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SUMMARY:Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nIn a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating\,” author\, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence with awe-inspiring implications. Get ready for a dynamic and exciting conversation about the brain with Kepler’s. \nIn a century rife with neuroscientific and biological advances\, researchers have made little progress one very big question: how do the simple cells of the brain create complex consciousness and intelligence? \nHawkins\, cofounder of the neuroscience research company Numenta\, dares to answer with A Thousand Brains. In a compulsively readable book accessible even to the casual science reader\, he lays forth a simple and yet mold-breaking theory: that intelligence arises from the interaction of maplike reference structures in the brain\, which build hundreds of thousands of interconnected models of everything a person knows. These maplike reference frames can tell you how to achieve goals\, how to get from one place to another\, who you are and how you’re connected to the world. \nFor the past fifteen years\, Hawkins and his Silicon Valley based research team have studied the neocortex\, the part of the brain we associate with everything responsible for intelligence. Now with his “thousand brains” theory of the structure that runs the show\, Hawkins proposes answers to some of neurosciences most stubborn questions—questions about the very nature of consciousness. \nOn March 10th\, join us for an online conversation between Jeff Hawkins and award-winning science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy as they share with us A Thousand Brains. Starting with basic information on how the brain works for anyone to understand\, they’ll discuss a Jeff’s new theory and explore what it could mean not only for advancements in science like machine intelligence\, but also its broader implications for all of us as people. This will be a smart\, fun night celebrating a key moment in our understanding of the human brain: don’t miss it! \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. \nRegistration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection\, Sarahland\, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85188314830\n\nPraise for Sarahland\n“A bold collection that explores how we might break free from or reimagine ourselves and our places in the universe.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n“Reading SARAHLAND is pure pleasure – what a voice! What a constant flow of funny and vulnerable and distinct awarenesses! Sam Cohen’s writing is joyously itself and places its own keen\, insightful gaze on the ways we relate to ourselves and to others.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\n“I’m deeply struck by the emotional wisdom\, the cultural smarts\, the literary vulnerability and serious skills happening in SARAHLAND. Rarely do I feel so seen by a book. I gobbled this work up with feverish excitement and gratitude\, and weeks later feel like I am carrying these stories around in my head and in my heart.”—Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir\n\n“Cohen handles her sentences\, her Sarah’s\, both gently and confidently. The result: a debut of equal parts ugly and beauty\, a debut full of heartbreakingly real characters.” —Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of Pizza Girl\nAbout Sarahland\n\n“Queer\, dirty\, insightful\, and so funny” (Andrea Lawlor)\, this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.\n\nNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29\n\nIn Sarahland\, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us\, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories\, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it\, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story\, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure—and a new set of problems—by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses\, Cohen explodes this search for self\, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving “Sarah” gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman\, an aging lesbian literally growing roots\, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end\, “Sarah” will continue.\n\nIn each Sarah’s refusal to adhere to a single narrative\, she potentially builds a better home for us all\, a place to live that demands no fixity of self\, no plague of consumerism\, no bodily compromise\, a place called Sarahland.
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Elizabeth Wetmore - Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago.
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