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SUMMARY:Reading at a Distance / Tanea Lunsford Lynx and Mmakgosi Anita Tau
DESCRIPTION:We’ve partnered with the Headlands Center for the Arts to bring you a series of distanced literary readings with Headlands Artists\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). Join Tanea Lunsford Lynx (AIR ’20) and Mmakgosi Anita Tau (AIR ’20) for the second event of the series on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7PM PST. \nYou can join the event here. We will also be streaming on Facebook Live. \nWe’re very pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the author’s books and we’ll deliver them directly to your door; and we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire. Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976!
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection \nSansei and Sensibility \npublished by Coffee House Press \nGenerations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \nIn these buoyant and inventive stories\, Japanese Americans shift the boundaries of Jane Austen’s classic tales\, questioning what inheritance—familial\, cultural\, artistic—really means. In ’60s California and beyond\, a woman examines the contents of her dead aunt’s freezer\, Mr. Darcy is captain of the football team\, a dental hygienist collects a community’s gossip while cleaning his neighbors’ teeth\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the transit of the day. These narratives that traverse class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with Yamashita’s signature wit and humor. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nPraise for Sansei and Sensibility \n“Dazzling. An extraordinarily inventive collection of short stories that takes us from Japan to Brazil to the fractured heart of suburban postwar Japanese America. Whether she is riffing on Jane Austen\, channeling Jorge Luis Borges\, or meditating on Marie Kondo\, Yamashita is a brilliant and often subversive storyteller in superb command of her craft.” —Julie Otsuka \n“Through vignettes\, recipes\, and correspondence\, master writer Karen Tei Yamashita takes us through the rabbit hole of Japanese America—in particular\, her hometown of Gardena\, California\, where an ethnic community culturally transformed a middle-class bedroom town. Part Ozu meditation of everyday life\, part modern folk tale with colorful characters like a truth-telling dental hygienist\, Sansei and Sensibility offers a unique and necessary perspective of what it means to be the aging grandchild of Asian immigrants\, wondering what you will leave behind for the next generation. As in all of her books\, Yamashita deconstructs form and genre to create a work that both delights and challenges.” —Naomi Hirahara \n“This capacious collection is witty\, sharp—funny at times\, angry at times—always amazing\, and never\, never dull. I think Jane Austen would be surprised\, but delighted. I surely am.” —Karen Joy Fowler \nPraise for the work of Karen Tei Yamashita \n2010 National Book Award Finalist\n2011 American Book Award Winner \n“This powerful\, deeply felt\, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense.” —Publishers Weekly \n“The extraordinary testimony of a revolutionary past. . . . I Hotel is crammed with detail\, with real-life pamphlets\, speeches\, quotes\, and news reports humming and crackling in the background. The whole thing makes for an astonishing\, and carefully structured\, collage of both local and global movement.” —The Nation \n“Immensely entertaining.” —Newsday \n“Shaped and voiced with literary flair\, this is clearly a book Yamashita felt compelled to write\, and her sense of purpose makes this historical excavation feel deeply personal.” —Kirkus \n“Yamashita incorporates satire and the surreal in prose that is playful yet knowing\, fierce yet mournful.”—San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 4th. \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape–trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” –Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”–Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” –Emma Donoghue\, author of Room
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses Death In Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel\, Death In Her Hands.\nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphan \n  \nt blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Timesbestseller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-discusses-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSoda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines the role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society. \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Danler: Stray
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Danler discusses her new memoir\, Stray. \nAbout Stray \nFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter\, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction\, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving\, sometimes devastating\, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival. \nAfter selling her first novel–a dream she’d worked long and hard for–Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead\, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she’d left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism\, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three\, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she’s pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn’t totally understand\, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here\, she works toward answers\, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it’s possible to change the course of her history. \nLucid and honest\, heart-breaking and full of hope\, Stray is an examination of what we inherit and what we don’t have to\, of what we have to face in ourselves to move forward\, and what it’s like to let go of one’s parents in order to find a peace–and family–of one’s own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-danler-stray/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:My Virtual Book Launch Happy Hour on May 7th at 5PM
