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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group discuses THE INTERIOR CIRCUIT
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of The Interior Circuit\, by Francisco Goldman\, on Monday July 9th at 7pm. \nThe Interior Circuit is Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death\, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF). When organized crime erupts in the city in an unprecedented way during the summer of 2013\, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the DF now faces. By turns exuberant\, poetic\, reportorial\, philosophical\, and urgent\, The Interior Circuit fuses a personal journey to a searing account of one of the world’s most remarkable and often misunderstood great cities. \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, July 9\, 2018 – 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/the-diesel-readers-book-group-discuses-the-interior-circuit/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Zoe Samudzi presents AS BLACK AS RESISTANCE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Zoe Samudzi to discuss her book As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation\, on Tuesday\, July 10th at 7pm. \nOver the course of United States history\, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However\, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness\, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans\, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people. \nAbout the Author \nZoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender\, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi-presents-as-black-as-resistance/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Film Critic Joseph McBride on Ernst Lubitch
DESCRIPTION:Join film critic Joseph McBride as he discusses the work of Ernst Lubitsch. This is a book launch for How Did Lubitsch Do It\, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in June. \n“Joseph McBride’s study of Lubitsch matches the breadth and range of his incomparable work on Welles and Ford. Reading it\, it is impossible not to want to see each of the director’s greatest films again or for the first time-readers will be driven straight to seek out not only the repertory standards but the silents\, the musicals\, and the German films. It is especially gratifying to see McBride apply his supple understanding of the intricacies of Lubitsch’s sexual politics to the paradoxes lurking for contemporary viewers\, exploring how the films play both against and into feminist readings. McBride doesn’t shy from such explorations\, but never leaps to premature conclusions. The book is an act of devotion matched to the heart\nof its subject.” – Jonathan Lethem
URL:https://litseen.com/event/film-critic-joseph-mcbride-on-ernst-lubitch/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Author Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Yang Huang grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her linked family story collection\, My Old Faithful\, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel\, Living Treasures\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction. Her essays and short stories have appeared in\nPoets & Writers\, The Margins\, Eleven Eleven\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, The Evansville Review\, and others. She lives in the Bay Area and works for the University of California\, Berkeley. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Laurel Book Store. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-yang-huang/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nell Painter presents her memoir OLD IN ART SCHOOL
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of the preeminent historians in the United States\, Nell Painter\, to discuss her memoir Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over\, on Wednesday\, July 11th at 7pm. \n“Nell Painter has courage and intelligence. She reminds us that the only option as we grow older is to grow younger. Never forgetting our curiosity and passion\, we are well armed for the challenge.” —Maira Kalman\, author of The Principles of Uncertainty and Beloved Dog \nHow are women\, and artists\, “seen” and judged by their age\, race\, and looks? And how does this seeing change\, depending upon what is asked of the viewer? What does it mean when someone states (as one teacher does) that “you will never be an Artist”—who defines “an Artist\,” and all that goes with such an identity\, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty\, value\, and difference? \nOld in Art School represents an ongoing exploration of such questions\, one that ultimately honors curiosity\, openness\, and joy—the joy of embracing creativity\, dreams\, the importance of hard work\, and the stubborn determination of your own value. Nell Painter’s journey is filled with surprises\, even as she brings to bear the incisiveness of her insights from two careers\, which combine in new ways even as they take very different approaches—one searching for facts and cohesion\, the other seeking the opposite. She travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves\, such as Alice Neel\, Faith Ringgold\, or Maira Kalman\, even as she comes to understand how they are undervalued; and struggles with the ever-changing balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable\, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNELL PAINTER is the Edwards Professor of American History\, Emerita\, at Princeton University. Her acclaimed works of history include Standing at Armageddon\, Sojourner Truth\, and the New York Times bestseller The History of White People\, which have received widespread attention for their insights into how we have historically viewed and translated ideas of gender\, value\, hierarchy\, and race. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. Her visual artwork has been shown at numerous galleries and in many collections\, including the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art\, the Brooklyn Historical Society\, and Gallery Aferro. She lives in Newark\, New Jersey and the Adirondacks. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, July 11\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nell-painter-presents-her-memoir-old-in-art-school/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press Presents Poetry of Witness
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: MK Chavez\, Susan Gubernat\, Lucille Lang Day\, James Cagney. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-presents-poetry-of-witness/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 15\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-6/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Otessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/otessa-moshfegh-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ages 8-12! Ann Killion
