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SUMMARY:Virtual Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon goes virtual!\nSunday\, May 3rd\, 6:00 p.m.\nReadings by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain\, Jennifer Lewis\, and Kendra Tanacea\nHosted by Peter Kline \n\nFull details coming soon – please stay tuned!
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Shedding Light\, Vanquishing Fear: End-of-Life Planning with the Experts: BJ Miller\, MD\, Katy Butler\, and Shoshana Berger
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sunita Puri\, MD\nProgram will air Sunday May 3rd\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn a time where COVID-19 looms over us all\, difficult conversations about death have become a very real part of life. But from living rooms to hospital rooms\, there’s widespread resistance to delving into this important topic that touches us all. We tend to perceive death as too scary\, too ugly\, too overwhelming to acknowledge—let alone something to approach in a peaceful\, prepared way. In this informative\, enlightening\, and truly comforting discussion\, four remarkable experts show families and individuals how to take a clear-eyed\, compassionate approach to mortality\, one’s own and that of loved ones. These authors shed light on how medical providers and patients alike can reshape the mentality of fear around the process of dying and create a much better experience for all\, one that can be transformative and extremely meaningful. By exercising agency in planning for the “best possible death\,” we can create our best possible life. \nThis revelatory conversation features journalist Shoshana Berger and palliative care physician BJ Miller\, co-authors of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\, praised by The Washington Post as “a gentle\, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.” They are joined by award-winning journalist and bestselling writer Katy Butler\, author of two groundbreaking books about the end of life: Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, the Path to a Better Way of Death\, and her latest\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\, hailed as “a roadmap to the end” that “combines medical\, practical\, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). Moderated by Dr. Sunita Puri\, whose memoir That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour is a “profound exploration for what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose” (People Magazine). Dr. Puri is currently on the frontlines working with COVID-19 patients as the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShoshana Berger and BJ Miller\, A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\nKaty Butler\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\nSunita Puri\, MD\, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shedding-light-vanquishing-fear-end-of-life-planning-with-the-experts-bj-miller-md-katy-butler-and-shoshana-berger/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ainissa Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another \nfrom The MIT Press \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials\, the innovations they made possible\, and how these technologies changed us. \nIn The Alchemy of Us\, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks\, steel rails\, copper communication cables\, photographic film\, light bulbs\, hard disks\, scientific labware\, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time\, the inventor who inspired Edison\, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes\, among other things\, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. \nRamirez shows how materials were shaped by inventors\, but also how those materials shaped culture\, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology\, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking\, bias\, and convention. Doing so\, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it’s splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR. \nAinissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate\, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held academic positions at Yale University and MIT. She has written for Time\, Scientific American\, the American Scientist\, and Forbes\, and makes regular appearances on PBS’s SciTech Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ainissa-ramirez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Quiet Lightning\, Monday May 4\, 2020\nWe’ll be streaming at this link.\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 878 0959 2323\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,87809592323# US (San Jose) +13462487799\,\,87809592323# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \nPlease note: we have a capacity of 100 people\, so if you want to make sure you can join\, don’t be late! We’ll be letting people in at 7pm and expect the readings to start at 7:15pm. \nFree and all ages\, with mature content\, featuring: \nRonny Kerr » Joe Donohoe » Keith Mark Gaboury » Jon Bennett » Cynthia Darling » Leigh Lucas » Nick Martino » Sage Curtis » Diana Donovan » Daniel Lucas » Danielle Bero » Allison Landa » Minna Dubin » Jon Bennett » Leigh Lucas » Robyn Carter » Danielle Bero » Benjamin Gucciardi \nAll selected authors will be paid + published in sPARKLE & bLINK 105\, featuring cover art by Livien Yin! \nCurated by Katie Tandy and Lauren Rosenfield \nIf you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n— \n\nFeatured image: Bedroom by Livien Yin | http://livienyin.com\n2015\, gouache on paper\, 16″ x 12″
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-quiet-lightning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh\, Death in Her Hands at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, a New York Times bestseller; Homesick for Another World\, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year; Eileen\, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; and McGlue\, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir
