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SUMMARY:Marcus Thompson on Kevin Durant
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Jun 20\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nWe are proud to present bestselling author of Golden\, Marcus Thompson. He joins us to read from and to sign copies of his new book\, KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest. \nJoin us on Thursday June 20th at 7pm.Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history—Kevin Durant. As a sports columnist for The Athletic Bay Area\, and longtime beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors\, Marcus Thompson is perfectly positioned to trace Durant’s inspirational journey. KD follows Durant’s underdog story from his childhood spent in poverty outside DC; to his rise playing on AAU teams with future NBA players; to becoming a star and hometown hero for the Oklahoma Thunder; to his controversial decision to play for the NBA rival Golden State Warriors; to his growth from prodigy into a man\, in the first true inside account of this superstar player. KD is a powerful\, moving biography of a modern-day legend and an essential read for all sports fans—or anyone who wants to know: what’s it like to shoot for greatness? \nMarcus Thompson II is a lead columnist at The Athletic\, covering the Golden State Warriors\, San Francisco 49ers and Giants\, and the Oakland Raiders and A’s. He was previously a sportswriter at the San Jose Mercury News and covered the Warriors exclusively as a beat writer for ten seasons. He lives with his wife\, Dawn\, and daughter\, Sharon\, in Oakland\, California. He is the author of the national bestseller Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry and KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcus-thompson-on-kevin-durant/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold
DESCRIPTION:Megan Griswold joins us to discuss her new book\, The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies.\n \nPraise for The Book of Help \n“Griswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.”\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n\nAbout The Book of Help \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-griswold/
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:InsideStorytime PRIDE
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime PRIDE\, featuring Nona Caspers (The Fifth Woman)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, Eddie Jen\, and others\, will occur at Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday June 20th\, 7.30-9.30 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-pride/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Dennis-Benn
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Dennis-Benn\, author of Here Comes the Sun\, discusses her new novel\, Patsy. \nPraise for Patsy \n“Nicole Dennis-Benn is an exquisite writer who paints scenes with words so vivid you might as well be walking through it as a character\, not a reader. In Patsy\, she addresses motherhood\, sexuality\, racism\, and colorism; turning her prodigious talents to the timely story of an undocumented immigrant straddling two worlds while learning that love isn’t a choice\, but the beat in one’s blood.” – JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things \n“A stunningly powerful inter-generational novel about the price―the ransom really― women must pay to choose themselves\, their lives\, their value\, their humanity. Frank\, funny\, salty\, heartbreaking\, full of love\, Dennis-Benn is a map-maker to those places in the heart held so closely\, the holder may not know even they’re there.” – ALEXANDER CHEE\,author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Beautiful\, shattering\, and deeply affecting. Patsy’s story ultimately makes for a novel that is destined to endure.” – CHIGOZIE OBIOMA\, author of The Fishermen \n“An aching meditation on motherhood\, sacrifice\, and what it means to look truth in the face in order to fully become oneself. A beautiful book\, as heartbreaking as it is restorative.” – CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“A novel that splits at the seams with yearning\, elegantly written and deeply felt. Dennis-Benn leads the reader through Patsy’s life with empathy and grace.” – ESME WEIJUN WANG\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \nAbout Patsy \nBeating with the pulse of a long-witheld confession\, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first–not to give a better life to her family back home. Patsy leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation\, hoping for a new start where she can be\, and love\, whomever she wants. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn\, America is not as Cicely’s treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant\, she is forced to work as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile\, Tru builds a faltering relationship with her father back in Jamaica\, grappling with her own questions of identity and sexuality\, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother’s decision. \nExpertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica\, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another. \nAs with her masterful debut\, Here Comes the Sun\, Nicole Dennis-Benn once again charts the geography of a hidden world–that of a paradise lost\, swirling with the echoes of lilting patois\, in which one woman fights to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her. Passionate\, moving\, and fiercely urgent\, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood\, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-dennis-benn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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