DESCRIPTION:My dear friends and readers\, \nI am inviting you all to the launch of my book Only the River. I hope you can attend. I promise that it will be entertaining and encourage you to treat it as a literary happy hour. If it weren’t for these extenuating circumstances\, I would be providing libations and food as well. Here is the information for how to access the event. Please share with friends and book lovers. \nHere is the information for accessing the event: \nhttps://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-anne-raeff
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-virtual-book-launch-happy-hour-on-may-7th-at-5pm/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Unrigging the Rules for the Rising American Electorate: David Daley and Steve Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Rebecca Nagle\nProgram will air Thursday May 7th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nWho holds America’s future in their hands? Who has the potential to dramatically reshape our political landscape\, just by exercising the right to vote? The past few years have seen an exciting infusion of political engagement from a diverse electorate as young people\, people of color\, and single women are mobilizing and making their voices heard. For every victory and milestone\, however\, there is an equally coordinated—if insidious—attempt to disenfranchise these citizens from turning out to vote. From polling station closures to gerrymandering\, from voter ID laws to the purging of voter rolls\, suppressive tactics are deliberate\, methodical\, and ubiquitous. \nWe’ll learn how to unrig the rules to ensure these rising new voices—and their votes—are counted\, with insights from bestselling authorities on voting rights: Steve Phillips\, founder of Democracy in Color and author of Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority\, and David Daley\, author of Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy and the 2016 bestseller Ratf***ed: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count\, which has become an urgent reference point for the upcoming post-census round of redistricting. Moderated by indigenous activist and journalist Rebecca Nagle\, whose groundbreaking podcast\, This Land\, won the prestigious American Mosaic Journalism Prize. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Daley\, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy\nSteve Phillips\, Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unrigging-the-rules-for-the-rising-american-electorate-david-daley-and-steve-phillips/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of Margaret Randall’s new book \nI Never Left Home: Poet\, Feminist\, Revolutionary \nfrom Duke University Press \nIn 1969\, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country\, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home\, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. \nFrom living among New York’s abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement\, the story of Randall’s life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way\, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City\, befriended Cuban revolutionaries\, raised a family\, came out as a lesbian\, taught college\, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all\, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. \nWhen she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years\, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her “subversive writing.” Over the next five years\, and with the support of writers\, entertainers\, and ordinary people across the country\, Randall fought to regain her citizenship\, which she won in court in 1989. \nAs much as I Never Left Home is Randall’s story\, it is also the story of the communities of artists\, writers\, and radicals she belonged to. Randall brings to life scores of creative and courageous people on the front lines of creating a more just world. She also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life. Moving\, captivating\, and astonishing\, I Never Left Home is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman. \nPraise for the work of Margaret Randall \n“A revolutionary woman and remarkable writer places her long journey within the context of her conflicted past and our own divided present. . . . A striking remembrance by an intellectual whose radical\, fierce nature is unflappable.” — Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Every Margaret Randall book or poem is a jewel to be savored\, but this text may be the best yet. Beautifully written\, it is Randall’s first comprehensive memoir. With her moves through the 1950s’ expressionist art world in New York through the 1960s Mexican literary scene\, the Cuban Revolution looms large and beckons Randall to participate\, which eventually brings the scrutiny of Uncle Sam attempting to strip her of her citizenship. Throughout\, Randall’s early and deep feminism is a guiding light.