DESCRIPTION:Ann Killion\n\n\n\n\npresents Champions of Men’s Soccer and Champions of Women’s Soccer\, the ultimate guides for young sports fans from an award-winning sports journalist. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of either book by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, July 13\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing Top Ten Lists and stunning photos of history-making moments\, these comprehensive pro soccer collections catalog the greatest international players and the greatest Americans. These are the perfect books for young sports fans eager to kick off their soccer schooling. \nAnn Killion has covered American sports for more than a quarter century. An award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has covered several World Cups and pivotal moments in the rise of both American men’s and women’s soccer. She was named the 2014 California Sportswriter of the Year. She is co-author of Solo: A Memoir of Hope with soccer star Hope Solo\, and Throw Like a Girl with softball great Jennie Finch. She lives in Mill Valley. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ages-8-12-ann-killion/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:When You Die… Workshop and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based conceptual artist Lindsay Tunkl\, is pleased to present Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure. This multifaceted event coincides with the release of the artist’s latest book\, When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die\, a work of conceptual art that reframes death as something to look forward to instead of fight against. To celebrate the release of the new book\, a group workshop and book signing will take place at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Bookstore on July 14th from 2-4:30pm. The artist will also be conducting 50-minute one-on-one performance sessions at other locations in the bay area over the course of three days (July 15\, July 21 and July 22) where volunteer participants can connect around their fears of death and dying. \nLindsay Tunkl’s artistic practice has been described as absurd\, over-emotional\, healing\, and tragic. In an attempt to understand the particular experience of the human life cycle during the Anthropocene (the societal moment that our species began contributing to its own demise) Tunkl uses her art practice as a way to connect and share in the heartbreaking realities we all inhabit in this contemporary moment. Drawing from her own irrational fears of the apocalypse\, death and intimacy\, the artist has found that these topics – the things that scare us the most – are a platform for profound human connection and closeness.\n.\nParting Practice sprung from Pre Apocalypse Counseling\, a series of interactive\, one-on-one performances that took place in an SUV and lead participants through conversations\, psychological and physical exercises\, and visualizations in order to examine their emotional connection to the probable or improbable apocalypse (more than 100 sessions have taken place). Out of that project came two recently published works: Origins and Endings: A Divination Book and Inkblot Card Deck and the small book of meditations\, When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die. With a tender and humorous hand\, each of these works is an encounter that offers the viewer an opportunity to have a reflexive experience with their emotions within a world that is more often than not\, heartbreaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-you-die-workshop-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2017: WONDER (RETRO!)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2017 (Retro!): Wonder! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2017-wonder-retro-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #38 (MUSIC BY TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-38-music-by-tbd/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading at the El Cerrito Library
DESCRIPTION:Please join Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Maw Shein Win on Tuesday\, July 17th at the El Cerrito Library. \nWe’ll begin with an open mic followed by readings & a short Q&A. Bring a poem to share and hope to see you there! \nFood and bevs courtesy of the Friends of the El Cerrito Library. \nBios \nBaruch Porras-Hernandez moved to El Cerrito his sophomore year of high school and lived here for 11 years till he moved to San Francisco. His mother still lives here\, so he is normally in El Cerrito every weekend\, walking to Fat Apples for their strong coffee and lemon meringue pie. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, named one of the 13 Top Bay Area Writers to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine in San Francisco\, and is a regular host and organizer of live literary shows for KQED. You can find his writing published online at The Tusk\, his poems on Drunk in a Midnight Choir\, Santa Ana River Review\, and several other poetry anthologies like Assaracus\, Foglifter\, Red Light Lit\, Quiet Lightning Rio Grande Review\, Divining Divas\, and two anthologies with Write Bloody Publishing. He was named a Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow in 2014\, and a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow in 2016. He’s been featured in Writers with Drinks\, has performed several times with Radar Productions\, LitQuake\, and Quiet Lightning. He is a winner of Literary Death Match\, has won The Moth\, Write Club SF\, and was the reigning Muni Diaries Haiku Champion for 3 years. He is the head organizer of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? a Latinx literary performance series\, created in part by the REGEN artist grant from the Galerìa de la Raza. He is an immigrant\, originally from Mexico\, and is currently the lead artist in a multidisciplinary project that will create new Queer Latino Superheroes with MACLA\, which stands for Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, Poetry International\, Fanzine\, The Fabulist\, and others. She often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. Along with composer and musician\, Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. A collaborative book with paintings by artist Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Her poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was recently published by Manic D Press. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-reading-at-the-el-cerrito-library/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Public Library\, 6510 Stockton Ave\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: Inspired by Isadora Duncan
