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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This first event in the series features A. Naomi Paik discussing her book Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\nDays after taking the White House\, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban\, the border wall\, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here\, Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president’s xenophobic\, racist\, ableist\, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration\, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political\, economic\, and social culture. She deftly demonstrates that attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women\, people of color\, workers\, ill and disabled people\, and queer and gender nonconforming people. Against this history of barriers and assaults\, Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary mounts a rallying cry for a broad-based\, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all. \n\nA. Naomi Paik is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois and the author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II. \n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-a-naomi-paik-bans-walls-raids-sanctuary-understanding-u-s-immigration-for-the-twenty-first-century/
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SUMMARY:The Healing Fire - Fire Thieves 11
DESCRIPTION:THE HEALING FIRE is the 11th edition of The Fire Thieves Poetry Series. On Monday August 3rd\, please help us welcome features Maw Shein Win\, Jennifer Barone\, Genevieve Yuen\, Norma Smith\, Anastasia Rutledge and more TBA. \nThe Fire Thieves is an inter-sectional & inter-generational poetry series produced by San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck every month with 2 established poets\, 2 mid-career poets and 2 younger poets. \nVisual Design: May Kodama \nThis event made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-healing-fire-fire-thieves-11/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Congressman Eric Swalwell\, Endgame
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online discussion with Congressman Eric Swalwell\, who will be in conversation with Steve Kettman about his new book\, Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump. In Endgame\, Swalwell offer his account of his path to office and how he and his colleagues resisted\, investigated\, and impeached a corrupt president. Congressman Swalwell grew up in the East Bay and now represents the 15th district. He serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and on the House Judiciary Committe. \nThis will be a ticketed event on the Crowdcast platform. Details to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-congressman-eric-swalwell-endgame/
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Lysley Tenorio & Sameer Pandya
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 Lysley Tenorio (The Son of Good Fortune) & Sameer Pandya (Members Only). \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 The Son of Good Fortune and/or Members Only 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\nThe Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio \nExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries)\, he carefully avoids the spotlight. \nBut Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother\, Maxima\, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather\, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago\, on Excel’s tenth birthday\, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago\,” she told him\, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life. \nCasting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood\, Excel takes a leap\, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters\, old hippies\, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible\, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider? \nThrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful\, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other. \nLysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress\, named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares\, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. He is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nMembers Only by Sameer Pandya \nFirst the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way\, he wonders: where does he\, a brown man\, belong in America? \nRaj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child\, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged\, he lives mostly happily in California\, with a job at a university. Still\, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times\, especially at their tennis club\, a place he’s cautiously come to love. \nBut it’s there that\, in one week\, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect\, he makes a racist joke. The committee turns on him\, no matter the years of prejudice he’s put up with. And worse still\, he soon finds his job is in jeopardy after a group of students report him as a reverse racist\, thanks to his alleged “anti-Western bias.” \nHeartfelt\, humorous\, and hard-hitting\, Members Only explores what membership and belonging mean\, as Raj navigates the complicated space between black and white America. \nSameer Pandya is the author of the story collection The Blind Writer\, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His fiction\, commentary\, and cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications\, including the Atlantic\, Salon\, Sports Illustrated\, ESPN\, and Narrative Magazine. He teaches creative writing and South Asian and Asian American literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Members Only is his first novel. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #1 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, with Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Shane Burley. \nEvent co-sponsored by Burning Books (Buffalo\, NY) and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – Buffalo. \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———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register\n————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #1\, happening on Tuesday\, August 4th at 1PM PST / 4PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Burning Books in Buffalo\, NY. Please consider supporting Burning Books by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nShane Burley is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin\, In These Times\, Salon\, Truthout\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa-discussion-series-talk-1-hilary-moore-james-tracy-and-shane-burley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David Sheff Local writer discusses his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row
