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SUMMARY:Aiden Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 2\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\nAiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland\, California\, they now make their home in Portland\, Oregon. Aiden’s special talents include: quoting The Office\, finishing sentences with “is my FAVORITE\,” and killing spiders. Aiden is notorious for not being able to guess the endings of books and movies\, and organizes their bookshelves by color. In Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys\, a trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave.
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CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #53
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T180000
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SUMMARY:Greg Grandin & Edwards-Tiekert: Empire's Workshop
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nGreg Grandin & Brian Edwards-Tiekert Zoom Event\nEmpire’s Workshop: Latin America\, the U.S.\, and the Rise of the New Imperialism \n“Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present.” -Naomi Klein\, author of No Logo \n“Greg Grandin knows the history of modern Guatemala better than anybody else in the world outside of that country-and therefore understands the nature of U.S. attitudes and action toward Latin America at their most disturbing. This grants him keen insight into the manic ferocity behind U.S. imperialism across the globe today\, which he describes in fine\, rich\, vivid\, bitter detail. Grandin also shrewdly observes that the outrages possible in little U.S. neo-colonies are not so easy to accomplish on a grand scale… -John Womack\, author of Zapata \nThe British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush administration’s aggressive foreign policy. But America’s imperial identity was actually shaped much closer to  home. In a brilliant excavation of long-obscured history\, Empire’s Workshop shows how Latin America has functioned as a proving ground for American strategies and tactics overseas. Historian Greg Grandin follows the United States’ imperial operations from Jefferson’s aspirations for an “empire of liberty” in Cuba and Spanish Florida to Bush’s policies\, where many of the administration’s leading lights first embraced the deployment of military power to advance free market economics and enlisted the evangelical movement in support of their ventures. \nGreg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia\, Empire’s Workshop\, The Last Colonial Massacre\, and the award-winning The Blood of Guatemala. \nBrian Edwards-Tiekert is the founder and co-host of UpFront\, the morning drive-time public affairs program on KPFA Radio. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/greg-grandin-brian-edwards-tiekert-latin-america-us-new-imperialism-tickets-138075257813
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greg-grandin-edwards-tiekert-empires-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Secrets and the Search for Self: Alka Joshi on The Henna Artist
DESCRIPTION:At 62\, debut novelist Alka Joshi shattered literary glass ceilings with The Henna Artist\, the “eloquent and moving” (Publishers Weekly) story of a 17-year-old girl who\, after fleeing a dark past\, finds herself a highly coveted henna artist (and secret confessor) to the wealthy upper-caste women of 1950s Jaipur.  A New York Times bestseller and instant book-club favorite\, this tale lifts the veil on a rarefied\, fascinating world\, fraught with more intrigue and whisper campaigns than the court of Versailles\, with a heroine whose shrewdness and vulnerability are poignantly relatable.  Said actress and bibliophile Reese Witherspoon\, who chose it for her book club\, The Henna Artist “captivated me from the first chapter to the final page.” \nWomen Lit is presenting this exciting first-time novelist and her hypnotic debut with the Sausalito Woman’s Club and Sausalito Books by the Bay for an exclusive\, members-only opportunity. If you’re not yet a Women Lit member\, sign up below and don’t miss your chance to ask Joshi about crafting a remarkable world\, the surprise of taking the book world by storm with her first novel\, and making compulsively readable literary magic. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. All copies will be shipped by Sausalito Books by the Bay starting April 6. Signed bookplate copies are limited and we can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-lit-unbound-presents-secrets-and-the-search-for-self-alka-joshi-on-the-henna-artist/
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #54
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T180000
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick & Kris Welch: Taking a Long Look\, a Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nVIVIAN GORNICK with KRIS WELCH\nTaking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature and Feminism \nTAKING A LONG LOOK: ESSAYS ON CULTURE\, LITERATURE AND FEMINISM IN OUR TIME is described by Publishers Weekly as “illuminating and a welcome addition to this astute critic’s oeuvre.” \nVivian Gornick has brought together 40 years of  her work. Alternately crackling with energy or lucid with insight\, the essays show us one of America’s most beloved critics at her best. She tackles subjects familiar and not\, from feminism\, literature\, and culture to race\, science\, and ecology. Many of these essays are now out of print\, and several have been revised to reflect Gornick’s initial editorial intent. Featuring a new introduction\, Taking A Long Look illuminates one of the main themes present throughout Gornick’s work: that the painful process of knowing one’s self is what connects us all. \nExploring the lives of Alfred Kazin\, Mary McCarthy\, Philip Roth\, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Gornick’s incendiary essays\, first published in the Village Voice\, on the women’s liberation movements of the 70s; plus many a New York story\, these essays show us one of America’s most beloved critics at her best. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice\, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movements in the 1970s\, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments-ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times-The Odd Woman and the City\, and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader\, as well as the classic text on writing\, The Situation and the Story. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a devoted  grandmother. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivian-gornick-kris-welch-taking-a-long-look-tickets-137661131149
