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SUMMARY:Ruth Reichl\, Save Me the Plums
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 10\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th. \n  \nTrailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous\, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now\, for the first time\, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet\, during which she spearheaded a revolution in the way we think about food. \nWhen Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine\, she declined. She was a writer\, not a manager\, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. And yet . . . Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? \nThis is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture\, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed\, forever\, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert\, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace\, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who\, under Reichl’s leadership\, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media — the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down. \nComplete with recipes\, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark\, following a passion and holding on to her dreams — even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be. \nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me with Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, and For You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!; and\, most recently\, the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Timesand served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-reichl-save-me-the-plums/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Leslie Carol Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book\, Here Is Where I Walk. \n\nAbout Here is Where I Walk \nIt is in the Presidio of San Francisco\, California\, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio\, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting\, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places\, people\, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. \nIn this thickly textured literary treasure\, Leslie turns her daily journeys\, rich with observation and recollection\, into revelations of deeper meaning. Through her daily walks into the Presidio\, Leslie accepts the invitation of the beckoning trees and finds herself colliding with the urban coyote\, the peculiar banana slug\, and the manzanita. She notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems—parents bragging about Austrian ski vacations\, grocery stores packed with nannies—all in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation. \nThe twelve episodes\, each connected to a month of the year and interwoven with field notebooks\, explore everything from Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in the fields where he spoke with the birds to the work of Western botanist Alice Eastwood. Leslie reflects on the high school art teacher who first inspired her thinking about aesthetics\, the tragic accident that left her severely injured\, her subsequent work as a college professor teaching writing\, and the loss of a beloved student to cancer. In all this\, places of exquisite beauty and complexity provide her with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive\, with nature serving as a tonic. Here Is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place\, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-carol-roberts/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 10\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lori Ostlund
DESCRIPTION:Lori Ostlund’s first book\, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World\, won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O Henry Prize Stories and in literary journals such as ZYZZYVA and New England Review. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a B&N Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is at work on her next two novels and a second story collection. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats\, though she grew up in a hardware store in Minnesota\, cat-less.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-ostlund-2/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, April 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present \nan evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton’s new book \nBob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work \nfrom Zone Books \n\n\nBob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music\, establishing him as a major modern artist. However\, until now\, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs\, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan\, not as a pop hero\, but as an artist\, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric\, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form\, his complex manipulation of poetic diction\, and his dialogues with other artists\, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues\, through his mastery of rock and country\, up to his densely allusive recent recordings\, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism\, the book studies the relationship between form\, genre\, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change. \nTimothy Hampton is a writer\, scholar\, teacher\, and translator based in Northern California. Raised in the Rockies\, educated in New Mexico\, Europe\, Canada\, and on the East Coast\, he is primarily a scholar of the Romance Languages\, and of the literature and culture of the Renaissance. His particular research interests include the relationship between literature and politics\, the philosophy of history\, and the transmission of culture. He has written widely on literature in its many forms (epic\, lyric\, dramatic\, novelistic) across several languages and national traditions. Recently\, he has been working on the history of emotion\, on multilingualism\, and on popular music. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. \nwhat has been said about Timothy Hampton’s writing: \n“This is an essential Dylan book and unlike any other. Hampton left me with a deeper appreciation of Dylan’s uniqueness as both songwriter and singer; his methods\,his lyrical and poetic brilliance\, his many voices.” — Dean Wareham\, musician (Galaxie 500\, Luna) and author of Black Postcards \n“This is a truly powerful book written by one of the leading scholars of the history of poetry today. The writing is clear and intellectually most exciting: Dylan’s idiosyncratic genius is explained more compellingly than ever before. Hampton remains relevant\, exciting\, and persuasively accurate as he shows the genesis of the songs as musical and literary forms and assesses their originality. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work will become a standard account\, destined to appear in class lists under ‘required reading’; it contains the searching close readings of songs that will both enable future study and require contestation for an alternative account: the study sets a gold standard.”–Nigel Smith\, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature\, Princeton University \n“From classrooms to the Supreme Court to the street corner\, nobody doesn’t know Dylan songs. Yet there is surprising little writing that addresses exactly how the songs speak to us and weave themselves into the web of American language. Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is a rigorous model for how this kind of critical analysis can be done. Hampton’s well-written book is the first one I would recommend to someone fascinated and mystified by Dylan’s half a century of ranging among the things that songs can articulate.”– Charles O. Hartman\, Poet in Residence at Connecticut College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, Ink Knows No Borders
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book\, Ink Knows No Borders\, a poetry collection that brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of teen immigrants and refugees. This event is part of Bookshop’s year-long programming effort\, 2020 Vision. \nWith authenticity\, integrity\, and insight\, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees\, such as cultural and language differences\, homesickness\, social exclusion\, human rights\, racism\, stereotyping\, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo\, Erika L. Sánchez\, Samira Ahmed\, Chen Chen\, Ocean Vuong\, Fatimah Asghar\, Carlos Andrés Gómez\, Bao Phi\, Kaveh Akbar\, Hala Alyan\, and Ada Limón\, among others\, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths\, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination. Many of the struggles immigrant and refugee teens face head-on are also experienced by young people everywhere as they contend with isolation\, self-doubt\, confusion\, and emotional dislocation. \nInk Knows No Borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet Javier Zamora\, who crossed the border\, unaccompanied\, at the age of nine\, and an afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud\, World Poetry Slam Champion and Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Brief biographies of the poets are included\, as well. It’s a hopeful\, beautiful\, and meaningful book for any reader. \n\n\n“This collection cuts right to the heart of the matter at a time when it is most relevant. . . . This symphony of poetry is a necessary series of bruises and balms that will comfort those who have endured\, uplift those who continue to struggle\, and educate others.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n\n\n“I was moved again and again by the poems in this brave\, beautiful and necessary collection. I found echoes of myself in many of the pieces\, and I know so many young immigrants and Americans will find themselves\, too. But it goes beyond that. I wish this book would be taught in homogenous communities\, too\, so readers with little understanding of immigration will have the chance to see its humanity. This is the most important book we will read this year.” —Matt de la Peña\, New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award winning author \n\n\nPoet\, nonfiction writer\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-ink-knows-no-borders/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich
DESCRIPTION:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich\n\nGreen Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMarian Schwartz joins Sabrina Jaszi to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translations of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands and Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die. \nHorsemen of the Sands (Archipelago Books) contains two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: The Storm\, which takes place in a Soviet elementary school\, and Horsemen of the Sands\, a mystical tale about the real-life warlord R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, who fought both the Chinese and the Bolsheviks for control of Mongolia during the Russian Civil War\, which lasted six years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. \nIn The Storm\, a bombastic teacher lectures his young students on traffic accidents and family separation\, unwittingly stirring an emotional crisis. A lost wallet\, an office fling\, an upset stomach—the minutiae of life unveil the private tragedies at the heart of a school community. \nHorsemen of the Sands takes place a world away. An old herdsman entrances a young tank commander with the legend of Baron Ungern\, the real-life White Russian officer who conquered Mongolia. A foggy epic unfolds\, a tale of faith and revenge centering on a mysterious amulet\, said to make the wearer invincible. From the dim of the classroom to the vast Mongolian steppe\, Leonid Yuzefovich’s masterful novellas The Storm and Horsemen of the Sands drill straight to the core of human emotion. These Russian parables illuminate the fears\, passions\, and ambitions beneath the grandest acts and the tiniest gestures. \nOlga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die (Columbia University Press) tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.In the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. \nAfter her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well—to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translating-contemporary-russian-literature-marian-schwartz-on-olga-slavnikova-and-leonid-yuzefovich/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Translator