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \n“Margaret Randall hails from a heroic era when poets aspired to change life. Nominally a memoir\, I Never Left Home is really a full-blown autobiography\, chronicling her life as a poet\, a woman\, a feminist\, a mother\, a lesbian\, an incest survivor\, and a participant in a quarter century of Latin American social and political revolution. Her experiences as coeditor of one of the 1960s most important international literary magazines are gripping\, but it’s her account of the Reagan administration’s attempt to deport her from the land of her birth as an undesirable alien that makes I Never Left Home so necessary in the present moment. Few U.S. poets have dared to dream as big\, fight as hard\, or accomplish as much.” — Garrett Caples\, coeditor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia \n“Margaret Randall’s life is the story of our twentieth century\, with all of its lucid wonder\, its dark passages and contradictions. Illuminating and enthralling.” — Achy Obejas\, author of The Tower of the Antilles \nGarett Caples is the poetry editor at City Lights Books\, journalist\, and a published poet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-in-conversation-with-garrett-caples/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:For the final double-program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2020\, we are delighted to host renowned poet and art critic John Yau\, on a rare visit from New York City. He’ll be joined by poet\, translator\, and SF State faculty member Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation at The Poetry Center on Thursday May 7; then the following night\, Friday May 8\, we move across the Bay\, for John Yau together with poet/performer and editor of SFMOMA’s online magazine Open Space\, Claudia La Rocco\, reading and in conversation at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\, right downtown (12th Street BART) in Frank Ogawa Plaza. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, these events are free and open to the public. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJohn Yau and Claudia La Rocco\nreading and in conversation\nFriday May 8\n7:00 pm @ Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\n150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-john-yau-and-andrew-joron-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JIA TOLENTINO & JENNA WORTHAM
DESCRIPTION:Watch the upcoming webcast on our YouTube channel →\nYou can support the cost of this public webcast by making a tax-deductible donation. Thank you for your support! \nCalled “the best young essayist at work in the United States” by Rebecca Solnit\, Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker\, covering everything from the viral video app TikTok\, to the ubiquitous upscale activewear brand Outdoor Voices\, to Edith Wharton’s heroine and the new norm of begging celebrities to run you over with a truck. Her essay collection Trick Mirror examines religion\, psychedelic drugs\, weddings\, the internet\, and everything in between\, tied together by the logic of an immensely sharp cultural critic observing and thinking hard about the world she exists within. Previously\, Tolentino was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her criticism has appeared in the Times Magazine\, Grantland\, the Awl\, Pitchfork\, The Fader\, Time\, and Slate. \nJenna Wortham is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Virginia\, Wortham moved to San Francisco to work with San Francisco Magazine\, Girlfriend Magazine\, write for SFist and later\, Wired. Wortham joined The New York Times in 2008 and has since covered pop culture\, technology\, race\, and queer identity. Her writing has appeared in Girl Crush Zine\, The Morning News\, Matter\, Vogue\, The Awl\, Bust\, The Hairpin\, and The Fader among other publications. In 2016\, Wortham started co-hosting the culture podcast Still Processing with Wesley Morris. She is coeditor of the forthcoming visual anthology Black Futures with Kimberly Drew. \nAttention ticket holders: We hope you might consider donating your ticket to support the ushers\, technical staff and artists who have made this event possible\, as well as City Arts & Lectures’ mission of broad access to culture. We also understand if you would like a refund and will happily accommodate that. To request a refund\, email City Box Office. To receive acknowledgement of a tax-deductible contribution\, no action is required. \nPhotograph credit: Elena Mudd (left) & Ryan Pfluger (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jia-tolentino-jenna-wortham-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff: Only the River
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff discusses her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-only-the-river/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Ruth Crossman
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis months Eves at the Beat is curated by Ruth Crossman!! This is her first ever curation so show her some love and tune in!!! Natasha Dennerstein will be the MC\, reading bios for each reader before they share their work. \nReaders for this event:\nMelissa Jones\nMichele J Brooks\nBarbara Saunders\nHanna Pesha\nLauren Wheeler\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis \nZOOM INFO: \nTopic: Eves at the Virtual Beat w/Ruth Crossman\nTime: May 7\, 2020 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/505213615?pwd=SGQzclZHRkdvSFlRSHY1UTFkOU82QT09 \nMeeting ID: 505 213 615\nPassword: 460841 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,505213615# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,505213615# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 505 213 615\nPassword: 460841\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fc1z31Cte \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will have a cashapp donation option during the reading. All donations go to the poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-w-ruth-crossman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Weekend of Words
