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SUMMARY:For Young Adults! Dallas Woodburn in Conversation with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Launch and discussion of her new novel\, The Best Week That Never Happened\, “a poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. –Jennifer Niven\, author of All the Bright Places \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Best Week That Never Happenedby speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below to order online. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter her parents’ bitter divorce\, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles\, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule\, her best friend from childhood. Now\, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet\, no cell phone\, purse\, or plane ticket\, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer\, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning\, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can’t she reach her parents or friends from home? And what’s with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds\, Tegan will experience the magic of first love\, the hope of second chances\, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human. \nDallas Woodburn is a recent John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize and second place in the American Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. She is also the founder of Write On! Books (www.writeonbooks.org)\, an organization empowering youth through reading and writing endeavors. \nStephanie Kuehn is the author of many books for young adults including Charm & Strange\, Complicit\, and Delicate Monsters.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nina Renata Aron: Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men's Souls
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Nina Renata Aronto read from her new book\, Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls on Tuesday\, April 21st at 7pm. \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere..
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #59 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate 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. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
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