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SUMMARY:J.D. Moyer - - The Guardian
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel\, The Guardian\, on Thursday\, September 26th at 7pm. \nIn the year 2737\, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano\, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem\, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter\, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village\, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation. Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana\, the tentacle-enhanced ‘Squid Woman’\, while protecting a secret that could change the course of humanity and civilization. The Guardian\, the sequel to the The Sky Woman\, is a story of colliding worlds and the contested repopulation of a wild Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners\, and exciting\, original voices. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJ.D. Moyer lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, daughter\, and mystery-breed dog. He writes science fiction\, produces electronic music in two groups (Jondi & Spesh and Momu)\, runs a record label (Loöq Records)\, and blogs at jdmoyer.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/j-d-moyer-the-guardian/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.
DESCRIPTION:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL\nin conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal\, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nOn Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now. \nFor more than a decade\, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate\, she argues that only this kind of bold\, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time. \nThese long-form essays\, based on her extensive research and reporting\, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical\, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more\, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.\n​\nWith dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest\, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico\, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change\, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanity’s greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity. \n——————- \nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Author photo by Suzanne DeChillo for The New York Times. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery.\n​\nAbout Mother Jones: Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment\, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education\, climate change\, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website\, social-media presence\, videos\, podcasts\, email newsletters\, and print magazine. Our fellowship program is one of the premier training grounds for emerging investigative storytellers. Founded in 1976\, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington\, DC\, and New York. We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you\, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.” \n​This event is co-presented by The Leap\, Sunrise Movement\, and The Intercept. \n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-klein-presents-the-burning-case-for-a-green-new-deal-in-conversation-with-the-editor-in-chief-of-mother-jones-clara-jeffery/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton
DESCRIPTION:September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton\nKathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books\, 2018)\, which Indigo Moor called\, “a wondrous example of how to loop a mesmerizing arc through a body of work\,” and Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press\, 2013)\, which Jean Hegland called an “excellent collection” that “offers many succinct glimpses of deeply lived lives.” Her poems appear in Southwest Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, Naugatuck River Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ekphrasis\, cahoodaloodaling\, Forgotten Women\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. She has been the winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, and Maria W. Faust poetry prizes\, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. She is Associate Director and sonnet judge for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, and she teaches at Skyline College and The Writing Salon in San Francisco. In 2018-19 she is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. www.kathleenmcclung.com \nGrace Marie Grafton’s newest book\, Lens(Unsolicited Press\, 2019)\, features poems inspired by the art of California. She has published six additional collections\, including Jester\, (Hip Pocket Press\, 2013)\, Whimsy\, Reticence\, and Laud: Unruly Sonnets (Poetic Matrix Press\, 2012)\, and Other Clues (RAW ArT PRESS\, 2010). Her poems have won first prize in the Soul Making Keats contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, as well as awards from the Bellingham Review and The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught with California Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve California Arts Council grants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathleen-mcclung-grace-marie-grafton/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Boyer:The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Oct 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley \nWebsite \n“The Undying is a startling\, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health\, art and science\, language and literature\, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ‘the ideological regime of cancer\,’ Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.” \n—Sally Rooney\, author of Normal People \nAnne Boyer is a poet and essayist who lives in Kansas City. Her honors include the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, a 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry\, and the 2018-2019 Judith E. Wilson Fellowship in poetry at Cambridge University. She is the author of several collections of poetry\, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award-winning Garments Against Women and a book of fables\, essays\, and ephemera titled A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. Her memoir The Undying: Pain\, Vulnerability\, Mortality\, Medicine\, Art\, Time\, Dreams\, Data\, Exhaustion\, Cancer\, and Care will be published by FSG this fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-boyerthe-undying/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191001T193000
