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SUMMARY:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan - poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan – poetry reading
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-lazzara-ava-koober-patrick-james-dunagan-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Kepler’s Literary Foundation for a book discussion with author Laila Lalami! From the celebrated Pulitzer Prize finalist who swept multiple book awards with The Moor’s Account comes this lyric\, fascinating new novel The Other Americans. Through nine separate narrators whose accounts effortlessly interweave\, Lalami unravels both the mystery of an immigrant’s sudden death and the quiet schisms that underlie American culture. \nThe novel opens with Nora\, a jazz composer\, who sips champagne with a friend on the same night that her father dies in an apparent hit-and-run near his home in California. Maryam\, Nora’s mother\, narrates a following chapter; a distant neighbor\, another; an undocumented witness\, a friend and immigrant\, and a detective all speak to the events leading up to and following Driss Guerroui’s death. These dueling narrative lines call out to secrets both within Nora’s family and throughout the town. \nThe Other Americans has already garnered extraordinary praise from Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and talented writers of fiction like J.M. Coetzee and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, who gets it exactly right when he calls Laila Lalami “a writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight.” Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this glittering star in the literary pantheon at the height of her career. RSVP now for Lalami’s visit on April 4th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laila-lalami/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Solito\, Solita Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 4\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nJoin the editors and two narrators of Solito\, Solita for a discussion of this powerful new book from Voice of Witness and Haymarket Books. Solito\, Solita tells the stories of youth refugees fleeing their home countries and traveling for hundreds of miles seeking safety and protection in the United States. In an era of fear\, xenophobia\, and outright lies\, these stories amplify the compelling voices of immigrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment\, bravery and resilience\, hypocrisy and hope? \nNarrators:\nGabriel\, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States\, and through study\, legal support and work\, is now attending UC Berkeley. \nSoledad\, a young woman from Honduras who fled at age 14 after being abused by her stepfather\, abandoned by her mother\, and forced into child labor. She recently graduated from SFSU. \nEditors:\nSteven Mayers is a writer\, oral historian\, and professor of English at the City College of San Francisco. \nJonathan Freedman is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist\, author\, and writing mentor at the City College of San Francisco. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solito-solita-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:W. Thomas Boyce OFFSITE
DESCRIPTION:A celebration and reading from his new book The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive.  \n“The Orchid and the Dandelion is based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children–and the adults who love them.”–Susan Cain\, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of the world’s foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health–a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents\, teachers\, psychologists\, psychiatrists\, and child development experts coping with “difficult” children\, fully exploring the author’s revolutionary discovery about childhood development\, parenting\, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success. \nW. Thomas Boyce\, M.D.\, is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health and chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at UCSF. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine and codirector of the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He lives with his wife in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2407 Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94720
URL:https://litseen.com/event/w-thomas-boyce-offsite/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:After Hours: Poetry World Series\nFriday\, April 5th · 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nThis unlikely pairing of baseball and poetry showcases the poetry\, wit\, and smarts of Bay Area poets who are judged on their ability to make their poems fit subjects “pitched” by the audience. \nMaster of Quips and Ceremonies Daniel Handler ensures fun and irreverence. Popcorn\, beer. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens March 19th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, April 5\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Occult Features of Anarchism: Erica Lagalisse in Conversation with Andrej Grubačić
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 5\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nErica Lagalisse presents her new book\, Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press\, 2019). In conversation with anarchist dissident and historian\, Andrej Grubačić. \n  \n  \nAbout the Book: \nIn the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution\, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property\, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group that controls governments and defends private property around the world. Intervening in such misinformation\, Lagalisse works with primary and secondary sources in multiple languages to set straight the history of the Left and illustrate the actual relationship between revolutionism\, pantheistic occult philosophy\, and the clandestine fraternity. \nExploring hidden correspondences between anarchism\, Renaissance magic\, and New Age movements\, Lagalisse also advances critical scholarship regarding leftist attachments to secular politics. Inspired by anthropological fieldwork within today’s anarchist movements\, her essay challenges anarchist atheism insofar as it poses practical challenges for coalition politics in today’s world. \nStudying anarchism as a historical object\, Occult Features of Anarchism also shows how the development of leftist theory and practice within clandestine masculine public spheres continues to inform contemporary anarchist understandings of the “political\,” in which men’s oppression by the state becomes the prototype for power in general. Readers behold how gender and religion become privatized in radical counterculture\, a historical process intimately linked to the privatization of gender and religion by the modern nation-state. \nPraise: \n“This is surely the most creative and exciting\, and possibly the most important\, work to come out on either anarchism or occultism in many a year. It should give rise to a whole new field of intellectual study.”