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SUMMARY:Inside Raymond Chandler's Creation of The Big Sleep - Reading
DESCRIPTION:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.\n\n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”  Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward \nThe three annotators will talk and read: \nOWEN HILL is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo. He is currently coediting the Berkeley Noir anthology\, forthcoming in 2020. \nPAMELA JACKSON is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nANTHONY DEAN RIZZUTO is a professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where he teaches (among other things) California ethnic literature and hard-boiled fiction. He is also a bookseller at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-raymond-chandlers-creation-of-the-big-sleep-reading/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Hasta no verte Jesus Mio” by Elena Poniatowska \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Annotated Big Sleep
DESCRIPTION:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleepfeatures hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.\n\n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”  Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward \nThe three annotators will talk and read: \nOWEN HILL is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo. He is currently coediting the Berkeley Noir anthology\, forthcoming in 2020. \nPAMELA JACKSON is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nANTHONY DEAN RIZZUTO is a professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where he teaches (among other things) California ethnic literature and hard-boiled fiction. He is also a bookseller at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-annotated-big-sleep/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Storytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 25\, 10:30 – 11:00 am\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley \nStorytime on Solano: Imagination Flannel Boards \nBring your little ones to Pegasus on Solano for a fun\, interactive\, and educational morning. Imagination Flannel Boards will be on hand to share stories and songs that spark your children’s imagination. They will engage with the storyteller through singing\, repetition\, and movement. They will cheer when the ducklings find their mother and laugh when the Old Lady swallows a cow! \nEvery 4th Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Solano. \n \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, July 25\, 2018 – 10:30am\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/storytime-on-solano-imagination-flannel-boards/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Summer Reading List"
DESCRIPTION:Whether it’s a staycation at Lake Merritt or a trip to the Mediterranean\, you’ll need a good book–or four. Come hear visiting author Nick White and local writers Cathy Arellano\, Wilfredo Pascual\, and Kate Raphael read from their newest books at Perfectly Queer East Bay’s “Summer Reading List” Wednesday\, July 25\, 7pm at Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway in Oakland. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and Queerly summer door prizes. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS & THEIR BOOKS:\nThe broken-hearted lesbian love poems in Cathy Arellano’s I LOVE MY WOMEN\, SOMETIMES THEY LOVE ME are suitable for anyone who has loved\, been loved\, or been left. MY WOMEN was released in Fall 2017 from Kórima Press. In 2016\, Kórima also published SALVATION ON MISSION STREET\, Arellano’s family memoir in poems and stories set in San Francisco from the 1960s to the 2000s. SALVATION won the 2017 Golden Crown Literary Society’s Debut Author Award. Arellano teaches in the English Department at American River College where she will teach the college’s first Latina/o/x Literature course in Fall 2018. Sign up! \nWilfredo Pascual is a Pushcart-nominated essayist who grew up in the Philippines where his essays have won several national awards and state recognition from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He lived in Thailand before moving to the Bay Area in 2005. He is the author of KILOMETER ZERO\, a collection of personal essays about finding your rightful place. Winner of the 2015 Curt Johnson Prize for Nonfiction and runner-up for the 2016 Steinberg Essay Prize\, his work has been listed as Notable in the 2016 Best American Essays. He lives in the Mission with his husband Jack. \nKate Raphael is a radical queer feminist activist and writer. She’s the author of two published mysteries\, both set in Palestine and featuring a Palestinian policewoman and a Jewish-American dyke. The second in the series\, MURDER UNDER THE FIG TREE\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and won a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award for multicultural fiction. She produces and hosts Women’s Magazine on KPFA radio and makes her living as a law firm word processor. \nA native of Mississippi\, Nick White is the author of the novel HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER (2017) and the short-story collection SWEET AND LOW (2018). He’ll be reading from SWEET AND LOW. He is an Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in a variety of places\, including The Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, The Hopkins Review\, Indiana Review\, The Literary Review\, and Lit Hub.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-summer-reading-list/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LABORFEST: REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE
