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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK\, FOUR LOST CITIES: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE URBAN AGE\, ON ZOOM!\nPREORDER A COPY TODAY AND RECEIVE A SPECIAL SIGNED POSTCARD!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82512999396\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82512999396#  or +12532158782\,\,82512999396#\nWebinar ID: 825 1299 9396\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kqZY7eKSG \nPraise for Four Lost Cities \n“Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity.”— N. K. Jemisin\, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We Became \n“Cheerful\, curious\, amused\, and amusing\, Annalee Newitz is a fabulous tour guide through the latest archaeological perspectives on four of humankind’s most remarkable urban experiments. Along the way\, Newitz dispels myths\, evokes fascinating stories—and makes us think hard about our own urban future.”— Charles C. Mann\, author of 1491 and 1493 \n“Annalee Newitz is a brilliant writer with the heart of an archaeologist and the soul of a visionary. Four Lost Cities should open our eyes to all that may happen to our cities in the future. Vibrant and adventurous\, this is a necessary book for turbulent times.”— Sarah Parcak\, archaeologist and author of Archaeology from Space \nAbout Four Lost Cities \nA quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. \nIn Four Lost Cities\, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world\, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities\, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey\, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast\, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia\, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia\, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. \nNewitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology\, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning\, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves\, women\, immigrants\, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. \nFour Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past\, but\, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities\, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-annalee-newitz-and-charles-c-mann/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Gretel Ehrlich\, Unsolaced
DESCRIPTION:Gretel Ehrlich\, author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces\, will share her new book Unsolaced—a wondrous meditation on how water\, light\, wind\, mountain\, bird\, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n\nAmid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets\, this stunning collection of memories\, observations\, and narratives is acute and lyrical\, Whitmanesque in breadth\, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse. “Sentience and sunderance\,” Ehrlich writes. “How we know what we know\, who teaches us\, how easy it is to lose it all.” As if to stave off impending loss\, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland\, Africa\, Kosovo\, Japan\, and an uninhabited Alaskan island\, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them. \n“In lush\, evocative prose\, Ehrlich details some breathtakingly perilous journeys . . . A vigorous plea for responsible environmental stewardship and a treat for all fans of nature writing.” — Kirkus Review (starred) \nGRETEL EHRLICH is the author of Facing the Wave\, The Future of Ice\, Heart Mountain\, The Solace of Open Spaces\, and This Cold Heaven\, among other works of nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry. Ehrlich studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She divides her time between Montana and Hawaii.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-gretel-ehrlich-unsolaced/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 2\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88666921359\, \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpEverythingSadIsUntrue or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/EverythingSadAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA true refugee story told in a Scheherazade-like format. It’s the most engrossing book I’ve read this year: it’s magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once. I love this boy and I loved learning about his Iranian childhood and one-of-a-kind immigrant experience in Oklahoma. A MUST READ! \n— Donna \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: a rich history of a young Iranian refugee making a life in Oklahoma\, his relationship with his parents\, and finding an identity. \n— Amy \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: This beautiful book made me laugh and cry. I listened to the audiobook\, and the narrator’s voice is everything. He uses humor and myths to tell the tale of his Iranian family settling in Oklahoma and though it was written for kids\, it is great for all ages. \n— Sarah \n  \nDescription\n\nAt the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma\, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands\, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned\, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. \nBut Khosrou’s stories\, stretching back years\, and decades\, and centuries\, are beautiful\, and terrifying\, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them\, back to the sad\, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras\, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything\, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. \nWe bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past\, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh\, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. \nLike Scheherazade in a hostile classroom\, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). \nIt is Daniel’s. \nAbout the Author\n\nDaniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the publisher of Odd Dot\, an imprint of Macmillan\, making him one of the youngest publishers in the industry. He has served on the CBC diversity committee and the CBC panel committee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everything-sad-is-untrue-by-daniel-nayeri-ggp-online-book-club/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Kiki Petrosino
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \n\nKiki Petrosino\nKiki Petrosino is the author of four books of poetry: White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020)\, Witch Wife (2017)\, Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013) and Fort Red Border (2009)\, all from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry\, Best American Poetry\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, FENCE\, Gulf Coast\, Jubilat\, Tin House and on-line at Ploughshares. She teaches at the University of Virginia as a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-kiki-petrosino/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dispatches from the Race War
