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SUMMARY:Rafael Jesús Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús González. An open mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. The series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, 6:30-9:00 pm. Free\, we pass the hat.\ninformation: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rafael-jesus-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tim Z. Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Tim Z. Hernandez celebrating the release of \nAll They Will Call You \nfrom University of Arizona Press \nwith special guests: Margi Dunlap\, Connie Ann Mart\, and Lance Canales \nAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history\,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers\, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers\, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” It was an attempt to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. For nearly seven decades\, the song’s message would be carried on by the greatest artists of our time\, including Pete Seeger\, Dolly Parton\, Bruce Springsteen\, Bob Dylan\, and Joan Baez\, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics\, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” would remain unanswered—until now. \nTim Z. Hernandez will be joined by Margi Dunlap and Connie Ann Mart\, two women directly related to the song and the incident\, as well as Lance Canales\, a musician who helped secure a long-overdue memorial for the Mexican victims of the crash. \nCombining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling\, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony\, historical records\, and eyewitness accounts\, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original account pushes narrative boundaries\, while challenging perceptions of what it means to be an immigrant in America\, but more importantly\, it renders intimate portraits of the individual souls who\, despite social status\, race\, or nationality\, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 1948. \nTim Z. Hernandez was born and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. An award-winning poet\, novelist\, and performer\, he is the recipient of the American Book Award for poetry\, the Colorado Book Award for poetry\, the Premio Aztlán Prize for fiction\, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction. His books and research have been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, CNN\, Public Radio International\, and National Public Radio. Hernandez holds a BA from Naropa University and an MFA from Bennington College. Hernandez makes his home in El Paso\, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. You can find more information at his website\, www.timzhernandez.com \nMargi Dunlap is a resident of Pilot Hill\, California\, where she retired after 34 years working in immigrant rights and immigration law. She is the niece of Martin Hoffman\, the musician who is credited with turning Woody Guthrie’s poem\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” into the popular protest song that later went on to be recorded by music icons such as Pete Seeger\, Bruce Springsteen\, Joan Baez\, and many others. \nConnie Ann Mart is a resident of West Marin County\, California\, where she makes her living as controller for West Marin Senior Services. She is the niece of pilot Frank Atkinson\, who perished in the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon. \nLance Canales\, a musician who collaborated with Hernandez on creating a new arrangement of the song that now includes the names of the Mexican victims. \nWhat has been said of Tim Z. Hernandez work:\n“Tim Z. Hernandez is the real thing. This epic\, tragic story is finally being told\, and it is in the best possible hands.”—Luis Alberto Urrea \n“An important and moving book\, exploring the theme of identity and loss and disenfranchisement—topics that have never been more urgent than they are now. Hernandez has illuminated the present with this original and riveting examination of the past.”—Susan Orlean \n“There’s something miraculous about the storytelling feat Tim Z. Hernandez has pulled off in All They Will Call You. With great compassion and patience\, he has immersed himself in a long-forgotten episode of California history\, and uncovered a multilayered epic of love\, injustice\, and family fortitude\, stretching across generations and borders. This is an intelligent\, empathic\, and deeply moving work.”—Héctor Tobar \n“In his lyrics to ‘Plane Wreck at Los Gatos\,’ my father\, Woody Guthrie\, asked a simple question\, ‘Who are these friends?’ and finally someone has answered that question. It was unknown if their stories would ever come to light\, or if they would simply remain ghosts without names\, as if they had no lives at all—as if they didn’t count. Through Hernandez’s amazing work\, I now know who these people were\, their lives\, their loves\, and their journeys. All They Will Call You is a heart-wrenching read for anyone who cares\, and the names—now etched in stone in a far-off graveyard—have become friends who will travel with me as long as I am walking.”—Arlo Guthrie
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-z-hernandez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, February 7th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Sarah Schulman\, reading from and discussing her book Conflict is Not Abuse. \n  \nFrom intimate relationships to global politics\, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse\, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep\, brave\, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism\, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships\, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques\, communities\, families\, and religious\, racial\, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other\, through a shared inability to tolerate difference. \n  \nThis important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal\, racial\, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice\, exclusion\, and punishment\, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities\, people with HIV\, African Americans\, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame\, cruelty\, and scapegoating\, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the “other” to achieve their goals. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, nonfiction writer\, playwright\, screenwriter\, journalist and AIDS historian\, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow\, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York\, College of Staten Island. Her novels published by Arsenal include Rat Bohemia\, Empathy\, After Delores\, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Veronica Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Critically-acclaimed author Veronica Chambers discusses her tribute to Michelle Obama\, The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own. Joining Veronica for this panel will be Los Angeles Times reporter Julie Makinen\, and Senior Director of Content Partnerships and Business Development at Getty Images Elodie Mailliet. \nAbout The Meaning of Michelle: Michelle Obama is unlike any other First Lady in American History. From her first moments on the public stage\, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful\, to be strong\, to be fashion-conscious\, to be healthy\, to be First Mom\, to be a caretaker and hostess\, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world. What is remarkable is that\, at 52\, she is just getting started. \nWhile many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a fashion perspective\, no book has fully explored what she means to our culture. The Meaning of Michelle does just that\, while offering a parting gift to a landmark moment in American history. In addition to a tribute to Michelle Obama\, this book is also a rollicking\, lively dinner party conversation about race\, class\, marriage\, creativity\, womanhood and what it means to be American today. \nContributors include: Ava DuVernay\, Veronica Chambers\, Benilde Little\, Damon Young\, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran\, Brittney Cooper\, Ylonda Gault Caviness\, Chirlane McCray\, Cathi Hanauer\, Tiffany Dufu\, Tanisha Ford\, Marcus Samuelsson\, Sarah Lewis\, Karen Hill Anton\, Rebecca Carroll\, Phillipa Soo\, and Roxane Gay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-chambers/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Launch Party with Meredith Jaeger
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Meredith Jaeger for a Launch Party celebrating her stunning debut novel\, The Dressmaker’s Dowry. For readers of Lucinda Riley\, Sarah Jio\, or Susan Meissner\, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one\, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco’s gritty streets in 1876\, and the other\, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secrets of her husband’s wealthy family only to discover that she and the missing dressmaker might be connected in unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-with-meredith-jaeger/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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