DESCRIPTION:July 18 in the evening time from 6:30-8pm \nThe Event \nKeep Begin Detach: Inspired by Isadora Duncan \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Isadora Duncan\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-begin-detach-inspired-by-isadora-duncan/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Jane Gregory & Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Poets Jane Gregory & Claire Marie Stancek\n\n\n\n\nReading from their recent respective volumes Yeah No and Oil Spell\, and introduced by Lyn Hejinian. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of either book by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, July 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Gregory’s mystifying second collection begins with a “Knock knock\,” inviting the reader into a realm where “Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no.” Within these pages we find Gregory constructing a multivalent world—ripe with struggle\, prophecy\, and\, by the end\, a resemblance of hope. Using her highly-tuned sensibility throughout\, Gregory guides us through the anxieties of this journey by inventing new and enigmatic forms filled with sonic experimentation and polyphony. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. Her first book\, My Enemies\, was published in 2013. She is co-founder and co-editor\, with Lyn Hejinian and Claire Marie Stancek\, of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. She recently completed her PhD in English at UC Berkeley. \nClaire Marie Stancek’s Oil Spell gathers many of today’s dark energies—US drone strikes\, environmental disaster—and asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? The poems here are counter-conjurations\, but they also query whether poetry itself might be a violent entrance of language into the world. Oil Spell animates diverse influences—Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals\, environmental reports of extinction and endangerment\, and the Pakistani government assessments of drone strikes. The poems do not attempt to negotiate or domesticate this diversity\, but ask what function poetry might have alongside these various performative linguistic functions. While poetry appears to have a dark function in these connections\, Oil Spell also asks whether we might invest language with the capacity to conjure towards other possibilities. Oil Spell performs the ways in which narratives of loss and narratives of everyday joy curl into one another and mutually contaminate. The beauty that results is a troubled reflection\, like a rainbow in a slick of oil. \nClaire Marie Stancek is also the author of Mouths. With Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. She has recently completed a PhD in English at UC Berkeley\, where she teaches classes on literature and creative writing. Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, she now lives in Berkeley. \nPoet\, essayist\, translator\, and publisher Lyn Hejinian teaches at UC Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-jane-gregory-claire-marie-stancek/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 18\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, July 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-5/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime HUBRILITY
DESCRIPTION:2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, on Thursday July 19th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter)\, Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts)\, Kitty Costello (Upon Waking)\, Grant Faulkner (Fissures)\, and Graham Todd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-hubrility/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Olympian Eddie Hart and sports journalist Dave Newhouse discuss Disqualified
DESCRIPTION:Gold Medal-winning Olympian Eddie Hart and award-winning sports journalist Dave Newhouse discuss Disqualified: Eddie Hart\, Munich 1972\, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics. \n\n\n\nABOUT DISQUALIFIED \nHaving previously tied the world record\, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich\, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest Human\,” the title attached to an Olympic 100-meter champion\, was lost in a heartbeat. But who was to blame? \nHart’s disappointment\, though excruciating\, was just one of many subplots to the most tragic of Olympic Games\, at which eight Arab terrorists assassinated eleven Israeli athletes and coaches as the world watched in horror. Five terrorists were killed\, but three escaped to their homeland as heroes and were never brought to trial. Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals but was rushed out of Germany afterward because he was Jewish. Other American athletes\, besides Hart\, seemed jinxed in Munich. The USA men’s basketball team thought it had earned the gold medal\, but the Russians received it instead through an unprecedented technicality. Bob Seagren\, the defending pole vault champion\, was barred from using his poles and forced to compete with unfamiliar poles. And swimmer Rick DeMont lost one gold medal and the possibility of winning a second because of an allergy drug that had passed U.S. Olympic Committee specifications but was disallowed by the International Olympic Committee. \nIt was that kind of Olympics\, confusing to some\, fatal to others. Hart traveled back to Munich forty-three years later to relive his utter disappointment. He returned to the same stadium where he did earn a gold medal in the 400-meter relay. In Disqualified\, his interesting life story\, told with author Dave Newhouse\, sheds entirely new light on what really happened at Munich. It includes interviews with Spitz and the victimized American athletes and conversations with two Israelis who escaped the terrorists. And Hart finally learned who was responsible for his disqualifications and those of Rey Robinson\, who was in the same heat\, leading to an interesting epilogue in which these two seniors reflect on the opportunity denied them long ago. \nEddie Hart earned his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s from Cal State-Hayward before embarking on a career as a teacher and coach at the college level. \nDave Newhouse was an award-winning sportswriter and columnist at the Oakland (CA) Tribune prior to his retirement in 2011. This is his twelfth book. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, July 19\, 2018 – 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/olympian-eddie-hart-and-sports-journalist-dave-newhouse-discuss-disqualified/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair Opening Night!
