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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts Jo Walton\, author of OR WHAT YOU WILL
DESCRIPTION:Come join Borderlands Bookstore as they host Jo Walton for her latest\, OR WHAT YOU WILL! \nFrom Jo Walton\, author of the critically-acclaimed and reader-beloved Among Others\, and Hugo\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Award winner\, comes a new lyrical and philosophical novel: OR WHAT YOU WILL (A Tor Hardcover; On-sale: July 7\, 2020). Walton’s latest is an utterly original novel about how stories work and how they are brought forth from a writer’s depths. With OR WHAT YOU WILL\, Walton delightfully dramatizes the deep processes common to most writers and how their characters speak to them—with all their danger\, cruelty\, drama\, and sublime charm.  It is the perfect book for anyone who LOVES literature: writing it\, sharing it\, and most of all\, reading it! \nHere is some of what people are already saying about OR WHAT YOU WILL:\n“Or What You Will is a Jo Walton book. Which is to say—it’s a joy and a revelation\, and I never wanted it to end.”—Rainbow Rowell \n“Both intellectual and engaging\, this is a book for readers experienced in the fantasy genre and who also enjoy thinking about the craft of writing.”—Buzzfeed \n“Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Walton brilliantly braids somber realism\, fanciful metafiction\, and Shakespearean-influenced fantasy into a moving paean to the power of storytelling…\nThis gorgeous\, deeply philosophical work is a knockout.—Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \nHe has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar\, a warrior\, a lover\, and a thief. He has been a dream and dreamer. He has been a god…\nBut “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea\, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison\, 73\, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels\, and in the recesses of her mind\, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won’t live forever\, any more than any human does. And he’s trapped inside her cave of bone\, her hollow of skull. When she dies\, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel\, a fantasy for adult readers\, set in Thalia\, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he’s got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her. \nJO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel Among Others. Before that\, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, and her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. The novels of her Small Change sequence—Farthing\, Ha’penny\, and Half a Crown—have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics’ Choice Award. A native of Wales\, she lives in Montreal. Follow her on Twitter at @bluejowalton.
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SUMMARY:Leslie Kern
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nFeminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World \n\npublished by Verso Books \n———– \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———– \nto make reservations \n(Click Here for Reservations)\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nFeminist City is a forthcoming release. Keep an eye on this spot for a link to purchase book. \n(Click Here to buy book in the near future!) \n———– \nFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently\, living better\, and living more justly in an urban world \n\n\nWe live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers\, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. \nIn Feminist City\, through history\, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities\, homes\, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear\, motherhood\, friendship\, activism\, and the joys and perils of being alone\, Kern maps the city from new vantage points\, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just\, sustainable\, and women-friendly cities together. \n\nLeslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender\, Condominium Development\, and Urban Citizenship. \nAdvanced praise for Feminist City: \n\n“Visionary\, intelligent\, and humane\, this book offers intersectional insights into the gendered nature of the modern city to promote ‘living more justly in an urban world’ … A timely\, thought-provoking study.” \n– Kirkus \n\n\n\n“[An] insightful scholarly work … This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists.” \n–Publisher’s Weekly \n\n\n“Cities aren’t built to accommodate female bodies\, female needs\, female desires. In this rich\, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the ‘city of men’ into a city for everyone. Let’s all move there immediately.” \n– Lauren Elkin\, author of Flaneuse \n\n\n“This book totally opened my eyes! Feminist City is an incredibly incisive look at cities and urban design through the lens of gender\, while also inspecting how acts of claiming urban space affect other marginalized groups. Combining academic and lived experience\, Leslie Kern’s intersectional approach clearly lays out just how cities are failing and what it might mean to imagine a more just urban life. Feminist City made me see my own experiences in a whole new light\, and Kern makes the field of feminist geography completely accessible and exciting to the average city slicker. Anyone who considers themselves a feminist or activist should read this book!” \n– Julia DeVarti\, Literati Bookstore
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Juli Delgado Lopera in conversation with Daniel Handler / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:Are you still bummed we had to postpone the launch party for Juli Delgado Lopera and their debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical? Us too! But be bummed no longer and join us for a virtual event\, in conversation with Daniel Handler (Bottle Grove). \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \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\nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. They are the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. They are the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and have received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, they served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Fiebre Tropical sent to your door\, order here or below.
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SUMMARY:Author Joe Di Prisco Discussing The Good Family Fitzgerald w/ Ian Maloney | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 9\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with our friend and author\, Joe Di Prisco\, discussing his new novel\, THE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD\, with Ian Maloney. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82064714666. \n(Order your copy of THE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD in paper at https://bit.ly/GGPTGFF\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/ABTGFF.) \nTHE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD \nThe Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition\, crime and the Catholic Church\, a sprawling\, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. \nThe Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege\, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis\, many of their own creation. Even so\, they live large\, in love and in strife\, wielding power\, combating adversaries and each other. The Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition\, crime and the Catholic Church\, a sprawling\, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. \nPadraic Fitzgerald is the up-from-nothing\, aging patriarch whose considerable business interests appear anything but legitimate\, but he has bigger problems than law enforcement. A widower\, Paddy becomes enmeshed with a young woman who will force him to re-examine his cardinal assumptions. Meanwhile\, he has cultivated thorny relationships with his four children\, all of whom struggle over the terms of connection with their father. Anthony―oldest son\, principled criminal defense attorney\, designated prince of the family―and his cherished Francesca are devastated by tragedy. In the aftermath\, Frankie comes to play a vital role in Fitzgerald lore. Philip is a charismatic Catholic priest spectacularly torn between his lofty ideals and aspirations and his all-too-human flaws and longings. Matty has wandered aimlessly\, but once he finds his purpose\, he precipitates turmoil in all quarters. Colleen\, the youngest\, is a seeker who styles herself the outsider and the conscience of the clan. Her hands are full\, as no Fitzgerald is left untested or unscathed\, and by the end the whole family\, as well as those venturing into their realm\, will be stunned into illumination. \nJOE DI PRISCO \nJoseph Di Prisco was born in Greenpoint\, Brooklyn\, where once upon a time the Brooklyn Dodgers ruled the known world. Shortly after he was whisked away at 10 years old on the subway to California (long story; see his memoirs)\, however\, he saw the light and became a San Francisco Giants fan. He has published five novels (Confessions of Brother Eli\, Sun City\, All for Now\, The Alzhammer\, Sibella & Sibella and his latest The Good Family Fitzgerald)\, three books of poetry (Wit’s End\, Poems in Which\, and Sightlines from the Cheap Seats)\, two books on childhood and adolescence co-written with psychologist and educator Michael Riera (Field Guide to the American Teenager and Right from Wrong)\, and two memoirs (Subway to California and The Pope of Brooklyn). Di Prisco is the founding chair of The Simpson Literary Project\, which promotes literacy and literature\, writers and writing across the generations. He also is series editor of the annual anthology: Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project.\nDi Prisco’s book reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers\, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest\, Bear Star Press\, and Bread Loaf.  \nMODERATOR IAN MALONEY  \nIan S. Maloney is Professor of English at St Francis College in Brooklyn\, NY where he directs the SFC Literary Prize. Ian serves on the Literary Council for the Brooklyn Book Festival as well as the board for the Walt Whitman Initiative. He recently completed his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-joe-di-prisco-discussing-the-good-family-fitzgerald-w-ian-maloney-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Dashka Slater virtual launch!
