BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20190310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20191103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003328
CREATED:20200509T012026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200509T012026Z
UID:57335-1590688800-1590696000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. \n——- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \n(Purchase AFROPESSIMISM here) \n——— \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nJustin Desmangles is chairman of the Before Columbus Foundation\, administrator of the American Book Award\, and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz\, now in its fifteenth year. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism‘s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n—Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n—Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii-in-conversation-with-justin-desmangles/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Frank-Wilderson-banner-RGB.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003328
CREATED:20200430T202349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T202349Z
UID:57113-1590692400-1590692400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:One Person\, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
DESCRIPTION:Program will air Thursday May 28th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices on racial justice. In her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning bestseller White Rage\, she chronicled the history of systemic injustices that have impeded black progress in America\, from Reconstruction to the present day. In One Person\, No Vote\, longlisted for the National Book Award\, she zeros in on the fallout from the 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “impeccably researched\, deftly written” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) book offers a whip-smart\, riveting analysis of the disenfranchisement of voters of color\, with insights that have proven\, in the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections\, to be resoundingly prescient — and\, for the 2020 elections\, more urgent than ever. \nAnderson will be in conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee\, one of the most well-regarded\, outspoken\, and trailblazing members of the U.S. House of Representatives\, and currently the only African American woman in House Democratic leadership. This empowering and galvanizing conversation will enlighten us about how voter suppression has worked in the past and\, most importantly\, what we can do now to deny it a future. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson\, One Person\, No Vote \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-person-no-vote-carol-anderson-in-conversation-with-congresswoman-barbara-lee/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/One-Person-No-Vote-Carol-Anderson-in-Conversation-with-Congresswoman-Barbara-Lee.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003328
CREATED:20200521T173449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T173449Z
UID:57734-1590692400-1590692400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda
DESCRIPTION:During the Shelter in Place\, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets\, writers\, and translators\, and the local presses who publish them. \nOur second event features Deborah A. Miranda\, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir\, published by Heyday. Deborah’s reading will be streamed on Facebook Live and Instagram Live on Thursday\, May 28 at 7PM. \nDeborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Her mixed-genre book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (Heyday 2013)\, received the 2015 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. She is also the author of four poetry collections: Indian Cartography\, The Zen of La Llorona\, Raised by Humans\, and the forthcoming Altar for Broken Things. She is coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. Deborah lives in Lexington\, Virginia with her wife Margo and a variety of rescue dogs. She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quarantine-storytime-deborah-a-miranda/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-12.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003328
CREATED:20200207T232716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T191305Z
UID:55677-1590692400-1590699600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto the natural world in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/round-weather-reading-series-forrest-gander-robert-hass-brenda-hillman/
LOCATION:Round Weather\, 951 Aileen St.\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brenda-Hillman.jpeg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003328
CREATED:20200515T165108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T165108Z
UID:57492-1590692400-1590699600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book\, HOME BAKED: MY MOM\, MARIJUANA\, AND THE STONING OF SAN FRANCISCO. Our discussion will be webcast on GGP’s Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \n  \n(Order your copy in paper at bit.ly/GGPHomeBaked\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at bit.ly/LibroHomeBaked.) \n  \nDescription \nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \n  \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \n  \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \n  \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n  \nAbout the Author \nALIA VOLZ is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \n  \nPraise For… \nOne of She Reads’ “Most Anticipated Memoirs of 2020” \nOne of Alma’s “Favorite Books for Spring 2020” \n  \n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” \n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n  \n“In Home Baked\, Alia Volz manages not only to write about her parents with clear-eyed compassion and empathy\, she also gives us a rich history of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. As I read\, her family and the city came alive for me: every person and street were vivid\, complicated\, tragic\, and beautiful. I loved this engrossing\, informative\, funny\, and heartbreaking book. Volz is a true talent.” \n—Edan Lepucki\, bestselling author of Woman No. 17\, California\, and others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-alia-volz-reading-from-home-baked-my-mom-marijuana-and-the-stoning-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/front-cover-of-Home-Baked.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003328
CREATED:20200523T195607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T195607Z
UID:57787-1590692400-1590699600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Clement: Robert Steven Goldstein
DESCRIPTION:Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel\, Enemy Queen. \nAbout Enemy Queen \nA woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass middle-aged men\, but what she demands in return soon becomes untenable. A short time later she goes missing\, prompting the county sheriff to open a murder investigation. \nWhen Stanley Berman\, a Jewish New York attorney\, is appointed Chief Counsel at a North Carolina University\, he opts to share a house with his good friend\, Thomas McClellan\, a professor in the school’s English Department. The men spend their evenings drinking wine\, playing chess\, and lamenting their ineptitude with women. Then the Professor\, a Southern good old boy\, former high school football lineman\, and avid hunter\, hatches a scheme to bring a young woman into the house\, insisting that as a creative writing teacher\, such women find him alluringly subversive and artistic. The Counselor is dubious but persuaded nonetheless—much to his detriment. \nThe articulate but bumbling Counselor and Professor find themselves outwitted at every turn by Victoria\, a young woman who is clever\, inscrutable\, and superb at finishing what she starts. She initiates passionate sexual encounters with the men\, but as time goes on\, what she demands in return becomes untenable. When she goes missing\, John Watson\, the county sheriff—and the Professor’s lifelong friend—feels compelled to open a murder investigation. \nFull of wicked humor\, artful eroticism\, scintillating dialogue\, and a bit of intrigue\, Enemy Queen is an exhilarating romp set in a North Carolina college town. \nAbout the Author \nRobert Steven Goldstein retired from his job as a healthcare information executive at age fifty-six and has been writing novels ever since. His first novel\, The Swami Deheftner\, about the problems that ensue when ancient magic and mysticism manifest in the twenty-first century\, has developed a small cult following in India. Cat’s Whisker\, his second novel\, will be published soon; an excerpt from it\, entitled “An Old Dog\,” was featured in the fall 2018 edition of Leaping Clear\, a literary journal. Enemy Queen is his third novel. Robert Steven Goldstein has practiced yoga\, meditation\, and vegetarianism for over fifty years. Born and raised in Brooklyn\, he now lives in San Francisco with his wife of thirty years and two rambunctious dogs
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clement-robert-steven-goldstein/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR