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SUMMARY:Erik Davis
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHigh Weirdness: Drugs\, Esoterica\, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies \nfrom MIT Press \nA study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick\, Terence McKenna\, and Robert Anton Wilson\, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought\, dreamed\, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect\, as well as shape\, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? \nIn High Weirdness\, Erik Davis—America’s leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital\, iconoclastic thinkers\, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America’s West Coast at a time of radical technological\, political\, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality. \nErik Davis is an American journalist\, critic\, podcaster\, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of Techgnosis: Myth\, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information\, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape\, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. \nVisit: http://techgnosis.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erik-davis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:Louise Aronson\n\n\n\n\npresents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. \n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.”–Abraham Verghese \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Elderhood by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, denigrated\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson\, MD\, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician\, educator\, and professor of medicine at UCSF\, where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work\, teaching\, educational research\, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations\, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, Lancet\, and Bellevue Literary Review. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Chiang and Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Ted Chiang discusses his new story collection\, Exhalation\, with Robin Sloan. \nPraise for Ted Chiang \n“Ted Chiang’s stories are lean\, relentless\, and incandescent.”—Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \n“Ted Chiang writes with such a matter-of-fact grace and visionary power that one simply takes on faith that his worlds and his characters exist\, whether they are human or robot or parrot; he is the rare author who makes me feel\, also\, that he believes in his readers\, in our integrity and our imagination.”—Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver\, Poe\, Borges\, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single\, stunned sitting\, because true genius doesn’t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.”—Blake Crouch\, author of Dark Matter \n“From Ted Chiang’s singular mind comes another innovative and mind-bending collection of short stories. With boundless empathy\, curiosity\, and wisdom\, Chiang asks all the important questions that come with being human. Reading Exhalationis like standing outside on a clear\, starry night. Chiang’s writing does what good writing should: make the universe feel both vast and small at the same time.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \nAbout Exhalation \nFrom an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story “The Story of Your Life” was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival)\, the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original\, humane\, and already celebrated short stories \nThis much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang\, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate\,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary “Exhalation\,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people\, but for all of reality. And in “The Lifecycle of Software Objects\,” a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years\, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: “Omphalos” and “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.” \nIn this fantastical and elegant collection\, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth–What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?–and ones that no one else has even imagined. And\, each in its own way\, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty\, meaning\, and compassion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-chiang-and-robin-sloan/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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