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nLast year we welcomed 110 exhibitors and over 10\,000 visitors. We aim to reach an even larger audience this year and create an event that continues to showcase some of the most interesting publishers and booksellers in the world. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant. \nThe San Francisco Art Book Fair is organized by: \nMinnesota Street Project is in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district\, Minnesota Street Project offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries\, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses\, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community in the short term\, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term. \nColpa is the collaborative practice of Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak. They work together as a publisher\, designer\, printer and curator. They publish art books\, limited edition prints and art objects\, often working with artists on unique projects. \nPark Life is an independent retail store and art gallery established by Jamie Alexander and Derek Song based in San Francisco. Park Life features art and design products culled together from all over the world and includes books\, editions\, prints\, design objects\, paper goods\, original art and apparel. Park Life specializes in limited edition artist collaborations\, having worked with dozens of artist over the last 10 years to produce products ranging from books\, zines and prints to tees\, skate decks\, and objects.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair-opening-night/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair Day 1
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nLast year we welcomed 110 exhibitors and over 10\,000 visitors. We aim to reach an even larger audience this year and create an event that continues to showcase some of the most interesting publishers and booksellers in the world. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant. \nThe San Francisco Art Book Fair is organized by: \nMinnesota Street Project is in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district\, Minnesota Street Project offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries\, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses\, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community in the short term\, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term. \nColpa is the collaborative practice of Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak. They work together as a publisher\, designer\, printer and curator. They publish art books\, limited edition prints and art objects\, often working with artists on unique projects. \nPark Life is an independent retail store and art gallery established by Jamie Alexander and Derek Song based in San Francisco. Park Life features art and design products culled together from all over the world and includes books\, editions\, prints\, design objects\, paper goods\, original art and apparel. Park Life specializes in limited edition artist collaborations\, having worked with dozens of artist over the last 10 years to produce products ranging from books\, zines and prints to tees\, skate decks\, and objects.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair-day-1/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SF Art Book Fair Day 2
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nLast year we welcomed 110 exhibitors and over 10\,000 visitors. We aim to reach an even larger audience this year and create an event that continues to showcase some of the most interesting publishers and booksellers in the world. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant. \nThe San Francisco Art Book Fair is organized by: \nMinnesota Street Project is in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district\, Minnesota Street Project offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries\, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses\, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community in the short term\, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term. \nColpa is the collaborative practice of Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak. They work together as a publisher\, designer\, printer and curator. They publish art books\, limited edition prints and art objects\, often working with artists on unique projects. \nPark Life is an independent retail store and art gallery established by Jamie Alexander and Derek Song based in San Francisco. Park Life features art and design products culled together from all over the world and includes books\, editions\, prints\, design objects\, paper goods\, original art and apparel. Park Life specializes in limited edition artist collaborations\, having worked with dozens of artist over the last 10 years to produce products ranging from books\, zines and prints to tees\, skate decks\, and objects.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-art-book-fair-day-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Owen Hill\, Pamela Jackson\, and Anthony Rizzuto\, editors of the Annotated Big Sleep
DESCRIPTION:The new edition of Raymond Chandler’s Big Sleep\, edited\, annotated and prefaced by past and present Moe’s staffers. \nWe’ve asked a few friends to read their favorite passage from this noir classic. A list of our readers is coming soon. \n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”–Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward. \nA masterpiece of noir\, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep helped to define a genre and remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. Now\, this comprehensive\, annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel\, bringing the gritty and seductive world of Chandler’s iconic private eye Philip Marlowe into full color. Notes on the historical context of Chandler’s Los Angeles; excerpts from the author’s personal letters and source texts; explorations of the issues of gender\, sexuality\, race\, and ethnicity that permeate the