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick-kris-welch-taking-a-long-look-a-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #34
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-34/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T180000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #55
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210418T130000
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SUMMARY:CWC SPEAKER SERIES: Emily Cotler of WaxCreative Author Websites
DESCRIPTION:Emily Cotler is the Creative Director and principal of Waxcreative Design\, Inc. She is the co-author of Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow that Works\, an established standard for workflow methodologies and user-centered design principles worldwide. (Peachpit Press; 2nd edition; co-written with web design industry titan Kelly Goto\, translated into 14 languages.) \nA graduate of UCLA\, Emily started designing effective websites for authors in the late 1990s. A decade later\, Wax is a leader in fan-based Web sites for authors and others. Her dozens of clients include New York Times best-selling authors Julia Quinn\, Eloisa James\, and Elizabeth Boyle\, and span North America and Europe. \nEmily is passionate about navigation\, luring\, and user pathways. Understanding that audience is more than a statistical demographic\, Emily focuses on reaching visitors based on their level of brand devotion. \nWhen not connected fingertip-to-keyboard\, Emily can be found at the park with her young daughter\, where she often mentally redesigns the play structures for better user flow. Emily lives in Oakland\, California. \n  \n### \n  \nToday\, the California Writers Club is the third oldest writing club in the United States. Membership has grown to 1\,800 members in 22 Branches throughout the state. Although named the Berkeley Branch when the Club reorganized into formal Branches and a Central Board in the mid-1970s\, the Branch meets in Oakland monthly September-June. The statewide Central Board holds its biannual meetings in Oakland as well. \n  \nCWC member/volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing speaker programs\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, publishing opportunities\, networking events (online and F2F)\, and more. \n  \n$10 For Members\, $20 For Non-Members. \n  \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-speaker-series-emily-cotler-of-waxcreative-author-websites/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="California Writers Club - Berkeley":MAILTO:berkeley.cwc@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T190000
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SUMMARY:Dave Cook & Jeff Chang: Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present\nDavey D & Jeff Chang: A Zoom Event\n“Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History”\nThe American Book Award Winner Now Adapted for Young Adults \nCAN’T STOP WON’T STOP: A Hip-Hop History is the story\, adapted for young adults\, of Hip-Hop\, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever.  Arguably the most definitive book on the subject of hip-hop\, CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP has garnered many honors\, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Jeff’s subsequent work has won the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Work in Popular Culture and American Culture\, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Books for a Better Life Award. \nHip-hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America\, giving new voice to the younger generation. An opportunity to provide historical depth to the next generation’s worldview\, the YA edition of CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP explores hip-hop’s beginnings up to the present day. In this new edition\, Jeff Chang and Dave ‘Davey D’ Cook provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation has created. Based on original interviews with DJs\, b-boys\, rappers\, activists\, and gang members\, with unforgettable portraits of many of Hip Hop’s forebears\, founders\, mavericks\, and present-day icons\, CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP chronicles the epic events\, ideas and the music that marked the Hip Hop generation’s rise. \nJEFF CHANG has written extensively on culture\, politics\, the arts\, and music. \nDAVE ‘DAVEY D’ COOK was born and raised in the Bronx and is now a longtime resident of Oakland. He is a graduate of Cal Berkeley and a nationally recognized journalist\, adjunct professor at San Francisco State\, Hip Hop historian\, political commentator\, syndicated talk show host\, radio programmer\, media justice and community activist. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/davey-d-jeff-chang-cant-stop-wont-stop-a-hip-hop-history-tickets-143437518479
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-cook-jeff-chang-cant-stop-wont-stop-a-hip-hop-history/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #71
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 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.\n\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\n\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\n\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\n\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-71/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T150000
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SUMMARY:Ada Limón & Aria Aber