DESCRIPTION:The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. \n\nPOETS:\n\n\nMahnaz Badihian\nLisbit Bailey\nKristina Brown\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAgneta Falk\nMaria Cristina Herrera\nMartin Hickel\nJack Hirschman\nKaren M. Magoon\nRosemary Manno\nSarah Menefee\nBarbara Paschke\nGregory Pond\n\n\n\n\nMUSIC & SONG:\n\n\nFrancisco Herrera (Guitar)\nGeorge Long (Saxophone)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-revolutionary-poets-brigade/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Killers of The Flower Moon
DESCRIPTION:by david grann
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jason Morris Book Release w/ Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Everybody! Hey! Jason Morris has a brand new book of poetry out! It’s called Levon Helm and we want to celebrate. The poet Evan Kennedy will be reading too. And we will be able to say I was there when… \nJason Morris grew up in Vermont. He is the author of six books of poetry and other writing\, including\, most recently\, Levon Helm (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and Late to Practice (Dirty Swan Projects\, 2017). His essays\, including essays on Clark Coolidge’s Crystal Text and Bernadette Mayer’s interest in Hawthorne\, have appeared in Jacket2\, Eleven Eleven\, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco. \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press)\, The Sissies (Futurepoem)\, and Terra Firmament (Krupskaya).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-morris-book-release-w-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Clement street on Thursday\, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Elizabeth Cooperman & Thomas Walton to celebrate the release of their new book (from Sagging Meniscus Press) The Last Mosaic! \n\n“Most current discussion in American literary culture regarding fragmentation\, collage\, bricolage\, braided narrative\, etc. is blinkered by the illusion that these are uniquely contemporary gestures\, but they go back to at least Heraclitus and probably to the first human who etched a list of words on stone and\, for poetic effect\, forgot to complete the list. To be human is to be broken. The Last Mosaic not only explains these ideas; it embodies them. It’s also extremely vivid\, precise\, smart\, and galvanizing. ‘With great art there’s nothing that can prepare you for the thing you’re about to see.’ “ \n—David Shields\, author of Other People: Takes and Mistakes \n\n“In this tessellated text we encounter a fractal poetics: juxtaposing witticisms and vignettes that illuminate Roman art and culture\, the authors reveal\, ‘when you look close enough\, there’s nothing that isn’t a cracked assemblage.’ Whether we’re peering at the strokes on a Caravaggio\, excavating cobblestones\, or looking more broadly at cities\, travel\, partnership\, and time\, we see that life is a series of shards that come together. A fragmented travelogue\, The Last Mosaic musters art history\, mythology\, etymology\, poetry\, and humor\, summoning the ghosts of Shelley\, Keats\, Giotto\, Nero\, and their kindred to a museum whose vivid lines resonate like the cicada’s song.” \n—Amaranth Borsuk\, author of Pomegranate Eater
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-cooperman-and-thomas-walton/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Cara Black\, Murder on the Left Bank
DESCRIPTION:Book talk & signing with Cara Black for Murder on the Left Bank \nAt Discretion Brewing \n2703 41st Avenue\, Capitola \nEvent #2 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nMystery-lovers\, do not miss this author visit at Discretion Brewing’s picture perfect beer garden! Join bestselling author Cara Black for a talk on the latest book in her Parisian mystery series about detective Aimée Leduc. A dying man leaves his confession – and the evidence of Parisian police corruption – with Éric Besson\, who’s assistant is promptly murdered trying to get the evidence to Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney. Aimée Leduc is reluctantly pulled into a mystery that chases across Paris\, and may implcate her late father\, while threatening her living family. \nJoin us for a night of lovingly crafted beer\, intrigue with a French theme\, and get your copy of Murder on the Left Bank signed! \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Discretion are generously offering 50% off one beer with a book purchase at the event for Books & Brews attendees. Thanks\, Discretion! \nThis event is free and open to attend to anyone over the age of 21. \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \nAbout the Book: \nA dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Éric Besson\, a lawyer in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. The old man\, an accountant\, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades\, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession—he’s waited 50 years to make it\, and now it can’t wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc\, Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney\, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc\, Besson’s courier—his assistant and nephew—is murdered\, and the notebook disappears. \nGrief-stricken Éric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aimée Leduc to find the notebook\, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She’s not sure which she’s more afraid of\, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father’s name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. Ultimately that’s the reason she must take the case\, which leads her across the Left Bank\, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries. \nAbout Aimée Leduc: \nAimée Leduc\, Parisian private investigator\, is a chic\, no-nonsense computer hacker turned criminal investigator. Her adventures\, written by award-winning mystery novelist Cara Black\, often dive into the past and present of the unique neighborhoods of Paris. They are written to be read independently\, or in sequence. Murder on the Left Bank is the latest of this popular Parisian mystery series. \nAbout the Books and Brews series… \nBookshop’s popular summer event series returns! Books & Brews combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Five book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. \nBONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store (or print one here). Get it stamped at three or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-cara-black-murder-on-the-left-bank/
