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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander: Twice Alive
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers \nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for the new poetry collection Twice Alive (New Directions)\, by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. With these searing ecological love poems\, Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies\, personal and environmental\, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and the tradition of Sangam literature\, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations. Forrest will read from and discuss his work. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nWhile conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist\, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. \nThroughout Twice Alive\, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness. \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry\, and his 2018 collection Be With won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents a Reading: Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Since the onset of the global pandemic in 2020\, isolation has been\, for good or bad\, a major feature of life for many people across the world. In this 90-minute event\, writers of color will share works honoring the pain\, joy\, injustice\, comfort\, and trauma of isolation. \nOur readers: \nNaima Coster is the author of two novels\, What’s Mine and Yours and her debut\, Halsey Street\, which was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. In 2020\, she received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor. \nNayomi Munaweera is an award-winning writer of the novels Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us. She lives in Oakland\, California\, and is finishing her third novel\, a psycho-sexual literary thriller. \nDevi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues\, which won the 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South\, the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. The novel was named by The Washington Post as one of the 50 best books of 2019. \nAlba Hernandez is a writer inspired by Puerto Rico\, growing up in Bushwick\, and salsa. Her writing was highly commended in the Poetry Project series ‘House Party\,’ Like Light (Bright Hill Press)\, Calabash (A Journal of Caribbean and Arts and Letters)\, and most recently in Harvard’s Latinx Publication: PALABRITAS. \nTom Pyun has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Anthology award. He’s been awarded fellowships at Vermont Studio Center\, VONA\, and Tin House. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Bold Italic\, The Rumpus\, and Joyland\, and placed in competitions such as The Blue Mesa Review’s Summer Story Contest. \nThis event is the last event of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nFree \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nancy: Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones in conversation with Kathryn Scanlan
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET \n\n\nJoin us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy\, a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood\, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness. \nRegister for the event on our Crowdcast page. \nDon’t forget to buy the book and support one of our favorite indy bookstores\, Pilsen Community Books! \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nBruno Lloret\n\n\nBruno Lloret (Santiago de Chile\, 1990) is a writer and researcher. He has published Nancy (Cuneta\, Santiago de Chile\, 2015; Two Lines Press\, 2020)\, which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Bolaño Award for novella\, and Leña (Overol\, Santiago de Chile\, 2018). He currently lives in London.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\n\nEllen Jones\n\n\nEllen Jones is a literary translator from Spanish to English\, an editor\, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com.\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nKathryn Scanlan\n\n\nKathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog and The Dominant Animal. She lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-bruno-lloret-and-ellen-jones-in-conversation-with-kathryn-scanlan/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lilly Dancyger with Alia Volz / Negative Space
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Lilly Dancyger for her debut\, Negative Space: A Memoir. She’ll be joined in conversation by Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors’ books below – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nNegative Space by Lilly Dancyger \nHome Baked by Alia Volz \nAbout the book\nDespite her parents’ struggles with addiction\, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? A memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger\, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger\, grief\, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness that was hidden from her. \nDancyger’s father\, Joe Schactman\, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials\, and brought his young daughter into his gritty\, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly\, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence\, she went into her own self-destructive spiral\, raging against the world that had taken him away. But as an adult\, Dancyger began to question the mythology she’d created about her father—the brilliant artist\, struck down in his prime—using his paintings\, sculptures\, and prints as a guide to piece together a truer story. \nAbout the authors\nLilly Dancyger is a contributing editor at Catapult\, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She’s the author of Negative Space\, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as one of the winners of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn It Down\, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press. Her writing has been published by Longreads\, The Washington Post\, Glamour\, Playboy\, Rolling Stone\, and more. She lives in New York City\, and you can find her on twitter at @lillydancyger. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana and the Stoning of San Francisco\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction from the California Independent Bookseller Alliance. Her essays are widely published\, including in The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and The Best American Essays. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Photo by Dennis Hearne. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers\, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and writers. \n\n\n\nRick Barot‘s fourth book\, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions) was included on the NY Public Library’s 2020 Top Ten Poetry Books and longlisted for the National Book Award. He has authored three other poetry books: Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall\, Want\, and Chord\, and the chapbook\, During the Pandemic (Albion Books\, 2020). His poems and essays have appeared widely. He serves as the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop\, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. \nBarbara Jane Reyes’ most recent collection is Letters to a Young Brown Girl\, which was released in 2020. She was born in Manila and raised in the Bay Area. Her prior poetry books include: Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco (James Laughlin Award)\, Diwata (Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry)\, To Love as Aswang\, and Invocation to Daughters. Her chapbooks include: Easter Sunday\, Cherry\, and For the City that Nearly Broke Me. She is adjunct professor at USF’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. \nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-rick-barot-barbara-jane-reyes-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry y Platica Live Online at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos hold space inside a colonized time and place we can still recognize as San Francisco. Spanglish antepasado recuerdos and palabras of our neighborhood memories\, the pocho American Dream stuffed into Donaldo Trump pinatas with the conejo en la luna looking down on us are spoken in three broken languages in these poems. \nJoin Josiah Luis Alderete and writer performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez for a special Zoomtastic event.  Free. Free your mind! \nClick HERE to join Zoom event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-y-platica-live-online-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:MARY JANE by Jessica Anya Blau | A GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 13\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online author chat with Jessica Anya Blau discussing her novel\, MARY JANE. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85002210763. \nOrder your copy of MARY JANE at https://bit.ly/ggpMaryJane\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/MaryJaneAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nMARY JANE by Jessica Anya Blau is just plain awesome! \nIt takes place in Baltimore in 1975 and is a coming-of-age story of fourteen year old Mary Jane and what happens during that summer when everything she had always believed is turned upside down. \nMary Jane takes a summer nannying job with Cones and their precocious five year old daughter Izzy. What she doesn’t know is Dr. Cone is psychiatrist who specializes in addictions. When a rock star and his famous wife move into the Cone’s house for a 24 hour a day intensive therapy to kick his heroin addiction Mary Jane’s eyes are opened to a completely different world. \nMARY JANE is a celebration of what family is. It’s also a book about letting go and learning how to really love each other despite their flaws and to embrace your own talent and creativity. \n— Kathleen \n  \nDescription\n\n“I LOVED this novel….If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio\, in any decade\, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm.” —Nick Hornby \nAlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this funny\, wise\, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore\, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer. \nIn 1970s Baltimore\, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother\, singing in her church choir\, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy\, quiet\, and bookish\, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job\, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house. \nThe house may look respectable on the outside\, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface\, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors\, cereal and takeout for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane’s mother to know\, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job—helping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts\, the rock star and his movie star wife move in. \nOver the course of the summer\, Mary Jane introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family dinner schedule\, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of sex\, drugs\, and rock and roll (not to mention group therapy). Caught between the lifestyle she’s always known and the future she’s only just realized is possible\, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life\, and what kind of person she’s going to be. \nAbout the Author\n\nJessica Anya Blau was born in Boston and raised in Southern California. Her novels have been featured on The Today Show\, CNN and NPR\, and in Cosmo\, Vanity Fair\, Bust\, Time Out\, Oprah Summer Reads and other national publications. Jessica’s short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines\, journals and anthologies. Jessica co-wrote the script for Love on the Run starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey. She sometimes works as a ghost writer and has taught writing at Johns Hopkins University\, Goucher College and The Fashion Institute of Technology. Jessica lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-jane-by-jessica-anya-blau-a-ggp-online-author-chat/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robert Ritchie\, The Lure of the Beach
DESCRIPTION:Robert C. Ritchie will be in conversation with Gary Griggs about Ritchie’s fascinating new book\, The Lure of the Beach: A Global History—a chronicle of humanity’s history with the coast\, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims\, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nRitchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time\, covering changes in the social status of beach goers\, the technology of transport\, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again)\, as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France\, across the Mediterranean\, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts\, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination\, a site of ecological resplendency\, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access\, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before. \nRobert C. Ritchie is Senior Research Associate at the Huntington Library and author of Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. \nGary Griggs is Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz. Giggs has taught at U.C. Santa Cruz for 53 years and served as the Director of the University’s Institute of Marine Sciences for 26 years where he led the development of the Coastal Science Campus. His work has focused on the coast of California and includes coastal processes\, hazards\, and the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise. He recently published his 12th book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-ritchie-the-lure-of-the-beach/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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