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 21 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nAda Limón is the author of five books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program\, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In Spring 2021\, Limón is serving as Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry\, teaching English 342: Poetry Workshop and English 352: Poetry Tutorial for the MFA in Creative Writing program. \nAria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker\, New Republic\, Kenyon Review\, The Yale Review\, Poem-A-Day\, Narrative\, Muzzle Magazine\, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing\, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow\, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman\, Dickinson House\, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020\, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. Aber is serving as the Visiting Editor in Poetry this semester for MFA in Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-limon-aria-aber/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T193000
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CREATED:20210301T055336Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #56
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-56/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T170000
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CREATED:20210425T002854Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #73
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 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.\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-73/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
CREATED:20210424T221847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T221913Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Roots
DESCRIPTION:Join SNS this month\, for a reading about ROOTS. For our April writing challenge\, you are invited to explore an origin story\, history\, or ancestry (your own\, a relative’s\, a fictional character’s) or write about what anchors or nourishes you or what holds you back (literally or metaphorically) or write about trees\, tulips\, turnips or kites. You get the idea \n*Special thanks to Greg Roensch for suggesting this month’s theme.\n\nAPRIL FEATURES:\nMatthew Clark Davison & Andres Cordoba\n\nOPEN MIC: Share your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum.\n\nSATURDAY\, April 24\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\n\nHOSTED BY: Hollie Hardy\n\nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on April. 17. Requests added in the order received until the list is full.\nTo sign up\, please put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max.\n\nZOOM INFO:\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://cccconfer.zoom.us/…/tJMrdOqspjsrHtDrqxtbnGOR1IS…\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the reading.\n\nAUTHOR BIOS\nMATTHEW CLARK DAVISON’s debut novel\, Doubting Thomas\, will be published in Summer 2021 by Amble Press. He’s full-time faculty in Creative Writing at SFSU and creator and teacher of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD a non-academic school started in 2007 in a friend’s living room. The textbook version of The Lab \, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante\, will be published by Norton in 2022. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews (Epiphany Publishing) and 580-Split; and published in or on Guernica\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Advocate\, Exquisite Pandemic\, Foglifter\, Lumina Magazine\, Per Contra\, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant\, Cultural Equities Grant. Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress\, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.\n\nANDRES CORDOBA is a Massachusetts-born writer. He has received honors such as the Thayer Fellowship For the Arts and the Patricia Kerr Ross Award\, was named a 2019 Breakout 8 Writer in poetry by Epiphany: A Literary Journal\, and was a finalist in Black Warrior Review’s 2020 Poetry Contest. He has just recently militarized his focus; catch him croaking his catharsis in a parking lot with a loaded spliff\, all tobacco heavy-headed with hands muddy from the night shift. More can be found on twitter (@urgoodpalandres) and instagram (@urgoodpal_andres).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-roots/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T140000
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SUMMARY:CWC WORKSHOP: How To Submit Your Poetry With Keith M. Gaboury
DESCRIPTION:This workshop led by poet Keith M. Gaboury will focus on a step-by-step process of how a poet can submit their poetry to a wide range of literary journals along with presses that accept chapbooks and full-length manuscripts. From such topics as knowing which literary journals to submit to\, formatting a cover letter\, and following submission guidelines\, Keith will break this seemingly daunting process into goals that are readily attainable. All this information will be shared through a Google Doc that will remain active indefinitely. In addition\, the Google Doc will have links to online databases of literary journals / presses and websites that feature active submission calls. At the end of the workshop\, a poet will have a thorough understanding of how they can send their poetry out into the literary world. \nKeith Mark Gaboury earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in such literary publications as Poetry Quarterly and New Millennium Writings along with chapbooks from Duck Lake Books and The Pedestrian Press. He has a forthcoming chapbook from Finishing Line Press. Keith lives in Oakland\, California. Learn more at www.keithmgaboury.com. \n### \nToday\, the California Writers Club (CWC) is the third oldest writing club in the United States. Membership has grown to 1\,800 members in 22 Branches throughout the state. Although named the Berkeley Branch when the Club reorganized into formal Branches and a Central Board in the mid-1970s\, the Branch meets in Oakland monthly September-June. The statewide Central Board holds its biannual meetings in Oakland as well. \nCWC member/volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing speaker programs\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, publishing opportunities\, networking events (online and F2F)\, and more. \n$10 For Members\, $20 For Non-Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-workshop-how-to-submit-your-poetry-with-keith-m-gaboury/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="California Writers Club - Berkeley":MAILTO:berkeley.cwc@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
