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SUMMARY:Middle Grade Writers' Craft Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend\nThe Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a middle grade (8-12 year old) audience from a writing craft perspective. \nWe are middle grade writers ourselves\, and our goal is to study the techniques used by other writers to improve our writing. For an overview of our past book selections and discussion topics\, see our blog at http://www.mglunchbreak.com. \nWe welcome both new and experienced writers with an interest in a craft-focused book discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/middle-grade-writers-craft-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors
DESCRIPTION:Queer authors Jim Provenzano\, Margo Perin\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-queer-authors-read-other-queer-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book\,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us! \n  \nGrowing up as a fat girl\, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt\, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since\, she’s been helping others to do the same. \nTovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally\, food is free from moral judgment\, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language\, she delves into unlearning fatphobia\, dismantling sexist notions of fashion\, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. \n  \n\n  \n“The importance of Virgie Tovar’s perspective and identity cannot be understated. As we collectively deconstruct our society’s addiction to body negativity\, Virgie’s words provide crucial guidance\, clarity\, and support for all those who champion universal body liberation.”  — Jessamyn Stanley\, author of Every Body Yoga \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is the radical voice we need\, with a gift for expressing what so many women feel but cannot always articulate. In this bold new book\, she eviscerates diet culture\, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fat\, and shows us that liberation is possible.” — Sarai Walker\, author of Dietland \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is a vital voice in contemporary activism\, media\, and feminism. The joy she takes in her own body and life\, combined with the righteous anger she expresses at an oppressive world is a truly radical act. Virgie is deeply thoughtful\, but does not equivocate. She confronts bigotry\, but does not engage with bullshit.” — Kelsey Miller\, author of Big Girl \n  \n“Virgie does the thing we need to see more of in political writing: she shares every bit of her humanity\, right down to her feelings about her own nipple color\, without missing a beat on sharp critiques of the systems that oppress her. Her clear descriptions of antifat-bias and the social construction that is “diet culture\,” make it difficult to disagree with her main point: you are not the problem\, society is the problem. The world desperately needs to be told this truth—this book will be required reading for my clients going forward.” — Isabel Foxen Duke\, Coach and Creator of StopFightingFood.com \n  \n“Fierce\, passionate\, and poignant\, Virgie Tovar has written a manifesto that will inspire you and ignite the revolution.” — Linda Bacon\, PhD\, author of Health at Every Size \n  \n“You Have the Right to Remain Fat feels like spending a margarita-soaked day at the beach with your smartest friend. She shares juicy secrets and makes revolutionary ideas viscerally accessible. You’ll be left enlightened\, inspired\, happier\, and possibly angrier than when you started. If you’ve ever thought you’d heard it all about fat liberation and body acceptance\, Virgie Tovar has a few more light bulbs to switch on. Don’t miss this captivating\, eye-opening\, and hilarious book!” — Joy Nash\, actress \n  \n\n  \nVirgie Tovar is an author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp\, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight\, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press 2012). Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, MTV\, Al Jazeera\, NPR\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Huffington Post\, Cosmopolitan\, and BUST. \n\n\n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, event begins at 7:30pm. The venue has no steps for entry from the street level\, is wheelchair accessible and has a mix of sofa seating and fold out chair seating. Sofa seating will be reserved for bigger bodied babes until 10 minutes before the event starts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-virgie-tovar-you-have-the-right-to-remain-fat/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 14\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nAnil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the “double-slit” experiment\, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself–and continues to almost 200 years later.\n    \nMany of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show that light behaves like a wave\, and in doing so opposed Isaac Newton’s view that light is made of particles. But then Albert Einstein showed that light comes in quanta\, or particles. Quantum mechanics was born. This led to a fierce debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality–subatomic bits of matter and its interaction with light–again as revealed by the double-slit experiment. Richard Feynman held that it embodies the central mystery of the quantum world. Decade after decade\, hypothesis after hypothesis\, scientists have returned to this ingenious experiment to help them answer deeper and deeper questions about the fabric of the universe. \nHow can a single particle behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle\, or indeed reality\, exist before we look at it\, or does looking create reality\, as the textbook “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum mechanics seems to suggest? How can particles influence each other faster than the speed of light? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and the familiar classical world of our daily lives begins\, and if so\, can we find it? And if there’s no such place\, then does the universe split into two each time a particle goes through the double-slit? \nThrough Two Doors at Once celebrates the elegant simplicity of an iconic experiment and its profound reach. With his extraordinarily gifted eloquence\, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world\, through history and down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed. It is the most fantastic voyage you can take. \nAnil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He has been a guest editor for the science writing program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and organizes and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru\, India. He is a freelance feature editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’s Front Matter. He contributes regularly to the New Scientist\, and has also written for Nature\, National Geographic News\, Discover\, Nautilus\, Matter\, The Wall Street Journal and the UK’s Literary Review. His first book\, The Edge of Physics\, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World\, and his second book\, The Man Who Wasn’t There\, won a Nautilus Book Award in 2015 and was long-listed for the 2016 Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anil-ananthaswamy-discusses-through-two-doors-at-once/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paul Matthew Maisano
DESCRIPTION:Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel\, Bindi. \n\nPraise for Bindi \n\n“Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly and soulful\, enduring\, its surface beauty underwritten by adventure and excitement and a deep love of life.”―Rebecca Lee\, author of Bobcat and Other Stories \n  \n“Paul Matthew Maisano is an extraordinary writer\, and one we all should be hearing from right now\, with his thoughtful and nuanced view of the global stage. His unique\, compassionately drawn characters are ones you have not met before. He is a writer of the moment. BINDI is a book everyone should be reading.”―Karen Bender\, author of the National Book Award Finalist Refund \n\n“As the novel moves between Los Angeles\, London and India\, Maisano shows how loss and longing can be converted into hope\, meaningful work\, and love. His beautiful prose\, his immensely sympathetic characters\, and the wonderfully dramatic story he tells make BINDI a novel in which many readers will find a home.”―Margot Livesey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy \n\nAbout Bindi \n\nA richly imagined debut set against the backdrop of southern India\, London\, and Hollywood that tells the story of a young boy in India\, suddenly orphaned\, and the adults around him\, each of whom is also looking for a home in the world. \n  \nKerala\, 1993: Eight-year-old Birendra suddenly loses his mother\, but he refuses to believe he’s an orphan. He’s certain that his mother’s twin sister\, the troubled but winning Nayana\, will come for him all the way from West London. But when the letter informing Nayana of her sister’s death goes missing\, numerous lives are forever altered\, and Birendra is set adrift. \n  \nMadeline\, a Los Angeles native and interior designer to the stars\, is floundering in her personal life. In the aftermath of a failed attempt to get pregnant\, she flies to India where she finds herself face-to-face with Birendra. In a moment of sudden certainty\, she decides she must adopt the boy in order to save them both. \n  \nAs Nayana falls deeper into crisis at work and in her marriage in London\, Birendra learns to make himself at home in Los Angeles\, forging an especially close bond with Madeline’s younger brother\, Edward\, who begins to worry that his sister may have met her match in motherhood. When he learns of his adopted nephew’s family in London\, Edward is faced with an impossible choice. If he can find Nayana and reunite her with her nephew\, should he? Even if in doing so he would risk unwittingly setting the two women who love the boy most against each other?Written in stirring prose\, and infused with keen emotional insight\, Bindi is about our search for family and for home\, and an exploration of the ways that loss and longing can be converted into hope\, connection\, and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-matthew-maisano/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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