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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rishi Reddi / Passage West
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Rishi Reddi (Karma and Other Stories) for her debut novel\, Passage West. Please join us! \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy a gift certificate\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\n1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border\, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak’s offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm. Ram is unmoored; fleeing violence in Oregon\, he desperately longs to return to his wife and newborn son in Punjab—but he is duty bound to make his fortune first. \nIn the Valley\, American settlement is still new and the rules are ever shifting. Alongside Karak; Jivan and his wife\, Kishen; and Amarjeet\, a U.S. soldier\, Ram struggles to farm in the unforgiving desert. When he meets an alluring woman who has fought in Mexico’s revolution\, he strives to stay true to his wife. The Valley is full of settlers hailing from other cities and different continents. The stakes are high and times are desperate—just one bad harvest or stolen crop could destabilize a family. And as anti- immigrant sentiment rises among white residents\, the tensions of life in the west finally boil over. \nIn her ambitious debut novel\, Rishi Reddi\, award-winning author of Karma and Other Stories\, explores an enduring question: Who is welcome in America? Richly imagined and beautifully rendered\, Passage West offers a moving portrait of one man’s search for home. \n\nRishi Reddi is the author of the story collection Karma and Other Stories\, which received the 2008 L.L. Winship /PEN New England Award for Fiction. Her work appears in Best American Short Stories 2005\, has been broadcast on National Public Radio\, and was selected as an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is also a recipient of fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony\, Breadloaf\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and the U.S. Department of State. She was born in Hyderabad\, India\, and grew up in Great Britain and the United States. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Northeastern University School of Law and lives in Cambridge\, MA. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Passage West sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:John Nichols in conversation with Robert Scheer
DESCRIPTION:discussing the state of the Dis-Union. Celebrating the release of John Nichol’s new book \nThe Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist\, Anti-Racist Politics \nfrom Verso Books \nTwo of the nation’s most seasoned political commentators access the condition of the US body politic. At a moment when the political stakes in the US are running high and the fight to save democracy is on\, John Nichols and Robert Scheer explore the hazards and opportunities that await us come the Presidential election in November. \n———– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———– \n(Click Here) to make reservations\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here in the near future) \n———– \nabout The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party \n\nFighting fascism at home and abroad begins with the consolidation of a progressive politics \n\n\nSeventy-five years ago\, Henry Wallace\, then the vice president of the United States\, mounted a campaign about the “Danger of American Fascism.” As fighting in the European and Japanese theatres drew to a close\, Wallace warned that the country might win the war and lose the peace; that the fascist threat the United States. was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic variant\, growing rapidly in power: wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace predicted that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded in the postwar era\, American fascists would use fear mongering\, xenophobia\, and racism to regain economic and political power. He championed a progressive postwar world—an alternative to the rising triumphalist “American Century” notion in which the United States rejected colonialism and imperialism. \nWallace’s political vision—as well as his nomination to remain vice president—was sidelined by Democratic big city bosses and southern segregationists. In the decades to come\, other progressives would mount similar campaigns: George McGovern and Jesse Jackson most prominently. As John Nichols chronicles in this book\, they ultimately failed—a warning to would-be reformers today—but their efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party and strategic lessons for the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. \nJohn Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine\, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times\, and the associate editor of Madison\, Wisconsin’s Capital Times. He’s the author of several books\, including The Death and Life of American Journalism\, The Genius of Impeachment and The “S” Word. \nRobert Scheer is editor-in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. For many years\, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated political analysis radio program Left\, Right & Center on National Public Radio (NPR)\, produced at public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. He is the author of numerous books that include They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy\, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street\, as well as others.
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition: July Words!
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to present three accomplished writers whose scintillating writing challenges social and psychological structures: Virgie Tovar\, Lysette Wanzer & Carlo Matos. Pour yourself a drink and join us in the ether! \nVirgie Tovar is author of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (New Harbinger 2020) and You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press 2018). She is the host of the podcast\, Rebel Eaters Club (Transmitter Media NYC). She holds a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size\, race and gender. Virgie is a contributor for Forbes.com where she covers the plus-size market and weight discrimination at work. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She has been named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine\, and received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, BBC\, MTV\, Al Jazeera and NPR. \nLyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over twenty-five literary journals and books\, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie)\, The Naked Truth\, Essay Daily\, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission and Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient\, Lyzette serves as Judge for the Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category. She is currently helming an essay anthology entitled TRAUMA\, TRESSES\, & TRUTH: UNTANGLING OUR HAIR THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE. \nCarlo Matos has published ten books\, most recently The Quitters (Tortoise Books). His work has appeared in such journals as Hobart\, DMQ Review\, and PANK\, among many others. Carlo has received grants and fellowships from Disquiet\, CantoMundo\, the Illinois Arts Council\, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. He lives in Chicago\, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago\, and is a former MMA fighter and kickboxer. He blogs at carlomatos.blogspot.com. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition\nTime: Jul 15\, 2020 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/3655500410?pwd=bnFRaXZyTm1ab2VFcFd5VnVEUmtsdz09 \nMeeting ID: 365 550 0410\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,3655500410#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,196914# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,3655500410#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,196914# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 365 550 0410\nPassword: 196914
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