\n—David Graeber\, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Debt: The First 5\,000 Years \n“A tour de force. Any self-respecting radical should know this history\, right down to the dirty history of the ‘A for anarchism’ sign from its location within Freemasonry and magic. Ripping apart with historical detail our contemporary common sense we learn the tactics of how elite radicals claim power through difference. The significance of this history for the politics of now should not be underestimated and most certainly more widely known. Essential reading.”\n—Beverley Skeggs\, director of the Atlantic Fellows programme at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Class\, Self\, Culture \n“Lagalisse excavates the theological\, spiritual roots of anarchism to identify some of the contemporary shortcomings of left activism. Engrossing\, enlightening\, and often surprising\, the book delights and dazzles as it ruminates on a stunning array of topics from gender and intersectionality to secret societies\, the occult\, and conspiracy.”\n—Gabriella Coleman\, professor of anthropology at McGill University\, author of Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous \nErica Lagalisse is an anthropologist and writer. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, where she is conducting a research project on dynamics surrounding the “conspiracy theory” in social movement spaces. \nAndrej Grubačić is an anarchist dissident and historian and chair of the Anthropology and Social Change department at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His books include Don’t Mourn\, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia\, Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism\, Marxism and Radical History\, and Living at the Edges of Capitalism Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid.  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, April 5\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/occult-features-of-anarchism-erica-lagalisse-in-conversation-with-andrej-grubacic/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:The FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB will discuss The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg.  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, April 6\, 2019 – 10:00am\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-first-saturday-book-club-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Chris Van Dusen
DESCRIPTION:A new book by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen is a cause for celebration. And we WILL be celebrating when Chris Van Dusen\, one of our favorite picture book author/illustrators\, visits Kepler’s on April 6. \nEvery porcine wonder was once a piglet – discover Mercy Watson’s delightful origin story in A Piglet Named Mercy. an endearing picture-book prequel to the beloved New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Van Dusen is the author-illustrator of many books for young readers\, including The Circus Ship\, If I Built a House\, If I Built a Car\, Down to the Sea with Mr Magee and Hattie & Hudson\, and the illustrator of the Mercy Watson and Deckawoo Drive series. \nMr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does\, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series\, a tiny piglet brings love (and chaos) to Deckawoo Drive — and the Watsons’ lives will never be the same. \nJoin us and celebrate the joy of a new arrival by a longtime favorite author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-chris-van-dusen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Random Poetics
DESCRIPTION:What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute An ideology Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues\, In a provocative evening in Glen Park
URL:https://litseen.com/event/random-poetics/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 7\n3:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, April 7th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by poets from Sixteen Rivers: Maya Khosla\, Barbara Swift Brauer\, and Camille Norton. \nMore Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 7\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later\, near the Canadian border\, one of his favorite generals\, Benedict Arnold\, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later\, as the book ends\, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war\, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. \nValiant Ambition is a complex\, controversial\, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity\, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold\, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led\, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Natalie Devora at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our April author Natalie Devora will discuss her memoir Black Girl\, White Skin\,  and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nNatalie Devora is a writer and activist. Living as a Black woman with albinism affords her a unique lens through which she navigates the world. She has been featured on NPR’s Code Switch She currently serves as the National Coordinator for International Albinism Awareness Day with the National Association for Albinism and Hypopigmentation NOAH.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-devora-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment \npublished by City Lights Books \n\n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate.”—Adam Hochschild\, The New York Review of Books \n“If . . . anyone at all really wants to ‘get to the root causes of gun violence in America\,’ they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes.”—Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Her analysis\, erudite and unrelenting\, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives\, but\, crucially\, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence\, Loaded is an indispensable book.”