DESCRIPTION:Editors (and Moe’s workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic’s latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! \nBerkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir\, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. \nBrand-new stories by: Barry Gifford\, Jim Nisbet\, Lexi Pandell\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Mara Faye Lethem\, Thomas Burchfield\, Shanthi Sekaran\, Nick Mamatas\, Kimn Neilson\, Jason S. Ridler\, Susan Dunlap\, J.M. Curet\, Summer Brenner\, Michael David Lukas\, Aya de León\, and Owen Hill. \nJerry Thompson is a bookseller\, poet\, playwright\, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising\, edited by G. Winston James\, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing\, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of both Oakland Noir \nOwen Hill is the author of two crime novels\, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double\, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-noir/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Queens of Mystery: Writer to Writer with Meg Gardiner and Rachel Howzell Hall
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Laurie King\nProgram will air Tuesday May 5th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegistration (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\n“Suspense is like a woman\,” said Hitchcock. “The more left to the imagination\, the more the excitement.” Well\, these two women are coming for Hitchcock’s crown with some of the most spine-tingling\, sophisticated thrillers being written today. Meg Gardiner\, bestselling novelist and president of Mystery Writers of America\, was fittingly called “Hitchcockian” by USA Today. She specializes in heroines with big brains\, from FBI agents to forensic psychiatrists to firecracker journalists (Stephen King called her Evan Delaney novels “the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years”). And Rachel Howzell Hall\, author of the Detective Elouise Norton series\, has created an unforgettable protagonist described by The New York Times as “someone you want on your side.” Hall’s newest\, which ABC News calls her “breakout novel\,” is They all Fall Down\, a wickedly clever mystery set on a pristine—and deadly—island paradise in Mexico. \nListen to these two leading ladies of suspense as they crack the case of how to make readers stay up all night. Moderated by Laurie King\, an Edgar Award-winning author of detective fiction and President of the Northern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Gardiner\, The Dark Corners of the Night\nRachel Howzell Hall\, They All Fall Down\nLaurie King\, Beginnings \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-of-mystery-writer-to-writer-with-meg-gardiner-and-rachel-howzell-hall/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Paul Yamazaki
DESCRIPTION:Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \n\n\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nPaul Yamazaki is the chief book buyer at City Lights Booksellers and has been a life-long booktrade advocate serving on many boards of non-profits and literary organizations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-paul-yamazaki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel Death in Her Hands. \nPraise for Death in Her Hands \n“When it comes to evoking the jagged edge of contemporary anxiety there might not be a more insightful writer working today than Moshfegh. That is if the boundless dark potential of the human psyche is your thing. If it’s not\, this atmospheric\, darkly comic tale of a pathologically lonely widow and the thrills lurking in her sylvan retreat might not be for you. But\, sophisticated reader that you are\, you’re not afraid of the dark. Right?” —The Millions \n“Perhaps the most jarring genre of fiction is the kind that takes you deep into the gradual unraveling of a person’s mind. Moshfegh does a masterful job with Death In Her Hands\, which follows a protagonist who believes she’s solving a murder. The book moves seamlessly from suspenseful to horrifying\, retaining the reader’s attention all the while.” —Marie Claire \n“Ottessa Moshfegh is always a must-read\, and her latest combines ‘horror\, suspense and pitch-black comedy’ to deliver a fascinating tale guided by an unreliable narrator.” —Paste\, 25 Most Anticipated Novels of 2020 \nAbout Death in Her Hands \nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThis event was postponed due to the planned PG&E power outage but has been rescheduled to May 6th at 2:30pm in Hagerty Lounge! \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, “Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\,” examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME: \nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nLOCATION:  \nOnline\nhttps://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vp0qde6upz8sb00VbumXa71hDPDicEk64A \nDESCRIPTION: \nTHEN WE CAME TO THE END \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\, examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:HOW HAVE I NOT READ THIS! A Virtual Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Book Club Discussion of Alfred Camus The Plague featuring Emily St John Mandel\, Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan \nSponsored by Alfred Knopf and City Lights \n\n\n**This is a virtual event that will be hosted on Zoom – you will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing and sufficient Internet access. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.** \nDIGITAL DOORS: 3:40PM PST and 6:40PM EST (be the first to submit a question/participate in chat) \nEVENT START: 4:00PM PST and 7:00PM EST (or shortly after once all are checked in) \n——– \nEvent is Free\, but requires registration. \n(Register Here) click the link \n——– \nto purchase the book click (HERE) \n——– \nJoin Emily St. John Mandel\, Laura Marris\, and Alice Kaplan for a live\, virtual discussion of Albert Camus’s The Plague. \nMore than seventy years after its original publication\, The Plague has become a national bestseller. Mandel\, Marris\, and Kaplan will explore themes of the novel\, examine the era in which it was written\, and look at responses to the work in the current environment. They will also answer any questions you have about it. THE PLAGUE is a haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of an epidemic that is ravaging a North African coastal town. This inaugural selection of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group’s “How Have I Not Read This?” book club was recently hailed