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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:BINDERY: Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit a public school in San Francisco\, TBD. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. \nDiscussions are the first Tuesday of each month at\nGreen Apple Books and Music\n506 Clement Street *Upstairs in our Philosophy Alcove \nThe Beyond The Shortest Month May title is Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass\, Cypress & Indigo.\nMeeting and discussion will be on Tuesday\, June 4 at 6:30pm.\nSee you there! \nCan’t make this month? Stay tuned for the Beyond The Shortest Month pick for June 2019!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-the-shortest-month-book-club/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ilya Kaminsky and Heather Altfeld
DESCRIPTION:Kurland Lounge\, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center\n200 N San Pedro Rd\, San Rafael\nThis special event is cosponsored by the Marin JCC. Admission is free\, but RSVP is required. To register for a seat\, click HERE. \n\n\n\nIlya Kaminsky\, a Russian Jew\, was born in Odessa (in the former Soviet Union) in 1977 and arrived to the United States in 1993\, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He has been awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and Lannan Foundation’s Literary Fellowship. \nHis last book\, Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press)\, which won the Whiting Writer’s Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the Dorset Prize\, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. \nPoems from his new manuscript\, Deaf Republic\, were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize. (Kaminsky lost his hearing at an early age.) Recently\, he was on the short-list for Neustadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey\, Holland\, Russia\, France\, Mexico\, Macedonia\, Romania\, Spain and China\, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. \n\n\n\nHeather Altfeld is a poet and essayist. Her first book of poetry\, The Disappearing Theatre\, won the Poets at Work Prize\, selected by Stephen Dunn. Her poems and essays appear in Conjunctions\, Narrative Magazine\, Pleiades\, Poetry Northwest\, The Los Angeles Review\, and other literary journals. She currently teaches in the Honors Program and for the Comparative Religion and Humanities Department at California State University\, Chico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ilya-kaminsky-and-heather-altfeld/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Finn Brunton
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nDigital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists\, Utopians\, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency \nfrom Princeton University Press \n\n\nThe fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies \nBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact\, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash\, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: protecting privacy or bringing down governments\, preparing for apocalypse or launching a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. \nThe incredible story of the pioneers of cryptocurrency takes us from autonomous zones on the high seas to the world’s most valuable dump\, from bank runs to idea coupons\, from time travelers in a San Francisco bar to the pattern securing every twenty-dollar bill\, and from marketplaces for dangerous secrets to a tank of frozen heads awaiting revival in the far future. Along the way\, Digital Cash explores the hard questions and challenges that these innovators faced: How do we learn to trust and use different kinds of money? What makes digital objects valuable? How does currency prove itself as real to us? What would it take to make a digital equivalent to cash\, something that could be exchanged but not copied\, created but not forged\, and which reveals nothing about its users? \nFilled with marvelous characters\, stories\, and ideas\, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today’s cryptocurrency explosion. \nFinn Brunton is assistant professor in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and the coauthor of Communication and Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest. He has written for the Guardian\, Artforum\, and Radical Philosophy\, among many other publications. \n\n\n\n“A fascinating and important book that addresses big questions about cryptocurrency: What is money? How can virtual things have lasting value? And what does the explosion of cryptocurrency mean for the global economy? I can’t think of another book on the subject that accomplishes so much in such a concise and readable way.”—Nathan Ensmenger\, author of The Computer Boys Take Over \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A very important book.”—Lana Swartz\, coeditor of Paid: Tales of Dongles\, Checks\, and Other Money Stuff
URL:https://litseen.com/event/finn-brunton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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