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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes debut novelist C Pam Zhang for an online event about her new book\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Zhang will be in conversation with fellow debut novelist Kawai Strong Washburn (Sharks in the Time of Saviors). In Zhang’s electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The books may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” —Emma Donoghue\, author of Room \nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. \nKawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Today\, he lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. Sharks in the Time of Saviors is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T120000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot And Ed Yong For East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Rebecca Skloot and Ed Yong. \nRebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy Nominated HBO film. Her award winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O\, The Oprah Magazine\, and many other publications. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father\, Floyd Skloot\, co-edited The Best American Science Writing 2011. \nEd Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic\, and is based in Washington DC. His work appears several times a week on The Atlantic’s website\, and has also featured in National Geographic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, Nature\, New Scientist\, Scientific American\, and many more. He has won a variety of awards\, including the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016 and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010 for his old blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. \nThis event is hosted by Annalee Newitz. \nAll proceeds benefit East Bay Booksellers. Shop online now! \n\nJune 24 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.l
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot-and-ed-yong-for-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Donovan Hohn\, Jordan Kisner and Jaswinder Bolina
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday June 24th at 5:00pm PDT for Donovan Hohn discussing his new essay collection The Inner Coast with Jordan Kisner. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87428031265 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87428031265#  or +13462487799\,\,87428031265#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 874 2803 1265\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdMMNCXVK5 \nPraise for The Inner Coast \nDonovan Hohn’s prose is as immaculate and quotable as that of any writer of his generation. And while you always sense his outrage about ecological calamity\, and never doubt his moral engagement\, his advocacy never feels hectoring. There’s no writer living or dead I would rather read on the reliably distressing topic of environmentalism than Donovan Hohn.— Tom Bissell \nI’ve seldom encountered a writer with a better understanding of both the literary and the journalistic ways and means of telling a true story. Donovan Hohn thinks clearly; he writes with eloquence and force.— Lewis H. Lapham \nDonovan Hohn has a diviner’s capacity to tap into the source and the flow of a story\, whether the ‘story’ is narrative or argumentative. His attention to the appearances of things—the false; the true—tunes the reader’s alert-addled animal brain to the meaningful\, and the terrible. As the Earth begins to resist us\, to remind us that how we’re living will be our undoing\, Hohn’s work is that sad\, happy thing\, glinting in the sand: evidence of what a human mind could do\, and what a human heart could yield.— Wyatt Mason \nAbout The Inner Coast \nPrize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck. \nWriting in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez\, Donovan Hohn is an “adventurous\, inquisitive\, and brightly illuminating writer” (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago\, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects ten of his best\, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s\, which feature his physical\, historical\, and emotional journeys through the American landscape. \nBy turns meditative and comic\, adventurous and metaphysical\, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools\, the dance between ecology and engineering\, the lost art of ice canoeing\, and Americans’ complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau. The Inner Coast marks the return of one of our finest young writers and a stylish exploration of what Guy Davenport called “the geography of the imagination.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-donovan-hohn-and-jordan-kisner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Alexandra Petri in conversation with Alexis Coe / Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri for her second book\, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays. She’ll be in conversation with Alexis Coe (You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nPlease note: Our start time is 5:30pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nIn Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n\nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. Author photo by Lisa M. Allen. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlexis Coe is an award-winning historian and author of the narrative history book Alice + Freda Forever (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe is a consulting producer on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s forthcoming George Washington series on the History Channel\, and has frequently appeared on CNN. She’s the cohost of Audible’s “Presidents Are People\, Too!” and the host of “No Man’s Land.” Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, Time\, and many others. She holds a graduate degree in American history\, and was a Research Curator at the New York Public Library. Author photo by Sylvia Rosokoff. \n  \n\nPlease note: \n>  This event is all ages.\n>  Facebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-alexandra-petri-in-conversation-with-alexis-coe-nothing-is-wrong-and-here-is-why/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:John Freeman with DA Powell
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman celebrates his new collection of poetry \nThe Park \npublished by Copper Canyon Press \nhe will be joined by DA Powell reading from his own new work. \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——— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase the book here in the near future)\n———– \nIn The Park\, his second book of poetry\, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish\, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained\, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it—a park is both natural and constructed\, exclusionary and open\, unfeeling and burdened with sentimentality. Pulling from both history and his own meditations in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris\, the seasons pass through famous parks\, personal parks\, parks beneath parks\, and other spaces with fabricated outer limits. Throughout\, Freeman wonders at how a park\, being both curated and public\, can be a nexus for a manifestation of great wealth inequality. How have we created these false boundaries for ourselves—with regard to physical space\, but also in our minds and societies\, in our personal relationships? Freeman plucks out difference in small daily dramas of people and animals only to dissolve it. Interspersed with meditations on love\, beauty\, and connection\, The Park is a pacific and unflinching mirror cast upon a space defined by its transience. \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s\, a literary biannual of new writing\, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing (forthcoming)\, as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality\, including Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation\, and Tales of Two Planets (forthcoming)\, which features storytellers from around the globe on the climate crisis. Maps\, his debut collection of poems\, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. He is the former editor of Granta and is a Writer in Residence at New York University. \nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and Repast: Tea\,Lunch\, and Cocktails. Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco. \nVisit http://dapowell.blogspot.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-freeman-with-da-powell/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Pretty Little Wilderness: Be About It Press Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:We’re going to gather to celebrate the release of Cassandra Dallett’s new book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness\, out on Be About It Press June 2020! \nJoining us we will have other Be About It Press authors\, Jesse Prado\, Violet Gehringer\, Amy Saul-Zerby\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-pretty-little-wilderness-be-about-it-press-book-release-party/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \n“The real in Nduka’s work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric.”—Joyelle McSweeney\, Boston Review \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \n\nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uche-nduka-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Zach Norris\, We Keep Us Safe
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris\, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, for an online event to discuss his new book\, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities—a groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination\, othering\, and punishment. Norris will appear online with special guest Marlena Henderson\, who is also featured in the book. They will share stories from We Keep Us Safe and discuss a framework to help understand and transform the policies and practices that perpetuate intergenerational trauma and community suffering. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\n \nAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart\, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear\, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe\, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of Us vs. Them. By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another\, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic\, smart investments—meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being\, like healthcare and housing\, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins. \nWe Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized\, so they can participate fully in life\, in society\, and in the fabric of our democracy. \n“Bright\, talented\, compassionate\, strategic\, and committed . . . Norris’s insights and story will be an enormously important contribution in the effort to advance human rights in this country.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \nZach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him @ZachWNorris. \nMarlena Henderson grew up in Santa Cruz County. Her family is directly and tragically impacted by the criminal justice system. Her parents were beloved contributors to the Santa Cruz community with their involvement in the American Cancer Society\, Cabrillo College\, NAMI\, the Santa Cruz Symphony\, and more. They tried for decades to access resources designed to intervene and rehabilitate their son but those efforts failed and the consequences were tragic. Marlena notes\, “When my brother first became involved in the system\, he was not capable of causing the kind of harm that has led me to fear for my life today. Now he is capable. The costs of that failure are too high for families like mine.” She is now an advocate for Criminal Justice reform and Mental Health reform. As a victim and a survivor of the mass incarceration movement she brings a unique perspective to many of the systems failures and opportunities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy 5-year anniversary celebration
DESCRIPTION:Literary Speakeasy if five years old! So let’s have a virtual celebration and raise money for LYRIC\, a great charity located in the heart of the Castro. This month’s performers include Chelsea Davis\, Dazié Grego-Sykes\, MJ Jones\, Amanda Muñiz\, Dena Rod\, and Preeti Vangani. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel. Let’s raise a glass from the comfort of our homes and celebrate Literary Speakeasy\, LYRIC\, and the best Bay Area literary talent! \nLYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement\, career trainings\, health promotion\, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth\, their families\, and allies of all races\, classes\, genders\, and abilities. \nPerformer bios:\nChelsea Davis is a writer from San Francisco. She has published essays in Literary Hub\, Electric Literature\, and The Racket\, and her monthly newsletter\, Shrieks and Howls\, looks at the surprising overlaps between the comedy and horror genres\, two films at a time. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in sPARKLE + bLINK and Vastarien\, and she is currently at work on a poem cycle about classic horror cinema. More of her writing can be found at chelseamdavis.net. \nDazié Grego-Sykes is an Oakland based performance artist and activist. He is a graduate of The Experimental Performance Institute at New College of California and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from The California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently\, he is touring two solo plays AM I A MAN and NIGGA-ROO while promoting his spoken-word album titled MAKE ME BLACK. This evening Dazié is reading from his collection of poetry and prose BLACK FAGGOTRY which was published by Nomadic Press in early 2020. \nMJ Jones is a poet & parent living in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Rigorous Mag\, & Borderlands Texas Poetry Review. They are an Assistant Poetry Editor at Foglifter Press. MJ has received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, SF Writers Grotto\, VONA\, & Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently the Community Engagement Graduate Fellow in the MFA program at Mills College. \nAmanda Muñiz is a Mexican writer born in Puebla and raised in Oakland\, California. She majored in English Literature from San Francisco State. Her work has been published by Pochino press\, and she has been a featured reader in various shows in the Bay Area including the electrifying ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? the hilarious ¿Donde Esta mi Comedy?\, BEASTCrawl\, Literary Speakeasy\, and LitQuake’s legendary LitCrawl. The immigrant experience has inspired most of her writing\, which she considers a reflection and a testament of her family’s resilience as well as a never-ending letter of love and gratitude to her parents. \nDena Rod is a writer\, editor\, and poet based in the Bay Area. Through creative nonfiction essays and poetry\, Dena works to illuminate their diasporic experiences of Iranian heritage and queer identity\, combating negative stereotypes of their intersecting identities in the mainstream media. You can learn more about their work at https://www.denarod.com \nPreeti Vangani is a poet & personal essayist. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions)\, winner of RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in BOAAT\, Juked\, Gulf Coast\, Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the Poetry Editor for Glass Journal and teaches poetry with Youth Speaks in the Bay Area. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco. \nJames J. Siegel is the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. He is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and “The God of San Francisco\,” set for release this October from Sibling Rivalry Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-5-year-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Farnaz Fatemi\, Ingrid Browning & Lisa Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with Farnaz Fatemi\, Ingrid Browning\, and Lisa Ortiz\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post.  \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Email any questions to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-farnaz-fatemi-ingrid-browning-lisa-ortiz/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200608T203048Z