DESCRIPTION:Essays on racial flashpoints\, white denial\, violence\, and the manipulation of fear in America today. \n“What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks’ truth . . . to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch\, but to recognize their own role in co-creating . . . a fair\, inclusive\, truly democratic society.”—Michelle Alexander\, author of The New Jim Crow \nIn this collection of essays\, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America. Seen through the lens of major flashpoints during the Obama and Trump years\, Dispatches from the Race War faces the consequences of white supremacy in all its forms. This includes a discussion of the bigoted undertones of the Tea Party’s backlash\, the killing of Trayvon Martin\, current day anti-immigrant hysteria\, the rise of openly avowed white nationalism\, the violent policing of African Americans\, and more. Wise devotes a substantial portion of the book to explore the racial ramifications of COVID-19\, and the widespread protests which followed the police murder of George Floyd. \nConcise\, accessible chapters\, most written in first-person\, offer an excellent source for those engaged in the anti-racism struggle. Tim Wise’s proactive approach asks white allies to contend with—and take responsibility for—their own role in perpetuating racism against Blacks and people of color. Dispatches from the Race War reminds us that the story of our country is the history of racial conflict\, and that our future may depend on how—or if—we can resolve it. “To accept racism is quintessentially American\,” writes Wise\, “to rebel against it is human. Be human.” \n“Tim Wise’s new book gives us the tools we need to reach people whose understanding of our country is white instead of right. And without pissing them off!”—James W. Loewen\, author\, Lies My Teacher Told Me \n“Tim Wise’s latest is more urgent than ever. Unflinchingly\, and page after page\, Wise calls out a brutal truth\, one unwelcome to so many white people: The racial trauma playing out across this nation\, hour after hour\, day after day\, is inflicted—be it actively or unwittingly—by them. But as Wise also\, so rightly\, notes\, this isn’t the whole story. Despite what some would hope for this nation\, we are not doomed to a white-sparked race war. Just as this nation’s history is steeped in racial oppression\, so too is it rich with anti-racist resistance. It is to this anti-racist resistance that white people in particular\, but the country as a whole\, must now commit. . . . no matter what.”—Heather Ann Thompson\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dispatches-from-the-race-war/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nFEBRUARY 4TH FEATURED WRITER: LAUREN GROFF\nLauren Groff is the author of five books\, most recently Fates and Furies\, a novel\, and Florida\, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L’héroïne\, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.  Her next novel\, Matrix\, is slated for publication by Riverhead in September 2021. \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-lauren-groff/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dantiel W. Moniz in conversation with C Pam Zhang
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Dantial W. Moniz new novel \nMilk Blood Heat \npublished by Grove Atlantic Press \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link coming soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nA livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz\, one of the most exciting discoveries in today’s literary landscape\, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection\, race\, womanhood\, inheritance\, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida\, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls\, women\, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family\, faith\, forgiveness\, consumption\, and what we may\, or may not\, owe one another. \nA thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter—whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family’s church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father’s ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them. \nWise and subversive\, spiritual and seductive\, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth\, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star. \nDantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction\, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminars\, and a Tin House Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Paris Review\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, the Yale Review\, Joyland\, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, and elsewhere. Milk Blood Heat is her first book. She lives in Northeast Florida. \nC Pam Zhang is the author of the novel How Much of These Hills is Gold published by Riverhead Books in 2020\, and was long-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dantiel-w-moniz-in-conversation-with-c-pam-zhang/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell'Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 4\, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, THE CHICKEN SISTERS\, with author KJ Dell’Antonia in conversation with Nancy Davis Kho\, author of THE THANK YOU PROJECT. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82283219224. \n(Order your copy of THE CHICKEN SISTERS at http://bit.ly/ggpChickenSisters or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/ChickenSistersAB.) \nDecember 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“I am charmed by The Chicken Sisters! Family fights\, fried chicken\, a dog and her puppies\, mental illness\, a shaky marriage\, a potential romance\, and a reality show taping all combine for a great small-town story. Generations of feuding sisters with competing chicken shack restaurants hash it out for the cameras\, their loved ones\, and themselves. The Chicken Sisters is a delightful read.”\n— Susan Williams\, M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers\, Greenville\, SC \nDescription\n\nINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK \n“A charming\, hilarious\, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also\, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”–Reese Witherspoon \nThree generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. \nIn tiny Merinac\, Kansas\, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state–and the legendary feud between their respective owners\, the Moores and the Pogociellos\, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore\, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi’s before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie’s. Tired of being caught in the middle\, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars\, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100\,000 to the winner. But in doing so\, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . . \nThe last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore\, Amanda’s sister\, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes\, helping the fading Mimi’s look good on Food Wars becomes Mae’s best chance to reclaim the limelight–even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie’s. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge\, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other\, or for their heritage? \nAbout the Author\n\nKJ Dell’Antonia is the former editor of Motherlode and current contributor to The New York Times\, as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent. She lives with her family on a small farm in Lyme\, New Hampshire\, but retains an abiding love for her childhood in Texas and Kansas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-chicken-sisters-author-kj-dellantonia-in-conversation-with-nancy-davis-kho/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell'Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 4\, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, THE CHICKEN SISTERS\, with author KJ Dell’Antonia in conversation with Nancy Davis Kho\, author of THE THANK YOU PROJECT. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82283219224. \n(Order your copy of THE CHICKEN SISTERS at http://bit.ly/ggpChickenSisters or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/ChickenSistersAB.) \nDecember 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“I am charmed by The Chicken Sisters! Family fights\, fried chicken\, a dog and her puppies\, mental illness\, a shaky marriage\, a potential romance\, and a reality show taping all combine for a great small-town story. Generations of feuding sisters with competing chicken shack restaurants hash it out for the cameras\, their loved ones\, and themselves. The Chicken Sisters is a delightful read.”\n— Susan Williams\, M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers\, Greenville\, SC \nDescription\n\nINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK \n“A charming\, hilarious\, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also\, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”–Reese Witherspoon \nThree generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. \nIn tiny Merinac\, Kansas\, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state–and the legendary feud between their respective owners\, the Moores and the Pogociellos\, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore\, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi’s before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie’s. Tired of being caught in the middle\, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars\, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100\,000 to the winner. But in doing so\, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . . \nThe last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore\, Amanda’s sister\, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes\, helping the fading Mimi’s look good on Food Wars becomes Mae’s best chance to reclaim the limelight–even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie’s. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge\, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other\, or for their heritage? \nAbout the Author\n\nKJ Dell’Antonia is the former editor of Motherlode and current contributor to The New York Times\, as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent. She lives with her family on a small farm in Lyme\, New Hampshire\, but retains an abiding love for her childhood in Texas and Kansas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-chicken-sisters-author-kj-dellantonia-in-conversation-with-nancy-davis-kho-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”.\nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by Georgina Marie!! And MC’s by Mia Ruiz\nLineup of readers:\nBrenda Yeager\, Beulah Vega\, Charity E. Yoro\, Lauren Traetto\, Melissa Eleftherion Carr\, K.R. Morrison\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Georgina Marie!\nTime: Feb 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the First Thu\, 6 occurrence(s)\nFeb 4\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 1\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 6\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 3\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 1\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0pdeqgqjgpGdWQXBj…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89423843331\nMeeting ID: 894 2384 3331\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,89423843331# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,89423843331# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 894 2384 3331\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbQpWeGiUH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-georgina-marie/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T190000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! A Tribute to Jory Post
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a tribute to Jory Post\, beloved Bookshop friend and champion of the written word. From coordinating Santa Cruz’s Open Read to producing the Zoom Forward Poetry Series to co-creating phren-Z\, Jory had a hand in so many aspects of local literary life. We will miss the many ways he turned his passion for the written word into creating community. \nThis special reading is sponsored by Catamaran\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.\nRegister to attend here. \nPLEASE NOTE: Though previous messaging said the event would be held January 29th\, we have pushed the date back to adequately prepare this tribute. We will feature some of Jory’s friends reading his work as well as photos and words from his family. \nTo subscribe directly to the Santa Cruz Writes email list\, which will provide you with weekly announcements for upcoming readings\, use https://mailchi.mp/cruzio/zoomforward where you will be sent a link to JOIN MEETING on Friday. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, email hannah@santacruzwrites.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-a-tribute-to-jory-post/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Dr. Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell with Faith Salie