DESCRIPTION:A free virtual literary festival to celebrate the written word and those behind it. Fill your day with workshops\, panels and talks and top it off with nightly readings from incredible poets and authors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekend-of-words/
LOCATION:wow.shuffle.do
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shuffle Collective":MAILTO:anuj@shuffle.do
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T170000
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SUMMARY:Together on the 9th: A Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Jack Kornfield
DESCRIPTION:Join us to honor the dead\, those who are sick\, and all of us on the planet. Please bring a candle and invite any friends or loved ones who would like to participate. During the vigil\, we will hear reflections from visionary meditation leader\, Jack Kornfield. \n\n\n\nTonight’s vigil will be co-created by all those joining with candles on Zoom and will be led by Jack Kornfield. \nIf you can\, please show up with a candle to honor those we’ve lost and those that are suffering during this difficult time. Our hope is for this invitation to become a monthly occurrence\, helping spark other rituals and fostering a deeper sense of togetherness in the face of what is both separating and connecting us all. \nFull Vigil Program to be Announced \nJack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand\, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and worked on tropical medicine teams in the Mekong River valley. He met and studied as a monk under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah\, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. Returning to the United States\, Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre\, Massachusetts\, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre\, California. Over the years\, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide\, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings\, and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a father\, husband and activist. \nHis books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies. They include\, A Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology\, A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy\, the Laundry; Teachings of the Buddha; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom; Living Dharma; A Still Forest Pool; Stories of the Spirit\, Stories of the Heart; Buddha’s Little Instruction Book; The Art of Forgiveness\, Lovingkindness and Peace\, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are\, and his most recent book\, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom\, Love\, and Joy Right Where You Are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/together-on-the-9th-a-virtual-candlelight-vigil-with-jack-kornfield/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T133000
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SUMMARY:Marcus Books fundraiser: Daveed Diggs\, Robin Coste Lewis and Danez Smith!
DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser for Marcus Books\, oldest Black bookstore in the US. With Daveed Diggs\, Robin Coste Lewis\, Danez Smith\, Chinaka Hodge and more!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This time\, we’re doing a poetry reading\, featuring Daveed Diggs\, Robin Coste Lewis\, Danez Smith\, Chinaka Hodge\, Tongo Eisen-Martin and more poets TBA. It’s a fundraiser for Marcus Books! \nThe performers \nDaveed Diggs is an actor\, singer\, producer\, writer\, and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda which he won a Grammy and Tony for. He also cowrote\, produced\, and stars in the film Blindspotting. And he is starring in Snowpiercer\, the upcoming TNT series based on the movie of the same name. \nRobin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, the winner of National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. Lewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater fellow in poetry. She also earned a MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a Provost’s fellowship in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. Other fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation\, the Ragdale Foundation\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Can Serrat International Art Centre in Barcelona\, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. She was a finalist for the International War Poetry Prize\, the National Rita Dove Prize\, and semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize and the Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Prize. \nDanez Smith is a Black\, Queer\, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul\, MN. Danez is the author of “Homie” (Graywolf Press\, 2020)\, “Don’t Call Us Dead” (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award\, and “[insert] boy” (YesYes Books\, 2014)\, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Montalvo Arts Center\, Cave Canem\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez’s work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed\, The New York Times\, PBS NewsHour\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Magazine\, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez has been featured as part of Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. They are a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi\, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. \nChinaka Hodge is a poet\, educator\, playwright\, and screenwriter from Oakland. She received her BA from NYU’s Gallatin School\, and studied Writing for Film and Television at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts MFA program. Chinaka has served as Educator\, Program Director and Associate Artistic Director at Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project\, she is a Senior Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and serves on the Advisory Board at Marin Headlands Center for the Arts. Chinaka has been recognized as a Glide Legacy Gala Honoree\, an Oakland Indie Award winner in the category of Oakland Soul\, one of Diablo Magazine’s 40 under 40\, and one of KQED’s Women to Watch. Her 2016 book of poems\, Dated Emcees\, won Northern California Independent Booksellers Association’s Book of the Year\, and was nominated for the Northern California Book Award. Chinaka is currently working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Her credits include Jason Katims’ RISE\, TNT’s highly anticipated SNOWPIERCER and Steven Spielberg’s Apple+ project\, AMAZING STORIES. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \nThe beneficiary \nMarcus Books is the oldest independent Black bookstore in the country. The bookstore’s founders\, Drs. Raye and Julian Richardson met at Tuskegee University which they both attended. In 1946 Julian started Success Printing Co. in the Fillmore District of San Francisco and in 1960\, the two founded Marcus Books (named after political activist and author Marcus Garvey). Together — and through both the publishing press and bookstore — they fiercely advocated for Black history\, exchange\, and knowledge of self. They published now canonical books (that had before their resurrection gone out of print) and work by independent authors\, poets\, and artists. Marcus Books is an institution where those who have written books\, produced visual work and more can see themselves on a shelf\, wall or counter surrounded by other Black makers. \nAlongside Marcus Books’ legacy of Black publishing is an investment in nourishing Black readership\, no matter what age. Generations of families have grown up in the store: the student coming to find course material\, our incarcerated brothers and sisters writing to put in book orders\, the parents who bring their children to the store much like their parents did for/with them. World renowned author or prophetic local poet\, elder or toddler\, Marcus Books has provided something for you. \nAt Marcus Books “Black” is not a subject\, a single month\, or a niche; it is the universe. “Black” is not just history; it is the present and the future. \nEvery penny you spend on this event will directly to Marcus Books. \nHow does it work? \nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code—it’ll be described as “links for this event are available.” (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcus-books-fundraiser-daveed-diggs-robin-coste-lewis-and-danez-smith/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #7 with Clifford Henderson\, Thad Nodine\, Richard Lange
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #7 with Clifford Henderson\, Thad Nodine\, Richard Lange part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-7-with-clifford-henderson-thad-nodine-richard-lange/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T190638
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #8
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nAll forms of support matter. One of those forms is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If you can swing it in these tough 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/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #8\nTime: May 8\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81969682054 \nMeeting ID: 819 6968 2054\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81969682054# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81969682054# 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+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 819 6968 2054\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kCvvm6Chi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-8/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T183000
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SUMMARY:*Virtual* Reading feat. Garrett Caples and Ava Koohbor
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 8th from 6:30-7:10 pm PST \nfor our first ever virtual reading featuring  \nGarrett Caples and Ava Koohbor!  \n  \n***** \n  \nauthor bios & photos below. \nZoom link to be emailed to participants & posted on the day of event. \nPlease RSVP for the reading here to have the link emailed to you.  \nwe hope you and your loved ones are safe & well\,  \nand we look forward to sharing this new experience with you!  \nGarrett Caples is a poet living in San Francisco. His most recent book of poems is the bilingual Noches Apátridas: Poesía escogida\, 1999-2019 (Unstated Nights: Selected Poems\, 1999-2019) (Juan Malasuerte\, 2019). He’s an editor at City Lights Books\, where he curates the Spotlight Poetry Series. \nAva Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker\, poet and visual artist. Her poems have appeared in various publications. Her chapbooks include Triangle Squared (Bootstrap Press) and Sinusoidal Forms (Lew Gallery). Death Under Construction is her first full collection of poetry in English by Ugly Duckling Presse. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-feat-garrett-caples-and-ava-koohbor/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T210000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Claudia La Rocco\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Wrapping up Spring 2020 with another double-program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, we are delighted to host renowned poet and art critic John Yau\, on a rare visit from New York City. Following his reading and conversation with poet\, translator\, and SF State faculty member Andrew Joron\, at The Poetry Center on Thursday May 7\, we move across the Bay on Friday May 8\, for John Yau together with poet/performer and editor of SFMOMA’s online magazine Open Space\, Claudia La Rocco\, reading and in conversation at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\, right downtown (12th Street BART) in Frank Ogawa Plaza. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, these events are free and open to the public. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJohn Yau and Andrew Joron \nreading and in conversation\nThursday May 7\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, SF State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-john-yau-and-claudia-la-rocco-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200509T200000