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SUMMARY:Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America's Forgotten History
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nAVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event\nCentral America’s Forgotten History: Revolution\, Violence\, and the Roots of Migration \nAviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. \nAt the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty\, corruption\, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History\, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects of Central America’s historical inequality and oppression\, a direct result of colonial and neo-colonial development policies and the cultures of violence and forgetting needed to implement them. \nChomsky expertly recounts Central Americans’ valiant struggles for social and economic justice to restore these vivid and gripping events to popular consciousness. She traces the roots of displacement and migration in Central America to the Spanish conquest and brings us to the present day\, where she concludes that the more immediate roots of migration from the three Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador\, Guatemala\, and Honduras) lie in the wars and in the US interventions of the 1980s and the peace accords of the 1990s. \nChomsky also examines how and why histories and memories are suppressed\, and the impact of losing historical memory. \nAviva Chomsky is the author of several books\, including Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!\,”  Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over thirty years. \nMickey Huff is the current Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history-tickets-137895929437
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
CREATED:20210425T000705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T000705Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel’s full-length collection of poetry\, Low Rent Prophet.\nReadings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, James Tracy\, and of course\, Dani Gabriel. Emcee and musician to be announced soon!\nPreorder your copy here: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/lowrentprophet\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel\nTime: Apr 30\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81683548873…\nMeeting ID: 816 8354 8873\nPasscode: 201235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81683548873#\,\,\,\,*201235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,81683548873#\,\,\,\,*201235# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 816 8354 8873\nPasscode: 201235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc06ffs49o
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-low-rent-prophet-by-dani-gabriel/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T200000
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SUMMARY:See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
DESCRIPTION:This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our wounds and reimagine the world. —Van Jones \nThe Festival’s opening event\, free to all\, is a clarion call to heal America and our own hearts. The United States\, lauded in its national anthem as “the land of the free and the home of the brave\,” continues to be plagued by endless gun violence\, police murders of unarmed Black people\, threats to democracy\, and hatred of “the other”… with an alarming increase in targeted anti-Asian attacks in the past year\, too. Ever since her Sikh family friend was shot after 9/11\, attorney and activist Valarie Kaur\, the daughter of Sikh farmers in Central California\, has achieved crucial policy change on multiple fronts\, including hate crimes\, racial profiling\, immigration detention\, and solitary confinement. Now she targets hatred itself. Her TED Talk on that topic has garnered more than three million views. \nYou can see Valarie live\, and ask your questions\, as she’s interviewed by Mother Jones race and justice reporter Jamilah King about Kaur’s book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love\, that expands on that blockbuster TED talk. The book has been praised by visionaries across the progressive spectrum\, from Eve Ensler to Reza Aslan. The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander called it “inspirational\, radical…  a reliable moral compass.” What is this “revolutionary love”? It’s far “more than a rush of feeling\,” Kaur says. “Love is fierce labor.” Discover just what this kind of love is and how you too can “be the change you want to see\,” as Gandhi\, and now this powerful woman\, call us to do. \nYou can submit questions when you register\, and we’ll also take questions live during the event. \nRegister Here\n\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-no-stranger-a-radical-vision-for-mending-our-world/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
CREATED:20210301T013829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T013829Z
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SUMMARY:Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
