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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Greg Mania and Sam Lansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 8 at 6pm PST when Greg Mania discusses his new memoir\, Born to Be Public\, with Sam Lansky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86579834543 \nWebinar ID: 865 7983 4543 \nAbout Born to Be Public \nPraise for Born to Be Public \n“Comedic gold.” – O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Greg Mania is the Cheesecake Factory of writers\, and I say that with the utmost reverence: extravagant\, unapologetic\, hilarious\, and fucking good.” – Lindy West\, author of Shrill and The Witches Are Coming \n“This book is a hilarious wonder. Not only does it prove that Greg Mania was\, indeed\, born to be a public (and beloved) icon\, but also that he was born to be a celebrated writer. It’s sheer delight.” – Alissa Nutting\, author of Tampa and Made for Love \nAbout Born to Be Public \nIn this unique and hilarious debut memoir\, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a “pariah prodigy.” From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents\, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife\, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of identity (and the rediscovery of it)\, mental health\, sex and relationships\, all while pursuing a passion with victories and tragicomic blunders. At once raw and relatable\, Mania’s one-of-a-kind voice will make you shed tears from laughter and find its way into your heart. \nAbout the Author \nGreg Mania is a writer\, comedian\, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in Vanity Fair\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, PAPER\, Out\, BOMB\, The Millions\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, HuffPost\, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir\, Born to Be Public\, will be published by CLASH Books this summer. \nIn film and TV\, he has recently co-wrote and co-produced his first feature-length film\, Deadman’s Barstool\, which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. His pilot script\, MANIA\, has just won the Grand Prize of the Fourth Annual Stage 32 Comedy Writing Contest. He has also been named the Overall Winner of the Third Annual Filmmatic Screenplay Awards and Second Place Winner at WILLiFEST\, was nominated for Best Script at the Ninth Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival\, and\, as of writing this\, has also been named an official selection in comedy festivals and competitions in Austin\, Portland\, and Atlanta. \nPlease don’t let all these fancy awards and nominations fool you\, he’s still on a family plan.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Julian Guthrie / Good Blood: A Doctor\, a Donor\, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special virtual event with Julian Guthrie for the launch of her new book Good Blood: A Doctor\, a Donor\, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies. She’ll be in conversation with Dr. John Gorman and James Harrison\, the main subjects of the book. \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. A connection link will be sent to everyone with an RSVP.\n>  If you’d like a copy of Good Blood\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nIn 1951 in Sydney\, Australia\, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later\, and half a world away\, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross\, or how they would change the world. \nIn Good Blood\, bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible blood disease known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York\, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea\, and an unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives. \nGood Blood takes us from Australia to America\, from research laboratories to hospitals\, and even into Sing Sing prison\, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention\, the progress and pitfalls of medicine\, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies. \n\nJulian Guthrie is a journalist and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where she won numerous awards and had her writing nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of four previous books\, including the bestsellers The Billionaire and the Mechanic and How to Make a Spaceship. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:The Real American Dirt: Roberto Lovato in conversation with Myriam Gurba
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Roberto Lovato’s new book \nUnforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs\, and Revolution in the Americas \npublished by Harper Collins \nA The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year \n—- \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———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nAn urgent\, no-holds-barred tale of gang life\, guerrilla warfare\, intergenerational trauma\, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador\, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration\, one of the most important\, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.  \nThe child of Salvadoran immigrants\, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens\, he lost friends to the escalating violence\, and survived acts of brutality himself. He eventually traded the violence of the streets for human rights advocacy in wartime El Salvador where he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed\, fascist military government responsible for some of the most barbaric massacres and crimes against humanity in recent history. \nRoberto returned from war-torn El Salvador to find the United States on the verge of unprecedented crises of its own. There\, he channeled his own pain into activism and journalism\, focusing his attention on how trauma affects individual lives and societies\, and began the difficult journey of confronting the roots of his own trauma. As a child\, Roberto endured a tumultuous relationship with his father Ramón. Raised in extreme poverty in the countryside of El Salvador during one of the most violent periods of its history\, Ramón learned to survive by straddling intersecting underworlds of family secrets\, traumatic silences\, and dealing in black-market goods and guns. The repression of the violence in his life took its toll\, however. Ramón was plagued with silences and fits of anger that had a profound impact on his youngest son\, and which Roberto attributes as a source of constant reckoning with the violence and rebellion in his own life. \nIn Unforgetting\, Roberto interweaves his father’s complicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life\, state violence\, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. In doing so he makes the political personal\, revealing the cyclical ways violence operates in our homes and our societies\, as well as the ways hope and tenderness can rise up out of the darkness if we are courageous enough to unforget. \nRoberto Lovato is a journalist and a member of The Writers Grotto. He is one of the country’s leading writers and thinkers on Central American gangs\, refugees\, violence and other issues. Lovato is also a co-founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, the national movement formed to combat the invisibility and silencing of Latinx stories and books in the U.S. publishing industry. He is also recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center and a former fellow at U.C. Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center. His essays and reporting have appeared in numerous publications including Guernica\, Boston Globe\, Foreign Policy\, Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, Der Spiegel\, La Opinion\, and other national and international publications. He lives in San Francisco. \nMyriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true-crime memoir Mean\, a New York Times editors’ choice. O\, the Oprah Magazine\, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers’ Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Paris Review\, TIME.com\, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries\, museums\, and community centers. She lives in Long Beach\, California\, with herself. \nWhat has been said of Unforgetting \n\n“Mixing fraught reminiscence with vivid reportage… Lovato delivers an intimate\, gripping portrait of El Salvador’s agony.” \n\n–Publishers Weekly\n\n\n\n“What is Unforgetting—a coming of age story\, a thriller\, a slice of hemispheric history? All I can say for sure is that it’s both gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary\, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States. This book is an eye-opener into a world Anglo-Americans have been taught is enemy territory.” \n\n–—Barbara Ehrenreich\, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and Dimed\n\n\n\n“For generations\, from McKinley to Trump\, the United States has cast a shadow of exploitation and counter-revolution over Central America.  In this stunning tale of love and horror\, the journalist Roberto Lovato recounts how his own family history\, from the indentured Salvadoran countryside to the burning streets of Los Angeles\, has been shaped by resistance to yanqui violence.” \n\n–Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz and Set the Night on Fire\n\n\n\n“A provocative\, revealing work of journalism that explains gang behavior but does not idealize it.” \n\n–Kirkus\n\n\n\n“Salvadorans are ‘a people in the constant motion of overcoming\,’ Roberto Lovato writes in his pivotal debut Unforgetting. In it\, he runs a machete through himself and his family’s history—the 1932 Matanza\, the 1980s civil war\, and our present-day struggles with gang-violence and migration. With raw honesty\, Lovato partakes in a much-needed excavation of what it means to be ‘Salvadoran’—and ‘American’—in this world. Unforgetting is an opening\, a tear in the cloth\, we Salvadorans must speak through.” \n\n–Javier Zamora\, author of Unaccompanied\n\n\n\n“There has never been a book about the Latinx experience quite like Roberto Lovato’s Unforgetting. Here is a voice that is outraged\, philosophical\, thoughtful\, blunt\, emotional\, and\, above all\, fiercely independent. In this illuminating and insightful memoir\, Lovato journeys into the underworlds of the fraught history of El Salvador\, and his own California upbringing\, and finds injustice\, resistance\, and hope.” \n\n–Héctor Tobar\, author of Deep Down Dark and The Tattooed Soldier\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Greg Mania and Sam Lansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 8 at 6pm PST when Greg Mania discusses his new memoir\, Born to Be Public\, with Sam Lansky on Zoom \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86579834543 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86579834543#  or +13462487799\,\,86579834543#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 865 7983 4543\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbAD5OvJNw \n\nAbout Born to Be Public \nIn this unique and hilarious debut memoir\, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a “pariah prodigy.” From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents\, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife\, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of identity (and the rediscovery of it)\, mental health\, sex and relationships\, all while pursuing a passion with victories and tragicomic blunders. At once raw and relatable\, Mania’s one-of-a-kind voice will make you shed tears from laughter and find its way into your heart.