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SUMMARY:Katherine Silver in conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Silver in conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas \nCarlos Onetti meets Julio Ramón Ribeyro in an evening of discussion between a master translator and an award winning novelist \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \n>Purchase A Dream Come True here< \n>Purchase The Word of the Speechless : Selected Stories here< \n>Purchase The Revelutionaries Try Again here< \n——– \ncelebrating the release of \nA Dream Come True: the Complete Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti \nTranslated by Katharine Silver \npublished by Archipelago Press \n& \nThe Word of the Speechless : Selected Stories \nby Julio Ramón Ribeyro\, edited and translated from the Spanish by Katharine Silver\, with an introduction by Alejandro Zambra \npublished by New York Review Books \n \nAbout Juan Carlos Onetti: \nJuan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo\, Uruguay\, but began writing in Buenos Aires in the late 1930s. Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa described Onetti as “one of the great modern writers\, not only in Latin America.” He published short stories in La Nación and in the magazine Sur\, founded by Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges. He then proceeded to write novels centered around the imaginary town of Santa María\, which he described through a complex\, poetic\, and existentialist prose in “Los Astilleros\,” “Juntacadáveres\,” and “La vida breve”. He was exiled to Spain in 1976\, where he worked as a writer for El País and several Latin American newspapers. His lyrical stories and compact novels awarded him the Cervantes Prize in 1980 and the Rodó Prize in 1991. \n \nAbout Julio Ramón Ribeyro: \n\n\n\n\nThe Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor\, Ribeyro said about his stories\, “in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression— the marginalized\, the forgotten\, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they’ve been denied\, and I’ve allowed them to modulate their own longings\, outbursts\, and distress.” This is work of deep humanity\, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro’s alone. The Word of the Speechless\, edited and translated by Katherine Silver\, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable voice of Latin American fiction. \n\n\n\n\nKatherine Silver has translated more than thirty books\, mostly of literature from the Americas. Her most recent and forthcoming translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff\, Julio Ramón Ribeyro\, Julio Cortázar\, Daniel Sada\, Horacio Castellanos Moya\, César Aira\, and Pedro Lemebel. She has received numerous awards and prizes\, including three National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships.\nShe was recently translator-in-residence at the University of Iowa\, and is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. \nYou can read an interview with Katherine Silver in The Believer \nMauro Javier Cardenas grew up in Guayaquil\, Ecuador\, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. He’s the author of  The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press). In 2016 he received a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and in 2017 the Hay Festival included him in Bogota 39\, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists. His interviews and essays on/with László Krasznahorkai\, Antonio Lobo Antunes\, Javier Marias\, Horacio Castellanos Moya\, Juan Villoro\, and Tatiana Huezo have appeared in Music & Literature\, San Francisco Chronicle\, BOMB\, ZYZZYVA\, and The Quarterly Conversation. \nVisit: www.maurojaviercardenas.com \n\n\n\n\n 
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta Zoom Reading
DESCRIPTION:Folks! Join us Thursday evening for a Zoom open mic! Find the link below! \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcOivqDsuGN3874bFQ-7kFD56Uvs4cPG4?fbclid=IwAR0ccdL5H4kZSVW4zZZOpl8-4Qah1LVvcxqQ_NSQkiZ6jp68i4ITR16nEsQ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-zoom-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T190000
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SUMMARY:Courts\, COVID-19 & Voter Suppression
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lala Wu\nProgram will air Thursday May 14th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nWe’ve all seen the images from the recent in-person election in Wisconsin: people lined up wearing masks\, some holding signs saying “THIS IS RIDICULOUS\,” as they risked deadly COVID-19 illness and violated a shelter-in-place order simply to exercise the right to vote. Perhaps the most disturbing part of this scenario was the fact that it wouldn’t have happened without a last-minute ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that rolled back an absentee ballot extension period that had been put in place expressly to mitigate contagion potential from in-person voting. With less than six months to go until the 2020 Presidential election\, and with the COVID-19 pandemic expected to remain in full force\, can we expect a repeat of the debacle in Wisconsin—this time\, on a national scale? In the aftermath of 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder verdict that shattered the Voting Rights Act\, how much can we rely on our courts as the last line of defense in our right to vote? \nThree nationally recognized experts will lead us through the role of the courts in ensuring voters’ access to vital options like absentee ballots and early voting\, and show us how everyday citizens can act now to shape the judiciary in the short and long term. Featuring legal scholar Richard Hasen\, whose Election Meltdown was deemed “required reading for legislators and voters” by Kirkus in a starred review; Constitutional scholar Alan Hirsch\, whose A Short History of Presidential Election Crises was praised as “lucid\, balanced\, and deeply informed” by Elizabeth Kolbert; and renowned civil rights leader Abdi Soltani\, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California. Moderated by Lala Wu\, whose Sister District Project enlists 40\,000 women nationwide in the fight to win crucial state legislative elections. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, the Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Mal Warwick Donor Digital\, and Guy and Jeanine Saperstein. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Hasen\, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks\, Distrust\, and the Threat to American Democracy\nAlan Hirsch\, A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One) \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