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host the virtual launch of The Book of Fatal Errors\, a tale of friendship\, magic\, and eternal life\, an evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy–by local favorite–award-winning author Dashka Slater! \n“A fun\, emotionally driven fairy story…an excellent readalike for The Spiderwick Chronicles…recommended for any young fantasy fans.”– School Library Journal \nFor instructions to register with Crowdcast\, and to order the book from Mrs. Dalloway’s\, please see below. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, July 11\, 2020 – 11:00am to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRufus doesn’t just make mistakes – he makes fatal errors. Clumsy and awkward\, he feels entrapped by his teasing classmates and their constant laughter. But now it is summer. Rufus is free. He roams the wildlands of his grandfather’s mysterious homestead\, blissfully unaware of the danger up ahead. \nAnd there is much danger. Rufus and his snooty cousin Abigail soon become entangled in the tantalizing world of the feylings\, mischievous fairly-like creatures desperate to find their way home. In helping the feylings\, Rufus tumbles down a dark path rich with age-old secrets and difficult truths. Any move he makes might be his final fatal error. \nOr perhaps\, his most spectacular beginning. \nDashka Slater has written several books\, including her non-fiction title for young adults\, The 57 Bus\, which received the Stonewall Book Award and was a YALSA Nonfiction finalist\, among many other honors. She also wrote the picture book Escargot\, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award\, and its follow-up\, A Book for Escargot. \nThe event will take place via Crowdcast. Join us from the comfort of your living room or wherever you might be! \nOrder your copy from Mrs. Dalloway’s\, and Dashka will sign and personalize it. Please provide inscription details in the comment field. Books can be picked up at the store\, or shipped for a fee. We will notify you when your book is ready for pickup. \nQuestions? Please contact info@mrsdsallways.com. \nHope you can join us!
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Tim Cahill (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author \nTim Cahill is the author of nine books—one of which\, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh\, National Geographic named as one of the 100 best adventure/travel books ever written. \nTim is a pioneer of literary adventure writing. One of the founders of Outside\, he is the author of its long-running “Out There” column\, and an editor-at-large. His work also appears in National Geographic Adventure\, the New York Times Book Review\, and other national publications. \nTim’s travel books include\, A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg\, Pass the Butterworms\, Road Fever and Hold the Enlightenment. He also wrote the introduction for The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World. He is also the co-author of four IMAX documentary screenplays\, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards. He lives in Montana\, in the shadow of the Crazy Mountains. \nMichael Shapiro writes about travel\, food\, entertainment\, art\, and environmental issues for magazines and newspapers. He is the author of The Creative Spark\, a collection of interviews with many of the world’s most creative people\, as well as A Sense of Place featuring conversations with leading travel writers.
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Transatlantic poetry reading with two poets from the SF Bay area\, Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky\, and two poets from Wales\, Graham Harthill and Christopher Twigg. Zoom details & author bios below. \nCaroline Goodwin moved from Sitka\, Alaska to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Custody of the Eyes (dancing girl press\, 2019)\, The Paper Tree (Big Yes Press\, 2017)\, Peregrine (Finishing Line Press\, 2015)\, and Trapline (JackLeg Press\, 2013). She also published a chapbook\, Text Me\, Ishmael\, with Steven Hitchins’ Literary Pocketbook Series based in Pontypridd\, Wales\, 2012. Goodwin lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything\, New Rivers Press. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. \nGraham Hartill’s latest book is a collaborative translation (with Wu Fu Sheng)\, The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Commercial Press\, Beijing\, 2020). He lives in the Black Mountains of South Wales\, works as a writer in residence in a prison and teaches on the Master’s Programme in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute\, London. He has a new collection of his own poems\, possibly called The Necklace\, coming this Autumn from Aquifer Books. \nChristopher Twigg’s most recent poetry collection is ‘The Handle of the Door’ (2019 Aquifer). He lives in Talgarth\, Wales where he also paints. \nZoom \nTopic: Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading\nTime: Jul 12\, 2020 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/71156155385?pwd=OFRtVE5sNDdYT1ltbzZncUpkWWZMUT09 \nMeeting ID: 711 5615 5385\nPassword: 6bkBPX
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Kathryn Aalto\, Writing Wild
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with bestselling author of Kathryn Aalto (The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh) with her latest creation\, Writing Wild: Women Poets\, Ramblers\, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World\, an important exploration of 25 women writers whose works have changed the way we look at Nature. Featured writers include Rebecca Solnit\, Dorothy Wordsworth\, Gene Stratton-Porter\, Mary Austin\, Gretel Ehrlich\, Lauret Savoy\, Kathleen Jamie\, Carolyn Finney\, and more. \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! \nIn Writing Wild\, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars\, spiritual seekers\, conservationists\, scientists\, novelists\, and explorers. They defy easy categorization\, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. \nPart travel essay\, literary biography\, and cultural history\, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens\, head outdoors\, and start writing wild. \nKathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer\, historian\, writer\, and lecturer living in Exeter\, England. She has master’s degrees in garden history and creative nonfiction with a particular interest in literary landscapes. Before her expat life\, she taught American Literature of Nature and Place in the Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment\, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs\, and Garden Communicators International.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kathryn-aalto-writing-wild/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Heather Lende in conversation with Sedge Thomson / Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Heather Lende for her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics. She’ll be in conversation with Sedge Thomson. \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \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\nThe writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls “part Annie Dillard\, part Anne Lamott” now brings us her quirky and compassionate account of holding local office. \nHeather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines\, Alaska\, cost less than $1\,000\, she won! But tiny\, breathtakingly beautiful Haines—a place accessible from the nearest city\, Juneau\, only by boat or plane—isn’t the sleepy town that it appears to be: from a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears from rifling through garbage on Main Street to the recall campaign that targeted three assembly members\, including Lende\, we witness the nitty-gritty of passing legislation\, the lofty ideals of our republic\, and how the polarizing national politics of our era play out in one small town. \nWith an entertaining cast of offbeat but relatable characters\, Of Bears and Ballots is an inspirational tale about what living in a community really means\, and what we owe one another. \n\nHeather Lende has contributed essays and commentary to NPR\, the New York Times\, and National Geographic Traveler\, among other newspapers and magazines\, and is a former contributing editor at Woman’s Day. A columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News\, she is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines and the recipient of the Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award from the Alaska Press Club. Her previous bestselling books are Find the Good\, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs\, and If You Lived Here\, I’d Know Your Name. Lende was voted Citizen of the Year\, Haines Chamber of Commerce\, in 2004. Her website is heatherlende.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Of Bears and Ballots sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-heather-lende-in-conversation-with-sedge-thomson-of-bears-and-ballots-an-alaskan-adventure-in-small-town-politics/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jessica Pearce Rotondi & Lauren Francis-Sharma
