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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: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang‘s new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. \n** Please note ** \n\n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We’re happy to announce we have *signed copies* for the first 50 orders. If you’d like a copy of Subprime Attention Crisis\, you can purchase one here or below. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Questions? Write events@booksmith.com. \nAbout this event \nAdvertising is the seemingly unstoppable financial engine that has powered the meteoric growth of the modern web. What if it’s more fragile than it looks? \nIn his new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet\, researcher Tim Hwang makes the case that the core advertising model driving Google\, Facebook\, and many of the most powerful companies on the internet is — at its heart — a multibillion dollar financial bubble. Drawing parallels to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis\, Hwang shines a spotlight on the lack of transparency\, flawed incentives\, and outright fraud that keep this machine running. \nJoin us for a virtual book talk with the author and New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill. Hill writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Her work has appeared in Forbes Magazine\, The New Yorker\, and The Washington Post. Their discussion will tackle: \n\nWhy data-driven\, online advertising may be much\, much less effective than it looks\nThe long-term impact of the covid-19 recession on the media and online ads\nWhether or not the giants of Big Tech are already “too big to fail”\n\nThis discussion will also focus on the future\, and how we might be able to transition to a better\, more financially robust internet. Joining the discussion will be Desigan Chinniah\, who co-leads Grant for the Web—a $100 million fund launched in 2019 to spur open standards and pilot new sustainable business models for the internet. \nAbout the book\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. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars\, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work\, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized\, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up\, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched\, convincing\, and alarming\, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet\, and its precarious future. \n“Using apt analogies and accessible terminology\, Hwang makes a persuasive case that the internet bubble is bound to burst. This wake-up call rings loud and clear.” – Publishers Weekly \n“In this well-grounded\, heretical attack on the fictions that uphold the online advertising ecosystem\, Subprime Attention Crisis destroys the illusion that programmatic ads are effective and financially sound. One can only hope that this book will be used to pop the bubble that benefits so few.” – danah boyd\, founder of Data & Society\, and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research \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. Subprime Attention Crisis is his first book. \nModerator Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter based in New York for the New York Times. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion\, Forbes Magazine\, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. In 2018\, she gave a TED talk—”What your smart devices know (and share) about you”—in which she described what happened when she transformed her apartment into a smart home and monitored the data being sent out of it. \nPanelist Desigan Chinniah (aka-“Dees”) is a creative technologist\, certified firestarter\, sneakerhead and champion tea-drinker. After check-ins at various dot-coms (Mozilla Firefox\, eBay\, PayPal\, BBC\, Skype\, Ask Jeeves) over the last two decades\, he today has a portfolio of advisory roles with global early-stage technology startups. He recently co-created Grant for the Web\, a $100M fund supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons\, to catalyse alternative business models on the web using open protocols and web standards. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole\, The Campus Color Line
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book\, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom\, the remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equality. The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders’ actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.This is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“A stunning and ambitious origins story.”—Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author \nSome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation\, equal educational and employment opportunities\, housing discrimination\, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists\, as well as politicians\, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century\, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation’s college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range of colleges and universities across the United States\, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity. \nFocusing on the period between 1948 and 1968\, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents\, during a time of violence and unrest\, strategically\, yet often silently\, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. With courage and hope\, as well as malice and cruelty\, college presidents positioned themselves—sometimes precariously—amid conflicting interests and demands. Black college presidents challenged racist policies as their students demonstrated in the streets against segregation\, while presidents of major universities lobbied for urban renewal programs that displaced Black communities near campus. Some presidents amended campus speech practices to accommodate white supremacist speakers\, even as other academic leaders developed the nation’s first affirmative action programs in higher education. \nEddie R. Cole\, Ph.D.\, is associate professor of higher education and organizational change at UCLA\, and the author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wedneday\, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey\, with Juli Delgado Lopera. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83728777787\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83728777787#  or +13462487799\,\,83728777787#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 837 2877 7787\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdhZtIyzOz \nPraise for The Wild Kindness \nAn exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. —KIRKUS \nBett Williams is a renegade…this book is a useful tool. —THE ROGUE LITERARY SOCIETY \nThe Wild Kindness is absolutely electric. It’s not only the subject matter\, which is mystical and fascinating. Bett William’s voice is untamed and inspired\, full of gonzo humor\, ambitious daring and high-vibrating heart. The personal\, the political\, the spiritual and the unknown come together into a mesmerizing read that is full-on literary fireworks. —MICHELLE TEA\, author of Valencia\, Black Wave\, Astro Baby\, and more \nOn the surface\, a book about mycology. Immediately beneath this\, a safe trip facilitated by a guide who places herself between heaven and earth\, between the fight for love and the fight itself; wholly engaged by both magic and the material plane. —KRISTIN HERSH\, singer-songwriter \nBett’s writing has brains\, charisma\, beauty and wit. —DENNIS COOPER\, author of the George Miles cycle \nAbout The Wild Kindness \nA funny\, lyrically brilliant memoir of learning to grow psychedelic mushrooms and discovering the vast power of mycelium wisdom and medicine. \nThe Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is the lyrical\, unforgettable memoir of Bett Williams’s relationship with psilocybin mushrooms\, otherwise known as magic mushrooms. In pursuit of self-healing\, she begins experimenting with mushrooms in solitary ceremonies by the fire. Word soon gets out about her New Mexican desert mushroom farm\, though\, and people arrive in droves. Not long after\, the police read her her Miranda Rights\, her relationships fall out of whack\, and her dog Rosie just might be CIA. \nOn a quest to find help through the psychedelic community\, Bett is led to Cleveland to meet Kai Wingo\, an African American leader within a high-dose psilocybin community\, and to Huautla de Jiménez\, home of well-known\, well-respected curandera María Sabina. Back home\, Bett begins a solid ritual practice with the help of her partner and friends\, bearing in mind the medicine’s indigenous roots and power to transform one’s life. \nAmidst the mainstream flood of New Age practices and products\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is a dreamlike reminder that psilocybin mushrooms are a medicine of the people\, not to be neatly packaged\, marketed\, or appropriated.
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum's Fall Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems – live on Zoom!
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