LOCATION:Discretion Brewing\, 2703 41st Avenue\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents William O’Daly and Peter Weltner
DESCRIPTION:Famed Spanish translator William O’Daly’s new book of translation is Book of Twilight\, by Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda\, which is Neruda’s debut book\, never before published in its entirety in the United States. The bilingual collection has just been nominated for the 2018 Northern California Book Award in Translation. His translations include eight other books of poetry by Pablo Neruda. He published a full-length collection of his own poetry\, Water Ways\, in 2017\, with prose and photography by J.S. Graustein. A second collection\, Yarrow and Smoke\, will appear in 2018. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, and his poems\, essays\, and translations have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. He was profiled by Mike Leonard for The Today Show. \nPeter Weltner’s latest book is The Return of What’s Been Lost\, fourteen stories and fourteen ‘choral’ poems\, which\, David Morris says\, “meditate on loss\, personal and cultural\, and how mourning embodies in the self\, incarnate and haunting\, the hugeness of what is missing.” He’s published five previous books of fiction and six full-length collections of poetry\, most recently The Light of the Sun Become Sea. His work has also appeared in some national anthologies\, including Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards\, 1993 and 1998\, as well as in many literary journals and magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-william-odaly-and-peter-weltne/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Victoria Patterson
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Patterson discusses her new story collection\, The Secret Habit of Sorrow. \n\nPraise for The Secret Habit of Sorrow \n\n“Patterson is on a mission to bring our ghosts out of the shadows. These stories shine with empathy and find the humanness in all our struggles.” —Joshua Mohr\, author of All This Life \n  \n“A darkly entertaining collection of stories all about the little sins we commit in the name of our desires and their myriad repercussions. Armed with sharp emotional insight and vision that penetrates and illuminates the modern condition\, Patterson’s newest offering is seductively sly and peculiarly carnal.” —Wesley Minter\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \n\nAbout The Secret Habit of Sorrow \n\nVictoria Patterson\, whose writing Vanity Fair has called “brutal\, deeply empathetic\, and emotionally wrenching\,” returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver\, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. \n  \nThere’s a pitch-perfect blend of linguistic dexterity\, emotional wisdom\, and wry observation in The Secret Habit of Sorrow. The characters in these stories feel like people you know\, their struggles real. Patterson’s prose has a Denis Johnson re-filtered through Raymond Carver-vibe\, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. Whether it be the ties between women and their own and each other’s infants\, the struggles of parenthood\, or the trials that come with excessive drinking and drug abuse\, Patterson has an amazing ability to convey relationships\, and how our bonds can both save and destroy us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victoria-patterson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Boris Rozenfeld Russian Bibliophiles Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Russian book club\, literary discussion\, and/or poetry recital. \n  \nKoret Auditorium \nMain Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boris-rozenfeld-russian-bibliophiles-club/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Love
DESCRIPTION:~ an evening of love-themed music and lit ~ \n  \nWe are OPEN for literary submissions. \nGuidelines. This is an evening for music and literature on the theme of romantic love. Featured readers will get up to eight minutes at the mic (about 1\,200 words). This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Please paste your material into the body of an email with the subject line RW Love: [Your Name] addressed to the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind@sbcglobal.net \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us? \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-love/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Floreys
DESCRIPTION:Poetry at Floreys
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-floreys/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Young Adults 12 & up! James Parks & Ben Costa
