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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jennifer Steil & Ava Homa
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Jennifer Steil (Exile Music: A Novel) & Ava Homa (Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Exile Music and/or Daughters of Smoke and Fire and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nExile Music by Jennifer Steil \nAs a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s\, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic\, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer\, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall\, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler’s rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family’s identity\, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor\, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds\, where they can escape the growing tensions around them. \nBut in 1938\, Orly’s peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first\, and soon Orly\, her father\, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz\, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows\, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood\, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains\, Orly’s mother grows even more distant\, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass\, the war ends\, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home\, or is the pull of her past in Europe—and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese—too strong to ignore? \n\nJennifer Steil is an award-winning novelist and memoirist who lives in many countries. She left the United States in 2006 to take a job as editor of a newspaper in Sana’a\, Yemen\, where she lived for four years. Her first book\, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky\, was inspired by her Yemeni reporters. She began writing her first novel\, The Ambassador’s Wife\, after she was kidnapped when pregnant with her daughter. That experience became the first scene of the novel. She and her infant daughter were evacuated from Yemen after her husband Tim Torlot\, a British diplomat\, was attacked by a suicide bomber. They lived in Amman\, Jordan\, until his posting ended and he could join them in London. In 2012\, they moved to La Paz\, Bolivia. Early in her time there\, Steil met Jewish Bolivians whose families had fled the Nazis in Europe during World War II. Their stories inspired her third book\, Exile Music\, just released by Viking. She now lives in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. \n  \n  \n\nDaughters of Fire and Smoke by Ava Homa \nSet in Iran\, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage\, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother Chia\, influenced by their father’s past torture\, imprisonment\, and his deep-seated desire for justice\, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts\, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online\, she finds herself in grave danger as well. \nDaughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family\, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. \n  \n  \nAva Homa is a writer\, journalist\, and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her collection of short stories\, Echoes from the Other Land\, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Prize\, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship. Daughters of Smoke and Fire is her debut novel which has received much acclaim. For more information please visit at www.AvaHoma.com \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-jennifer-steil-ava-homa/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Zach St. George Discusses his new book\, The Journeys of Trees
DESCRIPTION:Science reporter Zach St. George joins us to discuss his new book\, The Journeys of Trees: A Story About Forests\, People\, and the Future (W.W. Norton). \nThis virtual event will be broadcast on our Crowdcast Channel. Register here. \nAbout The Journeys of Trees\nForests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts\, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction\, the whole forest begins to migrate\, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today\, however\, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions\, invasive pests transported through global trade—threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all\, the climate is changing faster than ever before\, and forests are struggling to keep up. \nA deft blend of science reporting and travel writing\, The Journeys of Trees explores the evolving movements of forests by focusing on five trees: giant sequoia\, ash\, black spruce\, Florida torreya\, and Monterey pine. Journalist Zach St. George visits these trees in forests across continents\, finding sequoias losing their needles in California\, fossil records showing the paths of ancient forests in Alaska\, domesticated pines in New Zealand\, and tender new sprouts of blight-resistant American chestnuts in New Hampshire. Everywhere he goes\, St. George meets lively people on conservation’s front lines\, from an ecologist studying droughts to an evolutionary evangelist with plans to save a dying species. He treks through the woods with activists\, biologists\, and foresters\, each with their own role to play in the fight for the uncertain future of our environment. \nAn eye-opening investigation into forest migration past and present\, The Journeys of Trees examines how we can all help our trees\, and our planet\, survive and thrive. \nAbout Zach St. George\nZach St. George is a science reporter who has written for the Atlantic\, Scientific American\, and Outside\, among other publications. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in Baltimore\, Maryland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-st-george-discusses-his-new-book-the-journeys-of-trees/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kate Greene and Mary Roach
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 21 at 5pm PDT when Kate Greene discusses her new book Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space\, Exploration and Life on Earth with Mary Roach on Zoom \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83001791380 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83001791380#  or +12532158782\,\,83001791380#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 830 0179 1380\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb0jsKzm1b\n \nPraise for Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars \n“In her thoughtful\, well-written account of the mission\, Greene not only discusses what it was like to spend several months cooped up indoors with five strangers and limited resources but also reflects on what this and other space missions can teach us about ourselves and life on Earth.”–Physics Today \n“This stirring\, smart\, and truly original debut begins with questions and then progresses beyond facile answers\, into even less answerable questions. Along the way\, Greene charts a course that is propulsive\, discursive\, and pure pleasure to read\, whether it is exploring boredom\, guinea pigs\, pineapple\, grief\, or deep space. Like a conversation with your smartest\, most fun friend\, each essay travels an unexpected and exhilarating path\, more often between people than planets\, examining the distances between who we were and who we have become\, what we expected and what we have found in this life.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“A prescient look at humans alone\, separate from the world they once knew. Truly a book for our times.”