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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: David Hoon Kim and Kevin Brockmeier
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 3 at 6pm PT when David Hoon Kim discusses his debut novel\, Paris is a Party\, Paris is a Ghost\, with Kevin Brockmeier on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_c6yfSwmBTWa9HbXpzeRuvA \nAbout Paris is a Party\, Paris is a Ghost \nIn a strangely distorted Paris\, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved. \nWhen Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room\, she’s already dead\, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend\, Henrik Blatand\, an aspiring translator\, these remnants are like clues\, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile\, Fumiko\, or perhaps her doppelgänger\, reappears: in line at the Louvre\, on street corners and subway platforms\, and on the dissection table of a group of medical students. \nHenrik’s inquiry expands beyond Fumiko’s seclusion and death\, across the absurd\, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them\, from a jaded group of Korean expats\, to an eccentric French widow\, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past\, where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend’s precocious daughter\, who may be haunted herself. \nDavid Hoon Kim’s debut is a transgressive\, darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. With each successive\, echoic chapter\, Paris Is a Party\, Paris Is a Ghost plunges us more deeply beneath the surface of things\, to the displacement\, exile\, grief\, and desire that hide in plain sight. \nAbout David Hoon Kim \nDavid Hoon Kim is a Korean-born American educated in France\, who took his first creative writing workshop at the Sorbonne before attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Stegner Program. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Brins d’éternité\, Le Sabord and XYZ La revue de la nouvelle. He has been awarded fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, among others. Paris Is a Party\, Paris Is a Ghost is his first book. He writes in English and in French.
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SUMMARY:Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights in conjunction with Association of Ramaytush Ohlone\, Do No Harm Coalition\, Health Justice Commons\, and San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibilty \n   \nRupa Marya\, Raj Patel and friends \ncelebrate the launch of their new book \nInflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice \npublished by Farrar Strauss Giroux \n \nINFLAMED reveals the links between health and structural injustices–and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world. \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———– \nThe coronavirus pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma. Mass uprisings around the world in response to systemic racism and violence. Climate refugees. Our bodies\, societies\, and planet are inflamed. \nBoldly original\, Inflamed takes us on a medical tour through the human body: our digestive\, endocrine\, circulatory\, respiratory\, reproductive\, immune\, and nervous systems. Unlike a traditional anatomy book\, however\, this groundbreaking book illuminates the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. Inflammation is connected to the food that we eat\, to the air that we breathe\, and to the diversity of microbes living inside us\, which regulate everything from our brain development to our immune system. It’s connected to the number of traumatic events we experienced as children and to the trauma endured by our ancestors. It’s connected not only to access to health care but to the very models of health that physicians practice. \nRaj Patel\, renowned political economist and New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing\, teams up with physician Rupa Marya to offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization. Decolonization is to heal what has been divided\, reestablishing our relationship to the earth and to each other. Combining the latest scientific research and scholarship on globalization\, the stories of Marya’s work with patients in marginalized communities\, activist passion\, and the wisdom of indigenous groups\, Inflamed points the way toward a deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies but the world. \nDr. Rupa Marya is a physician\, activist\, mother\, and composer. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco where she practices and teaches Internal Medicine. Her research examines the health impacts of social systems\, from agriculture to policing. She is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition\, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. She is the composer and frontwoman for the band Rupa & the April Fishes whose music was described by legend Gil Scott Heron as “Liberation Music.” \nRaj Patel is a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs\, a professor in the University’s department of nutrition\, and a Research Associate at Rhodes University\, South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved\, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing\, and co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A James Beard Leadership Award winner\, he is completing a film on the global food system\, and is a leading thinker and organizer around the Green New Deal. He serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems\, and has advised governments on causes and solutions to crises of sustainability worldwide. \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Chaney Kwak in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Cheaney Kwak\, author\, and Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZYVA will discuss writing\, travel\, near death experiences and Kwak’s debut novel. \nYouTube Live \nThe Passenger How A Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From A Sinking Ship is neither straight reported nonfiction\, nor straight memoir: it’s a compelling mix of the two that’s both harrowing in its closely reported details and laugh out loud funny in its searing honesty. By the end you’ll agree\, you couldn’t ask for a better guide to twenty -seven unforgettable hours aboard a maybe-sinking-ship than Chaney Kwak. – Joshua Bodwell\, Editorial Director \nChaney Kwak has written for publications such as The New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\,  Travel & Leisure  and a number of National Geographic anthologies. His fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Catamaran Literary Review\, Gertrude and other literary journals\, earning a special mention from the Pushcart Prize. \nA winner of the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards\, Kwak has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was a Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Brown Handler Resident. \nHe teaches nonfiction writing at the Stanford Continuing Studies program. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. His writing has been published in several publications\, including Freeman’s\, Zocalo\, The Believer and Lit Hub. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nConnect \nChaney Kwak – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nOscar Villalon – Twitter \nZYZZYVA – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Readings & Lectures\n\n\nEngage with your favorite writers and discover your next read. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long.
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SUMMARY:Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
DESCRIPTION:Nicola Twilley and Geoff Manaugh join us to discuss their startlingly relevant new book\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (MCD). \n“Until Proven Safe combines history\, geography\, epidemiology\, and the ethics of space exploration—how can this be? Because\, as the authors explain in a very entertaining and wide-ranging way\, quarantine\, ironically enough\, crosses borders of space and time to make a complex knot of stories. Timely\, eye-opening\, provocative—you will see the world differently after reading it.” —Kim Stanley Robinson\, Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus award-winning novelist\, and author of Ministry for the Future \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast page. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Until Proven Safe\nGeoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe\, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological\, political\, technological––that shape our modern world. \nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean\, built to contain the Black Death\, to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. In Until Proven Safe\, the authors tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. They also introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. \nWe live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Until Proven Safe helps us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility. \nAbout the authors\nNICOLA TWILLEY is co-host of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lens of history and science\, and an award-winning contributor to The New Yorker. She 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. He lives in Los Angeles.
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