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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Adam Jentleson Book Club Talk
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 15 AT 5PM PT WHEN FOR A BOOK CLUB TALK WITH ADAM JENTLESON ON HIS BOOK KILL SWITCH: THE RISE OF THE MODERN SENARE AND THE CRIPPLING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY\, MODERATED BY SPENCER PAHLKE AND AMANDA SADRA!\nIn partnership with The American Constitution Society chapters from Berkeley Law\, Stanford Law School\, and ASU Law\, the Political & Election Empowerment Project\, and Manny’s \nYou can register for the event here! \nAbout the Event \nWhy can’t we pass gun control legislation even after a horrific mass shooting?  Why couldn’t Congress pass any civil rights legislation for 82 years after Reconstruction?  What could prevent us from reversing the anti-democratic\, anti-voting legislation coming from states like Georgia? \nThe filibuster. \nBut isn’t the filibuster a central part of the founder’s vision for our country?  Doesn’t the filibuster protect minority rights?  And doesn’t the filibuster encourage bipartisan legislating? \nNo.  No.  And not even close.  \nThe modern filibuster is the result of more than two centuries of work by those who stood—and stand—in the way of equality\, progress\, and fairness.  It is now a kill switch that allows a minority of the Senate\, representing a minority of voters\, to repeatedly block needed—and popular—legislation. \nThis drove Adam Jentleson\, Sen. Harry Reid’s former Deputy Chief of Staff\, to write Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.  The book is a history of the intertwining narratives and bad faith actors that delivered the Senate to its current anti-democratic condition. \nAdam has been quoted just about everywhere of late\, from the NYT to Politico to the Washington Post.  He’s also a GQ columnist and frequent MSNBC contributor. \nAnd—he will be joining us for a moderated Zoom discussion about Kill Switch and the filibuster on April 15 from 5-6pm Pacific.  \nIf you’ve seen him in the news and want to ask him your question\, or learn more about the filibuster\, or you’ve already read the book and are a fan—this is the chance to meet Adam! \nPlease RSVP at this link—and forward this on to others who would be interested as well as post on social media!
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Radden Keefe and Jane Mayer
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 15 AT 6PM PT WHEN PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE IS JOINED BY JANE MAYER TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST BOOK\, EMPIRE OF PAIN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE SACKLER DYNASTY\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89915697259\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89915697259#  or +13462487799\,\,89915697259#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSA9O6zQh \nAbout Empire of Pain\nA grand\, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family\, famed for their philanthropy\, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin\, by the prize-winning\, bestselling author of Say Nothing \nThe Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Oxford\, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world\, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague\, however\, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. \nEmpire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers\, Raymond\, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur\, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution\, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing\, especially for pharmaceuticals\, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium\, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer\, Purdue Frederick\, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art\, and wives\, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. \nForty years later\, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors\, influencing the FDA\, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue\, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. \nThis is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world\, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich\, Connecticut\, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington\, D.C. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company\, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. \nEmpire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing\, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age\, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes. \nAbout Patrick Radden Keefe\nPatrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author\, most recently\, of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal\, and was named one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change. \nAbout Jane Mayer\nJane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President\, 1984–1988\, with Doyle McManus\, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas\, with Jill Abramson\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals\, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, was named one of The New York Times’s Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize\, the Goldsmith Book Prize\, the Edward Weintal Prize\, the Ridenhour Prize\, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker\, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award\, the George Polk Award\, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting\, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington\, D.C.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Rick Barot was born in the Philippines in 1969 and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied at Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Barot is the author of four books of poetry: The Galleons (Milkweed Editions\, 2020)\, finalist for the National Book Award; Chord (Sarabande Books\, 2015)\, winner of the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award; Want (Sarabande Books\, 2008)\, winner of the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and The Darker Fall (Sarabande Books\, 2002)\, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. \n  \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of  Letters to a Young Brown Girl  (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. \nRegistration available soon here.