–Sarah Stewart Johnson\, author of The Sirens of Mars\n \nAbout Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars \nWhen it comes to Mars\, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets\, the engines\, the fuel. But upon arrival\, what will it actually be like? \nIn 2013\, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is\, along with five fellow crew members\, she embarked on NASA’s first HI-SEAS mission\, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i. For four months she lived\, worked\, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome\, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters\, as well as the nature of boredom\, dreams\, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. \nIn Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars\, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanity’s broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life\, of the standard\, able-bodied astronaut and Greene’s brother’s disability\, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage\, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple\, of departure and return. \nBy asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe\, Greene has written a remarkable\, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now\, as a pre-Mars species\, poised on the edge\, readying for launch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kate-greene-and-mary-roach/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nChallenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \nBOOKSHOP.ORG \nArguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account\, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change\, sweatshop labour\, police abuse\, and economic deprivation. \nIn Accountability Democracy\, Kaufman pairs each of these issues with an operation of power — the large scale influence of multinational corporations; the power of governments; the authority of financial markets; and the control inherent in systems of meaning — and using case studies like the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and the killing of Eric Garner\, forcefully demonstrates the difficulty in challenging this nexus of power. \nYet\, advancing a positive message\, Kaufman maintains that this network is not omnipotent and can be questioned if we develop ‘mechanisms of accountability’ which allow us to conceptualise the nature of these restrictions and the action required to resist them. Kaufman provides then\, a model for ethical living that allows us to investigate and appreciate our own connection to the powerful forces that control our world. \n\n\nCynthia Kaufman is the Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action at De Anza College\, USA\, where she also teaches Philosophy. She is the author of two books on social change Getting Past Capitalism: History\, Vision\, Hope (2012) and Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change (2003). She is a lifelong activist for social change and has worked on issues such as tenants’ rights\, police abuse\, union organizing\, international politics\, and most recently climate change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-kaufman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gail Tsukiyama (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:Kepler’s is thrilled to announce an event with Gail Tsukiyama\, the acclaimed and bestselling author of 8 novels\, and a staff favorite who embodies the best of Bay Area literature. Born in San Francisco to a Chinese mother from Hong Kong and a Japanese father from Hawaii\, Tsukiyama’s talent has garnered an equally international reach and literary acclaim. She has spoken to large crowds at book festivals from Sydney to Hong Kong\, and was one of a few authors selected to speak at the first-ever Library of Congress National Book Festival. The Samurai’s Garden is a staple of college curriculums\, and Tsukiyama has won both an Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miller Literary Award. \nIn short\, this is one dynamically talented speaker you don’t want to miss. \nThe Color of Air\, Tsukiyama’s latest evocative historical novel\, portrays a family grappling with its past against the backdrop of Hawai’i’s sugar plantations. \nDr. Daniel Abe quietly returns home to Hawai’i after the traumatic loss of a patient\, boarding a ship to the Big Island right as the Mauna Loa begins to stir. On the island\, Daniel’s uncle and childhood friend await his arrival while internally contending with their own connections to the young man and his family. Each character holds secrets in a private world as the volcano comes to life. \nThese interweaving storylines alternate between a volcanic 1935 to a time decades prior— a rich\, vibrant\, bittersweet celebration of lifelong bonds the characters feel to one another and to their immigrant community. In the backdrop of Mauna Loa\, old secrets kept below the surface now threaten to blend inescapably with the present. Don’t miss Tsukiyama as she delves into this triumphant work of fiction. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gail-tsukiyama-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts L. E. Modesitt\, Jr. for new book "Quantum Shadows"
DESCRIPTION:USA Today bestselling author L.E. Modesitt Jr. talks about his new standalone science fiction novel\, Quantum Shadows.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOrder your copy of Quantum Shadows now! \nL. E. Modesitt\, Jr. is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante\, the Ecolitan novels\, the Forever Hero Trilogy\, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer\, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot\, a legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman\, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City\, Utah. \nModesitt’s latest novel\, Quantum Shadows\, is a masterful blend of religion and myth in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world for a philosophical cross-genre tale. \nWelcome to Heaven\, a world where the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon – a god\, or a prophet of god. Corvyn\, also known as the Shadow of the Raven\, is an incredibly powerful air spirit. When an unknown force burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre in the shape of a trident\, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly wield that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another Fall of humankind\, and if he doesn’t stop it\, mankind will not rise from these ashes. \nWith overtones of some of the genre’s greatest writers\, such as Roger Zelanzy and Gene Wolfe\, Modesitt create a formidable and elegant world with intricate detail and powerful imagination that will appeal to lifelong fans and newcomers alike.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-books-hosts-l-e-modesitt-jr-for-new-book-quantum-shadows/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop invites you to join us online for an event with acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) to celebrate her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most—both personally and politically—whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” 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. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrice-vecchione-my-shouting-shattered-whispering-voice/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T120000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Caitlin Myer and Wiving with Joe Loya
