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SUMMARY:Annie Zaleski with Kevin Smokler / Duran Duran's Rio
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Annie Zaleski for her new book\, Duran Duran’s Rio\, part of the acclaimed 331/3 book series. She’ll be in conversation with Booksmith BFF and author of Brat Pack America and Practical Classics\, Kevin Smokler. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Duran Duran’s Rio here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn the ’80s\, the Birmingham\, England\, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave\, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade’s music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act’s breakthrough 1982 LP\, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound-influences include danceable disco\, tangy funk\, swaggering glam\, and Roxy Music’s art-rock-the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as “Hungry Like the Wolf” and the title track. \nHowever\, Rio wasn’t a success everywhere at first; in fact\, the LP had to be buffed-up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos\, which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion\, and the group’s cutting-edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed\, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album\, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration-and a reflection of a musical\, cultural\, and technology zeitgeist. \nAbout the authors\nCleveland\, Ohio-based author\, journalist and editor Annie Zaleski is an award-winning writer with profiles\, interviews\, and criticism in a variety of publications. Bylines include Rolling Stone\, NPR Music\, The Guardian\, Salon\, Time\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, Vulture\, The Los Angeles Times\, Stereogum\, Cleveland Plain Dealer\, andLas Vegas Weekly. She also contributed liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time and Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript. \nKevin Smokler (@weegee) is a writer\, documentary filmmaker and event host with a focus on pop culture. He’s the author of the book Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies (2016) and the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013). In 2020\, he co-directed the documentary film Vinyl Nation on the contemporary renaissance of vinyl records in America\, which has screened at 27 film festivals in the US\, Europe and Australia. He’s appeared in conversation onstage with comedians\, playwrights\, authors\, magazine publishers\, architects\, musicians and filmmakers for the last 2 decades and lives in San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/annie-zaleski-with-kevin-smokler-duran-durans-rio/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Did I Say You Could Go: Melanie Gideon in conversation with Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 19\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of DID I SAY YOU COULD GO with author Melanie Gideon in conversation with Natalie Baszile (author of WE ARE EACH OTHER’S HARVEST: CELEBRATING AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS\, LAND\, AND LEGACY). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84357144645 and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of DID I SAY YOU COULD GO at http://bit.ly/ggpDidISay\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/DidISayAB. Order your copy of WE ARE EACH OTHER’S HARVEST in print from GGP at http://bit.ly/ggpHarvest or in #audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/HarvestAB. \nDescription\n\nA suspenseful\, gripping novel about families and friendships torn apart at the seams by obsession\, secrets\, and betrayal with relentless twists and turns that hurtle forward to a shocking confrontation. \nWhen Ruth\, a wealthy divorcé​e\, offers to host the Hillside Academy kindergarten meet-and-greet\, she hopes this will be a fresh start for her and her introverted daughter\, Marley. Finally\, they’ll be accepted into a tribe. Marley will make friends and Ruth will be welcomed by the mothers. Instead\, the parents are turned off by Ruth’s ostentatious wealth and before kindergarten even begins\, Ruth and Marley are outcasts. \nThe last guest to arrive at the meet-and-greet is Gemma\, a widow and a single mother to her daughter\, Bee. Ruth sets her sights on the mother-daughter duo\, and soon the two families are inseparable. Ruth takes Gemma and Bee on Aspen vacations\, offers VIP passes to Cirque du Soleil\, and pays for dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants. For Gemma\, who lives paycheck to paycheck\, Ruth’s largesse is seductive\, but as the years go by\, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s accruing an increasingly unpayable debt. When Ruth’s affair with a married Hillside dad is exposed\, and she’s publicly shunned\, Gemma uses it to sever ties with Ruth. \nSix years later\, when Gemma finds herself embroiled in a scandal of her own—Ruth comes to her defense. Their renewed friendship rehabilitates their reputations\, but once again\, Gemma starts to feel trapped as Ruth grows more and more obsessed with their relationship. \nA relentless page-turner\, Did I Say You Could Go is the story of friendships steeped in lies and duplicity. It’s about two families who\, when pushed to extremes\, cross the line with devastating results. \nAbout Melanie Gideon\n\nMelanie Gideon is the bestselling author of the novels\, Valley of the Moon and Wife 22\, as well as the memoir The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After. Her books have been translated into thirty-one languages. Wife 22 is currently in development. She has written for The New York Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Times (London)\, the Daily Mail (London)\, and other publications. She was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area. \nAbout Natalie Baszile\n\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/did-i-say-you-could-go-melanie-gideon-in-conversation-with-natalie-baszile/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Keith Boykin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6PM PT WHEN KEITH BOYKIN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\, RACE AGAINST TIME: THE POLITICS OF A DARKENING AMERICA\, AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i2ifIaLzTJS28dSVTok04Q \nPraise for Race Against Time\n“With clear insights and provocative analysis\, Keith Boykin showcases why he is one of the country’s foremost experts on race and politics in America. This book is timely\, relevant\, and important.”