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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:LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it affects on our lives. \n \nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Hwang\, Ben Tarnoff\, Xiaowei Wang\, and Moira Weigel \nMore than three years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights Booksellers. Now\, the crew at LOGIC return in an exciting new collaboration. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley\, for all their utopian imaginings\, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy\, truth\, privacy\, and safety\, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress\, have shown as much. \nTogether\, publisher Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and tech magazine Logic present an alternate story\, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation\, across borders and socioeconomic divisions\, from history through the future\, beyond platitudes and PR hype\, and past doom and gloom. This collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds\, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. City Lights is pleased to be partnering with the cultural hub Gray Area in presenting this extraordinary event. \nEvents are Free\, but registration is required. Click the links on each event listing to register. \nJoin us for three days of sessions \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nVoices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do–and How They Do It \nBen Tarnoff and Moira Weigel in conversation with Anna Wiener \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Voices from the Valley\, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry\, conducting unfiltered\, in-depth\, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels\, including a data scientist\, a start-up founder\, a cook who serves their lunch\, and a PR wizard. In the process\, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large\, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating\, revealing\, and at times lurid\, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. \nMoira Weigel is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, among other publications\, and she is a cofounder of Logic magazine. She received a fellowship to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2016 and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nBen Tarnoff is the author of the books A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Jacobin\, and Lapham’s Quarterly\, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nSubprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet \nTim Hwang in conversation with Allison Arlieff \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nBlockchain Chicken Farm \nwith Xiaowei Wang in conversation with An Xiao Mina     \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Blockchain Chicken Farm\, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward\, conservative\, and intolerant. Instead\, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. \nXiaowei Wang is a technologist\, a filmmaker\, an artist\, and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine\, their work encompasses community-based and public art projects\, data visualization\, technology\, ecology\, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the Index Design Awards and featured by The New York Times\, the BBC\, CNN\, VICE\, and elsewhere. They are working toward a PhD at UC Berkeley\, where they are a part of the National Science Foundation’s Environment and Society: Data Science for the 21st Century Research Traineeship. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nWhat Tech Calls Thinking\nwith Adrian Daub (interlocutor tba) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nAdrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often\, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of “disruption\,” Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly original\, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand\, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur\, and American traditions from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve and imagination\, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual refutation of Silicon Valley’s ethos\, pulling back the curtain on the self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself. \nAdrian Daub is a professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University\, and the director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of literature\, music\, and philosophy in the nineteenth century\, and he is the author of several books published by academic presses. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, n+1\, Longreads\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nWednesday\, October 14\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nLOGIC PANEL DISCUSSION\nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Huang\, Xiaowei Wang\, Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel. (Host TBA) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nIn this closing panel\, the LOGIC crew revisit some of the ideas of the last couple of days and explore possibilities of reimagining our relationships to technology. \n  \nGray Area is a cultural hub located to San Francisco’s Mission District. Their mission is to apply art and technology to create social and civic impact through education\, incubation and public events. They use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. They test and scale projects with high impact potential\, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists\, and inspire our community by promoting meaningful new work. They apply the promise and inspiration of digital art to a broader social context. Their programs are transforming cities into creative outlets\, applying technology to solve problems\, and shaping how art is created and consumed in the digital era. Visit them at: grayarea.org \n  \nTo learn more about LOGIC MAGAZINE visit: https://logicmag.io/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation about their new books. \n** Please note: this is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. ** \n\nAbout Miracle Country \nKendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows\, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada\, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. \nKendra’s parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful\, if harsh\, landscape\, prone to wildfires\, blizzards\, and gale-force winds. Above all\, they were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. After Kendra’s mother died of a rare autoimmune disease when Kendra was just sixteen\, however\, her once beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile\, as climate change\, drought\, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart\, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles\, and then Minneapolis\, land of tall trees\, full lakes\, water everywhere you look. \nBut after years of avoiding her troubled hometown\, she realized that she needed to come to terms with its past and present and had to go back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return\, emptiness and bounty\, the realities of a harsh and changing climate\, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and Rebecca Solnit\, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer. \n \nKendra Atleework is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays\, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in Bishop\, California. \nTo have Miracle Country sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nAbout Home Baked \n \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Salon\, Guernica\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. Author photo by Dennis Hearne. \nTo have Home Baked sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Joe Cottonwood
DESCRIPTION:Currently\, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London\, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry is Random Saints. Previous poetry books are Son of a Poet and Foggy Dog. In addition he is the author of nine popular novels and the award-winning memoir 99 Jobs: Blood Sweat and Houses. He lives in La Honda\, California.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season’s great new culinary and cocktail titles. We are passionate about cookbooks and can’t wait to share our new favorites with you! \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
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