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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nawaaz Ahmed and Nina McConigley
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 12th at 6pm PT when Nawaaz Ahmed discusses his debut\, Radiant Fugitives\, with Nina McConigley on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_bvWs1Xb1R5KoaIVf1tstCg \nPraise for Radiant Fugitives \n“Radiant Fugitives indeed glows. This is such a beautiful novel\, full of light and luminous sentences. Reading it felt like basking in a generous and lucid intelligence. Ahmed writes his characters and their worlds with honesty and compassion. This is a writer to watch\, a voice we need.” —Matthew Salesses\, author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear \n“I’ve never read a novel like Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives\, and\, I kid you not\, I’ve been waiting for this tremendous\, complex\, moving novel for years\, but never expected to receive it…There is so much of life in this book.” —Anita Felicelli\, Electric Literature \n“Lyrical and deeply moving\, Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives is about the search for love\, acceptance\, and family\, both chosen and received. The novel is big-hearted and clear-eyed\, a stellar debut.” —Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Radiant Fugitives \nA dazzling\, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. \nWorking as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco\, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West\, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now\, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son\, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother\, Nafeesa\, traveling alone to California from Chennai\, and her devoutly religious sister\, Tahera\, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. \nBut instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child\, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal\, misunderstanding\, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. \nTold from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth\, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran\, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance\, forgiveness\, and enduring love. \nAbout Nawaaz Ahmed \nNawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu\, India. Before turning to writing\, he was a computer scientist\, researching search algorithms for Yahoo. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and is the winner of several Hopwood Awards. He is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Djerassi\, and VCCA. He’s also a Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-nawaaz-ahmed-and-nina-mcconigley/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Vesuvio Cafe present \nA celebration of the paperback edition of \nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nModerated by Alexis Madrigal with Alia Volz\, Doug Volz\, Meridy Volz\n(This is a live event to take place in Kerouac Alley. Seating on a first-come\, first-serve basis) \n\n\nSure\, it’s unusual to throw a book launch 18 months after publication\, but that’s the way the brownie crumbles during a pandemic…\nCo-presented safely outdoors by City Lights Books and Vesuvio Café\, this will be the first opportunity to celebrate the bestselling memoir\, Home Baked\, in person. Alexis Madrigal from NPR’s Forum will interview Alia alongside her parents Doug and Meridy Volz (co-owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies and stars of the book). We’ll have a short reading and book signing\, plus more surprises and special guests TBD.\nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award\, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. It was the inaugural pick for the citywide Total SF Book Club\, and an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique story has been featured of Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air.\nJoin us in Jack Kerouac Alley to meet the people behind the wild stories.\n********\nAbout Home Baked:\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.\nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.\nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.\nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her bestselling memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as the inaugural pick for the San Francisco Chronicle’s citywide Total SF Book Club and was an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique San Francisco story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, Forum\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \n\nDoug Volz is a professional Visionary Realist oil painter\, living in Lake County\, California. At 67\, as a retired nurse\, he devotes his time to producing works of art that inspire and elevate\, assisting the viewer to leave behind the dark encumbrances of the physical\, and to focus instead on a personal spirituality\, and a Light which frees the Spirit and heals the Heart and Mind. \n\nMeridy Volz is a working fine artist and art activist. She resides in Desert Hot Springs\, CA\, where she runs her art program\, Art with Heart\, mentoring incarcerated and at-risk teens. Her award-winning artwork is figurative\, colorful\, and Expressionistic.\n\n\n\nReviews:\nWinner of the California Bookseller Association’s Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction\nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\nOne of Entertainment Weekly’s “Books to Read in April”\nOne of Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020”\n\n“The subtitle\, ‘My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco’ tells you much of what you need to know in terms of content. But as a portrait of a heroics\, innovation\, grit\, and pot-baking in an epidemic (in this case\, the AIDS crisis)\, it’s also strikingly relevant. And beautifully written\, too.”\n—Entertainment Weekly\, “Books to Read in April”\n\n“A beautiful evocation of the Bay Area in the years before tech bros and big money changed the city…Like Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday\, this is a narrative about a time that is now gone: San Francisco as circus\, where pot was both ubiquitous and as illegal as heroin. Under Volz’s careful attention\, all of it—the era\, the place\, and her own parents—is rendered clear\, bright\, and beautiful.”\n—Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n“An earnest yet comic memoir by the daughter of the owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery\, purveyor of pot brownies and crusader for legalization.”\n—New York Times\, “New and Noteworthy Audiobooks”\n\n“A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible.”\n—Armistead Maupin\n\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\n“[A] nostalgic\, thoroughly entertaining new romp of a memoir…[An] intensely personal portrait of an unconventional childhood\, as well as a rigorously reported account of a kaleidoscopic time in San Francisco history\, an era of exuberant highs and pitch-black lows.”\n—San Francisco Chronicle\n\n“While a memoir\, Home Baked is also an intensively researched book on San Francisco and the burgeoning cannabis culture surrounding Sticky Fingers Brownies\, based on archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with LGBT activists\, cannabis advocates and\, of course\, Volz’s parents. Home Baked also provides a timely contrast with both modern San Francisco and the blossoming cannabis industry\, which can now offer safe and legal access to the drug\, although significant reforms to the war on drugs have not materialized.”\n—Newsweek\n\n“Ample\, skillfully researched\, and cleanly narrated\, Volz’s debut is really five books in one . . . Alia in tow\, Mer and her peers travel among San Francisco\, Humboldt County and Marin\, connecting an essentially agricultural project to an urban counterculture; they also weave together less and more responsible ways to raise a kid\, almost as Volz herself weaves together her archives of the post-hippie-era Bay Area with her own vivid memories.”\n—Literary Hub