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Julia Flynn Siler
DESCRIPTION:During the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nJulia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her most recent book\,  The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Knopf\, May 2019)\, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure. Her first book\, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty\, was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist\, Siler is a longtime contributor and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on the BBC\, CNBC\, and CNN. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-julia-flynn-siler/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Coming Back with guest Cheryl Strayed
DESCRIPTION:Join a live recording of Shelby Forsythia’s podcast Coming Back – with special guest Cheryl Strayed.\n\n\nJoin a live recording of Shelby Forsythia’s podcast Coming Back – with special guest Cheryl Strayed. \nIn this hour-long live Coming Back podcast segment Shelby will host Cheryl through 40 minutes of conversation and 20 minutes of Q&A/advice. \nCheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild\, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough\, and the novel Torch. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Strayed’s books have been translated into nearly forty languages around the world and have been adapted for both the screen and the stage. \nStrayed is the host of the New York Times podcast\, Sugar Calling. Her former podcast was Dear Sugars\, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond. Her essays have been published in The Best American Essays\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post Magazine\, Vogue\, Salon\, The Sun\, Tin House\, The New York Times Book Review\, and elsewhere. Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \nAbout the host: Shelby Forsythia is the author of Permission to Grieve and podcast host of Coming Back: Conversations on Life After Loss. After the unexpected death of her mother in 2013\, she became a “student of grief” and set out on a lifetime mission to explore the oft-misunderstood human experience of loss. Through her book\, weekly podcasts\, and one-on-one grief guidance\, she helps grieving people find direction\, get support\, and cultivate radical self-compassion after devastating loss. \nShelby is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®\, Reiki Level II Practitioner\, and Intuitive Grief Guide. Her work has been featured on Huffington Post\, Bustle\, and The Oprah Magazine. She currently lives in Chicago. \nAll Motherless Mother’s Day events are by donation and ALL funds generated will go directly to each individual event’s host (no cut from Reimagine or Alica Forneret). You will receive a link to donate in a follow up email!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/coming-back-with-guest-cheryl-strayed/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sacred and Profane: Debut Novelist Chelsea Bieker on Godshot
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Brooke Warner\nProgram will air Sunday May 10th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nWe’re thrilled to welcome debut novelist Chelsea Bieker in conversation with Brooke Warner\, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress. Bieker’s explosive literary debut Godshot (Catapult/March 2020)\, praised by bestseller Kristen Arnett as “a beautiful blow to the heart\,” is a hymn to the salvation found in hard-won personal rebirth. Stricken with drought\, the once-verdant community of Peaches\, California clings to a cult leader for salvation\, and 14-year-old Lacey\, abandoned by her mother\, is left to reap a revelatory\, fraught harvest of her own. Godshot has won Bieker rapturous comparisons to Margaret Atwood\, Emma Cline\, and Janet Fitch; but the beauty of her “absolute masterpiece” (T. Kira Madden) lies in Lacey’s incomparable voice: the voice of a brokenhearted believer\, by turns darkly funny and achingly tender\, who you’ll miss after turning the last page. Go deep with Bieker and Brooke Warner\, as they plumb the depths of one unforgettable girl’s miraculous journey to fertile ground. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChelsea Bieker\, Godshot\nBrooke Warner\, Write on Sisters! \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sacred-and-profane-debut-novelist-chelsea-bieker-on-godshot/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T170000