—The New Republic \nWith President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves\, with the NRA portrayed as a group of “patriots” helping to Make America Great Again\, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis\, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed\, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children? \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States\, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains\, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control\, we must understand the history of U.S. guns\, from their role in the “settling of America” and the early formation of the new nation\, and continuing up to the present. \nPraise for Loaded: \n“Dunbar-Ortiz’s argument will be disturbing and unfamiliar to most readers\, but her evidence is significant and should not be ignored.”—Publishers Weekly \n” . . . gun love is as American as apple pie—and that those guns have often been in the hands of a powerful white majority to subjugate minority natives\, slaves\, or others who might stand in the way of the broadest definition of Manifest Destiny.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Trigger warning! This is a superb and subtle book\, not an intellectual safe space for confirming your preconceptions—whatever those might be—but rather a deeply necessary provocation.”—Christian Parenti\, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis \n“Loaded recognizes the central truth about our ‘gun culture’: that the privileged place of guns in American law and society is the by-product of the racial and class violence that has marked our history from its beginnings.”—Richard Slotkin\, author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America \n“From an eminent scholar comes this timely and urgent intervention on U.S. gun culture. Loaded is a high-impact assault on the idea that Second Amendment rights were ever intended for all Americans. A timely antidote to our national amnesia about the white supremacist and settler colonialist roots of the Second Amendment.”—Caroline Light\, author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense \n“Loaded unleashes a sweeping and unsettling history of gun laws in the United States\, beginning with anti-Native militias and anti-Black slave patrols. From the roots of white men armed to forge the settler state\, the Second Amendment evolved as a tool for protecting white\, male property owners. It’s a must read for anyone who wants to uncover the long fetch of contemporary Second Amendment battles.”—Kelly Lytle Hernandez\, City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles\, 1771-1965 \n“Now\, in Loaded\, she widens her lens to propose that the addiction to violence characteristic of American domestic institutions also derives from the frontiersman’s belief in solving problems by killing. Whether expressed in individual cruelty like the collection of scalps or group barbarism by settler colonialists calling themselves ‘militias\,’ violence has become an ever-widening theme of life in the United States.”—Staughton Lynd\, author of Class Conflict\, Slavery\, and the United States Constitution \n“For anyone who believes we need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ to address our national gun crisis\, Loaded is required reading. Beyond the Second Amendment\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz presents essential arguments missing from public debate. She forces readers to confront hard truths about the history of gun ownership\, linking it to ongoing structures of settler colonialism\, white supremacy\, and racial capitalism. These are the open secrets of North American history. It is our anxious denial as much as our public policies that perpetrate violence. Only by coming to peace with our history can we ever be at peace with ourselves. This\, for me\, is the great lesson of Loaded.”—Christina Heatherton\, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz’s Loaded argues U.S. history is quintessential gun history\, and gun history is a history of racial terror and genocide. In other words\, gun culture has never been about hunting. From crushing slave rebellions to Indigenous resistance\, arming individual white settler men has always been the strategy for maintaining racial and class rule and for taking Indigenous land from the founding of the settler nation to the present. With clarity and urgency\, Dunbar-Ortiz asks us not to think of our current moment as an exceptional era of mass-shootings. Instead\, the very essence of the Second Amendment and the very project of U.S. ‘settler democracy’ has required immense violence that began with Indigenous genocide and has expanded to endless war-making across the globe. This is a must read for any student of U.S. history.”—Nick Estes\, author of the forthcoming book Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and Native Liberation \n“With her usual unassailable rigor for detail and deep perspective\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has potentially changed the debate about gun control in the United States. She meticulously and convincingly argues that U.S. gun culture—and the domestic and global massacres that have flowed from it—must be linked to an understanding of the ideological\, historical\, and practical role of guns in seizing Native American lands\, black enslavement\, and global imperialism. This is an essential work for policy-makers\, street activists\, and educators who are concerned with Second Amendment debates\, #blacklivematters campaigns\, global peace\, and community-based security.”—Clarence Lusane\, Chairman and Professor of Political Science at Howard University and author of The Black History of the White House \n“Just what did the founding fathers intend the Second Amendment to do? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s answer to that question will unsettle liberal gun control advocates and open-carry aficionados alike. She follows the bloodstains of today’s mass shootings back to the slave patrols and Indian Wars. There are no easy answers here\, just the tough reckoning with history needed to navigate ourselves away from a future filled with more tragedies.“—James Tracy\, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times \n“Gun violence\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz compellingly shows\, is as U.S. American as apple pie. This important book peels back the painful and bloody layers of gun culture in the United States\, and exposes their deep roots in the killing and dispossession of Native peoples\, slavery and its aftermath\, and U.S. empire-making. They are roots with which all who are concerned with matters of justice\, basic decency\, and the enduring tragedy of the U.S. love affair with guns must grapple.”—Joseph Nevins\, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid \n“Loaded is a masterful synthesis of the historical origins of violence and militarism in the US. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us of what we’ve chosen to forget at our own peril: that from mass shootings to the routine deployment of violence against civilians by the US military\, American violence flows from the normalization of racialized violence in our country’s founding history.”—Johanna Fernández\, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University\, and author of the forthcoming book\, When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party\, 1968–1976 \n“More than a history of the Second Amendment\, this is a powerful history of the forging of white nationalism and empire through racist and naked violence. Explosively\, it also shows how even liberal—and some leftist—pop culture icons have been complicit in the myth-making that has shrouded this potent historical truth.”—Gerarld Horne\, author of The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has done an outstanding job of resituating the so-called gun debate into the context of race and settler colonialism. The result is that the discussion about individual gun ownership is no longer viewed as an abstract moral question and instead understood as standing at the very foundation of U.S. capitalism. My attention was captured from the first page.”—Bill Fletcher\, Jr.\, former president of TransAfrica Forum and syndicated writer \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides a brilliant decolonization of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. She describes how the ‘savage wars’ against Indigenous Peoples\, slave patrols (which policing in the U.S. originates from)\, today’s mass shootings\, and the rise in white Nationalism are connected to the Second Amendment. This is a critically important work for all social science disciplines.”—Michael Yellow Bird\, professor and director of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies at North Dakota State University \n“This explosive\, ground-breaking book dispels the confusion and shatters the sanctimony that surrounds the Second Amendment\, revealing the colonial\, racist core of the right to bear arms. You simply cannot understand the United States and its disastrous gun-mania without the brilliant Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz as a guide.”—Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age \n“There is no more interesting historian of the United States than Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. And with Loaded she has done it again\, taking a topic about which so much has already been written\, distilling it down\, turning it inside out\, and allowing us to see American history anew.”—Walter Johnson\, author of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom \n“Not only does it rank as one of the most insightful and brilliant books on the layered and deeply textured analysis of the second amendment\, gun culture\, racism\, and white supremacy\, among other issues\, that I have read in years\, but the writing is just lyrical and poetic. A model for combining social commitment\, theoretical rigorousness\, and accessibility. Certainly will be using in my classes.”—Henry Giroux\, author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico\, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation\, and she lives in San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa See\, The Island of Sea Women
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY\, APRIL 8\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nA new novel from Lisa See\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. \nMi-ja and Young-sook\, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju\, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough\, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective\, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers\, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. \nDespite their love for each other\, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades\, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s\, followed by World War II\, the Korean War and its aftermath\, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time\, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator\, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds\, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. \nThis beautiful\, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down\, one where the women are in charge\, engaging in dangerous physical work\, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story–one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them– The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 6th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-see-the-island-of-sea-women/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Claudia Castro Luna
DESCRIPTION:MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception\nTuesday April 9\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\nReception at 5:15 for newly admitted graduate students\, followed by readings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaudia Castro Luna is the 2018–2020 Washington State Poet Laureate. Her books include the Pushcart nominated Killing Maríasand This City. She served as Seattle’s Civic Poet from 2015 to 2017 and created the acclaimed Seattle Poetic Grid. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry Northwest\, La Bloga\, Dialogo\, and This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home. Claudia is currently working on a memoir\, Like Water to Drink\, about her experience escaping the civil war in El Salvador.\n\n  \n\n\nRenee Macalino Rutledge \n\nRenee Macalino Rutledge’s debut novel The Hour of Daydreams was a finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices award\, a Foreword INDIES Gold Winner\, and 35 over 35 winner. Her work can be found in The Margins\, Mutha Magazine\, Women Writers Women’s Books\, Ford City Anthology\, Literary Hub\, Necessary Fiction\, Colorlines\, TAYO Literary Magazine\, and others. While at Mills\, Rutledge served as the fiction editor for 580 Split.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claudia-castro-luna/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Michael Brownstein an Julien Poirier
DESCRIPTION:Poet and novelist Michael Brownstein’s new book\, Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations\, includes provocative poems such as “After Patriarchy Collapses and Capitalism Crumbles\,” “The Jewish Poem\,” “Slipping the Leash” and the title poem — works transcending the political into a vision of what is possible on a global scale. \nJulien Poirier is the author of Out of Print (City Lights\, 2016) among other books. His poems have appeared in the New York Times\, Dispatches and elsewhere. He teaches poetry at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-brownstein-an-julien-poirier/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poet Michael Brownstein
