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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:Bill Zarchy - Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Equal parts time travel tale\, thriller\, and baseball saga\, Bill Zarchy’s debut novel Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale is a gripping\, humorous\, and entertaining look at what happens when past and present collide in the 9th inning\, with the bases loaded and no one warming up in the bullpen. \nOn a freezing night in 1778\, General George Washington vanishes. Walking away from the Valley Forge encampment\, he takes a fall and is knocked unconscious\, only to reappear at a park near San Francisco—during the summer of 2014. Washington befriends two Berkeley twenty-somethings who help him cope with the astonishing—and often comical—surprises of the twenty-first century. \nWashington’s absence from Valley Forge\, however\, is not without serious consequences. As the world rapidly devolves around them—and their beloved Giants fight to salvage a disappointing season—George\, Tim\, and Matt are catapulted on a race across America to find a way to get George back to 1778. \n“I grew up fascinated by the presidents—and Washington in particular\,” recalls author Bill Zarchy. “George became my touchstone for trying to understand the alluring technology of my mid-century boyhood—aviation\, photography\, trains\, cars\, rockets\, satellites\, television\, movies: How would I explain this to George Washington\, if he were to come back to life right now?” Zarchy continues\, “I originally thought of this as a comic\, fish-out-of-water story\, but as I learned more about my subject\, so much emerged about George: A charismatic leader\, but a soft-spoken\, uninspiring orator. A courageous man\, who endured the burden of dental pain throughout his life. A powerful\, ambitious man\, but a kind\, gentle husband and stepfather. A 6’ 2” giant\, at a time when most men were much shorter. A skillful horseman\, a graceful dancer\, a man’s man who enjoyed the company of women. Perhaps most significantly\, like most of the Founding Fathers\, he was a slave owner\, though history establishes that Washington\, privately\, had at least a dawning awareness that slavery was evil and immoral.” \nBill Zarchy filmed projects on six continents during his 40 years as a cinematographer\, captured in his first book\, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil. Now he writes novels\, takes photos\, and talks of many things. His career includes filming three former presidents for the Emmy-winning West Wing Documentary Special\, the Grammy-winning Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em\, feature films Conceiving Ada and Read You Like A Book\, PBS science series Closer to Truth\, musical performances as diverse as the Grateful Dead\, Weird Al Yankovic\, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle\, and countless high-end projects for technology and medical companies. His tales from the road\, personal essays\, and technical articles have appeared in Travelers’ Tales and Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies\, the San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers\, and American Cinematographer\, Emmy\, and other trade magazines. Bill has a BA in Government from Dartmouth and an MA in Film from Stanford. He taught Advanced Cinematography at San Francisco State for twelve years. He is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of the EPIC Storytelling Program at Stagebridge in Oakland. This is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-zarchy-finding-george-washington-a-time-travel-tale-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lauren Oyler and Anna Wiener
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, FEBRUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN LAUREN OYLER IS JOINED BY ANNA WIENER TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, FAKE ACCOUNTS\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633184310\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82633184310#  or +12532158782\,\,82633184310#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd9BjI5wzd \nPraise for Fake Accounts \n“This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it.” —Zadie Smith \n“Oyler has written a startlingly lucid account of what it does to a person to live a life filled with lies\, why it’s so painful to be unable to trust anything or anyone\, including yourself…I laughed a lot while reading this\, even when—especially when—I very much saw myself as the joke. What Fake Accounts is ultimately asking\, then\, is a question we could all do well to pose to ourselves with some frequency: Who do you think you’re fooling?” ––Kristin Iversen\, Refinery29\, One of the Best New Books of the Year \n“Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts is such an ensorcelling blend of insight\, comedy and suspense\, you almost don’t notice yourself being filleted alive in these pages. A note to fellow readers of the twenty-first century: Anyone familiar with the allure of social media will adore this coolly observed novel. A note to fellow writers of the twenty-first century: Oh crap\, she did it.” —Sloane Crosley\, author of Look Alive Out There and I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Fake Accounts \nA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers Weekly\, starred review). \nOn the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration\, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist\, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery\, irony\, and outrage\, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually\, she’s relieved—he was always a little distant—and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women’s March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. \nSuddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues\, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin\, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life\, from dating apps to expat meetups\, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can’t trust anyone—shouldn’t the feeling be mutual? \nNarrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit\, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community\, delusions and gaslighting\, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.
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