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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser for Pegasus Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business. First up: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon in conversation\, including a Q&A. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Plus the memoir A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life. \nMichael Chabon is the author of several novels\, including Moonglow\, Telegraph Ave.\, the Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. \nBoth Chabon and Waldman wrote for the recent TV series\, Star Trek: Picard. \nThe beneficiary \nPegasus Books has been delivering books and dreams to the Berkeley area since 1969\, and they’re a vital part of our book-loving community. They have an amazing selection of new and used books and a warm\, friendly atmosphere\, complete with adorable cats. They give dog treats to dogs\, and stickers to kids\, and they have some of the most fun events in the city\, and we’d be lost without them. \nEvery penny you spend on tickets to this event goes directly to Pegasus Books. \nHow does it work? \nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). Join us! \nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Pelton Papers\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World
DESCRIPTION:Fiction writers are often told – by teachers\, editors\, and agents – that politics and literature don’t mix. But in these times of political polarization and dissatisfaction\, many writers are reconsidering this conventional wisdom. How can ambitious writers find a space to explore the matters of life and death\, wealth and poverty\, war and governance\, that affect us all? How should art respond to the terrors of modern life? Join five accomplished writers as they share work that has grappled with these questions. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKirstin Chen\nKirstin Chen‘s second novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, was named a best book of the year by Entropy\, Popsugar\, and Book Bub\, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle. She is also the aut… Read More →\n\n \nAndrew Altschul\nAndrew Altschul’s third novel\, The Gringa\, was published in March. In a starred review\, Booklist called it “a captivating depiction of passion\, disenchantment\, and hope gone violently awry.” His previous novels are Deus Ex Machina and Lady Lazarus. His work has appeared in Best… Read More →\n\n \nRamona Ausubel\nRamona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections. Her most recent book\, Awayland\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection\, a Finalist for the California Book Award\, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA… Read More →\n\n \nDanielle Evans\nDanielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self\, and the forthcoming collection The Office of Historical Corrections. She is the winner of the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Hurston-Wright award for fiction\, a National Book… Read More →\n\n \nJoshua Furst\nJoshua Furst’s critically acclaimed novel Revolutionaries was published last year.  He’salso the author of The Sabotage Café—named to the 2007 year-end best-of lists of the Chicago Tribune\, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper\, as well as being awarded the… Read More →
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SUMMARY:Robert Williams at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination \npublished by Fantagraphics \nRobert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination is a comprehensive\, career-spanning collection of the iconic painter’s fine art\, including over 300 oil paintings as well as drawings\, sculptures\, and more. Simply put\, this is the definitive volume that Williams has been working towards his entire career. \nIn the late 20th and early 21st century\, diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn’t fit comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books\, movie posters\, trading cards\, surfer art\, and hot rod illustration\, to mention a few. \nThis alternative art movement found its most apt participant in one of America’s most controversial underground artists\, the painter\, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts lexicon\, with his groundbreaking 1979 book\, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. Williams pursued a career as a fine artist years before joining the art studio of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position he moved into the rebellious\, anti-war circles of early underground comix\, as one of the celebrated ZAP cartoonists. \nFeaturing an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason along with a new foreword and annotations by Williams himself\, as well as rare photos\, artifacts\, and ephemera. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-williams-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #2
DESCRIPTION:This week Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition features Maw Shein Win\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Amanda Moore \nLearn about our readers by visiting their bio posts \nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTime: Apr 8\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/161450681 \nMeeting ID: 161 450 681 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,161450681# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,161450681# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 161 450 681\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). \nPLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kathy Valentine: All I Ever Wanted
DESCRIPTION:Kathy Valentine\, bassist for The Go-Go’s\, discusses her new memoir All I Ever Wanted. \nAbout All I Ever Wanted \nGo-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex\, drugs\, and of course\, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself\, even when it all comes crashing down. \nAt twenty-one\, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go’s—and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go’s became the first multi-platinum-selling\, all-female band to play instruments themselves\, write their own songs\, and have a number one album. Their debut\, Beauty and the Beat\, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The record’s success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild\, hazy\, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas\, where fans\, promoters\, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going. For Valentine\, the band’s success was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream—but it’s only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texas—where she all but raised herself—to the height of rock n’ roll stardom\, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her\, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal\, abortion\, rape\, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol—and the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine’s interac-tions during the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart to John Belushi and Rob Lowe\, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply personal reflection on a life spent in music. \nAbout the Author \nKathy Valentine is a working musician and songwriter known for being part of the all-female band the Go-Go’s. She wrote or cowrote many of the band’s most renowned songs\, including “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” In addition to playing music and writing songs\, Valentine has worked as an actor\, public speaker and spokesperson\, and producer. In 2017 she created “She Factory\,” an event series to raise money for women-centered nonprofits. She currently lives in her hometown of Austin with her daughter\, where she plays in a band and is completing her first college degree. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathy-valentine-all-i-ever-wanted/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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