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SUMMARY:Afternoon Literary Seminar: A Month In The Country by J. L. Carr
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nA Month In The Country by J. L. Carr \nKimberly has been trying to get this slim novella into your hands for over a year! After supply issues\, Carr is now ours to discuss. The perfect short novel for the waning days of the summer\, A Month concerns an English man who spends a month post World War I restoring a painting in a small country church. This prose is just so gorgeous and the story is intriguing—not to say downright strange. It will be so good to pull apart the ingenious elements of this gem. Make the most of the dog days with this delicious escape. \n(For those of you who will have read Brideshead Revisited in the summer intensive\, the two will provide a super interesting study in contrasts and similarities.) \nThere are several ticket options that include books with purchase\, books shipped to home\, books picked up at Kepler’s Books or seminar only.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for the literary seminars. The books should be read prior to the meeting date.
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SUMMARY:Jaime Lowe and Kim Kelly
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 24 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAIME LOWE JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST BOOK\, BREATHING FIRE\, WITH KIM KELLY ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s8BbIIRxTX6p–3bdGWVmA \nAbout Breathing Fire\nA dramatic\, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. \nShawna was overcome by the claustrophobia\, the heat\, the smoke\, the fire\, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline\, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training for flames. That’s not live 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 a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other national publications\, and has appeared regularly on This American Life\, RadioLab\, and NPR. She is the author of Mental and Digging for Dirt and has taught writing at Wallkill Correctional Facility. Born and raised in California\, she lives in New York City. \nAbout Kim Kelly\nKim Kelly is a regular labor columnist for Teen VOGUE and the author of Fight Like Hell\, a book of intersectional labor history\, which will be published next year. She’s written about labor\, class\, politics\, and culture for the New Republic\, the Washington Post\, the Baffler\, and Esquire\, among other publications. She’s a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalist Union as well as an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America\, East (WGAE). Kelly is based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-lowe-and-kim-kelly/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lucas Bessire and William DeBuys
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about drought\, extinction\, and ways forward\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 24\, 2021 – 6:00pm\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\nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire and novelist and conservationist William DeBuys join us for a virtual event about their new books\, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton UP) and The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss (Seven Stories Press). The two will discuss the increasingly imperiled water supply in the western U.S. and ways to confront the difficult challenges of the climate emergency. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains\n“Bessire’s Running Out masterfully shifts among scales and genres and in doing so lets the personal\, the historic\, and the geologic reveal their intimacies and competing urgencies. A beautiful and unusual book\, and wholly original.” –Rivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch \nThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. \nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas\, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers\, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture\, eroding democratic norms\, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable\, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead\, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive\, sustainable future. \nAn urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change\, Running Out is a revelatory account of family\, complicity\, loss\, and what it means to find your way back home. \nAbout The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss\n“The Trail to Kanjiroba is a transformative path on the page by one of America’s most eloquent writers. Bill deBuys has written a walking prayer about beauty\, hope\, and longing in the service of human dignity and a living planet. Though set in Nepal in the high altitude grace of Dolpo\, this is a spiritual pilgrimage contemplating the journey from grief toward love. Hands pressed together\, I hold these words close and bow.”–Terry Tempest Williams \nIn 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo\, a remote\, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal\, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction\, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned in recent years about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth–a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of the earth’s most remote regions\, his writing celebrates the staggering natural beauty and biodiversity he finds there\, and gives his readers a history lesson of two scientific discoveries–evolution and plate tectonics–that forever changed sapiens’ understanding of our planet. Written in a lush and nuanced style evocative of Paul Theroux or Peter Matthiessen\, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare\, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that needs to be done. \nAbout the authors \nWilliam deBuys is the author of ten books\, including The Last Unicorn\, one of Christian Science Monitor’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015; River of Traps\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. In 2008-2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New Mexico. \nLucas Bessire is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucas-bessire-and-william-debuys-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #77
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\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:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# 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+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro Murguía
DESCRIPTION:discussing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s \nNot A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion \npublished by Beacon Press \nDebunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants\, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States. \n———- \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 coming soon!) \n———– \nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro. \nAlejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book The Medicine of Memory highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He was a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade\, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America. Currently he is a professor in Latina Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the short story “The Other Barrio” which first appeared in the anthology San Francisco Noir and recently filmed in the street of the Mission District. In poetry he has published Spare Poems\, and this year a new collection Native Tongue. He is the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino poet to hold the position. \nPraise for Not A Nation of Immigrants \n“In this book\, a precious gift drawn from an amazingly rich life and a prodigious life of learning\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz urges us to disavow the violence of the US settler nation-state\, its discursive erasures of native peoples and its material relations of dispossession. The struggle for workers’ rights and working-class solidarity\, she reminds us\, involves the fight against capitalism\, imperialism\, and colonialism for the liberation of all peoples.”\n—Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation \n“Not ‘a Nation of Immigrants’ challenges to the core one of the most dominant narratives about the United States\, as a country founded by and welcoming for immigrants. Dunbar-Ortiz’s captivating and accessible historical account forces a reckoning with the various layers of the US imperialist project\, from territorial control to economic and political influence at the expense of Black populations\, migrants\, and Indigenous peoples. This myth-shattering book addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time by demonstrating the implications of White supremacy across time\, across groups and spaces\, and the connections between them. If there is hope for transformation\, it is through the careful\, systematic work that this book exemplifies by examining the roots of racism and structural inequality\, and bringing forward alternative narratives and movements. It is a must-read.”