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SUMMARY:On Lighthouses: Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\nJoin Pilsen Community Books and Two Lines Press for an event with Jazmina Barrera and Eula Biss in celebration of Barrera’s new book On Lighthouses\, out this May from Two Lines Press! \n***Register on Eventbrite for a link to the livestream sent to you the day of the event.*** \n“After spending sufficient time inside a lighthouse\, who wouldn’t begin to hear a song in the sound of the machinery\, a voice in the wind or the waves?” \nFar from home\, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her\, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses—those structures whose message is “first and foremost\, that human beings are here.” \nStarting with Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather\, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline\, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf\, Edgar Allan Poe\, Ingmar Bergman\, and many others. \nIn trying to “collect” lighthouses by obsessively describing them\, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing\, collecting\, and how\, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history\, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone—from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one—concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless\, guiding light. \n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nJazmina Barrera\n\n\nJazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media\, such as Nexos\, Este País\, Dossier\, Vice\, El Malpensante\, Letras Libres and Tierra Adentro. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University\, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She was a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nEula Biss\n\n\nEula Biss is the author of three books: On Immunity: An Inoculation\, a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction; Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays\, winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award for criticism\, and a collection of poetry\, The Balloonists. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, an NEA Literature Fellowship\, and a Jaffe Writers’ Award. She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer\, Gulf Coast\, Denver Quarterly\, Third Coast\, and Harper’s. Eula Biss and John Bresland are the Chicago-based band STET Everything.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-lighthouses-jazmina-barrera-in-conversation-with-eula-biss/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T180000
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff and Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Tuesday May 12th at 5:00pm PDT for Anne Raeff discussing her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nZoom Login \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86713675612 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86713675612#  or +12532158782\,\,86713675612#\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: 867 1367 5612\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbB2mGR0oN \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-and-oscar-villalon/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T200000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Denvir in conversation with John Washington
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new titles from Verso Books \nAll-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It \nand \nThe Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond \nboth published by Verso Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———- \n>Click here to purchase The Dispossessed< \nClick here to purchase All American Nativism< \n  \nWhat has been said about the work of Dan Denvir and John Washington: \nPraise for All-American Nativism \n\n“As Daniel Denvir’s exceptional book shows\, the history of US immigration politics is central to understanding how our many crises have converged in this moment. It’s precisely the kind of analysis our movements need to pry open the fissures of the current order\, and join in common struggle for a better world.” \n– Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough \n\n\n\n“This is the book we need\, a searing work of scholarship that explains how we entered the current hellscape of American politics and what we have to do to get out. The roots of white nativism are deep\, as Denvir’s book makes clear\, but like all roots can be pulled up and killed. All-American Nativism will help us do so.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“In this timely book\, Daniel Denvir tackles an important question: what is old and what is new in Trump’s nativism? Denvir helps us understand both the historical roots and the more recent routes by which ‘build the wall’ came to be the central rallying cry of racial-nationalism. A must-read for anyone who wants to know how we got here.” \n– Mae Ngai\, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America \n\n\n“All American Nativism excavates the history of anti-immigrant politics in the United States and reveals a difficult truth: Donald Trump is the symptom\, and not the cause\, of a bipartisan consensus underlying the current war on immigrants. In this sense\, Denvir’s book is an invaluable tool for organizers and activists who subscribe to what Paulo Freire meant by praxis\, where reflection and action are required to bring about transformative change.” \n– Pablo Alvarado\, National Day Laborer Organizing Network \n\n\n“All-American Nativism powerfully explores the deep roots of nativism in national life as well as how Trump’s agenda is itself the culmination of the policies and the logic pursued for decades by both major parties. In the process\, Daniel Denvir masterfully demonstrates the relationship between today’s debates over immigration and ongoing struggles against neoliberal austerity\, mass incarceration\, and the violence of the security state. In this way\, the book not only offers a diagnosis of the present\, but also a stirring vision of solidarity and change. This is an essential and profound work\, providing critical insights about the American experience and where to go from here.” \n– Aziz Rana\, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom \n\n\n“Traces the development of anti-immigrant sentiment.” \n– Cora Currier\, The Intercept \nWhat has been said about The Dispossessed \n\n“In an era of massive and unprecedented human migration\, John Washington documents in his poignant book how the poverty and violence powerful nations inflict on poor countries is a major reason so many flee their lives and families. Offering expansive historical analysis of how ancient religions\, cultures\, and societies understood the imperative of welcoming the outsider\, particularly those seeking safety from harm or death\, and contrasting it with our current world order\, Washington has written one of the most important books of our time on one of the most dire systematic injustices on our planet. I read this book in one sitting because I simply couldn’t put it down.” \n– Jeremy Scahill\, author of Dirty Wars \n\n\n\n“The Dispossessed is one of the most beautiful and wrenching books I’ve read in a long time. We are becoming a stateless world\, as the combined effects of climate change\, war\, and struggles of resources push people from their land and their homes. John Washington’s book offers no easy answers\, but in its empathy\, it is a guide for how we confront the crisis with decency.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“John Washington delivers an absorbing\, harrowing\, and deeply moving reportage that renders the most thorough and critical assessment of the US asylum system that I have ever read.” \n– Todd Miller\, author of Empire of Borders \n\n\n“John Washington is a rarity in the world of Central American migration. He doesn’t parachute into tragedy. He travels with humility and seeks to understand\, not to reaffirm his hypotheses. This is a book from someone who has been understanding for a long time. I’ve been covering migration in Central America\, Mexico\, and the United States for thirteen years\, and I can say with complete conviction: Read this book.” \n– Óscar Martinez\, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-denvir-in-conversation-with-john-washington/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Parenting in a Time of Crisis: Christine Carter\, Sarah Jaquette Ray and Madeline Levine
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dacher Keltner\nProgram will air Tuesday May 12th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nParents all over the world are facing a dilemma: what do we tell children about threatening truths\, from COVID-19 to climate change? How do we balance their need to be informed and prepared with their equally important right to experience the carefree joy of youth and dream of the future? These questions are more urgent than ever at a time when our kids’ routines\, schedules\, and ideas of normalcy have been completely upended—and when parents are struggling to answer their children’s questions in a way that doesn’t undermine kids’ baseline of stability and structure. \nAuthor\, speaker\, and coach Christine Carter\, Ph.D. draws on her own parenting experiences\, as well as the latest scientific research in psychology\, sociology\, and neuroscience\, to give advice for living\, working\, and parenting with greater joy and meaning. In her recent book\, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World\, New York Times bestselling author and psychologist Madeline Levine seems to have anticipated the needs and struggles of families during this crisis. Environmental pioneer Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is an essential toolkit for the climate generation—and the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time: one that\, as we’re learning\, worsens pandemics. We couldn’t ask for a better trio of guides to empower us with the knowledge and insight to parent well in these trying times. Moderated by Dacher Keltner\, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Carter\, The New Adolescence \nMadeline Levine\, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World\nSarah Jaquette Ray\, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\nDacher Keltner\, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/parenting-in-a-time-of-crisis-christine-carter-sarah-jaquette-ray-and-madeline-levine/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T190000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir with Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of the the new crime fiction anthology \nBerkeley Noir \nEdited by Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill \npublished by Akashic Books \nBerkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir\, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. \nBrand-new stories by: Barry Gifford\, Jim Nisbet\, Lexi Pandell\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Mara Faye Lethem\, Thomas Burchfield\, Shanthi Sekaran\, Nick Mamatas\, Kimn Neilson\, Jason S. Ridler\, Susan Dunlap\, J.M. Curet\, Summer Brenner\, Michael David Lukas\, Aya de León\, and Owen Hill. \nJerry Thompson is a bookseller\, poet\, playwright\, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising\, edited by G. Winston James\, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing\, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of both Oakland Noir \nOwen Hill is the author of two crime novels\, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double\, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-noir-with-jerry-thompson-and-owen-hill/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Francesca Bell and Len Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Francesca Bell and Len Anderson. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-francesca-bell-and-len-anderson-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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