DESCRIPTION:David Sheff\, author of Beautiful Boy\, joins us for a virtual event for his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row. \nThis event will be held on Crowdcast. Register here. \n“This book shows vividly how\, even in the face of the greatest adversity\, compassion and a warm-hearted concern for others bring peace and inner strength.” — His Holiness the Dalai Lama \n“I’m a friend of Jarvis Masters\, so I know the truth of this book\, but I want to hail its power. I believe it will encourage many people to examine their own lives and their unrealized potential for awareness\, generosity\, commitment\, and courage.” —Rebecca Solnit\, author of Men Explain Things to Me \nAbout The Buddhist on Death Row\nJarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach\, California\, his house was filled with crack\, alcohol\, physical abuse\, and men who paid his mother for sex. He and his siblings were split up and sent to foster care when he was five\, and he progressed quickly to juvenile detention\, car theft\, armed robbery\, and ultimately San Quentin. While in prison\, he was set up for the murder of a guard—a conviction which landed him on death row\, where he’s been since 1990. \nAt the time of his murder trial\, he was held in solitary confinement\, torn by rage and anxiety\, felled by headaches\, seizures\, and panic attacks. A criminal investigator repeatedly offered to teach him breathing exercises which he repeatedly refused. Until desperation moved him to ask her how to do “that meditation shit.” With uncanny clarity\, David Sheff describes Masters’s gradual but profound transformation from a man dedicated to hurting others to one who has prevented violence on the prison yard\, counseled high school kids by mail\, and helped prisoners—and even guards—find meaning in their lives. \nAlong the way\, Masters becomes drawn to the principles that Buddhism espouses—compassion\, sacrifice\, and living in the moment—and he gains the admiration of Buddhists worldwide\, including many of the faith’s most renowned practitioners. And while he is still in San Quentin and still on death row\, he is a renowned Buddhist thinker who shows us how to ease our everyday suffering\, relish the light that surrounds us\, and endure the tragedies that befall us all. \nAbout David Sheff\nDavid Sheff is the author of multiple books including the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy\, which was recently turned into a movie starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, Outside\, Rolling Stone\, Wired\, Fortune\, and elsewhere. His piece for The New York Times\, “My Addicted Son\,” received an award from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-sheff-local-writer-discusses-his-new-book-the-buddhist-on-death-row/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 5th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT \nJordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh \n Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJordan Blashek and Christopher Haugh’s just-released book\, Union: A Democrat\, a Republican\, and a Search for Common Ground\, is the story of the two friends’ three-year journey across America. One a Republican and one a Democrat\, they traveled together through 44 states and along 20\,000 miles of road to find out exactly where the American experiment stands at the close of the second decade of the 21st Century. \nJordan is a military veteran and businessman from Los Angeles. After college\, he spent five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer\, serving two combat tours overseas\, in Afghanistan and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Yale Law School\, Stanford Graduate School of Business\, and Princeton University. He is based in New York\, where he invests in entrepreneurial efforts to grow the American middle class as part of Schmidt Futures\, a new philanthropic venture created by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. \nChristopher is a speechwriter and journalist from the Bay Area. He attended UC Berkeley and Oxford University and started speechwriting as an intern in the Obama White House. He went on to join the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff where he served as a speechwriter to the Secretary. In 2018\, he graduated from Yale Law School where he was a Yale Journalism Scholar. Chris is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Colin Dickey
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 5 at 5:00pm PDT as Colin Dickey discusses his new book\, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters\, Alien Encounters\, and Our Obsession with The Unexplained on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85998503448 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85998503448#  or +12532158782\,\,85998503448#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 859 9850 3448\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcvSfo0QxC\n \nAbout The Unidentified \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\, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in\, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. \nEnter 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\, explaining that today’s Illuminati is yesterday’s Flat Earth: 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. \n\nAbout the Author \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.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Aimee Bender in conversation with Ploi Pirapokin / The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host a virtual event with Aimee Bender for her new novel\, The Butterfly Lampshade\, her first since New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake came out in 2010. She’ll be in conversation with Ploi Pirapokin. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n> This is a ticketed event – tickets can be purchased in advance here. Tickets are only $5 and can be applied toward the purchase of The Butterfly Lampshade; if you purchase the book from us\, there’s no need to buy a ticket (but if you decide during the event you want a copy of the book we’ll be happy to refund your $5 ticket). We will send connection information to ticket/book holders the day before the event. \n\n\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? \nTold in the lush\, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language\,” The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world\, and a broken love between mother and child. \n\n\nAimee Bender is the author of the novels The Color Master\, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller\, An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Mark Miller. \nPloi Pirapokin is the Nonfiction Editor at Newfound Journal and the co-editor of The Greenest Gecko: An Anthology of New Asian Fantasy forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2021. Her work is featured in Tor.com\, Apogee Journal\, The Offing\, The Bellingham Review\, Fiction International\, and more. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: David Sheff\, The Buddhist on Death Row
