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SUMMARY:Dana Spiotta
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new novel \nWayward \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA moving\, funny\, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters\, and one woman’s midlife reckoning\, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document \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. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nOn the heels of the election of 2016\, Samantha Raymond’s life begins to come apart: her mother is ill\, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote\, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into “the Mids”–that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood\, mortality\, and\, in this case\, the state of our unraveling nation. \n\nWhen she falls in love with a beautiful\, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse\, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life–and her family–as she grapples with how to be a wife\, a mother\, and a daughter\, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. \nDana Spiotta’s Wayward is a stunning novel about aging\, about the female body\, and about female difficulty–female complexity–in the age of Trump. Probing and provocative\, brainy and sensual\, it is a testament to our weird\, off-kilter America\, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes\, and to the beauty of ruins. Tremendous new work from one of the most gifted writers of her generation. \n\nDana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others\, which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was short-listed for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Eat the Document\, which was a National Book Award finalist; and Lightning Field. Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow\, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow\, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. \nPraise for the work of Dana Spiotta \n“An urgent\, deeply moving\, wholly original novel by one of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is Spiotta’s best book yet\, rich with all the joyful immersion-in-culture that characterized her earlier work\, and of which she is a master\, but with\, it seems to me\, more heart\, hope\, and urgency. There’s not a smarter\, more engaging\, more celebratory writer working today than Dana Spiotta\, and here she shows us to ourselves with stunning\, sometimes lacerating\, honesty\, but also with a feeling of genuine hope for us\, i.e.\, with kindness. I finished the book last night and woke this morning both fonder of\, and more terrified for\, America.”\n—George Saunders \n“A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel which illuminates the sometimes exhilarating\, sometimes heartbreaking moments of connection and disconnection in our lives. What begins as a vertiginous leap into hilarious rabbit holes ends as a brilliant meditation on mortality and time. How does she do it? Only Dana Spiotta knows. I’m just happy to see her work her magic.”\n—Jenny Offill \n“What a thrilling experience to take a wayward journey along with Dana Spiotta’s heroine\, in the social landscape of America when America is probing its future\, in a woman’s complex internal landscape as she forges forward. Wayward is a fiercely funny and deliciously subversive novel.”\n—Yiyun Li \n“Wayward is a strikingly human and affecting story… gloriously cool\, deftly assembled\, brimming with mood… a hymn to iconoclasm\, a piercing novel about what we lose and gain by when we step out of life’s deepest worn grooves.”\n—Vogue‘s “Best Books to Read in 2021” \n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jessica Hopper
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JULY 8 AT 6PM PT WHEN JESSICA HOPPER JOINS US TO DISCUSS THE SPECIAL REISSUE OF HER BOOK\, THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC\, ON CROWDCAST!\nPROUDLY PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR FRIENDS AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS\nRegistration Information to Come \nThis is a special\, dual presentation for both Northern and Southern California readers.\nWe humbly request that Northern Californians purchase their copies of Hopper’s book from us here at Green Apple Books\,\nand our Southern California viewers purchase their copy from Skylight Books.\n \nAbout The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic\nAn acclaimed career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic\, reissued with new material \nThroughout her career\, spanning more than two decades\, Jessica Hopper\, a revered and pioneering music critic\, has examined women recording and producing music\, in all genres\, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands such as Hole and Sleater Kinney\, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone\, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Björk\, Robyn\, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl’s empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary\, Indiana\, on the eve of Michael Jackson’s death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved\, and most-loathed\, women artists making music today: Fiona Apple\, Kacey Musgraves\, M.I.A.\, Miley Cyrus\, Lana Del Rey. \nIn order for the music industry to change\, Hopper writes\, we need “the continual presence of radicalized women . . . being encouraged and given reasons to stay\, rather than diminished by the music that glues our communities together.” The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic—published to acclaim in 2015\, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby—is a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling\, and a groundbreaking\, obsessive\, razor-sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation. \nAbout Jessica Hopper\nJessica Hopper is the author of the books The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic and Night Moves. Her writing has appeared in GQ\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Elle\, and Bookforum\, among other outlets. A longtime contributor to the Chicago Reader\, she has been a columnist for The Village Voice and the Chicago Tribune\, the music consultant for This American Life\, the editorial director for MTV News\, and a senior editor at Pitchfork and Rookie. Her essays have appeared in several editions of Best Music Writing\, and she currently serves as series editor of the American Music Series at the University of Texas Press.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Vanessa Veselka\, The Great Offshore Grounds
DESCRIPTION:The Great Offshore Grounds (in paperback June 29th)\, by Vanessa Veselka\, was longlisted for the National Book Award and is loved by our staff. It is a wildly original\, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies—national\, individual\, and collective—that drive and define us. “A magnificent beast of a novel. Utterly engrossing. Original. One of the rare novels that understands the realities of American poverty. Epic.” — Roxane Gay \nRegister for this free virtual 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  \nOn the day of their estranged father’s wedding\, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle\, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats\, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except\, instead of money\, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality\, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another\, as well as their definitions of freedom. \nMoving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North\, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds\, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve\, linguistic vitality\, and undeniable tenderness. \nVANESSA VESELKA is the author of the novel Zazen\, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA\, and her nonfiction in GQ\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Atavist\, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been\, at various times\, a teenage runaway\, a sex worker\, a musician\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR.
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