as “a redemptive book\, one that wills the reader to believe\, even in a time of despair” (Los Angeles Times). \nRead along with us at #HowHaveINotReadThis \nabout the participants: \nAlice Kaplan\, Yale University’s Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of French\, was quoted by NPR on April 1: “I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic… I never imagined I’d need to give a trigger warning for teaching Camus’ The Plague… People are saying in the French press\, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read The Plague. Almost as though this novel were a vaccine — not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing\, but something that can help heal us.” \nLaura Marris is currently translating a new edition of The Plague to be published by Knopf in 2021. In The New York Times on April 16 she wrote: “I still hope that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future\, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again\, long after his death\, in a context he couldn’t predict or imagine.” \nEmily St. John Mandel’s latest novel\, The Glass Hotel\, is currently on bestseller lists nationwide. Her previous book\, the National Book Award finalist Station Eleven\, is itself one of our best looks at humanity before and after a pandemic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-have-i-not-read-this-a-virtual-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Readings at City Lights Bookstore: Emerson Whitney
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n>Purchase The Book Here< \n———— \nEmerson Whitney writes\, “Really\, I can’t explain myself without making a mess.” What follows is that mess—electrifying\, gorgeous\, defiant. \nAt Heaven‘s center\, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother\, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant\, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler\, Donna Haraway\, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing\, morphing nature of selfhood. \nAn expansive examination of what makes us up\, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force\, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. \nEmerson Whitney is the author of Ghost Box. Emerson teaches in the BFA creative writing program at Goddard College and is a postdoctoral fellow in gender studies at the University of Southern California. \nPraise for Heaven \n“An incisive\, nuanced inquiry into gender and body.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Melodic and engagingly written\, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once.”\n—Literary Hub \n“Heaven delves into deep memory and deep thinking to offer an ‘account of oneself’ that questions\, if not upends\, the very idea of such a thing at every turn. The result is a poetic\, candid\, probing reckoning with childhood\, the maternal\, gender\, and the possibilities of theory which will both speak to its time and outlast it.”\n—Maggie Nelson\, author Bluets and The Argonauts \n“Emerson has written a story about Mommy and me but mainly they’re extending to us a forceful act of writing in defense of the self that is taking pictures\, running away—eyes full of tears\, then pirouetting\, and standing their ground to tell us this colossally wonderful and woefully broken story.”\n—Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice \n“Heaven is the book of deepest affections\, a harrowing book\, a bewitched book. Composed in a style of a bird-nest\, Heaven weaves together multiple threads of conversation with self and with brilliant voices of others\, as different as Lacan and Jos Charles\, Allen Ginsberg and Michael Ondaatje. One can’t help but be moved by this compelling record\, this book of hours for pain made utterly beautiful by its author’s patient meditation on childhood and gender\, motherhood and sorrow.”\n—Ilya Kaminksy\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Heaven goes down like a strong elixir… I can still feel its heat swirling through me.”\n—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Heaven\, although prose\, is poetry. The language is tender and present. The word performs connection and recovery… Theory from such thinkers as Butler\, Foucault\, Freud\, Haraway\, Irigaray\, and Lacan are broken down to its lived practical parts and brought back into common parlance\, brought in relation to the etymology that is Whitney’s becoming.”\n—Arisa White\, author of You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened \n“Elegantly poetic\, beautiful\, brutal\, and wise… Heaven is a wonder.”\n—Michelle Tea\, author of Valencia and Modern Tarot \n“Someone asked me recently if I ever imagine writing from today that has the strength to remain in print centuries from now. ‘Yes\, I do\,’ I said\, and told them about a book by Emerson Whitney called Heaven. Every page is beautifully written\, pitch-perfect harrowing\, but maybe more important is how it changes many things we thought we understood about life. Hundreds of years from now\, readers can better appreciate this time and this nation through Emerson Whitney’s extraordinary lens\, where they write\, ‘The history of categorization around disability in the United States was always about social control.'”\n—CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Exploring and exploding gender\, language\, desire\, this book is necessary reading for anyone who’s used language\, who has had a mother\, who has a body at all.”\n—Sam Sax\, author of Madness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-at-city-lights-bookstore-emerson-whitney/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ask Again\, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen’s favorite books of the year\, ASK AGAIN\, YES by Mary Beth Keane. \nZoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85382264291 \nWe’ll be playing excerpts of the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. You can get your audiobook here: http://bit.ly/2wvRKyh \nIf you’d prefer paper\, here’s a link to our website where you can order a copy for shipment from our warehouse: http://bit.ly/2wrTqZH \n“One of the most unpretentiously profound books I’ve read in a long time…modestly magnificent.” —Maureen Corrigan\, Fresh Air
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ask-again-yes-by-mary-beth-keane/