DESCRIPTION:At 36 years old\, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma\, and believes she is now living her happily ever after. In a single week\, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother\, and is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future. Myer’s electric debut memoir Wivingis the story of one woman’s “escape” from religion at age 20\, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large. The biblical characters Yael and Judith\, wives who became assassins\, become her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence. In conversation with author Joe Loya. Registration via Eventbrite required to access Zoom. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Zoom and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from Green Apple direct! \n\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n\n \nJoe Loya\nJoe Loya is an essayist\, screenwriter\, actor/director\, and author of the memoir\, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber. While consulting on the script for Edgar Wright’s film Baby Driver\, he was also cast as a bank guard who gets shot and killed by Jamie… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nCaitlin Myer\nCaitlin Myer is the daughter of a poet and a visual artist\, and grew up in a large\, chaotic Mormon family in Provo\, Utah. Her short stories\, poetry\, and essays have appeared in No Tokens\, Electric Literature\, The Butter\, Cultural Weekly\, and Joyland\, among others\, and she was a 2012… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-caitlin-myer-and-wiving-with-joe-loya-2/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Litquake presents Caitlin Myer and Joe Loya
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple and Litquake present Caitlin Myer and Joe Loya discussing Caitlin’s new book Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving The Patriarchy. This event will be held on Crowdcast and Facebook Live. \nhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/caitlin-myer-and-wiving/register  \nAt 36 years old\, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after. In a single week\, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother and is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future. Myer’s electric debut memoir Wiving is the story of one woman’s “escape” from religion at age 20\, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large. The biblical characters Yael and Judith\, wives who became assassins\, become her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence. In conversation with author Joe Loya. FREE\, $5 suggested donation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-litquake-presents-caitlin-myer-and-joe-loya/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Billy-Ray Belcourt and A History of My Brief Body
DESCRIPTION:Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard\, Alberta\, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there\, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him\, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it\, first loves and first loves lost\, sexual exploration and intimacy\, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory\, gender\, anger\, shame\, and ecstasy\, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty\, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own\, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts\, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening\, intensely emotional\, and excessively quotable\, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us. In conversation with writer and professor Greg Sarris. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org! \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nGreg Sarris\nGreg Sarris received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University\, where he was awarded the Walter Gore Award for excellence in teaching. He has published several books\, including Grand Avenue (1994)\, an award-winning collection of short stories\, which he adapted… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nBilly-Ray Belcourt\nBilly-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections NDN Coping Mechanisms and This Wound Is a World\, which was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize\, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-billy-ray-belcourt-and-a-history-of-my-brief-body/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200706T181005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T181005Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jesse Wegman\, Let the People Pick the President
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a timely online event with Jesse Wegman who will be in conversation with Ryan Coonerty about his new book\, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.  \nTwo of the last five presidential elections have been won by the candidate who lost the popular vote\, calling the integrity of America’s entire electoral system into question. Political passions are already high\, and they will reach a boiling point as we enter the 2020 race. The message from the American people is clear: we need major reform\, and we need it now. In Let the People Pick the President\, New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman makes a powerful case for choosing presidents based on a national popular vote. In this compact\, deeply researched\, highly readable history of the Electoral College\, he describes its controversial origins\, profiles some of the more than 700 efforts to abolish or reform it over the years\, and explains why it is now essential for us to revamp this obsolete system and finally make every citizen’s vote matter. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“Jesse Wegman is a shrewd analyst\, brilliant researcher and passionate writer\, and here he tackles an issue important to our system’s legitimacy.” —Nicholas Kristoff \n“People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one\, at least in recent years\, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in Let the People Pick the President.” —Josh Chafetz\, New York Times Book Review \nJesse Wegman has been a member of the New York Times editorial board since 2013\, writing editorials on the Supreme Court and legal affairs. He was previously a senior editor at the Daily Beast and Newsweek\, a legal news editor at Reuters\, and the managing editor of the New York Observer. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 2005. \nRyan Coonerty is a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors\, a two-time former Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz\, and a longtime lecturer in the Legal Studies program at UC Santa Cruz. He is the host of the podcast “An Honorable Profession.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jesse-wegman-let-the-people-pick-the-president/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200724T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200724T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200721T193431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200721T193431Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Wallace Baine & Steve Kettmann
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for a reading featuring Wallace Baine and Steve Kettmann. The Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you. \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post\, and presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-wallace-baine-steve-kettmann/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200706T201253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T201253Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nIn light of recent events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement\, our July Book Club selection is Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal. \nNew to the Movement? Fear not! Whether you’ve had many conversations about Black Lives Matter or this will be your first one\, we welcome you all to join us as we learn and grow together. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday\, July 25 at 3pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~ \nAbout the Book:\nIn December 1981\, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed\, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. \nIn Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?\, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse\, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America\, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country’s black population. Applying a personal\, historical\, and political lens\, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around. \nAbout the author:\nMumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books\, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms\, which address prison life from a critical and spiritual perspective. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists (Philadelphia chapter). That year he was arrested for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982. In 2011\, after spending more than 28 years on death row\, his death sentence was vacated when the Supreme Court allowed to stand the decisions of four federal judges who had earlier declared his death sentence unconstitutional. He is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In spite of his three-decade-long imprisonment\, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. From prison he has written seven books and thousands of radio commentaries. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University\, Dominguez Hills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-have-black-lives-ever-mattered/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200712T230321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200712T230321Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: (em)Power(ment)
DESCRIPTION:POWER. EMPOWER. EMPOWERMENT. Take your pick. This month SNS explores all kinds of power. From self-empowerment\, to empowering others\, to the powers that be\, to historical power. Personal\, political\, righteous\, economic\, systemic\, authoritarian\, power for good or ill. You can go big or small. The power to pick up the pen\, speak out\, make art\, make dinner\, change and grow\, the power to vote\, the power to choose. Choose what moves you. Share what empowers you. Or what has disempowered you. Write something new. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJULY FEATURES: Thea Matthews & Cassandra Dallett \nSATURDAY\, JULY 25\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on July 18. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. \nTo sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. \nWe will be using the Waiting Room feature and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 969 9282 4045\nPassword: 838791 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96992824045?pwd=N215UTFaTUFaUUV5VUhadUc2Q1ZOUT09\nPassword: 838791 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,96992824045# \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, California\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black Indigenous Mexican poet\, black feminist\, educator\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. Her debut poetry collection Unearth [The Flowers] was published by Red Light Lit Press in 2020; and she has work published in Atlanta Review\, Foglifter Journal\, The Rumpus\, and others. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate for Poetry at New York University; and is the poetry editor for For Women Who Roar™. More info at www.theamatthews.com \nCassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in over a hundred anthologies and journals. \nCassandra reads often around the Bay Area\, hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six\, is a facilitator at MOWW\, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast\, (iTunes\, Spotify\, Soundcloud\, Stitcher\, YouTube) and co-hosts and co-curates the quarterly reading series MoonDrop Productions with Kelechi Ubozoh\, as well as her own monthly Oakland based reading series\, The Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft. \nAfter three self-published chapbooks Cassandra Dallett’s first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless(Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015\, she authored five chapbooks\, one of them\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award\, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection\, Collapse\, also on Nomadic Press\, also nominated for a CA Book Award. Her most recent book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness has just been released from Be About It Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-empowerment/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200721T193542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200721T193542Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer\, Un-Trumping America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013)\, Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015)\, and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book\, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed\, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March\, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event\, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online\, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store\,  please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event. \nTickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here! \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, cohost of Pod Save America\, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump\, McConnell\, Fox News\, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. \nThere is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020\, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First\, Trump is not an aberration\, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second\, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third\, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy. \nDan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors\, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife\, Howli\, and their daughter\, Kyla.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dan-pfeiffer-un-trumping-america/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200706T181147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T181147Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lindsay Ellis\, Axiom's End
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Hugo-nominated video essayist Lindsay Ellis\, who will discuss her debut novel\, Axiom’s End—an alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000’s\, pitched as Stranger Things meets Arrival. This will be a ticketed virtual event. Details to come. \nRegister for this ticketed Crowdcast soon!\nBy the fall of 2007\, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil\, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora’s whistleblower father\, and even though she hasn’t spoken to him in years\, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press\, the Internet\, the paparazzi\, and the government–and redirected it to her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax\, and wants nothing to do with him–until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up\, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. \nTo save her own life\, she offers her services as an interpreter to a monster\, and the monster accepts. \nLearning the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to\, she sets out to gather as much information as she can\, and finds that the best way for her to find the truth is not as a whistleblower\, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter\, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. But in becoming an interpreter\, she begins to realize that she has become the voice for a being she cannot ever truly know or understand\, and starts to question who she’s speaking for–and what future she’s setting up for all of humanity. \nLINDSAY ELLIS is an author and video essayist who creates humorous educational online content about media\, narrative\, and film theory\, and also co-writes and co-hosts the fiction-focused web series “It’s Lit!” for PBS Digital Studios. After earning her bachelor’s in Cinema Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, she earned her MFA in Film and Television Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with a focus in documentary and screenwriting. She lives in Long Beach\, CA. \n“Axiom’s End is somehow deeply aware of not just what it is to be human\, but what it is to be any intelligent species. It’s as real as any first-contact story I have ever read. Wonderfully plotted and paced\, the adventure never lets up\, and neither does the insight.” —Hank Green\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lindsay-ellis-axioms-end/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200615T175619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T201910Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Anne Applebaum / Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Anne Applebaum for her new book\, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note our early start time of 12pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy a gift certificate\, which never expires.