DESCRIPTION:present Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2: The Middle-Route Run \nNimona meets Adventure Time in this full-color graphic novel as a singing skeleton continues to search for his origins alongside his gelatin monster sidekick! \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2 by speaking to a bookseller or ordering on our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, July 29\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRickety Stitch is a walking\, talking\, singing skeleton minstrel\, the only animated skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul. He has no idea who he used to be when he was covered in a living\, breathing sack of meat and skin. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams\, an epic bard’s tale that could also explain the old fog covering the comical fantasy land of Eem…Oh\, and his sidekick and only friend is a cube of sentient goo. \nIn this pulse-pounding second volume\, Rickety runs afoul of reanimated beasts\, giant spiders\, and a caravan of rowdy raiders on his quest to uncover the secret of Epoli and learn his true origins. \nJames Parks is a speculative fiction writer and graphic novelist living in the Bay Area. He was weaned on monster flicks\, ghostbusting\, lightsaber duels\, samurai cinema\, and comics–with a sober dose of Victorian literature and ’80s cartoons. Parks is also the author of the southern gothic horror collection The Gospel of Bucky Dennis\,was a staff writer for Campfire Graphic Novels\, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. \nBen Costa is a writer and artist living in the Bay Area. He self-published two volumes of the award-winning\, martial arts historical fiction comic Pang\, The Wandering Shaolin Monk. Ben has always been passionate about fantasy comics. \nBen maintains a steady diet of samurai comics\, kung fu movies\, spacefaring farm boys\, and tabletop RPGs. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/young-adults-12-up-james-parks-ben-costa/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reading & Chap Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of 3 special edition chapbooks by our current round of writers-in-residence! \nFeaturing readings by: \n  \nMK Chavez \nPhilip Harris \nEmily Pinkerton
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-chap-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JoAnne Wetzel and Tim McCanna
DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered what it takes to write a children’s picture book? Seas the day and join us as we launch JoAnne Wetzel’s picture book Mermaid School and celebrate Tim McCanna’s Bitty Bot’s Big Beach Getaway   JoAnne and Tim will discuss how to write a picture book and how they both decided to give their latest books an undersea setting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoAnne Stewart Wetzel is the author of two children’s books on theater\, Onstage/Backstage and Playing Juliet. Her first picture book\, The Christmas Box\, was named a Noteworthy Book for Children by the Bank Street College of Education. She has worked in public relations\, as a columnist for Gentry Magazine\, taught at the elementary\, high school and college levels\, was a children’s librarian\, and served as the Regional Advisor for SCBWI’s San Francisco/South chapter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim McCanna is the author of Bitty Bot\, Barnyard Boogie\, and Watersong\, which was a 2017 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids and National Council of Teachers of English Notable Poetry Book. His 2018 picture books include Jack B. Ninja\, Bitty Bot’s Big Beach Getaway\, So Many Sounds\, and Boing!  Tim served eight years as Assistant Regional Advisor for SCBWI’s San Francisco/South chapter\, and has been an actor\, musician\, musical theater writer\, and graphic designer before becoming a children’s book author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-wetzel-and-tim-mccanna/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning presents Poetry in Parks 2018 @ Samuel P. Taylor State Park
DESCRIPTION:Read/perform with Quiet Lightning on September 16th — all forms of writing are accepted\, and all selected writers are paid! This show is our annual collaboration with California State Parks\, Poetry in Parks\, and will take place at Samuel P. Taylor State Park! \nSubmissions are open through end of day Wednesday\, August 15. Curators TBA soon. \nEntry to this show is free. The first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. Authors will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \n*** \nGUIDELINES: \n\nSend us any kind of writing. Any kind! Make up new kinds and send them to us.\nNo one gets more than 8 minutes of reading time. This varies of course but don’t send us more than 1\,500 words unless you’ve timed the piece(s) multiple times and your speedy performance of the text somehow enhances it. We sometimes make an exception to this rule\, but rarely.\nYou may submit more than one attachment\, but the word count of your entire submission should not exceed 1\,500.\nBy submitting\, you commit to be present for the date: Sunday Sept 16\, 2018.\nDo not put your name anywhere — neither in the submission itself nor in the subject/title/filename of your submission.\nWe publish the accepted submissions in sparkle + blink for every mixtape show. It’s OK to submit previously published writings\, but please let us know where they were published so we can give props.\nYou may submit audio\, but all submissions must include full text.\nWe welcome and encourage submissions in any and all languages\, but all submissions must also contain an English translation.\n\n—\nDon’t hesitate to contact us for any reason: evan@quietlightning.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-presents-poetry-in-parks-2018-samuel-p-taylor-state-park/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Taylor State Park\, 8889 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.\, Lagunitas\, CA\, 34938\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: The Spirit of Hogwarts