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 1\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-5/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T170000
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SUMMARY:Jericho Brown
DESCRIPTION:Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book\, Please (2008)\, won the American Book Award. His second book\, The New Testament (2014)\, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019). He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jericho-brown/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: Poets Laureate on Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Poetry at Pegasus: Poets Laureate on Social Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 3\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFive Poets Laureate share poems around a theme of social justice. Featuring: \n–D.L. Lang\, Vallejo Poet Laureate 2017-2019 \n–Indigo Moor\, Sacramento Poet Laureate 2017-present \n–Rafael Jesús González\, Berkeley Poet Laureate 2017-present \n–Cynthia Patton\, Livermore Poet Laureate 2017-present \n–Julia Connor\, Sacramento Poet Laureate 2005-2009 \n–and host Ron Riekki\, co-editor of Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 3\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-poets-laureate-on-social-justice/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mike Jay: Mescaline: A global history of the first psychedelic
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Oct 04\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \n MIKE JAY is an author and cultural historian who has written widely on the history of drugs. His books include High Society: mind-altering drugs in history and culture and his latest\, Mescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic. He is based in London\, UK. More at mikejay.net \nMescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic explores its mind-altering effects across cultures from the ancient Americas to western modernity. From pre-Inca temple cults in the Andes to indigenous peyote use in Mexico\, the Native American Church to the experiences of William James\, Walter Benjamin and Hunter S. Thompson\, it is an enthralling narrative of mescaline’s many lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-jay-mescaline-a-global-history-of-the-first-psychedelic/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T193000
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SUMMARY:Patricia Smith in conversation with Ajuan Mance
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Smith in conversation with Ajuan Mance\nFriday\, October 4\, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Lisser Hall\nPlease join us for this special event\, presented by We Are the Voices\, made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Poet Patricia Smith will give a reading followed by a conversation with Mills faculty\, scholar\, and visual artist Ajuan Mance. \nA master of poetic forms\, Patricia Smith’s poetry fearlessly engages with America’s continuous war on black bodies. She is the award-winning author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry\, most recently Incendiary Art\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, NAACP Image Award\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Smith is a Guggenheim fellow and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and teaches widely\, including at the VONA summer workshop.\nLaleh Khadivi\, photo by Ed Ntiri\nLaleh Khadivi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-smith-in-conversation-with-ajuan-mance/
LOCATION:Lisser Hall\, Kapiolani Rd\, Oakland\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy\n\n\n\n\npresent Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark\, a coffee table book featuring heartfelt letters from fans of the San Francisco 49ers hero\, with essays by Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.\, Ronnie Lott\, Joe Montana\, Brian Murphy\, and Kelly Clark. Letters to 87 also offers rare photos from Michael Zagaris\, Brad Mangin\, and John Storey. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Letters to 87 by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, October 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFootball fans will always remember “The Catch” as the moment a dynasty was born. When Dwight Clark received the touchdown pass that sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in 1982\, an indelible moment was etched into the history of the NFL. Later\, as Clark battled ALS\, he and sportswriter Matt Maiocco put out a call to fans\, asking them to share their memories of this moment. The letters that Clark and Maiocco received tell the story of how the man who wore number 87 brought together a city and a franchise through his sincerity\, his loyalty\, and his spirit for life and the game. \nAll royalties will go the the Golden Heart Fund\, a nonprofit arm of the 49ers that helps support former 49er players. Find out more at www.lettersto87.com. \nMatt Maiocco\, beat reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area\, has covered the San Francisco 49ers for over a decade. Brad Mangin is a photographer who\, since 1987\, has captured the biggest stars in professional sports. Brian Murphy is half of KNBR’s « Murph and Mac » sports report. He’s written six books\, three of which celebrate the World Series Champions SF Giants. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-maiocco-brad-mangin-brian-murphy/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T150000
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Lucille Lang Day
DESCRIPTION:Lucille Lang Day reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. \nLucille Lang Day was born in Oakland\, where she still lives. Day has several books of poetry\, including The Curvature of Blue\, Infinities\, and Becoming an Ancestor. She has also written children’s books and a memoir\, and has edited anthologies\, most lately Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. \nA free chapbook of Day’s poems is available from all the BPL branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-lucille-lang-day/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T180000
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1969\, Small Press Distribution (SPD) of Berkeley celebrates 50 years as the nation’s only literary nonprofit book distributor. SPD is honored to distribute and advocate for over 400 independent publishers\, bridging connections between underserved readers and a broad coalition of essential but underrepresented authors. In conjunction with our community partners at the Berkeley Art Center\, it is our great pleasure to celebrate our 50th anniversary by honoring the vibrant Bay Area literary community\, as well as the advocates\, readers\, and writers who have sustained and inspired SPD for decades. \n  \nSPD will honor three local literary luminaries who we believe have made significant\, invaluable contributions to Bay Area literary culture over the last decade. Samantha Giles\, winner of the 2019 California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry\, served as the executive director of Small Press Traffic\, stewarding innovation in San Francisco literature through events\, workshops\, and community advocacy. Owen Hill is a novelist\, editor\, and the co-curator of events at radical\, independent store Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year. J.K. Fowler is a writer and the founder and executive director of Nomadic Press\, a community-focused literary and arts non-profit with operations in Oakland\, CA\, Des Moines\, IA\, and Brooklyn\, NY. We are proud to have worked in such close proximity to these wonderful writers and organizers over the years.  \n  \nOn Saturday\, October 5th\, we invite you to join us for SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration! The event will be held at the Berkeley Art Center and will feature readings from our honored guests\, followed by a community reception and celebration. Doors open at 3pm.  The BAC is located at 1275 Walnut Street in North Berkeley; the event is free and open to the public. For more information\, visit: bit.ly/SPDPresents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents-small-press-distributions-50th-anniversary-reading-celebration/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Release: this is my body
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce the release of this is my body\, an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies in the world they exist in. Each piece is accompanied by a powerful stage performance bringing the words from the page to life. \nJoin us at Nomadic Press for the release on Saturday\, October 5\, from 7–9 PM and help us celebrate these fierce women and their stories. \nBooks will be sold at the event. Wine and gnosh will be provided. Free and open to anyone to attend. Donations will be called for during the event\, but of course\, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-this-is-my-body/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T213000
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SUMMARY:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín
DESCRIPTION:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFahira Róisín shares poems from her new collection\, How to Cure a Ghost. \nFollowing in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I\, Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young\, queer\, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously\, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother\, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks\, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.\n \nPRAISE\n “When I first encountered Fariha’s writing\, I let out a sigh of relief. Was it refreshing? Yes. But there was something more. Her words allow us to feel visible. Fariha’s writing has the power to heal and transform. She pulls you into her stories until you’re at the edge of your seat\, emphatically rooting for her subjects.” \n— Rupi Kuar \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nFariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer\, editor\, and podcaster based in Brooklyn. Her writing often explores Muslim identity\, race\, pop culture\, and film. It also examines the intersection of queerness and being a femme of color while navigating a white world. She has written for The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Guardian\, Vice\, Fusion\, Village Voice and others. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-cure-a-ghost-poems-with-fariha-roisin/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T220000
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SUMMARY:Beth Elliott
DESCRIPTION:6:30 PM potluck\, 7:30 PM show. Singer-songwriter and author Beth Elliott featured at Works in Progress Women’s Open Mic\, a WOMEN-ONLY event. Open Mic for poetry\, prose\, music and more. Plymouth United Church of Christ\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, CA. $7-10 admission buys raffle ticket for one of ten prizes. \nThe event is scent-free\, and the meal and performance space are wheelchair-accessible. Unfortunately\, the bathroom\, while on the same floor as the meal and performance space\, is not fully accessible. \nAll women\, cis and trans\, are welcome. If you would like to perform\, please contact the host Linda Zeiser WELL IN ADVANCE at ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com or (510) 701-1022‬ to reserve your 5- to 10-minute open-mic slot. \nA shadowy figure of lesbian culture\, third-generation Bay Area native BETH ELLIOTT continues to write\, make music\, engage in feminist activism\, and pursue her Goddess visions in a way true to her counterculture roots. Though she shares responsibility for some early milestones in lesbian freedom\, she ended up a women’s community outlier at a young age. She credits this with pushing herself to explore her individual creativity\, calling it a simple “lack of adult supervision.” Her songs delight with their wit\, even the darker ones. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-elliott/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linda Zeiser":MAILTO:ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T193000
