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SUMMARY:Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney: The Nest
DESCRIPTION:Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled\, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody\, Beatrice\, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother\, Leo\, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier\, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs’ joint trust fund\, “The Nest\,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement\, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. \nThe Nest is a story about the power of family\, the possibilities of friendship\, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender\, entertaining\, and deftly written debut\, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships\, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time\, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love. \nCynthia D’Aprix Sweeney lives in Los Angeles\, California\, with her husband and children. She has an MFA from Bennington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-daprix-sweeney-the-nest/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Anna Moschovakis
DESCRIPTION:Readings are free & open to the public \nLocation: Maude Fife Room (Wheeler Hall #315)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-anna-moschovakis/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Winter Reading Program Wrap-up Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the beautiful just-opened Buttercup Cakes location on Pacific Avenue for final event for our third annual Winter Reading Program\, this time to wrap up the season and talk about the books we read! \nIf you haven’t started yet\, there is still time: Bookshop Santa Cruz’s third annual Winter Reading Program offers rewards for your reading. From December through March\, read any 3 books from our eight recommended titles and receive a $5 gift card to Bookshop Santa Cruz\, a certificate for one cupcake from Buttercup Cakes\, and a voucher for a free “Doonster Flight” from Bonny Doon Vineyard tasting room*! Turn in your bookmark with your completed reading choices by March 31 to reap the rewards. Pick up a bookmark at Bookshop to track your reading achievements (or download one from our website) and get started. Use our easy-access display table with all your book choices in Bookshop to peruse the selection. \nAt this book-lovers’ party\, you’ll have to opportunity to mingle with other readers and chat about your Winter Reading book choices. Don’t worry if you didn’t finish your reading selections; come for the delicious cupcakes\, tea and coffee\, and the amazing new savory items on Buttercup Cakes’ expanded menu—and bookish conversation\, of course! We’ll provide questions and topics to spark rotating small-group conversations about the books you’ve read\, facilitated by Bookshop Santa Cruz staff. You might even find a new book group! \n*You must be 21 or older to participate in the alcoholic portion of this program; Bonny Doon Winery also offers a non-alcoholic beverage reward choice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winter-reading-program-wrap-up-party/
LOCATION:Buttercup Cakes\, 1411 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren + Callan Wink
DESCRIPTION:Location: Terrace Room\, Margaret Jacks Hall \nNoah Warren was born in Nova Scotia and lives in Palo Alto. In 2015\, his collection The Destroyer in the Glass won the Yale Series of Younger Poets; it will appear in April 2016. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, AGNI\, Poetry Daily\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nCallan Wink is a fly fishing guide in Livingston\, Montana. His stories have appeared in Men’s Journal\, the New Yorker\, Granta\, The Best American Short Stories Anthology\, and others. He is the recipient of a 2014 NEA creative writing fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noah-warren-callan-wink/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
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SUMMARY:April in Paris
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Sharon Coleman • Yanina Gotsulsky • Simon Rogghe • Judy Wells. On guitar: Hao C. Tran. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-in-paris/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andre Dubus III
DESCRIPTION:Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a #1 New York Times Bestseller; the novel was later adapted as an Oscar-nominated film. His new book\, Dirty Love\, has been listed as a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”; a “Notable Fiction” selection from the Washington Post; and a Kirkus Reviews “Starred Best Book of 2013.” His memoir\, Townie\, became a New York Times bestseller and “Editors Choice.” His other works include The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; Bluesman; and The Garden of Last Days. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. \nApril 6\, 4:30pm – Screening of House of Sand and Fog\, Student Union Theater\nApril 6\, 7pm – Reading and Book Signing\, Student Union Theater\nApril 7\, 1:30pm – In Conversation with Cathleen Miller\, MLK 225/229 \n\nPRAISE FOR ANDRE DUBUS III \n“A mixture of classical tragedy perfectly imbued with film noir…. House of Sand and Fog is the work of a writer who is the real thing.”\n— The Baltimore Sun \n“I can think of no novelist who renders the gritty\, down-and-out corners of New England better than Dubus\, and those beautifully specific\, contained slices of American life open into whole universes of love\, violence\, guilt\, and betrayal.\n— The New Republic \n“Affecting…. A gentle and winning first novel [Bluesman]…. Dubus is a sympathetic and compassionate chronicler of ordinary lives.”\n— Publishers Weekly \nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-dubus-iii/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tony Tulathimutte: Private Citizens
