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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Lin Manuel-Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter / In the Heights: Finding Home
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to co-present Lin Manuel-Miranda\, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter for the virtual launch of In the Heights: Finding Home. \nJoin Miranda\, Hudes\, and McCarter for what is sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity\, community\, and finding home. This is your chance to hear directly from the creative team behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. \nPlease note:\n> Tickets are available here.\n> Each ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home (normally $40) and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\n> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n> Please contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nAbout the book \nIn 2008\, In the Heights\, a new musical from up-and-coming young artists\, electrified Broadway. The show’s vibrant mix of Latin music and hip-hop captured life in Washington Heights\, the Latino neighborhood in upper Manhattan. It won four Tony Awards and became an international hit\, delighting audiences around the world. For the film version\, director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) brought the story home\, filming its spectacular dance numbers on location in Washington Heights. That’s where Usnavi\, Nina\, and their neighbors chase their dreams and ask a universal question: Where do I belong? \nIn the Heights: Finding Home reunites Miranda with Jeremy McCarter\, co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution\, and Quiara Alegría Hudes\, the Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist of the Broadway musical and screenwriter of the film. They do more than trace the making of an unlikely Broadway smash and a major motion picture: They give readers an intimate look at the decades-long creative life of In the Heights. \nLike Hamilton: The Revolution\, the book offers untold stories\, perceptive essays\, and the lyrics to Miranda’s songs—complete with his funny\, heartfelt annotations. It also features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage\, the movie set\, and productions around the world. \nThis is the story of characters who search for a home—and the artists who created one. \nPlease note:\n> Tickets are available here.\n> Each ticket includes admission to this exclusive event\, a hardcover copy of In the Heights: Finding Home (normally $40) and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\n> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n> Please contact events@booksmith.com with any questions.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld with Jane and Kelly McGonigal
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 15 at 6pm PT when Curtis Sittenfeld joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her novel\, Rodham\, with Jane and Kelly McGonigal on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\n\nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post\n\n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR\n\n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal\n\nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post\n\nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.\n\nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.\n\nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.\n\nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.\n\nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-curtis-sittenfeld-with-jane-and-kelly-mcgonigal/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, JUNE 15 AT 6PM PT WHEN CURTIS SITTENFELD JOINS US TO CELEBRATE THE PAPERBACK RELEASE OF HER NOVEL\, RODHAM\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83437997954#  or +12532158782\,\,83437997954#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxAl7a9qk \nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post \n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR \n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal \nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post \nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. \nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton. \nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life. \nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel. \nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
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SUMMARY:Matt Bell with Cecil Castelluci and Brian Evenson
DESCRIPTION:Matt Bell with Cecil Castelluci and Brian Evenson \ncelebrating the launch of Matt Bell’s new novel \nAppleseed: a novel \npublished by Harper Collins \nFrom Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell\, a breakout book that explores climate change\, manifest destiny\, humanity’s unchecked exploitation of natural resources\, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. \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 to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to pre-order/purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nIn eighteenth-century Ohio\, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier\, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image\, planning for a future of settlement and civilization\, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested\, fractured and broken—and possibly healed. \nFifty years from now\, in the second half of the twenty-first century\, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science\, one company now owns all the world’s resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power—and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity\, one of the company’s original founders will return to headquarters\, intending to destroy what he helped build. \nA thousand years in the future\, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier—and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest\, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization. \nHugely ambitious in scope and theme\, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer “as self-assured as he is audacious” (NPR) who “may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas” (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic\, part tech thriller\, part reinvented fairy tale\, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate\, civic\, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all. \nMatt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. \nCecil Castellucci is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade\, The Changing Girl\, Boy Proof\, The Plain Janes\, Soupy Leaves Home\, The Year of the Beasts\, Tin Star\, Female Furies and Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Star Wars Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing Batgirl for DC Comics. She was the lead singer in the Canadian indy pop quartet Nerdy Girl. \nBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. The Song for the Unraveling of the World\, won a Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Speculative Fiction and the Balcones Fiction Prize. His most recent book is titled  The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \n 
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SUMMARY:Queer Mystery Writers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Five acclaimed queer mystery writers\, Michael Nava (moderator)\, Cheryl A. Head\, Greg Herren\, Dharma Kelleher and P.J. Vernon discuss the mystery genre and its special attraction to queer writers. Presented by the San Francisco Public Library and the NorCal Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-mystery-writers-panel/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
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