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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
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SUMMARY:Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, January 21\, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel\, WIDER THAN THE SKY\, with author Katherine Rothschild. Katherine will be in conversation with Randy Ribay\, author of PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83921967498. \n(Order your copy of WIDER THAN THE SKY at https://bit.ly/ggpWider\, or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/WiderThanTheSkyAB. Order PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING at http://bit.ly/ggpPatronSaints.) \nIn the wake of sudden tragedy\, twin sisters uncover a secret that rips open their world. Katherine Rothschild explores the pain and power of forgiveness in a stunning debut novel that will shatter your heart and piece it back together\, one truth at a time. \nSixteen-year-old Sabine Braxton doesn’t have much in common with her identical twin\, Blythe. When their father dies from an unexpected illness\, each copes with the loss in her own way—Sabine by “poeting” (an uncontrollable quirk of bursting into poetry at inappropriate moments) and Blythe by obsessing over getting into MIT\, their father’s alma mater. Neither can offer each other much support . . . at least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie. \nSoon\, the sisters unite in a mission to figure out who Charlie is and why he seems to know everything about them. They quickly make a life-changing discovery: their father died of an HIV- related infection\, Charlie was his lover\, and their mother knows the whole story. The revelation unravels Sabine’s world\, while practical Blythe seems to take everything in stride. Once again at odds with her sister\, Sabine chooses to learn all she can about the father she never knew. Ultimately\, she must decide if she can embrace his last wish for their family legacy—along with forgiveness. \nAbout the Author\n\nKatherine Rothschild\, PhD\, is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University\, a former Arabic dance instructor\, and an obsessive food truck follower. She’s the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center artist’s grant\, and her personal essays have been published on KQED/NPR\, in the San Francisco Chronicle\, and in several other publications. She graduated from UC Irvine’s creative writing program and earned an MFA in fiction writing at St. Mary’s College of California.
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Dan Polsby\, Vintage Berkeley--virtually
DESCRIPTION:discussing (with wine) Lethem’s latest novel The Arrest\, an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings\, the man that came between them\, and a nuclear-powered super car. \n“An impeccably executed\, moving\, and wildly inventive tale of madness and narrative at the end of the world. Lethem is at the top of his game.”–Emily St. John Mandel\, author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, January 21\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Vintage Berkeley’s virtual salon hosted by Dan Polsby and one of America’s most acclaimed novelists for a Zoom on his new novel…with glass (and book) in hand! The ex-Berkeleyite author of Motherless Brooklyn\, and the man the NYT recently called “a master at subverting expectations of form and genre and the author of some of the most original novels in recent decades” is back with an amazing new book! \nThe Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted–cars\, guns\, computers\, and airplanes\, for starters–quits working. \nBefore the Arrest\, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner\, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum\, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn’t hurt. \nNow\, post-Arrest\, nothing is what it was. Sandy\, who calls himself Journeyman\, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister\, Maddy\, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States\, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings’ life with his usual odious panache\, his motives are entirely unclear. Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he’s up to\, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him. \nWritten with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread\, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest. \nTo register and purchase the prescripted wine(s)\, click: https://www.vintageberkeley.com/holiday-gifts?category=Zoom+Events \nFor further information\, write dan@vintageberkeley.com
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