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with David Sheff about his new book\, The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place\, which Anna Lamott describes as “a beautiful\, profoundly spiritual book\, and a page-turner. Jarvis Jay Masters’ transformation\, from an unloved child of violence and poverty to Buddhist teacher on Death Row\, is thrilling. Reading it changed me\, threw the lights on\, opened and gentled my heart. I’m going to give it to everyone I know.” \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nAfter an incomprehensibly harsh childhood\, imprisonment for armed robbery\, and then being sentenced to death row for the murder of a prison guard in 1986—a crime he claims he did not commit—Jarvis spiraled into a depression. Figuring he had nothing to lose\, he tried meditation and likened it to the George Clinton lyric\, “Free your mind and your ass will follow.” He was taken in as a student by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and came to view his circumstances as the greatest gift. It led to his spiritual awakening\, changed his life path from violence to peace\, and instilled a sense of purpose to heal the suffering. What place could house more suffering than behind bars? Over the course of three years\, David Sheff made more than 200 trips to death row\, recorded more than 150 hours of conversations\, and spoke with Masters for countless hours by phone. Though not a Buddhist himself\, Sheff learned a multitude of lessons from all the time he’s spent with Masters\, which he shares with readers. This is a profound book about one man’s capacities for learning\, enduring\, and ultimately\, inspiring others—capacities we all share. \n“This book celebrates a liberation not gained by guns and gangs\, prison breaks and murder\, but by sitting with one’s breath and believing in the perfection of the Universe and all who strive and suffer within it.  The Buddhist on Death Row is a deeply useful reminder that we can all be free regardless of where we are placed.” —Alice Walker\, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning The Color Purple \nDavid Sheff is the author of multiple books including the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy\, which was recently turned into a movie starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, Outside\, Rolling Stone\, Wired\, Fortune\, and elsewhere. His piece for The New York Times\, “My Addicted Son\,” received an award from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions. \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n\nPraise for The Buddhist on Death Row \n“I’m grateful to be Jarvis Masters’ teacher in part because he has taught me so much.  I have rarely encountered anyone who expresses the essence of Buddhism in a clearer\, more moving way than he does\, and I deeply admire how David Sheff has captured that hard-won wisdom in this book.”\n—Pema Chödrön\, Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart \n“I’m a friend of Jarvis Masters\, so I know the truth of this book\, but I want to hail its power. I believe it will encourage many people to examine their own lives and their unrealized potential for awareness\, generosity\, commitment\, and courage.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Men Explain Things to Me \n“This profound\, gorgeous book displays the miraculous human capacity to find redemption\, and even joy\, no matter who or where we are. Jarvis Masters’ story proves that we are all united by our suffering and by our potential to help others who suffer.”\n—Sr. Helen Prejean\, author of Dead Man Walking
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-sheff-the-buddhist-on-death-row/
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #4: Tureeda Mikell and Mónica de la Torre
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fourth Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Nightboat Books. Our writers are Mónica de la Torre (author of Repetition Nineteen\, Nightboat Books) and Tureeda Mikell (author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\, Nomadic Press). \nCaelan Nardone from Nightboat Books will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler from Nomadic Press will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screenside-chat-4-tureeda-mikell-and-monica-de-la-torre-tickets-114719832106; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of raising $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #4: Tureeda Mikell and Mónica de la Torre\nTime: Aug 6\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82573062602 \nMeeting ID: 825 7306 2602\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82573062602# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,82573062602# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 825 7306 2602\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbHe7L3Yjx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-4-tureeda-mikell-and-monica-de-la-torre/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:John Scalzi and Lindsay Ellis (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nDo you love political turmoil\, daring heroines\, fast-paced stories\, unknown worlds\, and the threat of complete ecological and societal collapse? \nOutside of news headlines\, we mean. \nThis is science fiction you can’t miss. On Thursday\, August 6th\, two absolute stars present new novels that offer all of the above. \nKepler’s is proud to host Hugo-award winning author and science fiction legend John Scalzi in a conversation with Lindsay Ellis\, as both writers share powerful books that will take you out of this world. Scalzi joins us online to share the last installment in his acclaimed Interdependency series\, The Last Emperox. Ellis\, the Hugo finalist\, renowned media critic and Youtube video essayist\, presents her brand-new and highly anticipated debut novel Axiom’s End. \nDon’t miss these hilarious\, creative and wickedly intelligent authors as they present the books that everyone should read in 2020. For every person who loves smart science fiction and all things nerdy\, this will be a night to remember. RSVP early to guarantee your spot in the webinar. \nTHE BOOKS: \nYou already know Scalzi’s witty\, inventive writing and previous plaudits for books like Redshirts and The Old Man’s War. Compulsively readable\, with the trademark humor and that makes him a fan favorite\, Scalzi’s Interdependency series offers a topical tale about the death of worlds and political corruption. In an empire spanning star systems\, scientists have long warned of pending ecological disaster\, as a natural resource which enables interstellar travel teeters on the verge of collapse. Greedy\, powerful actors have downplayed the danger for years—and a new leader\, Emperox Grayland\, now has to turn back time on their destructive denialism while faced with a ticking clock and a complex network of enemies. The Last Emperox is the final installment of one woman’s herculean effort to save not just one world\, but all of them. \nEllis’ Axiom’s End features a similarly outgunned\, complex heroine as she stumbles onto the edge of a government coverup. What is the political machinery hiding from us now? Aliens\, it turns out. Cora Sabino’s heroine offers a refreshing taste on the first-contact novel\, as a young woman estranged from her Julian Assange-esque whistleblower father unintentionally gets caught up in his political battles. Cora becomes the key translator and ally to a very otherworldly\, very top-secret alien being named Ampersand. This smart\, playful political novel offers keen insights into empathy\, communication\, and their limits\, all within a reimagined historical telling of the year 2007. And the financial crisis? Also aliens. \nIf you’re a fan of either creator for their work\, this is one incredible conversation and two dynamic storylines that you’re sure to love. If you’re new to both Scalzi and Ellis but love the genre\, prepare to meet your new favorites. Be sure to RSVP before the world ends! \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/john-scalzi-and-lindsay-ellis-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Rose Andersen Discussing The Heart And Other Monsters w/ Alia Volz | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Rose Andersen discussing her new memoir\, THE HEART AND OTHER MONSTERS\, with author Alia Volz. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84953956562. \n(Order your copy of THE HEART AND OTHER MONSTERS at https://bit.ly/ggpHeartMonsters.) \nDescription\n\n“Impossible to put down. It haunts me still.” –Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir \nA riveting\, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. \nIn November 2013\, Rose Andersen’s younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation\, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. \nTo imagine her way into Sarah’s life\, Rose revisits their volatile childhood\, marked by their stepfather’s omnipresent rage and their father’s pathological lying. As the dysfunction comes into focus\, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that Sarah’s cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose\, the story takes a wildly unexpected turn. \nAs Andersen sifts through her sister’s last days\, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger\, the pursuit of an ever-elusive verdict\, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on. \nReminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body\, Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder\, and Lacy M. Johnson’s The Other Side\, Andersen’s debut is a potent\, profoundly original journey into and out of loss. \nAbout the Author\n\nRose Andersen received her MFA in writing at California Institute of the Arts\, where she was awarded the Emi Kuriyama Thesis Prize. Her essays have appeared in The Cut\, Glamour\, and elsewhere. She lives in LA with her spouse\, Josh\, and their dog\, Charlotte. \nPraise For…\n\n“Visceral . . . Part story of America’s opioid crisis\, part grief memoir\, and part tale of a possible murder\, Andersen’s deeply personal book roils with anger and empathy that\, at its very heart\, is a lament for the profound hole left in the wake of a sister’s tragic death.” – The Daily Beast\, “Best Summer Reads”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rose-andersen-discussing-the-heart-and-other-monsters-w-alia-volz-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Giggs and Robert Moor In conversations about Fathoms: The World in the Whale
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Giggs is joined in conversation by Robert Moor\, bestselling author of On Trails\, in this virtual event for her debut book\, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Simon & Schuster). \nRegistration for this virtual event will open soon. Check back or subscribe to our newsletter for information. \nAbout Fathoms\nWhen writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia\, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale blends natural history\, philosophy\, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity\, splendour\, and fragility of life? In Fathoms\, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named\, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity\, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. \nIn the spirit of Rachel Carson and Rebecca Solnit\, Giggs gives us a vivid exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity\, Giggs outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings\, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring\, Fathoms marks the arrival of an essential new voice. \nAbout Rebecca Giggs and Robert Moor\nRebecca Giggs is an award-winning writer from Perth\, Australia. Her work has appeared in Granta\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times Magazine\, Best Australian Essays\, Best Australian Science Writing\, and other publications. Fathoms is her first book. \nRobert Moor is the New York Times bestselling author of On Trails and the creator of the podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King. His writing has appeared in New York magazine\, The New York Times\, GQ\, Harper’s\, and n+1\, among other publications. He is currently at work on a new book\, entitled In Trees. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-giggs-and-robert-moor-in-conversations-about-fathoms-the-world-in-the-whale/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #2 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Edward Onaci
DESCRIPTION:MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: Accomplices \nHilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Dr. Edward Onaci in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing. \nEvent co-sponsored by Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia\, PA. \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———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register\n————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #2\, happening on Saturday\, August 8th at 12PM PST / 3PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Burning Books in Philadelphia. Please consider supporting Burning Books by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nDr. Edward Onaci is the author of Free the Land : The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (University of North Carolina Press\, 2020) and teaches courses on African American history\, modern U.S. history\, women’s global political struggles\, social movements and music in Africa and its diaspora\, and more at Ursinus College. They incorporate interdisciplinary scholarship and emphasize student empowerment. Dr. Onaci’s instruction also makes use of creative resources and high impact tools\, such as Reacting to the Past and Digital Liberal Arts projects. His approach encourages students to take ownership over their personal and group studies\, produce their own knowledge\, and apply what they learn in class to their current lives and future ambitions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa-discussion-series-talk-2-hilary-moore-james-tracy-and-edward-onaci/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights
DESCRIPTION:LIVE ZOOM PANEL DISCUSSION\, FOLLOWED BY AUDIENCE Q&A\nAs we approach the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and stand at the threshold of a presidential election\, “Celebrating Woman Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights” is a panel discussion examining the complex history of enfranchisement in the United States and its relevance to the ongoing anti-racist struggle against voter suppression. A prestigious group of speakers includes Gail Pellerin\, Santa Cruz County Clerk/Registrar of Voters\, as our moderator; with presentations by Judge Marla Anderson\, Judge of the Superior Court of California\, Monterey County; Bettina Aptheker\, scholar-activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Feminist Studies Department at University California Santa Cruz; and Professor Aida Hurtado\, Chair of UCSB Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. \nThe event will be followed by a live Q&A\, and precedes an evening concert featuring the orchestral world premiere of The Battle for the Ballot by composer Stacy Garrop\, inspired by the centenary of the 19th amendment and pivotal figures in the Woman Suffrage movement. \nThis event is sponsored by: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-Sponsors: NAACP\, Temple Beth El\, and Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suffrage-the-struggle-for-voting-rights/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA!
