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SUMMARY:John Scalzi And Sarah Gailey For Dark Carnival
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \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\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature John Scalzi and Sarah Gailey\, reading and having a conversation. \nJohn Scalzi’s latest novel is The Last Emperox. Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts\, and his debut novel Old Man’s War was a finalist for Hugo Award as well. \nHugo Award Winner and Bestselling author Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe\, and they won a Hugo award for Best Fan Writer. Their most recent fiction credits include Vice and The Atlantic. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Dark Carnival. Shop online now! \n\nJune 10 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-scalzi-and-sarah-gailey-for-dark-carnival/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Molly Ball in conversation with Carla Marinucci / Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:Molly Ball\, National Political Correspondent at Time Magazine and Author of “Pelosi”\nIn Conversation with Carla Marinucci\, Senior Writer of Politico’s California Playbook \nPart of our Good Lit series\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. \nHow did an Italian grandmother in 4-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ? Join us virtually as award-winning political journalist Molly Ball takes you inside the life and times of the speaker of the House. Based on exclusive interviews and deep background reporting\, Ball shows Nancy Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens\, explaining how this extraordinary woman has met her moment by taking on a president and defending democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections\, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. \nIt’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the Right and taken for granted by many in her own party even though\, as speaker under President Barack Obama\, she deserves credit for epochal liberal accomplishments\, from reforming Wall Street to allowing gay people to serve openly in the military\, from universal access to health care to saving the U.S. economy from collapse. Perhaps twice. \nTime: 3pm PDT \nNOTES\nMLF: Humanities \nThis is a free program; please consider making a donation during checkout \nThis event is online-only; register to receive a link to the live stream
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-ball-in-conversation-with-carla-marinucci-pelosi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on June 10th at 5:00pm PDT for Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino discussing their new novels A Burning and Parakeet. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81009460458 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81009460458#  or +12532158782\,\,81009460458#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 810 0946 0458\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcRn90Fx7 \nPraise for A Burning \n“A BURNING is an excellently crafted\, utterly thrilling novel full of characters that I won’t soon forget.  Megha Majumdar writes about the ripple effects of our choices\, the interconnectedness of our humanity\, with striking beauty and clarity. A stunning debut.”—Yaa Gyasi \n“This is a novel of now: a beautifully constructed literary thriller from a rare and powerful new voice.”—Colum McCann \nAbout A Burning \nFor readers of Tommy Orange\, Yaa Gyasi\, and Jhumpa Lahiri\, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise–to the middle class\, to political power\, to fame in the movies–and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. \nJivan is a Muslim girl from the slums\, determined to move up in life\, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party\, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan’s fall. Lovely–an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor–has the alibi that can set Jivan free\, but it will cost her everything she holds dear. \nTaut\, symphonic\, propulsive\, and riveting from its opening lines\, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class\, fate\, corruption\, justice\, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut. \nPraise for Parakeet \n“Marie-Helene Bertino’s fiction is miraculous: spry and mordant\, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms\, then twist suddenly and sting. Parakeet is a strange book in the greatest sense: it sunders reality in sudden transformations and slippages\, in the depth of its aches\, in the beauty it insists upon in the face of violence\, and in the powerful joy that Bertino dowses deep under the surface of even the bleakest moments of her characters’ lives.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Marie-Helene Bertino is an expert in breaking a heart so cleanly that it releases actual magic. Give up your idea of what a book is allowed to be\, and she will show you the whole quivering universe.”\n—Mira Jacob\, author of Good Talk \n“Marie-Helene Bertino is one of my favorite writers working today\, and her latest is one rare gem of a novel. In Bertino’s hands\, anything seems possible\, from a dead grandmother returning in the form of a bird to finding unexpected wonder in our strange and broken world\, profound redemptions of the heart. Parakeet enchants and enthralls.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \nAbout Parakeet \nAcclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino’s Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one. \nThe week of her wedding\, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes\, her dubious expression\, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? \nHer grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow\, The Bride’s march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented\, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. \nA novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today\, Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions. How do our memories make\, cage\, and free us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest\, truest selves? Who are we responsible for\, what do we owe them\, and how do we allow them to change? \nUrgent\, strange\, warm-hearted\, and sly\, Parakeet is ribboned with joy\, fear\, and an inextricable thread of real love. It is a startling\, unforgettable\, life-embracing exploration of self and connection.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Alvin Orloff\, Beth Lisick and K.M.Soehnlein