DESCRIPTION:When bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017\, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection in the world.” Now here’s your chance to ask this “poet of the unspoken” (New York Times) your questions about his vision\, writing life\, and his first novel since winning the Nobel. Reserve your spot now and get your copy of that novel\, Klara and the Sun (complete with a signed bookplate for the first 250 ticket-holders) as soon as it drops in March\, with plenty of time to drink it in before our live event. \nFrom Remains of the Day (“an almost perfect book\,” said The New Yorker‘s James Wood) to Never Let Me Go (deemed “a page-turner and a heartbreaker” by Entertainment Weekly)\, Ishiguro’s equal fluency with wildly imaginative surrealism and the delicate bonds of relationships has changed the literary world’s perception of what a novel can do. Klara and The Sun is no exception. Grounded in a futuristic milieu\, this “dazzling genre-bending work” (Publishers Weekly) sheds powerful beams of light on everything from environmental destruction to the secret sorrows of childhood\, through the adventures of “Artificial Friend” Klara\, a solar-powered humanlike robot designed to be a child’s companion. Ishiguro’s partner for this conversation is rising literary star Yaa Gyasi\, a PEN/Hemingway award winner for Homegoing\, whose newest novel\, 2020’s Transcendent Kingdom\, was called “a book of blazing brilliance” by The Washington Post. \nThese renowned authors come from two very different generations\, backgrounds\, and literary styles\, but they share an uncanny ability to lay bare the secrets of the human heart. And we can’t wait to share their unforgettable presence with you in this much-anticipated headlining event. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed copies are limited to the first 250 buyers of that ticket type and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 2. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-and-illusion-kazuo-ishiguro-on-klara-and-the-sun/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T190000
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SUMMARY:When Everything Falls Apart\, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China\, Tolstoy\, and the Power of Art\, with Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:Orville Schell\, Adam Hochschild\, Yiyun Li\nIn a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home\, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano\, eyes closed\, playing “Jesu\, Joy of Man’s Desiring\,” as Red Guards storm his home. They’re there to arrest him as a bourgeois traitor\, but what they don’t know is that the legacy of Li’s music\, and the loyalty of his young son\, Little Li\, is not easily snuffed out.  A journalist and renowned expert on China\, Schell has penned his first novel\, drawing not only on his deep knowledge of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution but on his conviction that art and love can outlive brutality. \nJoining him is MacArthur “genius” and award-winning writer Yiyun Li\, who came of age during the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown\, emigrated to the U.S. at 23 as a young scientist\, and eventually took the literary world by storm with her fiction\, memoir and essays. Li regularly turned to reading Tolstoy for solace during tough times in her own life\, so in the early days of the pandemic she collaborated with A Public Space—the literary magazine\, publisher\, and academy—to lead a free virtual book club where thousands of people\, isolated under shelter-in-place\, read War and Peace together over three months. The project\, which garnered worldwide attention\, now has been made into a book\, Tolstoy Together\, a guided experience for past and new readers. \nThis “Writer to Writer” conversation—moderated by award-winning journalist\, historian\, and author Adam Hochschild\, a lifelong friend of Orville’s and a Russian-speaking Tolstoy fan—will explore how art truly can light a lamp in the dark. \nGet your Ticket\n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-everything-falls-apart-how-does-the-heart-survive-orville-schell-and-yiyun-li-on-china-tolstoy-and-the-power-of-art-with-adam-hochschild/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T200000
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SUMMARY:Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida\, Cherilyn Parsons\, Carol Edgarian\n\nFrom the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover\, San Francisco has always been a city in flux\, a writer’s dream\, and a favorite setting for literature. Its boom-and-bust drama and breathtaking beauty also make it a perfect backdrop for coming-of-age stories: especially ones about girls who can’t be pigeonholed. \nWho better to chronicle the city’s growing pains—and those of two unforgettable teenage women—than two leading ladies of the Bay Area literary scene? Carol Edgarian\, publisher of Narrative Magazine\, has delivered “that rare novel you’ll want to buy for loved ones” (Andre Dubus III) with Vera\, a pulse-pounding\, often hilarious saga of a fierce 15-year-old\, the daughter of a bordello owner\, amidst the 1906 earthquake and fires. (Nob Hill\, Pacific Heights\, Market Street\, the longed-for “fire escape” ferry to Oakland—they’re all here.) \nWe wonder what Vera would have to say to Eulabee\, the protagonist of Vendela Vida’s funny\, poignant We Run the Tides\, who comes of age during the pre-tech-boom days of the 1990s (Eulabee haunts “Sea Cliff\,” China Beach\, the Haight). Vida\, co-founder of The Believer magazine\, 826 Valencia\, and other Bay Area literary institutions\, puts Eulabee squarely in the middle of a web of lies instigated by her fabulously-named friend Maria Fabiola\, a social climber (also very San Francisco). \nWhether you know San Francisco or not\, whether you long for its “good old days” or still find it magical\, these stories and this conversation\, part of the Festival’s “Writer to Writer” series\, will hit home for anyone who has undergone the harrowing journey of growing up. \nRegister Here\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link. \nThis event is also part of the Festival’s Women Lit series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/epicenter-of-girlhood-carol-edgarian-and-vendela-vida-on-coming-of-age-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