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 Jessica Pearce Rotondi (What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers) & Lauren Francis-Sharma (Book of the Little Ax). \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 What We Inherit and/or Book of the Little Ax 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\nWhat We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers by Jessica Pearce Rotondi \nIn the wake of her mother’s death\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters\, declassified CIA reports\, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack\, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the rules of engagement forever. \nIn 1943\, 19-year-old Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing in action for months\, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and a march across the Alps before returning home. \nEd’s eldest son and namesake\, Edwin “Jack\,” follows his father into the Air Force. But on the night of March 29\, 1972\, Jack’s plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed’s past comes roaring into the present. \nIn 2009\, Ed’s granddaughter\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi\, is grieving her mother’s death when she stumbles across declassified CIA documents\, letters\, and maps that reveal her family’s decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is Rotondi’s story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather’s 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his son. \nAn excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national scale\, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father’s refusal to be silenced and a daughter’s quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen alive\, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has haunted her family for generations―and the destructive impact of a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war. \nJessica Pearce Rotondi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The History Channel\, Reader’s Digest\, Vogue\, Salon\, Atlas Obscura\, The Huffington Post\, and Refinery29. Previously\, she was a senior editor at The Huffington Post and a staff member at the PEN American Center\, the world’s oldest literary human rights organization. Her first job in New York City was at St. Martin’s Press\, where she had a “room of her own” in the Flatiron Building to fill with books. She grew up in New England and is a graduate of Brown University. What We Inherit is her first book. Connect with Jessica on Twitter and Instagram @JessicaRotondi or visit JessicaPearceRotondi.com. \n\n  \n  \n  \nBook of the Little Ax by Lauren Francis-Sharma \nIn 1796 Trinidad\, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright\, competitive\, and opinionated\, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house\, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she\, alone\, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule\, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners―Rosa’s family among them―will be allowed to keep their assets\, their land\, and ultimately\, their freedom. \nBy 1830\, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn\, Montana with her children and her husband\, Edward Rose\, a Crow chief. Her son Victor is of the age where he must seek his vision and become a man. But his path forward is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept from him. So Rosa must take him to where his story began and\, in turn\, retrace her own roots\, acknowledging along the way\, the painful events that forced her from the middle of an ocean to the rugged terrain of a far-away land. \n  \nLauren Francis-Sharma is the author of Book of the Little Axe and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry\, her first novel\, which was awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Lauren is a contributor to Marita Golden’s anthology\, Us Against Alzheimer’s\, and her more recent work can be found at ElectricLit.com\, Barrelhouse.com and The Lily. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a MacDowell Fellow and the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College. \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-jessica-pearce-rotondi-lauren-francis-sharma/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl with Kate Hudson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJoin Kate Hudson in conversation with Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rad Women book series. \nThe three women will discuss Kate and Miriam’s newest book\, Rad American History A-Z\, an illustrated history book that explores centuries of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural moments and movements in American history. They’ll touch on multiple topics including the importance of reading and learning about our nations’ lesser-known histories\, engaging in honest conversation with their children about current events\, and broadening our minds to create a just and sustainable future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-with-kate-hudson-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203805
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: A.H. Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday July 14th for A.H. Kim discussing her new novel A Good Family with Vanessa Hua on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81092364570 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81092364570#  or +12532158782\,\,81092364570#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 810 9236 4570\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kjMDC3vEC \nPraise for A Good Family \n“A story of money\, family\, who you can trust\, and the extremes to which one will go for blood. I couldn’t put it down.” –Lisa Ling\, host of CNN’s This Is Life \nAbout A Good Family \nBeth is the darling of God Halsa\, a pharmaceutical giant\, and she’s got the outrageous salary and lifestyle to prove it. Until she lands in white-collar women’s prison\, thanks to a high-profile whistleblower suit. \nSam\, Beth’s husband\, used to be the town’s most eligible bachelor\, and he’s never had to do anything for himself. Until his wife goes to jail\, and he’s left to raise two daughters on his own. \nLise\, the au pair\, is the whistleblower. But is she? Everyone knows she’s not clever enough to have done it alone. \nHannah\, Sam’s sister\, is devoted to her family. There’s nothing she wouldn’t do for them. \nEva\, Beth’s sister\, is the smart one. (Read: not the pretty one.) Her life seems perfect on the surface\, but sibling rivalry runs deep. \nMartin\, Beth’s brother\, is the firstborn\, the former golden boy turned inside-the Beltway businessman. But what is he hiding? \nSomeone knows something. Someone betrayed Beth. \nThis is the story of the Min-Lindstroms. This is the story of the all-American family as it implodes under the weight of secrets\, lies and the unchecked desire for wealth and power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-a-h-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
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SUMMARY:Black Girls Have Something to Say: Lisa Moore Ramee\, Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, Alicia Williams
DESCRIPTION:Black girls have something to say and we are proud to be hosting this panel of incredibly talented middle-grade authors to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated new novel\, Something to Say. \n\n \n\nLisa Moore Ramee is one of our favorite authors. We launched and evangelized for her debut novel A Good Kind of Trouble\, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book\, and are so excited to launch Something to Say\, an unforgettable story about finding your voice—and finding your people. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven-year-old Jenae doesn’t have any friends—and she’s just fine with that. She’s so good at being invisible in school\, it’s almost like she has a superpower\, like her idol\, Astrid Dane. At home\, Jenae has plenty of company\, like her no-nonsense mama; her older brother\, Malcolm\, who is home from college after a basketball injury; and her beloved grandpa\, Gee. Then a new student shows up at school—a boy named Aubrey—and Jenae can’t figure out why he keeps popping up everywhere she goes. The more she tries to push him away\, the more he seems determined to be her friend. Despite herself\, Jenae starts getting used to having him around. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the proposed name change for their school\, Jenae knows this new friendship has an expiration date. Aubrey is desperate to win and earn a coveted spot on the debate team. But Jenae would do almost anything to avoid speaking up in front of an audience—including risking the first real friendship she’s ever had. \nLisa will be in conversation with Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, and Alicia Williams \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariama J Lockington is the author of For Black Girls Like Me\, a lyrical coming-of-age story about family\, sisterhood\, music\, race\, and identity that draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanae Marks is the author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington\, a captivating mystery full of heart\, as one courageous girl questions assumptions\, searches for the truth\, and does what she believes is right—even in the face of great opposition. \nAlicia Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again\,  which received a Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors\, was a William C. Morris Award finalist\, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Genesis Begins Again is a deeply sensitive and powerful novel that tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. \nDon’t miss this chance to hear what these four extraordinary authors have to say
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-girls-have-something-to-say-lisa-moore-ramee-mariama-j-lockington-janae-marks-alicia-williams/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T200000