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Apr 09\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPoet and novelist Michael Brownstein’s new book\, Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations\, includes provocative poems such as “After Patriarchy Collapses and Capitalism Crumbles\,” “The Jewish Poem\,” “Slipping the Leash” and the title poem — works transcending the political into a vision of what is possible on a global scale. \nThe poems in Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations urge us to abandon today’s ruthlessly competitive mindset that is running our future into the ground. They expose nationalism for what it is — a myth separating us from our common humanity. We have forgotten who profits from this separation: the corporate\, political\, and military leaders of phantom entities created in our name. \nLet’s Burn the Flags of All Nations is a handbook for change. It calls on us to free ourselves from the fictions fed to us since childhood about who we are\, asking if we have what it takes to work out a new life: \n“It’s time to risk everything\nOpen the gates\, tear down the fences\nRoam wherever we like along\nRivers and mountains without end\nBecause we ourselves\nAre those rivers and mountains…” \n“Bold and inspiring\, unyielding in their rigorous truth\, these poems work to transform habitual patterns of fear and greed into the sane and generous life we all deserve. Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations should be required reading for everyone.” (Lynne Twist\, author of The Soul of Money) \n“These tough\, uncompromising poems of witness\, rage\, and anarchic wit unmasks the dysfunction of the human realm as it presses its Anthropocene agenda on the rest of the universe. They call for the end of patriarchy.” (Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism) \n“Wonderful\, powerful poems that excite the heart and reveal truths behind the so-called patriotism that feeds into the hands of the 1%.” (John Perkins\, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) \n“Michael Brownstein’s new collection sees through the spectral delusions of our age and points toward the potential for a planetary awakening into a state of unified consciousness and cooperative being.” (Daniel Pinchbeck\, author of How Soon Is Now?) \n“Both bardic and vatic – that is\, both poetic and prophetic – this book says truth with druidic intensity.” (Peter Lamborn Wilson\, author of Ec(o)logues) \n“These heartfelt poems express the pain and beauty of being alive in this most challenging of times.” (Starhawk\, author of The Earth Path) \n* * * \nMichael Brownstein grew up rural. His first glimpse of a collective human destiny – urban version – came while taking part in the events of May ’68 in Paris. (People pouring into the streets from out of nowhere without doubt or hesitation…) He is the author of three novels – Self-Reliance\, The Touch\, and Country Cousins – as well as ten poetry titles including World on Fire\, a book-length poem about corporate globalization and consciousness change. Michael taught at Naropa Institute during its formative years. He lives in the Catskill mountains.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-michael-brownstein/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rachel Howard Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Howard joins us to launch her new novel\, The Risk of Us. \n\nPraise for The Risk of Us \n“An emotionally complex and amazingly suspenseful novel about love and fear.”—Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“I’ve never read anything so beautiful about the intricacies of adoption—the process itself\, and the seldom-talked-about aftermath. The prose is elegant and compressed; I often had to stop reading to catch my breath. Anyone who has ever loved a child\, in any capacity\, should read this book.”— Jamie Quatro\, author of I Want to Show You More and Fire Sermon \n“Rachel Howard’s The Risk of Us (so accurately titled) is a novel of deep pain yet also laughs—lots of them. Nothing is easy in this book\, and that’s as it should be. With risk comes a kind of awesome grace. A wonderfully written and candid examination of what it means to be a family.”— Peter Orner\, author of Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge and Love and Shame and Love \n\nAbout The Risk of Us \nA poignant\, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in. \nWhat is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens\, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system\, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa—with inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon–comes into their lives\, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year\, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place\, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs\, and finalize the adoption—or\, almost unthinkably\, give her up. \nFor fans of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk\, The Risk of Us deftly explores the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage\, the uncertainties of family life\, and the ways true empathy obliterates our defenses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-howard-book-launch/
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:Freud's Bar - - details to come!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 10\n6:30pm\nAd Event \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud’s Bar on Wednesday\, April 10th at 6:30pm. Presenter tbd. \nAre you interested in the world of psychology but afraid you may not understand all of the terms and jargon? Join us for monthly talks given by local Bay Area psychoanalysts. You don’t need to be a psychologist to check out Freud’s Bar. Just bring your interest and a friend! \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nmore to come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freuds-bar-details-to-come/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Fire Story: Brian Fies
