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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:David D. Burns\, MD - Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Nearly 40 years ago\, David D. Burns\, MD\, a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy\, wrote Feeling Good\, a book with an uplifting message: When you change the way you THINK\, you can change the way you FEEL. Since its debut\, Feeling Good has sold more than 5 million copies\, making a positive difference in the lives of countless people\, and cognitive therapy has become the most popular and extensively researched form of psychotherapy in the world. \nNow in Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety\, Dr. Burns brings us a radical new approach that makes ultra-rapid recovery possible\, even in a single two-hour book-therapy session. Feeling Great emerged from 40 years of research on how therapy actually works and is based on this paradoxical idea: Your negative thoughts and feelings are NOT the result of some defect\, like a chemical imbalance in your brain or a “mental disorder\,” but from what’s most beautiful and awesome about you and your core values. And the moment you realize this\, recovery will be just a stone’s throw away. \nIn Feeling Great you will pinpoint and eliminate the powerful forces that keep you stuck; learn that your thoughts—and not the circumstances of your life—create all of your feelings; discover why depression and anxiety are the world’s oldest cons; crush the ten types of distorted thoughts that rob you of happiness and self-esteem; learn why self-acceptance is the greatest change a human being can make; and more. \nDavid D. Burns\, MD\, is an Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. More than 50\,000 mental health professionals have attended his workshops throughout the United States and Canada. His weekly Feeling Good Podcasts (approaching three million downloads) provide therapists and the general public alike with tips to overcome depression\, anxiety\, relationship conflicts\, and habits and addiction. Dr. Burns lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more\, visit FeelingGreattheBook.com.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: American Short Fiction presents Esmé Weijun Wang for Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 15 at 4:30pm PDT when American Short Fiction hosts Esmé Weijun Wang as a part of their My Constellation of 8 series\nbenefitting Green Apple Books! \nJoin us by registering at the Crowdcast link below\nhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/my-constellation-of-8 \nThis fall\, American Short Fiction will host three virtual events featuring some of today’s most exciting and celebrated writers. Unlike other virtual events\, which importantly seek to promote and share a writer’s own work\, we’re inviting Roger Reeves on August 25th\, Esmé Weijun Wang on September 15th\, and Carmen Maria Machado on October 13th to discuss and share eight books that shaped their thinking\, changed them\, and helped them grow as writers\, as thinkers\, and as people. There will be an ASL interpreter provided at each virtual event. \nFor each “My Constellation of 8” event\, we’ve partnered with an independent bookstore of the author’s choice to sell the recommended texts as well as books by the writers themselves. During these socially distant times\, it seems particularly urgent to explore and discuss the ways in which we’re connected to one another\, the ways in which we’ve been influenced and shaped by the art and artists we admire\, and the ways in which we can support the independent bookstores that are\, in so many cases\, the beating hearts of their literary communities. \nOur second installment will feature award-winning writer Esmé Weijun Wang in conversation about eight of her literary influences with ASF‘s Coeditor Adeena Reitberger and will benefit Green Apple Books\, a trio of fiercely independent bookstores in San Francisco matching good books to curious readers since 1967. \nAbout Esmé Weijun Wang \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise\, which was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016. She received a 2018 Whiting Award\, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and was the recipient of fellowships to Yaddo and MacDowell. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, Esmé can be found at esmewang.com\, on Twitter @esmewang and on Instagram @esmewwang. \nAbout Green Apple Books \nGreen Apple Books is a trio of fiercely independent bookstores in San Francisco matching good books to curious readers since 1967. The stores welcome all\, offer a well-curated selection of books in all subject areas\, and engage broadly in the literary community within our walls and beyond. \nAbout American Short Fiction \nAmerican Short Fiction\, Inc.’s mission is to be a diverse\, inclusive\, and discerning publisher of today’s best literary short fiction. We believe that reading and writing are transformative acts and that literature has the power to change the way we see ourselves\, our world\, and our place in it. We strive to support established and emerging writers and advance the literary arts\, both nationally and within our Austin community\, and regularly host events that are free and open to the public. \nSponsors \nThis project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Drew Daywalt
DESCRIPTION:We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome back Drew Daywalt\, (The Day the Crayons Quit)\, one of our all-time favorite picture book authors\, for a Sleepy: The Good Night Buddy Story Time\, his hilarious twist on the classic bedtime story. \n\n\n\n\nWhile sheltering in place\, take a break from the day to day at home and the bustle of being virtually back at school. Grab your kids\, their friends who they miss playing with\, and their cousins who you couldn’t visit this summer and get together – virtually – for a feel good\, laugh out loud story time \nRoderick hates going to bed and has become quite resourceful in coming up with ways to delay the dreaded hour when the lights must go out. Roderick’s loving parents—fed up with the distractions and demands that have become his anti-bedtime ritual—decide to get him a stuffed animal to cuddle with and help wind him down. However\, Sleepy quickly proves to be a bit high-maintenance. Just when he fears the night may never end\, Sleepy’s antics become too exhausting for Roderick to bear. How will a boy who routinely refuses to go to bed get a talkative stuffed animal to go to sleep? \nDrew Daywalt is the much loved\, incredibly funny New York Times best-selling author\, best known for writing The Day the Crayons Quit and its sequel\, The Day the Crayons Came Home\, both illustrated by Oliver Jeffers\, for which he won the EB White Read Aloud Award. Drew is also the author of The Legend of Rock\, Paper\, Scissors\, illustrated by Adam Rex\, Star Wars: BB-8 On the Run\, illustrated by Matt Myers\, and Sleepy: The Good Night Buddy\, illustrated by Scott Campbell\,. Drew is also a Hollywood screenwriter. \nIt’s impossible not to crack up while reading Sleepy: The Good Night Buddy. Join us and discover the pleasure of a great story told by a great storyteller.