story; and important interpretations and clarifications enrich the reader’s understanding and situate the novel within the tradition of crime fiction that Chandler both built upon and made new. \nRaymond Chandler (1888-1959) turned to writing fiction at the age of forty-five\, after a career as an oil executive. He published his first story in Black Mask in 1933\, and his first novel\, The Big Sleep\, in 1939. Over his lifetime\, Chandler wrote seven novels\, several screenplays\, and numerous short stories\, and became the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. \nOwen Hill is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. He was awarded the Howard Moss residency at Yaddo in 2005. \nPamela Jackson is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA\, and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nAnthony Rizzuto is a bookseller\, professor of literature\, and researcher. He currently teaches British and American literature and history at Sonoma State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/owen-hill-pamela-jackson-and-anthony-rizzuto-editors-of-the-annotated-big-sleep/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Storytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 25\, 10:30 – 11:00 am\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley \nStorytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards \nBring your little ones to Pegasus on Solano for a fun\, interactive\, and educational morning. Imagination Flannel Boards will be on hand to share stories and songs that spark your children’s imagination. They will engage with the storyteller through singing\, repetition\, and movement. They will cheer when the ducklings find their mother and laugh when the Old Lady swallows a cow! \nEvery 4th Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Solano. \n \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, July 25\, 2018 – 10:30am\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/storytime-on-solano-imagination-flannel-boards/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Summer Reading List"
DESCRIPTION:Whether it’s a staycation at Lake Merritt or a trip to the Mediterranean\, you’ll need a good book–or four. Come hear visiting author Nick White and local writers Cathy Arellano\, Wilfredo Pascual\, and Kate Raphael read from their newest books at Perfectly Queer East Bay’s “Summer Reading List” Wednesday\, July 25\, 7pm at Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway in Oakland. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and Queerly summer door prizes. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS & THEIR BOOKS:\nThe broken-hearted lesbian love poems in Cathy Arellano’s I LOVE MY WOMEN\, SOMETIMES THEY LOVE ME are suitable for anyone who has loved\, been loved\, or been left. MY WOMEN was released in Fall 2017 from Kórima Press. In 2016\, Kórima also published SALVATION ON MISSION STREET\, Arellano’s family memoir in poems and stories set in San Francisco from the 1960s to the 2000s. SALVATION won the 2017 Golden Crown Literary Society’s Debut Author Award. Arellano teaches in the English Department at American River College where she will teach the college’s first Latina/o/x Literature course in Fall 2018. Sign up! \nWilfredo Pascual is a Pushcart-nominated essayist who grew up in the Philippines where his essays have won several national awards and state recognition from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He lived in Thailand before moving to the Bay Area in 2005. He is the author of KILOMETER ZERO\, a collection of personal essays about finding your rightful place. Winner of the 2015 Curt Johnson Prize for Nonfiction and runner-up for the 2016 Steinberg Essay Prize\, his work has been listed as Notable in the 2016 Best American Essays. He lives in the Mission with his husband Jack. \nKate Raphael is a radical queer feminist activist and writer. She’s the author of two published mysteries\, both set in Palestine and featuring a Palestinian policewoman and a Jewish-American dyke. The second in the series\, MURDER UNDER THE FIG TREE\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and won a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award for multicultural fiction. She produces and hosts Women’s Magazine on KPFA radio and makes her living as a law firm word processor. \nA native of Mississippi\, Nick White is the author of the novel HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER (2017) and the short-story collection SWEET AND LOW (2018). He’ll be reading from SWEET AND LOW. He is an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in a variety of places\, including The Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, The Hopkins Review\, Indiana Review\, The Literary Review\, and Lit Hub.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-summer-reading-list/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jason Morris Book Release w/ Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Everybody! Hey! Jason Morris has a brand new book of poetry out! It’s called Levon Helm and we want to celebrate. The poet Evan Kennedy will be reading too. And we will be able to say I was there when… \nJason Morris grew up in Vermont. He is the author of six books of poetry and other writing\, including\, most recently\, Levon Helm (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and Late to Practice (Dirty Swan Projects\, 2017). His essays\, including essays on Clark Coolidge’s Crystal Text and Bernadette Mayer’s interest in Hawthorne\, have appeared in Jacket2\, Eleven Eleven\, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco. \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press)\, The Sissies (Futurepoem)\, and Terra Firmament (Krupskaya).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-morris-book-release-w-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents William O’Daly and Peter Weltner