—Leah Wright Rigueur\, associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University \n“Race Against Time is Keith Boykin’s best book yet in a long list of books and anthologies that have helped define what cultural criticism is. This book is also an account of what it means to be overlooked in a capitalist landscape that denies the existence and contribution of black queer citizens. What floors me is that Boykin’s genius—from all the political and racial history from Reconstruction onward\, to his well-wrought recounting of the antics of US presidents from Reagan to Trump—still allows him to remain a man of hope and a writer that affirms the spirit in essays that speak to us as a comforting brother would.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tadition \n“In evocative fashion\, and through the depth of his personal experiences at the highest levels of American politics\, Keith Boykin traces the parameters of America’s ‘never-ending civil war\,’ from the shock of Clinton’s Black-voter-driven presidency though Bush and Obama and the white nationalist nightmare of Donald Trump. Race Against Time is essential reading at a calamitous time.”—Joy Reid\, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut \nAbout Race Against Time\nA Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. \nAfter a deadly pandemic\, shocking incidents of police brutality\, a racial justice crisis\, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue\, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America—a country in which there is no longer a predominant white majority. \nAs the Republican Party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections\, its leaders have incited white Americans in a last-ditch race against time to stop the advance of a new\, multiracial emerging majority. Keith Boykin\, long time political commentator\, has watched this white resentment consume the GOP over the course of a life in politics\, activism\, and journalism. He has also observed the divisions among Democrats\, as white progressives have postponed demands for full racial equity\, while Black voters have often been too forgiving of party leaders who have failed to deliver. America can no longer avoid its long overdue reckoning with the past\, Boykin argues. With the familiarity of personal experience and the acuity of historical insight\, Boykin urges us to fight racism\, sexism\, xenophobia\, and homophobia\, and save the union\, not just by making Black lives matter\, but by making Black lives equal. \nAbout Keith Boykin\nKeith Boykin is a CNN political commentator\, New York Times best-selling author\, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Boykin teaches at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington\, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. He was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show “My Two Cents\,” starred on the Showtime reality television series “American Candidate\,” was an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry\,” and he has appeared on many other TV shows\, including BET’s “Being Mary Jane.” A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School\, Boykin is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of four books. He lives in New York City.​​​​​​​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keith-boykin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS NOVEL\, MESSIAHS\, WITH CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required While In-Store\nYou can join this event virtually by registering at the link below. \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs\n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.”\n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.”\n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs‘ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy.\nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson\nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Rebanks and Nick Offerman
DESCRIPTION:On his acclaimed new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 6\, 2021 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed author James Rebanks joins us from the UK to discuss his new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Custom House). James will be joined in conversation by actor and author Nick Offerman. \n“James Rebanks’s story of his family’s farm is just about perfect.  It belongs with the finest writing of its kind.” — Wendell Berry \n“One of the most important books of our time. Anyone who cares about our land – indeed\, anyone who buys food – should read this book. Told with humility and grace\, this story of farming over three generations – where we went wrong and how we can change our ways – is at the forefront of a revolution. It will be our land’s salvation.” — Isabella Tree\, author of Wilding \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Pastoral Song\nThe Acclaimed International Bestseller * Named “Nature Book of the Year” by the Sunday Times (London) * Shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize \nAs a boy\, James Rebanks’s grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows\, of pastures grazed with livestock\, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet\, by the time James inherited the farm\, it was barely recognizable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. \nHailed as “a brilliant\, beautiful book” by the Sunday Times (London)\, Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse\, and the age-old rhythms of work\, weather\, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how\, guided by the past\, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his\, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. \nThis is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place\, and how\, against all the odds\, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia\, but somewhere decent for us all. \nAbout James Rebanks\nJames Rebanks runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. A graduate of Oxford University\, James works as an expert advisor to UNESCO on sustainable tourism. He uses his popular Twitter feed – @herdyshepherd1 – to share updates on the shepherding year. He is the author of The Shepherd’s Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-rebanks-and-nick-offerman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Practice of Presence for Healing Personal and Collective Grief
