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SUMMARY:reVisions: Decoding Technological Bias
DESCRIPTION:Join City Lights\, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco\, and Gray Area for reVisions\, a week-long festival exploring how technological bias shapes our cultural realities. \nOur trust in mediated experiences has never been lower. Governed by algorithms that perpetuate the biases and weaknesses of their developers\, our cultural consumption is increasingly shaped by undetectable forces that determine our reality. Images play an important role here: fake photos and videos created with deep neural networks threaten privacy\, democracy\, and national security. Vision recognition systems skew gender\, race\, and class differences and become vehicles of discrimination. Underdeveloped AI models misrepresent the health disparities faced by minority populations. \nHow can we illuminate the algorithmic bias embedded within technology and counter the perpetuation of bias? What innovative approaches can we develop to strengthen inclusion\, diversity\, and sustainability in technology? \nThis festival brings a network of luminaries together to share new perspectives and rewrite new visions advocating for justice and reclaiming power. \nThe festival is part of the project IMAGE + BIAS that critically engages with the cultural realities being increasingly determined by imperceptible technologies. \nSpeakers: \n• Jillian York\n• Maureen Webb\n• Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski\n• Ryan Milner and Whitney Phillips\n• Jer Thorp and Romi Ron Morrison \n\nWorkshops: \n• Understanding AI Data Bias Workshop\n• BYOW Workshop: Build Your Own Words to Resist Algorithmic Censorship\n• Meme Tactics Workshop \nAll events are free but require registration. Links are posted below each event description. \n\n  \nSPEAKER SCHEDULE \n  \nThursday June 10\, 2021 \nSession 1 \n12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern \nAgainst Technosolutionism! Why We Can’t Regulate Our Way Out Of This Mess \nwith Jillian York \n   \nThe same radical technologies that helped give rise the social and political movements of 2010-12 later enabled a rise in disinformation\, propaganda\, and the promotion of other harms. Today\, our societies are grappling to find solutions\, but looking in all the wrong places. \nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of  surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. Verso Books recently released her new book Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism. She is based in Berlin. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nFriday\, June 11\, 2021 \nSession 2 \n12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern \nCoding Democracy – How Hackers Are Disrupting Power\, Surveillance\, and Authoritarianism \nwith Maureen Webb \n   \nHackers have a bad reputation\, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. Maureen Webb would like to offer another view. Hackers\, she argues\, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice\, an ethos\, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed\, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power\, mass surveillance\, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology\, the hacking movement is trying to “build out” democracy into cyberspace. \nMaureen Webb is a human rights lawyer and activist. She has spoken extensively on post-September 11 security and human rights issues\, most recently testifying before the House and Senate Committees reviewing the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act. In 2001\, Webb was a Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University in New York. A litigator for some of the first constitutional cases heard under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms\, including the landmark freedom of association case\, “Lavigne\, “and a case challenging the powers of Canada’s newly instituted spy agency\, CSIS\, she sits as co-chair of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. She is also the Coordinator for Security and Human Rights issues for Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada. She is the author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World published by City Lights Books and has taught national security law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nSession 3 \n3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 pm Eastern \nSurrogate Futures: Technology\, Race\, and the Human \nwith Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski \n     \nIn this talk\, Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski consider how the surrogate effect of technology within technoliberalism\, as they describe it in their book\, Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)\, comes to bear on recent discussions around technological bias. Assessing how technological design is central to envisioning and shaping different potential futures\, they emphasize the importance of thinking beyond bias if we are to understand how racial capitalism undergirds technological design. They also explore radical design politics that disrupt more mainstream uses and visions of technological value. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \nKalindi Vora is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nSaturday\, June 12\, 2021 \nSession 4 \n12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern \nYou Are Here: A Field Guide \nwith Ryan Milner and Whitney Phillips \n     \nOur media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire\, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here\, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors\, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we\, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map. \nWhitney Phillips is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and the author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT Press). \nRyan M. Milner is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Charleston and author of The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media (MIT Press). \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nSession 5 \n3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 p.m. \nLiving in Data \nwith Jer Thorp and Romi Ron Morrison \n     \nTo live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from\, classified and categorized\, statisti-fied\, sold\, and surveilled. Data—our data—is mined and processed for profit\, power\, and political gain. In Living in Data\, Thorp asks a crucial question of our time: How do we stop passively inhabiting data\, and instead become active citizens of it? \nJer Thorp is an artist\, a writer\, and a teacher. He was the first data artist in residence at The New York Times\, he is a National Geographic Explorer\, and he served as the innovator in residence at the Library of Congress in 2017 and 2018. He lives under the Manhattan Bridge with his family and his awesome dog\, Trapper John\, MD. Living in Data is his first book. \nRomi Ron Morrison is a Black queer non-binary artist\, researcher\, and educator. Their work investigates the personal\, political\, ideological\, and spatial boundaries of race\, ethics\, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using maps\, data\, sound\, performance\, and video\, their installations center Black Feminist technologies that challenge the demands of an increasingly quantified world—reducing land into property\, people into digits\, and knowledge into data. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nWorkshop Schedule \n  \nWednesday\, June 16\, 2021\, 10am – 1pm Pacific / 1pm – 4pm Eastern \nUnderstanding AI Data Bias \nInstructors: Paul Bethge\, Ralph Eger\, Yannick Hofmann\, & Jana Müller \nIn this workshop\, participants will be introduced to the basics of Deep Learning and explore the topic of data bias. Together\, the implications of this technology will be explored using generative neural networks in the visual media domain. \nCoordinated by The Intelligent Museum \n \nThe Intelligent Museum is a practice-based research and development project at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the German Museum\, with the aim of connecting the museum with current AI technologies\, making it a place of experience and experimentation\, a social space where art\, science\, technology and public discourse come together. \n  \nThursday\, June 17\, 2021\, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern \nBYOW Workshop: Build Your Own Words to Resist Algorithmic Censorship \nInstructors: Xiaowei Wang\, Qianqian Ye \n   \nTo enroll click the (ENROLLMENT LINK) on the Gray Area website. \nOur capacity for change is shaped by our capacity for language: new phrases\, words\, revolution are created by our ability to imagine new worlds and vocabularies. From hashtags and political slogans\, words serve as reminders and provocations of where we’ve been and where we are headed. \nYet online\, words are not just expressions — words are now a form of data. “The systemic manipulation and monetization of digitized language is a threat to the security and stability of modern society. The very words we use to communicate\, learn\, debate\, and critique have become compromised by opaque algorithmic organisation and optimisation\, and the market-driven profits of private companies such as Google. We might therefore ask ourselves\, just how resilient and secure is language in the digital age?” writes researcher Pip Thornton. Whether in the US\, in China\, globally\, language online has become the medium in which activism arises. Language has also become a form of data\, ready to be co-opted\, used to create machine learning systems for profit\, such as words for training data that form AI models that can “write”. Words have also become an arena for automated censorship and moderation. In China\, automated censorship has led to a surge of creativity as online netizens scramble to “fool the machine”\, through creative use of homophones to images and new characters that bypass OCR (optical character recognition). \nWriting has long been a form of dissent and provocation. Words can destroy worlds or create new worlds. Our new languages will be prismatic in nature\, subject to the multiple\, relational and transnational ways of expression. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll use the Hanzimaker and other parts of the Algorithmic Censorship Toolkit by Future of Memory to experiment with creating new words\, phrases and vocabularies to document the past and think through the future. These new hybrid characters\, a mash of multiple languages\, just as diasporic as their creators will escape classification and recognition by automated systems. We see these characters as a form of visual poetry.\nAs Audre Lorde wrote\, “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundation for a future of change\, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” \nWhat words will we be left with to describe the past? What words will build our future? What is the new vocabulary we need for different kinds of revolution? \nXiaowei Wang is an artist\, coder and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine\, their work encompasses community-based projects on technology\, ecology\, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the Index Design Awards and featured by the New York Times\, the BBC\, CNN\, VICE\, and elsewhere. \nQianqian Ye is an artist\, educator and organizer based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches at USC Media Arts + Practice and works as a p5.js co-lead at Processing Foundation. She was born and raised in China and moved to the US in 2012. Trained as an architect\, she explores the complex interaction between digital\, architectural\, and social spaces. \n  \nFriday\, June 18\, 2021\, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern \nMeme Tactics Workshop \nInstructors: Josue Chavez\, Kira Simon-Kennedy \n   \nTo enroll click the (ENROLLMENT LINK) on the Gray Area website. \nMemes make us laugh\, and make a message catch on. Best of all\, people can remix them and pass them on. We need all the tools we can get to negotiate power and assert presence. Meme Tactics is a session to share strategies to harness the humorous power of memes for movements. We’ll share examples of dances\, symbols\, zines and patches from Nicaragua\, India\, mainland China\, and beyond. You’ll leave with a set of tactics specific to amplify your own messages. \nJosue Chavez researches media\, translation and labor in China and Central America. He is the co-curator of Meme Tactics\, and his critical writing has been featured in Ada: A Journal of Gender\, New Media and Technology. He is a Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Studies department at Penn. \nKira Simon-Kennedy helps creative people do impactful and interesting things as the co-founder & director of China Residencies\, a co-founder of Rivet\, and an independent film producer. She likes writing guides\, redistributing resources\, and curating meme tactics. \n\n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Lin Manuel-Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter / In the Heights: Finding Home
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to co-present Lin Manuel-Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter for the virtual launch of In the Heights: Finding Home. \nJoin Miranda\, Hudes\, and McCarter for what is sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity\, community\, and finding home. This is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. \nPlease note:\n> Tickets are available here.\n> Each ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home (normally $40) and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\n> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n> Please contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nAbout the book \nIn 2008\, In the Heights\, a new musical from up-and-coming young artists\, electrified Broadway. The show’s vibrant mix of Latin music and hip-hop captured life in Washington Heights\, the Latino neighborhood in upper Manhattan. It won four Tony Awards and became an international hit\, delighting audiences around the world. For the film version\, director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) brought the story home\, filming its spectacular dance numbers on location in Washington Heights. That’s where Usnavi\, Nina\, and their neighbors chase their dreams and ask a universal question: Where do I belong? \nIn the Heights: Finding Home reunites Miranda with Jeremy McCarter\, co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution\, and Quiara Alegría Hudes\, the Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist of the Broadway musical and screenwriter of the film. They do more than trace the making of an unlikely Broadway smash and a major motion picture: They give readers an intimate look at the decades-long creative life of In the Heights. \nLike Hamilton: The Revolution\, the book offers untold stories\, perceptive essays\, and the lyrics to Miranda’s songs—complete with his funny\, heartfelt annotations. It also features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage\, the movie set\, and productions around the world. \nThis is the story of characters who search for a home—and the artists who created one. \nPlease note:\n> Tickets are available here.\n> Each ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home (normally $40) and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\n> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n> Please contact events@booksmith.com with any questions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-lin-manuel-miranda-quiara-alegria-hudes-jeremy-mccarter-in-the-heights-finding-home/