DESCRIPTION:Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist whose past projects include the graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow\, and the webcomic The Last Mechanical Monster. The day after Brian and his wife\, Karen\, lost their home in the Tubbs fire\, Brian bought paper and pens\, and began writing and drawing A Fire Story. Posted online\, the comic went viral\, and was seen by more than 3 million people. Brian expanded A Fire Story into a full-length graphic novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-fire-story-brian-fies/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-3/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMinutes of Glory and Other Stories \npublished by The New Press \nA dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time” \n\n\n\nNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, although renowned for his novels\, memoirs\, and plays\, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” (“Mugumo” in this collection)\, written in 1960\, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda\, to the playful “The Ghost of Michael Jackson\,” written as a professor at the University of California\, Irvine\, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. \nCovering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ’s collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society; big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British; and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ’s most beloved stories\, “Minutes of Glory\,” tells of Beatrice\, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city’s beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. \nPublished for the first time in America\, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa’s best-loved writers. \nOne of the leading writers and scholars at work today\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru\, Kenya\, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not\, Child; and Petals of Blood\, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver\, Wrestling with the Devil\, and Minutes of Glory (all from The New Press).\nCurrently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, Ngũgĩ is recipient of twelve honorary doctorates\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of \n\n\n\nThis thrilling testament to the human spirit had\, for me\, a fierce resonance. . . . I could not help feeling that his luminous words were meant for those victims and many others being persecuted across the world\, a way of urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and silence. (Ariel Dorfman\, The New York Times Book Review) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Engrossing … At once exhilarating and defiant\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir is a thought-provoking document of a grim time in Kenyan history.” (Publishers Weekly) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Washington Post reviews Birth of a Dream Weaver\, saying “every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience.” (The Washington Post) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ngugi-wa-thiongo-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ruth Reichl\, Save Me the Plums
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 10\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th. \n  \nTrailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous\, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now\, for the first time\, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet\, during which she spearheaded a revolution in the way we think about food. \nWhen Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine\, she declined. She was a writer\, not a manager\, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. And yet . . . Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? \nThis is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture\, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed\, forever\, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert\, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace\, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who\, under Reichl’s leadership\, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media — the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down. \nComplete with recipes\, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark\, following a passion and holding on to her dreams — even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be. \nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me with Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, and For You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!; and\, most recently\, the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Timesand served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-reichl-save-me-the-plums/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Leslie Carol Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book\, Here Is Where I Walk. \n\nAbout Here is Where I Walk \nIt is in the Presidio of San Francisco\, California\, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio\, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting\, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places\, people\, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. \nIn this thickly textured literary treasure\, Leslie turns her daily journeys\, rich with observation and recollection\, into revelations of deeper meaning. Through her daily walks into the Presidio\, Leslie accepts the invitation of the beckoning trees and finds herself colliding with the urban coyote\, the peculiar banana slug\, and the manzanita. She notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems—parents bragging about Austrian ski vacations\, grocery stores packed with nannies—all in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation. \nThe twelve episodes\, each connected to a month of the year and interwoven with field notebooks\, explore everything from Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in the fields where he spoke with the birds to the work of Western botanist Alice Eastwood. Leslie reflects on the high school art teacher who first inspired her thinking about aesthetics\, the tragic accident that left her severely injured\, her subsequent work as a college professor teaching writing\, and the loss of a beloved student to cancer. In all this\, places of exquisite beauty and complexity provide her with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive\, with nature serving as a tonic. Here Is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place\, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-carol-roberts/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 10\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 10\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lori Ostlund