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SUMMARY:Redress: Book Talk with Author John Tateishi
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 27 at 3pm\nRSVP with Eventbrite to access the Zoom link. \nAuthor John Tateishi discusses his book\, Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations\, in conversation with Patricia Wakida\, editor of Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. \nBooks are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose ship to home or pick up in store at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave. Berkeley\, CA 94704. \n—\nAbout the Book:\nThis is the true story of the Japanese American Citizens League’s fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100\,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi\, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years\, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community: for many\, the shame of “camp” was so deep that they could not even speak of it; money was a taboo subject; the question of the value of liberty was insulting.\nBesides internal discord\, the American public was largely unaware that there had been concentration camps on US soil\, and Tateishi knew that concessions from Congress would only come with mass education about the government’s civil rights violations. Beyond the backroom politicking and verbal fisticuffs that make this book a swashbuckling read\, Redress is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens; how to restore honor; and what duty it has to protect such harms from happening again. This book has powerful implications as the idea of reparations shapes our national conversation. \nAbout the Speakers:\nJohn Tateishi\, born in Los Angeles\, was incarcerated from ages three to six at Manzanar\, one of America’s ten World War II concentration camps. He studied English Lit at UC Berkeley and attended UC Davis for graduate studies. He played important roles in leading the campaign for Japanese American redress\, and as the JACL director\, used the lessons of the campaign to help ensure that the rights of this nation’s Arab and Muslim communities were protected after 9/11. \nPatricia Miye Wakida is a fourth generation Japanese American artist\, writer\, and community historian. For the past fifteen years\, she has worked with numerous cultural institutions such as the Japanese American National Museum\, Discover Nikkei\, the Oakland Museum of California\, and the Densho Encyclopedia project. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Library\, UCB\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, Asian Pacific American Student Development\, UCB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/redress-book-talk-with-author-john-tateishi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200608T193431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200608T193431Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Summer" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos of this moment in time\, or go back in history or memory to a time when summer felt different\, or imagine a new kind of summer for the future. Travel or stay home\, either way\, we’ll be right here. Put on a summer hat and join us for a summer open mic. Online. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJUNE FEATURES: Tess Taylor and Alia Volz \nSaturday\, June 27\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on June 20. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. To sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature again and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 956 8283 0985\nPassword: 474874 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/95682830985?pwd=Vk5MWHhPK3N4Mzk2Skp4Q2NOcDRnQT09 \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 \nSNS misses its home at Nick’s Lounge and hopes to return soon. Meanwhile\, please support Nick’s Lounge on GoFundMe: \nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nicks-lounge-karaoke-support-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nTess Taylor is the author of the chapbook The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, The Forage House\, which was a finalist for the Believer poetry prize\, and Work & Days\, which was named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by The New York Times. Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed her as “the poet for our moment.” In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition at the MoMA\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press. She is a poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, The Threepenny Review\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-summer-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200602T212659Z
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SUMMARY:Gina Rae La Cerva: Author discusses her book\, Feasting Wild\, with David George Haskell
DESCRIPTION:Gina Rae La Cerva discusses her new book\, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Greystone Books) with David George Haskell. \nThis event will be broadcast on our Crowdcast channel. To register\, visit this page. \nAbout Feasting Wild\nTwo centuries ago\, nearly half the North American diet was foraged\, hunted\, or caught in the wild. Today\, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries\, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile\, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. \nIn Feasting Wild\, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods. Throughout her travels\, La Cerva reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces\, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods –including biodiversity\, Indigenous and women’s knowledge\, a vital connection to nature\, and delicious flavors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, La Cerva investigates the violent “bush meat” trade\, tracking elicit delicacies from the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the dinner tables of Europe. In a Danish cemetery\, she forages for wild onions with the esteemed staff of Noma. In Sweden–after saying goodbye to a man known only as The Hunter–La Cerva smuggles freshly-caught game meat home to New York in her suitcase\, for a feast of “heartbreak moose.” \nThoughtful\, ambitious\, and wide-ranging\, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today\, and introduces an exciting new voice in food journalism. \n“A memorable\, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.”–Elizabeth Kolbert\, New York Times-bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction \nAbout the participants\nGina Rae La Cerva is a geographer\, environmental anthropologist\, and award-winning writer who has traveled extensively to research a variety of environmental and food-related topics. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow\, La Cerva holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. \nDavid Haskell’s work integrates scientific\, literary\, and contemplative studies of the natural world. He is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award\, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies\, the National Outdoor Book Award\, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-rae-la-cerva-author-discusses-her-book-feasting-wild-with-david-george-haskell/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200608T203224Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nJune’s book club selection is Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim. The book contains unique recipes. Try them and share with Eastwind’s Instagram @eastwindbooks. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Sunday\, June 28 at 2pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Eastwind Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month. \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~ \nAbout the book: \nLush and visual\, chock-full of delicious recipes\, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food\, heritage\, and finding family in the most unexpected places. \nAt the news of her mother’s death\, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago\, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading\, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant. \nThe neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately\, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance\, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along \nAbout the Author: \nRoselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse\, Asian neighbourhood. \nShe found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism\, she devoured books about mythology\, which shaped the fantasies in her novels. \nAn artist by nature\, she considers writing as “painting with words.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-natalie-tans-book-of-luck-and-fortune/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T093000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200619T185846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200619T185846Z