DESCRIPTION:The Spirit of Hogwarts: 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter \nAt Venus Spirits \n427A Swift Street\, Santa Cruz \nEvent #3 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series \n$22 Ticketed Event Includes: Entry to the event\, participation in all games\, activities\, and trivia at will\, and one free special cocktail at the event. Tickets on sale at Brown Paper Tickets May 21st\, 2018. \nHarry is all grown up! The book series that has enchanted millions since our very first train ride to Hogwarts turns 20 this year. On Harry’s birthday\, July 31st\, we celebrate the spirit of Hogwarts in grand style with a special menu of witchy mixed drinks\, a round of Harry Pottertrivia\, photobooth\, games\, activities\, and more. \nBuy your tickets to one of our two event sessions in order to become a part of the magic. Together\, we raise a glass to our wizarding alma mater! \n_______________________________________________________________________________________ \nTicketed Event: $22 dollars\, one session only per attendee. \nTickets only available via Brown Paper Tickets. \nO.W.L. session runs from 5:00-7:00pm \nN.E.W.T. session runs from 8:00-10:00pm \n**Ticket includes access to all event activities\, including costume contest and trivia entry for those who try their hand\, and one voucher for our themed Hogwarts Cocktail of the evening. \n**Parking will be limited at Venus Spirits; street parking may be required. We encourage car pooling and planning ahead – you will want to arrive early for your Session to get the most out of this event. O.W.L. attendees will be asked to leave promptly at 7 pm in order to set up for the N.E.W.T. Session. N.E.W.T. attendees will be asked to leave promptly at 10 pm. One cocktail is included with your $22 ticket purchase. Additional cockatils may be purchased from Venus Spirits during the event. Local food trucks may be present for food purchase by attendees before\, during\, and after the event.** \n_______________________________________________________________________________________ \n“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen\, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” \nMaximum number of Hogwarts alumni per Session: 100. \nAbout the series… \nBookshop’s popular summer event series returns! Books & Brews combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Five book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses (and one local distillery) this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. \nBONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store (or print one here). Get it stamped at three or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-the-spirit-of-hogwarts/
LOCATION:Venus Spirits\, 427 A Swift Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 31st to celebrate the release of R.O. Kwon’s debut novel\, The Incendiaries. R.O. will be in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang. \n\nPraise for The Incendiaries \n\n\n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.”—Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n\n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n\n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.”—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n\nAbout The Incendiaries \n\nA powerful\, darkly glittering novel about violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \n  \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \n  \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \n  \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-book-release/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Red Army Faction and West Germany's Debate Over Democracy and Authority
DESCRIPTION:Screening the Red Army Faction explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media\, film and art. The book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republic’s most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence\, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife.  \n\nChristina Gerhardt is Associate Professor of German at University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-red-army-faction-and-west-germanys-debate-over-democracy-and-authority/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Catamaran Literary Reader 2018 Summer Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 1\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nContributors to the Summer Issue of Catamaran Literary Reader will join us for a live reading in celebration of the issue launch. This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating. Seats are generally set up one hour prior to the event’s start time. \nReaders featured at this issue launch event will include Justin Allen\, Kathleen de Azevedo\, Farnaz Fatemi\, Sara Michas-Martin\, Andrew Schelling\, Paul Skenazy\, Andrea Donderi\, Richard Huffman\, and Apala Egan. \nCatamaran was founded in 2012 in the Tannery Arts Center Studios in Santa Cruz\, California. Their mission is to capture the vibrant creative spirit in fiction\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction and to publish the best writing they can find in a narrative\, together with fine art. The magazine is full size on high quality paper for your reading pleasure\, and it is a full color experience\, like walking into an art gallery. They seek to present diverse national and international voices around the themes of the natural world and the environment\, the arts and artistic spirit\, and the personal journey and freedom. \nFor more on Catamaran Literary Reader visit their website or Facebook page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catamaran-literary-reader-2018-summer-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Hiroshima / Nagasaki Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Kirk Lumpkin\, Sharon Coleman\, Rafael Jesús Gonzáez\, Dee Allen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Invocation to Daughters