\n> Make a donation. \nA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains\, with electrifying clarity\, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults\, nationalist movements\, or one-party states. \nAcross the world today\, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond\, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy\, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues that we should not be surprised by this change: There is an inherent appeal to political systems with radically simple beliefs\, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. \nPeople are not just ideological\, she contends in this captivating extended essay; they are also practical\, pragmatic\, opportunist. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents. Describing politicians\, journalists\, intellectuals\, and others who have abandoned democratic ideals in the UK\, U.S.\, Spain\, Poland\, and Hungary\, Applebaum reveals the patterns that link the new advocates of illiberalism and charts how they use conspiracy theory\, political polarization\, social media\, and nostalgia to change their societies. \n\nAnne Applebaum was one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Russian interference in U.S. elections and antidemocratic trends in Europe. Her 2018 Atlantic article\, “A Warning from Europe\,” inspired this book and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. After seventeen years as a columnist at The Washington Post\, she became a staff writer at The Atlantic in January 2020. She is the author of three critically acclaimed and award-winning histories of the Soviet Union: Red Famine\, Iron Curtain\, and Gulag\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-anne-applebaum-twilight-of-democracy-the-seductive-lure-of-authoritarianism/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200727T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T195753Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson and Leila del Duca
DESCRIPTION:From an unstoppable warrior to a struggling teenage refugee\, get ready to see Wonder Woman in a new light. \n\n\n\n\nThis is an Online Event. \nNew York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak\, Shout) and artist Leila del Duca have reimagined Wonder Woman’s origins in this timely story about the refugee experience\, teenage activism\, and finding the love and strength to create change. \nPrincess Diana of Themyscira believes that her 16th birthday will be one of new beginnings⁠— namely\, acceptance into the warrior tribe of the Amazons. But her birthday celebrations are cut short when rafts carrying refugees break through the barrier that separates her island home from the outside world. When Diana defies the Amazons to try to bring the outsiders to safety\, she finds herself swept away by the stormy sea. Cut off from everything she’s ever known\, Diana herself becomes a refugee in an unfamiliar land. Now Diana must survive in the world beyond Themyscira for the first time–a world that is filled with danger and injustice unlike anything she’s ever experienced. With new battles to be fought and new friends to be made\, she must redefine what it means to belong\, to be an Amazon\, and to make a difference. in a story about growing into one’s strength\, fighting for justice\, and finding home. \nWonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is more than a reboot of Wonder Woman’s origin story\, weaving in real-world issues like refugee crises and child trafficking. \n\n\n\n\nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times-bestselling author known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chains was also short-listed for the UK’s Carnegie medal. She was selected by the American Library Association for the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her significant contribution to young adult literature. Laurie has also been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. She is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council and frequently speaks about sexual violence. \nLeila del Duca is a comic book artist and writer who draws Sleepless\, Shutter and writes Afar at Image Comics. Leila has drawn for titles such as The Wicked + The Divine\, Scarlet Witch\, American Vampire\, and The Pantheon Project. In 2015 and 2016\, Leila was nominated for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award for her work on Shutter. \nJoin us as we discuss all things Wonder Woman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-halse-anderson-and-leila-del-duca/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200728T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200728T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200710T181908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200710T181908Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Ethan Nosowsky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 28 at 5pm PDT when Marie Mutsuki Mockett discusses her new book\, American Harvest: God\, Country\, and Farming in the Heartland\, with Ethan Nosowsky on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82971702082 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82971702082#  or +12532158782\,\,82971702082#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 829 7170 2082\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcpi8FxVYp\n \nPraise for American Harvest \n“Books enable readers to broaden their lives\, and this one—in which Marie Mutsuki Mockett joins a crew harvesting wheat—is a doozy\, as Studs Terkel’s were. . . . I never knew a person on a wheat-harvesting crew\, and now I do\, thanks to Mockett’s vivid and true account.”—Annie Dillard \n“An extraordinary feat of empathy set against a land of reds\, whites\, and blues\, American Harvest doesn’t just speak to the great divide—it dares to bridge it.”—Marlon James \n“Mockett\, writing with a gentle self-consciousness\, offers a compassionate portrait of conservative evangelicals\, along with lucid musings on agricultural science\, Native American history\, and the quiet majesty of the Great Plains.”—The New Yorker \nAbout American Harvest \nAn epic story of the American wheat harvest\, the politics of food\, and the culture of the Great Plains \nFor over one hundred years\, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska\, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett\, who grew up in bohemian Carmel\, California\, with her father and her Japanese mother\, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. \nIn American Harvest\, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth\, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho\, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide\,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields\, attends church\, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life\, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white\,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. \nAmerican Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs\, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity\, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-marie-mutsuki-mockett-and-ethan-nosowsky/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200728T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200728T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T172531
