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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:Kate Russo - Super Host (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. \nBennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now\, at age fifty-five\, his wife has left him\, he hasn’t sold a painting in two years\, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work\, claiming they’ll have more value retrospectively…when he’s dead. So\, left with a large West London home and no income\, he’s forced to move into his artist’s studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site\, AirBed. \nA stranger now in his own home\, with his daughter\, Mia\, off at art school\, and any new relationships fizzling out at best\, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests—lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie—unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. \nWarm\, witty\, and utterly humane\, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age\, relationships\, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life. \nKate Russo grew up in Maine but now divides her time between there and the United Kingdom. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art\, and exhibits in both the UK and the US. \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of the novels Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-russo-super-host-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82735553371. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpUncannyValley or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/UncannyValleyAB. \nA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. \nNamed one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, the Los Angeles Times\, ELLE\, Esquire\, Parade\, Teen Vogue\, The Boston Globe\, Forbes\, The Times (UK)\, Fortune\, Chicago Tribune\, Glamour\, The A.V. Club\, Vox\, Jezebel\, Town & Country\, OneZero\, Apartment Therapy\, Good Housekeeping\, PopMatters\, Electric Literature\, Self\, The Week (UK) and BookPage. One of Amazon’s Best 100 Books of 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” –Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-of-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
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