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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: A Memorial for Sean Bonney
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-a-memorial-for-sean-bonney/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launching of Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition\nWe have a new format and the same literary wonderland.\nOur inaugural virtual reading is happening on April 1st with three amazing writers Norma Liliana Valdez\, Georgina Marie\, and Nick Johnson \nWe will be meeting on Zoom\, specific details below and if you’re new to Zoom you can download the app here:\nhttps://zoom.us/ and here’s a handy\nDescription:\n──────────\nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/404739063 \nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nPassword: 381415 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,404739063# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,404739063# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyric-dirges-ether-edition-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beth Lisick
DESCRIPTION:reads from \nEdie On The Green Screen: A Novel \npublished by 7.13 Books \nCity Lights welcomes back Beth Lisick to celebrate her debut novel from 7.13 Books. \nEdie Wunderlich was the It girl\, on the covers of the city’s alt-weeklies\, repping the freak party scene on the eve of the first dot-com boom. Fast-forward twenty years\, and Edie hasn’t changed\, but San Francisco has. Still a bartender in the Mission\, Edie now serves a seemingly never-ending stream of tech bros while the punk rock parties of the millennium’s end are long gone. When her mother dies\, leaving her Silicon Valley home to Edie\, she finds herself mourning her loss in the heart of the Bay Area’s tech monoculture\, and embarks on a last-ditch quest to hold on to her rebel heart. New York Times bestseller Beth Lisick’s first novel EDIE ON THE GREEN SCREEN chronicles Silicon Valley’s rapidly changing culture with biting observational humor\, an insider’s wisdom\, and disarming pathos\, while asking\, “What comes after It?” \nBeth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of five previous books\, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool\, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as a baker\, a promotional banana mascot\, a background extra for TV and film\, and an aide to people with developmental disabilities and dementia. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-lisick/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield / Ledger
DESCRIPTION:reads from her new volume of poetry Ledger\, a book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 1\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows\, and has edited and co-translated four books of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hilary Leichter\, Mary South\, Rita Bullwinkel\, & R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Leichter and Mary South discuss their new works\, Temporary and You Will Never Be Forgotten\, with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon. \nPraise for Temporary \n“A narrative so deliciously allusive and disarmingly literal that this reader kept thinking maximum glee had been attained\, only for the glee to somehow grow even more maximal just a few sentences later.” —Helen Oyeyemi \n“Temporary took me by storm. Each short chapter is a wallop of topsy-turvy wisdom and humor\, and together they build a strange and sparkling universe. The novel is about work and identity and the masks we wear\, but it’s also about our weird little human hearts and what they can bear. I am a Hilary Leichter superfan.”—Ramona Ausubel \n“In Temporary\, the quest for gainful employment is epic; operatic; deliciously\, sunnily\, terrifyingly entertaining. Hilary Leichter is a conjurer of rare talent.” —Kelly Link \nAbout Temporary \nIn Temporary\, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness\, connection\, and something\, at last\, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes\, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship\, assisting an assassin\, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board\, for the mythical Temporary\, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” \nThis riveting quest\, at once hilarious and profound\, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work\, even when the work is only temporary. \nPraise for You Will Never Be Forgotten \n“Mary South gets it. With dark humor\, she knocks down like so many lined-up ducks all the consoling pieties that nurture humanist fiction\, and sets up in their place a vision of subjects irremediably mediated\, strung out along networks that far exceed them. Her universe is glitchy\, full of weakly-encrypted memory\, open-source desire\, self-replicating fantasy: the human in hock to the algorithm.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n“Mary South’s stories are a vital mix of wry humor\, cunning provocation\, disturbing prophecy and deep feeling. A brilliant and brilliantly strange and strangely funny and menacing debut!” —Sam Lipsyte\, author of Hark \n“Mary South’s wickedly\, exquisitely hilarious collection dwells in the intimate aches of modern life\, writ large in strange\, delightful stories that include\, but are not limited to\, clones\, brain surgery\, internet trolls\, and warehouses full of spare men. Dazzlingly imagined and full of wit\, You Will Never Be Forgotten is a gift to readers everywhere\, a ferocious transmission from one of the most audacious\, most original new voices in fiction.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of Intimations \nAbout You Will Never Be Forgotten \nIn this provocative\, bitingly funny debut collection\, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair\, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves \nAn architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter’s birth defect. A content moderator for “the world’s biggest search engine\,” who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides\, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls\, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. \nIn You Will Never Be Forgotten\, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive\, darkly absurdist\, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit\, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance\, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive\, idiosyncratic\, instantly recognizable voice in fiction—one that could only belong to Mary South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-leichter-mary-south-rita-bullwinkel-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #1: Thea Matthews\, MK Chavez\, JP Howard
