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SUMMARY:Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening of readings by Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana). Please join us! \n  \n  \nCome West and See\nby Maxim Loskutoff \n  \nThis searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement. \n  \nIn an isolated region of Idaho\, Montana\, and eastern Oregon known as the Redoubt\, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge is escalating into civil war. Against this backdrop\, twelve stories of ordinary lives explore the loneliness\, fragility\, and heartbreak inherent to love. Families feel the far-reaching shockwaves of displacement and division. A mother makes a hard choice for her sons when their father goes to lead a standoff with the federal government. An unemployed carpenter joins a militia after his wife leaves him and the first airstrikes raze the streets of his hometown. A former soldier raises the daughter of a dead comrade in a bunker beneath an abandoned farm. \nRanging from the cities to the small towns of the West\, and imbued with its own brand of radical empathy\, Loskutoff’s fiction is both timely and timeless. Come West and See surges with rage\, longing\, and fear\, and offers startling insights into the wounds of the American people. \n  \nA graduate of New York University’s MFA program\, Maxim Loskutoff has been honored with the Nelson Algren Literary Award\, a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi\, and the M Literary Fellowship in Bangalore. He lives in western Montana. \n  \n  \n\n  \nThe Invention of Ana\nby Mikkel Rosengaard \n  \nThe Invention of Ana illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us—and the lives of the ones we love. \n  \nOn a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night\, a young intern meets the intriguing Ana Ivan who lives her life like a prime number: wild and unbroken and only divisible with herself. Before long\, the intern finds himself seduced by Ana’s enthralling stories—of her unlucky countrymen; of her parents’ romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescu’s dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar\, she is trying to alter her sense of time—an experiment that will lead her to live in complete darkness for one month. \n  \nDescending into the blackness with Ana\, the intern slowly loses touch with his own existence\, entangling himself in the stories of Ana\, her starry-eyed mother Maria\, her math-prodigy father Ciprian\, and  their journey from Bucharest to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to New York City. \n  \nA three-time recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Literary Fellowship\,Mikkel Rosengaard’s stories have appeared in the Architectural Review\, Bomb Magazine\, PBS’s Art21\, and many other publications. He grew up in Elsinore\, Denmark\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-loskutoff-come-west-and-see-and-mikkel-rosengaard-the-invention-of-ana/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Phillips discussing the subject of his new book  Giants: The Global Power Elite
DESCRIPTION:Giants: The Global Power Elite \nBy Peter Phillips \nIntroduction by William I. Robinson \npublished by Seven Stories Press \nWho holds the purse strings to the majority of the world’s wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future\, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg\, Bill Gates\, Jeff Bezos\, Jamie Dimon\, and Warren Buffett. \nAs the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017\, according to Oxfam International\, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management–now represent the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management–the facilitors–of world capitalism\, the firewall protecting the capital investment\, growth\, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires\, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors\, so the reader\, for the first time anywhere\, can identify who consitutes this network of influence\, where the wealth is concentrated\, how it suppresses social movements\, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change. \nPeter Phillips\, director emeritus of Project Censored and president of the Media Freedom Foundation\, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. Known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide\, such as Z magazine and Social Policy\, Phillips is also the winner of the 2009 Dallas Smythe Award\, presented by the Union for Democratic Communication. He lives in Southern California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-phillips-discussing-the-subject-of-his-new-book-giants-the-global-power-elite/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new graphic novel\, Coyote Doggirl. \n\nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n\n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”  Sandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n  \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.” Patricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n  \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.” Kelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n  \nAbout Coyote Doggirl \n  \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \n  \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding andempowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-hanawalt/
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:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nKevin Young is the Director for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, newly named a National Historic Landmark\, and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Brow (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf\, 2016)\, longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf\, 2014)\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf\, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-kevin-young/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 19\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading this month: Valerie Wallace\, Sarah Gladstone\, and Norma Smith. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-7/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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