP CULTURE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86068674144#  or +12532158782\,\,86068674144#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNFW2AmAb \nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay \n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You? \n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress \n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes \n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago \nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman \n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL \n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress \nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell. \nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:New Directions @ 85: The Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates the 85th anniversary of this trailblazing publishing house \n \nwith Forrest Gander as MC and special guests Barbara Epler\, Declan Spring\, and other surprise guests \nNew Directions was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin\, then a Harvard University sophomore\, via advice from Ezra Pound to “do something useful” after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing\, each titled New Directions in Poetry and Prose (until 1966’s NDPP 19). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas\, Marianne Moore\, Wallace Stevens\, Thomas Merton\, Denise Levertov\, James Agee\, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions publisheg program includes writing of all genres\, representing not only American writing\, but also a considerable amount of literature in translation from modernist authors around the world. Among some of the writers they have published are Nobel Prize Winners Andre Gide\, Pablo Neruda\, Boris Pasternak\, Octavio Paz\, Pulizer Prize Winners Hilton Als\, George Oppen\, Gary Snyder\, Williams Carlos Williams\, National Book Award Winners\, Yoko Tawada\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Man Booker Prize Winner Lazlo Kraznahokai as well as many others. \nThe current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and introducing to the US contemporary international writers; publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose; and reissuing New Directions’ classic titles in new editions. \nDrawing from the tradition of the early anthologies and series\, New Directions launched the Pearl series\, which presents short works by New Directions writers in slim\, minimalist volumes designed by Rodrigo Corral. \nJoin us for a celebration of this quintessential American Press. \n  \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. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n (CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n  \n \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Stacy D. Flood / The Salt Fields: A Novella
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with Stacy D. Flood for his novella The Salt Fields. He’ll be in conversation with Ship of Fates author Caitlin Chung. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe 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 events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nOn the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north\, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife\, the ghost of his drowned daughter\, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car\, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South—people seeking a new life\, whose motives\, declared or otherwise\, will change Minister’s life with devastating consequences. \n“Beautifully written and memorable.” \n– Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master \nAbout the authors\nOriginally from Buffalo\, and currently living in Seattle\, Stacy D. Flood’s work has been published and performed nationally as well as in the Puget Sound Area. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, he has also been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon\, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts. In addition\, he is the recipient of the Gregory Capasso Award in Fiction from the University at Buffalo\, along with a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Author photo by Jennifer Richard Photography. \nCaitlin Chung has lived in the Bay Area her whole life. She is a teacher\, an expert eavesdropper\, a fan of infomercials\, and is known to be a supporter of superstitions. She has on many occasions been justly accused of being a Luddite. She lives in Oakland with her husband and their cat. Ship of Fates is her first book. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Susan Bernofsky and Kate Zambreno
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation presents renowned translator Susan Bernofsky in this celebration of her long-awaited biography of the modernist writer Robert Walser\, Clairvoyant of the Small (Yale UP). Susan will be joined in conversation by Kate Zambreno. \n“Robert Walser is the perfect pathetic poet: pithy\, awkward\, drinks too much\, sibling rivalrous\, ambitious\, broke\, and mentally ill. Was he proto queer or trans\, this red headed writer who next to Gertrude Stein might be the most influential writer of our moment? Riveting and heart-breaking\, this biography kept me drunk for days.”—Eileen Myles \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser\nThe great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society\, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital\, Bern\, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials\, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest—social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished\, marginalized\, and forgotten—prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him “a clairvoyant of the small.” His revolutionary use of short prose forms had an enormous influence on Franz Kafka\, Walter Benjamin\, Robert Musil\, and many others. \nHe was long believed an outsider by conviction\, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this immaculately researched and beautifully written biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history\, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work\, bearing witness to his “extreme artistic delight.” \nAbout Susan Bernofsky and Kate Zambreno\nSusan Bernofsky is associate professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts and director of the literary translation program at Columbia’s MFA Writing Program. She has translated over twenty books. \nKate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books including Screen Tests\, Heroines\, and Green Girl. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at  Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-bernofsky-renowned-translator-discusses-her-anticipated-biography-of-robert-walser/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mount Madonna School Speaker Series with Maria Dahvana Headley: Rethinking Traditional Gender in Classic Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Mount Madonna School (MMS) public speaker series based on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) began in February and the season concludes June 3 with Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf: A New Translation\, a feminist reworking of one of the oldest surviving texts. Join Maria Dahvana Headley as she and the audience explore the boundaries of gender and tradition. \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO THIS SPECIAL EVENT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf: A New Translation is a feminist reworking of one of the oldest surviving texts. Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. \nThe Mere Wife follows the basic narrative arc of the original Beowulf but at the same time revises the epic into a women-centered story set in modern suburbia. \nRethinking and rewriting perspectives that have come to be accepted as truth\, her novels empower the female and question the patriarchal stereotypes. \nJoin Headley and the MMS high school Values class students as they explore the boundaries of gender and tradition. \n\nMaria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books\, most recently BEOWULF: A NEW TRANSLATION (MCD x FSG). THE MERE WIFE (MCD x FSG)\, a contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, was named by the Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018. She’s written for both teenagers (MAGONIA and AERIE\, HarperCollins) and adults\, in a variety of genres and forms. Headley’s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula\, Shirley Jackson\, Tiptree\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and has been anthologized in many year’s bests; a collection is under contract to FSG. Her essays on gender\, chronic illness\, politics\, propaganda\, and mythology have been published and covered in The New York Times\, The Daily Beast\, Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard\, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by The MacDowell Colony\, Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, and the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab\, among other organizations. She’s taught writing in the master’s program at Sarah Lawrence\, and delivered masterclasses and writing lectures at Dartmouth\, Northwestern\, Wesleyan Nebraska\, and Newman University\, among others. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch\, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father’s wolf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mount-madonna-school-speaker-series-with-maria-dahvana-headley-rethinking-traditional-gender-in-classic-literature/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Richard Flanagan with Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n“Despair is always rational\, but hope is human.” — Richard Flanagan on his new novel \nRichard Flanagan is one of our greatest living writers. He’s also a joy to encounter in person: he’s warm\, witty\, accessible\, and wise. We’re thrilled to bring Richard to you\, live from his home in Tasmania\, to celebrate the publication of his astonishing new novel\, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. \nThe Guardian called the novel a “magical realist tale of ecological anguish … [that is] also playful… at its heart\, hopeful.” It is about our vanishing world — about species and ecosystems being lost (he wrote this book as fires raged across Australia)\, about losses of love and connection with each other in our rushed\, social-media obsessed world — and\, finally\, about the possibility of finding our way back. \nSet in Tasmania\, the central story unfolds as Anna\, a hyper-competent professional and the main character\, and her two siblings refuse to allow the death of their aged\, suffering mother\, who is ready to die. At the same time\, as fires darken the skies and other horror stories fill the news feeds that Anna compulsively checks on her phone\, she begins to have her body parts vanish. Only some people can see what is missing. The novel’s use of stunning\, fractured language embodies both the pace of modern life and our stuttering fears\, our inabilities to slow down and stop consuming\, stop escaping\, stop avoiding the beauty before our eyes — the beauty of the natural world and the genuine love and empathy that is available to us\, if only we let ourselves see it. This book will stun you with the horror of losses we’ve caused and\, as we finally allow ourselves to feel the depths of this grief\, with real hope for the restoration of both natural and human worlds. \nFlanagan will be in conversation with internationally renowned poet Jane Hirshfield\, whose most recent collection\, Ledger\, is a pivotal book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning. Ledger’s opening lines\, invoking human responsibility and willing denial\, intersect in uncanny ways with Flanagan’s novel: “Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.” The poetry collection\, Hirshfield says\, “was written in grief and into my bewilderment at our human inaction” at environmental devastation\, which The Living Sea of Waking Dreams explores in prose. She writes\, “Some breakage can barely be named\, hardly be spoken\,” but these two writers do speak it — wholly\, beautifully\, profoundly. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-richard-flanagan-with-jane-hirshfield/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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