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SUMMARY:Jaime Cortez in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Jaime Cortez’s debut short fiction collection \nGordo \npublished by Grove Atlantic \nShedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers\, Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. \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———– \nThe first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez\, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville\, California in the 1970s. A young\, probably gay\, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood\, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age\, Gordo learns about sex\, watches his father’s drunken fights\, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. Fat Cookie\, high schooler and resident artist\, uses tiny library pencils to draw huge murals of graffiti flowers along the camp’s blank walls\, the words “CHICANO POWER” boldly lettered across\, until she runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend\, Manny\, and steals her mother’s Panasonic radio for a final dance competition among the camp kids before she disappears. And then there are Los Tigres\, the perfect pair of twins so dark they look like indios\, Pepito and Manuel\, who show up at Gyrich Farms every season without fail. Los Tigres\, champion drinkers\, end up assaulting each other in a drunken brawl\, until one of them is rushed to the emergency room still slumped in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. \nThese scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor\, family drama\, and a sweet frankness about serious matters – who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency\, when laborers\, grown adults\, must fear for their lives and livelihoods as they try to do everything to bring home a paycheck? Written with balance and poise\, Cortez braids together elegant and inviting stories about life on a California camp\, in essence redefining what all-American means. \nJaime Cortez is a graphic novelist\, visual artist\, writer\, teacher\, and occasional performer. Cortez has historically used art and humor to explore sexuality\, social justice\, HIV/AIDS\, and Chicano identity. \nRebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, activist\, and the author of more than twenty books on feminism\, western and indigenous history\, popular power\, social change and insurrection\, wandering and walking\, hope and disaster\, these include Cinderella Liberator\, Men Explain Things to Me\, Hope in the Dark\, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\,  Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, the Atlas Trilogy\, and much much more. She received numerous honors for her work. These include a Guggenheim award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction\, and the Lannan Literary Award. Her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence\, was released in March\, 2020. \n  \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-cortez-in-conversation-with-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN CHARLIE JANE ANDERS JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, NEVER SAY YOU CAN’T SURVIVE: HOW TO GET THROUGH HARD TIMES BY MAKING UP STORIES\, WITH MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks required for in-store attendance.\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FlNv8KVLRaOaR5TQrw_R8w\n \nAbout Never Say You Can’t Survive\nFrom the internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed writer Charlie Jane Anders comes a nonfiction manual about writing and life. \nCharlie Jane Anders is writing Never Say You Can’t Survive\, a nonfiction how-to book about the craft of storytelling. Full of memoir\, personal anecdote\, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency\, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for fostering creativity in unprecedented times. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders\nCHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days\,” won a Hugo Award. Her YA debut novel\, Victories Greater Than Death\, was published with Tor Teen in April 2021. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, The Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders-and-maggie-tokuda-hall/
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:Lisa Wells + Joanna Manqueros: Believers: Making a Life at End World
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & presents:\nLisa Wells + Joanna Manqueros: A Zoom Event\nBelievers: Making a Life at the End of the World \nIn search of answers and action\, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers\, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change. \nWe find ourselves at the end of the world; how then shall we live? \nLike many of us\, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes. But what can be done? Wells embarked on a pilgrimage\, seeking answers in dedicated communities-outcasts and visionaries-on the margins of society. \nWells meets Finisia Medrano\, an itinerant planter and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists to rewild the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing “watershed discipleship” in New Mexico; another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming-guns into plowshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach how to read a trail\, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in new ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. \nBlending reportage\, memoir\, history\, and philosophy\, Wells opens up seemingly intractable questions about the damage we have done and how we might reckon with our inheritance. “Brilliant in its quest. . . [and] an essential document of our time” (Charles D’Ambrosio)\, Believers demands transformation: If the Earth is our home\, if our home is being destroyed-how then shall we live? \nLisa Wells is the author of The Grief Tower\, Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids\, and The Simple Life. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/lisa-wells-joanna-manqueros-believers-making-a-life-at-the-end-of-world-tickets-159198058679
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SUMMARY:WE ARE THE BRENNANS by Tracey Lange | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 17\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of WE ARE THE BRENNANS by Tracey Lange. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87501755663. \nYou can preorder 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\nI ABSOLUTELY love this book! WE ARE THE BRENNAN’S 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.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #75
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker.\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
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