\n \nPraise for Born to Be Public  \n“Comedic gold.” \n– O\, The Oprah Magazine\n \n“Greg Mania is the Cheesecake Factory of writers\, and I say that with the utmost reverence: extravagant\, unapologetic\, hilarious\, and fucking good.” \n– Lindy West\, author of Shrill and The Witches Are Coming\n \n“This book is a hilarious wonder. Not only does it prove that Greg Mania was\, indeed\, born to be a public (and beloved) icon\, but also that he was born to be a celebrated writer. It’s sheer delight.” \n– Alissa Nutting\, author of Tampa and Made for Love \n\nAbout the Author \nGreg Mania is a writer\, comedian\, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in Vanity Fair\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, PAPER\, Out\, BOMB\, The Millions\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, HuffPost\, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir\, Born to Be Public\, will be published by CLASH Books this summer. \nIn film and TV\, he has recently co-wrote and co-produced his first feature-length film\, Deadman’s Barstool\, which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. His pilot script\, MANIA\, has just won the Grand Prize of the Fourth Annual Stage 32 Comedy Writing Contest. He has also been named the Overall Winner of the Third Annual Filmmatic Screenplay Awards and Second Place Winner at WILLiFEST\, was nominated for Best Script at the Ninth Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival\, and\, as of writing this\, has also been named an official selection in comedy festivals and competitions in Austin\, Portland\, and Atlanta. \nPlease don’t let all these fancy awards and nominations fool you\, he’s still on a family plan.
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SUMMARY:A Star Is Bored by Byron Lane | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, September 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Byron Lane’s new novel\, A STAR IS BORED. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87632016905. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPBored\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/BoredAB. \nDescription\n\n“A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender.”\n— Taylor Jenkins Reid\, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six \nPeople Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 – Named a Must-Read Summer book by Town & Country – Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper’s Bazaar – One of Library Journal‘s 2020 “Titles to Watch” – One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade Magazine \nShe needs an assistant.\nHe needs a hero. \nA hilariously heartfelt novel influenced in part by the author’s time assisting Carrie Fisher. \nCharlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling\, like his life\, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon\, star of stage and screen and People magazine’s Worst Dressed list. She’s an actress in need of assistance\, and he’s adrift and in need of a lifeline. \nKathi is an icon\, bestselling author\, and award-winning movie star\, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known in another role: Outrageous Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Chaotically so\, as Charlie quickly discovers. \nCharlie gets the job\, and his three-year odyssey is filled with late-night shopping sprees\, last-minute trips to see the aurora borealis\, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss\, and as their friendship grows Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life\, assisting the great forces that be\, or can he step into his own life’s leading role? \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, and searingly poignant\, Byron Lane’s A Star is Bored is a novel that\, like the star at its center\, is enchanting and joyous\, heartbreaking and hopeful. \nAbout the Author\n\nByron Lane is a playwright and screenwriter. He’s also worked as a journalist and personal assistant to celebrities including Carrie Fisher. He’s originally from New Orleans and lives in Los Angeles with his boyfriend and their rescue dog\, Tilda. This is his first novel. \nPraise For…\n\n“Carrie Fisher’s spirit animates this funny\, dishy\, and deeply affectionate roman à clef by her former personal assistant. The force is with him.”\n— People “Must-Reads for Summer” \n“Lane debuts with a fizzy roman à clef about a celebrity assistant\, playfully alluding to his experience working for the late actor Carrie Fisher. Lane begins with Charlie Besson’s job interview…an assistant to Kathi Kannon\, famous for playing the beloved Priestess Talara in the science fiction epic Nova Quest. Lane brings wit and tenderness to Kathi’s mostly acerbic personality\, and her attachment to Charlie is potent and palpable… Lane’s affecting tale would show how the real Charlie found his own superpower—as a novelist.”\n— Publishers Weekly \n“Aside from being laugh out loud funny\, brazen\, charming and exquisitely observed\, ASIB is romantic\, soulful and filled with tender sweetness. For those of us who knew Carrie and Byron it all brings back chokingly funny and necessarily sad memories of a uniquely beautiful and deranged ménage\, but it will make every reader feel at home and a part of it too.”\n— Stephen Fry
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