DESCRIPTION:With writing published in publications such as VICE and The New Yorker online\, Tony Tulathimutte shares his critically-acclaimed novel\, Private Citizens. Capturing the anxious\, self-aware mood of young college grads\, this is the story of four whip-smart friends torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it\, and who–though estranged–stagger through the Bay Area\, always washing up in each other’s lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-tulathimutte-private-citizens/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance
DESCRIPTION:China on Strike is based on dozens of interviews with workers in Pearl River Delta factories\, an industrial region of region of 60 million people that has become the “workshop of the world\,” as China has become the fastest growing major economy in the world over the last three decades. Pearl River Delta factories supply the world’s most profitable corporations\, like Apple\, Nike\, Hewlett Packard\, and many others. These interviews document the processes of internal migration in China\, changing employment relations\, worker culture\, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth. China on Strike is the first English-language book to provide an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers as they organize against low pay and brutal working conditions\, launching the world’ largest strike wave in the 21st century. \n“As these vivid case-studies illustrate\, the real sleeping dragon—China’s enormous factory proletariat—is wide awake and fighting back on all fronts. Indeed\, here is first-hand evidence that Chairman Xi Jinping may soon confront the largest labor rebellion in history.”—Mike Davis\, Professor Emeritus\, University of California\, Riverside\, and author ofPlanet of Slums\n\nFang Gang has worked in factories since he graduated from university\, conducting interviews with other workers about their collective struggles in the Pearl River Delta and compiling them into articles that are published and distributed. An example is his 2013 piece “Strikes over the relocation of factories.” Currently\, Fan Gang assists with workers taking collective action in the Pearl River Delta. \nMi Tu has been engaged in doing translations of literature on workers’ struggles in other countries\, as well as researching the conditions of workers in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs)\, since her university days. Since graduating\, Mi has worked in factories\, interviewed workers engaged in struggles in the Pearl River Delta\, and compiled and circulated these oral histories. Mi currently assists workers taking collective action against occupational diseases. \nAlex T. Tom (interpreter) is the Executive Director of San Francisco’s Chinese Progressive Association.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-on-strike-narratives-of-workers-resistance/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie: Pie Drive & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Pie Drive: 3-7:30 p.m. (A2 Café patio)\nOpen Mic: 7:30-9 p.m. (A2 Café) \nCome join the editorial staff of Humble Pie Volume 13. Bring something to share at our open mic. \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-pie-drive-open-mic/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jason Buchholz: A Paper Son
DESCRIPTION:A Paper Son is the story of Peregrine Long—a third-grade teacher in San Francisco who spends his evenings composing stories—who\, just as a massive storm falls upon San Francisco\, discovers the image of a Chinese family on the surface of his tea\, thereby thrusting him into the center of a century-old mystery. Peregrine becomes an unwitting guide in a search for a stranger’s uncle that dates back to 1920s China. Along the way\, he is reunited with his brash and self-righteous sister and joins forces with Annabel Nightingale—an exotic polyglot who teaches kindergarten during the mornings and spends her nights beckoning to ghosts ships and cataloguing their arrivals. A Paper Son is an exquisite exploration of the Pacific immigration experience that calls to mind Gabriel García Márquez and Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love. \nJason Buchholz is an editor\, writer\, and artist. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Gobbledegook and Switchback. He holds a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. He lives in El Cerrito with his wife and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-buchholz-a-paper-son/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman reads from her new novel\, The Cosmopolitans. \nPraise for Sarah Schulman: \n“This bracing\, powerful\, and well-reasoned work reaffirms the author’s stature as a distinctive American woman of letters. Ideal for an academic setting\, it will also precipitate discussion among all those interested in learning more about this painful chapter in U.S. history. Highly recommended.”—Richard Drezen (Library Journal)\, on Gentrification of the Mind \n“[The Cosmopolitans] is book club gold. . . . The Cosmopolitans is a great group read—weighty dilemmas\, unforgettable characters\, and a roller-coaster plot!”—Tayari Jones\, author of Silver Sparrow \nAbout The Cosmopolitans: \nA modern retelling of Balzac’s classic “Cousin Bette “by one of America’s most prolific and significant writers. Earl\, a black\, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant\, and Bette\, a white secretary\, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied\, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense\, a wealthy young actress from Ohio\, comes to the city to “make it.” Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan\, “The Cosmopolitans “is a lush\, inviting read.The truths it frames about the human need for love and recognition remain long after the book is closed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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