LOCATION:A Great Good Place for Books\, 6120 La Salle Ave.\, Oakland\, California\, 94611
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading at a Distance / Tanea Lunsford Lynx and Mmakgosi Anita Tau
DESCRIPTION:We’ve partnered with the Headlands Center for the Arts to bring you a series of distanced literary readings with Headlands Artists\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). Join Tanea Lunsford Lynx (AIR ’20) and Mmakgosi Anita Tau (AIR ’20) for the second event of the series on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7PM PST. \nYou can join the event here. We will also be streaming on Facebook Live. \nWe’re very pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the author’s books and we’ll deliver them directly to your door; and we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire. Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-at-a-distance-tanea-lunsford-lynx-and-mmakgosi-anita-tau/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection \nSansei and Sensibility \npublished by Coffee House Press \nGenerations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \nIn these buoyant and inventive stories\, Japanese Americans shift the boundaries of Jane Austen’s classic tales\, questioning what inheritance—familial\, cultural\, artistic—really means. In ’60s California and beyond\, a woman examines the contents of her dead aunt’s freezer\, Mr. Darcy is captain of the football team\, a dental hygienist collects a community’s gossip while cleaning his neighbors’ teeth\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the transit of the day. These narratives that traverse class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with Yamashita’s signature wit and humor. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nPraise for Sansei and Sensibility \n“Dazzling. An extraordinarily inventive collection of short stories that takes us from Japan to Brazil to the fractured heart of suburban postwar Japanese America. Whether she is riffing on Jane Austen\, channeling Jorge Luis Borges\, or meditating on Marie Kondo\, Yamashita is a brilliant and often subversive storyteller in superb command of her craft.” —Julie Otsuka \n“Through vignettes\, recipes\, and correspondence\, master writer Karen Tei Yamashita takes us through the rabbit hole of Japanese America—in particular\, her hometown of Gardena\, California\, where an ethnic community culturally transformed a middle-class bedroom town. Part Ozu meditation of everyday life\, part modern folk tale with colorful characters like a truth-telling dental hygienist\, Sansei and Sensibility offers a unique and necessary perspective of what it means to be the aging grandchild of Asian immigrants\, wondering what you will leave behind for the next generation. As in all of her books\, Yamashita deconstructs form and genre to create a work that both delights and challenges.” —Naomi Hirahara \n“This capacious collection is witty\, sharp—funny at times\, angry at times—always amazing\, and never\, never dull. I think Jane Austen would be surprised\, but delighted. I surely am.” —Karen Joy Fowler \nPraise for the work of Karen Tei Yamashita \n2010 National Book Award Finalist\n2011 American Book Award Winner \n“This powerful\, deeply felt\, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense.” —Publishers Weekly \n“The extraordinary testimony of a revolutionary past. . . . I Hotel is crammed with detail\, with real-life pamphlets\, speeches\, quotes\, and news reports humming and crackling in the background. The whole thing makes for an astonishing\, and carefully structured\, collage of both local and global movement.” —The Nation \n“Immensely entertaining.” —Newsday \n“Shaped and voiced with literary flair\, this is clearly a book Yamashita felt compelled to write\, and her sense of purpose makes this historical excavation feel deeply personal.” —Kirkus \n“Yamashita incorporates satire and the surreal in prose that is playful yet knowing\, fierce yet mournful.”—San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 4th. \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape–trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” –Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”–Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” –Emma Donoghue\, author of Room
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses Death In Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel\, Death In Her Hands.\nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphan \n  \nt blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Timesbestseller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-discusses-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSoda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines the role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society. \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Danler: Stray
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Danler discusses her new memoir\, Stray. \nAbout Stray \nFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter\, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction\, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving\, sometimes devastating\, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival. \nAfter selling her first novel–a dream she’d worked long and hard for–Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead\, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she’d left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism\, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three\, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she’s pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn’t totally understand\, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here\, she works toward answers\, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it’s possible to change the course of her history. \nLucid and honest\, heart-breaking and full of hope\, Stray is an examination of what we inherit and what we don’t have to\, of what we have to face in ourselves to move forward\, and what it’s like to let go of one’s parents in order to find a peace–and family–of one’s own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-danler-stray/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T125000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20191219T073355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T073355Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20200430T215804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T215804Z