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SUMMARY:Scott Dominic Carpenter in conversation with Don George - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris\, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors\, police denunciations\, surly demonstrators\, cooking disasters\, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese. It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted\, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure. \nIn French Like Moi\, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday\, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all\, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern). \nMinnesota-born and Midwest-bred\, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018)\, recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant\, and semi-finalist for the Many Voices Project Prize\, he has published work in a wide variety of venues\, including The Rumpus\, Silk Road\, Catapult\, South Dakota Review\, and various anthologies. He lives 45 miles from Minneapolis in Northfield\, Minnesota\, and Paris. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing\, and the editor of twelve anthologies. In his 40-year career he has served as travel editor for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle\, founder and editor of Salon.com’s Wanderlust travel site\, global travel editor for Lonely Planet\, and editor at large for National Geographic Travel. He is also the co-chair of Book Passage’s Travel Writers & Photographers Conference\, now in its 29th year. \nLarry Habegger is a travel writer\, editor\, journalist\, and teacher who has been covering the world since the 1970s. As a freelance writer for more than 30 years and syndicated columnist since 1985\, Habegger’s work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines\, including the Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Travel & Leisure\, and Outside. In 1993\, he cofounded the award-winning Travelers’ Tales books with James and Tim O’Reilly\, and is currently executive editor. His latest book in the Travelers’ Tales series is The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 11.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scott-dominic-carpenter-in-conversation-with-don-george-french-like-moi-a-midwesterner-in-paris-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
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SUMMARY:LItquake on Lockdown: A Family Divided
DESCRIPTION:Millions of families are separated today\, by circumstances of the current pandemic\, by draconian immigration policies\, and by war. Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure\, frighten\, and terrorize. Through the lens of fiction\, we can understand the impact of such wounds\, and strengthen our shared belief in family and community connection. Authors Donna Hemans\, Aimee Liu\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Kristen Millares Young discuss their Spring 2020 novels\, and explore the paths of families torn apart. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKristen Millares Young\nThe current Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House\, Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction. Her prize-winning investigations\, essays and book reviews appear in the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere. She was the researcher for The New York Times team… Read More →\n\n \nDonna Hemans\nDonna Hemans is the author of Tea by the Sea and a previous novel\, River Woman. Her short fiction has appeared in Caribbean Writer\, Crab Orchard Review\, Witness\, and Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad. She is an editor at Pree\, a Caribbean online… Read More →\n\n \nAimee Liu\nAimee Liu is the author of Glorious Boy and the previous novels Flash House\, Cloud Mountain\, and Face. Her nonfiction includes Gaining and Solitaire. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies\, magazines\, and literary journals. She teaches in Goddard… Read More →\n\n \nEllen Meeropol\nEllen Meeropol is the author of Her Sister’s Tattoo\, and the previous novels Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Recent essay publications include Ms Magazine\, Lilith\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. She is a founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and leads… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-a-family-divided/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 14\, 7pm on Zoom\nfeaturing Jeanine U-C and Indigo Moor \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nJeanine U-C won last July’s Anarchy Poetry Slam. Two of her poems were published in last year’s Caesura\, “Ash Wednesday February 14\, 2018” in the paperback version and “Punks” in the online version. Jeanine published two chapbooks: “Allowed Aloud” in 2018\, “Let Go of Detachment” in 2019. Another chapbook is forthcoming. Its title; “Too Pretty to Be Porn.” It’s taken her whole life to get to be this age. \nPoet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor‘s fourth book of poetry Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, took second place in the University of Nebraska Press’ Backwater Prize and will be published spring 2021. His second book\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first and third books\, Tap-Root and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers\, were both part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. In addition to poetry\, Indigo has produced award-winning plays\, short fiction\, and essays. His stage-turned-screenplay Live! at the Excelsior was optioned as a full-length film. He is a former teacher at the Stonecoast MFA Program and a Cave Canem fellow. Indigo sits on the advisory board for both the Modesto Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Sacramento Poetry Center. A 10-year veteran of the US Navy and a twice-decorated Gulf War Veteran\, Indigo divides his time between writing\, teaching\, and Integrated Circuit Layout Engineering for computer companies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-4/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Melissa Valentine / The Names of All the Flowers\, with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host the launch for Melissa Valentine and her debut\, The Names of All the Flowers. She’ll be in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven is All Goodbyes). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you are welcome to join via Zoom. \nWe will also be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n*Please note* Buy your copy of The Names of All the Flowers from us to be entered into a raffle for a free signed copy of Thea Matthew’s Unearth [The Flowers]! \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\nMelissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland\, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence\, a bullying incident and later a violent attack in school leave him searching for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places; he develops a hard front and falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth birthday\, the family is torn apart when he is murdered as a result of gun violence. \nThe Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost\, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence\, grief\, and trauma\, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.” \n\n“In this poignant\, painful\, and gorgeous memoir\, Melissa Valentine bravely explores what faces black boys and men\, through the eyes of a black woman\, sister\, daughter\, and member of a family whose lives are altered forever\, time and time again. The Names of All the Flowers encourages us to be brave too; brave enough to imagine a world that loves black people\, in all of our complexities.” – Alicia Garza\, cofounder\, Black Lives Matter \n“You will think about this book for a very long time.” – Catherine McKinley\, author of The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts \n“Valentine’s words on grief and trauma will stick with me for life: ‘We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.’ This is a book I know I’ll return to time and time again.” – Tyler Ford\, founding editor\, them \n“Sharp and incredibly courageous\, The Names of All the Flowers is an act of profound love\, profound service. Valentine gives herself the task of speaking the words of all of our grief\, all of our trauma\, and she does so with unexpected beauty and honesty. I could not resist this book. In the end\, it broke me.” – Carvell Wallace\, writer\, New York Times Magazine \n\nMelissa Valentine is a writer from Oakland\, CA. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in creative writing from Mills College. She has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and her work has appeared in Jezebel\, Guernica\, Apogee Journal\, and others. Her writing has received honorable mention from Glimmer Train and the Ardella Mills Non-fiction Award. She currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\n  \n  \n  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have The Names of All the Flowers sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:All Adults Here by Emma Straub | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 14\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Emma Straub’s new novel\, ALL ADULTS HERE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81214951613. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPAdultsHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AdultsAB. \nMay 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“A single sudden and shocking occurrence jolts Astrid Strick — widow\, mother\, and small-town stalwart — into reassessing her life\, especially her failings with her three grown children. Even as she tries to find a path toward redemption\, it’s clear her offspring are nursing different hurts. Straub’s lovely and charming comic novel explores the messy and dissonant truths that underpin the illusions we maintain about those closest to us. No one is at fault\, and everyone is to blame. Even adults have to grow up. Utterly charming and completely engrossing.”