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SUMMARY:Chasten Buttigieg in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer - I Have Something to Tell You (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first session in our free Fall Leadership Lecture series in which Chasten Buttigieg joins Pulitzer-Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer to talk about his new memoir\, I Have Something to Tell You. \nThroughout the past year\, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage\, having left his classroom in South Bend\, Indiana\, to travel cross-country in support of his husband\, former mayor Pete Buttigieg\, and Pete’s groundbreaking presidential campaign. Through Chasten’s joyful\, witty social media posts\, the public gained a behind-the-scenes look at his life with Pete on the trail — moments that might have ranged from the mundane to the surprising\, but that were always heartfelt. \nChasten has overcome a multitude of obstacles to get here. In this moving\, uplifting memoir\, he recounts his journey to finding acceptance as a gay man. He recalls his upbringing in rural Michigan\, where he knew he was different\, where indeed he felt different from his father and brothers. He recounts his coming out and how he’s healed from revealing his secret to his family\, friends\, community\, and the world. And he tells the story of meeting his boyfriend\, whom he would marry and who would eventually become a major Democratic leader. \nWith unflinching honesty\, unflappable courage\, and great warmth\, Chasten Buttigieg relays his experience of growing up in America and embracing his true self\, while inspiring others to do the same.
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SUMMARY:Kerri Arsenault in conversation with Kurt Andersen
DESCRIPTION:      \n\ndiscussing two new books \n\nMill Town: Reckoning With What Remains\, by Kerri Arsenault \npublished by St. Martins Press \nEvil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History\, by Kurt Andersen \npublished by Random House \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———– \nabout MILL TOWN \n\n\n\nA galvanizing and powerful debut\, Mill Town is an American story\, a human predicament\, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? \nKerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico\, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople\, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family. Years after she moved away\, Arsenault realized the price she paid for her seemingly secure childhood. The mill\, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone\, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic\, physical\, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe\, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.” \nMill Town is an personal investigation\, where Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports\, talks to family and neighbors\, and examines her own childhood to illuminate the rise and collapse of the working-class\, the hazards of loving and leaving home\, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease. Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks\, Whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? \nabout EVIL GENIUSES \nWhen did America give up on fairness? The New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants\, only the rich get richer\, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future. \nDuring the twentieth century\, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge\, secure\, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s\, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs\, the superrich\, and right-wing zealots\, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress\, making greed good\, workers powerless\, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia\, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests\, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope. \nWhy and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural\, economic\, and political chronicle\, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh\, provocative\, and eye-opening history of America’s undoing\, naming names\, showing receipts\, and unsparingly assigning blame—to the radical right in economics and the law\, the high priests of high finance\, a complacent and complicit Establishment\, and liberal “useful idiots\,” among whom he includes himself. \nOnly a writer with Andersen’s crackling energy\, deep insight\, and ability to connect disparate dots and see complex systems with clarity could make such a book both intellectually formidable and vastly entertaining. And only a writer of Andersen’s vision could reckon with our current high-stakes inflection point\, and show the way out of this man-made disaster. \nKerri Arsenault serves on the board of the National Books Critics Circle\, is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine\, and Contributing Editor at Lithub. Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University’s Communication for Development master’s programme. Her writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Lithub\, Oprah.com\, and The Minneapolis Star Tribune\, among other publications. She lives in New England. Mill Town is her first book. \n\nKurt Andersen is author of Heyday and Turn of the Century and frequently writes for New York and Vanity Fair. He is host and cocreator of the Peabody Award–winning public radio program Studio 360. In 2006\, he founded Very Short List\, an email service for connoisseurs of culture who would never call themselves “connoisseurs.” He was cofounder of Spy magazine\, and has been a columnist and critic for the New Yorker and Time. Andersen lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn. \nPraise for Mill Town\n\n\n“In this masterful debut\, the author creates a crisp\, eloquent hybrid of atmospheric memoir and searing exposé… Bittersweet memories and a long-buried atrocity combine for a heartfelt\, unflinching\, striking narrative combination.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n“[A] powerful\, investigative memoir….Arsenault paints a soul-crushing portrait of a place that’s suffered ‘the smell of death and suffering’ almost since its creation. This moving and insightful memoir reminds readers that returning home–“the heart of human identity”–is capable of causing great joy and profound disappointment.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred) \n“In Mill Town\, Kerri Arsenault has managed a literary hat trick\, combining humanity\, science\, and capitalism\, and the price paid not only by her own family in a single state\, but across generations\, industries\, and geographies. She has laid out\, in elegant prose and harrowing reportage\, the price we may all pay\, and in this\, she has managed to create at once both a cautionary tale and a literary treasure.” —Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us \n“[Mill Town] is about the better\, more prosperous American life those industries afforded us before we fell ill\, as well as the Devil’s bargain that made all this possible\, maybe even inevitable. Mill Town is for anyone who’s ever wondered about the Calvinistic calculus whereby the elect become truly wealthy while the damned (read: poor\, dark-skinned\, newly arrived) find early graves.” —Richard Russo\, author of Chances Are… and Empire Falls \n“Mill Town is a powerful\, blistering\, devastating book. Kerri Arsenault is both a graceful writer and a grieving daughter in search of answers and ultimately\, justice. In telling the story of the town where generations of her family have lived and died\, she raises important and timely questions.” —Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance \n“The book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling\, quick-moving\, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender\, it is written in a clear-running prose that lifts often into poetry\, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river of Mill Town: sluggish\, ancient\, dangerous\, freighted with America’s sins. This is a book about residues and legacies; I know that Mill Town will stay with me for years to come.” —Robert Macfarlane\, author of Underland \n“Kerri Arsenault’s pursuit of truth is as compassionate as it is relentless. The result\, her book\, is tender\, enthralling\, and\, ultimately\, devastating.” —Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn \nIn Mill Town\, Kerri Arsenault probes deeply\, searchingly\, into webs of family and community\, history and science\, power and commerce and the price of loyalty to create what could be called an Our Town for the 21st century\, updated and expanded to account for ecological horror… Arsenault’s relentless\, unsparing exploration goes to the heart of American life\, and I can think of no book that’s more relevant to this moment in time than Mill Town.” —Ben Fountain\, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n“[A] sweeping\, brutal expose of American corporations’ ruining natural resources\, poisoning the environment\, endangering the health and safety of the working class\, and hiding and denying their crimes. This book is full of love and sadness. It’s also breathtakingly wide-ranging\, cogently angry\, brilliantly written\, harrowing\, heartbreaking\, urgent\, and timely.” —Kate Christensen\, author of The Great Man \n“A tender howl about the graveyard of industry. This fierce and impeccable work really got my blood boiling about the plunder mechanism of capitalism and its blow against life.” —Emily Raboteau\, author of Searching for Zion \n“This memoir-slash-history tracks the rise and mostly decline of Mexico\, Maine\, a small mill town on the Androscoggin River that has been the home of the author’s family for generations. Arsenault writes nonfiction with the density and beauty of poetry\, in this telling of the costs and tolls (environmental\, physical\, cultural\, medical) of industrialization and its aftermath.” —Mark Lamster\, Architecture Critic\, Dallas Morning News \n“Profoundly important… Tender\, angry\, full of respect and bewilderment\, it is a complex love letter to a hometown. It’s also a powerful glimpse of how corporate power\, small town pride\, and death are entwined in America: a vivid insight to the unbuilding of an American dream\, this will be one of the major nonfiction books of a year in which the debate over what America is will rage.” —John Freeman\, author of Dictionary of the Undoing \n“Spanning ten years\, Arsenault’s hand keeps moving as across the paper on some tombstone for a rubbing. Slowly\, beautifully\, terribly something comes to the surface.” —David Searcy\, author of Shame and Wonder
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