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SUMMARY:My Virtual Book Launch Happy Hour on May 7th at 5PM
DESCRIPTION:My dear friends and readers\, \nI am inviting you all to the launch of my book Only the River. I hope you can attend. I promise that it will be entertaining and encourage you to treat it as a literary happy hour. If it weren’t for these extenuating circumstances\, I would be providing libations and food as well. Here is the information for how to access the event. Please share with friends and book lovers. \nHere is the information for accessing the event: \nhttps://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-anne-raeff
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-virtual-book-launch-happy-hour-on-may-7th-at-5pm/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20200430T202150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T202150Z
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SUMMARY:Unrigging the Rules for the Rising American Electorate: David Daley and Steve Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Rebecca Nagle\nProgram will air Thursday May 7th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nWho holds America’s future in their hands? Who has the potential to dramatically reshape our political landscape\, just by exercising the right to vote? The past few years have seen an exciting infusion of political engagement from a diverse electorate as young people\, people of color\, and single women are mobilizing and making their voices heard. For every victory and milestone\, however\, there is an equally coordinated—if insidious—attempt to disenfranchise these citizens from turning out to vote. From polling station closures to gerrymandering\, from voter ID laws to the purging of voter rolls\, suppressive tactics are deliberate\, methodical\, and ubiquitous. \nWe’ll learn how to unrig the rules to ensure these rising new voices—and their votes—are counted\, with insights from bestselling authorities on voting rights: Steve Phillips\, founder of Democracy in Color and author of Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority\, and David Daley\, author of Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy and the 2016 bestseller Ratf***ed: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count\, which has become an urgent reference point for the upcoming post-census round of redistricting. Moderated by indigenous activist and journalist Rebecca Nagle\, whose groundbreaking podcast\, This Land\, won the prestigious American Mosaic Journalism Prize. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Daley\, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy\nSteve Phillips\, Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unrigging-the-rules-for-the-rising-american-electorate-david-daley-and-steve-phillips/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20191227T023422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T023422Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of Margaret Randall’s new book \nI Never Left Home: Poet\, Feminist\, Revolutionary \nfrom Duke University Press \nIn 1969\, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country\, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home\, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. \nFrom living among New York’s abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement\, the story of Randall’s life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way\, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City\, befriended Cuban revolutionaries\, raised a family\, came out as a lesbian\, taught college\, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all\, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. \nWhen she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years\, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her “subversive writing.” Over the next five years\, and with the support of writers\, entertainers\, and ordinary people across the country\, Randall fought to regain her citizenship\, which she won in court in 1989. \nAs much as I Never Left Home is Randall’s story\, it is also the story of the communities of artists\, writers\, and radicals she belonged to. Randall brings to life scores of creative and courageous people on the front lines of creating a more just world. She also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life. Moving\, captivating\, and astonishing\, I Never Left Home is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman. \nPraise for the work of Margaret Randall \n“A revolutionary woman and remarkable writer places her long journey within the context of her conflicted past and our own divided present. . . . A striking remembrance by an intellectual whose radical\, fierce nature is unflappable.” — Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Every Margaret Randall book or poem is a jewel to be savored\, but this text may be the best yet. Beautifully written\, it is Randall’s first comprehensive memoir. With her moves through the 1950s’ expressionist art world in New York through the 1960s Mexican literary scene\, the Cuban Revolution looms large and beckons Randall to participate\, which eventually brings the scrutiny of Uncle Sam attempting to strip her of her citizenship. Throughout\, Randall’s early and deep feminism is a guiding light.