\n— Anmiryam Budner\, Main Point Books\, Wayne\, PA \nDescription\n\nAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!\n“In a time when all we want is hope\, it’s a beautiful book to reach for.” -Jenna Bush Hager \n“Literary sunshine.”—New York Times \n“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“Brimming with kindness\, forgiveness\, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.” —Ann Patchett\n \n“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox \nA warm\, funny\, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family–as the kids become parents\, grandchildren become teenagers\, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. \nWhen Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town\, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly\, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three\, now-grown children. But to what consequence? \nAstrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused\, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide\, so many years later\, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. \nIn All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s unique alchemy of wisdom\, humor\, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings\, aging parents\, high school boyfriends\, middle school mean girls\, the lifelong effects of birth order\, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood\, whether we like them to or not. \nAbout the Author\n\nEmma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of three other novels The Vacationers\, Modern Lovers\, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures\, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. She and her husband own Books Are Magic\, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn\, New York. \nPraise For…\n\nPraise for All Adults Here: \n“Emma Straub is a perfect novelist for summer reading.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“You’ll never want to say goodbye to the Strick family of All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s charming fourth novel.” —O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“To describe Emma Straub’s novel All Adults Here without using the word ‘charming’ is like trying to describe an accordion without using your hands. But winsome and big-hearted do fine to characterize Ms. Straub’s loosely knit\, multigenerational fourth novel …Tight\, flinty Astrid…seems like close kin to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“A master analyst of romantic relationships\, Straub trains her eye on family dynamics and small-town life in this witty and wise tale.” —People Magazine \n“Delivers a Dose of Normal Life\, Right When We Need It. . .  Straub cements her status as a master of the domestic ensemble drama.”—TIME \n“Emma Straub’s warm-hearted fourth novel confirms her reign as a patron saint of delayed adolescence.”—NPR \n“‘Literary sunshine’ is a good way to think of Straub’s work. Her writing and tone are consistently bright and straightforward; her approach to character is warm and generous . . . The main pleasures of All Adults Here ome from Straub’s wry comic instincts (a pair of hyperaggressive twin toddlers are hilariously appalling) and her gimlet eye for cultural observation  . . . Her wit extends out from the individual characters into a larger commentary on the difficulties of becoming an adult\, making this an especially rich addition to the author’s body of work.”  —The New York Times \n“A beach read with teeth.” —The New Republic \n“Undeniably pleasing . . . a kind of thinking-person’s beach read that’s maybe all the better for arriving in these strange\, landlocked times.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“It’s a credit to Straub’s gifts of wit and observation that she’s made such a loving book so alive. Reading All Adults Here\, you feel like maybe your life isn’t so small\, that its minor joys and pitfalls are worthy of literature. If only Straub could be the one to document it.”—USA Today \n“Deliciously funny and infectiously warm … It’s an ideal read for anyone trapped at home with their family while self-isolating. Read it while hiding in your bedroom from the people who are driving you crazy\, but who you’d go crazy without.” The Philadelphia Inquirer \n“There’s no drama like family drama as Emma Straub (Modern Lovers\, Other People We Married) proves in this touching\, humorous\, and eye-opening new novel.” —Town and Country  \n“Triumphant.” —The Daily Beast \n“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox \n“A warm\, smart novel that feels both very ‘now\,’ but also timeless in its survey of a family trying to become one again.”—Salon \n“Fresh and funny. . .  ripe with the kind of juicy gossip perfect for swapping with a favorite sibling via late-night\, hushed phone calls. . . .”—The Washington Post \n“There’s refuge to be found in stories of everyday people going about their lives. . . . Emma Straub has become adept at finding amusement in the mundane\, and her newest\, All Adults Here\, might just be her best yet.” —O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“Straub’s best book yet . . .excellent book-group fodder.”—The Washington Post \n“Emma Straub’s writing is witty\, informal and deceptively simple\, drawing readers in as if they’re having a conversation with a close friend.”  —BookPage \n“All Adults Here is a master class on the small-scale American drama. . . this warm\, optimistic novel argues that one should keep trying\, regardless. All Adults Here affirms the value of community and family\, no matter the strife that may rise up within them.” —Vogue \n“The perfect book to read during quarantine if your family is driving you crazy . . . a layered love story that examines\, and ultimately celebrates\, the modern\, multigenerational family dynamic.”—Parade \n“This new novel from New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lover is at its core about family in all its loving\, messy glory… It’s a page-turner that will make you think about what binds families together and drives them apart.” —Good Morning America \n“All Adults Here is a novel about how we try and fail at every age and yet somehow survive. It is brimming with kindness\, forgiveness\, humor and love and yet (magically) is also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.”—Ann Patchett\, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth \n“A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book.” —Elizabeth Strout\, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Olive\, Again \n“Emma Straub’s All Adults Here will make you question your entire childhood\, and how much your parents influenced it as you learn one mother’s perspective of what went right and what went wrong with her own family.”—Marie Claire \n“No one writes family drama like Straub\, and in her new novel All Adults Here\, she brings the Strick family to life with her unique wit and wisdom. . . .  It’s a heartfelt\, grounded story about family dynamics\, forgiveness\, and the unavoidable effects we have on those we love.”—Buzzfeed
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rishi Reddi / Passage West
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Rishi Reddi (Karma and Other Stories) for her debut novel\, Passage West. Please join us! \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy a gift certificate\, 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\n1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border\, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak’s offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm. Ram is unmoored; fleeing violence in Oregon\, he desperately longs to return to his wife and newborn son in Punjab—but he is duty bound to make his fortune first. \nIn the Valley\, American settlement is still new and the rules are ever shifting. Alongside Karak; Jivan and his wife\, Kishen; and Amarjeet\, a U.S. soldier\, Ram struggles to farm in the unforgiving desert. When he meets an alluring woman who has fought in Mexico’s revolution\, he strives to stay true to his wife. The Valley is full of settlers hailing from other cities and different continents. The stakes are high and times are desperate—just one bad harvest or stolen crop could destabilize a family. And as anti- immigrant sentiment rises among white residents\, the tensions of life in the west finally boil over. \nIn her ambitious debut novel\, Rishi Reddi\, award-winning author of Karma and Other Stories\, explores an enduring question: Who is welcome in America? Richly imagined and beautifully rendered\, Passage West offers a moving portrait of one man’s search for home. \n\nRishi Reddi is the author of the story collection Karma and Other Stories\, which received the 2008 L.L. Winship /PEN New England Award for Fiction. Her work appears in Best American Short Stories 2005\, has been broadcast on National Public Radio\, and was selected as an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is also a recipient of fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony\, Breadloaf\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and the U.S. Department of State. She was born in Hyderabad\, India\, and grew up in Great Britain and the United States. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Northeastern University School of Law and lives in Cambridge\, MA. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Passage West sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:John Nichols in conversation with Robert Scheer
