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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Stacey Abrams with Cari Champion
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is honored to partner with Picador to present AN EVENING WITH STACEY ABRAMS to celebrate the paperback launch of the New York Times bestseller Our Time Is Now. Abrams will be joined by Cari Champion on June 22nd at 4:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Zoom Webinar to discuss the urgency of ending voter suppression and how we can empower citizens to use their power to shape the future. The conversation will be followed by moderated audience Q&A. \nClick here for your tickets to this virtual event! \nTicketing Options: \n\nEvent Entry + paperback copy of OUR TIME IS NOW (select in-store pickup or have the book shipped to you. Domestic and international shipping is available)\nEvent Entry Only (free ticket; no book included)\n\n\nStacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Lead from the Outside\, a serial entrepreneur\, nonprofit CEO\, and political leader. A tax attorney by training\, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives\, seven as Minority Leader\, and Abrams became the 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia\, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights\, training and hiring young people of color\, and tackling social issues at the state\, national and international levels. Abrams is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the 2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College\, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas\, and Yale Law School. She is the founder of the New Georgia Project\, Fair Fight Action\, Fair Fight 2020\, Fair Count\, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project. \nCari Champion is a broadcast journalist and television personality based in Los Angeles. Champion made history with her move to Vice TV for her show “Cari & Jemele: Stick to Sports\,” along with co-host Jemele Hill\, as the first Black women to host a late-night cable news and information show. Champion also currently hosts the “NFL Next Live” Thursday Night Football live stream for Amazon\, TNT’s studio show\, “The Arena”\, and recently returned as co-host for Season 2 of NBC’s reality competition series\, “The Titan Games.” Champion previously served as anchor and host at ESPN where she spent nearly a decade. She continues to break barriers\, paving the way for younger women of color who want to pursue a career in sports television and other areas within broadcasting.
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SUMMARY:Andrew Bacevich & Philip Maldari: America's Role in World Transformed
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nANDREW BACEVICH + PHILIP MALDARI Zoom Event \nAfter the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed \nA bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century\, from the New York Times’ bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. \nThe purpose of U.S. foreign policy has\, at least theoretically\, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world\, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good\, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships\,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order-these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters. \nIn a bold reconception of America’s place in the world\, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum\, Andrew J. Bacevich-founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft\, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy-lays down a new approach-one based on moral pragmatism\, mutual coexistence\, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future-accelerating climate change\, a shift in the international balance of power\, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war-his crucial and provocative vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. \nAndrew J. Bacevich Jr.  is an American historian specializing in international relations\, security studies\, American foreign policy\, and American diplomatic and military history. \nPhilip Maldari is the veteran\, widely respected host of KPFA Radio’s Sunday Morning Show\, a popular two hours of political interviews. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrew-bacevich-philip-maldari-americas-role-in-a-world-transformed-tickets-154436480671
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Hedin
DESCRIPTION:reading from and discussing his new novel \nUnder The Spell \npublished by Northwestern University Press \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. \n———– \nUnder the Spell is the first novel by Benjamin Hedin\, a dazzling new voice in American fiction. Newly widowed Sandra is searching her husband’s email for financial information when she discovers a correspondence between him and a woman named Ryan. Rather than simply sharing the news of the death\, Sandra\, who is shocked and hungry for details\, instead impersonates her husband as she writes back to Ryan. This bold course of action will expose the secrets and solitude within her marriage\, prompting her to reconsider everything she once held dear. \nUnmoored and seeking connection\, Sandra also meets Lee\, a single mother with a drinking problem\, and begins babysitting her daughter. But Sandra can’t stop herself from continuing the correspondence with Ryan\, in the process uncovering more about her husband—and Ryan herself. A novel that forces us to question how much of a person\, even those closest to us\, remains obscure\, Under the Spell reveals the astonishing\, transformative power of grief. This compelling study in bereavement joins classics such as Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. \nBENJAMIN HEDIN is the author of In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now and editor of the anthology Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. He has written for the New Yorker\, Time\, the Atlantic\, the Oxford American\, and the Chicago Tribune\, among other publications. Also a Grammy-nominated producer of documentary films\, he wrote the films Two Trains Runnin’ about the search for two forgotten blues singers and the multiple award-winning 