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 15\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. She is the author of three novels that form an interconnected trilogy about nationalism\, belonging\, and migration. Khadivi is the recipient of the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Sun\, and other publications. She is an alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Mills College and a professor at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laleh-khadivi-2/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T213000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Ruiz Keil presents All of Us with Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMichelle Ruiz Keil reads from and signs copies of All of Us with Wings\, a YA magical realism novel about love\, found family\, and healing from trauma. An ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. \n   \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being  \n  \nAbout All of Us With Wings: \nSeventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco\, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her\, the man who betrayed her. Then one day\, she meets Pallas\, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household\, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. \nBut on the night of the Vernal Equinox\, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below\, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun\, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life\, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her\, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen\, nor the one she left behind. \n\nAbout the Author:\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx novelist and playwright with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. She teaches writing with a focus on fairytale\, divination\, and archetype and curates All Kinds of Fur: A Fairytale Reading Series and Salon in Portland\, Oregon. She has been a fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Lit Camp and is a member of Las Musas\, a collective of Latinx kidlit authors. Her published short fiction can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue and the forthcoming anthology Color Outside The Lines. You can follow her on Twitter @MichelleRKeil and on Instagram @MichelleRuizKeil. ALL OF US WITH WINGS is her first novel. \n\nPRAISE\nA Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019\nA Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019\nA Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019\nA Book Riot Must-Read Debut Book of 2019 \n“Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function . . . [this is] a book about embracing everything—people\, lifestyles\, beliefs\, experiences—and\, in so doing\, finding your own distinct power.”\n—The New York Times Book Review \n“In her debut novel\, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era.”\n—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music\, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.”\n—Ruth Ozeki\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music\, rage\, and characters that sing with purpose. Keil is a new voice to keep an eye on.”\n—Zoraida Córdova\, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost   \n“A love letter to live music\, a poem to a city in novel form\, and a poignantly nuanced examination of the ways in which performance impacts life on and off stage. In equal parts realistic detail and surreal vision\, All of Us with Wings bursts off the page and goes with you into real life.”\n—Anna-Marie McLemore\, author of Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca & Roja \n“All of Us with Wings is a decadent slice of post-punk rockstardom that will have you begging to stay at the party till sunrise. This gorgeous debut looks unflinchingly into often unexplored experiences of adolescence—abuse and addiction\, lust and desire\, found families and chosen homes—finding beauty and redemption even in the darkest places.”\n—Tehlor Kay Mejia\, author of We Set the Dark on Fire \n“I’m convinced that Michelle Ruiz Keil has woven a magic spell into these pages. All of Us with Wings is gorgeous\, gritty\, and utterly transfixing.”\n—Sara Holland\, New York Times bestselling author of Everless \n“Michelle Ruiz Keil puts exquisite language and wild imagination to the fierce onslaught of sensation and doubt that is adolescence. This is a story for young adults\, but perhaps it is also a deeply poetic tale of what is lost in the transition to adulthood.”\n—Joanna Rose\, author of Little Miss Strange \n“An irresistible punk rock spirit . . . sets it apart from standard fantasy fare.”\n—Popsugar \n“[An] atmospheric debut . . . Keil plays with prose and imagery\, interweaving the dreamlike language of Francesca Lia Block with a Latin-American sensibility. The frank inclusion of sexual exploration and drug use adds an extra level of maturity to this thoughtful story about trauma and vengeance\, adult decision making\, and recovery.”\n—Publishers Weekly  \n“This intricately constructed urban fantasy is complex and beautiful\, blending folklore\, San Franciscan history\, the music scene\, vampires\, magic\, and the intertwined lives of characters\, including a cat named Peasblossom who sees and understands more than the humans . . . Fantasy fans will find this book appealing\, fun\, and hard to put down.”\n—School Library Journal \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-ruiz-keil-presents-all-of-us-with-wings/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
DESCRIPTION:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters\, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley\, and The Aspen Institute co-present an evening with Megan Phelps-Roper for her debut book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. \nAt the age of five\, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka\, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family\, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up\, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters\, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb – which\, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman\, she learned to do with great skill. Soon\, however\, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible\, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics\, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point – and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life. \nA gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love\, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening\, her departure from the church\, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection\, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization. \nYou can watch Megan’s TED talk here. \n——————- \nMegan Phelps-Roper is a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist Church in November 2012 and is now an educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. She lives in South Dakota. \nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-phelps-roper-presents-unfollow-a-memoir-of-loving-and-leaving-the-westboro-baptist-church/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T213000