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 5 AT 6PM PT WHEN DR. JUDY MELINEK AND T.J. MITCHELL ARE JOINED BY FAITH SALIE TO DISCUSS THEIR LATEST BOOK\, AFTERSHOCK\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82704963550\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82704963550#  or +12532158782\,\,82704963550#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kewskyOUPs \nAbout Aftershock \nWhen an earthquake strikes San Francisco\, forensics expert Jessie Teska faces her biggest threat yet in this explosive new mystery from the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff and First Cut. \nOn first glance\, the death appears to be an accident. The body is located on a construction site under what looks like a collapse beam. But when Dr. Jessie Teska arrives on the scene\, she notices the tell-tale signs of a staged death. The victim has been murdered. A rising star in the San Francisco forensics world\, Jessie is ready to unravel the case\, help bring the murderer to justice\, and prevent him from potentially striking again. \nBut when a major earthquake strikes San Francisco right at Halloween\, Jessie and the rest of the city are left reeling. And even if she emerges from the rubble\, there’s no guaranteeing she’ll make it out alive. \nWith their trademark blend of propulsive prose\, deft plotting and mordant humor\, this electrifying new installment in the Jessie Teska Mystery series offers the highest stakes yet. \nAbout the Authors \nJudy Melinek & T.J. Mitchell are the New York Times bestselling co-authors of Working Stiff: Two Years\, 262 Bodies\, and the Making of a Medical Examiner\, and the novel First Cut. Dr. Melinek studied at Harvard and UCLA\, was a medical examiner in San Francisco for nine years\, and today works as a forensic pathologist in Oakland and as CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. T.J. Mitchell\, her husband\, is a writer with an English degree from Harvard\, and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad to their children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dr-judy-melinek-and-t-j-mitchell-with-faith-salie/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T213000
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Derek N. Otsuji and Mark Tarren read from their poetry. Include open mic and literary trivia quiz. \nDerek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours\, winner of the 2021 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition. It will be published by SIU Press in fall 2021. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review\, The Southern Review\, Rattle\, Poet Lore\, and Pleiades. \nMark Tarren is a poet and writer who lives on remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. A Pushcart nominee\, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various literary journals including The New Verse News\, The Blue Nib\, Poets Reading The News\, Street Light Press\, Spillwords Press\, Tuck Magazine and Impspired Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T150000
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SUMMARY:Generation Rising Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of “Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism” with author Loan Thi Dao and Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) \nHosted by Eastwind Books of Berkeley and co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Asian American Research Center (AARC) \nRSVP at https://generationrising.eventbrite.com \n—-\nTo purchase copies of the featured authors’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\nPaperback: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2721/GENERATION_RISING%3A_A_NEW_POLITICS_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIAN_AMERICAN_ACTIVISM_Available_to_order.html \nE-book: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2866/GENERATION_RISING%3A_A_NEW_POLITICS_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIAN_AMERICAN_ACTIVISM_%28EBOOK-PERSONAL%29_.html \n15% off all purchases with discount code HOLIDAY15! \nChoose to ship your orders (free shipping for orders $30+) to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. See Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/generation-rising-book-launch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T153000
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SUMMARY:Neurotica Erotica: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you are invited to attend a very fun generative poetry workshop where we will dive into all the juicy messiness of love—just in time for Valentine’s Day.  \nCathartic Release for the Pain of Broken-Hearted\, Unrequited\, Disappointed or Simply Messy LOVE. Let’s make a BIG MESS. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• Examples and discussion of “neurotic erotica” poems \n• Introduction to the anthology Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung \n• Generative writing prompt to pen your own love/anti-love poem \n• Time to write and share in a non-judgmental and supportive group setting (not critique) \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nThis is not your typical “love poem” workshop. Whether you’re single\, married\, in love\, in regret\, in denial\, in yearning\, or anywhere else around the outskirts of the heart\, you are invited to come and explore your *neuroses* around the phenomenon of love. We all know we have them\, so this is a space to write about them\, let them out\, face them\, love them\, transform them… \nIn this workshop\, we will explore the questions: Do love poems have to be sweet? Isn’t love messy and complicated? We will read and write poems that are dynamic in their imperfections. Whether you are in or out of a relationship\, you are invited to explore your neuroses around love and turn your wounds into words. \nArmine will be giving prompts from one of her favorite poetry anthologies\, Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung\, to get us in the mood to write some messy\, beautifully disheleved lovin’ (or non-lovin’) poems. However you come\, come as you are! Hugs and laughter will be provided.  \nAbout the Teacher:\nBorn in Beirut\, Lebanon\, Arminé Iknadossian immigrated to the United States in 1978 to escape the civil war. She is the author of All That Wasted Fruit (Main Street Rag Press\, 2018). She earned an MFA from Antioch University where she was awarded a fellowship from Summer Poetry in Idyllwild. After teaching English for 20 years\, Iknadossian wrote United States of Love & Other Poems (2015). During her tenure as a teacher\, The Los Angeles Writing Project awarded Iknadossian a fellowship for their summer residency. Iknadossian currently lives close to the sea with Henry the Cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neurotica-erotica-love-poems-for-the-nervous-highly-strung/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Chang-rae Lee (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Chang-rae Lee‘s latest novel\, My Year Abroad\, is an exuberant\, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure—and about the human capacities for pleasure\, pain\, and