Marian Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:  \nMarian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. \n\nAbout The Man Who Couldn’t Die \nIn the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him–and his pension–alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life–and the means and meaning of their own lives–by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.After her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well–to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \nAbout Horsemen of the Sands \nHorsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: “Horsemen of the Sands” and “The Storm.” The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, also known as the “Mad Baltic Baron\,” a military adventurer whose intense fascination with the East drove him to seize control of Mongolia during the chaos of the Russian Civil War. “The Storm” centers on an unexpected emotional crisis that grips a Russian elementary school on an otherwise regular day\, unveiling the vexed emotional bonds and shared history that knit together its community of students\, teachers\, parents\, and staff. \nAbout Marian Schwartz \nMarian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction\, history\, biography\, criticism\, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times’ bestseller The Last Tsar\, by Edvard Radzinsky\, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov\, Ivan Goncharov\, Yuri Olesha\, and Mikhail Lermontov\, and Leo Tolstoy. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Best Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translator-marian-schwartz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Feliz Lucia Molina and Alli Warren at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series continues in April with a double program featuring Feliz Lucia Molina\, here from Chicago\, along with the Bay Area’s Alli Warren. Friday April 12\, they will each read their own work at The Green Arcade in San Francisco. (The prior night\, Thursday April 11\, Feliz is reading then joining Alli and the audience in conversation\, at The Poetry Center.) Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public.\n\nFeliz’ latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California\, Crystal Marys is a field study of social-media fatigue\, suburban youth\, Filipino immigrancy\, a denim day job in LA’s garment district\, and other sites of crystallized dis/enchantment. Molina traces life’s “beautiful unreliable narrative logic” by the devotional images of our times-the Virgin Mary\, emoji\, family photos\, profile pics\, etc. \n\nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-feliz-lucia-molina-and-alli-warren-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center at SF State Presents:  Feliz Lucia Molina
DESCRIPTION:Feliz’ latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California\, Crystal Marys is a field study of social-media fatigue\, suburban youth\, Filipino immigrancy\, a denim day job in LA’s garment district\, and other sites of crystallized dis/enchantment. Molina traces life’s “beautiful unreliable narrative logic” by the devotional images of our times-the Virgin Mary\, emoji\, family photos\, profile pics\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-at-sf-state-presents-feliz-lucia-molina/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell in Conversation with Yael Goldstein Love
DESCRIPTION:discussing Serpell’s new novel The Old Drift\, an electrifying debut that has already garnered three starred advance reviews and accolades from multiple writers. \n“Recalling the work of Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez as a sometimes magical\, sometimes horrifically real portrait of a place\, Serpell’s novel goes into the future of the 2020s\, when the various plot threads come together in a startling conclusion. Intricately imagined\, brilliantly constructed\, and staggering in its scope\, this is an astonishing novel.”–Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 12\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the UC Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing. \nYael Goldstein Love is co-fouder and Editorial Director of the digital literary studio Plympton. She is also the author of the novels Overture and The Passion of Tasha Darsky\, which are actually the same novel. She is currently completing her second novel\, set during the Haitian Revolution. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-yael-goldstein-love/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli\nWhy do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric\, accessible prose\, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. \nFor most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time\, but the more scientists learn about it\, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal\, moving steadily from past to future\, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one\, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy\, science and literature\, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective\, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. \nAlready a bestseller in Italy\, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing\, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent\, culturally rich\, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Literary Discussions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California contributors read
