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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:Mike Jung In Conversation with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich --VIRTUALLY!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation between Mike Jung and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich as they discuss Jung’s new novel\,The Boys in the Back Row. \nJung will debut his forthcoming music video opus of absurdity\, “Kitten Time\,” announce the winners of his pre-order giveaway\, and possibly even perform a live song. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will take place live on Crowdcast. Pre-registration required. Click here to save your spot! \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to purchase a signed copy of the book through our website and / or to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s virtual events. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot”. Thank you! \nBest friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park\, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol–a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course\, their final adventure together is more than just that–really\, it’s a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship\, and their honest love and support for one another. That’s exactly what we love so much about The Boys in the Back Row it’s an unabashed ode to male friendship\, because love between boys\, platonic or otherwise\, is something to celebrate. And of course\, because this is Mike Jung\, we’ll be celebrating it with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore! \nMike Jung is the author of  Geeks\, Girls\, and Secret Identities\, Unidentified Suburban Object\, and The Boys in the Back Row\, and contributed to the anthologies Dear Teen Me\, Break These Rules\, 59 Reasons to Write\, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy\, and The Hero Next Door. His books have been honored by the Bank Street College of Education\, Children’s Book Council Reading Beyond List\, Cooperative Children’s Book Center\, Georgia State Book Awards\, Iowa Children’s Choice Awards\, Kansas State Reading Circle\, National Parenting Publications Awards\, Parents Choice Foundation\, and Texas Bluebonnet Awards. He’s proud to be a founding member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks team\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with his family. Find Mike on Facebook\, Twitter\, or at www.mikejung.com. \nOlugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of many books including The Two Naomis and the forthcoming It Doesn’t Take a Genius. Her nonfiction includes Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins\, and Saving Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Fight for Our Future. She has contributed to a number of anthologies\, including We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and was the editor of We Need Diverse Books’ The Hero Next Door. She lives with her family in NYC. Find her on Instagram @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich.
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Book Launch: A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of Ruby member Sunisa Manning’s debut novel\, A Good True Thai (Epigram Books\, September 2020)\, hailed by Kirstin Chen\, author of Bury What We Cannot Take\, as “an astounding debut from a talented new voice\,” and a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Sunisa will be in conversation with Ruby member Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods. The poet Monica Sok\, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, will read an invocation to open the event. \nBooks are available for purchase here through East Bay Booksellers. \nAbout the book: \nSet in the 1970s\, A Good True Thai is a historical epic that captures one of the most famous periods of political unrest and artistic openness in Thailand’s history. It follows the story of three young people –Det\, Lek and Chang – whose paths converge at a local university. Det is the descendant of royalty through his mother\, the granddaughter of a king. Influenced by Lek and Chang’s political fervour\, Det radicalises\, and the three of them venture into the Thai jungle to fight alongside the communists. As they are embroiled in the perils of political revolution\, they must learn to tame and reconcile their love for one another. A Good True Thai was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. \nAbout Sunisa: \nSunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus and other places. She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge\, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writers Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-tickets-119361010997
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present…\nThe Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr / A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with the authors of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area\, Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr. \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of A People’s Guide to San Francisco\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n\nA People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area\, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule\, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence\, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures\, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. \nThe book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley’s wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region\, like bankers’ wealth did in the past\, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area\, with its rich political legacies? \nWith over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from\, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers\, educators\, or longtime residents\, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands\, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay\, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers\, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region. \n\n \nRachel Brahinsky is Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco\, affiliated with Urban and Public Affairs\, Politics\, and Urban Studies. Her research is focused on race\, property\, and urban change. \n \nAlexander Tarr is Assistant Professor of Geography at Worcester State University. His research\, writing\, and cartography examine the development of cities\, food politics\, and digital culture. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rachel-brahinsky-and-alexander-tarr-a-peoples-guide-to-the-san-francisco-bay-area/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel\, HAMNET. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85002634130. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPHamnet\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/HamnetAB. \nAugust 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“I loved Hamnet in very much the same way I loved Lincoln in the Bardo. This novel explores the way the dead haunt the living—especially how the death of a child haunts their parents—and does it in the context of a fascinating historical figure and time. But we know so much about the Lincolns\, and so little about the Shakespeares. Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to construct a palpably real emotional life for all the members of the Shakespeare family—but especially for Shakespeare’s wife—is just magical. This is a powerful and haunting novel.”— Nina Barrett\, Bookends & Beginnings\, Evanston\, IL \nDescription\n\nEngland\, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land\, an ever-present threat\, infecting the healthy\, the sick\, the old and the young\, alike. The end of days is near\, but life always goes on. \nA young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary\, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer\, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast\, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband\, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. \nA luminous portrait of a marriage\, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss\, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten\, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time\, Hamnet is mesmerizing\, seductive\, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. \nAbout the Author\n\nBorn in Northern Ireland in 1972\, Maggie O’Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award); Instructions for a Heatwave; This Must Be the Place; and most recently\, I Am\, I Am\, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. \nPraise For…\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \n“Hamnet is an exploration of marriage and grief written into the silent opacities of a life that is at once extremely famous and profoundly obscure… In Hamnet\, Shakespeare’s marriage is complicated and troubled\, yet brimming with love and passion… This novel is at once about the transfiguration of life into art– it is O’Farrell’s extended speculation on how Hamnet’s death might have fueled the creation of one of his father’s greatest plays– and at the same time\, it is a master class in how she\, herself does it… O’Farrell has a melodic relationship to language.  There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world… We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glover’s workshop\, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed\, and we can see how the pale London sun “reaches down\, like ladders\, through the narrow gaps in buildings to illuminate the rain glazed street.”… As the book unfolds\, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief\, the most damaged marriage\, and most shattered heart might find some solace\, some healing.”\n–Geraldine Brooks\, the New York Times Book Review [COVER] \n“All too timely…inspired…[An] exceptional historical novel ”\n—The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books\npresent the Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus:Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Paul Corman Roberts\n CV\nDevorah major- special guest\nDeborah Fruchey\nHannah Ingebretsen\nHalim Madi\nPeggy Morrison\n Abe Becker\n Sheryl Bize-Boute\nLisa Lim
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossushome-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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