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/8015934697570/WN_JVyHTp29QxmfoEbsX2QQjQ\n\nPowell’s Books Presents Hilary Moore & James Tracy in Conversation With Mark Bray. \nThis is a virtual event held on Zoom\, and hosted by Powell’s Books. \nFor information go to powells.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Chapter of Physician’s for Social Responsibility present \nThe Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future \n \nA discussion with Fred Kaplan\, James L Nolan Jr.\, Dr. Tova Fuller & Dr. Robert Gould (of Physicians for Social Responsibility S.F. Bay Chapter) \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 reservations are required \n(Click Here) to make reservations \n————- \nJoin City Lights and the Bay Area Chapter of Physician’s for Social Responsibility in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bombings that killed over 200\,000 human beings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. City Lights has a special connection to these events. Lawrence Ferlinghetti as a Naval commander serving during World War Two was one of the few American soldiers to walk on Nagasaki shortly after the bombs were dropped. What he experienced there changed his life. In this afternoon of discussion we hope to reaccess the events of that time\, their impact on the world\, and where stand now\, facing the dawn of a new global nuclear arms race that compounds the climate and pandemic threats to human survival. At a time when the Nuclear Weapons States possess more than 13\,000 nuclear weapons\, we will focus on the manifold threats posed by new global programs to expand and modernize nuclear weapons arsenals\, the rejection of arms control treaties\, as well as the heightened great-power confrontation now accelerating in the Pacific region. While we face our unfolding planetary emergencies\, the profound “opportunity costs” of our government planning to spend over $4 million an hour over the next 30 years to potentially annihilate countless millions of people is unfathomable. Our speakers will also present alternative visions offered by the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons epitomized by the 2017 United Nations’ Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons\, and the prospects for connecting this with wider popular movements seeking to transform our global priorities in the direction of climate\, environmental\, and social justice necessary for global survival. \n————- \ncelebrating two new books: \n   \nAtomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age \nby James L Nolan Jr. – published by Belknap/Harvard Press \nA vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history\, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times. Atomic Doctors follows physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation\, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. \n(Purchase Book Here) in the near future \nand \nThe Bomb: Presidents\, Generals\, and the Secret History of Nuclear War \nby Fred Kaplan – published by Simon & Schuster \nFrom the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. \n(Purchase Book Here) in the near future \n——— \nFred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of five previous books\, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War\, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller)\, 1959\, Daydream Believers\, and The Wizards of Armageddon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, Brooke Gladstone. \nJames L. Nolan\, Jr.\, is Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at William’s College. His previous books include What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville\, Max Weber\, G. K. Chesterton\, and Sayyid Qutb and Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement. \nTova Fuller MD PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Fuller serves as vice president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and has served on the national\, Los Angeles chapter\, and Washington PSR chapter boards. She was a member of PSR-LA’s nuclear ambassadors program and WPSR’s nuclear activism committee. Her primary area of interest is the interface between public health and militarism as it relates to nuclear weapons. \nRobert Gould\, MD is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics\, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine where he also serves as the Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education for the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). Until 2012\, Dr. Gould worked as a pathologist at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose\, California. He has been President of the PSR San Francisco-Bay Area since 1989. Dr. Gould serves as a chairperson in the American Public Health Association’s Peace Caucus. In 2009\, the APHA awarded Dr. Gould the prestigious Sidel-Levy Peace Award. Dr. Gould is also a leading member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA). Dr. Gould has authored numerous book chapters on the health impacts of nuclear weapons including War and Public Health (2007\, Oxford University Press) and Terrorism and Public Health (2011\, Oxford University Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bomb-understanding-its-history-and-the-hope-for-a-nuclear-free-future/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Panel: Migrant Crossings
DESCRIPTION:FREE Zoom Event\nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\nCo-sponsored by the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Department of UC Berkeley. \nJoin us online for the book launch of Migrant Crossings with author Annie Isabel Fukushima! Dr. Fukushima along with panelists Carolyn Kim\, Hediana Utarti\, and Cindy Liou will gather for a discussion on human trafficking. \nMigrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. Through sociolegal and media analysis of court records\, press releases\, law enforcement campaigns\, film representations\, theatre performances\, and the law\, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions how we understand victimhood\, criminality\, citizenship\, and legality. \nMigrant Crossings deeply interrogates what it means to bear witness to migration in these migratory times—and what such migrant crossings mean for subjects who experience violence during or after their crossing.