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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Douglas Kearney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reese Jones
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Ingrid Contreras Rojas \ndiscussing his new book \nViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move \nfrom Verso Books \nA major new exploration of the refugee crisis\, focusing on how borders are formed and policed \nForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade\, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. \nReece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional\, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization\,” he writes\, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.” \nIn Violent Borders\, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world\, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization\, the wealthy travel without constraint\, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures\, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change\, environmental degradation\, and the growth of global wealth inequality. \nReece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa\, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States\, India\, and Israel. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds. \nCrtitical praise for the work of Reese Jones: \n“I’d like an endless supply of Reece Jones’ Violent Borders to hand out to all the people I meet who flirt with an anti-refugee sensibility. This book is the antidote to the world of walls that we live in\, an argument for a world of humanity.” \n– Vijay Prashad\, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South \n“A much-needed counter to a thousand newspaper columns calling on us to secure our borders\, Reece Jones’ Violent Borders goes beyond the headlines to look at the deeper causes of the migration crisis. Borders\, Jones convincingly argues\, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue.” \n– Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia\, Extremism\, and the Domestic War on Terror \n“From early modern land enclosures through Westphalian state formation to the current fortification of the US–Mexico frontier\, Reece Jones explains what a boundary is\, and how national sovereignty is being reinforced\, in an age of capital mobility\, by the crackdown on human movement across borders.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World \n“With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news\, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n“In an era of terrorism\, global inequality\, and rising political tension over migration\, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse\, not better.” \n– Boston Globe \n“Reece Jones\, a professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa\, believes that borders are essentially tools of violence used to constrict and sometimes entirely stop flows of humanity. And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion…This book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweeping the privileged nations of the Northern Hemisphere.” \n– Darwin BondGraham\, East Bay Express
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reese-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome contributors of Oakland Noir to the store to celebrate this new release on Wednesday\, April 12th at 7:00 pm. The participants for this evening include editors Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller and authors Dorothy Lazard\, Nick Petrulakis\, and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder . \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJerry Thompson is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the co-author of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nEddie Muller\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nDorothy Lazard grew up in West Oakland and was an early fan of the library. She has worked at the Oakland Main Library since 1983 and is now the reference librarian of the Main Library’s Oakland History Room. \n  \nNick Petrulakis is a bookseller and self-taught mixologist –  what could be a more natural pairing? Inspired by books\, characters\, settings\, and authors\, he uses all of these elements for inspiration when creating a new drink. Check out his blog\, Drinks with Nick to see his latest cocktails. \n  \nKeri Miki-Lani Schroeder is a visual artist and writer based in Oakland. A fan of all things odd\, experimental\, or transgressive\, Schroeder creates artist books and dark short fiction. After earning an MFA in book art and creative writing from Mills College in 2015\, Schroeder now works for Flying Fish Press\, an independent publisher of limited-edition artists’ books\, and teaches book art workshops and classes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce 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. \nIn this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town\, while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, keenly observed portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely—but with great empathy—confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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