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes \n  \nCelebrate the opening of PAL / The Pilipinx American Library at the Asian Art Museum with readings by Bay Area poets led by Barbara Jane Reyes. Browse through PAL’s collection of Filipino-authored books\, grab a drink at the cash bar and groove to music by DJ Jon Reyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invocation-to-daughters/
LOCATION:Asian Art Museum\, 200 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Onnesha Roychoudhuri discusses THE MARGINALIZED MAJORITY
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Onnesha Roychoudhuri to discuss The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America\, on Thursday\, August 2nd at 7pm. \n“This book is a daring intervention to get us back in the game–and a witty\, delightfully personal meditation on collective power.” –Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything \nEver since the 2016 election\, pundits have been saying our country has never been more divided–that if progressives want to reclaim power\, we need to be “pragmatic\,” reach across the aisle\, and look past identity politics. \nBut what if we’re getting the story all wrong? \nIn The Marginalized Majority\, Onnesha Roychoudhuri makes the galvanizing case that our voices are already the majority — and that our plurality of identities is not only our greatest strength\, but is also at the indisputable core of successful progressive change throughout history. \nFrom the Civil Rights Movement to the Women’s March\, Saturday Night Live to the mainstream media\, Roychoudhuri holds the myths about our disenfranchisement up to the light\, illuminating narratives from history that reveal we have far more power than we’re often led to believe. With both clear-eyed hope and electrifying power\, she examines our ideas about what’s possible\, and what’s necessary — opening up space for action\, new realities\, and\, ultimately\, survival. \nNow\, Roychoudhuri urges us\, is the time to fight like the majority we already are. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nOnnesha Roychoudhuri is a Brooklyn-based writer\, editor\, and educator. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone\, n+1\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, Boston Review\, The Nation\, The American Prospect\, Salon\, and Mother Jones. She is the co-founder of Speech/Act\, and organization working at the intersection of storytelling and social justice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/onnesha-roychoudhuri-discusses-the-marginalized-majority/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Castro Adobe in the Twentieth Century: From Earthquake to Earthquake with Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks as they present this beautifully illustrated and documented history of Castro Adobe in the 20th Century: From Earthquake to Earthquake\, by Suzanne Paizis. Of the seven adobes found in the Pajaro Valley\, Santa Cruz\, only the two-story Joaquin Castro Adobe remains. This book tells the history of the Castro Adobe\, a rare\, two-story adobe home that was built during 1848-1850. The Adobe was built during the Rancho era and is one of the few surviving buildings from that time. The Castro Adobe is slated to become the next State Park in California\, hopefully within the next few years! This event is part of the Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks Castro Adobe Project. Read more on their website. \nFriends of Santa Cruz State Parks (Friends) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit sustaining the legacy of our state parks and beaches. Through an innovative partnership with California State Parks\, and by leveraging local community support\, Friends funds educational programs\, visitor services and capital projects. \nFounded in 1976\, Friends is passionately dedicated to the preservation of our spectacular natural environment and rich cultural history. Friends also operates six ParkStores\, offering nature- and history-themed merchandise for sale to benefit local parks and beaches. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at 1520 Pacific Ave. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-castro-adobe-in-the-twentieth-century-from-earthquake-to-earthquake-with-friends-of-the-santa-cruz-state-parks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Breakfast 4 Dinner Reading
DESCRIPTION:**THE INCOMPARABLE CLAIRE STRINGER IS COMING 2 TOWN** \n& u know what that means: we’re eating breakfast 4 dinner \nsweet readings & savory bites\nsavory performances & sweet treats\nwrite a waffle eat some poems hug claire while you can \n& if you want to read\, perform etc. let us know!!! lineup tba / v open / we just wanna hear all our friends’ poetry & cry or laugh or whatever u want we want it all \nxoxo \n(PS please invite folks who love claire / sweeties who are cute & cool & nice)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breakfast-4-dinner-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Launch for Ingrid Rojas Contreras / Fruit of the Drunken Tree