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SUMMARY:City Lights Authors on the Road: Whistleblower at the CIA - Melvin A. Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Melvin Goodman\, PhD\, Retired CIA and State Department Analyst\, Author \nThe whistleblower is essential to congressional oversight\, investigative journalism\, and the public’s awareness of important national and international security issues. Mel Goodman will address his own experiences as a whistleblower in testifying to the Senate intelligence committee in 1991 to block the confirmation of Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence. He will also discuss such whistleblowers as Edward Snowden\, Chelsea Manning\, the CIA whistleblower at the White House\, and the recent case of Dr. Rick Bright at the Department of Health and Human Services. The lack of protection for whistleblowers in the intelligence community will also be assessed. \nA Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the event. Cost is $5 \nQuestions? Contact Deborah Wilbur at dwilbur [ @] benderjccgw.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-authors-on-the-road-whistleblower-at-the-cia-melvin-a-goodman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200529T191830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200619T190125Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Bonnie Tsui & Jennifer Steinhauer
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Bonnie Tsui (Why We Swim) & Jennifer Steinhauer (The Firsts). \nYou can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the date and join us! \nThis event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Why We Swim and/or The Firsts and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nWhy We Swim by Bonnie Tsui \nWe swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure\, for exercise\, for healing. But humans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now\, in the twenty-first century\, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n  \n  \nBonnie Tsui is the author of the new book Why We Swim. A journalist and longtime contributor to The New York Times\, she is also the author of American Chinatown\, the winner of the Asia/Pacific American Award for Literature and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. She lives\, swims\, and surfs in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Firsts: The Inside Story of The Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer \nIn the November 2018 midterms\, the greatest number of women in history were elected to Congress. It was a group diverse in background\, age\, professional experience\, and ideology. And from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad” to a group with national security backgrounds calling themselves “the Badasses\,” from the first two Native American women to the first two Muslim women\, all were swept into office on an enormous wave of grassroots support. \nHere\, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer chronicles these women’s first year in Congress\, following their shift from trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms\, offices\, visits back home with their constituents\, and conversations in the halls of the Capitol\, she probes the question: Will Washington\, with its hidebound traditions and overpriced housing and petty power struggles\, change the changemakers? Or will this Congress\, which looks a little more like today’s America\, truly be the start of something new? \nVivid and smart\, The Firsts delivers fresh details\, inside access\, historical perspective\, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring\, controversial\, talented\, and rebellious—do something surprising: make Congress essential again. \nJennifer Steinhauer has covered numerous high-profile beats in her twenty-five-year reporting career at the New York Times\, from City Hall bureau chief and Los Angeles bureau chief to Capitol Hill. She won the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline Reporting Award in 2006 for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina. She has written a novel about the television business\, and two cookbooks. \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-bonnie-tsui-jennifer-steinhauer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200602T210002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T210002Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks\, is delighted to welcome bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius of Birds) for an online event celebrating her new book\, The Bird Way\, a radical investigation into the bird way of being\, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds—how they live and how they think. This virtual event will include a beautiful 30-minute presentation by Ackerman\, as well as a Q&A with the audience. \nRegistration for this Crowdcast event will begin soon. Sign up for our emails to be the first to know. \n If you’d like to make a donation\, you may do so here. \n“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring\, and lately\, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have\, for years\, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities\, abilities we once considered uniquely our own—deception\, manipulation\, cheating\, kidnapping\, infanticide\, but also\, ingenious communication between species\, cooperation\, collaboration\, altruism\, culture\, and play. In THE BIRD WAY\, Ackerman shows us extraordinary behaviors\, including birds that dance or drum\, that paint their creations or paint themselves\, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Genius of Birds\, which has been translated into twenty languages and the forthcoming The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and many other publications\, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a Bunting Fellowship\, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jennifer-ackerman-the-bird-way/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200615T172516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200615T172516Z