\n—\nAbout the Author:\nDr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Division in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Her research covers issues of migration\, violence\, race\, gender\, and witnessing and her expertise is recognized across the U.S. Dr. Fukushima’s scholarly works appear in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She values praxis\, having implemented community-based research projects and served as an expert witness on human trafficking for immigration\, civil\, and criminal cases in multiple US states\, including California. \n—\nAbout the Panelists:\nCarolyn Kim is the Managing Attorney at Justice At Last\, a non-profit law firm that specializes in legal advocacy for survivors of all forms of human trafficking located in the Greater Bay Area of Northern California. Her experience in law and trafficking includes working at Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)\, Bay Area Legal Aid\, and Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. \nHediana Utarti Ph.D joined Asian Women’s Shelter in 2000 and is currently its Anti-Trafficking Program Coordinator/Community Advocate. Her position includes managing and developing the program\, providing direct services for survivors\, and conducting prevention education in various communities. She had co-facilitated AWS shelter support group for more than 10 years utilizing Art as Healing to enhance survivors’ stabilization and recovery. \nCindy C. Liou\, Esq. is the State Policy Director at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)\, a national non-profit working to provide legal counsel to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the United States. She provides consulting and training on topics ranging from human trafficking\, domestic violence lethality\, to best practices on how to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams to support survivors of violence. She is also the recipient of the SF Collaborative Against Human Trafficking Modern Day Abolitionist Award for Policy and Advocacy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-and-panel-migrant-crossings/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Michelle Bowdler (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Bowdler’s debut blend of memoir and cultural investigation\, Is Rape a Crime?\, tells the story of her rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society’s most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated. \nMichelle is a recipient of a 2017 Barbara Deming Memorial Award for non-fiction and has been a Fellow at Ragdale and MacDowell Colony. She has been published in the New York Times and in the anthologies The Anatomy of Silence and We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women’s Political Action. Her essays Eventually You Tell Your Kids and Babelogue were both nominated for Pushcart Prizes. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love & Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace\, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-michelle-bowdler-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200810T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200810T130000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This second event in the series features Federico Finchelstein discussing his book A Brief History of Fascist Lies. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\n\n“There is no better book on fascism’s complex and vexed relationship with truth.” – Jason Stanley\, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them \nIn this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History\, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth\, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth century\, many supporters of fascist ideologies regarded political lies as truth incarnated in their leader. From Hitler to Mussolini\, fascist leaders capitalized on lies as the base of their power and popular sovereignty. \nThis history continues in the present\, when lies again seem to increasingly replace empirical truth. Now that actual news is presented as “fake news” and false news becomes government policy\, A Brief History of Fascist Lies urges us to remember that the current talk of “post-truth” has a long political and intellectual lineage that we cannot ignore. \n\n\n\n\nFederico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. He is the author of several books\, including From Fascism to Populism in History\, Transatlantic Fascism\, and The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War. His books have been translated into many languages\, including Spanish\, Portuguese\, Turkish\, and Italian. He contributes to major American\, European\, and Latin American media\, including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, CNN\, Foreign Policy\, Clarín\, Corriere della Sera\, Nexos\, and Folha de S.Paulo. \n\n\n\n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have A Brief History of Fascist Lies sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-federico-finchelstein-a-brief-history-of-fascist-lies/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200810T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200810T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Molly Wizenberg and Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 10 at 5pm PDT when Molly Wizenberg discusses her memoir The Fixed Stars with Esmé Weijun Wang on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85317065845 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85317065845#  or +13462487799\,\,85317065845#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 853 1706 5845\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb7e3obTGg\n \nPraise for The Fixed Stars \n“The Fixed Stars is that rare thing\, a groundbreaking\, essential book about sexuality. Wizenberg’s incisive\, generous laying-bare of her own experience will make many readers feel seen\, understood\, and not alone. This book is a triumph.”\n— Kate Christensen \n“The Fixed Stars is a nuanced look into two subjects frequently depicted as binary: love and sexuality. Wizenberg writes of her journey into queerness with tenderness and curiosity\, two essential qualities for any sort of entry into new lands. This book spoke directly to my heart. Read it.”\n— Esmé Weijun Wang \n“The Fixed Stars\, like its protagonist\, is both brave and sexy\, both heady and bodily\, and I ripped through this memoir like it was the most erudite romance novel in the world. This is a truly compelling look at sexuality\, marriage\, and parenthood in this century.”\n— Emma Straub \n\nAbout The Fixed Stars \nFrom a bestselling memoirist\, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity\, complex sexuality\, and enduring family relationships. \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? The Fixed Stars is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-molly-wizenberg-and-esme-weijun-wang/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T140000
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SUMMARY:Bernard-Henri Levy in conversation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and Yale University Press celebrate the release of Bernard-Henri Levy’s new book:\n\nThe Virus in the Age of Madness \npublished by Yale University Press \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(Purchase Book Here) link to be posted soon! \n————- \nWorld-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic—and what they tell us about ourselves. \nWith medical mysteries\, rising death tolls\, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe\, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world.\nDrawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault\, Lévy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature\, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors\, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid\, incisive\, and always original\, Lévy takes a bird’s-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future. \nBernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher\, activist\, filmmaker\, and the author of over thirty books. He is widely regarded as one of the West’s most important public intellectuals. His books include Who Killed Daniel Pearl?