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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS \nfrom Ecco Press \nA BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS intimately links the stories of two very different families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. As the story moves forward\, the daughters of these men—one a boxer\, the other a journalist—continue to be inextricably tied by the dramatic connection they share. As she alone can\, Oates renders whole these two very different families—with very different values and views. Epic and intimate\, the narrative explores their warring convictions with dazzling equanimity. A story as immediate as today’s headlines\, it also offers a larger perspective on the ways that issues tear us apart as individuals and as a nation. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature\, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shannon Leone Fowler
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Shannon Leone Fowler Tuesday\, February 21st for the launch of her new memoir\, Traveling With Ghosts. \nGrowing up in California\, Shannon Leone Fowler always felt a deep connection to the ocean and declared\, at eight years old\, that she wanted to study marine biology. In that pivotal moment\, there was no way for her to know that one day\, her beloved ocean would betray her. In 2002\, Fowler—then a twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist—went backpacking through Asia with her fiancé\, Sean. Avid travelers\, the two decided on a quick trip to Thailand to celebrate their recent engagement. During an afternoon swim on the island of Ko Pha Ngan\, a box jellyfish—the most venomous animal in the world—wrapped around Sean’s legs\, stinging and killing him as Fowler helplessly watched. \nWith her future forever changed\, Fowler abandoned her professional commitments to travel the world\, lost and stumbling and in search of healing. Unable to understand how the ocean—the very thing she had dedicated her life to before she had dedicated it to Sean—could betray her\, she first sought solace in landlocked countries marked by tragedy: war-torn Israel; shelled-out Bosnia; poverty-stricken Romania; and Oświęcim\, Poland\, the site of Auschwitz. Despite Eastern Europe’s deep wounds\, Fowler remembers the kindness of those she encountered\, fellow travelers and countrymen alike\, and the comfort and perspective they offered. \nA moving tribute to those we have lost and the unexpected ways their memories find us afterward\, Fowler “turn[s] her devastating\, beautiful\, honest\, and personal story into something universal” (Booklist\, starred review) as she remembers the shocking death of her fiancé and wrestles with life before and after tragedy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-leone-fowler/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books and 826 Valencia present Valeria Luiselli and student writers for a special event for Tell Me How it Ends\, Luiselli’s new book-length essay about her work with undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation. \n\nPraise for Valeria Luiselli \n\n“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez\, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own… Luiselli has become a writer to watch\, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.” —The New York Times \n\n“Although buoyant\, Luiselli’s work never seems flippant\, perhaps because of her precise prose style . . . Linear at first glance\, it soon opens out into a world of stories\, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.” —Chicago Tribune \n\n“Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.” —Los Angeles Times \n\nAbout Tell Me How it Ends \n\nStructured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation\, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear—both here and back home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:826 Valencia\, 826 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Word Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-word-party/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Bojanowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of The Dog Fighter\, hailed by Geoff Dyer as “the most exciting debut…by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides\,” comes Journeyman\, a tightly wound novel by Marc Bojanowski about dwelling\, building\, belonging\, love\, and the value of a place to call home. \nNolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007\, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars\, Nolan builds tract homes across California\, traveling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas\, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother’s town\, where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools\, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought\, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state\, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town. \nOne of “31 Brilliant Books That You Really Must Read This Spring.” — Buzzfeed\n“A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale.” — The Irish Times\n“Bojanowski keeps it simple … his direct\, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan’s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life.” — Herald Scotland \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-bojanowski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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