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SUMMARY:Prerna Lal
DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal\n\n\n\n\nlaunching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prerna-lal/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-12/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T213000
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SUMMARY:LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl
DESCRIPTION:LIT-Crawl SF\nPlease join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street!\n5:00pm – Phase 1:  TONGO EISEN-MARTIN and friends \n8:00pm – Phase 3:  THE RACKET: INFO \nDownload the Lit Crawl map here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-lit-crawl-2/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191020T160000
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SUMMARY:Zeitgeist Press Presents: Julia Vinograd Release Party – Selected Works and Tribute Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Zeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books with a celebration at Himalayan Flavors. Publisher Bruce Isaacson has put together A Symphony for Broken Instruments\, a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume\, which is 384 pages in total\, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event\, editor Deborah Fruchey presents Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue\, the new tribute anthology of poems to\, for\, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers. \nPlease join us for a festive afternoon celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. \nZeitgeist Press Presents: \nJulia Vinograd Release Party –  Selected Works and Tribute Anthology \n  \nwith \nBruce Isaacson presenting A Symphony for Broken Instruments: Selected and New Works by Julia Vinograd \nand \nDeborah Fruchey presenting the Julia Vinograd tribute anthology Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue \n  \nwith readings from both volumes \nHosted by Bruce Isaacson & Deborah Fruchey \nSunday\, October 20\, 2019 \n2-4 pm \n  \nevent is free of charge and books for sale at a one-time discount \n  \nABOUT JULIA VINOGRAD \n  \nJulia Vinograd\, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley\, California\, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018).  She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley\, where her mother was a poet and English Professor.  Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.  She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. This book represents a life’s work of Street Poems that are accessible\, charming\, and deeply human.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zeitgeist-press-presents-julia-vinograd-release-party-selected-works-and-tribute-anthology/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T213000
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Weschler
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\n\n\n\n\npresents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks\, the untold story of the famous neurologist\, his own most singular patient. \n“The story of Lawrence Weschler’s faithful four-decade friendship with the amazing Oliver Sacks offers pleasures and amazements on every page. This loving but unblinking portrait will delight fans of Dr. Sacks as well as devotees of Weschler’s always-pathfinding nonfiction.”–Ian Frazier \nTo reserve your seat in advance please purchase a copy of And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? by speaking with a bookseller or clicking on the cover image below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s\, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier\, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings–the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success\, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years\, the two men worked closely together until\, for wracking personal reasons\, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile\, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends\, however\, across the next thirty years and then\, just as Sacks was dying\, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. \nWeschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief\, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious\, ribald\, hilarious\, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say\, How do you be? \nA question which Weschler\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nLawrence Weschler\, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR\, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and the author of nearly twenty books\, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees\, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, Everything That Rises\, and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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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:Rosalind Brackenbury returns to read from her exquisite new novel\, Without Her.
DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Without Her in advance by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her house in the south of France\, everyone assumes that Claudia\, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school\, will know where she is\, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah’s husband and children conduct their search\, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah\, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover\, Alexandre. As events unfold\, Claudia begins to wonder if Hannah and Alexandre may have had an affair and if that has had something to do with Hannah’s mysterious disappearance. In this exquisitely written\, Ferrante-esque novel\, the question of whether or not Hannah will come back becomes urgent and bewildering. And if she doesn’t come back\, what will the lives of her friends and family be without her? \nPoet and novelist Rosalind Brackenbury is the author of Becoming George Sand\, Paris Still Life\, The Third Swimmer\, and The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier. A former writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary\, she has also served as poet laureate of Key West\, teaching poetry workshops. Born in London\, Rosalind lived in Scotland and France before moving to the United States. She now lives in Key West. Her latest poetry collection\, Invisible Horses\, was published in May. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosalind-brackenbury-returns-to-read-from-her-exquisite-new-novel-without-her/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T190000
