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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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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Andreas Karelas\, Katharine Hayhoe\, & Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Beacon Press\nJoin us on Tuesday\, September 29 at 1pm PDT for the book launch of Andreas Karelas’ Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community\, Transform the Economy\, and Bridge the Political Divide in America\nwith special guests Katharine Hayhoe and Bill McKibben \nRegister for the event here \nAndreas Karelas is joined by climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe and environmentalist Bill McKibben in a roundtable discussion on how saving our planet\, our economy\, and our democracy are not mutually exclusive goals. \nAndreas Karelas\, author of Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community\, Transform the Economy\, and Bridge the Political Divide in America\, is the founder and executive director of RE-volv\, a nonprofit organization that empowers people around the country to help nonprofits in their communities go solar and raise awareness about the benefits of clean energy. He is a dedicated clean-energy advocate with over 15 years of environmental and renewable energy experience. He is an Audubon TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Fellow and an OpenIDEO Climate Innovator Fellow. He lives and works in San Francisco. Connect with him at re-volv.org and on Twitter at @AndreasKarelas. \nKatharine Hayhoe\, who wrote the foreword for Climate Courage\, is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is an endowed professor in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University\, she hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding\, and she has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People\, the United Nations Champion of the Environment\, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s Climate Ambassador. \nBill McKibben\, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?\, is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. He is the author of the bestsellers The End of Nature\, Eaarth\, and Deep Economy. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize\, the Thomas Merton Prize\, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont. \nThis event is free and open to the public. For this event\, we are partnering with San Francisco-based indie bookstore Green Apple Books\, so PLEASE use links provided to purchase your copy of our panelists books today! \nRegister for the event at the link below\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-courage-launch-andreas-karelas-katharine-hayhoe-bill-mckibben-tickets-119454560807
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Q&A with Brit Bennett\, author of THE VANISHING HALF
DESCRIPTION:[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Nonmembers are welcome to join;  please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86377643402?pwd=algvK2FNYUNvQ1dNbmx6bFVrVVd6Zz09] \nJoin us for a Q&A with New York Times–bestselling author Brit Bennett! We encourage you to read The Vanishing Half before this event. Find it at local booksellers including Green Apple Books. \nAbout Brit Bennett \nBrit Bennett is the author of the New York Times–bestselling novel The Mothers; a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for the best first book\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award; and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel. \nAbout The Vanishing Half \nFrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers\, a stunning new novel about twin sisters\, inseparable as children\, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds\, one black and one white. \nThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small\, southern black community and running away at age sixteen\, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults\, it’s everything: their families\, their communities\, their racial identities. Many years later\, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white\, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still\, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies\, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation\, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect? \nWeaving together multiple strands and generations of this family\, from the Deep South to California\, from the 1950s to the 1990s\, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting\, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race\, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions\, desires\, and expectations\, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. \nAs with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers\, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative\, compassionate and wise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-qa-with-brit-bennett-author-of-the-vanishing-half-tickets-118394829121
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SUMMARY:ReTargeting Iran
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ\n\nWhat will it take to reverse the current US escalation trajectory\, and what about after the election? Is there a potential for a diplomatic solution\, and can Washington and Tehran find common ground? \nDavid Barsamian is the author of ReTargeting Iran\, a new book of conversations with experts on the US-Iran relationship. \nRegister for this virtual book talk\, co-sponsored by Institute for Policy Studies and City Lights Books\, when David talks with two of those experts\, Hader Hashemi and Trita Parsi\, in an event moderated by Phyllis Bennis. \nRegister on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T180000
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SUMMARY:David Eagleman
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWith rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly\, from Khaled Hosseini and Russell Brand alike\, Livewired is a fascinating review of the brain that you absolutely need right now. With his usual clarity\, approachability and brilliance\, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers with this book a hope that even 2020 cannot crush: the ability of your brain\, perhaps the world’s most complex machine\, to adapt constantly to change. How does the brain absorb new experiences\, sensory input\, and insight? How does it interface with new technologies\, or the sudden loss of sight? The answers this beloved writer puts forward will delight and inform you. \nBolstered by Eagleman’s wit and contagious enthusiasm\, Livewired details the connection between our bodies and minds\, the brain’s adaptations to grief\, responses to change\, and more. It is a manual to the self that you didn’t know you needed\, accented with captivating stories from the frontiers of neuroscience. \nIn an hour-long conversation online with Angie Coiro for This is Now\, return favorite Eagleman shares science that is triumphant and hopeful. \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:Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:eading from her new book \nFor Now \npublished by Yale University Press \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———– \nIn this raucous meditation\, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit\, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors\, friends\, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. \nFor Myles\, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention\, as devotion\, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is\, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent\, generous\, and always insightful\, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists. \nEileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant\, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nPraise for the Writing of Eileen Myles\n\n“Myles possesses\, in abundance\, two qualities of the highest value for a writer\, irreverence and relentless curiosity.”\n―New York Times Book Review\n\n“[Myles’s] work is hard to describe\, best encountered on its own terms; suffice to say it combines frankness and beauty in a truly original way.”\n—The Guardian\n\n“Myles is a big deal\, a rock star\, sort of like the Patti Smith of contemporary poetry…. Myles is relentlessly casual\, and even joyful. [Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell\, and like a hip Virgil\, is happy to show us the way.”\n—NPR.org\n\n“To read Eileen Myles is to feel as if the poet\, after spotting you across the room at a crowded party\, has guided you by the elbow to a private corner to confide their personal theories of the universe.”\n―O\, the Oprah Magazine
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "A Very Gay Book Reading"
DESCRIPTION:The Perfectly Queer reading series returns to host “A Very Gay Book Reading” online via Zoom Tuesday\, September 29\, 7pm to 8:15pm. Four Gay authors will read from brand new books: Rick May (GAY ALL YEAR)\, Wayne Goodman (ALL THE RIGHT PLACES)\, Rob Rosen (TED OF THE D’UBERVILLES)\, and Jim Provenzano (FINDING TULSA). \nThe Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84457652109pwd=aVJGenpUa3F5Ym11VDNwVHNtNllVZz09 \nThis event is free. Copies of all four books are available at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco or by ordering from your local independent bookstore. \nAuthor information:\nRick May’s short fiction has been published in his three collections GAY ALL YEAR: Twelve Optimistic Stories\, INHUMAN BEINGS: Monsters\, Myths\, and Science Fiction\, and GINGER SNAPS: Photos & Stories (with photographer David Sweet) and numerous anthologies and literary periodicals. He lives in San Francisco. \nWayne Goodman lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner Rick May (and too many cats). His writing tends to be historical fiction with a focus on LGBTQ+ characters. He is the host of Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with Queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing\, he likes to play piano music from the Gilded Age. \nJim Provenzano is the author of seven novels including FINDING TULSA and the Lambda Literary Award winner EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU and Lambda Literary Award finalist MESSAGE OF LOVE\, plus several plays and a short story collection. A prolific journalist\, editor\, and photographer in LGBTQ+ media for three decades\, he lives in San Francisco. \nRob Rosen is an editor and the author of numerous short stories and the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES.
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