connection. \nTiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life\, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia\, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé\, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world\, of Pong\, and of himself. \nIn the breathtaking\, “precise\, elliptical prose” that Chang-rae Lee is known for (The New York Times)\, the narrative alternates between Tiller’s outlandish\, mind-boggling year with Pong and the strange\, riveting\, emotionally complex domestic life that follows it\, as Tiller processes what happened to him abroad and what it means for his future. Rich with commentary on Western attitudes\, Eastern stereotypes\, capitalism\, global trade\, mental health\, parenthood\, mentorship\, and more\, My Year Abroad is also an exploration of the surprising effects of cultural immersion—on a young American in Asia\, on a Chinese man in America\, and on an unlikely couple hiding out in the suburbs. Tinged at once with humor and darkness\, electric with its accumulating surprises and suspense\, My Year Abroad is a novel that only Chang-rae Lee could have written\, and one that will be read and discussed for years to come. \nChang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker\, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction\, as well as On Such a Full Sea\, A Gesture Life\, Aloft\, and The Surrendered\, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-chang-rae-lee-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rabbit Island Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rabbit Island Launch\n\nVirtual Event \n\n\n\nJoin Community Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island\, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle\, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom\, brilliantly translated by Christina MacSweeney. \nMore information coming soon! \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabbit-island-launch/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T193000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Liat Berdugo / The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography\, Aesthetics\, and Politics in Israel and Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Liat Berdugo and her new book The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography\, Aesthetics\, and Politics in Israel and Palestine. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order *signed copies* of The Weaponized Camera here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nDrawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B’Tselem\, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank\, East Jerusalem\, and the Gaza Strip\, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine. \nUsing video stills as core material\, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level\, how Palestinians originally filmed to “shoot back” at Israelis\, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras\, including personal cell phone cameras\, thus creating a simultaneous\, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice\, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen\, but also who is seeing\, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5\,000 hours of footage\, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain\, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict. \nAbout the author\nLiat Berdugo is Assistant Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. She is also an artist\, writer and curator and has exhibited in galleries and festivals nationally and internationally. Her work has won several awards\, including fellowships at the Hambidge Center\, the Vermont Studio center\, and a year-long residency in Tel Aviv\, Israel\, through the Dorot Foundation. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-liat-berdugo-the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-videography-aesthetics-and-politics-in-israel-and-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T200000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Suleika Jaouad with Elizabeth Gilbert (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A searing\, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and\, ultimately\, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. \nIn the summer after graduating from college\, Suleika Jaouad was preparing\, as they say in commencement speeches\, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found\, however\, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. \nIt started with an itch—first on her feet\, then up her legs\, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion\, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and\, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday\, a diagnosis: leukemia\, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that\, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York\, she had lost her job\, her apartment\, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed\, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. \nWhen Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after three and a half years of chemo\, a clinical trial\, and a bone marrow transplant—she was\, according to the doctors\, cured. But as she would soon learn\, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1\,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so\, she realized that she had no idea how to live. \nHow would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend\, Oscar\, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day\, 15\,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous\, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce\, tender\, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again. \nSuleika Jaouad is an Emmy Award–winning writer\, speaker\, cancer survivor\, and activist. She served on Barack Obama’s President’s Cancer Panel\, and her advocacy work\, reporting\, and speaking has been featured at the United Nations\, on Capitol Hill\, and on the TED Talk main stage. When she’s not on the road with her 1972 Volkswagen camper van and her rescue dog Oscar\, she lives in Brooklyn. \nElizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat\, Pray\, Love\, as well as the short story collection\, Pilgrims—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist\, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper’s Bazaar\, Spin\, and The New York Times Magazine\, and her stories have appeared in Esquire\, Story\, and the Paris Review. Her most recent novel is City of Girls.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-suleika-jaouad-with-elizabeth-gilbert-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T210000
