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SUMMARY:Sarah M. Broom -- The Yellow House
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sarah Broom to discuss her expansive yet probing biography The Yellow House on Wednesday\, September 18th at 7pm. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant–the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow Houseis a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nAbout the Author \nSarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian\, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York state. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Catherine Flynn
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new book \nJames Joyce and the Matter of Paris \npublished by Cambridge University Press \nIn James Joyce and the Matter of Paris\, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce’s imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce’s underexamined first exile in 1902–03\, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism\, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic\, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste\, touch\, and smell as well as the porous\, digestive body resist capitalism’s efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book resituates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory. \n\nCatherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book\, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris\, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2019). She is currently at work on Flann O’Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O’Nolan’s comic\, ployglot Irish Times column\, Cruiskeen Lawn. Profess Flynn joined the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Introduction to the Humanities Program from 2009 to 2012. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2009 and her B.A. in English and Philosophy from University College Cork in 2000. Previously\, she practiced as an architect in Ireland and in Vienna\, Austria; she has a B.Arch from University College Dublin. She is an Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory and currently also serves as Director of Berkeley Connect in English and as Associate Director of Irish Studies. \n\nWhat has been said about James Joyce and the Matter of Paris: \n\n\n‘This strikingly original book advances several interrelated arguments about the importance of Paris for understanding Joyce’s work. Flynn shows that for Joyce\, Paris embodied the spectacle\, and the challenges\, of the modern city and its burgeoning consumer capitalism.  She argues that Joyce responded to Paris by imagining new ways of thinking through the senses\, the body\, and materiality generally. This ‘sentient thinking’\, as Flynn articulates it\, is both an innovative model of subjectivity and the formulation of an embodied aesthetic. James Joyce and the Matter of Paris departs from the dominant scholarly trends of the last two decades and promises to reshape scholarship on Joyce\, modernism\, and aesthetics decisively.’ \nMarjorie Howes – Boston College \n‘James Joyce and the Matter of Paris changes our sense of Joyce’s entire trajectory. Flynn’s eloquent and original book demonstrates that Paris was for Joyce more than a place to publish and flourish\, more than a theme in his texts\, it was a style\, a way of writing\, of thinking and of feeling. Thanks to this compelling study of the impact of a French poetic sensibility on Joyce\, we discover a more capacious and politicized author immersed in a modernité conceptualized by Walter Benjamin.’ \nJean-Michel Rabaté – University of Pennsylvania \n‘Catherine Flynn gives us the first comprehensive guide not to Joyce’s Paris\, but rather to Paris’s Joyce: how the city\, and the artistic\, economic\, and cultural landscape he encountered there fundamentally shaped the writer’s vision. This book\, for the first time\, shows us how Paris is the second city of the Joycean imagination.’ \nBarry McCrea – University of Notre Dame\, Indiana \n‘This book presents evidence of Joyce’s development that has the authority of a documentary chronicle. With intellectual and critical intelligence of exceptional discernment\, Catherine Flynn has given us a field-altering account of Joyce’s literary career and its establishing circumstances.  James Joyce and the Matter of Paris will be indispensable for Joyce studies as well as for scholars of modernism.’ \nVincent Sherry – Washington University\, St Louis
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Avan Jogia / Mixed Feelings
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with actor Avan Jogia for his debut book\, Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories. This will be his only SF/Bay Area appearance. Please join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Mixed Feelings\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \nIn a raw and moving collection of poetry\, stories\, and art about living as a mixed-race person\, Avan Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race\, identity\, religion\, and family. Drawing on the author’s own life story as well as interviews he’s conducted with friends and strangers\, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue starter for difficult topics that now\, more than ever\, need to be discussed. \n\nAvan Jogia is an artist whose work spans film\, writing\, and music. He was raised in Canada\, the son of an Indian-British father and English-Irish mother. This is his first book. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Mixed Feelings\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Mixed Feelings to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Mixed Feelings\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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