DESCRIPTION:discussing the state of the Dis-Union. Celebrating the release of John Nichol’s new book \nThe Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist\, Anti-Racist Politics \nfrom Verso Books \nTwo of the nation’s most seasoned political commentators access the condition of the US body politic. At a moment when the political stakes in the US are running high and the fight to save democracy is on\, John Nichols and Robert Scheer explore the hazards and opportunities that await us come the Presidential election in November. \n———– \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———– \n(Click Here) to make reservations\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here in the near future) \n———– \nabout The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party \n\nFighting fascism at home and abroad begins with the consolidation of a progressive politics \n\n\nSeventy-five years ago\, Henry Wallace\, then the vice president of the United States\, mounted a campaign about the “Danger of American Fascism.” As fighting in the European and Japanese theatres drew to a close\, Wallace warned that the country might win the war and lose the peace; that the fascist threat the United States. was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic variant\, growing rapidly in power: wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace predicted that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded in the postwar era\, American fascists would use fear mongering\, xenophobia\, and racism to regain economic and political power. He championed a progressive postwar world—an alternative to the rising triumphalist “American Century” notion in which the United States rejected colonialism and imperialism. \nWallace’s political vision—as well as his nomination to remain vice president—was sidelined by Democratic big city bosses and southern segregationists. In the decades to come\, other progressives would mount similar campaigns: George McGovern and Jesse Jackson most prominently. As John Nichols chronicles in this book\, they ultimately failed—a warning to would-be reformers today—but their efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party and strategic lessons for the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. \nJohn Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine\, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times\, and the associate editor of Madison\, Wisconsin’s Capital Times. He’s the author of several books\, including The Death and Life of American Journalism\, The Genius of Impeachment and The “S” Word. \nRobert Scheer is editor-in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. For many years\, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated political analysis radio program Left\, Right & Center on National Public Radio (NPR)\, produced at public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. He is the author of numerous books that include They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy\, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street\, as well as others.
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition: July Words!
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to present three accomplished writers whose scintillating writing challenges social and psychological structures: Virgie Tovar\, Lysette Wanzer & Carlo Matos. Pour yourself a drink and join us in the ether! \nVirgie Tovar is author of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (New Harbinger 2020) and You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press 2018). She is the host of the podcast\, Rebel Eaters Club (Transmitter Media NYC). She holds a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size\, race and gender. Virgie is a contributor for Forbes.com where she covers the plus-size market and weight discrimination at work. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She has been named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine\, and received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, BBC\, MTV\, Al Jazeera and NPR. \nLyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over twenty-five literary journals and books\, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie)\, The Naked Truth\, Essay Daily\, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission and Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient\, Lyzette serves as Judge for the Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category. She is currently helming an essay anthology entitled TRAUMA\, TRESSES\, & TRUTH: UNTANGLING OUR HAIR THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE. \nCarlo Matos has published ten books\, most recently The Quitters (Tortoise Books). His work has appeared in such journals as Hobart\, DMQ Review\, and PANK\, among many others. Carlo has received grants and fellowships from Disquiet\, CantoMundo\, the Illinois Arts Council\, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. He lives in Chicago\, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago\, and is a former MMA fighter and kickboxer. He blogs at carlomatos.blogspot.com. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition\nTime: Jul 15\, 2020 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/3655500410?pwd=bnFRaXZyTm1ab2VFcFd5VnVEUmtsdz09 \nMeeting ID: 365 550 0410\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,3655500410#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,196914# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,3655500410#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,196914# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 365 550 0410\nPassword: 196914
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SUMMARY:Vegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen's "Scenes of Life at the Capital"
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Wave Books present \nVegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital  \n   \nwith David Brazil\, Anselm Berrigan\, Andrew Schelling\, Hoa Nguyen\, Marie Buck\, Norman Fischer\, Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)\, Will Alexander\, Aisha Sasha John \nIn celebration of the new edition of Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen\, edited by David Brazil\, Wave Books and City Lights have invited poets from across North America to read his book-length poem in its entirety. This event will include a recording of Whalen reading from the book as well as a presentation of Whalen’s artwork\, unavailable in earlier editions. \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 in the near future \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here) \n———– \nWritten from 1969 to 1971\, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen’s “Scenes of Life at the Capital” is a lasting testament to the ambition\, range\, powers\, and devotion of this crucially important American voice. Positioned among the Buddhist temples of Kyoto\, Whalen looks across the ocean to address the new frontiers\, political problems\, and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s—so much of which still resonates today. In this new edition—with a deep and enlightening afterword by David Brazil—Whalen’s poem is further cemented as a fundamental work in American literary history. \nPhilip Whalen (1923–2002) was a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movements. One of the readers at the historic Six Gallery reading\, he was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. A longtime practicing Buddhist\, he was eventually ordained as a Zen monk and practiced at Zen Centers in New Mexico and San Francisco until his passing in 2002. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, pastor and translator. His third book of poetry\, Holy Ghost (City Lights\, 2017)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He is the editor of Wave Books’s edition of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital. With Kevin Killian\, he co-edited The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater\, 1945-1985. With Chika Okoye\, he was the founding curator of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Black Life series\, focusing on cultural production in the African diaspora. He has presented his work at Cambridge University\, Johns Hopkins\, and San Francisco State University\, among other venues. He lives in New Orleans. \nAnselm Berrigan once asked a barber\, when he was six\, to cut all his hair off so he could look like Philip Whalen. He is a poet and a high functioning bum\, as well as a janitor of dreams at various schools. Books include Something for Everybody (Wave)\, Come In Alone (Wave)\, and Wobble Factory (Absolute Slab Editions/free pdf). \nAndrew Schelling cut his teeth on poetry in the Bay Area of the 1980s. He lives in Colorado\, teaches at Naropa University\, and has published twenty-odd books. Recent titles: Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo and Pacific Coast Culture\, and with Anne Waldman Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha. \nPoet Hoa Nguyen‘s books include Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and Violet Energy Ingots. Her forthcoming book\, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure\, will be published in 2021 by Wave books. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the US\, Hoa has lived in Canada since 2011. \nMarie Buck is the author of Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya\, 2015)\, Goodnight\, Marie\, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof\, 2017)\, and Unsolved Mysteries (Roof\, forthcoming 2020). She lives in Brooklyn and is the managing and web literary editor at Social Text. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, author\, and Zen Buddhist teacher and priest. The author of seventeen books of poetry and six books of prose on Zen and religion\, his most recent publication is Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language\, and Religion \, a long-awaited collection of his essays about experimenta \nPhil Elverum\, 1978-present:  born and raised in Anacortes\, Washington\, maker of experimental songs and recordings that explore an internal world\, the experience of a person rooted in a particular place (island Pacific NW)\, part of a lineage of countercultural fringe-workers that goes back beyond memory. \nWill Alexander is a poet\, novelist\, playwright\, essayist\, aphorist\, visual artist\, pianist. He is approaching 40 published titles in the aforementioned genres. A City Lights author he is also poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nAisha Sasha John is a choreographer and poet. Her chapbook TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED will be published by UDP in 2021. Her most recent book\, I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017)\, was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize. \n 