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz/
LOCATION:Kerouac Alley\, 255 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94133\, San Francisco\, California\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta
DESCRIPTION:Every 2nd Thursday of the month at Alley Cat Books in the heart of the Mission!Hosted and curated by Marguerite Munoz and René Vaz.Each reading we bring you three writers\, an open mic\, witty and thought provoking banter and a space that is accepting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:We Are the Brennans — a discussion with Tracey Lange
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 12\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of WE ARE THE BRENNANS with author Tracey Lange in a GGP Online Chat. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83468349847\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpBrennans\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/BrennansAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\nI ABSOLUTELY love this book! WE ARE THE BRENNANS is the debut novel by Tracey Lange and centers around the Brennan family and the secrets that threaten to destroy their wonderfully dysfunctional Irish Catholic family.— Kathleen \nDescription\n\nIn the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again\, Yes and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest\, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. \nWhen twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital\, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused\, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation\, and they’ve got questions. \nSunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast\, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays\, however\, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin\, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secrets—secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath\, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes—and ultimately find a way forward\, together.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-brennans-a-discussion-with-tracey-lange/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Sherrell and Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Discusses his new book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Co-sponsored by the Mesa Refuge.\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, August 12\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Sherrell discusses his new book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Penguin) with Bill McKibben. Co-sponsored by the Mesa Refuge. \n“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest\, this book helped me do the impossible: live in the space between grief and hope.” —Jenny Odell\, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Warmth \nWarmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it\, but how it feels to imagine a future–and a family–under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement\, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time\, to hope\, and to each other. At once a memoir\, a love letter\, and an electric work of criticism\, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not? \nAbout the Participants \nDaniel Sherrell is an organizer born in 1990. He helped lead the campaign to pass landmark climate justice legislation in New York and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant in creative nonfiction. Warmth is his first book. \nBill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change\, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more books\, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College\, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize as well as honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award\, sometimes called the alternative Nobel\, in the Swedish Parliament. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. \nMcKibben helped found 350.org\, the first global grassroots climate campaign\, and has organized on every continent\, including Antarctica\, for climate action. He played a leading role in launching the opposition to big oil pipeline projects\, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign\, which has become the biggest anti-corporate campaign in history\, with endowments worth more than $15 trillion stepping back from oil\, gas and coal. He stepped down as board chair of 350 in 2015\, and left the board and stepped down from his volunteer role as senior adviser in 2020\, accepting emeritus status. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife\, the writer Sue Halpern\, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014\, biologists credited his career by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni–in his honor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-sherrell-and-bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad\, What Strange Paradise
DESCRIPTION:Writer and journalist Omar El Akkad\, author of the acclaimed book American War\, will be in conversation with Lauren Markham about his new book What Strange Paradise\, a beautifully written and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refuge crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes.  “It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down.” —Gish Jen\, author of The Resisters \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nMore bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled\, ill-equipped\, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Palestinians\, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir\, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl\, native to the island\, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers\, though they don’t speak a common language\, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. \nIn alternating chapters\, we learn the story of the boy’s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world\, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despair—and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality\, or guide us to a better one. \n\nOMAR EL AKKAD is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Guantánamo Bay\, and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Le Monde\, Guernica\, GQ\, and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel\, American War\, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award\, the Oregon Book Award for fiction\, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, NPR\, and Esquire\, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. \nLAUREN MARKHAM is a writer based in California whose work has appeared in outlets such as Guernica\, Harper’s\, Lithub\, Best American Travel Writing\, The New Republic\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine\, and VQR\, where she is a contributing editor. Lauren is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\, which was awarded the Northern California Book Award\, The California Book Award Silver Medal\, and the Ridenhour Prize. In addition to writing\, she works at a high school for newcomer youth in Oakland\, California that she helped found in 2007.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omar-el-akkad-what-strange-paradise/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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