CREATED:20200615T175829Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors\, Jon Sack\, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) \ncelebrating his new graphic novel \nWindows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \n———–– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations.\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nThe book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase WINDOWS ON THE WORLD here< \n————- \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners. \nJacqueline Obradors is an actor and has appeared in numerous feature film that include Six Days\, Seven Nights (1998)\,  Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo (1999)\, Tortilla Soup (2001)\, A Man Apart(2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She has also appeared on the television crime drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005.) She is currently featured on the TV series Bosch and will be starring in the forthcoming film “Palm Springs.” \nJay Walsh play Vocals\, Guitars\, and Piano for the musical combo DOUGLAS FIR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-friends-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOKS & BREWS: Colin Dickey\, The Unidentified
DESCRIPTION:Our popular Books + Brews summer event series returns in a modified form this season. For the first of two events\, we are teaming up with Discretion Brewing to host an online event with Colin Dickey\, author of The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters\, Alien Encounters\, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained. Tune into our Crowdcast event from the comfort of home while you enjoy one of Discretion’s tasty beverages—they suggest their Book Club Pale Ale will pair beautifully with the book that Publishers Weekly calls\, “A thought-provoking and deliciously unsettling guide into the stranger corners of American culture.” (Shipping and book/beer pick up options to come.)\n\n\nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \nAmerica’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomena… \nIn a world where rational\, scientific explanations are more available than ever\, belief in the unprovable and irrational—in fringe—is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens\, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster\, it seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in\, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey\, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics\, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America’s wildest fringe beliefs—from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials\, or possibly both\, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam\, to the museum containing the last remaining “evidence” of the great Kentucky Meat Shower—investigating how these theories come about\, why they take hold\, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious\, wry\, brilliant in his analysis\, yet eminently readable. \nColin Dickey is a writer\, speaker\, and academic\, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly\, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death\, a collective of artists\, writers\, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world’s relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California\, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-books-brews-colin-dickey-the-unidentified/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich discusses his latest book\, The Desert Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Ben Ehrenreich visits Point Reyes to discuss his new book\, Desert Notebooks (Counterpoint). \nPresented in conjunction with Mesa Refuge. \nAbout Desert Notebooks\nNational Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nDesert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time–the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present–unflinching\, urgent–and yet timeless and profound. \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” —Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \nAbout Ben Ehrenreich\nBen Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Los Angeles Times. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Haiti\, Cambodia\, El Salvador\, and Mexico. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. He is the author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-ehrenreich-writer-discusses-his-latest-book-the-desert-notebooks/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beach Read by Emily Henry | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 28\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Emily Henry’s new novel\, BEACH READ. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89360940741. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPBeachRead\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GGPBeachReadAB. \nJune 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“What do you get when you cross a disillusioned romance author with a Hemingway wannabe? A compulsively readable book where you kind of hope for your train to be delayed so you can spend a few more minutes with January and Gus. These two\, saddled with writer’s block\, make a pact to write the other’s genre. Literary snobbery is (rightfully) called out\, and the two begin to navigate a friendship outside of writing as they explore the other’s process. Reader\, I loved it.”\n— Audrey Huang\, Belmont Books\, Belmont\, MA \nDescription\n\nTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! \n“Original\, sparkling bright\, and layered with feeling…”—Sally Thorne\, author of The Hating Game \nA romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. \nAugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after\, he kills off his entire cast. \nThey’re polar opposites. \nIn fact\, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months\, they’re living in neighboring beach houses\, broke\, and bogged down with writer’s block. \nUntil\, one hazy evening\, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy\, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage\, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really. \nAbout the Author\n\nEmily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies\, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites. \nPraise For…\n\n“Once I started Beach Read I legit did not put it down.”—Betches \nOne of… \nThe New York Times Book Review’s Summer Romance Reads\nEntertainment Weekly’s Hottest Summer Reads of 2020\nOprah Magazine’s Best Beach Reads of Summer 2020\nBetches’ 20 Books to Read in 2020\nSheReads’ Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020\nGoodreads’ Big Books of Spring\nPopsugar’s 25 Exciting New Books Coming Out in May\nBustle’s Most Anticipated May Titles\nShondaland’s Five Books to Read in May\nTheSkimm’s 11 Buzzy Books for Your Imaginary Beach Bag\nGood Morning America’s 25 Novels You’ll Want to Read this Summer\nThe New York Post’s Required Reading\nGood Housekeeping’s 25 Best Beach Reads\nHuffington Post’s Best Books to Read during Quarantine\nCNN’s Perfect Summer Reads\nLitHub’s Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List\nBookRiot’s 6 Captivating New Books \n“Reader\, I swooned!  Beach Read is a breath of fresh air. My heart ached for January\, and Gus is to die for – a steamy\, smart and perceptive romance. I was engrossed!”—Josie Silver\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beach-read-by-emily-henry-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gene Luen Yang--virtually!