2021 documentary MLK/FBI—called “eye-opening and jaw-dropping” by Rolling Stone. He lives in Atlanta. \nWhat has been said about UNDER THE SPELL \n\n\n\n“It’s impossible not to fall under the spell of this aptly titled novel. I started it compulsively\, cleverly lured into thinking I was reading one kind of novel—dangling the revelation of a sensationally secret adulterous affair\, beyond the grave—only to realize that I was reading quite a different book: the slower revelation of a relationship more messy and formless and uncharted than I had previously expected. And as the narrative taught me how to slow down (though it never loosens its grip)\, so I began to admire its richness and the subtlety of its lean but eloquent prose.” —James Wood\, book critic\, New Yorker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“This novel about a grieving woman who has suddenly lost her husband in a car wreck is a brilliant story that could also be a song. It’s set in the Northwest but could be set in Arkansas. It’s filled with interesting characters and haunting mystery. From page to page\, you follow her as she experiences a dark comedy of strange and unsettling emotions that deaths and funerals have a way of bringing out of the people who are left behind. Like the best writers\, Ben knows his way around the written word. And like the best stories\, Under The Spell is at once contemporary and timeless.” —Lucinda Williams\, Grammy Award winner \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A novel that is both a terrific page-turner and a very moving depiction of grief; it really did have me under its spell.” —Roddy Doyle\, author of Love: A Novel
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SUMMARY:Rosecrans Baldwin and Geoff Manaugh
DESCRIPTION:Rosecrans Baldwin in conversation about his new book\, Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (MCD/FSG)\, with Geoff Manaugh. \n“Rosecrans Baldwin has created a sharp\, convincing work of acute observation. It is as clearheaded and nuanced as it is timely.” —Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Everything Now\nAmerica is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong\, for decades\, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America’s western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally\, aesthetically\, mythologically\, even technologically\, an independent territory\, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny—this is the city-state of Los Angeles. \nDeeply reported and researched\, provocatively argued\, and eloquently written\, Rosecrans Baldwin’s Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles\, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others\, from canonical L.A. literature to everyday citizens. Here\, Octavia E. Butler and Joan Didion are in conversation with activists and astronauts\, vampires and veterans. Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos\, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic\, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic\, vibrant nation unto itself—vastly more than its many\, many parts. \nBaldwin’s concept of the city-state allows us\, finally\, to grasp a place—Los Angeles—whose idiosyncrasies both magnify those of America\, and are so fully its own. Here\, space and time don’t quite work the same as they do elsewhere\, and contradictions are as stark as southern California’s natural environment. Perhaps no better place exists to watch the United States’s past\, and its possible futures\, play themselves out. \nWelcome to Los Angeles\, the Great American City-State. \nAbout the participants\nRosecrans Baldwin is the author of The Last Kid Left\, You Lost Me There\, and Paris\, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down. He is a frequent contributor to GQ\, and co-founded the online zine The Morning News. He lives in Los Angeles. \nGeoff Manaugh is the author of the New York Times-bestseller A Burglar’s Guide to the City\, as well as the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. His new book\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine\, will be published by MCD in July.
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SUMMARY:THE GUNCLE by Steven Rowley | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 22\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE GUNCLE by Steven Rowley. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88422889388. \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpGuncle or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GuncleAB. \nDescription\n\nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. \nPatrick\, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP\, for short)\, has always loved his niece\, Maisie\, and nephew\, Grant. That is\, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits\, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children\, no matter how adorable\, Patrick is\, honestly\, overwhelmed. \nSo when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own\, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules” ready to go\, Patrick has no idea what to expect\, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love\, a somewhat-stalled acting career\, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting–even if temporary–isn’t solved with treats and jokes\, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility\, and the realization that\, sometimes\, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human. \nWith the humor and heart we’ve come to expect from bestselling author Steven Rowley\, The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love\, patience\, and family in even the most trying of times. \nAbout the Author\n\nSteven Rowley is the author of The Editor and the national bestseller Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He lives in Palm Springs\, California. \nPraise For…\n\nOne of O\, The Oprah Magazine‘s “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021”  \n“A laugh-out-loud heartwarmer.” –O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Heartwarming\, hilarious…Rowley finds humor and poignancy in the snappy narrative….Readers will find this delightful and illuminating.” –Publishers Weekly
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