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:“One of the difficulties of being alive today\, is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” In her new essay collection 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 that will in no way unsettle your worldview. 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. The “woman card” is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history—a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. Petri’s essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger\, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Alexandra will be in conversation with TV comedy writer Megan Amram. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nMegan Amram\nMegan Amram is a writer and producer for many television series including Silicon Valley\, Parks and Recreation\, and The Simpsons. She was also the star\, creator\, writer\, and director of the web series An Emmy for Megan. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, Vulture… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlexandra Petri
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-alexandra-petri-and-nothing-is-wrong-and-here-is-why/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 16\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Jane Ormerod \nonline on Zoom\nticket link to come \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in numerous publications\, including From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream\, Maintenant\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, POSTstranger\, The Pedestal\, Sensitive Skin\, The Nervous Breakdown\, and Paris Lit Up. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA\, an independent press focusing on unpredictable and innovative poetry and prose. www.greatweatherformedia.com \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nAugust: Caroline Goodwin\nSeptember: Peter Carroll
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for July Westhale with Katie Tandy / Via Negativa: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual launch for July Westhale and her new collection of poems Via Negativa. Reading with her is former cofounding editor of Ravishly and The Establishment\, Katie Tandy. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you can join here. \nWe also plan to stream the event live on our Facebook page. \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\n“Via Negativa\,” often used to talk about the divine: a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not\, is a book about the more difficult\, but truer\, ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half grappling with divinity and the many manifestations of gender/the self \, and half an ars poetica\, Via Negativa is a gorgeous holy dunking\, a submersion into a rich field of lyricism and emotion\, a mikva that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright. Diving into verbal lostness\, the hatred of poetry\, mythology\, and the epistemology of identity\, this book challenges the tripartite notion of holiness and its relationship to poetic duty. \n“July Westhale is a shapeshifting poet of desire and violence\, grief and forgiveness\, trauma and loss transformed by resilience. After her gorgeous debut Trailer Trash explored the intricacies of class and gender\, Via Negativa deftly weaves the sensual with the spiritual\, reckoning with a religious inheritance and a powerful faith in pleasure\, engaging in bold lyric conversation with the divine. These deliciously subversive poems range from California fires to church pews with equal parts grace and swagger\, always charged with eroticism\, rooted in the body\, showing us again and again “the wildness of ourselves.” Via Negativa left me breathless.” – Diana Whitney \n\nJuly Westhale is a poet\, translator\, and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of Via Negativa\, Trailer Trash (winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award)\,  The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press)\, Quantifiable Data (Alley Cat Books)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her essays\, poems\, fiction\, and translations are published in numerous journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. \nWhen July isn’t writing\, she’s teaching and working as an editor for PULP Magazine\, a publication devoted to sexuality and reproductive rights. She is also a community educator\, working with all ages of students in all types of settings — in after school programs\, community colleges\, libraries\, living rooms\, bookstores\, fields\, etc. Her work focuses on dismantling the inaccessibility of creative writing and bringing it into a contemporary focus as a necessary way for marginalized communities to archive their experiences. \nShe is currently at work translating Patagonian poet\, Rolando Cárdenas (1933-1990)\, with the hopes that her project will bring English-speaking audiences the work of writers censored and/or disappeared as a result of the 1973 coup d’état in Santiago. \nJuly has received support and funding from the California Humanities Council\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Alley Cat Books\, Poets & Writers\, Writing by Writers\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and the Lambda Literary Foundation. \n \n  \nKatie Tandy is a journalist\, playwright\, and co-founding editor of PULP\, an online arts and culture publication centering sex/uality and reproductive rights. She is working on a forthcoming memoir braiding together stories from her childhood with human physiology. When she’s not writing\, she’s singing with the Oakland rock band The Shattucks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Via Negativa sent to your door\, send an email to events@booksmith.com. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-july-westhale-with-katie-tandy-via-negativa-poems/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jessica Francis Kane\, author of Rules for Visiting | GGP Online Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 16\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Jessica Francis Kane\, discussing her novel\, RULES FOR VISITING. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85462042800. \n(Order your copy of RULES FOR VISITING in paperback at https://bit.ly/GGPRules\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/RulesAB.) \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER! \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: O Magazine * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY: “The Today Show” * “Good Morning America” * Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living \nAn INDIE NEXT LIST Pick \n“[A] spirit-warming saga . . . a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great-great-great-granddaughter.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine \nDry\, witty\, and unapologetic\, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people\, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job\, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. \nSmart\, funny\, and full of compassion\, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age\, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels\, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. \nWith simplicity and honesty\, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book\, with its beautiful contemplation of travel\, trees\, family\, and friendship\, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times. \nAbout the Author\n\nJessica Francis Kane is the author of This Close\, The Report\, and Bending Heaven. This Close was longlisted for The Story Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize\, and The Report was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications\, including Virginia Quarterly Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Missouri Review\, The Yale Review\, A Public Space\, and Granta. \nPraise For…\n\n“When 40-year-old gardener May receives a surprise windfall of one month of vacation from the university where she works\, she decides to visit four old friends\, each one from different periods of her life. Through this initially simple and irresistible starting point\, Jessica Francis Kane investigates the most universal mysteries of all.”—Isaac Fitzgerald\, Today \n“This beautiful novel tackles loneliness in the digital age and the lost art of visiting. Introvert May Attaway is granted some unexpected time off as a university gardener and is inspired to reconnect with four once-close friends. May chooses to bypass her friends’ perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them IRL. Gives a whole new meaning to Instagram vs. reality.”