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SUMMARY:"Look at Him" by Anna Starobinets: Reading and Discussion\, curated by Katherine E. Young
DESCRIPTION:Location:\nGlobus Books YouTube Channel\nhttps://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos \nWebsite \n\nGlobus Books is honored to invite you to a reading and discussion of “Look at Him” by Anna Starobinets (translated into English by Katherine E. Young). Katherine E. Young will be joined by translators\, scholars and writers Jane Bugaeva\, Muireann Maguire\, Jamie Rann\, and Svetlana Satchkova\, and Zarina Zabrisky. The program will be moderated by Muireann Maguire.\nAnna Starobinets is a writer and scriptwriter. She works in various genres: sci-fi\, dystopias and horrors for adults; fairy and detective stories for children. Starobinets received multiple Russian and European literature awards\, including the European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) award in the «Best European Sci-fi author» category (EuroCon-2018). Her children’s book series “А Beastly Crimes Book” was a bestseller in Russia and was translated into nine languages. Starobinets’ books are translated and published in the UK\, US\, Japan\, Spain\, Germany\, France\, Italy\, Netherlands\, Sweden\, Bulgaria\, Poland\, Greece\, Latvia\, Czech Republic\, Turkey\, and more. Starobinets teaches her own creative writing workshop and she is the author and presenter of educational games “Literary mafia: interactive detective” and “Literary magic: interactive fantasy”.\nHer only non-fiction autobiographical book “Look at him” brings to light the inhumane attitude of the Russian healthcare system and society towards women pregnant with fetuses with pathologies. Starobinets wrote it to speak out loud about this traditionally silenced problem in order to force social changes. The book started a broad discussion of the subject in literary and medical circles. Anna is a widow of writer Alexander Garros\, and she is raising two kids and a poodle Coconut.\n\nJane Bugaeva translates Russian children’s literature\, as well as illustrated and whimsical texts for all ages. Her prose translations include Anna Starobinets’ Catlantis (Pushkin Press\, NYRB) and her four-book middle-grade series Beastly Crimes (Dover Publications). She lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter.\nMuireann Maguire is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of Exeter; she is a freelance translator and a researcher in Russian literature from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. She is working on a book-length study of fictional accounts of pregnancy and childbirth in Russian and Western literature called Hideous Agonies\, and she irregularly writes a blog on the same topic in global literature\, The Pregnancy Test.\nJames Rann is a scholar and translator of Russian literature\, based at the University of Glasgow. He mostly translates contemporary fiction\, notably Anna Starobinets\, but his research focuses on the avant-garde—the subject of his recent book The Unlikely Futurist: Pushkin and the Invention of Originality in Russian Modernism.\nSvetlana Satchkova is a NYC-based writer and journalist. While working as a magazine editor in her native Russia\, she published three books of prose. Presently\, she is completing her first novel in English and pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Brooklyn College\, where she is a Truman Capote fellow.\nKatherine E. Young is the author of Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day of the Border Guards. She has translated Look at Him by Anna Starobinets\, as well as work by Akram Aylisli\, Inna Kabysh\, and numerous Russophone poets; she was named a 2017 NEA translation fellow. She served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington\, Virginia. https://katherine-young-poet.com/\nZarina Zabrisky is the author of three short story collections and a novel “We\, Monsters” (Numina Press\, 2014). Zabrisky’s work appeared in nine countries in over fifty literary magazines and anthologies\, including The Nervous Breakdown\, A Capella Zoo\, The Rumpus\, Guernica\, and received nominations and awards\, including 2013 Acker Awards for Avant-Garde Excellence. Zabrisky runs literary and cultural programs at Globus Books.\nThis event is in English and will be held on Zoom on June 23\, 2021\, at 10.00 am PST (SF)\, 1.00 pm EST (NY)\, 20.00 (Moscow.)\n There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathan Lee and Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, June 23 at 6pm PT when Jonathan Lee is joined by Megha Majumdar to discuss his latest novel\, The Great Mistake\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85879379881\n\nPraise for The Great Mistake\n“Jonathan Lee’s wily\, virtuosic\, very beautiful new novel is an intimate portrait of a public man that also serves as an X-ray of America. The Great Mistake is a great novel of New York\, in which the shaping of public space becomes inextricable from the loneliness\, longing\, and ferocious ambition of a single\, damaged man.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You\n\n“Jonathan Lee is quietly becoming one of the best young novelists on either side of the Atlantic. The Great Mistake is a sweeping historical novel that is also a gripping mystery.” —The Observer (UK)\n\n“Few writers working today have Jonathan Lee’s range or eye for detail. Fewer still are capable of\nroaming minds and histories with such bittersweet\, richly detailed ease\, or taking on with such profound depth all the messy\, hilarious\, heartbreaking humanity of a person\, and a time\, and indeed an entire city. The Great Mistake is a wonder and a delight.” —Téa Obreht\, author of The Tiger’s Wife\n\n“Riveting\, immersive…An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship” –Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter\n\nAbout The Great Mistake\nAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century\, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune\, and his mysterious murder.\n\nAndrew Haswell Green is dead\, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three\, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight\, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer\, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park\, no Metropolitan Museum of Art\, no Museum of Natural History\, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret\, a life locked within him that now\, in the hour of his death\, may finally break free.\nA work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion\, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed\, a murder that made a private man infamous\, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathan Lee and Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, JUNE 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN JONATHAN LEE IS JOINED BY MEGHA MAJUMDAR TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST NOVEL\, THE GREAT MISTAKE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85879379881\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85879379881#  or +13462487799\,\,85879379881#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbaqFmq5Km \nPraise for The Great Mistake\n“Jonathan Lee’s wily\, virtuosic\, very beautiful new novel is an intimate portrait of a public man that also serves as an X-ray of America. The Great Mistake is a great novel of New York\, in which the shaping of public space becomes inextricable from the loneliness\, longing\, and ferocious ambition of a single\, damaged man.