DESCRIPTION:discussing Dragon Hoops\, his latest graphic novel\, in which he turns the spotlight on his life\, his family\, and Bishop O’Dowd High School\, where he taught for 17 years. Mrs. Dalloway’s is delighted to partner with Bishop O’Dowd for this event. See below for registration instructions and how to order your copy of Dragon Hoops. See you on the court! \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, July 29\, 2020 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDragon Hoops centers on a legendary season of Dragon basketball\, and carries important messages about belonging\, character\, and how relationships and shared identity define heroism as a team sport. It’s also the story of sports victory in the Dragon basketball team’s long quest to win the California State Championship. \nSponsored by Bishop O’Dowd\, Yang will be in conversation with Coach Lou Richie (’89)\, also a character in the novel\, and art teacher Thien Pham\, a fellow graphic novelist and friend of Yang. The characters include members of the 2015-2016 Men’s and Women’s basketball teams\, some of whom may make guest appearances during the discussion! \nJoin online for an afternoon of hoops and comics as Yang shares the experience of creating a graphic novel rooted in his love for O’Dowd\, basketball\, and the relationships that make a community\, team\, and victory. Registration is free\, but required. A link to the event will be emailed after you complete your registration: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsIhB6LJF_NMoBg_LknhhDZPghwtL3Kxmt34eI3DYz0L0GBA/viewform
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gene-luen-yang-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Eric Utne
DESCRIPTION:celebrating his new book \nFar Out Man: Tales of Life in the Counterculture \npublished by Random House \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here to Register) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nFar Out Man is the story of a life-long seeker who was occasionally a finder as well. In 1984\, Eric Utne founded Utne Reader\, a digest of new ideas and fresh perspectives percolating in the arts\, culture\, politics\, business\, and spirituality. With the tag line “The Best of the Alternative Press\,” the magazine was twice a finalist for a National Magazine Award and grew to more than 300\,000 paid circulation. In the nineties\, the magazine promoted the Neighborhood Salon Association to revive the endangered art of conversation and start a revolution in people’s living rooms. More than 18\,000 people joined\, comprising nearly 500 salons across North America. Utne devoted the magazine to bringing people together to help make the world a “little greener and a little kinder.” \nFar Out Man serves as a chronicle of both an individual life and a generation\, covering the conflicts of the Vietnam era\, the hopes and excesses of the sexual revolution and the Me Decade\, the idealism and depredations of the entrepreneurial eighties and nineties\, and the promise and perils of the digital age. Ultimately\, Far Out Man is the story of Eric Utne’s lifelong search for hope\, how he lost it\, and what he found on the other side that sustains him in his darkest moments. It is a book dedicated to helping all seekers become finders. \n\n\n\nEric Utne\, founder of the eponymous Utne Reader\, is a journalist\, publisher\, and social entrepreneur. His name has been a New York Times crossword puzzle answer more than seventy times since 1994. Prior to starting Utne Reader\, Utne managed a natural foods store\, studied acupuncture and Chinese medicine\, and was a literary agent and small business consultant. After leaving the magazine in 2000\, he became the seventh-grade class teacher in an inner-city Waldorf school. In 2006\, he was elected to the executive committee of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. He is a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing\, where he co-authored a series of courses on the social and environmental dimensions of health and well-being. Utne earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from the University of Minnesota. He is the father of four and grandfather of five\, and makes his home in St. Paul\, Minnesota. \n\n\nWhat has been said about Far Out Man: \n“What a fascinating book—Eric Utne has been the Zelig of the counterculture\, arriving early again and again at the place where the non-mainstream is flowing. He tells the story with verve and command; it’s a remarkable piece of social history.”—Bill McKibben\, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? \n“Far Out Man will take you on a journey\, not just through one man’s life\, but through a pivotal time in American and world history. Always honest\, often funny\, sometimes profound\, Eric Utne’s life story shows us how we got here and even where we might go next. His journey will resonate with people from his generation and beyond.”—Paul Kingsnorth\, author of The Wake and Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist \n“In this ardent memoir\, Utne\, founder of the Utne Reader\, frames his life as an American archetype: the young man seeking happiness\, community\, and meaning. Utne details his explorations in a conversational tone\, with evocative stories. . . . The narrative is generally riveting thanks to its insight into multiple alternative cultural movements of the past half century. . . . Utne’s earnestness and honesty are charming. Readers will find this an entertaining personal testament.”—Publishers Weekly \n“A memoir of tenderness and truth\, honesty and humor\, but far more than this: It is a rare gift to the reader\, a how-to manual on the art of living. . . . I absolutely love it.”—Jay Griffiths\, author of Savage Grace: A Journey in Wildness \n“No better guide to the past half-century could be found than Eric Utne. His journey\, like that of the magazine he founded\, touches on everything important in those turbulent times.”—Kirkpatrick Sale\, author of The Collapse of 2020
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-utne/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Esther Kinsky and Claire-Louise Bennett Two writers discuss Grove: A Field Novel