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque engaging readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers\nquestions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Red Light Lit (founded and run by Jennifer Lewis). Our writers are Thea Matthews (author of Unearth [The Flowers]\, forthcoming with Red Light Lit)\, Mk Chavez (author of Dear Animal\, and Mothermorphosis published by Nomadic Press)\, and JP Howard (author of SAY/MIRROR published by The Operating System & Liminal Lab). Jennifer Lewis will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nZoom Joining Information \nTime: Apr 2\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/175010261 \nMeeting ID: 175 010 261 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,175010261# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,175010261# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 175 010 261\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-1-thea-matthews-mk-chavez-jp-howard/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Cowboy & Other Poems: Alejandro Albarrán Polanco and Rachel Galvin
DESCRIPTION:Mexican poet Alejandro Albarrán Polanco joins poet and translator Rachel Galvin to talk about his chapbook\, Cowboy & Other Poems\, from Ugly Duckling Presse. \nAbout Cowboy & Other Poems\, Maricela Guerrero writes “Prosthesis poems raising questions about the means by which the discourse of terror erodes our conversations. Piles of poems bursting into piles of words\, crashing against the univocal: Albarrán’s work is an ensemble of voices resonating from the most sincere tenderness to the most terrible and terrifying ways in which the contemporary world of crime and horror is narrated. In this book a cowboy gallops on a thousand prairies of senseless sense\, carrying us mounted on the rump\, expectant.” \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nAlejandro Albarrán Polanco\n\n\nAlejandro Albarrán Polanco (b. Mexico City) is the author of Algunas personas no son caballos\, which won the Premio Internacional Manuel Acuña in 2018. He is a founding editor of the press Canón Accidental and co-director of the radio program Radio Rara. He is also a musician and conceptual artist whose performances\, installations\, and artist’s books have been featured in numerous art exhibitions.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nRachel Galvin\n\n\nRachel Galvin is an award-winning poet\, translator\, and scholar. Her books include two collections of poetry\, Pulleys & Locomotion and Elevated Threat Level; a work of criticism\, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945; and Hitting the Streets\, a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau. She is a co-founder of the Outranspo\, an international creative translation collective\, and assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cowboy-other-poems-alejandro-albarran-polanco-and-rachel-galvin/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die Team!\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nThursday\, April 2nd\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nSeating is first come\, first served… to the person who gets the seat in your house.\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/33US8Gz \nPLEASE NOTE:\nRegistration DOES NOT guarantee a spot on the call!!!\nThere are only 100 call spots – our commitment is to keep it intimate\, so whoever needs to share\, gets to share…\nDo not wait – don’t be late!! \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @Peter-Buskirk\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes ONLINE!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU IF HE HAS TO! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Mountains Sing \nfrom Workman Publishing Company \n“An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history\, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN\, author of The Sympathizer\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize \nWith the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan\, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping\, multigenerational tale of the Trần family\, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan\, who was born in 1920\, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội\, her young granddaughter\, Hương\, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country\, but her family apart. \nVivid\, gripping\, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam\, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves\, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. \nThe Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English. \nBorn into the Viet Nam War in 1973\, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai grew up witnessing the war’s devastation and its aftermath. She worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of eight books of poetry\, fiction and non-fiction published in Vietnamese\, and her writing has been translated and published in more than 10 countries\, most recently in Norton’s Inheriting the War anthology. She has been honored with many awards\, including the Poetry of the Year 2010 Award from the Ha Noi Writers Association\, as well as many grants and fellowships. Married to a European diplomat\, Quế Mai is currently living in Jakarta with her two teenage children. \nFor more information about Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai\, visit her at www.nguyenphanquemai.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nguyen-phan-que-mai/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche\, In the Lateness of the World at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome celebrated poet Carolyn Forché for a reading and signing of In the Lateness of the World—her new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force. \nOver four decades\, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies\, inquiries\, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. \nHer first new collection in seventeen years\, In the Lateness of the World\, is a tenebrous book of crossings\, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past\, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché envisions a place where “you could see everything at once … every moment you have lived or place you have been.” The world here seems to be steadily vanishing\, but in the moments before the uncertain end\, an illumination arrives and “there is nothing that cannot be seen.” In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today. \nCarolyn Forché is an American poet\, translator\, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes. Her memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True\, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013\, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017\, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband\, photographer Harry Mattison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-in-the-lateness-of-the-world-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T193000
