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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange reading from\n\nThere There \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nNot since Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange’s There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.\nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nPraise for the work of Tommy Orange: \n“When Tommy Orange first sent me a chapter of his novel\, There There\, I read it and marveled. I then read it aloud to my wife. And then I emailed and called my closest writer friends. I said\, ‘It’s here. That book I’ve been waiting for. It has arrived.’ Tommy Orange has indeed arrived. And his debut novel is a beautiful\, dangerous\, sad\, poetic\, and hilarious revelation. Set in Oakland\, California\, There There is truly the first book to capture what it means to be an urban Indian—perhaps the first novel ever to celebrate and honor and elevate the joys and losses of urban Indians. You might think I’m exaggerating but this book is so revolutionary—evolutionary—that Native American literature will never be the same.”\n—Sherman Alexie \n“There\, There is an urgent\, invigorating\, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I’ve come across in a long\, long time. Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance\, a showboater with a deeply moral compass. I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders\, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell.”\n—Claire Vaye Watkins \n“This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book’s gonna blow the roof off.”\n—Pam Houston
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Gillian Conoley and Paul Hoover
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley’s most recent book of poems is Peace. A. Anupama\, in Numéro Cinq\, wrote\, “White space percolates this lyric\, while the current lull in American military actions forms the occasion of this book\, Gillian Conoley’s seventh poetry collection. With poems  titled “late democracy\,’ “[Peace] contrary to history\,” and “Trying to Write a Poem about Gandhi\,” the work pulls one way and then pushes back another\, testing the inner ground for breath.” Others of her collections include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, and Lovers in the Used World. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, American Hybrid\, and Postmodern American Poetry. Her translations include Thousand Times Broken\, Three Books\, three previously untranslated books of the French poet Henri Michaux. Founder and editor of the literary journal VOLT\, she has\, among her honors\, four Pushcart Prizes\, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from APR\, an NEA fellowship\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. \nPaul Hoover’s new book of poems is The Book of Unnamed Things. Mary Jo Bang says\, “Hoover’s concern with language’s representational inadequacy is shared by the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets he’s championed for years….However\, his own poems are more direct\, more lyrical\, and sometimes seethingly and seductively  melancholic. Central to all of them (regardless of language’s irrefutable limitations) is his keen intelligence and laconic wit.” Author of fourteen previous poetry collections\, he co-edited with Maxine Chernoff the literary magazine New American Writing and co-translated with her The Selected Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin\, which won a PEN-USA Translation Award. Editor\, as well\, of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\, his honors include an NEA Fellowship\, the Frederick Bock Award of Poetry\, and the Jerome J. Shestack Prize of American Poetry Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-gillian-conoley-and-paul-hoover/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Auletta on media and advertising
DESCRIPTION:We’re saturated in advertising. Online\, on billboards\, flashing on sidewalks – iSpace in Japan plans to project ads on the moon by 2020. \nBut advertising is no longer a robust industry. Consumer distrust and ad-killing technology have frayed it into hostile camps with uncertain futures. Still: if you’re not in the business\, why should you care? \nBecause\, Ken Auletta says: no advertising means no media. \nAuletta adds to his long career as a savvy observer of American business and communication with Frenemies: The Epic Destruction of the Advertising Industry (And Why This Matters). Auletta is uniquely positioned to probe this latest turn in a key industry. He’s penned the “Annals of Communications” column for The New Yorker since 1992; he’s profiled the greatest influencers of media both traditional and digital\, including Bill Gates\, Rupert Murdoch\, and Ted Turner. \nKen Auletta joins KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro for her This Is Now series\, for an evening of wide-ranging conversation about media\, advertising\, and its role in the life of us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-auletta-on-media-and-advertising/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling
DESCRIPTION:Maria Hummel discusses her new novel\, Still Lives with  Sara Houghteling. \nPraise for Still Lives \n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise!)\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. Maria Hummel has written a remarkable\, relevant\, and necessary novel.” —Edan Lepucki\, Woman No. 17 and California \n“There’s nothing I like better than a well-written page-turner about the art world\, and Maria Hummel has delivered this and more with her new literary thriller\, Still Lives. Flawed characters abound as do clever plots and subplots along with irresistible peeks into hidden chambers of the LA art scene. Riveting.” —B.A. Shapiro\, author of The Art Forger and The Muralist \n“As gritty and glittering as the L.A. art world it depicts\, Maria Hummel’s latest novel soars into the sun-swept heights of fame and beauty\, then plunges us into violence. In Still Lives\, Hummel does what she does best: delving with sensitivity and wit into complex\, intertwined lives\, lives that strain the frames that enclose them. Intelligent\, vivid\, and impeccably paced\, this thrilling novel forces us to confront how dangerous art can be.” —Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \nAbout Still Lives \nKim Lord is an avant-garde figure\, feminist icon\, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Livesis comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous\, murdered women–the Black Dahlia\, Chandra Levy\, Nicole Brown Simpson\, among many others–and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing\, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. \n  \nAs the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night\, all the staff\, including editor Maggie Richter\, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. \n  \nExcept Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. \n  \nFear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson\, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act\, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance\, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. \n  \nSet against a culture that often fetishizes violence\, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors\, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTILL LIVES (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$26.00\nISBN: 9781619021112\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – June 12th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It’s at once profound and suspenseful\, and while the plot kept me up nights (the ending had me gasping in surprise )\, the book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we\, as a culture\, objectify and endanger and victimize women. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMOTHERLAND (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Maria Hummel\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781619024663\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Counterpoint LLC – January 13th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMotherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel’s father and his German childhood\, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Sara Houghteling\n$16.50\nISBN: 9780307386304\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Vintage – February 9th\, 2010\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces\, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maria-hummel-and-sara-houghteling/
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:Leslie Jonath
DESCRIPTION:Presents Foraged Art: Creating Projects Using Blooms\, Branches\, Leaves\, Stones\, and Other Elements Discovered in Nature. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Foraged Art by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 14\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of land artists like Andy Goldsworthy\, the book is as much about discovery as it is about creation. Leaves shaped like lips might inspire a face; an array of rocks might be become an eclectic mosaic; winter’s first snow might be carved into glowing luminaria.Whether you love to look for heart-shaped flowers or want to make a peacock made with flower petals\, you will find great inspiration and joy in Foraged Art. \nArt\, meditation\, and nature meet in this adult focused activity book\, with projects that take inspiration from the natural environment\, using blooms\, pods\, branches\, stones\, and other natural elements. Divided into chapters by natural elements–flowers\, leaves\, rocks and pods\, and more\, the book encourages readers to forage and play outside using nature’s seasonal art box. With quotes by artists on nature and creativity\, Foraged Art is about making art from what you find and finding art in what you see. \nLeslie Jonath is an author\, book packager\, and producer specializing in content for food\, art\, design\, and children’s projects. She is the author of many books including Snowmen\, Everyone Loves Paris\, Give Yourself A Gold Star and Love Found. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-jonath/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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