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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #4: Tureeda Mikell and Mónica de la Torre
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fourth Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Nightboat Books. Our writers are Mónica de la Torre (author of Repetition Nineteen\, Nightboat Books) and Tureeda Mikell (author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\, Nomadic Press). \nCaelan Nardone from Nightboat Books will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler from Nomadic Press will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screenside-chat-4-tureeda-mikell-and-monica-de-la-torre-tickets-114719832106; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of raising $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #4: Tureeda Mikell and Mónica de la Torre\nTime: Aug 6\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82573062602 \nMeeting ID: 825 7306 2602\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82573062602# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,82573062602# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 825 7306 2602\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbHe7L3Yjx
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi and Lindsay Ellis (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nDo you love political turmoil\, daring heroines\, fast-paced stories\, unknown worlds\, and the threat of complete ecological and societal collapse? \nOutside of news headlines\, we mean. \nThis is science fiction you can’t miss. On Thursday\, August 6th\, two absolute stars present new novels that offer all of the above. \nKepler’s is proud to host Hugo-award winning author and science fiction legend John Scalzi in a conversation with Lindsay Ellis\, as both writers share powerful books that will take you out of this world. Scalzi joins us online to share the last installment in his acclaimed Interdependency series\, The Last Emperox. Ellis\, the Hugo finalist\, renowned media critic and Youtube video essayist\, presents her brand-new and highly anticipated debut novel Axiom’s End. \nDon’t miss these hilarious\, creative and wickedly intelligent authors as they present the books that everyone should read in 2020. For every person who loves smart science fiction and all things nerdy\, this will be a night to remember. RSVP early to guarantee your spot in the webinar. \nTHE BOOKS: \nYou already know Scalzi’s witty\, inventive writing and previous plaudits for books like Redshirts and The Old Man’s War. Compulsively readable\, with the trademark humor and that makes him a fan favorite\, Scalzi’s Interdependency series offers a topical tale about the death of worlds and political corruption. In an empire spanning star systems\, scientists have long warned of pending ecological disaster\, as a natural resource which enables interstellar travel teeters on the verge of collapse. Greedy\, powerful actors have downplayed the danger for years—and a new leader\, Emperox Grayland\, now has to turn back time on their destructive denialism while faced with a ticking clock and a complex network of enemies. The Last Emperox is the final installment of one woman’s herculean effort to save not just one world\, but all of them. \nEllis’ Axiom’s End features a similarly outgunned\, complex heroine as she stumbles onto the edge of a government coverup. What is the political machinery hiding from us now? Aliens\, it turns out. Cora Sabino’s heroine offers a refreshing taste on the first-contact novel\, as a young woman estranged from her Julian Assange-esque whistleblower father unintentionally gets caught up in his political battles. Cora becomes the key translator and ally to a very otherworldly\, very top-secret alien being named Ampersand. This smart\, playful political novel offers keen insights into empathy\, communication\, and their limits\, all within a reimagined historical telling of the year 2007. And the financial crisis? Also aliens. \nIf you’re a fan of either creator for their work\, this is one incredible conversation and two dynamic storylines that you’re sure to love. If you’re new to both Scalzi and Ellis but love the genre\, prepare to meet your new favorites. Be sure to RSVP before the world ends! \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
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SUMMARY:Author Rose Andersen Discussing The Heart And Other Monsters w/ Alia Volz | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Rose Andersen discussing her new memoir\, THE HEART AND OTHER MONSTERS\, with author Alia Volz. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84953956562. \n(Order your copy of THE HEART AND OTHER MONSTERS at https://bit.ly/ggpHeartMonsters.) \nDescription\n\n“Impossible to put down. It haunts me still.” –Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir \nA riveting\, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. \nIn November 2013\, Rose Andersen’s younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation\, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. \nTo imagine her way into Sarah’s life\, Rose revisits their volatile childhood\, marked by their stepfather’s omnipresent rage and their father’s pathological lying. As the dysfunction comes into focus\, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that Sarah’s cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose\, the story takes a wildly unexpected turn. \nAs Andersen sifts through her sister’s last days\, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger\, the pursuit of an ever-elusive verdict\, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on. \nReminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body\, Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder\, and Lacy M. Johnson’s The Other Side\, Andersen’s debut is a potent\, profoundly original journey into and out of loss. \nAbout the Author\n\nRose Andersen received her MFA in writing at California Institute of the Arts\, where she was awarded the Emi Kuriyama Thesis Prize. Her essays have appeared in The Cut\, Glamour\, and elsewhere. She lives in LA with her spouse\, Josh\, and their dog\, Charlotte. \nPraise For…\n\n“Visceral . . . Part story of America’s opioid crisis\, part grief memoir\, and part tale of a possible murder\, Andersen’s deeply personal book roils with anger and empathy that\, at its very heart\, is a lament for the profound hole left in the wake of a sister’s tragic death.” – The Daily Beast\, “Best Summer Reads”
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