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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:Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were Infinite and celebrate a week early for Anna-Marie McLemore’s new book The Mirror Season.  \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Loy Gilbert is the author of the William C. Morris Debut Award finalist Conviction and Stonewall Honor Book Picture Us in the Light. When We Were Infinite is a powerful\, achingly romantic drama about the secrets we keep\, from each other and from ourselves. \nAll Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends—Grace Nakamura\, Brandon Lin\, Sunny Chen\, and Jason Tsou—to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark\, these friends are all she has—even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides\, she’s certain she’ll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him\, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence in Jason’s home\, and the whole group is shaken. Beth and her friends make a pact to do whatever it takes to protect Jason\, no matter the sacrifice. But when even their fierce loyalty isn’t enough to stop Jason from making a life-altering choice\, Beth must decide how far she’s willing to go for him—and how much of herself she’s willing to give up. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist The Weight of Feathers\, Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, Wild Beauty \, Blanca & Roja\, and Dark and Deepest Red. The Mirror Season is “An unforgettable story of trauma and healing\, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care.” ―Karen M. McManus\, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying \nWhen two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party\, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería\, his secret forest of otherworldly trees\, and the swallows returning to their hometown. \nThis is sure to be a fantastic and thought provoking conversation. \nA post-event temporary access recording of the webinar will be shared with all guests who register. Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 9 for the launch of Rebecca Handler’s debut novel\, Edie Richter is Not Alone on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84332843511\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84332843511#  or +13462487799\,\,84332843511#\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 +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 843 3284 3511\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdvjc80K3q \nPraise for Edie Richter is Not Alone \n“Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting\, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page\, Rebecca Handler’s novel is that rare thing: a perfect book.”\n—Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less  \n“Rebecca Handler’s debut novel Edie Richter Is Not Alone features a witty protagonist in the midst of an emotional and physical journey to Western Australia. Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore—it made me laugh with recognition and tear up with empathy. Reading this book will make you feel the way all good literature does: it will make you feel less alone.”\n—Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty  \nAbout Edie Richter is Not Alone \nFunny\, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth\, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move\, Edie and her husband were content\, if socially awkward―given her disinclination for small talk.\nIn Perth\, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world\, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways\, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life\, and rather than escaping her past\, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she’s done. Everybody\, from the wildlife to her new neighbors\, is keen to engage\, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying\, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking\, and impossible to stop. Something\, in the end\, has to give.\nWritten in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist’s observations and idiosyncrasies\, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler’s debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman’s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
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SUMMARY:Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new book \nModel Citizen: a memoir \npublished by MCD/FSG \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe intimate\, gorgeous\, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer\, father\, alcoholic\, addict. \nAfter years of hard-won sobriety\, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter\, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five—his third\, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl\, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart\, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? \nTold in stunning\, surreal\, time-hopping vignettes\, Model Citizen is a raw\, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life\, throwing the wild joys\, tragedies\, embarrassments\, and adventures of his past into bold relief. His story is heartbreakingly real and yet unreal\, which he captures in vivid\, uncanny imagery\, waking hallucinations that imagine hearts as hot air balloons\, drug cravings as wry Nazi doctors\, secrets as emaciated second selves. \nAnd yet Mohr’s memoir pulses with humanity and humor\, capturing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the dark pit of his past\, learning to love and be loved\, while never letting go of those experiences that shaped him and broke him. A darkly beautiful\, funny\, incisive confession\, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience\, drawing the universal and human out of every moment. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of the memoir “Sirens” (2017)\, as well as five novels including “Damascus”\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times.  His novel “All This Life” won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial. \nLidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and a critical book on war and narrative\, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. The Misfit’s Manifesto\, a book based on her recent TED Talk\, was publishe by TED Books. Her new collection of fiction\, Verge\, was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. Her writing has appeared widely in publications that include Guernica Magazine\, Ms.\, The Iowa Review\, Zyzzyva\, Another Chicago Magazine\, The Sun\, Exquisite Corpse\, TANK\, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights)\, Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil)\, Forms at War (FC2)\, Feminaissance (Les Figues Press)\, and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY)\, as well as online at The Rumpus. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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