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SUMMARY:Monica Sok: A Nail the Evening Hangs On
DESCRIPTION:Monica Sok discusses her debut poetry collection\, A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, with Barbara Jane Reyes. \nPraise for A Nail the Evening Hangs On \n“Sok’s reflective debut teases out how the trauma of the Khmer Rouge is remembered and retained in the fabric of the country and within her own family… Weaving the threads of her family’s stories\, history\, place\, and identity\, these poems glimmer with strength and presence.” —Publishers Weekly  \n“An unsettling\, powerful\, important debut.” —Booklist \n“The poet is able to offer quiet wisdom without sentimentality. Ultimately this poet refuses to surrender to victimhood. The chapbook ends optimistically in the borough of Brooklyn\, where the young speaker lives happily\, sometimes seen in the neighborhood eating bagels with friends and writing new poems. She has found her way to ‘the healing fields.’” ―Marilyn Chin \nAbout A Nail the Evening Hangs On \nIn this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A Nail the Evening Hangs On travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-sok-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #3
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nDonate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the “ticket” link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic (this time a little earlier for our east coast friends)! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nJoining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #3\nTime: Apr 3\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/787778071 \nMeeting ID: 787 778 071 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,787778071# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,787778071# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 787 778 071\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bess Kalb / Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Bess Kalb for her new book Nobody Will Tell You This but Me. \nPlease join us … we’ll be streaming on our Facebook page! \n\n“When I stop crying\, I’m calling my mother immediately and making her read it.” – Jodi Picoult \n“Comic lines as good as in any movie\, and pathos as deep as in any novel” – Mike Birbiglia \nBess Kalb\, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor\, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force–irrepressible\, glamorous\, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then\, at ninety\, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir\, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more\, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. \nRecounting both family lore and family secrets\, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother\, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms\, and Bess’s mother\, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. Then there’s Bess\, who grew up in New York and entered the rough-and-tumble world of L.A. television. Her grandma Bobby was with her all the way–she was the light of Bess’s childhood and her fiercest supporter\, giving Bess unequivocal love\, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. \nIn Nobody Will Tell You This But Me\, Bobby reminds Bess of the experiences they shared\, and she delivers–in phone calls\, texts\, and unforgettable heart-to-hearts brought vividly to the page–her signature wisdom: \nIf the earth is cracking behind you\, you put one foot in front of the other. \nNever. Buy. Fake. Anything.\nI swear on your life every word of this is true. \nWith humor and poignancy\, Bess Kalb gives us proof of the special bond that can skip a generation and endure beyond death. This book is a feat of extraordinary ventriloquism and imagination by a remarkably talented writer. \n\nBess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Her writing for the show earned her a Writer’s Guild Award in 2016. She has also written for the Oscars and the Emmys. A regular contributor to The New Yorker‘s “Daily Shouts\,” her work has been published in The New Republic\, Grantland\, Salon.com\, Wired\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Lucas Foglia. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bess-kalb-nobody-will-tell-you-this-but-me/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T185935
CREATED:20200221T212345Z
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SUMMARY:Luiza\, Colleen\, and Audra Have a Book Party at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize\, and Colleen McKee and Audra Puchalski\, finalists for the Charlotte Mew Prize\, read from their chapbooks\, all published in January by Headmistress Press. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett’s chapbook Tender Age won the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew contest. She is also the author of the forthcoming collection Look Alive\, winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press\, along with five other chapbooks\, most recently Shadow Box\, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor’s Prize. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast\, Pleiades\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter and lives in sunny Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luiza-colleen-and-audra-have-a-book-party-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T185935
CREATED:20191219T071112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T071112Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200405T190000
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!