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SUMMARY:Oona Out of Order | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 30\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Margarita Montimore’s new novel\, OONA OUT OF ORDER. \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89347970109. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at bit.ly/GGPOonaHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/OonaAB. \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK \n“With its countless epiphanies and surprises\, Oona proves difficult to put down.” —USA Today \n“By turns tragic and triumphant\, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful\, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read.” —The Guardian \nA remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment\, even if those moments are out of order. \nIt’s New Year’s Eve 1982\, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen\, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics\, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins\, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own\, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order… \nHopping through decades\, pop culture fads\, and much-needed stock tips\, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising\, magical\, and heart-wrenching\, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time\, the endurance of love\, and the power of family. \nAbout the Author\n\nMargarita Montimore is the author of Asleep from Day and Oona Out of Order\, a national bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College\, she worked for over a decade in publishing and social media before deciding to focus on the writing dream full-time. Born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn\, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oona-out-of-order-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200706T181621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T181621Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203529
CREATED:20200703T183845Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lane Moore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, July 6 at 6pm PDT when Lane Moore joins us to discuss her book How to Be Alone: If You Want To\, and Even if You Don’t on Instagram Live. \n\nPraise for How to Be Alone \n“Lane Moore is one of the most talented people I know and I’m so glad even more people will be able to read her words.”— Mara Wilson\, author of Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame \n“How to Be Alone feels like peeling back your best friend’s skull and jumping into her brain. Lane is so open and funny and honest; I never want to be alone if it means I can’t have her with me. What a gift.” — Samantha Irby\, New York Times bestselling author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“How to Be Alone is like a song that pops up on the radio and lifts your spirits . . . so special\, elegant\, and true. It’s spectacular and truly personal. This book is with me every day\, and it helps so much.”—  Caroline Kepnes\, author of You\, Hidden Bodies\, and Providence \n\nAbout How to Be Alone \nThe former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant\, funny\, and deeply moving first book. \nLane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page\, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles\, including being her own parent\, living in her car as a teenager\, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all\, she looked to movies\, TV\, and music as the family and support systems she never had. \nFrom spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth\, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor\, anxiety\, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift. \nHow to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved\, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life\, who tries to have genuine\, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all\, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words. \n\nAbout the Author \nLane Moore is an award-winning comedian\, writer\, actor\, and musician. The New York Times called her comedy show Tinder Live “ingenious.” Her comedy and her band\, It Was Romance\, have been praised everywhere from Pitchfork to Vogue\, and her writing has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to The Onion. She is the former sex and relationships editor at Cosmopolitan\, where she received a GLAAD Award for her groundbreaking work expanding the magazine’s queer coverage. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog-child\, Lights. You can follow Lane at @HelloLaneMoore on Instagram and Twitter or visit LaneMoore.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lane-moore/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWe are thrilled to celebrate with Kepler’s favorite Daniel Mason for his new book\, A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth. Join us online as we raise a glass to an incredible collection of literature. If you’ve read Mason\, best-selling author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner\, you already know that this new book of short stories is one that you don’t want to miss. \nIncluding nine stories of human endurance\, vivacity\, and accomplishment that range from a balloonist’s unexpected discovery to multiple medical marvels\, Mason’s writing will help you soar\, believe in minor miracles\, and explore the human condition. If you loved Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone but have never read Mason\, this book is the perfect introduction to a writer who will sweep you away. \nA professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University\, Mason’s previous novels have been translated into 28 languages\, adapted for the opera and theater\, and marked bestseller lists across the world. At times funny and irreverent\, always moving and deeply urgent\, the stories in this new collection— among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner— cap a fifteen-year project. \nJoining the discussion to interview Mason is Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer\, another longtime Kepler’s favorite. Greer has authored six works of fiction\, including the bestsellers Less and The Confessions of Max Tivoli. \nTogether\, these two titans in literature will transport you to a different world through a discussion of one of the most revered bastions of American letters: finely crafted\, utterly original\, and richly imagined short stories. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as the webinar can fill up quickly. Free registrations are limited in quantity; to support the author and Kepler’s\, please consider with-book access if you are able. ** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mason-with-andrew-sean-greer-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo Bicchieri » Grey Rosado » Rhea Dhanbhoora » Richelle Lee Slota | Jennifer Ng » Nora Boxer » Steven Hill » Steven Gray » Lilian Wang » D.S. Black » Caroline Goodwin » Noah Sanders » Kelly Gray » Amy Smith » Dawn Angelicca Barcelona\nWe’ll be streaming at this link (pw in link).\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 846 3452 8987\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \n\n\n\nThanks to everyone who sent in work for our virtual show on 7/6! We received 75 submissions and accepted 21 (28%).  Curators extraordinaire Edmund Zagorin & Nazelah Jamison have put together a show FEATURING ALL OF TODAY’S LAMENTABLE HITS: the novel coronavirus\, systemic racism\, capitalism\, the patriarchy\, fear\, anxiety\, shame\, and premature\, unnecessary death. Join us for community alchemy as we move together from Mississippi to Beirut\, through family disconnects and isolation to the intersections of longing and belonging. \nAll selected authors will perform on 7/6 as part of a literary mixtape\, without introductions or banter. They will also be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 106\, featuring cover art by nkiruka oparah! “Fuzzy Room” is pictured above. \nThe show is free and all ages. If you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’re committed to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n\n\n\nStats for this show \n\nWe accepted 21 out of 79 submissions (28%)\n9 authors are making their QL debut (43%)\n12 authors are returning (57%)\n\nDiana Donovan (3x\, last time was 5/4/20)\nChristopher Dizon (1x\, 5/4/15)\nPaolo Bicchieri (1x\, 11/5/18)\nGrey Rosado (8x\, last time was 7/1/19)\nRichelle Lee Slota (2x\, last time was 1/6/20)\nSteven Hill (1x\, 7/1/19)\nSteven Gray (7x\, last time was 7/2/18)\nD.S. Black (2x\, last time was 1/1/18)\nCaroline Goodwin (1x\, 11/5/12)\nNoah Sanders (1x\, 11/4/19)\nKelly Gray (1x\, 3/2/20)\nAmy Smith (1x\, 1/6/20)\n\n\n25 have never attended a QL (32%)\n40 have read at QL before (51%)\n7 have never been published (9%)\n1 is being published for the first time\nThe largest age groups of submitters were:\n\n19-29 (19%)\n30-39 (33%)\n40-56 (19%)\n\n\n\nPrior to this show\, we have produced 133 events featuring 1\,584 individual