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SUMMARY:Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley
DESCRIPTION:October 25\, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold\, Renée Owen\, & Chuck Brickley\nBruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Bruce’s haiku have been published world-wide and have won numerous awards including the Haiku Poets of Northern California Chime Award (2012)\, First Place in the HPNC International Senryu Contest (2012)\, First Prize in the Haiku Canada Betty Drevnoik Award (2018)\, Third Place in the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2011)\, First Place in the Hawaii Education Association Twenty-Eighth Annual International Haiku Contest\, Hawaii Word (2005)\, and the Individual Poem Haiku Foundation Touchstone Shortlist (2011).  His haiku have been chosen four times for the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. Old Enough(2016)\, Sunrise on the Lodge (2010) and\, A New Moon (2004) were published by Red Moon Press.  Bruce is on the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation\, chairs The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards\, and is the Vice-President of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. \nRenée Owen‘s reading will feature haiku & haibun\, accompanied by her musician husband\, Brian Foster\, on shakuhachi. Her full-length collection\, Alone on a Wild Coast\, jointly received first prize in the Snapshot Press Book Awards and Honourable Mention in the 2014 Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. She edited Scent of the Past…Imperfect (Two Autumns Press)\, receiving Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2017 Merit Book Awards. Renée’s handsewn chapbook Blossoms was commended in Modern Haiku\, and her poetry\, widely published internationally\, has won numerous awards\, including Haiku Society of America contests\, CVHC’s Kilbride Haibun Contests\, and the San Francisco International Haiku and Rengay Competitions. Renée serves on The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards’ Individual Haiku juror panel\, has judged numerous contests\, and has selections of her work featured in Haiku 21 and New Resonance 7:Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. Her poetry is also featured in her award-winning mixed-media book & fiber artwork. A practicing psychotherapist\, she enjoys hiking the wilds near her North Bay home. \nA native San Franciscan\, Chuck Brickley lived in rural British Columbia for thirty-five years. He was Associate Editor of Modern Haiku under the editorship of Bob Spiess from 1980-1985. In addition to haiku magazines\, his work has appeared in numerous anthologies\, including Canadian Haiku Anthology (edited by George Swede)\, Haiku: Anthologie Canadienne/Canadian Anthology (edited by Dorothy Howard\, André Duhaime)\, The Haiku Anthology (edited Cor Van Den Heuvel)\, and the Norton Anthology Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years (edited by Jim Kacian\, Phillip Rowland\, Allan Burns). His book of haiku\, earthshine(Snapshot Press\, 2017) won a Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books from The Haiku Foundation (2017)\, and a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award Honorable Mention (2017). His haibun Is Where The Car Is was nominated last year for a Pushcart Prize. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haiku-with-bruce-feingold-renee-owen-chuck-brickley/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191026T160000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\n1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA \nDeborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She is the author of Soft Targets; The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour\, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press; and Orchidelirium\, which was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. \nLandau studied at Stanford University\, Columbia University\, and Brown University\, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and earned a PhD in English and American xd. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and co-hosted the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com. In 2016\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nMatthew Zapruder is an associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing\, as well as editor at large for Wave Books. He is the author of several collections of poetry\, including Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, in addition to his collaborations and translations. His most recent book is Why Poetry\, a book of prose about reading poetry for a general audience.  \nZapruder’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at New York University\, the New School\, the University of California Riverside – Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Program\, the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst’s Juniper Summer Writing Institute\, and at the University of California at Berkeley as the Holloway Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-landau-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library\, 1901 Russell St\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Marc Brackett presents Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids\, Ourselves\, and Our Society Thrive