DESCRIPTION:Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose poems make up “Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California” (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2018). http://www.scarlettanager.com/ “Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan\, is not only a beautiful and thorough anthology but an homage to California\, its varieties of landscapes\, and the amazing poetry it has evoked. Like no other collection in its focus\, it presents for the reader experiences of life and personal perspectives on the region while also providing an invaluable resource for teachers of creative writing and literature and the ecology\, habitats\, and species of the state.” — Pattiann Rogers\, recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry http://www.scarlettanager.com/fire-and-rain.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fire-rain-ecopoetry-of-california-contributors-read/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Ron Campbell\, Grace Grafton\, and Sarah Haba\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in LIVE POETRY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Ronald Sauer & Agnetta Falk followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Ronald Sauer & Agnetta Falk followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-ronald-sauer-agnetta-falk-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group -- In the Midst of Winter
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 15th\n7:00pm\n\nEast Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende\, on Monday April 15th at 7pm. \nAn instant New York Times bestseller\, In the Midst of Winter is about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People). \nDuring the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory\, Richard Bowmaster\, a lonely university professor in his sixties\, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega\, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala\, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house\, seeking help. At a loss\, the professor asks his tenant\, Lucia Maraz\, a fellow academic from Chile\, for her advice. \nAs these three lives intertwine\, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed\, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected\, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice\, the art of survival\, and the essential nature of—and our need for—love. \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, April 15\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-in-the-midst-of-winter/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Herbert Marcuse:Philosopher of Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Apr 15\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nHerbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a little-known German scholar when he became one of the 20th century’s most unlikely pop stars: a celebrity philosopher. In the 1960s\, his argument for a “principled utopianism” catalyzed the ideals of a rebellious generation\, and Marcuse became an intellectual guide for activists and revolutionaries around the world. The legacy of his contribution to a radical shift of consciousness has resonated in social-change movements ever since. \nThis comics-format biography brings Marcuse’s life\, work\, and times to a new generation. From his youth in Weimar Germany and early studies with Martin Heidegger\, to his emigration from Nazi Germany along with colleagues of the Frankfurt School\, to his rise as one of its major theorists along with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin\, to his status as a countercultural icon\, readers are introduced to the theories and circumstances that made Marcuse into one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. \nMentor to a young Angela Davis and often referred to as the unofficial faculty advisor to the New Left\, Marcuse’s controversial critique of the “comfortable unfreedoms” of post-WWII capitalism entered popular consciousness with the 1964 publication of One-Dimensional Man\, which sold over 100\,000 copies in its first years in print. His argument for the possibility of a more humane and sustainable world was grounded in a personal knowledge of the violence of authoritarianism\, and the risk of its resurgence. Perennially relevant\, radical\, and inspiring\, Marcuse’s concept of the Great Refusal —”the protest against that which is”—is a guide for our times. \nPRAISE \n“Nick Thorkelson’s exploration of the ideas and personality of Herbert Marcuse is exactly the sort of comic book I have longed to read. It is engaging\, artful\, and explores the world of revolutionary ideas. Books like this keep the fire going inside.”––Joe Sacco \n“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Y. Davis\, from the foreword \n“Thorkelson’s graphic life of Herbert Marcuse is a riotous romp through 20th-century philosophy. The story of a man who exists at the eye of storm of ideas\, of movements and of social strategies. With workers and students on the streets of Paris once more\, Marcuse’s life and work has never been more relevant.”––Kate Evans\, author of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nNick Thorkelson is a cartoonist living in Boston. He has done cartoons on local politics for The Boston Globe and in support of organizations working on economic justice\, peace\, and public health. He is the co-author and/or illustrator of The Earth Belongs to the People\, The Underhanded History of the USA\, The Legal Rights of Union Stewards\, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism\, and Economic Meltdown Funnies\, and has contributed to a number of nonfiction comics anthologies. He is working on a graphic novel about the end of the Sixties\, A Better World Is Possible. Nick also moonlights as a musician\, animator\, graphic designer\, and painter. \nAndrew T. Lamas teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania\, is co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Temple University Press\, 2017)\, and serves on the boards of the International Herbert Marcuse Society\, the Radical Philosophy Review\, and the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/herbert-marcusephilosopher-of-utopia/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Erica Jong and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:Kanbar Auditorium\, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center\n200 N San Pedro Rd\, San Rafael \nThis special event is cosponsored by the Marin JCC and Red Hen Press. \n \nFear of Flying\, Erica Jong’s first and most famous novel\, published in 1973\, blew conventional thinking about women\, marriage and sexuality out of the water\, selling over 37 million copies and translated into over 45 languages including Chinese and Arabic. Her novel articulated what women thought but which\, through decades of silent complicity with the status quo\, was never voiced. \nIn the four decades since Fear of Flying\, she has published over 25 books in 45 languages\, including 9 works of fiction as well as celebrated non-fiction volumes. She has switched between fiction\, non-fiction and poetry\, becoming one of the most evocative poets of her generation with seven published volumes\, and winning Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize.  