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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents the Panel: Creating Our Own 'Table'
DESCRIPTION:Many marginalized writers celebrate the moment that they receive “a seat at the table\,” and this is quite often their goal. Yet\, others of us believe that having a seat at the table is another way of waiting to be included or invited to attend\, thereby still centering whiteness. This panel will focus on writers of color who are creating their own tables\, including Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Tara Betts\, and Neelanjana Banerjee. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin was recently named San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate and is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is launching Black Freighter Press\, a platform for building movement culture and supporting Black literary arts\, with a specific focus on incarcerated poets\, Bay Area poets of color\, and Black women. \nTara Betts is the author of the poetry collections Break the Habit\, Arc & Hue\, and the forthcoming Refuse to Disappear. Aside from coediting several anthologies\, Tara is Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and the Lit Editor at Newcity. She is currently working on establishing The Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago’s South Side as a space for arts education\, community space\, and cultural programming. \nNeelanjana Banerjee’s writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, PANK Magazine\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today and many other places. She is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press\, an independent press dedicated to Asian Pacific American and Asian Diasporic literature. She teaches writing and literature classes at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles\, and is at work on a novel. \nThis event is the second installment of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aunt-lute-and-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Imbolo Mbue with Kawai Strong Washburn
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nOn April 7th\, one of the most exciting literary writers of today presents her latest novel with Kepler’s! In conversation with Kawai Washburn Strong\, bestselling novelist Imbolo Mbue shares How Beautiful We Were\, a David and Goliath story in which a small African village stands in defiance of an American oil company. Don’t miss this webinar conversation between two phenomenal authors. \nMbue’s new book has been 17 years in the writing—and though the author says that though she didn’t write through that whole time\, she felt persistently haunted by the story. You will be\, too. How Beautiful We Were offers an unforgettable narrative drawn from revolutionary movements\, the global politics of oil\, Mbue’s own life\, and so much more. This is a stunning sophomore novel by the extraordinary literary voice who brought us Behold the Dreamers. \nHow Beautiful We Were has earned the singing praise of readers ranging from reviewers at Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly to titanic figures like Oprah\, Tracy K. Smith and Sigrid Nunez. If you’re already a Mbue reader\, you will love How Beautiful We Were\, and for new fans this writer offers inspiring themes that are prefect for our times. Mbue has said of her books\, \n“[T]he two novels don’t bear too many obvious similarities but they’re in fact quite similar—they both have a lot to do with dreams\, and how hopes are dashed\, how relationships are tested by the worlds in which characters live\, how love is sustained\, how passion is renewed\, how people are able to dig in and find the will to keep going on\, believing that someday their lives will get better.” \nDig in with Kepler’s\, Imbolo Mbue and Kawai Strong Washburn on Wednesday\, April 7th. This author just keeps getting better. \n\nIMBOLO MBUE is the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers\, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. The novel has been translated into eleven languages\, adapted into an opera and a stage play\, and optioned for a miniseries. A native of Limbe\, Cameroon\, and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Universities\, Imbolo Mbue lives in New York City. \n\n\n\n\nKAWAI STRONG WASHBURN is the author behind the critically acclaimed debut Sharks in the Time of Saviors. Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘I. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Formerly a Bay Area writer and frequent visitor to Kepler’s\, he now lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. ** \nPhoto of Imbolo Mbue by Kiriko Sano. Photo of Kawai Strong Washburn by Crystal Lieppa.