DESCRIPTION:MARC BRACKETT presents PERMISSION TO FEEL: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF EMOTIONS TO HELP OUR KIDS\, OURSELVES\, AND OUR SOCIETY THRIVE\nTuesday\, October 29\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here!Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Marc Brackett\, Ph.D. for his new book\, Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids\, Ourselves\, and Our Society Thrive.We have a crisis on our hands\, and its victims are our children. \nMarc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years as an emotion scientist\, he has developed a remarkably effective plan to improve the lives of children and adults  a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely so that they help\, rather than hinder\, our success and well-being. The core of his approach is a legacy from his childhood\, from an astute uncle who gave him permission to feel. He was the first adult who managed to see Marc\, listen to him\, and recognize the suffering\, bullying\, and abuse he’d endured. And that was the beginning of Marcs awareness that what he was going through was temporary. He wasn’t alone\, he wasn’t stuck on a timeline\, and he wasn’t wrong to feel scared\, isolated\, and angry. Now\, best of all\, he could do something about it. \nIn the decades since\, Marc has led large research teams and raised tens of millions of dollars to investigate the roots of emotional well being. His prescription for healthy children (and their parents\, teachers\, and schools) is a system called RULER\, a high-impact and fast-effect approach to understanding and mastering emotions that has already transformed the thousands of schools that have adopted it. RULER has been proven to reduce stress and burnout\, improve school climate\, and enhance academic achievement. This book is the culmination of Marc’s development of RULER and his way to share the strategies and skills with readers around the world. It is tested\, and it works.\n​\nPermission to Feel combines rigor\, science\, passion and inspiration in equal parts. Too many children and adults are suffering; they are ashamed of their feelings and emotionally unskilled\, but they don’t have to be. Marc Brackett’s life mission is to reverse this course\, and this book can show you how. \n——————- \nMarc Brackett\, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a Professor in the Child Study Center of Yale University. He is the lead developer of RULER\, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by nearly 2\,000 pre-K through high schools across the United States and in other countries. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Collaborative for Academic\, Social\, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).\nAs a researcher for over 20 years\, Brackett has focused on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning\, decision making\, creativity\, relationships\, health\, and performance. He has published 125 scholarly articles and received numerous awards and accolades for his work in this area. He also consults regularly with corporations\, such as Facebook\, Microsoft\, and Google on integrating the principles of emotional intelligence into employee training and product design. Most recently\, he co-founded Oji Life Lab\, a corporate learning firm that develops innovative digital learning systems on emotional intelligence.\n​\nBrackett’s mission is to educate the world about the value of emotions and the skills associated with using them wisely. I want everyone to become an emotion scientist\, he says. We need to be curious explorers of our own and others emotions so they can help us achieve our goals and improve our lives. \n​\n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T180000
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our October book at the September Book Club meeting on 9/25\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 9/26 while supplies last. \nOUR OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK: \nROOM IN ROME\nPoetry by Jorge Eduardo Eielson \n“As a person\, Eielson always kept something secret\, an intimacy he preserved even beyond the reach of his closest friends. This mysterious depth intrigued and fascinated those who knew him and is a salient feature of his writing\, sculpture\, and paintings. Perhaps this depth will help ensure that his visual and poetic works endure. Though inseparable from the period in which it was created\, Eielson’s work deserves to live on and bear witness for future generations to the myths\, dreams\, miseries\, and achievements pertaining to the world in which Eielson both suffered and enjoyed his life.”\n—Mario Vargas Llosa \n“David Shook’s translation of Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s ROOM IN ROME rescues an essential voice of contemporary Peruvian poetry. A poet of the world who rebels against national as well as aesthetic borders\, Eielson rejects simplistic discords between social and artistic commitment. His poetry heralds the power of words: gathering them\, sculpting them\, changing them to gunshots.”\n—Katherine Hedeen \n“Alongside his other Roman collection\, Noche oscura del cuerpo\, critics consider ROOM IN ROME to be Eielson’s masterpiece. The collection displays its author’s rare ability to ‘knot’ together past and present\, tradition and novelty\, the anguish of modern life and the resplendence of another\, serene existence within reach.”\n—Martha Canfield \n“There was a time when poetry belonged to the world\, both the known world and the one beyond knowing. Eielson taught me everything.”—Mario Bellatín
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-4/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T193000
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg presents Machine
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg presents Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nSusan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning\, the first novel by the author of Spectacle. \nIn conversation with Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.\n  \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \nPRAISE \n\n“The narrative shifts\, experimental structure and poetic language in Steinberg’s hypnotic first novel capture the teen years with their shifting emotional tides and heightened awareness of class\, gender\, self and others.”—BBC Culture\nAfter making waves with her book ‘Spectacle\,’ bold stylist Susan Steinberg resurfaces with her first novel\, a tale of gender\, class\, privilege and trauma set during a summer at the shore. . . . The narrative grapples with guilt and blame while eschewing formal conventions.”—Chicago Tribune\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\nAUTHOR BIO \nSusan Steinberg is the author of Machine\, Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nLucy Corin is the author of two short story collections\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney’s Books) and The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) as well as a novel\, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). She won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the University of California at Davis\, and is at work on a novel\, The Swank Hotel. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-steinberg-presents-machine/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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