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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \nPraise for White Tears \n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \nAbout White Tears \nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru/
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:SJSU MFA Open House
DESCRIPTION:If you’re a Creative Writer considering applying to an MFA program\, you should check out SJSU’s dual-genre MFA. We offer tracks in Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, Poetry\, and Scripwriting. Meet SJSU’s core creative writing faculty\, and learn about our new two-year curriculum. Refreshments served. For more details click: http://www.sjsu.edu/english/graduate/mfa/creative/index.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sjsu-mfa-open-house/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="San Jose State University":MAILTO:alan.soldofsky@sjsu.edu
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SUMMARY:Oakland Crossroads: Last Tuesday's Reading and Open Mic Series
DESCRIPTION:TIME: Doors at 6:30pm; Open Mic Sign-up at 6:45pm; Reading at 7:00pm\nVENUE: Studio Grand Oakland\nAdmission: $5-15 Sliding Scale*\nEVENT TITLE: Oakland Crossroads :: Last Tuesday’s Reading and Open Mic Series featuring Adela Najarro\, Cassandra Dallet\, and Javier Zamora \n*No one turned away for lack of funds. Contribution to artists and space appreciated. \n“To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras\, be a crossroads.”\n– Gloria Anzaldúa\n\nOakland Crossroads is a monthly reading series and open mic curated by Suzana Huerta. This series occurs on the last Tuesday of every month. This month\, our featured writers include Adela Najarro\, Cassandra Dallet\, and Javier Zamora \nEvery last Tuesdays of the month\, join us for Oakland Crossroads\, a monthly reading and open mic series curated and hosted by Suzana Huerta. It takes its name from the idea that living at a crossroads\, embracing community in all its rich complexity is the only way to resist borders that bind and confine us. Through poetry and story\, in the space of art and song\, we come to together to connect and express the multitude of voices that makes Oakland so rich. \nOakland Crossroads features local\, Bay Area poets and writers. This series seeks to bring together Bay Area based writers\, both established and emerging\, to share their stories\, their hearts—to reveal their own realities and dreams on the mic. Every reading will feature at least one poet or writer from Oakland and will provide an open mic for anyone who wants to read. We welcome all poets and writers\, all levels of experience\, all members of the community. \nSUZANA HUERTA\nSuzy Huerta was born and raised in San Jose\, California. She is an educator teaching full-time at Foothill College. Her writing is featured in Cheers from the Wasteland\, Poetry of Resistance: A Multicultural Anthology in Response to Arizona SB 1070\, Xenophobia and Injustice by University of Arizona Press\, Bordersenses\, La Bloga\, The Packinghouse Review\, La Bloga and other journals. Suzy is a two-time VONA alum\, a Lucille Clifton Scholar at the Community of Writers in Squaw Valley\, and a Macondo fellow. \nADELA NAJARRO\nAdela Najarro is the author of two poetry collections: Split Geography and Twice Told Over. She teaches creative writing\, literature\, and composition at Cabrillo College. This spring semester\, she will teach a poetry workshop\, “Poetry for the People in a Time of Division\,” where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word; English 12B and 14B is currently open for enrollment through Cabrillo College. More information about Adela can be found at her website:www.adelanajarro.com. \nCASSANDRA DALLET\nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a Pushcart nominee and has published online and in many print magazines. She has authored eight books of poetry and reads often around the Bay Area. \nJAVIER ZAMORA\nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow\, 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellow\, and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-crossroads-najarro-dallett-zamora/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dr. Kelsey Crowe
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Dr. Kelsey Crowe to the store to discuss and sign There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary\, Awful\, and Unfair to People You Love\, on Tuesday\, January 31st at 7:00 pm. Joining her in conversation will the executive director of the Greater Good\, Jason March. \nWhen someone you know is hurting\, you want to let her know that you care\, but many people don’t know what words to use or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful\, instructive guide from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell\, blends well-researched\, actionable advice with the no-nonsense humor and the signature illustration style of McDowell’s immensely popular Empathy Cards\, to help you feel confident in connecting with anyone experiencing grief\, loss\, illness\, or any other difficult situation. \nWritten in a how-to\, relatable\, we’ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way\, There Is No Good Card for This isn’t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. It is a helpful illustrated guide to effective compassion that takes you\, step by step\, past the paralysis of thinking about someone in a difficult time to actually doing something (or nothing) with good judgment instead of fear. There Is No Good Card for This features workbook exercises\, sample dialogues\, and real-life examples from Dr. Crowe’s research\, including her popular “Empathy Bootcamps” that give people tools for building relationships when it really counts. Whether it’s a coworker whose mother has died\, a neighbor whose husband has been in a car accident\, or a friend who is seriously ill\, There Is No Good Card for This teaches you how to be the best friend you can be to someone in need. \nDr. Kelsey Crowe is the founder of Help Each Other Out and is co-author of There Is No Good Card for This. She has her PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley and teaches social work at California State University. She hopes for a day when no one has to suffer a personal trial alone because the people around them just didn’t know what to do or say.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-kelsey-crowe/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brunonia Barry
DESCRIPTION:Brunonia Barry\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader\, returns to her contemporary\, otherworldly Salem with The Fifth Petal\, a complex brew of suspense\, seduction\, and murder. \nSalem’s chief of police\, John Rafferty\, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney\, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide dubbed “The Goddess Murders\,” in which three young women\, all descended from accused Salem witches\, were slashed one Halloween night. Aided by Callie Cahill\, the daughter of one of the victims who has returned to town\, Rafferty begins to uncover a dark chapter in Salem’s past. Callie\, who has always been gifted with premonitions\, begins to struggle with visions she doesn’t quite understand and an attraction to a man who has unknown connections to her mother’s murder. Neither believes that the main suspect\, Rose Whelan\, respected local historian and sometime-aunt to Callie\, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance\, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover what truly happened\, will evil rise again? \nBrunonia Barry is the New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival’s Baccante Award and was a past recipient of Ragdale Artists Colony’s Strnad Invitational Fellowship\, as well as the winner of New England Book Festival’s award for Best Fiction. Her reviews and articles on writing have appeared in the London Times and the Washington Post. Brunonia cochairs the Salem Athenaeum Writers Committee. She lives in Salem with her husband\, Gary Ward\, and their dog\, Angel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brunonia-barry/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Kevin Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Poole is pregnant and on her own\, the baby’s father—her high school art teacher—out of the picture. Not sure where to turn\, Izzy joins The Infinite Family Project\, an experiment in child and family development led by the awkwardly charming child psychiatrist Preston Grind. Funded by an eccentric billionaire\, the project is an attempt to create a “perfect little world\,” bringing together ten different families as a single family unit in order to raise exceptional children. All starts well\, with Izzy and her son thriving in their new surroundings\, but soon the equilibrium among the families begins to disintegrate and things fall apart. As her growing feelings for Dr. Grind further complicate the adventure in experimental living\, Izzy ultimately must decide what truly matters when it comes to family. \nKevin Wilson’s New York Times bestselling debut novel The Family Fang was enthusiastically embraced by readers and critics\, who called it “irresistible” (Time)\, “breathtakingly wonderful” (Miami Herald)\, “inventive and hilarious” (Wall Street Journal)\, and “a minty fresh delight” (NPR). Perfect Little World is Wilson’s much-anticipated new novel—another offbeat look at the meaning of family\, and a strange utopian experiment that could redefine what family means.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-wilson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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