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n“Jonathan Lee is quietly becoming one of the best young novelists on either side of the Atlantic. The Great Mistake is a sweeping historical novel that is also a gripping mystery.” —The Observer (UK) \n“Few writers working today have Jonathan Lee’s range or eye for detail. Fewer still are capable of roaming minds and histories with such bittersweet\, richly detailed ease\, or taking on with such profound depth all the messy\, hilarious\, heartbreaking humanity of a person\, and a time\, and indeed an entire city. The Great Mistake is a wonder and a delight.” —Téa Obreht\, author of The Tiger’s Wife \nAbout The Great Mistake\nAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century\, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune\, and his mysterious murder—“Riveting\, immersive…An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship” (Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter). \nAndrew Haswell Green is dead\, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three\, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight\, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the\ncity.Born to a struggling farmer\, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park\, no Metropolitan Museum of Art\, no Museum of Natural History\, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret\, a life locked within him that now\, in the hour of his death\, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion\, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed\, a murder that made a private man infamous\, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
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SUMMARY:Emily Rapp Black and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Emily Rapp Black discusses her new book\, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (Notting Hill Editions)\, with Matthew Zapruder. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon \nAbout Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg\nAt first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas\, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood\, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. \nKahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash\, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art\, Rapp Black recognized her own life\, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs\, giving birth to a daughter\, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. \nAbout Emily Rapp Black and Matthew Zapruder\nEmily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World\, a New York Times bestseller and an Editors’ Pick. Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Vogue; The New York Times; Time; The Wall Street Journal; O\, The Oprah Magazine; and the Los Angeles Times. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and is the nonfiction editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rapp is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California\, Riverside\, where she also teaches medical narratives in the university’s School of Medicine. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-rapp-black-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Author Jamie Brenner Discussing BLUSH in a GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, June 23\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of BLUSH with author Jamie Brenner in a GGP Online Chat. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83225997080\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of BLUSH at http://bit.ly/ggpBlush\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/BlushAB. \nDescription\n\nFrom acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family’s future.  \nFor decades\, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. But behind the lush vineyards and majestic estate house\, the Hollander family fortunes have suffered and the threat of a sale brings old wounds to the surface. For matriarch Vivian\, she fears that this summer season could be their last—and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a dark secret she’s harbored for decades. Meanwhile\, her daughter\, Leah\, who was turned away from the business years ago\, finds her marriage at a crossroads and returns home for a sorely needed escape. And granddaughter Sadie\, grappling with a crisis of her own\, runs to the vineyard looking for inspiration. \nBut when Sadie uncovers journals from Vivian’s old book club dedicated to scandalous novels of decades past\, she realizes that this might be the distraction they all need. Reviving the “trashy” book club\, the Hollander women find that the stories hold the key to their fight not only for the vineyeard\, but for the life and love they’ve wanted all along. \nBlush is a bighearted story of love\, family\, and second chances\, and an ode to the blockbuster novels that have shaped generations of women. \nAbout the Author\n\nJamie Brenner is the author of five novels\, including The Forever Summer and The Wedding Sisters. She grew up in suburban Philadelphia on a steady diet of Jackie Collins and Judith Krantz novels\, and later moved to New York City to live like the heroines of her favorite books. Jamie now divides her time between Philadelphia and Provincetown. \nPraise For…\n\n“Brenner’s lovely latest begs to be read with a view and a glass of wine….Brenner tackles complex issues including gender equality and the devaluation of women’s interests with a light hand\, balancing heavy topics with copious descriptions of wine\, cheese\, and classic romances. [Blush] is sure to please.” –Publishers Weekly \n“Brenner deftly pulls from the canon for steamy encounters and dramatic confrontations—some worthy of a Dynasty reboot. A perfect beach read about a family crisis resolved by women.” –Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-jamie-brenner-discussing-blush-in-a-ggp-online-author-chat/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Helene Wecker\, The Hidden Palace
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Helene Wecker’s debut novel\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was a runaway bestseller that snagged multiple awards. Now\, after seven years\, she is back with a sequel. In this enthralling historical epic\, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading up to World War I\, Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. This event is cosponsored by Temple Beth El. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nChava is a golem\, a woman made of clay\, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni\, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire\, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters\, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Having encountered each other under calamitous circumstances\, Chava and Ahmad’s lives are now entwined—but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other. \nEach has unwittingly affected the humans around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston\, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold\, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. There she meets a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe. Back in New York\, in a tenement on the Lower East Side\, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele—not knowing that she’s about to be sent to an orphanage uptown\, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. \nSpanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I\, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart—especially once they encounter\, thrillingly\, other beings like themselves? \nHelene Wecker’s debut novel\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature\, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native\, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran\, as well as in the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-helene-wecker-the-hidden-palace/
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