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \n“Margaret Randall hails from a heroic era when poets aspired to change life. Nominally a memoir\, I Never Left Home is really a full-blown autobiography\, chronicling her life as a poet\, a woman\, a feminist\, a mother\, a lesbian\, an incest survivor\, and a participant in a quarter century of Latin American social and political revolution. Her experiences as coeditor of one of the 1960s most important international literary magazines are gripping\, but it’s her account of the Reagan administration’s attempt to deport her from the land of her birth as an undesirable alien that makes I Never Left Home so necessary in the present moment. Few U.S. poets have dared to dream as big\, fight as hard\, or accomplish as much.” — Garrett Caples\, coeditor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia \n“Margaret Randall’s life is the story of our twentieth century\, with all of its lucid wonder\, its dark passages and contradictions. Illuminating and enthralling.” — Achy Obejas\, author of The Tower of the Antilles \nGarett Caples is the poetry editor at City Lights Books\, journalist\, and a published poet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-in-conversation-with-garrett-caples/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20200312T202322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T202322Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:For the final double-program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2020\, we are delighted to host renowned poet and art critic John Yau\, on a rare visit from New York City. He’ll be joined by poet\, translator\, and SF State faculty member Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation at The Poetry Center on Thursday May 7; then the following night\, Friday May 8\, we move across the Bay\, for John Yau together with poet/performer and editor of SFMOMA’s online magazine Open Space\, Claudia La Rocco\, reading and in conversation at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\, right downtown (12th Street BART) in Frank Ogawa Plaza. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, these events are free and open to the public. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJohn Yau and Claudia La Rocco\nreading and in conversation\nFriday May 8\n7:00 pm @ Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\n150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-john-yau-and-andrew-joron-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20200430T230825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T230825Z
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SUMMARY:JIA TOLENTINO & JENNA WORTHAM
DESCRIPTION:Watch the upcoming webcast on our YouTube channel →\nYou can support the cost of this public webcast by making a tax-deductible donation. Thank you for your support! \nCalled “the best young essayist at work in the United States” by Rebecca Solnit\, Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker\, covering everything from the viral video app TikTok\, to the ubiquitous upscale activewear brand Outdoor Voices\, to Edith Wharton’s heroine and the new norm of begging celebrities to run you over with a truck. Her essay collection Trick Mirror examines religion\, psychedelic drugs\, weddings\, the internet\, and everything in between\, tied together by the logic of an immensely sharp cultural critic observing and thinking hard about the world she exists within. Previously\, Tolentino was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her criticism has appeared in the Times Magazine\, Grantland\, the Awl\, Pitchfork\, The Fader\, Time\, and Slate. \nJenna Wortham is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Virginia\, Wortham moved to San Francisco to work with San Francisco Magazine\, Girlfriend Magazine\, write for SFist and later\, Wired. Wortham joined The New York Times in 2008 and has since covered pop culture\, technology\, race\, and queer identity. Her writing has appeared in Girl Crush Zine\, The Morning News\, Matter\, Vogue\, The Awl\, Bust\, The Hairpin\, and The Fader among other publications. In 2016\, Wortham started co-hosting the culture podcast Still Processing with Wesley Morris. She is coeditor of the forthcoming visual anthology Black Futures with Kimberly Drew. \nAttention ticket holders: We hope you might consider donating your ticket to support the ushers\, technical staff and artists who have made this event possible\, as well as City Arts & Lectures’ mission of broad access to culture. We also understand if you would like a refund and will happily accommodate that. To request a refund\, email City Box Office. To receive acknowledgement of a tax-deductible contribution\, no action is required. \nPhotograph credit: Elena Mudd (left) & Ryan Pfluger (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jia-tolentino-jenna-wortham-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20200219T014402Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff: Only the River
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff discusses her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-only-the-river/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180917
CREATED:20200405T180120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200405T180120Z
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Ruth Crossman
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis months Eves at the Beat is curated by Ruth Crossman!! This is her first ever curation so show her some love and tune in!!! Natasha Dennerstein will be the MC\, reading bios for each reader before they share their work. \nReaders for this event:\nMelissa Jones\nMichele J Brooks\nBarbara Saunders\nHanna Pesha\nLauren Wheeler\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis \nZOOM INFO: \nTopic: Eves at the Virtual Beat w/Ruth Crossman\nTime: May 7\, 2020 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/505213615?pwd=SGQzclZHRkdvSFlRSHY1UTFkOU82QT09 \nMeeting ID: 505 213 615\nPassword: 460841 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,505213615# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,505213615# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 505 213 615\nPassword: 460841\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fc1z31Cte \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will have a cashapp donation option during the reading. All donations go to the poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-w-ruth-crossman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200511
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SUMMARY:Weekend of Words
DESCRIPTION:A free virtual literary festival to celebrate the written word and those behind it. Fill your day with workshops\, panels and talks and top it off with nightly readings from incredible poets and authors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekend-of-words/
LOCATION:wow.shuffle.do
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shuffle Collective":MAILTO:anuj@shuffle.do
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