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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-virtual-bookfest/
LOCATION:CA
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T140000
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SUMMARY:Tara Fickle in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers (3rd Edition) in which she wrote the forward for. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \n—\nAbout the book:\nAs Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities\, mapping the virtual onto lived realities\, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor\, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts\, analog and digital games\, journalistic accounts\, marketing campaigns\, and archival material\, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles\, play the game\, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. \nExploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations\, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities\, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric\, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways. \n—\nAbout the Authors:\nTara Fickle is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Her first book\, “The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities\,” examines how games and game theory have shaped American racial typologies and US-Asian relations from the 19th century onwards. She also worked on Aiiieeeee!\, a seminal Asian American literary anthology. \nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department. \n—\nPurchase the authors’ books here: \nAiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2129/Aiiieeeee%21%3A_An_Anthology_of_Asian_American_Writers_%283rd_ed%29%29.html\nThe Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities : https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2525/Race_Card%3A_From_Gaming_Technologies_to_Model_Minorities_.html \nLament in the Night:\nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html \nChoose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \n—\nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tara-fickle-in-conversation-with-andrew-way-leong/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T160000
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SUMMARY:A Reading of Osip Mandelstam in English\, with Ilya Bernstein
DESCRIPTION:Globus Books presents a reading of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry in English. Mandelstam is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891–1938) began as one of the more original poets of the Russian avant-garde before the First World War\, but his extraordinary growth as a poet over the next quarter-century set him a great distance apart from almost all of his contemporaries. By the 1930s he was writing the most memorable poems in the language. In English\, Mandelstam has long been better appreciated for his biography than for his poetry. This is unfortunate: to his Russian admirers\, the value of Mandelstam’s poetry owes nothing to whatever might be the value of his biography. These translations and the accompanying commentary will attempt to remedy that misvaluation. \nIlya Bernstein will present his recently published book of translations of Mandelstam\, reading the poems\, and interweavingly talking about them\, their background\, Mandelstam and his background\, and the process of translating the poems into English. \nIlya Bernstein is a poet and translator. He was born in Moscow and came to the US as a child in 1980. A collection of his translations of Mandelstam\, Osip Mandelstam: Poems (M-Graphics Press\, 2020)\, has recently been published in a second\, revised edition with a new\, extended afterword on the poems. In addition to Mandelstam\, he has translated the children’s writings of Daniil Kharms and edited Yevgeny Baratynsky: A Science Not for the Earth\, Selected Poems and Letters (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2015). His own writings have appeared most recently in Stand\, Arion\, LVNG\, and his poetry collections include Attention and Man (UDP\, 2003) and Distances and Sounds (Ars Interpres\, 2020).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-of-osip-mandelstam-in-english-with-ilya-bernstein/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T170000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Book Launch of The Lines Between Us: Author Rebecca D'Harlingue in Conversation with Author Jill G. Hall
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, September 24 at 5 PM PDT for a Zoom book launch with author Rebecca D’Harlingue discussing her new novel\, THE LINES BETWEEN US\, with author Jill G. Hall. \nPre-registration is required for this event. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pc-6oqjwpE9xcv83NvpIf6Tp_XiOXeWba. (Registrants will receive a confirmation email with entry link from Barbara Kridl.) \n(Order your copy of THE LINES BETWEEN US at https://bit.ly/ggpLinesBetweenUs.) \nDescription\n\nIn 1661 Madrid\, Ana is still grieving the loss of her husband when her niece\, sixteen-year-old Juliana\, suddenly vanishes. Ana frantically searches the girl’s room and comes across a diary. Journeying to southern Spain in the hope of finding her\, Ana immerses herself in her niece’s private thoughts. After a futile search in Seville\, she comes to Juliana’s final entries\, and\, discovering the horrifying reason for the girl’s flight\, abandons her search. \n  \nIn 1992 Missouri\, in her deceased mother’s home\, Rachel finds a packet of letters\, and a diary written by a woman named Juliana. Rachel’s reserved mother has never mentioned these items\, but Rachel recognizes the names Ana and Juliana: her mother uttered them on her deathbed. She soon becomes immersed in Juliana’s diary\, which recounts the young woman’s journey to Mexico City and her life in a convent. As she learns the truth about Juliana’s tragic family history\, Rachel seeks to understand her connection to the writings–hoping that in finding those answers\, she will somehow heal the wounds caused by her mother’s lifelong reticence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-book-launch-of-the-lines-between-us-author-rebecca-dharlingue-in-conversation-with-author-jill-g-hall/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marcelo Hernadez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 24 at 6pm PDT when Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads from his latest collection\, Living Weapon\, with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83770739482\nWebinar ID: 837 7073 9482\n\nPraise for Living Weapon\n“Over and again\, Phillips strives—within his own poems—to chip away at an explicit definition of what exactly we mean when we say ‘poetry’ . . . Throughout the collection\, Rowan Ricardo Phillips refuses to abandon the past; instead\, he interrogates its ghosts—in all their terrible admixture of violence and beauty—and\, despite every reason not to\, he sings.” —Will Brewbaker\, Los Angeles Review of Books\n“In his dazzling third collection\, Phillips (Heaven) explores social ills while celebrating poetry’s ability to provide solace and sense during times of upheaval . . . Phillips’s latest is lyrical\, imaginative\, and steeped in a keen understanding of current events.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n“The truths of Phillips’s book are plain and perceptive\, harsh and oddly soothing.” —Nick Ripatrazone\, The Millions\n\nAbout the Author\nRowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of the books of poems Heaven (FSG\, 2015) and The Ground (FSG\, 2012)\, as well as the essay collections The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. His many awards include a Whiting Writers’ Award\, the PEN/Osterweil Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing\, and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award. He lives in New York City and Barcelona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rowan-ricardo-phillips-and-marcelo-hernadez-castillo-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T190000
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SUMMARY:Kerri Arsenault and John Freeman Discuss Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
DESCRIPTION:Kerri Arsenault joins us via Crowdcast to discuss her debut book\, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (St. Martin’s Press)\, with poet\, editor\, and writer John Freeman. The pair will discuss slow violence\, the need to live together\, the difficulty of doing so\, and why even when we find ourselves within an idyllic setting – a park or a small town — the gremlins of humanity are already inside the keep. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Orion Magazine and will be presented on our Crowdcast Channel. \nRegistration info forthcoming. \nAbout Mill Town\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 the authors\nKerri Arsenault 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. \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s\, a literary annual which features new writing by Louise Erdrich\, Olga Tokarczuk\, Robin Coste Lewis and Haruki Murakami\, among others. He has written three books of nonfiction\, The Tyranny of Email\, How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing\, as well as two collections of poems\, Maps and The Park\, both published by Copper Canyon. A child of California public schools\, he lives today in New York City\, where he is artist-in-residence at NYU and executive editor of The Literary Hub. Between 2014 and 2020\, he edited a series of anthologies on inequality\, concluding this year Tales of Two Planets\, which focuses on the collision of the climate crisis and global inequality. Freeman’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerri-arsenault-and-john-freeman-discuss-mill-town-reckoning-with-what-remains/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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