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Lin-Manuel Miranda\, In the Heights
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: IN THE HEIGHTS Virtual Book Launch! \nPurchase tickets for this special event here \nLights up on Washington Heights! Before Hamilton became a global phenomenon\, before Lin-Manuel Miranda became a household name\, a little show called In the Heights shook up Broadway with its hip-hop and salsa soundtrack and big\, bilingual heart. In the new book In the Heights: Finding Home\, Lin-Manuel Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes\, and Jeremy McCarter tell the story of the show’s humble beginnings\, from rehearsals in a bookstore basement to the Broadway smash (and soon-to-be feature film!) that created an unbreakable community and a new kind of family for everyone involved. \nJoin Miranda\, Hudes\, and McCarter for a very special In the Heights Virtual Book Launch on Tuesday\, June 15 from 5:00 to 6:00pm PT on Zoom. Sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity\, community\, and finding home\, this is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. Your ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home ($40 retail price)\, as well as sales tax\, shipping\, and handling (if applicable). \nDon’t miss this special event!
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld with Jane and Kelly McGonigal
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 15 at 6pm PT when Curtis Sittenfeld joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her novel\, Rodham\, with Jane and Kelly McGonigal on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\n\nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post\n\n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR\n\n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal\n\nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post\n\nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.\n\nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.\n\nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.\n\nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.\n\nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, JUNE 15 AT 6PM PT WHEN CURTIS SITTENFELD JOINS US TO CELEBRATE THE PAPERBACK RELEASE OF HER NOVEL\, RODHAM\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83437997954#  or +12532158782\,\,83437997954#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxAl7a9qk \nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post \n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR \n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal \nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post \nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. \nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton. \nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life. \nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel. \nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
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SUMMARY:Matt Bell with Cecil Castelluci and Brian Evenson
DESCRIPTION:Matt Bell with Cecil Castelluci and Brian Evenson \ncelebrating the launch of Matt Bell’s new novel \nAppleseed: a novel \npublished by Harper Collins \nFrom Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell\, a breakout book that explores climate change\, manifest destiny\, humanity’s unchecked exploitation of natural resources\, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. \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 pre-order/purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nIn eighteenth-century Ohio\, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier\, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image\, planning for a future of settlement and civilization\, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested\, fractured and broken—and possibly healed. \nFifty years from now\, in the second half of the twenty-first century\, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science\, one company now owns all the world’s resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power—and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity\, one of the company’s original founders will return to headquarters\, intending to destroy what he helped build. \nA thousand years in the future\, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier—and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest\, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization. \nHugely ambitious in scope and theme\, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer “as self-assured as he is audacious” (NPR) who “may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas” (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic\, part tech thriller\, part reinvented fairy tale\, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate\, civic\, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all. \nMatt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. \nCecil Castellucci is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade\, The Changing Girl\, Boy Proof\, The Plain Janes\, Soupy Leaves Home\, The Year of the Beasts\, Tin Star\, Female Furies and Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Star Wars Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing Batgirl for DC Comics. She was the lead singer in the Canadian indy pop quartet Nerdy Girl. \nBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. The Song for the Unraveling of the World\, won a Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Speculative Fiction and the Balcones Fiction Prize. His most recent book is titled  The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-bell-with-cecil-castelluci-and-brian-evenson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Queer Mystery Writers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Five acclaimed queer mystery writers\, Michael Nava (moderator)\, Cheryl A. Head\, Greg Herren\, Dharma Kelleher and P.J. Vernon discuss the mystery genre and its special attraction to queer writers. Presented by the San Francisco Public Library and the NorCal Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-mystery-writers-panel/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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