performances by 825 different authors and 113 visual artists in 91 venues\, as selected by 65 curators. \n\nAbout the curators \nElizeya Quate (Edmund Zagorin) is a writer dwelling mysteriously both inside and outside this exact sentence. Quate’s work has appeared in Joyland\, Entropy\, Big Lucks\, Sleepingfish\, sparkle + blink\, the 2016 novel The Face of Our Town (Kernpunkt Press) and the 2018 chapbook cra-que-lure (Finishing Line Press). A resident of Schema\, Quate hosts the monthly performance art event Make It Look Like An Accident. \nNazelah Jamison is a performance poet\, actor\, vocalist\, and emcee. She is an East Coast transplant\, former organizer of the Oakland Poetry Slam and sometimes reluctant superhero. Her first book of poetry\, Evolutionary Heart\, was released in Fall of 2016 on Nomadic Press. Nazelah gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-quiet-lightning-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Meredith O'Brien & Leslie Gray Streeter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Meredith O’Brien (Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis) & Leslie Gray Streeter (Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Uncomfortably Numb and/or Black Widow and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O’Brien \nIt begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem\, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer\, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change\, she learns she has multiple sclerosis. \nSuddenly\, Meredith\, a married mother of three teens\, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. \nReimagining her life as a writer and an educator\, as a mother and a spouse\, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. \nIt is a life\, altered. \n  \nA Boston area author\, Meredith O’Brien has written four books\, including her latest\, Uncomfortably Numb\, a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis\, called “triumphant” and “riveting\,” as well as “heart-breaking … harrowing … and heroic.” Her third book\, a work of creative nonfiction\, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter\, Tears and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award and was a finalist for a Foreword INDIES award. A former newspaper reporter and investigative journalist\, Meredith teaches journalism and writing at Northeastern University in Boston where she also serves as a writing coach. \n  \n  \n\nBlack Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title) by Leslie Gray Streeter \nLeslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She’s not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside\, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she’d wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott’s funeral; he loved her in that dress! But\, here she is\, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack\, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. (“New widow lifestyle.” Sounds like something you’d find products for on daytime TV\, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait\, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) \nLooking at widowhood through the prism of race\, mixed marriage\, and aging\, Black Widowredefines the stages of grief\, from coffin shopping to day-drinking\, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy\, to breaking up and making up with God\, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!)\, Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott\, recounting their journey through racism\, religious differences\, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? \nTender\, true\, and endearingly hilarious\, Black Widow is a story about the power of love\, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself. \nLeslie Gray Streeter is a columnist for the Palm Beach Post and the author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books With Words Like ‘Journey’ In The Title. She lives in West Palm Beach with her mother Tina and her son Brooks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-meredith-obrien-leslie-gray-streeter/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 7 at 12pm PDT when Merlin Sheldrake discusses his book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds &Shape Our Futures with Michael Pollan on Zoom. \nTickets for this event can be found here. \nAbout This Event \nIn 2016\, a New Yorker profile by famed naturalist Robert Macfarlane introduced the world to one of the most important young thinkers of our age: Merlin Sheldrake. Moving from the labs of Cambridge to the jungles of Central America\, this revolutionary plant scientist had a hunch that fungi possess superpowers far beyond the mushrooms we know\, however mind-blowing their culinary or psychedelic varieties might be. He discovered that fungi are an ancient underground communication network that undergirds the natural world and offers inspiration for rethinking human society. \nMerlin’s riveting first book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures\, has become an instant classic of nature and philosophy—a work of rigorous science and poetic expression\, drawing us into the mystery and meaning of this most magical life form. \nIn our live conversation\, Merlin and bestselling nature and culture writer Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma) will delve into “The Wood Wide Web”: an enchanting “superorganism” whose secrets just might save the world. This event is for everyone who believes that wonder still exists and hope can be found in the unlikeliest places: around us\, under us\, even inside us. You’ll come away with a sense of awe for “life’s labyrinths\,” in Merlin’s words\, where “some of the vexed hierarchies that underpin modern thought start to soften.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-merlin-sheldrake-and-michael-pollan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be launching The Crow Rider\, Kalyn Josephson’s thrilling conclusion to the epic Storm Crow duology that follows a fallen princess as she tries to bring back the magical elemental crows taken from her people. \nThia\, her allies\, and her crow\, Res\, are planning a rebellion to defeat Queen Razel and the Kingdom of Illucia and must convince the neighboring kingdoms to come to her aid. Res excels at his training\, until he loses control of his magic\, harming Thia in the process. She is also being pursued by Prince Ericen\, heir to the Illucian throne. As the rebel group prepares for war\, Res’s magic grows more unstable. Thia has to decide if she can rely on herself and their bond enough to lead the rebellion and become the crow rider she was meant to be. \n\n\n\n\nReading during this time period can be challenging\, but this fabulous series is guaranteed to sweep you away to an enchanting world and introduce you to your next favorite magical creatures. \nKalyn will be chatting with Shannon Price\, author of A Thousand Fires and we couldn’t be more excited
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kalyn-josephson-with-shannon-price/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T180000
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich
DESCRIPTION:celebrating his new book \nDesert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \nfrom Counterpoint Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———– \n\nLayering climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences\, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nAs inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. For readers of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush\, Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching\, urgent— yet timeless and profound. \nBEN EHRENREICH writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, the London Review of Books\, and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. His last book\, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, based on his reporting from the West Bank\, was one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016. He is also the author of two novels\, Ether and The Suitors. \nPraise for Desert Notebooks \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” –Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \n“The past few years of an accelerated\, increasingly destructive climate crisis have brought a number of books that struggle to respond accordingly to a crisis of such magnitude; several writers have met this existential challenge with an equally existential discussion of the ways that the climate crisis affects our understanding of human history and time itself. Ben Ehrenreich\, a columnist for The Nation\, takes this discussion to the American southwest\, examining the intersection of science\, mythology\, and landscape in the desert\, in particular in Joshua Tree and Las Vegas. In these settings\, Ehrenreich’s book reflects on the ways that the prospect of extinction has affected our understanding of time\, and how we use that shift in perspective as we move forward.” –Corinne Segal\, Literary Hub\, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year \n“The crisis humanity faces is total. It’s planetary. It’s a crisis in space and also in time. How close are we to the end? Is this land we stand on going to be inhabitable in one hundred years\, sixty\, forty? In sharply featured\, compelling prose–the landscape writing here has the heartbreaking clarity of the experience of desert light–Ben Ehrenreich’s stunning Desert Notebooks combs through history\, literature\, myth\, physics\, and ecology to understand how we got here\, and how we might find our way out\, into forms of time that are made not of our thralldom to capital and petroleum but of our relationships to each other\, to our fellow creatures\, to plants and rocks and landscapes\, and to the stars and sun and moon overhead. Ben Ehrenreich wants you to join him here\, on earth. The thrill of Desert Notebooks is that in its lucid pages such a miracle seems almost possible.” –Anthony McCann\, author of Shadowlands \n“Ben Ehrenreich walked the deserts of the Occupied Territories for his previous book; in Desert Notebooks\, he takes us with him into the Mojave–its coyotes\, creosote\, and Joshua trees. He descends barrancas and canyons\, hikes boulder-strewn slopes into labyrinthine stacks of Jorge Luis Borges’s great Library\, from which he draws out stories from that time ‘when animals were people\, ‘ narratives by the Chemehuevi\, the Serrano\, the Mohave\, and other desert peoples. These echo in texts by Martin Bernal\, Walter Benjamin\, the Marquis de Condorcet\, and Jakob Böhme’s mystical touchstone–The Signature of All Things–as well as James Mooney’s classic\, the Ghost Dance and the Sioux revolt of 1890. Climate change California is burning as Ehrenreich’s meditations prismatically refract heat\, smoke\, and light. Desert Notebooks is a book for our time–that is\, a time scorched by harsh solar rays\, shimmering in searing\, phosphorescent prose.” –Sesshu Foster\, author of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-ehrenreich/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ball\, Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with national political journalist Molly Ball to discuss her book\, Pelosi\, an intimate\, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history\, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nShe’s the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place\, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections\, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party—even though\, as speaker under President Barack Obama\, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal health care to gays in the military. How did a 79-year-old Italian grandmother in four-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ? \nBall’s nuanced\, page-turning portrait takes readers inside the life and times of this historic and underappreciated figure. Based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting\, Ball shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens to explain how this extraordinary woman has met her moment. \n“A top-notch political biography.” ―Kirkus Reviews\, *starred review* \n“An entertaining and balanced biography of Nancy Pelosi…Ball offers plenty of insightful anecdotes\, presenting events within historical perspective so that readers can fully appreciate their import.” ―Booklist\, *starred review* \nMolly Ball is TIME magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN. She appears regularly on PBS’s Washington Week\, CBS’s Face the Nation\, ABC’s This Week\, and other television and radio programs. Ball is the winner of numerous awards for her coverage of American politics\, including the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. She grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lives in the Washington\, DC\, area with her husband and three children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-molly-ball-pelosi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200708T180000
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts Katherine Addison\, author of The Goblin Emperor\, to talk about new book
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Addison\, author of The Goblin Emperor\, returns with The Angel of the Crows\, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London\, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming. \nThis is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. \nIn an alternate 1880s London\, angels inhabit every public building\, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia\, except for a few things: Angels can Fall\, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human\, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. \nJack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows. \nKATHERINE ADDISON’s short fiction has been selected by The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. She is the author of the Locus Award-winning novel The Goblin Emperor. As Sarah Monette\, she is the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series and co-author\, with Elizabeth Bear\, of the Iskryne series. She lives near Madison\, Wisconsin. You can find her on Twitter as @pennyvixen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-books-hosts-katherine-addison-author-of-the-goblin-emperor-to-talk-about-new-book/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Thea Matthews and Maw Shein Win / Unearth [The Flowers]
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Thea Matthews for her first full-length book\, Unearth [The Flowers]\, the first single-author title from local reading series and small press Red Light Lit. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nAn electrifying letter to family\, country\, and self\, Unearth [The Flowers] is an essential collection\, relentless in its journey through stages of grief and healing while celebrating life. Each poem is an anthem for resiliency\, a testament to survival\, a triumph over the stigmatized terror that pervades the everyday. Thea Matthews’s first full-length collection of poetry details a mind\, body\, and flower at the intersection of the personal and the political. \n— \n“Unearth [The Flowers] sees the pastoral tradition of poetry through a contemporary feminist lens that shows Thea Matthews as a writer of urgency and authentic concern. Or as Matthews herself says\, ‘where there is land / there is blood.’ This is a book of catalogue\, of taxonomy\, of the need to name the earth and stand on it whole.” – Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition \n​“Unearth [The Flowers] is a blooming battle cry\, a feat of alchemy in which the personal and political merge in a brutal empathy. Rage and sorrow and the liberation of healing unfurl in a landscape of flowers—this is true literary witchcraft.