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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch
DESCRIPTION:With Melanie Abrams and Andrew Altschul. \nVia Facebook Live: facebook.com/booksmith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-the-booksmith-lockdown-lit-lunch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Charis Book Store of Decatur\, GA hosts a virtual event celebrating Julian Bond w/Michael Long and Pamela Horowitz!
DESCRIPTION:Register ahead of time at here! Charis Bookstore hosts a virtual event with Michael Long\, editor of Race Man\, and Pamela Horowitz\, who worked in partnership with her late husband\, Julian Bond\, on multiple public\, private\, and academic projects\, including an annual civil rights tour of the South and projects involving the NAACP and the SPLC. Michael Long joins us from his home in Lower Allen Township in Pennsylvania\, while Pamela Horowitz joins us from her home in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charis-book-store-of-decatur-ga-hosts-a-virtual-event-celebrating-julian-bond-w-michael-long-and-pamela-horowitz/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Worley
DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party for \nNeon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power \nby Jennifer Worley \nfrom Harper Collins \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 at this link: \n>Purchase NEON GIRLS here< \n————– \nA riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. \nWhen graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money\, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco\, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors\, in platform heels\, and not much else. So began Jenny’s career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego “Polly” alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill strip club—it was a peepshow populated by free-thinking women who talked feminist theory and swapped radical zines like lipstick. \nAs management’s discriminatory practices and the rise of hidden cameras stir up tension among the dancers\, Jenny rallies them to demand change. Together\, they organize the first strippers’ union in the world and risk it all to take over the club and run it as a co-operative. Refusing to be treated as sex objects or disposable labor\, they become instead the rulers of their kingdom. Jenny’s elation over the Lusty Lady’s revolution is tempered by her evolving understanding of the toll dancing has taken on her. When she finally hangs up her heels for good to finish her Ph.D.\, neither Jenny nor San Francisco are the same—but she and the cadre of wild\, beautiful\, brave women who run the Lusty Lady come out on top despite it all. \nA first-hand account as only an insider could tell it\, Neon Girls paints a vivid picture of a bygone San Francisco and a fiercely feminist world within the sex industry\, asking sharp questions about what keeps women from fighting for their rights\, who benefits from capitalizing on desire\, and how we can change entrenched systems of power. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-worley/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Carter Sickels - The Prettiest Star
DESCRIPTION:Small-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it\, but it’s where Brian is from\, where his family is\, and where he’s chosen to return to die. \nAt eighteen\, Brian\, like so many other promising young gay men\, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years\, AIDS would claim his lover\, his friends\, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death\, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place\, and family\, he was once so desperate to escape. \nSet in 1986\, a year after Rock Hudson’s death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America\, The Prettiest Star is an urgent story about the politics and fragility of the body\, about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding\, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other\, and sometimes touch. \nCarter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award\, and has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, VCCA\, and the MacDowell Colony. His essays and fiction have appeared in various publications\, including Guernica\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and BuzzFeed\, and he is the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage\, Relationships & Identity. Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University\, where he teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Lexington\, Kentucky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carter-sickels-the-prettiest-star/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:International Thrills: #1 Scandinavian Bestseller Lars Kepler in conversation with Jesse Kellerman
DESCRIPTION:The blockbuster Swedish suspense phenomenon Lars Kepler\, famed for the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series\, is actually two people: husband-and-wife duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Their first book\, 2009’s mega-bestselling The Hypnotist\, stirred up intrigue beyond its own riveting pages\, as the media frantically sleuthed to uncover Lars Kepler’s real identity: a secret finally revealed at a press conference that became Sweden’s biggest story of that summer. Both halves of this dynamic duo were already acclaimed authors before they joined forces\, but as a crime-fiction team\, they’ve sold millions of copies in 40 languages. Come for a rare\, fascinating look behind the curtain of this powerhouse literary couple’s creative process\, as they share the ins and outs of creating ghoulishly razor-sharp fiction as a team\, the origins of their most iconic characters and storylines\, and the artistic freedom that comes from collaboration.  Moderated by Jesse Kellerman\, no stranger to collaboration himself\, having co-written New York Times bestselling crime novels—praised as “brilliant\, page-turning fiction” by Stephen King—with his father\, Jonathan Kellerman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/international-thrills-1-scandinavian-bestseller-lars-kepler-in-conversation-with-jesse-kellerman/
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SUMMARY:Oakland Voices Tonight: Cat Brooks on Race\, Policing\, and COVID
DESCRIPTION:Join Oakland Voices for a conversation about COVID-19\, policing\, and inequality in Oakland. This weeks’ guest is Cat Brooks\, executive director of Justice Teams Network and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Rasheed Shabazz of Oakland Voices hosts. \nCat Brooks is KPFA co-host of UpFront and a long-time performer\, organizer\, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant\, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network. Cat was also a mayoral candidate in Oakland’s 2018 election\, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf. \nRegister: http://bit.ly/ovweb-0609
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-voices-tonight-cat-brooks-on-race-policing-and-covid/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Laurie R. King\, Riviera Gold
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with beloved bestselling author Laurie R. King\, who will will celebrate the publication of her newest Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery\, Riviera Gold. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nIt’s summertime on the Riviera\, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. As American expatriates begin to drift down from Paris\, their villas fill with the music and merriment of their generation’s most creative minds. From those ocean-view terraces\, they also gaze along the coastline at the lights of a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo\, where fortunes are won\, lost\, stolen\, and sometimes hidden away. When Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d’Azur\, they find their partnership similarly pulled\, between youthful pleasures and old sins\, hot sun and cool jazz\, new affections and enduring loyalties. \nRussell falls into easy friendship with an enthralling American couple\, Sara and Gerald Murphy\, whose golden life on the Riviera has begun to attract famous writers and artists—and some of the scoundrels linked with Monte Carlo’s underworld. The Murphy set will go on to inspire everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Pablo Picasso\, but in this summer of 1925\, their importance for Russell lies in one of their circle’s recent additions: none other than the Holmeses’ former housekeeper\, Mrs. Hudson\, who hasn’t been seen since she fled England under a cloud of false murder accusations. \nWhen a beautiful young man is found dead in Mrs. Hudson’s front room\, she becomes the prime suspect in yet another murder. Russell is certain that Mrs. Hudson is innocent; Holmes is not quite so sure. But the old woman’s colorful past has been a source of tension between them before this\, and now\, the dangerous players who control Monte Carlo’s gilded casinos may stop at nothing to keep the pair away from the dark corners that Mrs. Hudson’s youthful history could bring to light. \nThe Riviera in 1925 is a playground for the rich built on corruption and greed. It is a place where treasure can be false\, where love can destroy\, and where life\, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes will discover\, can be cheap—even when it is made of solid gold. \nLaurie R. King is the award-winning\, bestselling author of sixteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris\, and acclaimed standalone novels Folly and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery.
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