\, In the Footsteps of Tocqueville\, The Spirit of Judaism\, among others. \nAdam Gopnik is an award-winning writer and essayist. Since 1986 he has served as a staff writer for The New Yorker\, contributing nonfiction\, fiction\, memoir\, and criticism. He is the author of the books Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bernard-henri-levy-in-conversation-with-adam-gopnik/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shruti Swamy and Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 11 at 5pm PDT when Shruti Swamy discusses her story collection A House is a Body with Meng Jin on Zoom.\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88151795344 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88151795344#  or +12532158782\,\,88151795344#\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: 881 5179 5344\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcdI8BFm5B \nPraise for A House is A Body \n“Swamy’s A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories—short and long—are told\, written\, and consumed. There is nothing\, no emotion\, no tiny morsel of memory\, no touch\, that this book does not take seriously. Yet\, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I’ve ever had in a short story collection.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \n“I’ve been reading Shruti Swamy’s stories for a long time and so for me to have them here together is cause for great celebration. These stories are written with such rare patience and a restraint that they are at times\, almost unbearably tense. That’s a story writer. Not a book to read in a hurry. Take your time\, as Swamy did. No need for hyperbole\, either. The beauty and timeless grace of these stories will always speak for themselves.”\n—Peter Orner\, author of Maggie Brown & Others: Stories \n“The winner of two O. Henry Prizes\, Shruti Swamy will publish her first short-story collection this summer\, and you won’t want to miss out on reading it. The 12 stories in A House Is a Body move between India and the U.S.\, focusing on women’s interior lives and the ways in which their identities differ from the perceptions and presumptions of those around them.”\n—Bustle\, “The Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020” \nAbout A House is a Body  \nDreams collide with reality\, modernity with antiquity\, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In “Earthly Pleasures\,” a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India’s biggest celebrities\, and desire and ego are laid bare. In “A Simple Composition\,” a husband’s professional crisis leads to his wife’s discovery of a dark\, ecstatic joy. And in the title story\, an exhausted mother watches\, hypnotized by fear\, as a California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured\, provocative and probing\, these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India\, they reveal small but intense moments of beauty\, pain\, and power that contain the world. \nA House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction\, from a writer at the start of a stellar career. \nAbout Shruti Swami \nThe winner of two O. Henry Awards\, Shruti Swamy’s work has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. In 2012\, she was Vassar College’s 50th W.K. Rose Fellow\, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Blue Mountain Center\, and Hedgebrook. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow\, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University\, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in San Francisco. \nAbout Meng Jin \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shruti-swamy-and-meng-jin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T190000
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Reading Series\nTuesday\, August 11\, 7pm on Zoom\nfeaturing Safia Elhillo and MK Chavez\nopen mic preceeds the featured readers \nonline on Zoom\nregistration link to come \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nbios to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jana Marcus\, Line of Blood
DESCRIPTION:When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s was discovered in her grandmother’s secret drawer\, award-winning photographer and local author Jana Marcus began what became a decades-long quest to uncover her family’s hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold case. Join us on the Crowdcast platform as she discusses the investigation\, the shocking secrets of her father’s family\, and her new book\, Line of Blood: Uncovering a Secret Legacy of Mobsters\, Money\, and Murder\, with journalist Wallace Baine. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jana-marcus-line-of-blood/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T210000
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SUMMARY:Virgil Wander by Leif Enger | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 11\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Leif Enger’s novel\, VIRGIL WANDER. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85844599184. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPVW\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GGPVWAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nI LOVE THIS BOOK! \nThe characters are so delightful and fully realized I wanted to drop down into Greenstone and meet Virgil\, Rune\, Nadine\, and Bjorn at the Wise Old or the Agate for breakfast! \n— Samantha \n  \nOctober 2018 Indie Next List\n\n \n“From the fated flight of Virgil Wander’s Pontiac into the frigid waters of Lake Superior to an encounter with Rune\, an enigmatic kite enthusiast searching for word of a long-lost son\, and other interactions with the citizens of Greenstone\, Minnesota\, Leif Enger’s new novel is a most welcome\, albeit quirky\, story of words and people lost and found. Lovers of Peace Like a River\, rejoice! Enger is back with another enchanting and enriching tale of community and revival\, with his ever-deft touch of magic and grace. A perfect remedy for those whose hearts ache from our present reality\, Virgil Wanderis a treasure to be shared with all readers.”\n— Mark Nichols\, Bank Square Books\, Mystic\, CT \nDescription\n\nThe first novel in ten years from award-winning\, bestselling author Leif Enger\, Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures of kite-flying\, movies\, fishing\, baseball\, necking in parked cars and falling in love\, Virgil Wander is a swift\, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked upper Midwest by an award-winning master storyteller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virgil-wander-by-leif-enger-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Geri Spieler & Rick Kaplowitz - San Francisco Values (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:As Americans are one step from deciding who will be our next president\, Geri Spieler and Rick Kaplowitz\, the authors of San Francisco Values: Common Ground for Getting America Back on Track shed light on major issues today and how San Francisco’s value system can help us vote for the right candidate. Tracing the evolution of the country by using their city’s progressive culture as a baseline\, the authors’ research uncovers real laws and undisputed facts\, as well as dispel the vitriolic conservative view of San Francisco as “un-American.” Spieler and Kaplowitz reveal how the Bay Area is family-friendly\, equality-based\, and patriotic—values in common with cities and towns across the USA.  Viewed from national\, regional\, and San Franciscan perspectives\, San Francisco Values includes insights on racial inequities\, health care\, homelessness\, and immigration. \nSpieler\, an investigative journalist\, and Kaplowitz\, a former college dean with a degree from Harvard\, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geri-spieler-rick-kaplowitz-san-francisco-values-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200812T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200812T140000