DESCRIPTION:We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time 🙂 \nSmack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQ2SIA community event. Our slogan? “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running Q/T Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Our hosts Larry-bob Roberts {he/him} and Dana Hopkins {she/her} welcome you to come on in! \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:45 pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \nFor Zoom details and instructions about how to join in message us here at Smack Dab Queer Open Mic OR stay tuned to this space for those details. We will post them here on Sunday .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Dinerstein Knight / Hex
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (The Sunlit Night) for her new novel Hex. Please join us! \nNell Barber\, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science\, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote\, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor\, Dr. Joan Kallas\, is the hero of Nell’s heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan’s office despite herself\, mesmerized by Joan’s elegance\, success\, and spiritual force. \nSurrounded by Nell’s ex\, her best friend\, her best friend’s boyfriend\, and Joan’s buffoonish husband\, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships\, grudges\, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition\, and as they collide on the university campus\, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak. \nMeanwhile\, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study\, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks\, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days\, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice\, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity. \n\n“In her brilliant second novel\, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love\, ambition\, mentorship\, and yearning\, and she does it all in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous witchery.” – Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Rebecca has written a book that examines our natural and absolutely astounding reactions to each other. The language of this novel is so finely tailored\, so elegant yet organic\, so absorbing that it takes the reader a moment to realize that this is not just a deliciously engaging tale of what it is like to be social and sexual\, but that this writing is an actual incantation in itself. It is a beautiful\, spooky spell that divides and processes our innate potential for poison or pleasure.” – Jenny Slate\, actress and author of Little Weirds \n“Hex reads like a botanist’s cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation\, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician\, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control.” – Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers \n\nRebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of the novel and screenplay The Sunlit Night\, and a collection of poems\, Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker online\, among others. Born and raised in New York City\, she lives in New Hampshire. Photo by Nina Subin. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Hex\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-dinerstein-knight-hex/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. A. Powell and Paola Capó-García
DESCRIPTION:Paola Capó-García is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (Rescue Press\, 2018)\, selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of Rescue Press’ 2017 Black Box Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Volta\, Puerto Rico en mi corazón\, Latino Book Review\, jubilat\, Poetry Society of America\, Academy of American Poets\, and others. Originally from San Juan\, PR\, she now lives in San Diego\, CA\, where she teaches 12th grade English. \nD. A. Powell’s books include Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys and Repast\, both from Graywolf Press. He received the 2019 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-a-powell-and-paola-capo-garcia/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Harris - - Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit w/Robin Sloane
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Malcolm Harristo read from his new book\, Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit on Tuesday\, April 7th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Robin Sloane. \nFrom the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality\, student debt\, and exploitation have come to define our lives \nOur economic situation\, political discourse\, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said “Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit” to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? \nMalcolm Harris\, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics\, tackles these questions in over 30 new and selected pieces\, examining everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism–and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way\, he cops to being the guy who tricked protestors into thinking Radiohead was playing Occupy Wall Street; investigates why the robots that will replace us so often look like sex objects; and\, most comfortingly\, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we’re in. \nRarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside-down that we can finally understand it for what it really is\, but Harris’s wry and biting essays do just that\, and help us laugh at what we see. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMalcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic\, Bookforum\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book was Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. He lives in Philadelphia. \nRobin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet. He is the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/malcolm-harris-shit-is-fucked-up-and-bullshit-w-robin-sloane/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T185935
CREATED:20200323T055211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T192543Z
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:WHY WE SWIM with Bonnie Tsui\, Daniel Handler\, and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join these three author-swimmers in a discussion of Bonnie Tsui’s fascinating new book\, Why We Swim. \nJoin us here at 5pm PDT on Tueday\, April 7! \nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/476150449?pwd=MGtobFBYWXFINHVOUTAzNWdiYXpidz09
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-we-swim-with-bonnie-tsui-daniel-handler-and-andrew-sean-greer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T185935
CREATED:20200216T053822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T053822Z