—Good Morning America \n“This spirit-warming saga\, an antidote to the uncivil\, is a novel to be read again and again\, whenever one needs a reminder to seize the day…Treat yourself to Jessica Francis Kane’s novel Rules for Visiting\, an elixir in book form about a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great great-great-granddaughter.”—O Magazine \n“Crackles with wit”—The New York Times\n \n“Full of witticisms and broader life lessons\, Rules for Visiting will stay with readers.”—Elizabeth Sile\, Real Simple \n“Kane’s understated meditation on loneliness in the digital age [is] just the right kind of narrative\, an antidote for our distracted days.”—Hillary Kelly\, Vulture \n“A witty\, sometimes melancholy and altogether lovely meditation on love\, loss\, friendship—and botany.”—Wall Street Journal  \n“Fun\, hilarious\, and extremely touching… its coming out right around Mother’s Day is no coincidence… I loved May as a character…  she doesn’t need me to like her\, though. She has her plants\, her father\, some new or revitalized friendships\, and her own sharp and witty mind to keep her company. She is no Grendel — only a deeply alive human.”—Ilana Masad\, NPR \n“At 40\, May Attaway\, the protagonist\, finds herself alone and feeling profoundly disconnected from her life and from herself. When she receives an unexpected gift of time off\, she seizes the opportunity to visit four old friends. May is smart\, funny and more than a little prickly. Readers will love her and find her story both moving and reassuring.”—Michael Barnard\, San Francisco Chronicle  \n“Quietly powerful”—The Chicago Tribune  \n“Impeccably written and surprisingly moving…May’s journey is lovely and deeply affecting.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“Kane’s delightful tale celebrates friendship\, family\, love\, joy in the ordinary\, finding peace\, and connecting with those around us. Highly recommended for fans of humorous\, touching stories about friendship and self-discovery.”—Library Journal\, starred review \n“In the age of Facebook\, the true nature of friendship can seem muddled . . . [May] voices the doubts and dreams of any woman who has questioned what it means to be a true friend. Rich in subtexts and lush imagery\, Kane’s novel is a sure bet for lively book discussions.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Engagingly cleareyed prose about a winningly eccentric heroine in love with trees and literature.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s precise and moving Rules For Visiting is an altogether new sort of friendship novel\, one about friendships stretched to their limits over time and space\, the sort of friendships so many of us count as our closest. Kane’s gift for describing beauty and loneliness\, the real stuff of life\, is unparalleled.”—Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers\n \n“An engaging and compassionate portrait of how a root-bound\, constricted life can begin to bloom. Drawing inspiration from mythic sources\, Kane explores the power of friendship and of our connection to the natural world. Her descriptions of plants are transporting.”—Madeline Miller\, author of Circe\n \n“There’s a wonderful richness here in every sentence—a lyric and ambling directness that immediately feels like visiting with an old friend\, and applied to an ordinariness that soon becomes sublime with topics that go anywhere and then always back to the cure this narrator is in search of: a remedy for her hesitation with life\, that feels like a much larger disappointment\, almost global. The novel\, you soon realize\, is perhaps the remedy she searches for\, and you almost wish you could give it to her. But take this home with you\, as this\, this is for us.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s novel will win your heart: Single\, melancholy\, resourceful\, May Attaway\, the 40 year old protagonist of Rules for Visiting\, sets out on travels to rekindle her oldest friendships\, and thereby to find herself. Wry\, witty\, ultimately uplifting\, this gem of a novel celebrates the gifts in our ordinary lives.”—Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“In one motion Rules for Visiting can break your heart and lift your spirits up to the sky. Funny\, warm\, thoughtful\, there’s a little Olive Kitteridge in this gem of a novel. I did not want this book to end. It is the perfect gift for friends or people you just have to visit (everyone I know is getting this!)”—Julie Klam\, author of The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous\, the Infamous\, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them  \n“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship\, family\, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.”—Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“Jessica Francis Kane has written a vivid\, elegant and masterfully constructed novel about friendship and neighbors and our own personal odysseys. This is a deeply smart book\, one I had difficulty putting down. There is real wisdom in these pages.”—Stuart Nadler\, author of The Inseparables
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Leila Slimani and Lisa Taddeo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, July 18 at 12pm PDT when Leila Slimani discusses her new book\, Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World\, with Lisa Taddeo on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82087204644 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82087204644#  or +12532158782\,\,82087204644#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 820 8720 4644\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kAbKeHefP\n \nPraise for Sex and Lies \n“Vivid\, at times unbearable testimonies . . . In an act of rare humility and generosity\, Slimani offers [these women] what they’ve been deprived of: a space to tell their stories\, to exist.” —San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“I salute Leila Slimani for writing this important\, honest and brave book. . . . As a writer from a Turkish background\, I am moved by Slimani’s words. The women she talks to could just as well have been Lebanese\, Syrian\, Jordanian\, Palestinian\, Iranian\, Turkish.” ­—Elif Shafak\, New Statesman \n“Like Adèle did before it\, this slim book of impassioned pleas\, and of human impulses that resonate\, is one step to more women breaking free.” —Evening Standard \n\nAbout Sex and Lies \n“As revealing as Lisa Taddeo’s bestseller Three Women\, but it has a more urgent political mission.” —Evening Standard \nA fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women’s intimate lives\, by the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and Adèle \n“All those in positions of authority–politicians\, parents\, teachers–maintain the same line: ‘Do what you like\, but do it in private.‘ “ \nLeila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle\, about a woman addicted to sex\, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco\, adultery\, abortion\, homosexuality\, prostitution\, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law\, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid\, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani’s passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-leila-slimani-and-lisa-taddeo/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Roselle Lim
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 18th at 2pm | FREE Zoom Event\nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley Book Club.\n—\nTo follow our June book club discussion\, Roselle Lim\, author of “Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune” will join us for an online discussion of her book! Bring your questions and recipes to share! \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-talk-with-roselle-lim/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Judith Martin\, aka "Miss Manners" (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \n  \nJudith Martin’s Minding Miss Manners in an Era of Fake Etiquette\, is a modern guide to modern manners in which Miss Manners guides you through these turbulent times with her timeless wisdom and archly acid wit. \nAlso known as Miss Manners\, Judith has made tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of etiquette which have not escaped official notice. During a White House ceremony In November\, 2005\, she was awarded the nation’s highest honor in the humanities\, the National Humanities Medal\, in recognition of her contributions to society as America’s foremost etiquette columnist and author. \nJudith’s “Miss Manners” newspaper column—distributed thrice-weekly by the Universal UClick and carried in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad—has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. Since 1996\, she has been writing an additional “Miss Manners” column for the Microsoft Network\, and she is a contributor to the Financial Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-judith-martin-aka-miss-manners-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookseller Happy Hour GENRE EDITION
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop booksellers as we share our favorite Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, Mystery\, and Graphic novels. Grab the beverage of your choice and come spend an hour with us on Crowdcast to find your next great read. This free event will be online hosted with the Crowdcast platform.\n\nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event is now open: click here!
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