DESCRIPTION:Famed Spanish translator William O’Daly’s new book of translation is Book of Twilight\, by Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda\, which is Neruda’s debut book\, never before published in its entirety in the United States. The bilingual collection has just been nominated for the 2018 Northern California Book Award in Translation. His translations include eight other books of poetry by Pablo Neruda. He published a full-length collection of his own poetry\, Water Ways\, in 2017\, with prose and photography by J.S. Graustein. A second collection\, Yarrow and Smoke\, will appear in 2018. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, and his poems\, essays\, and translations have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. He was profiled by Mike Leonard for The Today Show. \nPeter Weltner’s latest book is The Return of What’s Been Lost\, fourteen stories and fourteen ‘choral’ poems\, which\, David Morris says\, “meditate on loss\, personal and cultural\, and how mourning embodies in the self\, incarnate and haunting\, the hugeness of what is missing.” He’s published five previous books of fiction and six full-length collections of poetry\, most recently The Light of the Sun Become Sea. His work has also appeared in some national anthologies\, including Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards\, 1993 and 1998\, as well as in many literary journals and magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-william-odaly-and-peter-weltne/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: TBD AND TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features TBD and TBD! Music by TBD! \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/telegraph-open-mic-features-tbd-and-tbd/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Young Adults 12 & up! James Parks & Ben Costa
DESCRIPTION:present Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2: The Middle-Route Run \nNimona meets Adventure Time in this full-color graphic novel as a singing skeleton continues to search for his origins alongside his gelatin monster sidekick! \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2 by speaking to a bookseller or ordering on our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, July 29\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRickety Stitch is a walking\, talking\, singing skeleton minstrel\, the only animated skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul. He has no idea who he used to be when he was covered in a living\, breathing sack of meat and skin. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams\, an epic bard’s tale that could also explain the old fog covering the comical fantasy land of Eem…Oh\, and his sidekick and only friend is a cube of sentient goo. \nIn this pulse-pounding second volume\, Rickety runs afoul of reanimated beasts\, giant spiders\, and a caravan of rowdy raiders on his quest to uncover the secret of Epoli and learn his true origins. \nJames Parks is a speculative fiction writer and graphic novelist living in the Bay Area. He was weaned on monster flicks\, ghostbusting\, lightsaber duels\, samurai cinema\, and comics–with a sober dose of Victorian literature and ’80s cartoons. Parks is also the author of the southern gothic horror collection The Gospel of Bucky Dennis\,was a staff writer for Campfire Graphic Novels\, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. \nBen Costa is a writer and artist living in the Bay Area. He self-published two volumes of the award-winning\, martial arts historical fiction comic Pang\, The Wandering Shaolin Monk. Ben has always been passionate about fantasy comics. \nBen maintains a steady diet of samurai comics\, kung fu movies\, spacefaring farm boys\, and tabletop RPGs. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/young-adults-12-up-james-parks-ben-costa/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hiroshima / Nagasaki Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Kirk Lumpkin\, Sharon Coleman\, Rafael Jesús Gonzáez\, Dee Allen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Onnesha Roychoudhuri discusses THE MARGINALIZED MAJORITY
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Onnesha Roychoudhuri to discuss The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America\, on Thursday\, August 2nd at 7pm. \n“This book is a daring intervention to get us back in the game–and a witty\, delightfully personal meditation on collective power.” –Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything \nEver since the 2016 election\, pundits have been saying our country has never been more divided–that if progressives want to reclaim power\, we need to be “pragmatic\,” reach across the aisle\, and look past identity politics. \nBut what if we’re getting the story all wrong? \nIn The Marginalized Majority\, Onnesha Roychoudhuri makes the galvanizing case that our voices are already the majority — and that our plurality of identities is not only our greatest strength\, but is also at the indisputable core of successful progressive change throughout history. \nFrom the Civil Rights Movement to the Women’s March\, Saturday Night Live to the mainstream media\, Roychoudhuri holds the myths about our disenfranchisement up to the light\, illuminating narratives from history that reveal we have far more power than we’re often led to believe. With both clear-eyed hope and electrifying power\, she examines our ideas about what’s possible\, and what’s necessary — opening up space for action\, new realities\, and\, ultimately\, survival. \nNow\, Roychoudhuri urges us\, is the time to fight like the majority we already are. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nOnnesha Roychoudhuri is a Brooklyn-based writer\, editor\, and educator. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone\, n+1\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, Boston Review\, The Nation\, The American Prospect\, Salon\, and Mother Jones. She is the co-founder of Speech/Act\, and organization working at the intersection of storytelling and social justice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/onnesha-roychoudhuri-discusses-the-marginalized-majority/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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