DESCRIPTION:Lori Ostlund’s first book\, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World\, won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O Henry Prize Stories and in literary journals such as ZYZZYVA and New England Review. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a B&N Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is at work on her next two novels and a second story collection. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats\, though she grew up in a hardware store in Minnesota\, cat-less.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-ostlund-2/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, April 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present \nan evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton’s new book \nBob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work \nfrom Zone Books \n\n\nBob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music\, establishing him as a major modern artist. However\, until now\, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs\, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan\, not as a pop hero\, but as an artist\, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric\, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form\, his complex manipulation of poetic diction\, and his dialogues with other artists\, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues\, through his mastery of rock and country\, up to his densely allusive recent recordings\, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism\, the book studies the relationship between form\, genre\, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change. \nTimothy Hampton is a writer\, scholar\, teacher\, and translator based in Northern California. Raised in the Rockies\, educated in New Mexico\, Europe\, Canada\, and on the East Coast\, he is primarily a scholar of the Romance Languages\, and of the literature and culture of the Renaissance. His particular research interests include the relationship between literature and politics\, the philosophy of history\, and the transmission of culture. He has written widely on literature in its many forms (epic\, lyric\, dramatic\, novelistic) across several languages and national traditions. Recently\, he has been working on the history of emotion\, on multilingualism\, and on popular music. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. \nwhat has been said about Timothy Hampton’s writing: \n“This is an essential Dylan book and unlike any other. Hampton left me with a deeper appreciation of Dylan’s uniqueness as both songwriter and singer; his methods\,his lyrical and poetic brilliance\, his many voices.” — Dean Wareham\, musician (Galaxie 500\, Luna) and author of Black Postcards \n“This is a truly powerful book written by one of the leading scholars of the history of poetry today. The writing is clear and intellectually most exciting: Dylan’s idiosyncratic genius is explained more compellingly than ever before. Hampton remains relevant\, exciting\, and persuasively accurate as he shows the genesis of the songs as musical and literary forms and assesses their originality. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work will become a standard account\, destined to appear in class lists under ‘required reading’; it contains the searching close readings of songs that will both enable future study and require contestation for an alternative account: the study sets a gold standard.”–Nigel Smith\, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature\, Princeton University \n“From classrooms to the Supreme Court to the street corner\, nobody doesn’t know Dylan songs. Yet there is surprising little writing that addresses exactly how the songs speak to us and weave themselves into the web of American language. Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is a rigorous model for how this kind of critical analysis can be done. Hampton’s well-written book is the first one I would recommend to someone fascinated and mystified by Dylan’s half a century of ranging among the things that songs can articulate.”– Charles O. Hartman\, Poet in Residence at Connecticut College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, Ink Knows No Borders
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book\, Ink Knows No Borders\, a poetry collection that brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of teen immigrants and refugees. This event is part of Bookshop’s year-long programming effort\, 2020 Vision. \nWith authenticity\, integrity\, and insight\, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees\, such as cultural and language differences\, homesickness\, social exclusion\, human rights\, racism\, stereotyping\, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo\, Erika L. Sánchez\, Samira Ahmed\, Chen Chen\, Ocean Vuong\, Fatimah Asghar\, Carlos Andrés Gómez\, Bao Phi\, Kaveh Akbar\, Hala Alyan\, and Ada Limón\, among others\, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths\, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination. Many of the struggles immigrant and refugee teens face head-on are also experienced by young people everywhere as they contend with isolation\, self-doubt\, confusion\, and emotional dislocation. \nInk Knows No Borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet Javier Zamora\, who crossed the border\, unaccompanied\, at the age of nine\, and an afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud\, World Poetry Slam Champion and Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Brief biographies of the poets are included\, as well. It’s a hopeful\, beautiful\, and meaningful book for any reader. \n\n\n“This collection cuts right to the heart of the matter at a time when it is most relevant. . . . This symphony of poetry is a necessary series of bruises and balms that will comfort those who have endured\, uplift those who continue to struggle\, and educate others.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n\n\n“I was moved again and again by the poems in this brave\, beautiful and necessary collection. I found echoes of myself in many of the pieces\, and I know so many young immigrants and Americans will find themselves\, too. But it goes beyond that. I wish this book would be taught in homogenous communities\, too\, so readers with little understanding of immigration will have the chance to see its humanity. This is the most important book we will read this year.” —Matt de la Peña\, New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award winning author \n\n\nPoet\, nonfiction writer\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-ink-knows-no-borders/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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