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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner / The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner for The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The First Ten Years here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn 2009\, 22-year-old Joseph Fink\, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast\, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could snag free tickets to their shows. \nMeg Bashwiner\, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright\, was living with her parents in New Jersey\, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company. \nJoseph and Meg’s stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. They quickly became friends. Within a year\, they were a couple. Within five years they were touring the world\, performing on some of the world’s greatest and not so great stages. \nIn this candid\, soul-baring memoir\, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten years together\, each telling their story as they remember it\, without having consulted the other. We hear both sides of their first kiss\, first breakup\, first getting back together\, the death of a father\, marriage\, international fame\, world tours\, mental illness\, and discussions about having children. Sometimes\, they recall things differently—neither agrees on who paid for the morning after pill on their first date. Sometimes they remember the exact same details in the same way—but still have their own narrative on just what those details mean. \nPoignant\, funny\, and real\, alternately told in Joseph and Meg’s remarkably different\, yet equally compelling voices\, The First Ten Years is the story of two individuals finding their way in the world and becoming “adults” as they learn to become a couple. \n\nAbout the authors\nJoseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts and is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead\, and co-author of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale\, It Devours!\, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home\, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void\, Partially Stars\, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe\, The Buying of Lot 37\, and Who’s a Good Boy.  \nMeg Bashwiner is a writer\, performer\, tour manager\, podcaster and producer. She is the emcee for the international touring live show of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. She is an alumni member of the acclaimed New York theater company The New York Neo-Futurists. They live in the Hudson Valley and Los Angeles. \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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SUMMARY:Aminatta Forna
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Window Seat: Notes From a Life In Motion \npublished by Grove Press \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. Link coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness\, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical\, our relationship with the natural world\, and the stories that we tell ourselves. \n“These essays\, ranging across continents and time\, so broad in their themes and so deep in their perceptions\, are essential reading\, combining Aminatta Forna’s great gifts as a storyteller and her razor-sharp analytical skills.”—Salman Rushdie \n\nAminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices\, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize Literature Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Now\, she returns with The Window Seat\, an elegantly rendered\, thought-provoking collection of new and previously published essays. In this wide-ranging collection\, Forna writes intimately about displacement\, trauma and memory\, love\, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. \n\n\nIn “Obama and the Renaissance Generation\,” she documents how\, despite the narrative of Obama’s exceptionalism\, his father\, like her own\, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In “The Last Vet\,” time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh\, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone\, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown\, becomes a meditation on what a society’s treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In “Crossroads\,” she examines race in America from an African perspective\, and in “Power Walking” she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman’s body. \n\n\nThe Window Seat is\, in the words of acclaimed author Chinelo Okparanta\, “a journey . . . These essay are altogether a sharp\, elegant meditation . . . on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.” \nAminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones\, The Memory of Love\, and The Hired Man\, as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water. Forna’s books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and Vogue. She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University. \nVisit: https://www.aminattaforna.com/ \n\nPraise for The Window Seat \n“Novelist Forna (Happiness) explores notions of place\, identity\, and movement in this bracing collection . . . Forna is a razor sharp prose stylist . . . and her attention to detail moves the collection forward . . . Full of careful observations\, Forna’s meditations hit the mark.”—Publishers Weekly \n“The Window Seat is gutsy\, funny\, risky and wise\, full of dazzling late night insight\, in-the-middle-of-everything epiphanies\, moments of sheer honesty blooming into gut truths\, in a clear-eyed voice that makes you listen in wonder.”—Marlon James\, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize \n“If you had to take the middle seat and sit next to anyone with the window seat\, Aminatta Forna would be the perfect stranger to talk to. Wise\, witty\, sensitive\, and sophisticated—about travel\, politics\, globalization\, writing\, and the nuances of the human heart and soul—Forna has lived a life of which many of us would be envious. Her essays illuminate that life but ours as well\, making us understand the many ways we are connected\, even if we only see each other from a distance.