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Ingrid Rojas Contreras‘ debut novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree. Joining Ingrid in conversation is our muse and yours\, Carolina De Robertis. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \n  \n\n  \n“Set against the backdrop of Pablo Escobar’s stranglehold on the fate of a nation\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a spellbinding story of two girls whose realities collide and who are forced to make nearly unbearable choices in the name of survival. The thrum of mystery and danger haunts every page\, and you won’t be able to look away until you turn the last one.” – Cristina Henríquez\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“A dazzling and heart-stopping portrait of the intimacy of violence\, how a nation’s wounds tear into families and betray its most innocent citizens. Fruit of the Drunken Tree pulses with reckoning\, rebellion\, and raw beauty. Rojas Contreras is a thrilling and brave new talent\, and it will be a long time before Chula’s and Petrona’s voices leave me.” – Patricia Engel\, author of The Veins of the Ocean \n“Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s gripping debut explores a complex and destructive friendship against the background of Colombia’s political violence. As terror creeps over the walls of Chula’s gated neighborhood\, the girls discover that betrayal and sacrifice are sometimes indistinguishable. Like the fragrant drunken tree that so discomfits Chula’s neighbors\, this beautiful novel draws the reader under its treacherous\, intoxicating spell.” – Kristin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \n  \n“When women tell stories\, they are finally at the center of the page. When women of color write history\, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story.” – Sandra Cisneros\, author of The House on Mango Street \n  \n“Ingrid Rojas Contreras captures the violent history of drug-torn Colombia as it affects the intimate lives of two characters\, a girl and the young maid in her household. She has spot-on command of both points of view\, their voices\, their secret hearts. What a range of insight\, compassion and understanding of the impact of violence on families and most especially on young women at different levels of society. A coming of age story\, an immigrant story\, a thrilling mystery novel\, thoroughly lived and felt—this is an exciting debut novel that showcases a writer already in full command of her powers. Make room on your shelves for a writer whose impressive debut promises many more.” – Julia Alvarez\, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents \n  \n\n  \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. \n  \nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. She is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature\, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\, which features essays by leading thinkers and writers in response to the shifting political atmosphere in the U.S. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. She is currently at work on her fourth novel\, The Burning Edge of the World. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. www.google.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
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DESCRIPTION:Andrew Lawler\n\n\n\n\npresents The Secret Token: Myth\, Obsession\, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke\, a sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery\, the people racing to unearth its answer\, and the sobering truths–about race\, gender\, and immigration–exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke. \n“A fascinating account of one of our country’s great historical mysteries. Fast-paced and wonderfully written\, with plenty of surprising turns along the way\, The Secret Token is a delight.”–Nathaniel Philbrick \nTo reserve your seat in advance\, purchae a copy of The Secret Token by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, August 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1587\, 115 men\, women\, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I\, their colony was to establish England’s first foothold in the New World. But when the colony’s leader\, John White\, returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission\, his settlers were nowhere to be found. They left behind only a single clue–a “secret token” carved into a tree. Neither White nor any other European laid eyes on the colonists again. \nWhat happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? For four hundred years\, that question has consumed historians and amateur sleuths\, leading only to dead ends and hoaxes. But after a chance encounter with a British archaeologist\, journalist Andrew Lawler discovered that solid answers to the mystery were within reach. He set out to unravel the enigma of the lost settlers\, accompanying competing researchers\, each hoping to be the first to solve its riddle. In the course of his journey\, Lawler encounters a host of characters obsessed with the colonists and their fate\, and he determines why the Lost Colony continues to haunt our national consciousness. \nThrilling and absorbing\, The Secret Token offers a new understanding not just of the first English settlement in the New World but of how its disappearance continues to define–and divide–America. \nAndrew Lawler is the author of the highly acclaimed Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?. He is a contributing writer for Science\, a contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine\, and has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, National Geographic\, Smithsonian\, and Slate. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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