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SUMMARY:Fiction Seminar with Lysley Tenorio and Anthony Doerr: SCENE-STEALING: Scenes by Contemporary Masters and What To Take From Them
DESCRIPTION:Register for a cocktail hour literary seminar with SMC MFA fiction Professor Lysley Tenorio with guest author Anthony Doerr\nYou know the saying: good artists borrow\, great artists steal. In this class\, we’ll aim for greatness\, examining the ways contemporary fiction writers render scenes in their work. How do they use this building block of narrative to generate drama and suspense\, and to develop both external and internal conflict in their fiction? How do they use dialogue\, internal monologue\, and action to develop character\, in order to give readers an immersive emotional experience? By studying the strategies used by these celebrated authors\, we’ll learn to use their techniques for our own work. \nOne of the writers we’ll read is Anthony Doerr\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller\, All The Light We Cannot See. Doerr will make a special virtual visit to our class to offer advice on writing scenes. To celebrate this incredible opportunity\, the class will include a signature cocktail\, which you can prepare during the class break and enjoy during his visit.  The cocktail recipe (with a non-alcoholic\, mocktail option) will be sent to students in advance. \nThis three-hour class includes close readings and discussion\, in-class writing and sharing\, and an author visit.  Recommended (but not required) readings will be sent to students one week before the class. \nLysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune\, and the story collection Monstress. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, the New American Voices Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, and the Rome Prize.  His stories have appeared in  the Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares\, and have been adapted for the stage in San Francisco and New York City.  A finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, he will be a 2021-22 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.  He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nAnthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the Carnegie Medal\, the Alex Award\, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector\, the novel About Grace\, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes\, the Rome Prize\, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award\, the National Magazine Award for fiction\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland\, Ohio\, Doerr lives in Boise\, Idaho\, with his wife and two sons.  His new novel\, Cloud Cuckoo Land\, will be published in the fall of 2021. \nFunds raised from this seminar will go to support scholarships for BIPOC/Global Majority students and LGBTQ!+ students in the MFA in Creative Writing program
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-seminar-with-lysley-tenorio-and-anthony-doerr-scene-stealing-scenes-by-contemporary-masters-and-what-to-take-from-them/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,In-person
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SUMMARY:On the Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
DESCRIPTION:To live in a body that is fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to socio-politically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nDa’Shaun Harrison-a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer-offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. From policing\, disenfranchisement\, to making invisible fat Black men\, trans\, and nonbinary masculine people\, these are some of the most pervasive and insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. \nIn Da-Shaun’s writing and work they take on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and the carceral system\, as well as the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, illustrating the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so Black fat people can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nJoin Da’Shaun as they have a conversation about their latest book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, their life and work\, and learn how we can all work to dismantle our cultural programming and create real change. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/harrison-dashaun-august-19-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nicole Stott with Kishore Hari
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \n“Nicole’s wonderful book maps her extraordinary journey from Earth to space and back again. She teaches us how to see our world as the spaceship it really is\, and how important it is to take great care of the round blue vehicle in which we all ride.” \n— Peter Gabriel\, musician and humanitarian \nWhen NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space\, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble\, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people\, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all bound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth\, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. \nIn conversation with Kishore Hari on October 19 for an event in our 2021 climate series\, Nicole shares awe-inspiring stories from both on the Earth’s surface and far\, far above it. She mines the experiences of environmental scientists\, advocates for clean water and climate action\, and leaders from all walks of life\, all while sharing her stories from spaceflight to create a roadmap to a better world. \nStott sees the real possibility of big\, sweeping change on Earth that could help us combat the world’s problems\, from the climate crisis to inequality. But to achieve change\, she says\, we can’t just be passive passengers. Every single one of us has to take up the responsibilities of a crewmember on a spaceflight as we turn our attention to protecting the imperiled planet. \nAt Kepler’s\, we feel starry-eyed to host this accomplished and inspiring author online for readers this Tuesday\, October 19! We recommend this conversation for all ages—so strap on your flight suit\, and join us for an amazing evening with Astronaut Nicole Stott. \n*We encourage you to join with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-stott-with-kishore-hari/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Zakiya Dalila Harris
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories \npublished by One World \nA collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow \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 coming soon! \n———– \nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival\, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture.In “Beg Borrow Steal\,” a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in “Ghetto University\,” a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in “Before I Let Go\,” a woman who’s been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in “Fast Hands\, Fast Feet\,” an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in “Mercury Forges\,” a flash fiction piece among several in the collection\, a group of men hurriedly make their way to an elderly gentleman’s home\, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story\, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter\, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. \nThese stories are intimate invitations to hear\, witness\, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal\, and undeniably New Orleanian\, written by a lifelong resident of New Orleans and one of our finest new writers. \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the PEN/Open Book Award\, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction\, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, the Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \n\nPraise for the work of Maurice Carlos Ruffin \n“The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is an ode to all that makes us human. With an acute eye for beauty in seemingly hidden places\, Maurice Carlos Ruffin shows us that having true empathy for others is not only transformative but necessary for our evolution as a people. Each story grabs your heart\, squeezes the hell out of it\, and then\, somehow\, makes it fuller. I couldn’t stop feeling. Ruffin is a writer whose work will make you a better person without your knowing it.”—Mateo Askaripour\, author of Black Buck \n“These short stories ring out like the bells of St. Louis Cathedral over Jackson Square. One of our great writers of place\, Ruffin dazzles with this sonorous collection of deeply moving New Orleanian tales. Told with humor\, insight\, and radical empathy\, these stories will linger in your heart and mind like the fading song of a brass band\, vibrant and beautiful.”—Kali Fajardo-Anstine\, author of Sabrina & Corina  \n“Some are funny\, some poetic\, others near heartbreaking\, but the true hallmark Ruffin’s stories is an interest in what language can do. This is the work of a playful and exuberant writer who is always a joy to read.”—Rumaan Alam\, author of National Book Award finalist Leave the World Behind  \n“Ruffin\, more than any of the greats I read\, searches for that idea\, that style\, that genre we think is impossible to do well\, and he makes it look easy. What he is doing in these short stories is breathtaking. They are so singular and so reliant on each other for wholeness. This is wonder writing.”—Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T190000
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SUMMARY:Jaime Lowe
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and writer Jaime Lowe joins us to discuss her new book\, Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires (MCD). \n“In recent years\, women inmates have joined the army of prison labor that California relies upon to fight its wildfires\, whether defending the Sequoias or celebrity homes on the Malibu Coast. It is dangerous\, relentless work that ultimately depends upon the arduous personal transformations that create unity and fighting spirit within each fire crew. Against the background of recent megafires\, Lowe chronicles the transcendent moments of triumph and tragedy that stir ambitions of a new life\, but then recounts the systemic cruelty that undermines every hope of translating their new skills and hard-won self-confidence into civilian careers. Lionesses betrayed.”—Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Breathing Fire\nCalifornia’s fire season gets hotter\, longer\, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year\, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. \nIn Breathing Fire\, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains\, family and friends\, correctional officers\, and camp commanders. The result is a rare\, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change\, economic disparity\, and historical injustice\, but also draws on deeply personal histories\, relationships\, desires\, frustrations\, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. \nLowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system\, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line\, while imprisoned\, to save a state in peril. \nAbout Jaime Lowe\nJaime Lowe is the author of Mental\, a memoir about lithium and bipolar disorder\, and Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB\, a biography of Ol’ Dirty Bastard\, a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine and other national and international publications. Lowe has contributed to This American Life and Radiolab\, and has been featured on NPR and WNYC numerous times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-lowe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #38
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\nThis month’s features: TBA\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly… OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-38/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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