\n—Alexandra Délano\, chair and associate professor of global studies\, The New School \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has produced a remarkable\, engrossing\, and readable reexamination of US history. She unites an analysis of the construction of ‘race’ and racism\, with the construction of settler colonialism\, demonstrating both the historical inaccuracy as well as the strategic blind spot created by thinking of the USA as a ‘nation of immigrants.’ But she does more. Dunbar-Ortiz links the construction of the US as a racial settler state with the growth of US imperialism\, decisively demonstrating that global expansion was not accidental nor a matter of policy alone\, but the direct outcome of the DNA of the racial settler state.”\n—Bill Fletcher Jr.\, trade unionist and author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!” And Twenty Other Myths About Unions \n“What do the Iroquois or Navajo think of the Statue of Liberty? With characteristic grit and brio\, Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates how profoundly the settler colonial history of the United States and the ideology of ‘white nativism’ have shaped both immigration policy and immigrant identity.”\n—Mike Davis\, author of Prisoners of the American Dream \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”\n—Ishmael Reed \n“This book is meticulously researched and written with eloquence and passion. With it\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, one of our preeminent radical historians\, once again delivers a powerful and provocative indictment of settler colonialism and white nationalism\, which were foundational in building this country. It could not be more timely. A must-read history for our troubling present.”\n—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s incisive book Not ‘a Nation of Immigrants’ challenges the multicultural myth of US nationalist triumphalism and\, instead\, powerfully exposes settler colonialism\, wars of conquest\, and white nationalism as central pillars of immigration. This is a must-read to finally discard unquestioning settler American liberalism and patriotism.”\n—Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism \n“Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz rightly argues that the United States is not ‘a nation of immigrants’ but\, more accurately\, a nation of colonizers. A must-read.”\n—Nick Estes (Lakota)\, author of Our History Is the Future \n“We are here because you were there. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz methodically unravels the pernicious myth of ‘a nation of immigrants\,’ standing in the way of collective well-being on this continent and beyond.”\n—Manu Karuka\, author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations\, Chinese Workers\, and the Transcontinental Railroad \n“Once again\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates why she is one of the foremost historical scholars we have today\, and Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants’ is her most crucial offering yet\, opening new insights on this country’s sordid history of systemic oppression\, exclusion\, and erasure. If we look honestly at ourselves\, as human beings occupying this specific slice of space and time together\, we see that Dunbar-Ortiz is giving us a thoroughly researched and genuine road map for what we can become\, if we dare. Vital reading for anyone with two eyes\, a brain\, and a beating heart.”\n—Tim Z. Hernandez\, author of All They Will Call You \n“Simply put\, if you read this book and learn its lessons\, you will have to change everything you think about the history of the United States and the terms we use to fight for justice. It’s your call\, but I suggest you put the book in your basket and head for the check-out counter right now.”\n—Walter Johnson\, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States \n“From being deeply shaken and disturbed\, to ultimately feeling exhilarated and optimistic by Dunbar-Ortiz’s conclusion and ‘call to arms\,’ this is a paradigm-shifting work. Dunbar-Ortiz eviscerates ‘the benevolent version of US nationalism’ by showing how the United States has always sought to enlist its new arrivals as accomplices to colonial conquest and mass murder. There is a reckoning on every page of this liberating book.”\n—Patrick Higgins\, anti-imperialist historian and activist \n“Placing settler colonialism at the center\, Dunbar-Ortiz untangles the meaning of immigration in a settler state based on the elimination of the Native population. The book traces a ‘self-indigenizing narrative’ by which white immigrants laid claim to the country\, turning an aggressive white nationalism into the foundation of US identity. European immigrants became American\, and became white\, Dunbar-Ortiz shows\, by adopting the country’s settler identity. In a tour de force that takes readers from the American Revolution to nineteenth-century New Mexico to contemporary Appalachia to Hamilton and Donald Trump\, she shows how different groups of immigrants assimilated into a settler identity that perpetuates US racism and militarism. The book also makes clear that a superficial ‘multicultural’ approach to revising US history still fails to tackle the heart of the problem: colonialism. You will never look at US history the same way after reading Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants.’”\n—Aviva Chomsky\, author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Lucas Bessire and William DeBuys
DESCRIPTION:Anthropologist Lucas Bessire and novelist and conservationist William DeBuys join us for a virtual event about their new books\, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton UP) and The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss (Seven Stories Press). The two will discuss the increasingly imperiled water supply in the western U.S. and ways to confront the difficult challenges of the climate emergency. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains\n“Bessire’s Running Out masterfully shifts among scales and genres and in doing so lets the personal\, the historic\, and the geologic reveal their intimacies and competing urgencies. A beautiful and unusual book\, and wholly original.” –Rivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch \nThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. \nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas\, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers\, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture\, eroding democratic norms\, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable\, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead\, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive\, sustainable future. \nAn urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change\, Running Out is a revelatory account of family\, complicity\, loss\, and what it means to find your way back home. \nAbout The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss\n“The Trail to Kanjiroba is a transformative path on the page by one of America’s most eloquent writers. Bill deBuys has written a walking prayer about beauty\, hope\, and longing in the service of human dignity and a living planet. Though set in Nepal in the high altitude grace of Dolpo\, this is a spiritual pilgrimage contemplating the journey from grief toward love. Hands pressed together\, I hold these words close and bow.”–Terry Tempest Williams \nIn 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo\, a remote\, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal\, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction\, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned in recent years about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth–a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of the earth’s most remote regions\, his writing celebrates the staggering natural beauty and biodiversity he finds there\, and gives his readers a history lesson of two scientific discoveries–evolution and plate tectonics–that forever changed sapiens’ understanding of our planet. Written in a lush and nuanced style evocative of Paul Theroux or Peter Matthiessen\, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare\, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that needs to be done. \nAbout the authors \nWilliam deBuys is the author of ten books\, including The Last Unicorn\, one of Christian Science Monitor’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015; River of Traps\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. In 2008-2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New Mexico. \nLucas Bessire is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life.
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