DESCRIPTION:In unsettling and uncertain times\, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in both our bodies and our communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name\, focus on\, or wade through the difficulties in our lives. But in order to heal\, we must make space for grief\, prioritizing our wholeness\, humanity\, and inherent divinity. \nSocial justice activist\, social worker\, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers to those who feel brokenhearted\, helpless\, confused\, powerless\, and desperate the tools they need to be present and openhearted with their grief. In her latest book\, Finding Refuge\, Michelle uses personal narrative\, meditation\, and journaling practices to explore being present with our hearts\, empowering us to see that we each have a role to play in taking intentional action to build momentum toward a shifting what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Through her work and writing\, Michelle invites us to pick up the shattered parts of ourselves and remember our strength\, wholeness\, and sacredness through the practice of presence and attending to our grief. \nJoin program innovation leader in mindfulness\, trauma\, and racial healing Jenee Johnson in a conversation with Michelle about her latest book\, her life and her work\, and learn how to process your own grief\, as well as family\, community\, and global grief. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-cassandra-michelle-august-4-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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SUMMARY:Brian Evenson in conversation with Sarah Rose Etter
DESCRIPTION:eading from \nThe Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell \npublished by Coffee House Press \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(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nA sentient\, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men—of all the terrors that populate The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell\, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection\, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration. Combining psychological and ecological horror\, each tale thrums with Evenson’s award-winning literary craftsmanship\, dark humor\, and thrilling suspense. \nBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. His most recent book\, 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. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \nSarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party\, and The Book of X\, her first novel\, which is the winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for novel. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica\, BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, The Cut\, VICE\, and more. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House\, the Disquiet International program in Portugal\, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. \nPraise for The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell \n“Masterful and foreboding\, each story in The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell is a tightly wound mystery which unravels just enough to show us the dark depths of the human condition. From a curator intent on destroying all evidence of human life to a house intent on consuming its inhabitants\, don’t be surprised if you catch yourself holding your breath as you enter these fantastic worlds. Brian Evenson is one of our most brilliant minds\, and he has outdone himself again.” —Sarah Rose Etter \n“Literary horror at its most existential\, visceral\, and wonderful. These strange stories build upon each other to create an uncanny shadow universe rich\, vivid and shimmering with every kind of terror. Another brilliant collection.” —Mona Awad \n“In this rich offering\, a true collection of worlds\, Evenson gives us visions of the future that are avenues to the past; glimpses of the strange where we find what’s deeply familiar; in the living\, the dead; and in these fantastic stories\, the clearest\, starkest portrait of our depraved reality. Evenson at his greatest—visceral\, relentless\, alive.” —Samantha Hunt \n“Like with Borges or Kafka\, every one of Brian Evenson’s stories are a whole world distilled down to a few pages\, and rendered in a pointillism that feels not just abstract\, but cosmic\, yet is gritty all the same\, and leaves a distinct\, bloody residue in your mind\, in your heart. And then you can no longer look at the world the way you used to.” —Stephen Graham Jones
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-evenson-in-conversation-with-sarah-rose-etter/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy and Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 4\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). Ashley will be joined in conversation by writer and critic Ismail Muhammad. \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-and-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family
DESCRIPTION:Ashley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-celebrates-her-debut-novel-immediate-family/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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