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Kim Stanley Robinson is joined in conversation by Robin Sloan to discuss his latest novel\, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit Books). \n“If I could get policymakers\, and citizens\, everywhere to read just one book this year\, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.” —Ezra Klein \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Ministry for the Future\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020 \nFrom legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. \nThe Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination\, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate\, postapocalyptic world\, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. \nIt is a novel both immediate and impactful\, desperate and hopeful in equal measure\, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. \nAbout Kim Stanley Robinson\nKim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Ada Calhoun\, Why We Can't Sleep
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual event with Ada Calhoun who will discuss We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis (available in paperback on January 19th)\, an in-depth exploration of the “new” midlife crisis hitting Generation X women—a topic she began writing about in a viral essay on Oprah.com.  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n\nWhen Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis\, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable\, too? \nCalhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs\, HR trends\, credit card debt averages\, and divorce data. At every turn\, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials\, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age\, problems that were being largely overlooked. \nSpeaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to “have it all\,” Calhoun found that most were exhausted\, terrified about money\, under-employed\, and overwhelmed. Instead of being heard\, they were told instead to lean in\, take “me-time\,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. \nIn Why We Can’t Sleep\, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring\, empowering\, and essential reading for all middle-aged women\, and anyone who hopes to understand them. \n“A superb mix of personal stories and deep research about a generation of women who are facing unprecedented pressure as they enter middle age. It’s at once realistic\, but positive\, asking women to face up to reality\, let go of expectations\, find a support system and accept this stage isn’t forever.” — Huffington Post \nADA CALHOUN is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give\, named one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W magazine; and the history St. Marks Is Dead\, one of the best books of 2015\, according to Kirkus and the Boston Globe. She has collaborated on several New York Times bestsellers\, and written for the New York Times\, New York\, and The New Republic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ada-calhoun-why-we-cant-sleep/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tim Harford in conversation with Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd)
DESCRIPTION:Tim Harford\, called  “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman)\, and Randall Munroe in conversation about The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (Riverhead Books). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Data Detective\nFrom “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart\, lively\, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. \nToday we think statistics are the enemy\, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake\, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are\, at heart\, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly—understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray—statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter. \nAs “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman)\, Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective\, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience\, curiosity\, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result\, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh\, unexpected\, and insightful. \nAbout the participants\nTim Harford is an award-winning columnist\, broadcaster\, and economist. He is the author of Messy\, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy\, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist\, and is the host of the Cautionary Tales podcast. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society\, and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to improving economic understanding. \nRandall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer\, the science question-and-answer blog What If\, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist\, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-harford-in-conversation-with-randall-munroe-creator-of-xkcd/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nicole Perlroth in conversation with David Sanger
DESCRIPTION:discussing Nicole Perlroth’s new book \nThis Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race \nPublished by Bloomsbury Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nFrom The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth\, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive\, invisible\, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare. \nZero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy’s arsenal\, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone\, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant\, alter an election\, and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine). \nFor decades\, under cover of classification levels and non-disclosure agreements\, the United States government became the world’s dominant hoarder of zero days. U.S. government agents paid top dollar-first thousands\, and later millions of dollars- to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence. \nThen the United States lost control of its hoard and the market. \nNow those zero days are in the hands of hostile nations and mercenaries who do not care if your vote goes missing\, your clean water is contaminated\, or our nuclear plants melt down. \nFilled with spies\, hackers\, arms dealers\, and a few unsung heroes\, written like a thriller and a reference\, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews\, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow\, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel. \nNicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants\, airports\, and elections\, North Korea’s cyberattacks against movie studios\, banks and hospitals\, Iranian attacks on oil companies\, banks and the Trump campaign and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks\, including a months-long hack of The Times. Her first book\, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends\,” about the global cyber arms race\, will publish in February 2021. The book\, and several of her