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SUMMARY:Mary Ruefle
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ruefle is the author of many books\, including Dunce (Wave Books\, 2019)\, My Private Property (Wave Books\, 2016)\, Trances of the Blast (Wave Books\, 2013)\, Madness\, Rack\, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books\, 2012)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\, and Selected Poems (Wave Books\, 2010)\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also published a comic book\, Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics\, 2007)\, and is an erasure artist\, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books\, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors\, including the Robert Creeley Award\, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington\, Vermont.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-ruefle/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves
DESCRIPTION:iller Apps: War\, Media\, Machine \npublished by Duke University Press \nIn Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation in warfare\, showing how media systems are central to building weapons systems with artificial intelligence in order to more efficiently select and eliminate military targets. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of political and media theorists\, Packer and Reeves develop a new theory for understanding how the intersection of media and military strategy drives today’s AI arms race. They address the use of media to search for enemies in their analyses of the history of automated radar systems\, the search for extraterrestrial life\, and the development of military climate science\, which treats the changing earth as an enemy. As the authors demonstrate\, contemporary military strategy demands perfect communication in an evolving battlespace that is increasingly inhospitable to human frailties\, necessitating humans’ replacement by advanced robotics\, machine intelligence\, and media systems. \nJeremy Packer is Associate Professor in the Institute for Communication\, Culture\, Information\, and Technology at the University of Toronto. \nJoshua Reeves is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Media at Oregon State University. \nPraise for Killer Apps \n\n\n“In this crucial new book\, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer a provocative\, media-centric analysis of automated killing machines. Engaging with an armada of flying sensors\, robotic submarines\, and AI weapons already in use\, they show that big data\, computer vision\, and super intelligence emerge not just to order and organize the battlefield\, but to produce new enemies. Clever and incisive\, the book provides a haunting look at warfare of the near future.” — Lisa Parks\, coeditor of Life in the Age of Drone Warfare \n“This is an excellent book: well designed\, thoroughly engaging\, informative and\, unfortunately\, extremely topical and timely. The authors have gone to great lengths to make Killer Apps relentlessly up to date\, providing readers with the latest in weapons developments\, including AI drones and ‘swarmanoid’ robotics. With its impressive grounding in theory and hardware\, it will become the go-to book for critical understandings of the intersection of warfare\, media\, and enmity.” — Geoffrey Winthrop-Young\, author of Kittler and the Media
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeremy-packer-and-joshua-reeves/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank: Where You're All Going
DESCRIPTION:Joan Frank discusses her new collection of novellas\, Where You’re All Going\, with Peg Alford Pursell. \nPraise for Where You’re All Going \n“Joan Frank’s wonderful novellas are funny\, edgy\, poignant and true. Attuned to the predicaments of the slight-outsider\, and of good people struggling to get by\, Frank gives us characters dealing with love lost and love sustained\, and the small essential intimacies that make up both. Her prose is vivid\, her observations sharp\, and everywhere music and song animate the conversation. You’ll feel more alive when you read these stories\, and hold closer to you the people you cherish.” —Sylvia Brownrigg  \n“Joan Frank has an uncanny ability to go deeply into character and with the lightest touch show us how divided we humans are in the most complicated matters of the heart. Where You’re All Going  is a marvel.” —Ann Packer\, NYT best-selling author of The Children’s Crusade   \n“Every novella in this book is\, in part\, about music\, from jazz to classical to Marvin Gaye. One could practically mark the first novella\, ‘staccato’; every paragraph begs to be read aloud\, to be heard. The stories are\, line after line\, brimming with a brisk freshness.” —Aimee Bender \nAbout Where You’re All Going \nIn her quartet of novellas\, Joan Frank invites readers into the inner lives of characters bewildered by love\, grief\, and inexplicable affinities. A young couple navigates a strange friendship and unexpected pregnancy; a woman recalls the bizarre fallout of her former lover’s fame; a lonely widow is drawn to an arrogant young man; a wealthy spiritual seeker grapples with what wealth cannot affect. Witty and humane\, Frank taps the riches of the novella form as she writes of loneliness\, friendship\, loss\, and the filaments of intimacy that connect us through time. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank-where-youre-all-going/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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