Her awards include: The Fernanda Pivano award The Sigmund Freud Award\, the Deauville Award and The United Nations Award for excellence in literature. \nThis reading celebrates her new book of poetry\, The World Began with Yes\, from Red Hen Press. In a dark time\, these poems celebrate life. \nFrancesca Bell’s poems appear in many magazines including B O D Y\, burntdistrict\, ELLE\, Flycatcher\, New Ohio Review\, North American Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Prairie Schooner\, Rattle\, Spillway\, Tar River Poetry\, and Zone 3. She has been nominated ten times for the Pushcart Prize and won the 2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle. Her translations\, from Arabic and German\, appear in Berkeley Poetry Review\, Blue Lyra Review\, Circumference | Poetry in Translation\, Four by Two\, Laghoo\, and The Massachusetts Review. She co-translated Shatha Abu Hnaish’s book of poems\, A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito (Dar Fadaat\, 2017)\, and Red Hen Press will publish her first collection\, Bright Stain\, in 2019. She is the events coordinator for the Marin Poetry Center and the former poetry editor of River Styx.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-jong-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:The Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, 94903
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Philosopher of Utopia: Celebrating the New Graphic Biography of Herbert Marcuse
DESCRIPTION:Nick Thorkelson\, Andrew T. Lamas\, and a special guest TBD \ndiscussing the new book \nHerbert Marcuse\, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography \nby Nick Thorkelson\, edited by Paul Buhle and Andrew T. Lamas\, with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis & published by City Lights Books \nThis comics-format biography brings Marcuse’s life\, work\, and times to a new generation. From his youth in Weimar Germany and early studies with Martin Heidegger\, to his emigration from Nazi Germany along with colleagues of the Frankfurt School\, to his rise as one of its major theorists along with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin\, to his status as a countercultural icon\, readers are introduced to the theories and circumstances that made Marcuse into one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. \nMentor to a young Angela Davis and often referred to as the unofficial faculty advisor to the New Left\, Marcuse’s controversial critique of the “comfortable unfreedoms” of post-WWII capitalism entered popular consciousness with the 1964 publication of One-Dimensional Man\, which sold over 100\,000 copies in its first years in print. His argument for the possibility of a more humane and sustainable world was grounded in a personal knowledge of the violence of authoritarianism\, and the risk of its resurgence. Perennially relevant\, radical\, and inspiring\, Marcuse’s concept of the Great Refusal —”the protest against that which is”—is a guide for our times. \n“Nick Thorkelson’s exploration of the ideas and personality of Herbert Marcuse is exactly the sort of comic book I have longed to read. It is engaging\, artful\, and explores the world of revolutionary ideas. Books like this keep the fire going inside.”––Joe Sacco \n“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Y. Davis\, from the foreword \nNick Thorkelson is a cartoonist living in Boston. He has done cartoons on local politics for The Boston Globe and in support of organizations working on economic justice\, peace\, and public health. He is the co-author and/or illustrator of The Earth Belongs to the People\, The Underhanded History of the USA\, The Legal Rights of Union Stewards\, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism\, and Economic Meltdown Funnies\, and has contributed to a number of nonfiction comics anthologies. He is working on a graphic novel about the end of the Sixties\, A Better World Is Possible. Nick also moonlights as a musician\, animator\, graphic designer\, and painter. \nAndrew T. Lamas teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania\, is co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Temple University Press\, 2017)\, and serves on the boards of the International Herbert Marcuse Society\, the Radical Philosophy Review\, and the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/philosopher-of-utopia-celebrating-the-new-graphic-biography-of-herbert-marcuse/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Richtel\, An Elegant Defense
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, APRIL 16\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 14th. \nThe immune system impacts every aspect of our lives\, including sleep\, mood\, fitness\, nutrition\, brain function and aging\, and is the ultimate key to wellness and longevity. And yet\, it is widely misunderstood. Many people operate under the misconception that they can “boost” their immune system to stay healthy. The truth is the immune system is an incredibly intricate balance within the body (its complexity rivals that of the human brain). The more we understand about how this “elegant defense” operates\, the more we can improve our lives. \nMagnificently reported and soulfully crafted\, An Elegant Defense is the first major narrative exploration of the immune system. Through science and storytelling\, Richtel describes the remarkable discovery of the immune system over the last seventy years and explains in vivid detail how this complex system works\, how we interact with it\, and the risks we inflict on ourselves when we meddle with its natural balance. \nRichtel brings the science to life through the stories of four intimate and extraordinary medical stories: a cancer patient risen from the grave\, an HIV patient considered a medical marvel\, and two “invisible” women who