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SUMMARY:Jessamyn Stanley\, Yoke
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book\, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance\, available to order below. Stanley will be in conversation with the amazing Nicole Steward of Love Ethic Yoga. \n“Beloved body-positive yogi Jessamyn Stanley speaks on the everyday trials of self-love and spiritual upkeep in Yoke\, her follow-up to Every Body Yoga\, which gained her a huge Internet following of those who resonate with her wellness-based practice. In this collection of uplifting\, honest\, wise\, and often funny essays\, Stanley navigates the spiritual\, sexual\, and racial intersections of her yoga-filled life.” —Juj\, Bookshop bookseller \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nFinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. \nIn Sanskrit\, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body\, movement and breath\, light and dark\, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. \nIn a series of deeply honest\, funny autobiographical essays\, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself\, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí\, loving astrology\, learning to meditate\, finding prana in music. \nAnd in the end\, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad\, that light and that dark. \nJessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness\, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly\, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app\, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn\, and cofounder of We Go High\, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Sports Illustrated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessamyn-stanley-yoke/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nAmerican Estrangement \npublished by W.W. Norton \nOne of Literary Hub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 \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. Link coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as “a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain.” His new collection of stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and the Best American Short Stories—is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles—a son’s fractured relationship with his father\, the death of a mother\, the loss of a job\, drug addiction—even as they are battered by larger\, often invisible\, economic\, political\, and racial forces of American society. \nSearing\, intimate\, often slyly funny\, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy\, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh’s reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers. \n\n\nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. He is the author of a memoir\, When Skateboards Will Be Free\, and a story collection\, Brief Encounters with the Enemy. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Cullman Center Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, Granta\, the New York Times Magazine\, and McSweeney’s. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.sayrafiezadeh.com \n  \nWhat has been said about the work of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh \n\n\n\n\n\nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh is a first-rate short story writer. Every sentence is a delight\, and his work has a captivating\, immersive quality that leaves the reader shaken and moved. American Estrangement is a superb book with a strange and subtle power sure to haunt readers long after they’ve closed the cover. \nPhil Klay\, author of Missionaries \nSad\, mordant\, and utterly beguiling\, this pitch-perfect volume of stories broke my heart. American Estrangement’s characters are endlessly unsettled: stalked by unresolved pasts\, trapped in the unbridgeable gulfs of the present moment. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh works like a miniaturist\, impeccably tracing invisible negotiations between human beings—and these stories accumulate with a disquieting\, invisible power. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Adjmi\, author of Lot Six \nA haunting book\, and filled with longing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHilton Als\, author of White Girls \nThe stories in this moving and powerful collection are honest\, unaffected\, yet full of imagination. Whether set in the recent past or a speculative near future\, they explore moments where personal and societal dysfunction converge\, in prose that punches through the page. This book’s tough poetry tells us who we are and where we are headed\, with equal parts sadness\, humor\, and hope. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRajesh Parameswaran\, author of I Am an Executioner \nThese stories combine the intensity of theater\, the humor of your smartest friend\, and the emotional insight of the imaginary and gentle god you might wish for and fear as a witness. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is an extraordinary talent\, and these stories merit reading and rereading and rereading. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch \nSayrafiezadeh\, entertaining and political without being heavy-handed\, is a force to be reckoned with. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooklist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/said-sayrafiezadeh/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessamyn Stanley\, Yoke
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book\, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nFinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. \nIn Sanskrit\, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body\, movement and breath\, light and dark\, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. \nIn a series of deeply honest\, funny autobiographical essays\, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself\, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí\, loving astrology\, learning to meditate\, finding prana in music. \nAnd in the end\, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad\, that light and that dark. \nJessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness\, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly\, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app\, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn\, and cofounder of We Go High\, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Sports Illustrated.
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin with Tommy Orange / Leave Society
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Tao Lin again for his new novel\, Leave Society. He’ll be in conversation with Tommy Orange. 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 Leave Society 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 2014\, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet\, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds–year by year\, over four years–he will flit in and out of optimism\, despair\, loneliness\, sanity\, bouts of chronic pain\, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments\, uncover secrets about nature and history\, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? \nExploring everyday events and scenes–waiting rooms\, dog walks\, family meals–while investigatively venturing to the edges of society\, where culture dissolves into mystery\, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt\, as it builds toward a stunning\, if unexpected\, romance\, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. \nAbout the authors\nTao Lin is the author of the memoir Trip\, the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia\, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program\, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-with-tommy-orange-leave-society/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books on healthcare with Naomi Williams\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 10\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-e-standefer-kate-washington-naomi-williams-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Lent & Joanna Manqueros: The Web of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nJeremy Lent & Joanna Manqueros \nThe Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe \nRethinking values based on science and traditional wisdom Indigenous\, Buddhist\, and Taoist traditions have held for millennia that all life is interconnected. Modern science has now validated their insight. What does this mean for how we should live?  This groundbreaking new book weaves together the latest scientific findings and age-old philosophical insights to show how some of our most ingrained beliefs about human nature and the world are mistaken-and offers a powerful alternative to help us heal a planet in peril. \nTHE WEB OF MEANING isn’t just a challenge to outmoded beliefs. It is an invitation to a new worldview that integrates insights from some of the world’s great wisdom traditions with modern science to offer a new way of thinking about ourselves and the world that is both intellectually sound and spiritually vibrant. In this far-reaching and boundary-defying book\, Lent\, described by Guardian columnist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age\,” weaves together the latest research in neuroscience and evolutionary biology with Buddhist\, Taoist\, and Indigenous wisdom\, and shows how these seemingly disparate streams of thought are eminently compatible. He argues that\, taken together\, they are key to facing the existential problems of the 21st century and can lead to a flourishing future for all. \nJeremy Lent wrote The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. \nJoanna Manqueros hosts every Tuesday on KPFA at 11 AM\,  a celebration of the global music which heals and revives us. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-joanna-manqueros-the-web-of-meaning-tickets-159477650947
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
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