DESCRIPTION:Esther Kinsky and Claire-Louise Bennett join us via Zoom to discuss Grove: A Field Novel (Transit Books). \nThis event is presented in partnership with Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series and the Goethe Institute. \nRegistration required. Visit Eventbrite to reserve your spot. \nAbout Grove\nAn unnamed narrator\, recently bereaved\, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter\, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery\, she embarks on walks and outings\, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing\, describing\, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky’s Grove\, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize\, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter. \n“Grove is a story of an existence stilled by loss\, but the promise of life\, and with it renewal and hope\, pulses gently but steadily at its heart.”—Lucy Scholes\, Financial Times \nAbout the authors\nEsther Kinsky grew up by the River Rhine and lived in London for twelve years. She is the author of three volumes of poetry and four novels\, including River\, and has translated many notable English (John Clare\, Henry David Thoreau\, Iain Sinclair) and Polish (Joanna Bator\, Miron Białoszewski\, Magdalena Tulli) authors into German. Grove won the Leipzig Book Prize and the Düsseldorf Book Prize. \nClaire-Louise Bennett was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book\, Pond\, which was published by The Stinging Fly (Ireland) and Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) in 2015\, and by Riverhead (US) in 2016. Pond was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esther-kinsky-and-claire-louise-bennett-two-writers-discuss-grove-a-field-novel/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Peter Orner and Maggie Brown & Others
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful and virtuosic collection of 44 interlocking stories\, each one “a marvel of concision and compassion” (Washington Post)\, Peter Orner chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points\, gripping us with a series of defining moments. Whether it’s a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar\, or a family’s memories of the painful mystery surrounding a neglected uncle’s demise\, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a 40-year marriage\, but an entire era in a working-class New England city. “A master of his form” —The New York Times. Peter Orner reads from and discusses his work\, with bestselling illustrator Paul Madonna. Registration via Eventbrite required to access Zoom. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Zoom and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nPaul Madonna\nPaul Madonna is an award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of three series\, All Over Coffee (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2016)\, Small Potatoes (Universal Press Syndicate)\, and Quotable City (Nob Hill Gazette 2018-present)\, and the author of four books\, All Over Coffee… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nPeter Orner\nPeter Orner\, a two-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize\, is the author of five previous books\, including the novel Love and Shame and Love and the collection Esther Stories\, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His memoir Am I Alone Here? was a finalist for the National Book Critics… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-peter-orner-and-maggie-brown-others/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Caitlin Myer / Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Caitlin Myer for the launch of her debut\, Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy. Please join us! \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nAt thirty-six years old\, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after … when her body betrays her. In a single week\, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother\, and she is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future. \nThis is the story of one woman’s lifelong combat with a culture—her “escape” from religion at age twenty\, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large\, conventions that teach girls and women to shape themselves to please men\, to become good wives and mothers. The biblical characters Yael and Judith\, wives who became assassins\, become her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence. \nAn electric debut that loudly redefines our notions of womanhood\, Wiving grapples with the intersections of religion and sex\, trauma and love\, sickness and mental illness\, and a woman’s harrowing enlightenment. Building on the literary tradition of difficult women who struggle to be heard\, Wiving introduces an urgent\, striking voice to the scene of contemporary women’s writing at a time when we must explode old myths and build new stories in their place. \n \n\nCaitlin Myer is the daughter of a poet and a visual artist\, and she grew up in a large\, chaotic Mormon family in Provo\, Utah. Her short stories\, poetry\, and essays have appeared in No Tokens\, Electric Literature \, The Butter\, Cultural Weekly\, and Joyland\, among others\, and she was a 2012 MacDowell Colony Fellow. In 2010\, Myer founded the San Francisco–based literary reading series\, Portuguese Artists Colony (PAC)\, which has extended its reach beyond the US to performances in Portugal. For seven years she traveled the world\, and she has recently settled in Guimarães\, Portugal. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-caitlin-myer-wiving-a-memoir-of-loving-then-leaving-the-patriarchy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Laurie R. King (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Laurie R. King‘s Riviera Gold brings back Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes—this time to the Riviera\, where they’re challenged to crack their most captivating case yet. \nIn her Russell & Holmes stories\, Laurie explores ideas—the roots of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan; feminism and early Christianity; patriotism and individual responsibility—while also having a rousing good time. Five of Laurie’s novels concern San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli\, Kate’s SFPD partner Al Hawkin\, and her life partner Lee Cooper. Her stand-alone suspense novels include A Darker Place\, Folly\, and Keeping Watch. She has also collaborated on nonfiction works including Crime & Thriller Writing and The Grand Game\, and on several short story anthologies. \nLaurie is the third generation in her family native to the San Francisco area. She spent her childhood reading her way through libraries up and down the West Coast; her middle years raising children\, renovating houses\, traveling the world\, and doing a BA and MA in theology. (Her long autobiography goes into detail about how she uses these interests.) She now lives a genteel life of crime\, on California’s central coast. \nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 19 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, which is set in Paris. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. With more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-laurie-r-king-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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