DESCRIPTION:Our Summer On the Same Page author Alvin Orloff\nwill be in conversation with Beth Lisick and K.M. Soehnlein. \nAlvin Orloff\, Bay Area native and 2020 Lambda Literary Awards finalist for best Gay Memoir\, is our On the Same Page selected author for his book Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997 (Three Rooms Press). Disasterama! is a fun\, raunchy\, hilarious and painful coming of age memoir. One cannot speak of gay counterculture in the 1980s and not be ingrained in AIDS crisis and the loss of life which ensued. Alvin does this with honest emotion and humor. Opening with teenage Orloff in search of acceptance\, love\, but mostly sex—he finds Michael Joseph Collins who becomes his infatuation\, creative partner\, bandmate in The Popstitutes\, love and friend. \nReservation required: https://bit.ly/DisasteramaAuthorTalk \nGet the book today at Dog Eared Books. Call between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every weekday at (415) 282-1901 or order online: https://bookshop.org/shop/dogearedbooksvalencia
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-alvin-orloff-beth-lisick-and-k-m-soehnlein/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nerd Nite is part of ReedPop’s Sea Week on June 10\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:We’re holding a virtual water-themed Nerd Nite on Wednesday June 10\, 2020 at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT as part of ReedPop’s Sea Week. ReedPop\, the team behind pop culture conventions such as New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration is creating Sea Week to share a whole fun smattering of virtual pop culture events all week featuring watch parties\, trivia\, celebrities\, and more. Join us for two funny-yet-smart presentations about the cultural impact of SharkNado and the weird\, wonderful world of mangroves. Watch live at 7pm on June 10 at http://www.facebook.com/nerdnite \nBack To The Lectures At-Hand:\n*Presentation #1\nOh Hell No: The Cultural Impact of SharkNado \nby David Shiffman\, Ph.D. \nDescription: Sharks: so hot right now! Sharks are in\, and one of the best examples of this is a whole genre of bad shark movies. In this genre\, the SharkNado franchise stands head and pectoral fins above competitors like Sharktopus\, avalanche sharks (“snow is just frozen water\,”) and six-headed shark attack. In this talk\, Dr. David Shiffman will discuss the history of bad shark movies\, with a focus on SharkNado and the incredible impact it had on pop culture and even public discourse. \nBio: Dr. David Shiffman is a marine conservation biologist who studies sharks. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post\, Scientific American\, Slate\, Gizmodo\, and a monthly column in SCUBA diving magazine. David is an award-winning public science communicator who invites you to follow him on twitter\, Instagram\, and Facebook @ WhysharksMatter\, where he’s always happy to answer any questions anyone has about sharks. In the interest of full disclosure\, David has asked us to inform you that SharkNado 2 is thanked in his Ph.D. dissertation because it funded some of his research. He has presented at Nerd Nite Miami\, Nerd Nite Vancouver\, and Nerd Nite DC. \n*Presentation #2\nMagnificent Mangroves: Adaptations\, Biodiversity\, and Outlook \nby Tyler Wintermute \nDescription: From their unique adaptations to their benefits to biodiversity\, mangroves are marvels of estuarine ecosystems. With a global distribution\, these plants are ubiquitous in the tropics\, but unfortunately\, they face many threats that should be concerning to the denizens of the 43rd parallel north (and the rest of the world). So bundle (your vascular tissues) up\, prop (root) yourself in a chair\, and join us as we absorb the waves of mangrove knowledge! \nPresenter Bio: A native of Northern Virginia\, Tyler is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Botany at UW-Madison\, and while his true passion are the trees of the people (Populus species\, a.k.a. cottonwoods\, aspens\, and poplars) and their chemical ecology\, he is fascinated and inspired by the life history of mangroves and their benefits to other biota. In his spare time\, he enjoys exploring swamps\, watching sports\, and playing board-games. And taking care of plants. Lots of plants.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nerd-nite-is-part-of-reedpops-sea-week-on-june-10-2020/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Laurie R. King - Riviera Gold
DESCRIPTION:t’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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-r-king-riviera-gold/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Black Artists Showcase ft. Meccamorphosis
DESCRIPTION:THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!\nBringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nhttps://twitter.com/berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam\nhttps://www.patreon.com/berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nWelcome to another show! Show some love to our feature\, Meccamorphosis! We are also raising funds for the Okra Project alongside Greetings from Queer Mountain (https://www.theokraproject.com/) and need your help to reach our goal of $540! \nMeccamorphosis is an author\, actress\, teaching artist and poet. Mecca first garnished national attention after winning Brave New Voices\, an international youth poetry slam. Since then Mecca has been traveling the country performing\, teaching and building upon the intersection of activism and art. Mecca is an incredible voice for Black women everywhere. \nWe will be hosting a writing workshop on Zoom at 7pm. The code for this workshop is 829 9882 7381. Get a prompt from the feature and meet other writers! \nFor more about Mecca\, check out Mecca’s website at https://meccamorphosis.squarespace.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-artists-showcase-ft-meccamorphosis/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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