suffer the stark injustice of autoimmunity. The story of Jason Greenstein\, a close friend of the author\, is particularly poignant as Richtel recounts Jason’s fight with cancer and astounding reaction to experimental treatment. \nThroughout the narrative\, Richtel accessibly weaves leading-edge scientific discovery through interviews and anecdotes from dozens of the world’s leading scientists. The breadth of his research and reporting is remarkable\, including insight into the work of immunologist James Allison\, who just this month won the Nobel Prize for his work disrupting the communication between cells and the immune system to “trick” cancer. The strides made by the immunologists in the book offer a glimpse at a future of longer\, more comfortable life and of authentic understanding of the forces that drive survival. \nBut Richtel argues that the most powerful first-line of health lies within each of us: our behavior\, our attitudes\, and the choices we make. Whether common knowledge or counterintuitive advice\, An Elegant Defense will enlighten readers about how every facet of life connects to the immune system. Richtel explores fascinating questions – from why boosting your immune system is a myth to what’s behind the explosion of autoimmune disorders in recent decades (a concern for 50 million Americans). \nAmong the thought-provoking topics Richtel explores in the book: \n\n\nWhy you should avoid using antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers \n\n\nThe close connection between mental health and the immune system \n\n\nWhy women are more likely to get sick than men \n\n\nThe impact of obesity and modern diets on the immune system and gut health \n\n\nWhy parents shouldn’t freak out when kids eat dirt or pick their noses \n\n\nWhy Amish people have fewer allergies than the rest of the population \n\n\nThe frontline of cancer treatments\, and whether immunotherapy is the wonder fix some have promised \n\n\nAre there “superviruses” that may be resistant to drugs and spread like wildfire across the globe? \n\n\nHow modern life and our “always on” culture puts unprecedented stress on the very system that keeps us healthy \n\n\n  \nRichtel also reflects on a striking paradox: immunology\, once a backwater science and now arguably the center of modern medicine\, has given us two profound gifts. One is a trove of medicine so powerful it can revive a cancer patient from their deathbed\, reverse a deadly autoimmune disorder\, and tinker with our immune systems at the deepest\, molecular level.  But the second gift is a little-grasped lesson that these tools are desperate\, last-line measures. Eventually\, death comes for us all\, and Richtel explains why our immune system is complicit in this inevitability from the day we’re born. \nPerfect for readers of popular science and books like The Emperor of All Maladies and I Contain Multitudes\, An Elegant Defense will illuminate truths about the literal bodyguard within us all.  I hope you’ll take a close look at this advance copy and consider a review or other coverage in the spring.  And please let me know if you’d like additional review copies or more information. \nMATT RICHTEL is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles he expanded into his first nonfiction book\, A Deadly Wandering (2014)\, an investigation of a fatal distracted-driving crash\, about which the New York Times Book Review hailed\, “It deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high-school curriculums.” A New York Times bestseller\, A Deadly Wandering was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Christian Science Monitor\, Kirkus Reviews\, Winnipeg Free Press\, and Amazon.com. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air\, PBS NewsHour\, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco\, California. Visit him online at www.mattrichtel.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-richtel-an-elegant-defense/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:Lori Gottlieb\n\n\n\n\nPresents Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist\, Her Therapist\, and Our Lives Revealed. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-gottlieb/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel
DESCRIPTION:APRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMui Poopoksakul\n\n\nMui Poopoksakul is a lawyer turned translator with a special interest in contemporary Thai literature. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon’s The Sad Part Was and Moving Parts\, both from Tilted Axis Press. She is translating a novel and a story collection by Duanwad Pimwana\, both forthcoming in 2019 from Two Lines Press and Feminist Press\, respectively. A native of Bangkok who spent two decades in the U.S.\, she now lives in Berlin\, Germany.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nSaskia Vogel\n\n\nSaskia Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city\, Berlin\, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Her debut novel Permission will be published in five languages in spring 2019. It’s being adapted for television. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network\, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team that organizes Viva Erotica\, an annual film festival in Helsinki that explores the art\, history\, and culture of sex on film.