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SUMMARY:Gene Stone & Kathy Freston - 72 Reasons to Be Vegan (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that if you adopt a vegan diet you can enjoy better sex? Save money? Have glowing skin? You can ward off Alzheimer’s\, Type 2 diabetes\, rheumatoid arthritis\, and other metabolic diseases. You can eat delicious burgers. Help save the planet. Join the cool kids\, like Gandhi\, Tolstoy\, Leonardo—and Kyrie Irving\, Kat Von D\, and Joaquin Phoenix. Oh\, and did we mention have better sex? (It’s about blood flow.) \nThose are just some of the 72 reasons we should all be vegan\, as compiled and persuasively argued by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston\, two of the leading voices in the ever-growing movement to eat a plant-based diet. While plenty of books tell you how to go vegan\, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is the book that tells you why. And it does so in a way that emphasizes not what you’d be giving up\, but what you’d be gaining. The tone is upbeat\, passionate\, and direct\, and the facts are plentiful and annotated. \nWhether because of environment\, health\, or compassion for animals\, more and more people are dipping their toes into Meatless Mondays\, eating vegan before 6:00 p.m.\, choosing Impossible Burgers\, or helping books like Thug Kitchen\, Forks Over Knives\, and Skinny Bitch become national bestsellers—making 72 Reasons to Be Vegan the ideal next book for every food-conscious reader and the perfect gift vegans can give to their friends and family. \nGene Stone is a former Peace Corps volunteer\, journalist\, and book\, magazine\, and newspaper editor\, and is a New York Times bestselling author. He has written\, co-written\, or ghostwritten more than 45 books on a wide variety of subjects\, but for the last decade he has concentrated on plant-based diets and their relationship to health\, animal protection\, and the environment. Among these books are Forks Over Knives\, How Not to Die\, Animalkind\, The Engine 2 Diet\, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life\, Rescue Dogs\, Mercy for Animals\, and Eat for the Planet. Find more at genestone.com. \nKathy Freston is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple health and wellness books\, notably The Lean\, Quantum Wellness\, and Clean Protein. Her advocacy for a more healthy\, sustainable\, and just food system is inspired by her concern for human health as well as animal and environmental welfare. Kathy appears frequently on national TV\, including Ellen\, Dr. Oz\, Good Morning America\, The Talk\, Extra\, and Oprah\, and her work has been featured in Vanity Fair\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Self\, W\, Fitness\, and The Huffington Post. Kathy enjoys hiking and biking\, will travel almost anywhere for a good plant-based meal\, and is obsessed with her adopted mutt\, Trixie. Find more at kathyfreston.com.
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Dana Spiotta
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Litquake and Scribner Books present \nRachel Kushner in conversation with Dana Spiotta \n     \ncelebrating the launch of Rachel Kushner’s \nThe Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 \npublished by Scribner \nFrom a writer celebrated for her “chops\, ambition\, and killer instinct” (John Powers\, Fresh Air)\, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. \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———- \nThis is a ticketed event that will require registration. Details to be announced soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to register. Link coming soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nRachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (Michael Lindgren\, The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd\, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political\, artistic\, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction. \nIn nineteen razor-sharp essays\, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism\, memoir\, cultural criticism\, and writing about art and literature\, including pieces on Jeff Koons\, Denis Johnson\, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp\, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula\, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories\, her love of classic cars\, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown\, San Francisco. The closing\, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia\, doom\, and writing. \nThese pieces\, new and old\, are electric\, phosphorescently vivid\, and wry\, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail\, imagination\, and gallows humor\,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly\, and\, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive\, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.” \nRachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award. She grew up in San Francisco and lives in Los Angeles. \nDana Spiotta is is the author of four novels: Innocents and Others\, (2016)\, which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was shortlisted for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia (2011)\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document (2006)\, which was a National Book Award Finalist in fiction and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Lightning Field (2001). Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow\, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow\, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. \nAdvance praise for THE HARD CROWD \n“The Hard Crowd is wild\, wide-ranging\, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.”\n—Taylor Antrim\, Vogue \n“[Kushner] seems to work with a muse and a nail gun\, so surprisingly yet forcefully do her sentences pin reality to the page.”\n—Kathryn Schulz\, New York Magazine \n“Kushner can really write. Her prose has poise and wariness and moral graininess that put you in mind of Robert Stone of Joan Didion.”\n—Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \n“Rachel Kushner is astounding.”\n—Anne Tyler\, The Guardian \n“Kushner is brilliant.”\n—Griel Marcus \n“She’s going to be the one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we’ll be needing in hard times to come.”\n—George Saunders
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: C Pam Zhang / How Much of These Hills Is Gold (paperback launch)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for C Pam Zhang and the paperback edition of her debut novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order *signed* copies of How Much of These Hills Is Gold here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \nAbout the author\nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words\, and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. Author photo by by Gioia Zloczower. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold-paperback-launch/
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