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Committed \n“The essays in this magnificent collection are exhilarating and expansive meditations on traveling—and living—in places so consequential and historically significant that they cannot be measured simply by distance. Who are we far from home? What becomes of those who return\, and what do we owe to those who stay behind? These are just a few of the questions that Forna raises in this sharply rendered\, personal collection. But she doesn’t stop there: by the end\, this book invites a reckoning with our rightful place on this earth. Generous in spirit and breathtakingly intelligent\, The Window Seat reminds us why Forna is one of our best writers working today.”—Maaza Mengiste\, author of The Shadow King \n“These brilliant essays\, reflections from a boundary-crossing life\, are urgently needed in America right now. Forna writes to us from a world where democracies are in the process of being made and unmade\, where “nation-building is no simple task\,” where lives are lost to civil war. With expert storytelling\, she provides a vivid context for our politics and culture. The Window Seat is a wise guidebook for how to be at home in the world.”—Eula Biss\, author of Having and Being Had \n“From the Shetlands to Sierra Leone\, from Teheran to Georgetown\, Aminatta Forna has been everywhere\, paid attention to everything and everyone. She is brilliant at thinking in narration and can thus tell superb stories about her life and experience. She contains multitudes\, and her essays are populated with those multitudes\, dense with unforgettable details and landscapes\, amazing people and animals\, astonishing histories. The Window Seat is dazzling.”—Aleksandar Hemon\, author of The Lazarus Project \n“The Window Seat is a journey. Imagine yourself on a scenic\, thought-provoking flight around the world—from the UK to New Zealand\, Sierra Leone to the USA—in this candid exploration of nostalgia for a lost past and the trappings of home. These essays are altogether a sharp\, elegant meditation on childhood\, adulthood\, race\, migration\, and itinerancy. Astutely balancing illuminating research with intimate personal anecdotes\, Forna expertly suffuses the book with her insights on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.”—Chinelo Okparanta\, author of Under the Udala Trees \n“Forna’s essays are simultaneously introspective and political\, big-hearted and hard-edged\, adventurous and wise. She can write about race and war and family and loss and everything in between\, and she has the words to match her extraordinary experience. This book enlarged my world.”—Juan Gabriel Vásquez\, author of Songs for the Flames \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Yusef Salaam\, Better\, Not Bitter
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Yusef Salaam\, one of the wrongfully incarcerated Central Park Five\, will discuss his powerful new book\, Better\, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice. This event is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch. \nSalaam’s memoir is an inspiring story that grew out of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice\, one that not only speaks to a moment in time or the rage-filled present\, but reflects a 400-year history of a nation’s inability to be held accountable for its sins. Yusef Salaam’s message is vital for our times\, a motivating resource for enacting change. Better\, Not Bitter has the power to soothe\, inspire and transform. It is a galvanizing call to action. \nTickets for this special event are available on Eventbrite! Click here! \nYusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison reform activist\, who\, at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997\, he left prison as an adult to a world he didn’t fully recognize or understand. In 2002\, the sentences for the Central Park Five were overturned\, and all Five were exonerated for the crime they didn’t commit. \nYusef now travels the world as an inspirational speaker\, speaking about the effects of incarceration and the devastating impact of disenfranchisement. He is an advocate and educator on issues of mass incarceration\, police brutality and misconduct\, press ethics and bias\, race and law\, and the disparities in the criminal justice system\, especially for men of color.
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren - The Complete Stories
DESCRIPTION:Noah Warren\, winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize\, celebrates the release of his second book of poems\, The Collected Stories (Copper Canyon Press) with Armen Davoudian\, Randall Mann\, and Katie Peterson. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon \n  \nAbout The Collected Stories\nThe Complete Stories announces its desire and its lie in the title; this is a book of shatter and loss. In his second collection\, Noah Warren–previously selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets–unravels histories both personal and public\, picking apart their ugliness\, beauty\, and irreducible singularity. Clothed in broken forms\, these poems of grieving and tentative joy ask finally how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts\, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility. \nAbout Noah Warren\nNoah Warren was born in Canada and is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass (2016)\, chosen by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is pursuing a PhD in English at UC Berkeley. He lives in Oakland. His poems appear in The Paris Review\, Poetry\, ZYZZYVA\, PEN America\, New England Review\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, AGNI\, Poets.org\, The Sewanee Review\, and elsewhere.
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