\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 16\, 2019 | 7:30PM\nBright: Mui Poopoksakul in conversation with Saskia Vogel\n\nThe Bindery | 1727 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright\, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation\, with Saskia Vogel\, moderated by Laura Goode. \n\n\n“Bright will prove to be seminal for Thailand’s place in the literary world.” — Prabda Yoon\, author of Moving Parts \n\n\nWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to sit in front of their run-down apartment building and await his return\, the confused boy does as he’s told—he waits and waits and waits\, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community\, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper\, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt extending his customers endless credit. \nDueling flea markets\, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach\, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner\, bouncy ball fads\, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy’s appetite all combine into this first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana’s urban\, at times gritty vignettes are balanced with a folk-tale-like feel and a charmingly wry sense of humor. Together\, they combine into the off-beat\, satisfying\, and sometimes magical coming-of-age story of an unforgettable young boy and the timeless legends\, traditions\, and personalities that go into his formation. \n\n\n\n“Duanwad Pimwana has a knack for finding the gap between who we are and who we’d like to be\, and deftly inserting her scalpel there. Across the villages and cities of Thailand\, her characters exist in a state of constant anxiety\, unable to fit in but having nowhere else to go.” —Jeremy Tiang\, author of State of Emergency \n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOKS & JOURNALS\nABOUT\nEDUCATION\nBLOG
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bright-mui-poopoksakul-in-conversation-with-saskia-vogel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell discusses her new book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. \nPraise for How To Do Nothing \n“Self-help for the collectively minded\, How to Do Nothing is as thoughtful and morally serious as it is fun to read. This book will change how you see the world.”—Malcolm Harris\, author of Kids These Days  \n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway \n“In a media and tech ecosystem simultaneously obsessed with “digital detox” and building personal brands\, How to Do Nothing is a breath of fresh air grounding readers in the complex\, interdependent actual ecosystems of the physical world. Jenny Odell writes with remarkable clarity and compassion. Each chapter reads like going on a fascinating walk through a park in conversation with an old friend (who happens to also be able to tell you about every single bird in the park\, which is awesome). It’s a book I already know I’ll be returning to and referencing for a long time.”—Ingrid Burrington\, author of Networks of New York    \nAbout How To Do Nothing \nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eve Bunting\, Little Yellow Truck
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 17\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced children’s event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs and sitting areas are usually set up for open seating about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 15th. \nEver feel too small\, not adequate enough\, or worried about what role you play in an important task? Little Yellow Truck did too. As lumberyard owner Riley gears up for a busy day and a new project\, he assigns tasks to his many trucks. A dump truck\, a flatbed truck\, a concrete mixer\, and a little yellow truck all stand by ready to help. From hauling trash to pouring concrete\, one by one they are all assigned tasks\, except for Little Yellow Truck. Is there nothing he can do to help? \nThere’s no reason for Little Yellow Truck’s worry as Riley has just the right task and an important role at that! Written by acclaimed children’s author Eve Bunting\, this story reinforces the message that even the smallest helper can make a lasting impact and that sometimes waiting is the hardest part. Social emotional learning can be explored through this title because feelings of disappointment and uncertainty can lead to discovery—specifically Little Yellow’s  discovery of belonging. \n\nEve Bunting has written over 250 children’s books\, winning numerous awards and honors. One day\, as she was passing a builder’s yard\, she saw several large trucks—and one little yellow truck\, all by itself among the big guys. “I’m going to write a story about that little truck”\, she thought\, “and I’ll show that it’s important too.” Sometimes that is how story ideas originate. Her books include Ghost Cat and Mr. Goat’s Valentine. She lives in Pasadena\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eve-bunting-little-yellow-truck/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Chris Nealon / with Jessica Laser
DESCRIPTION:READINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-nealon-with-jessica-laser/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub
DESCRIPTION:City Lights inconjunction with the Goethe Institut and Verso Books present \nOliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub \n \ndiscussing the subject of Oliver Nachtwey’s new book \nGermany’s Hidden Crisis:Social Decline in the Heart of Europe \nfrom Verso Books \nTranslated by Loren Balhorn and David Fernbach \nRecipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing. \n\nUpward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state\, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis\, bought their first homes\, and sent their children to university. Not so in today’s Federal Republic\, where the gears of the so-called “elevator society” have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday\, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in postwar German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result. He concludes that although the country has managed to muddle through thus far\, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system’s stability in the years to come. \n>visit this link to read an interview with Olver Natchwey< \nOliver Nachtwey is Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel\, and a fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. His research interests include labour and industrial sociology\, political sociology\, the comparative study of capitalism\, and social movements. \n\nAdrian Daub is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University\, where he directs the Program in Feminist\, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is the author of Tristan’s Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art (2013)\, Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth Century Culture (2014) and (with Charles Kronengold) The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism (2015). His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit in German\, and in n+1\, The New