Times articles\, have been optioned for television. A Bay Area native\, Ms. Perlroth is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University. \nDavid E. Sanger is a national security correspondent and a senior writer. In a 36-year reporting career for The New York Times\, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes\, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book\, “The Perfect Weapon: War\, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age\,’ examines the emergence of cyberconflict as the primary way large and small states are competing and undercutting each other\, changing the nature of global power. \nCritical praise for This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends \n“The best kind of reportage . . . a rollicking fun trip\, front to back\, and an urgent call for action before our wired world spins out of our control. I’ve covered cybersecurity for a decade and yet paragraph after paragraph I kept wondering: ‘How did she manage to figure *that* out? How is she so good?'” –  Garrett M. Graff\, Wired\, author of New York Times bestseller THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY \n“A stemwinder of a tale of how frightening cyber weapons have been turned on their maker. Perlroth takes a complex subject that has been cloaked in techspeak and makes it dead real for the rest of us.” –  Kara Swisher\, co-founder of Recode and host of the New York Times podcast “Sway” \n“Perlroth’s terrifying revelation of how vulnerable American institutions and individuals are to clandestine cyberattacks by malicious hackers is possibly the most important book of the year . . . Perlroth’s precise\, lucid\, and compelling presentation of mind-blowing disclosures about the underground arms race a must-read exposé.” –  Booklist\, starred review \n“The definitive history of cyberwarfare. Nicole Perlroth connects the dots and the behind the scenes action of every serious intrusion\, cyberattack and cyberespionage revelation in the last decade\, offering recommendations for stopping the cyberwar none of us want to see.” –  Clint Watts\, author of MESSING WITH THE ENEMY \n“A must-read tale of cloak-and-dagger mercenary hackers\, digital weapons of mass destruction and clandestine\, ne’er-do-well government agencies. Perlroth’s intrepid reporting shows why the consequences could be frightening.” –  Lawrence Ingrassia\, author of BILLION DOLLAR BRAND CLUB \n“Usually\, books like this are praised by saying that they read like a screenplay or a novel. Nicole Perlroth’s is better: her sensitivity to both technical issues and human behavior give this book an authenticity that makes its message–that cybersecurity issues threaten our privacy\, our economy\, and maybe our lives–even scarier.” –  Steven Levy\, author of HACKERS and FACEBOOK \n“Reads like a modern-day John le Carré novel\, with terrifying tales of espionage and cyber warfare that will keep you up at night\, both unable to stop reading\, and terrified for what the future holds.” –  Nick Bilton\, Vanity Fair\, author of AMERICAN KINGPIN \n“An essential cautionary tale [that] exposes the motivations and misgivings of the people helping governments hack into our devices. After Perlroth’s incisive investigation\, there’s no excuse for ignoring the costs of the cyber arms race. Indeed\, we are already deeply vulnerable.” –  Sarah Frier\, Bloomberg\, author of NO FILTER \n“100% gripping. For anyone interested in cybersecurity\, whether as student\, policymaker\, or citizen\, it is well worth your read.” –  P.W. Singer\, author of LIKEWAR \n“Nicole Perlroth does what few other authors on the cyber beat can: she tells a highly technical\, gripping story as if over a beer at your favorite local dive bar. A page-turner.” –  Nina Jankowicz\, author of HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR \n“[A] wonderfully readable new book. Underlying everything Perlroth writes is the question of ethics: what is the right thing to do? Too many of the people she describes never seemed to think about that; their goals were short-term or selfish or both . . . a rip-roaring story of hackers and bug-sellers and spies that also looks at the deeper questions.” –  Steven M. Bellovin\, Professor of Computer Science\, Columbia University \n“From one of the literati\, a compelling tale of the digerati: Nicole Perlroth puts arresting faces on the clandestine government-sponsored elites using 1s and 0s to protect us or menace us-and profit.” –  Glenn Kramon\, former senior editor\, The New York Times \n“The murky world of zero-day sales has remained in the shadows for decades\, with few in the trade willing to talk about this critical topic. Nicole Perlroth has done a great job tracing the origin stories\, coaxing practitioners into telling their fascinating tales and explaining why it all matters.” –  Kim Zetter\, author of COUNTDOWN TO ZERODAY \n“Reads like a thriller. A masterful inside look at a highly profitable industry that was supposed to make us safer\, but has ended up bringing us to the brink of the next world war.” –  John Markoff\, former New York Times cybersecurity reporter \n“A whirlwind global tour that introduces us to the crazy characters and bizarre stories behind the struggle to control the internet. It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t all so very true.” –  Alex Stamos\, Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and former head of security for Facebook and Yahoo \n“Lays bare the stark realities of disinformation\, hacking\, and software vulnerability that are the Achilles’ Heel of modern democracy. I work in this field as a scientist and technologist\, and this book scared the bejesus out of me. Read it.” –  Gary McGraw\, author of SOFTWARE SECURITY \n“A powerful case for strong cybersecurity policy that reduces vulnerabilities while respecting civil rights.” –  Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-perlroth-in-conversation-with-david-sanger/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nFEBRUARY 11TH FEATURED WRITER: VALERIA LUISELLI\nValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa\, and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize. \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T200000