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \n“Unearth [The Flowers] is a refusal of silence and a testament to survival\, speaking back to the damages with a gorgeous bouquet of poems. Thea Matthews conjures poetic magic for healing and bearing witness with vibrant\, lyrically rich poems.” – Tiana Clark\, author of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood \n“Thea Matthews is a poetic herbalist\, using flowers to create healing. This work is egalitarian\, touching on blooms of all sorts: indigenous\, imported\, bolted\, and cultivated. You will feel these poems in the root of your jaw\, in your foot arches. Matthews is an experienced poet with a deft hand and an honest heart. These words languidly stretch\, snap like a lock blade\, they drape and twine and reach. Read this work and be changed.” – Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate \n“Thea Matthews is the voice and protector of our generation. Brave poems like a universe that has decided to go forward with a third testament. Thea Matthews is our sacred underground; the only host of our ascension.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes \n— \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a poet\, scholar\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. She earned her BA at UC Berkeley where she studied and taught June Jordan’s program Poetry for the People. She has work published in the Atlanta Review\, Tilde\, Foglifter\, The Rumpus\, and others. She has work also featured in anthologies Still Here San Francisco (Foglifter Press 2019); and Love WITH Accountability: Uprooting the Roots on Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press 2019). Her first collection of poetry Unearth [The Flowers] is published by Red Light Lit Press. \n** Please note ** \n> This is a free\, all-ages event. The Bindery’s bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unearth [The Flowers]\, find more information here: https://www.booksmith.com/event/bindery-thea-matthews-unearth-flowers \n> Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thea-matthews-unearth-the-flowers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Power to the Poets: Uproar
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 9\, 2020 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern for POWER TO THE POETS: UPROAR! \nVia FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1869493649860368/?active_tab=about \nHosts:\nAmos White & Aileen Cassinetto \nFeaturing: \nJOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE\ncurates and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. His frst book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nBERNARD COLLINS\nis a visual artist and faculty member at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. He is also a spoken word artist whose humorous style hearkens back to the “Toasting” traditions of African American culture seen in poems like the “Signifying Monkey” or “Shine.” \nSHANELLE GABRIEL\nShanelle Gabriel has toured internationally and is known for both opening and featuring on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam alongside Jill Scott. She has also shared the stage with artists such as Talib Kweli\, Nas\, Dave Chapelle\, and more. Shanelle was spotlighted on the Rachael Ray Show\, and was named one of “8 Millennial Feminist Poets That Deserve Recognition” by BET.com and a “Powerful Indie Artist Activist You Should Know” by Blavity.com. She was selected to curate a series of poems for Fast Company Magazine’s 2019 European Innovation Festival at the Gucci Hub in Milan\, Italy\, and was the subject of a mini-documentary on the Lifetime Network regarding her battle with Lupus. She presently resides in Brooklyn. For links to her music & poetry and to learn more\, visit www.shanellegabriel.com. \nAMBITION THE POET HARPER\nis a poet\, workshop instructor\, entrepreneur\, and author of From the Tongue of a Foster Child. He lives in Sicklerville\, New Jersey. \nANTONIO LOPEZ\nis an East Palo Alto native and PhD student in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He holds degrees in African American Studies and Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Duke University and the University of Oxford. His debut collection\, Gentefication\, won the 2019 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry\, and is set to be published fall of 2021. \nSHIKHA MALAVIYA\nis the author of the internationally-acclaimed\, Geography of Tongues\, former Poet Laureate of San Ramon\, co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective\, Sangam Arts Mosaic Fellow\, TEDx speaker\, and 2020 poetry judge of AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in PLUME\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area. https://shikhamalaviya.com \nTUREEDA MIKELL\nis a Story Medicine Woman\, award winning poet and performance artist. She was a featured poet/storyteller at the National Association of Black Storytellers\, Lawrence Hall and Golden Gate Academy of Sciences\, Museum of the African Diaspora\, Randall and Oakland Museums\, The Black Panther’s 50th Anniversary\, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday\, Eth-Noh-Tec Nu Wa in Beijing\, China\, and at the de Young Museum’s Soul of a Nation. Her book\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\, was published by Nomadic Press in February 2020. \nALBERT MILLS\nis the Poet Laureate of Delaware. He is a community-based social worker deeply rooted in the juvenile justice system. Mills has designed and led organizations that provide services for delinquent youth and their families. As a therapist\, he serves New Castle County Delaware’s Multisystemic Therapy Services. Mills is a certified A.R.T. therapist\, and takes pride in his efforts to utilize art as a tool for foundational change in youth\, families\, communities\, and our society. A cofounder of G.O.A.L.S.\, and S.Y.A.-Tutoring and Mentoring Programs in Wilmington\, Mills is also an honored army veteran who served in Iraq and speaks about his struggles with PTSD as a result of the war. https://arts.delaware.gov/poet-laureate/ \nELIJAH PRINGLE III\nis a Philadelphia poet\, lyric baritone\, composer\, actor\, and artivist. He is the author of At the Cornerstone\, Feeding the Sparrow\, and Second Saturday at Serenity\, and has appeared on radio\, TV & stage. He has been quoted in print in Newsweek\, The New York Times\, The Philadelphia Daily News\, and others. He credits his true education to five generations of teachers. \nOCTAVIO QUINTANILLA\nis Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, Texas. He is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing. His poetry\, fiction\, translations\, and photography have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in Salamander\, Poetry Northwest\, RHINO\, and elsewhere. His visual poems have been exhibited in several galleries\, including Presa House Gallery\, Equinox Gallery\, and at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio\, TX. He holds a PhD from the University of North Texas and is the regional editor for Texas Books in Review and poetry editor for The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism & for Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine. https://www.octavioquintanilla.com \nGENTLE RAMIREZ\n(THEY/THEM) is a trans non-binary poet from the Bronx. A 2020 Lyvo Fellow and recipient of The Oluwatoyin Salua Freedom Fighters Grant (2020)\, Gentle’s work has been featured in NYUnited\, Bryant Park Poetry\, West 10th\, PoetNY\, Write About Now Poetry\, and more. Gentle is a BA candidate at New York University and most recently the author of their first book\, Ultram (KDP 2018). https://www.gentleramirez.com \nAMOS WHITE\nThe Founder and Chief Planter at 100K Trees for Humanity\, Amos White is a Climate Mobilization Strategist\, Coro Fellow in Public Affairs\, author\, poet\, arts impresario\, civil rights activist\, father\, and husband based in Alameda\, California. \n*** \nPOWER TO THE POETS is a live reading series curated by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto. We’ll be broadcasting live on this event page. Video will appear as a post under the Discussion tab. The reading will be archived at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB7ih0FYXei_j7pJk4hcfeg \nPast events: \nPower to the Poets: Poets of Color for Change\, https://migozine.org/category/blacklivesmatter/ \nPower to the Poets: A Juneteenth Special\, https://migozine.org/category/juneteenth-2/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/power-to-the-poets-uproar/
LOCATION:CA
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