Republic and the Los Angeles Review of Books in English.” \nThe Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. They promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. They convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural\, social and political life in our nation. Their cultural and educational programs encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility. \n\n\nWhat has been said about Germany’s Hidden Crisis: \n“A true masterpiece. Focusing on the case of Germany—which has long been mispresented and misperceived as a paragon of economic success and political stability—Oliver Nachtwey offers a detailed account of the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Moving at the forefront of leading theories of political economy\, the book develops an empirically grounded synthetic perspective on ‘regressive modernity\,’ a concept of which much can be expected for future progress in the study of capitalist development.” \n– Wolfgang Streeck \n\n\n\n“A major critical review of Europe’s most important country\, its socio-economics\, its politics\, and its self-diagnoses.” \n– Göran Therborn \n\n\n“In this comprehensive sociological study\, the author assembles sobering news from Germany\, a country the elites of which routinely pride themselves of presiding over a stable\, prosperous\, and socially inclusive society. To which there is even some truth\, comparatively speaking. Yet capitalism thrives on credible promises and on hopes being redeemed. As elsewhere in the West\, German elites are increasingly distrusted and hopes frustrated\, giving rise to virulent fears and anxieties. As private and public debt\, near-stagnation and growing inequality shape gloomy perceptions\, a disjunction occurs between ongoing technical and economic modernization\, on the one hand\, and the notion of ‘progress’ that used to be associated with it. This is a condition for which Nachtwey coins the term ‘regressive modernity’. Among its characteristics are a decline of collective action and public goods production and the ‘de-institutionalization’ of social and economic conflict. Instead of anything resembling organized class struggle\, we see symptoms of diffuse and ‘anomic’ rebelliousness ranging from short-lived ‘occupy’-style mobilizations to the outbursts of rightist mobs. Nachtwey has written a lucid analysis highlighting the social causes of our current perplexities.” \n– Claus Offe \n\n\n“It needs at once sociological imagination\, an interpretive sense for statistics and explanatory sharpness to be able to decipher the anxious and conflict-laden atmosphere in a country that looks extremely well-ordered\, affluent and healthy from the outside. Oliver Nachtwey\, impressively combining these three talents\, has managed to prompt such a necessary change of perspective with regard to contemporary Germany: In his fascinating study he not only informs us about how downward mobility\, precariousness and polarization have grown over the last decades in Germany\, but also about how people suffering from these developments fight against the downgrading of their lives—be it by inventing new forms of protest\, be it by joining nationalist movements. A must to read for everyone interested in the dark side of the economic wealth of Western countries.” \n– Axel Honneth \n\n\n“Oliver Nachtwey has written an empirically grounded book of great topicality. He focuses on Germany\, but his analysis is of much wider relevance. Nachtwey reveals that the ‘elevator effect’\, which reduces the significance of social distinctions\, is finished. A ‘downward escalator effect’ now makes class disparities visible again. Growing insecurity\, increasing inequality and swelling precarianization lead to a renaissance of both left-wing revolts and right-wing authoritarianism.” \n– Marcel van der Linden \n\n\n“An insightful account of the crises threatening German stability.” \n–Morning Star
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oliver-nachtwey-in-conversation-with-adrian-daub/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro: The Future of Cannabis
DESCRIPTION:Cannabis is here to stay. While it’s still blacklisted by the federal government\, recreational marijuana is legal now in ten states\, Washington DC\, and the Northern Mariana Islands. And the market for CBD – the non-psychoactive pot ingredient touted for relief of stress\, epilepsy\, and countless other ills – is expected to hit 22 million dollars in three years. Meanwhile\, regulation of cannabis for both getting high and for medical treatment lags hopelessly behind its use. Who’s going to make the rules if the feds sit this one out? And with inroads made by major corporations into what had been a thriving underground market\, what becomes of the old mom and pop operations\, and the criminal cartels that capitalized on prohibition? \nKLF’s news and culture series This Is Now goes to pot for one night\, welcoming two experts to break this down for us:\nDavid Downs is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who covers cannabis policy and legalization. As the cannabis editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, he founded GreenState.com. Downs is the co-author of the new crop science book Marijuana Harvest (2017) by Ed Rosenthal and David Downs. He has guest lectured at Loyola Law School\, and UC Berkeley Extension\, and shared in a 2018 Scripps Howard Award for Breaking News for his “Wine Country Fires” reporting. \nDr. Danielle Ramo is Director of Research Operations at Hopelab\, where she oversees the design and implementation of research efforts across Hopelab’s projects. Danielle is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC San Francisco and a licensed psychologist. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Being Adept prevention intervention program (Beingadept.org)\, and regularly speaks to teens\, parents\, and school administrators throughout the Bay Area about adolescent substance abuse.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-the-future-of-cannabis/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 17\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 17\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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