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SUMMARY:Pilipinx Essential Workers: Colonization\, Delano\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online panel conversation with authors Enrique de la Cruz\, Patty Enrado\, Tony Robles\, and Juanita Tamayo Lott moderated by MT Vallarta \nRegister for access to Zoom event \nPanelists:\nDr. Enrique de la Cruz received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Mathematical Logic) from UCLA. His most recent publication is the Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons\, which is a collection of political cartoons from 1898-1907\, the period of the Philippine-American War\, and which he co-authored with Abe Ignacio\, Jorge Emmanuel\, and Helen Toribio. \nPatty Enrado’s debut novel\, A Village in the Fields\, was shortlisted for the Seventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing\, Fiction\, in 2016. The historical novel about Filipinos and the American farm labor movement was published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nTony Robles\, “The People’s Poet” was born in San Francisco and is the nephew of Filipino-American poet\, historian and social justice activist Al Robles. He was a shortlist nominee for poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission individual literary artist grant in 2018. \nA child of the Manong/Manang Generation\, Juanita Tamayo Lott is a trailblazer in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her latest book is Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies\, SF State. A Memoir. \nModerator: MT Vallarta is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pilipinx-essential-workers-colonization-delano-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200812T180000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Bennett in conversation with Tongo Eisen Martin\, Jesse McCarthy\, and Simone White
DESCRIPTION:discussing Joshua Bennett’s new book \nBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man \npublished by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press \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(Register Here) link to be posted soon \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n\n\n\nA prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman\, man and animal. \nThroughout U.S. history\, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons\, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure—the rat\, the cock\, the mule\, the dog\, and the shark—in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright\, Toni Morrison\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Jesmyn Ward\, and Robert Hayden. The plantation\, the wilderness\, the kitchenette overrun with pests\, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people—all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find black and animal life in fraught proximity. \nJoshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene. \n\nJoshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School\, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ford Foundation\, and MIT and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. \n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, 2017) and someone’s dead already (Boostrap Press\, 2015) and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine and New York Times Magazine. Heaven Is All Goobyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry\, an American Book Award\, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He’s from San Francisco. \n\nJesse McCarthy is assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature\, postwar or post-45 literary history\, and Black Studies. His dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War\, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. He is also interested in modernism\, film\, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton he founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. His writing on culture\, politics\, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Dissent\, The New Republic and n+1. I  also serve as an editor at The Point. \nassistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English  and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. My research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature\, postwar or post-45 literary history\, and Black Studies. My dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War\, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. I am also interested in modernism\, film\, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton I founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. My writing on culture\, politics\, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Dissent\, The New Republic and n+1. I  also serve as an editor at The Point.\nSimone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death\, Of Being Dispersed\, and House Envy of All the World and of the poetry chapbooks Unrest and\, with Kim Thomas\, Dolly. Her writing has appeared in publications including Arttforum\, BOMB\, e-flux journal\, the Chicago Review\, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. \nCritical Praise for Being Property Once Myself \n\n“This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis\, Richard Wright\, Toni Morrison\, Jesmyn Ward and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’… An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought.“—Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \n“Bennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats\, cocks\, mules\, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing\, thinking\, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing\, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics\, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety.“—Colin Dayan\, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog \n“Being Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original\, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory\, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention\, and as much about animals as it is about people\, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute\, collectively\, black literary culture.”—Akira Mizuta Lippit\, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife \n“A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide.”—Salamishah Tillet\, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
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