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SUMMARY:Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 5\, 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nIsmail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer\, a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, and a board member at the National Books Critics Circle. He’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, and a Simpson Family Literary Fellow. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like The New York Times\, Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. \nIn Spring 2021\, Muhammad is teaching English 361: Contemporary Nonfiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-readings-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
CREATED:20210424T225459Z
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SUMMARY:Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
DESCRIPTION:Annalee Newitz\, Nathaniel Rich\, Bonnie Tsui \nMore than 150 years ago\, long before intimations of a warming planet had begun\, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a prescient statement: “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” While some of us might not consider our current culture to be terribly civilized\, one thing is clear: we’ve been propelling our own species\, along with millions of other life forms\, toward extinction as a result of human-generated climate change. \nTo probe our own “end times\,” we’ve brought together two highly respected journalists who also happen to be speculative fiction writers. Annalee Newitz is an award-winning novelist (The Future of Another Timeline) and a science\, technology and culture writer whose fascinating new book\, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age\, explores the rise and fall of four urban-centered civilizations\, from medieval Angkor in Cambodia to the indigenous metropolis Cahokia in present-day Missouri. \nFast forward from ancient times to 2018\, when the New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to journalist Nathaniel Rich’s chronicle of the world’s failures to listen to scientists who began seriously sounding the alarm about climate change in 1979. That article became the book Losing Earth\, which Rich has now followed up with the deeply reported\, riveting Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. Where do we go from here? Scientists are no longer asking how we can return to the world we’ve lost—we’ve irrevocably changed every inch of our planet—but what we can create in its place in order to survive. Their answers rival the wildest science fiction. \nAlbert Camus (The Plague) wrote\, “the purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Moderated by Bonnie Tsui\, author of Why We Swim\, this conversation with two leading writers will give you a blast from the (long lost) past along with a staggering vision of the future. \nGet your Ticket
URL:https://litseen.com/event/green-rabbits-glowing-at-the-end-of-the-world-annalee-newitz-and-nathaniel-rich-on-what-happens-when-civilizations-fail/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
CREATED:20210424T225314Z
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SUMMARY:Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece\, Shuggie Bain
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Stuart enraptured readers worldwide in 2020 when his heart-stopping debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, took the world’s top literary award\, the Booker Prize. While Stuart may have seemed like an overnight success\, Shuggie Bain was a labor of love that drew from his own history of childhood poverty\, hardship\, and devotion to a mother whose addiction struggles were intensified by a broken system. This tender and wrenching story has been compared to Angela’s Ashes in its emotional power and mesmerizing writing style. Shuggie Bain may have been translated into over 20 languages\, but it’s the author’s own Glasgowian dialect—immediate\, accessible\, hypnotic—that’ll take up residence in your mind forever. \n  \nStuart is interviewed by Casey Gerald\, who gained fame with a viral TED talk\, “The Gospel of Doubt.” Like Stuart\, Gerald grew up queer\, shaped by poverty and parental addiction. He’s another “success story\,” having made his way through Yale and Harvard Business School\, but his memoir There Will Be No Miracles Here\, praised by Marlon James as “the most urgently political\, most deeply personal\, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time\,” refuses to reduce his story to an “American dream” parable. This conversation between two rare souls will question myths\, mine deep emotional territory\, and examine how we break old cycles while still honoring where we came from. \nGet your Ticket\n  \n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here \n]
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lager-and-love-cant-pay-the-bills-2020-booker-prize-winner-douglas-stuart-on-his-masterpiece-shuggie-bain/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T190000
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SUMMARY:How to Dream the World You Want: Nnedi Okorafor and Jeff VanderMeer on Resistance and Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Forget the new normal. What we need right now is literature that turns the whole concept of “normal” on its head\, building worlds that put the status quo in the rearview mirror. Fantasy and sci-fi\, once relegated to “niche” status in the book world\, have become leading and widely-read literary genres that meet the historic moment we’re in\, centering diversity and disrupting complacency in ways no other form can do. If you haven’t read much in this genre\, there’s never been a better time to discover it. \n  \nAt the helm of this brave new era is novelist and Marvel Comics scribe Nnedi Okorafor\, whose groundbreaking Africanfuturism—including her latest novel\, Remote Control—demands big-screen renderings (fittingly\, two of her books are currently being adapted as series by HBO and Hulu). Nebula Award winner Jeff VanderMeer (Hummingbird Salamander)\, author of the bestselling Southern Reach trilogy that was adapted into the film Annihilation\, also is no stranger to meeting (and even anticipating) the moment: Esquire called him “the prophet of climate fiction.” In this “Writer to Writer” conversation\, you’ll meet two literary pioneers we need now: subversive\, audaciously imaginative\, and unafraid to steer us into uncharted territory. \nGet your Ticket