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SUMMARY:Naz Beheshti - Pause. Breathe. Choose. (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A leading-edge guide to how well-being drives success across all aspects of life. \nCEO\, executive wellness coach\, and thought leader Naz Beheshti distills the most valuable lessons she learned from her first boss and mentor\, Steve Jobs\, into a holistic method to live your best life. Presenting the highly effective framework that Beheshti has used with clients for over a decade\, this book is a guide for self-discovery\, better choices\, and purposeful growth. \nNow more than ever\, when stress and burnout are ubiquitous\, we must access our authentic self by closing the gap between leading with our head and our heart. When we integrate every aspect of our life (career\, relationships\, self-care\, and self-development) and fuel that ecosystem as a whole\, we can both be well and do well. Rooted in neuroscience\, mindfulness\, and positive psychology\, Pause. Breathe. Choose. offers more than eighty proven strategies to improve yourself and your workplace and achieve sustainable success. \nNaz Beheshti is the author of Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being. She is an executive wellness coach\, speaker\, Forbes contributor\, and CEO and founder of Prananaz\, a company that provides corporate wellness solutions for improving leadership effectiveness\, employee engagement and well-being\, and company culture. Clients include Nike\, JPMorgan Chase\, Omega Institute\, UCSF\, Columbia University\, and Stanford University. Naz also cofounded Rise2Shine\, a nonprofit helping to alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti. She lives in New York City. Visit her online at NazBeheshti.com. \nBJ Fogg\, PhD\, is the founder of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University and author of the New York Times bestselling book Tiny Habits. In addition to his research\, Fogg teaches industry innovators how human behavior really works. He created the Tiny Habits Academy to help people around the world. He lives in Northern California and Maui.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naz-beheshti-pause-breathe-choose-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T110000
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SUMMARY:Virginia Loh-Hagan on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading the award-winning Nian\, the Chinese New Year Dragon\, an illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale about a dragon that threatens a village each spring and Mei\, the young girl who is destined to defeat him. \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 13\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nMei hates springtime. Why? Because it’s only in the spring that Nian\, a fierce dragon\, is able to leave his mountain prison under the sea to terrorize the local village. When the villagers hear the rumblings of Nian’s hungry stomach\, they know that winter has ended and spring is coming. But this year on the night before the first day of spring\, a magical warrior visits Mei in her dreams. He tells Mei that it is her destiny to face and defeat Nian. But she must do it within 15 days or the dragon will be free forever. Author Virginia Loh-Hagan (PoPo’s Lucky Chinese New Year) gives this retelling of the Nian legend an original twist\, while explaining the origins of Chinese New Year traditions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-loh-hagan-on-instagram-igtv/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Vendela Vida (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida’s newest release\, We Run the Tides is an achingly beautiful story of female friendship\, betrayal\, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco. \nTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend\, Maria Fabiola\, own the streets of Sea Cliff\, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches\, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day\, walking to school with friends\, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened\, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. \nSuspenseful and poignant\, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost\, the pain of too much freedom\, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth\, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth\, in all its beauty and confusion. \nVendela is the award-winning author of six books\, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She is a founding editor of The Believer magazine\, and co-editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence\, or the Appearance of Confidence\, a collection of interviews with musicians. Two of Vida’s novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the year\, and she is the winner of the Kate Chopin Award\, given to a writer whose female protagonist chooses an unconventional path. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia\, the San Francisco writing center for youth\, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-vendela-vida-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T200000
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SUMMARY:Kate Russo - Super Host (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. \nBennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now\, at age fifty-five\, his wife has left him\, he hasn’t sold a painting in two years\, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work\, claiming they’ll have more value retrospectively…when he’s dead. So\, left with a large West London home and no income\, he’s forced to move into his artist’s studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site\, AirBed. \nA stranger now in his own home\, with his daughter\, Mia\, off at art school\, and any new relationships fizzling out at best\, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests—lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie—unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. \nWarm\, witty\, and utterly humane\, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age\, relationships\, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life. \nKate Russo grew up in Maine but now divides her time between there and the United Kingdom. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art\, and exhibits in both the UK and the US. \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of the novels Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-russo-super-host-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T190000
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82735553371. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpUncannyValley or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/UncannyValleyAB. \nA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. \nNamed one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, the Los Angeles Times\, ELLE\, Esquire\, Parade\, Teen Vogue\, The Boston Globe\, Forbes\, The Times (UK)\, Fortune\, Chicago Tribune\, Glamour\, The A.V. Club\, Vox\, Jezebel\, Town & Country\, OneZero\, Apartment Therapy\, Good Housekeeping\, PopMatters\, Electric Literature\, Self\, The Week (UK) and BookPage. One of Amazon’s Best 100 Books of 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” –Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-of-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uncanny-valley-by-anna-wiener-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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