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SUMMARY:Steel Yourself Before You Reveal Yourself
DESCRIPTION:A good journalist reports the story\, but never becomes the story. But as essayists and non-fiction writers\, we’re not journalists. Sometimes our lives are\, in fact\, the story. What does it mean to write about ourselves and our lives\, and then\, to publish that writing? What does it mean when people read that writing\, and discuss it—and us—publicly\, as well as privately? \nAlexander Chee (How To Write an Autobiographical Novel)\, Morgan Jerkins (This May Be My Undoing)\, and Joseph Osmundson (Virology\, forthcoming 2022) will discuss the choice to write about ourselves and dive into the public discourse as both writer and subject\, and how to prepare for the unique scrutiny that comes with essay\, memoir\, and autobiographical writing. They will also offer tools to help writers determine how much of themselves to reveal in their writing in the first place. Moderated by Electric Literature’s Editor-in-Chief Denne Michele Norris. Their conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A. This event is part of Electric Lit’s Fall 2021 series\, presented by Mount Saint Mary’s University.
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SUMMARY:Rick Riordan
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\n\n\nRICK RIORDAN IS BACK! \nJoin us online to hear Rick Riordan tell us all about his new action-packed underwater adventure\, Daughter of the Deep\, an exciting modern take on Jules Verne’s  20\,000 Leagues Under the Sea. We couldn’t be more excited. \n\n\n\n\nAna Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy\, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists\, naval warriors\, navigators\, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana’s parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago\, and the only family’s she’s got left is her older brother\, Dev\, also a student at HP. Ana’s freshman year culminates with the class’s weekend trial at sea\, the details of which have been kept secret. She only hopes she has what it’ll take to succeed. All her worries are blown out of the water when\, on the bus ride to the ship\, Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives. \nBut wait\, there’s more. The professor accompanying them informs Ana that their rival school\, Land Institute\, and Harding-Pencroft have been fighting a cold war for a hundred and fifty years. Now that cold war has been turned up to a full broil\, and the freshman are in danger of becoming fish food. In a race against deadly enemies\, Ana will make amazing friends and astounding discoveries about her heritage as she puts her leadership skills to the test for the first time. \nGet ready to dive into Daughter of the Deep\, an undersea adventure full of Rick Riordan’s trademark humor\, fast-paced action\, and wide cast of characters.. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRick Riordan\, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly\, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians\, The Heroes of Olympus\, and the Trials of Apollo\, based on Greek and Roman mythology; the Kane Chronicles\, based on Ancient Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard\, based on Norse mythology. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two #1 New York Times best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney-Hyperion\, Rick Riordan Presents\, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. Rick’s presentations are always the best. and sell out early.  \nPlease note: Ticket includes a SIGNED copy of Daughter of the Deep and a commemorative t-shirt (while supplies last). T-shirts are one size: XL child/Small adult
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rick-riordan-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Victoria Chang and Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 12th at 6pm PT when Victoria Chang and Ari Banias celebrate the launch of their latest books Dear Memory: Letters on Writing\, Silence\, and Grief and A Symmetry on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Dear Memory \n“After the impressive formal innovations of her 2020 books\, OBIT\, which won multiple national awards\, Chang continues to find new ways to plumb her experiences on the page . . . Depending on what one brings to this book\, each reader may find their own moment of goosebumps or tears . . . This book is moving in a way that transcends story and message; it captures a purse sense of another person’s heart.” —Kirkus Reviews\, Starred Review \n“Chang has assembled a collection of letters to family\, past teachers\, and fellow poets\, as well as family memorabilia\, creating not just a moving family history but a rumination on the creative and self-shaping act of remembering.” —Literary Hub\, “Most Anticipated Books of 2021” \n“A moving consideration of ancestry and loss . . . [Chang’s] prose is sharp and strong—memory is the ‘exit wound of joy\,’ she writes—and her creativity shines in her incorporation of the collage-like visual elements\, which add depth. Fans of Chang’s poetry will be delighted.” —Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \nAbout Dear Memory \n“Victoria Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums.” —THE MILLIONS \nA collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. \nFor poet Victoria Chang\, memory “isn’t something that blooms\, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed\, summoned\, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly\, and the silences of her father\, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license\, a letter\, a visa petition\, a photograph. And\, just as often\, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered. \nDear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped\, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history\, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted missives on trauma and loss\, on being American and Chinese\, Victoria Chang shows how grief can ignite a longing to know yourself. \nIn letters to family\, past teachers\, and fellow poets\, as the imagination\, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories. \nAbout Victoria Chang \nVictoria Chang is the author of Dear Memory. Her poetry books include OBIT\, Barbie Chang\, The Boss\, Salvinia Molesta\, and Circle. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children’s picture book\, Is Mommy?\, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a New York Times Notable Book\, and a middle grade novel\, Love\, Love. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship\, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA program. \nPraise for A Symmetry \n“’Refuse the difference between sameness and difference.’ Refuse the possibility that saying it all on a song won’t change the baseline of what happened. Ari Banias’ poetry sits in an abandoned chair under the overpass\, atop an ‘oil slick on the Aegean’ looking ‘at\, not through’ reality’s immeasurables that the poet is called to count\, holding it all in mind so we can also hold it. A T-shirt hanging out the window\, ‘scratched glass Fanta bottles filled and refilled\,’ ‘the ruined tanneries beside the seawall’—when you add everything up x times x\, what do you get? Only the precarious balance of the world\, and a trust in that voice of A Symmetry earned with each self-deflecting playful flourish. The paper antiquity of NYC coffee cups & ‘A doric column / squatting in a strip mall’ & ‘the discotheque / painted tourist pink with a classical name’ evoke the churn of some perpetual history whose action-reaction is embodied in the motion of lyrical meter and the news reports this book takes apart. The poet calls it: ‘A yellow butterfly that has no interest in me. / I have no interest in kings.’ Such cosmic foreshortening disembarrasses the poem from imperial valence until all that’s left of the book is ‘just the tree.’ When Ari Banias says ‘don’t be sorry for the future sand / this stone wall will become’ one can almost let it go. Almost.” —Ana Božičević\, author of JOMO \n“The surge\, the swell\, and the casual mutability of the borders and breaks that ensconce our world are laid bare in A Symmetry\, Ari Banias’s incandescent new collection of poems. Early on\, these pieces acknowledge the transmutable\, shifting world—acknowledge the indecency of anything that purports to be static and staid. Even the I is the I only as long as it resists all other possible orientations. Banias ingests the discrete\, itinerant minutes\, which makes his work come alive at the edges\, the thresholds\, and the charged moment where distance can finally collapse. The continuous jostling is generous\, though. In it we remember the permutations that have existed\, do exist\, and that will exist in the future. Near the end of A Symmetry\, Banias ropes “a brief fish / netted / partly recovered / the sweat of a horse / the wet of its eye.” These objects are momentarily linked and next time we see them\, their potential will likely be revealed in an entirely new arrangement. This is one way to see—what taut instructions Banias has given us.”—Asiya Wadud\, author of No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body \nAbout A Symmetry \nUnsettling the myth of an ordered reality through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry\, A Symmetry considers the inscriptions of nationhood\, language\, and ancestral memory. A window washer wields an impossibly long mop in the mirrored pane of a Greek government building; strangers mesmerize us while they fold sheets into perfect corners. “Artists who design border wall prototypes are artists / who say they ‘leave politics out of it.’” \nIn meditative wanderings and compressed\, enigmatic lyrics\, Ari Banias probes the sometimes-touching\, often-violent mundane to draw out the intimate\, social proportions of our material world. \nAbout Ari Banias \nAri Banias is the author of A Symmetry (W. W. Norton\, 2021) and Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His work has been supported by Headlands Center for the Arts\, MacDowell\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. He lives and teaches in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-victoria-chang-and-ari-banias/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Saul Griffith with Laura Fraser / Launch for Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are thrilled to present the launch for Saul Griffith and his book Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future. He’ll be in conversation with Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Electrify 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\nAn optimistic—but realistic and feasible—action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. \nClimate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify\, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure\, update our grid\, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars\, but the rest of us\, Griffith says\, will stay and fight for the future. \nGriffith\, an engineer and inventor\, calls for grid neutrality\, ensuring that households\, businesses\, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world\, mobilize industry as we did in World War II\, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big\, not-yet-invented innovations\, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis\, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to 25 million\, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else. \nAbout the authors\nSaul Griffith\, inventor\, entrepreneur\, and engineer\, is founder of Rewiring America\, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything\, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007. \nLaura Fraser is a journalist and author of three books of nonfiction\, including the NYT-bestselling memoir\, An Italian Affair. As founder and editorial director of Shebooks\, she published 75 short ebooks by women before selling the company to Shewrites Press. She lives around the corner from the Booksmith and launched all three of her books here. She’s also interviewed several authors for the Booksmith. Lately\, she has been collaborating with Saul Griffith and Rewiring America\, the organization he founded. So while she is not objective about the material in Saul’s new book\, she is well-acquainted with it. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-saul-griffith-with-laura-fraser-launch-for-electrify-an-optimists-playbook-for-our-clean-energy-future/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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