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Meiburg
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Meiburg (of the band Shearwater) discusses his new book\, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Knopf). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channle. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout A Most Remarkable Creature\nIn 1833\, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome\, social\, and oddly crow-like falcons that were “tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate\,” and so insatiably curious that they stole hats\, compasses\, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America\, sensing a larger story\, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later\, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America\, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana\, in search of these birds: striated caracaras\, which still exist\, though they’re very rare. He reveals the wild\, fascinating story of their history\, origins\, and possible futures. And along the way\, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson\, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world\, and to falconry parks in the English countryside\, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing\, travelogue\, and biography\, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated\, and absolutely riveting. \n“I’m in love with this book. If you like great writing\, strange historical twists\, adventure\, nature\, music and/or birds this will quickly become one of your all-time favorite books.”—Laurie Anderson\, artist \nAbout Jonathan Meiburg\nIn 1997\, Jonathan Meiburg received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to remote communities around the world\, a year-long journey that sparked his enduring fascination with islands\, birds\, and the deep history of the living world. Since then\, he’s written reviews\, features\, and interviews for print and online publications including The Believer\, The Talkhouse\, and The Appendix on subjects ranging from a hidden exhibit hall at the American Museum of Natural History to the last long-form interview with author Peter Matthiessen. But he’s best known as the leader of the band Shearwater\, whose albums and performances have often been praised by NPR\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and Pitchfork. He lives in central Texas.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Mike Mechanic\, Jackpot
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Michael Mechanic\, journalist and senior editor at Mother Jones magazine\, to discuss his new book\, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All.  Mechanic dives into the lives of the extremely rich\, revealing the fascinating\, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious effects their disproportionate affluence has on them\, as well as our society at large. Tim O’Reilly and Kim Polese will join as panelists; the conversation will be moderated by Clive Thompson. This event is co-hosted by reader-supported investigative news organization\, Mother Jones. \nRegister for this free online event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nHave you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies; we spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019. Americans dream of the jackpot\, the big exit\, the life-altering payday\, in whatever form that takes. We would escape day jobs and cramped living spaces\, bury our debts\, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But the reality for the ultra-wealthy is quite different. \n“Mechanic’s nuanced perspective on wealth accumulation offers fresh insights …. an intriguing look at the boons and burdens of wealth.” —Publishers Weekly \nMichael Mechanic is a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, two teenagers\, and various animals. Jackpot is his first book. \nTim O’Reilly is the founder\, CEO\, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media\, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley goldrush for the past thirty-five years. The company’s online learning and knowledge-on-demand platform at oreilly.com is used by thousands of enterprises and millions of individuals worldwide. O’Reilly has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software\,” “web 2.0\,” “the Maker movement\,” “government as a platform\,” or “the WTF economy\,” he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas. Tim is also a partner at early-stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV)\, and on the boards of Code for America\, PeerJ\, Civis Analytics\, and PopVox. He is the author of many technical books published by O’Reilly Media\, and most recently WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business\, 2017). He is working on a new book about why we need to rethink antitrust in the era of internet-scale platforms. \nKim Polese is co-founder and board chair of CrowdSmart\, a startup that combines human expertise with artificial intelligence to help funders identify promising young companies\, reducing ingrained biases that have prevented many would-be founders from raising venture capital. Early in her career\, Kim led the launch of Java as a founding product manager at Sun Microsystems. She has co-founded several companies\, including software pioneer Marimba\, where she was Chairman and CEO\, took the company public\, and later oversaw its successful acquisition by BMC. Marimba remains one of the world’s top internet-of-things platforms\, delivering three billion software updates annually to our devices\, appliances\, and vehicles. Kim earned her degree in biophysics from UC-Berkeley and has done post-baccalaureate study in computer science at the University of Washington. An Aspen Institute Crown Fellow\, she is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, including Information Week’s “Top Technology Executives” and Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans.” \nClive Thompson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, a columnist for Wired\, and his most recent book is CODERS: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mike-mechanic-jackpot/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #34
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
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