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SUMMARY:Sierra Crane Murdoch: Yellow Bird w/Lauren Markham
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Sierra Crane Murdoch to read from her new book\, Yellow Bird:Oil\, Murder\, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country on Tuesday\, March 17th at 7pm. She will be joined in conversation by Lauren Markham. \nWhen Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009\, she found her home\, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota\, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence\, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition\, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests\, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later\, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker\, Kristopher “KC” Clarke\, had disappeared from his reservation worksite\, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone\, and few people were actively looking for him. \nYellow Bird traces Lissa’s steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke’s disappearance. She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe\, changed by its newfound wealth\, and that of the non-Native oilmen\, down on their luck\, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption\, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written\, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart\, funny\, eloquent\, compassionate\, and—when it serves her cause—manipulative. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation\, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nSierra Crane Murdoch\, a journalist based in the American West\, has written for The Atlantic\, The New Yorker online\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Orion\, and High Country News. She has held fellowships from Middlebury College and from the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a MacDowell Fellow. \nLauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley\, California. Her work has appeared in VQR\, VICE\, Orion\, Pacific Standard\, Guernica\, The New Yorker.com\, on This American Life\, and elsewhere. Lauren earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded Fellowships from the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism\, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship\, the Mesa Refuge\, and the Rotary Foundation. For the past decade\, she has worked in the fields of refugee resettlement and immigrant education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sierra-crane-murdoch-yellow-bird-w-lauren-markham/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William J. Drummond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nPrison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News \nfrom University of California Press \nSan Quentin State Prison\, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest\, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008\, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. \nPrison Truth tells the story of how prisoners\, many serving life terms\, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars\, introducing us to Arnulfo García\, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News\, after a twenty-year shutdown\, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers\, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated\, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform. \nWilliam J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California\, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal\, where he covered the civil rights movement\, and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was a local reporter\, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem\, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley\, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-j-drummond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Harry Dodge discusses his new book\, My Metorite: Or\, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing. \nPraise for My Metorite \n“Dodge has offered a new\, luminous angle on autobiography that not only traces where the body has been–but also what it loves\, how it thinks and feels within the potent intellectual and physical detritus of its lived world. Reading this book is like being bathed in the bright\, gritty sear of a comet’s tail. But the mark it leaves is stunningly terrestrial: a thumbprint of a mind on paper–singular in erudition\, hurtfully wonder-struck\, and true.” —Ocean Vuong \n“Harry Dodge’s voice and vision are singular\, but his genius is for revealing how each of us is plural. This is a beautiful record of his loves and deaths and ways of making\, but even its most intimate moments open out\, become portals to other possible worlds. No genre can hold this book. It is a work of tender force\, prying open every category. My Meteorite is breathtaking—or breathgiving\, because the whole thing oxygenates discourse\, makes me feel alive.” —Ben Lerner\n \n“Captivating. My Meteorite holds you in its thrall like a brilliant friend—so vulnerable\, hot\, funny\, and casually weird that you don’t notice the profundity until you’re already walloped by it. Dodge juxtaposes the tenderest of human details with hungry\, brain-splitting inquiries into the very premise of life\, and these shifts in scale are incredibly moving and provocative. Don’t forget to notice that Dodge is a masterful writer; that’s how he pulls this whole thing off.” —Miranda July \n“A thought-filled\, deeply moving and personal book. The past\, present\, and future collide like Harry’s meteorite to earth. Life is tenderly felt\, questioned\, and affirmed within the pages of this exquisite prose.” —Catherine Opie\n \n“Riveting. A freewheeling\, feral romp through the wilderness of consciousness and connection!” —Eula Biss\n\n“Harry Dodge’s fierce intelligence and love permeates and shapes every line of this book which is redolent with loss\, desire\, and truth. Expansive in scope and intimate in detail\, Dodge’s account of becoming a self while living in a world defined by community\, lifts the spirit as it feeds the mind. A major achievement.” —Hilton Als\n\n“Harry’s book is ‘outside’ the book. Why should you read it? You’re out there too. I could say this is the smartest memoir I ever read but that’s pulling us back to the safe place. We are animals\, machines\, friends\, reading things and we’ve never been talked to this way before. Seductive and wise\, My Meteorite is the conversation you want.” —Eileen Myles  \nAbout My Metorite \nAn expansive\, radiant\, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know \nIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter\, the nature of consciousness\, and the bafflements of belonging. \nStructured around a series of formative\, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life\, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner\, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild\, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical\, the raw and the surreal\, the transgressive and the heartbreaking\, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world\, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-dodge/
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:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Our featured poet is: Clara Hsu!\nfrom 7:30-9:30pm at PianoFight:\n144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. \nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-8/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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