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-dream-the-world-you-want-nnedi-okorafor-and-jeff-vandermeer-on-resistance-and-transformation/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T193000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #57
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-57-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T140000
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SUMMARY:Love\, Loss\, and Meaning in Life: World-Renowned Therapist Irvin Yalom with Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:“Mourning is the price we pay for having the courage to love others\,” opens the extraordinary memoir by renowned psychiatrist Irvin Yalom (Love’s Executioner) and his late wife\, Marilyn Yalom\, the esteemed feminist scholar and writer. Exploring universal questions of intimacy\, love\, and grief\, A Matter of Death and Life recounts the final months of the couple’s 65-year marriage after Marilyn’s cancer diagnosis. The book is written in alternating sections until Marilyn’s death\, after which Irv\, the “therapists’ therapist\,” revisits his decades’ worth of writings as a way to cope with his own grief. \nThere could be no better partner for this conversation than Joyce Carol Oates\, one of the most honored authors in American letters\, whose more than 100 books­­—fiction\, memoir\, essays\, poetry and more­­—masterfully delve into love\, loss\, mortality\, and other core human experiences. Her memoir A Widow’s Story (2011) depicts her own struggles after the loss of her husband of 47 years. Both of her latest books\, the poetry collection American Melancholy and short story collection The (Other) You\, explore how circumstances and choices indelibly shape how we live and find meaning. \nWe present this conversation on Mother’s Day\, after a year that taught us all to cherish human connection more than ever. Today we pay tribute to the women we love\, but also to the many people this year who have cared for us (since mothering comes in many forms). \nIf you’re a mom\, a professional caretaker\, or an essential worker—or if you’ve just now decided to tell your loved ones afresh how much they mean to you—we invite you to use the code CARE in checkout to get 50% off the ticket price for this event. Please also consider getting a ticket for a loved one and buying Irv’s and Joyce’s books—you’ll be glad you did! \nGet your Ticket\n\n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-loss-and-meaning-in-life-world-renowned-therapist-irvin-yalom-with-joyce-carol-oates/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
CREATED:20210424T224624Z
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SUMMARY:Splitting the World Open: An International Roundtable of Dangerous Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:In 1968\, poet Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote\, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” More than half a century later\, women themselves feel split into a million pieces. This past year has been especially challenging for women\, typically society’s primary caretakers. Indeed\, mothers have been carrying an especially heavy load. Speaking one’s truth is hard when you’re totally exhausted. \nSo what better Mother’s Day gift for women (and all who love them) to spend an hour\, free of charge\, with three brilliant female authors\, writing from and about multiple corners of the globe—India\, the Middle East\, North Africa\, South America\, the United States—with woman-focused stories? And these aren’t just any stories: the work of all three novelists was shortlisted for the Booker Prize or the Booker International Prize\, the most prestigious literary awards in the world. \nIn Burnt Sugar\, Dubai-based Indian author Avni Doshi explores the intimate dynamics of mother-daughter conflict and postpartum depression with an ambivalence and caustic wit that ruffled some feathers. It’s that fearless artistry that landed her on the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist with Ethiopian-American novelist Maaza Mengiste\, whose novel The Shadow King (“a masterpiece\,” said the Washington Post) features a female soldier fighting fascism during Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. The story is inspired by the author’s great-grandmother\, one of those women who\, in Mengiste’s words\, “stepped forward out of the shadows and made themselves known.” Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán\, trained as a human rights lawyer before turning to literary work\, wrote The Remainder\, a finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\, to delve into the legacy of Chile’s military dictatorship. Her new novel\, Las Homicidas\, to appear in English translation in 2021\, explores an arguably even more dangerous topic: how rage against injustice can be so profound that it drives some women to kill\, and how that rage\, as with the frustrated anger of any oppressed group\, is often minimized and deflected. \nThis conversation offers a Mother’s Day like no other! The event is co-presented by Words Without Borders and moderated by Karen Phillips\, its executive director. Words Without Borders expands cultural understanding through the translation\, publication\, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature. \nRegister Here\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link. \nThis event is also part of the Festival’s Women Lit series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/splitting-the-world-open-an-international-roundtable-of-dangerous-women-writers/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173206
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #58
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-58/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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