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SUMMARY:MFA Alumni Reading Featuring mai c. doan & Aiden Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted Mills graduate students\, followed by readings. \n\n\nmai c. doan is poet and writer from Southern California. Her first full-length collection\, water/tongue\, was published by Omnidawn in 2019. She has published and performed her work though the National Queer Arts Festival\, RADAR Productions\, Entropy Magazine\, Mixed Up!: A Zine about Mixed Race Queer and Feminist Experience\, and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College\, where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\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\, OR. As a queer\, trans Latinx\, Aiden advocates strongly for diverse representation in all media. Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys\, is a Dia de Muertos paranormal romance about Yadriel (a gay\, trans brujo) who accidentally summons the wrong ghost. Cemetery Boys is forthcoming from Macmillan in July 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-alumni-reading-featuring-mai-c-doan-aiden-thomas/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T204500
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CREATED:20191227T171645Z
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-3/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA's 35th Anniversary Issue Release
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary issue\, to be released in early April\, with contributors from the issue which includes such authors and writers as Bryan Washington\, Lauren Markham\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Kristen Iskandrian\, Lysley Tenorio\, Dave Madden\, Peter Orner\, Meg Hurtado Bloom\, and many others. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-zyzzyvas-35th-anniversary-issue-release/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T210000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass\, Indigo at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Indigo merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complex grey areas. Whether her subject is oysters\, high heels\, a pork chop\, a beloved dog\, or a wife’s return to health\, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin\,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger\, desire\, touch. In this book\, joy meets regret\, devotion meets dependence\, and most importantly\, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused\, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken\, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations\, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle\, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have\, even as it attempts to slip away. \nEllen Bass is co-author of the best-selling The Courage to Heal\, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry\, including The Human Line\, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, and The New Republic. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she lives in Santa Cruz\, and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 18th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-indigo-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:C Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold. \nPraise for How Much of These Hills is Gold \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies\n \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”—Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous\, broken\, soulful\, feral song of family and yearning\, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant\, fearless writer. This book is a wonder.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nAbout How Much of These Hills is Gold \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser for Pegasus Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business. First up: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon in conversation\, including a Q&A. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Plus the memoir A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life. \nMichael Chabon is the author of several novels\, including Moonglow\, Telegraph Ave.\, the Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. \nBoth Chabon and Waldman wrote for the recent TV series\, Star Trek: Picard. \nThe beneficiary \nPegasus Books has been delivering books and dreams to the Berkeley area since 1969\, and they’re a vital part of our book-loving community. They have an amazing selection of new and used books and a warm\, friendly atmosphere\, complete with adorable cats. They give dog treats to dogs\, and stickers to kids\, and they have some of the most fun events in the city\, and we’d be lost without them. \nEvery penny you spend on tickets to this event goes directly to Pegasus Books. \nHow does it work? \nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-and-ayelet-waldman-in-conversation-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). Join us! \nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Pelton Papers\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World
DESCRIPTION:Fiction writers are often told – by teachers\, editors\, and agents – that politics and literature don’t mix. But in these times of political polarization and dissatisfaction\, many writers are reconsidering this conventional wisdom. How can ambitious writers find a space to explore the matters of life and death\, wealth and poverty\, war and governance\, that affect us all? How should art respond to the terrors of modern life? Join five accomplished writers as they share work that has grappled with these questions. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKirstin Chen\nKirstin Chen‘s second novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, was named a best book of the year by Entropy\, Popsugar\, and Book Bub\, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle. She is also the aut… Read More →\n\n \nAndrew Altschul\nAndrew Altschul’s third novel\, The Gringa\, was published in March. In a starred review\, Booklist called it “a captivating depiction of passion\, disenchantment\, and hope gone violently awry.” His previous novels are Deus Ex Machina and Lady Lazarus. His work has appeared in Best… Read More →\n\n \nRamona Ausubel\nRamona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections. Her most recent book\, Awayland\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection\, a Finalist for the California Book Award\, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA… Read More →\n\n \nDanielle Evans\nDanielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self\, and the forthcoming collection The Office of Historical Corrections. She is the winner of the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Hurston-Wright award for fiction\, a National Book… Read More →\n\n \nJoshua Furst\nJoshua Furst’s critically acclaimed novel Revolutionaries was published last year.  He’salso the author of The Sabotage Café—named to the 2007 year-end best-of lists of the Chicago Tribune\, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper\, as well as being awarded the… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-we-all-want-to-change-the-world/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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