Conversations with Authors - Darin Strauss (Virtual Event)
2020-08-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, August 19th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Darin Strauss
in conversation with Kelly Corrigan

Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author.

Darin Strauss’ new novel, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story, mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to explore the conceit that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Hollywood’s Lucille Ball.
Darin is the acclaimed author of the memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, an Entertainment Weekly “Must List” selection, a Chicago Tribune Editor’s Pick, and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the renowned author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, and the international bestseller More Than It Hurts You. He is a compelling speaker whose experience includes universities, libraries, book festivals, and corporations. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, Darin is a clinical associate professor at NYU’s creative writing program.
Kelly Corrigan‘s Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say is a wonderfully personal, honest, and hilarious examination of the essential phrases that make love and connection possible. She has been called “the voice of her generation” by O: The Oprah Magazine and “the poet laureate of the ordinary” by HuffPost. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Middle Place, Lift, and Glitter and Glue. Kelly is the host of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan premiering on PBS October 5 and the host of a new podcast coming from PRX, also in October.

Virtual: Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Sara Campos
2020-08-19 18:00 - 20:00
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her new novel, The New Americans, with Sara Campos.
Select praise for Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them.”The New York Times
“Powerful…Marcom’s writing is intensely poetic.”Washington Post
“Lyrical…Marcom is so talented.”Chicago Tribune
“Dazzling and disquieting.”Los Angeles Times
“Marcom’s seamless, ethereal prose is suffused with raw emotion; there is heart-break on every page, but also hope.”San Francisco Chronicle
About The New American
In this timely and emotionally powerful novel, award-winning author Micheline A. Marcom recounts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan-American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.
Emilio believes he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to ensure it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver’s license—however, his mother discourages it. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented.
Emilio adjusts to his new normal. He attends UC Berkeley. He falls in love. All is going well…until Emilio gets into a car accident and—without a driver’s license or any documentation—the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE].
Emilio is deported to Guatemala. But he is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him across thousands of miles through remote towns, lush jungles, and eventually the Sonoran Desert of the US-Mexico border, meeting thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends.
Inspired in part by interviews with Central American refugees, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline A. Marcom weaves a heart-pounding and heartbreaking tale of adventure. The New American is an important and well-timed novel that asks us what we have in common—across cultures, experiences, and borders—and what makes us not only American, but altogether human.

This is Now - Unbreaking Government
2020-08-19 19:00 - 20:00
This event is online.
Amidst the political morass the US has become, some are voicing the unthinkable: has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? How much power do we have to mend our breaches, fix our political system and our economy, and lift those who’ve been left behind?
William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, director of the Center for Effective Government, and co-host of the Not Another Politics podcast. Terry M. Moe is the William Bennett Munro Professor in Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. These two expert political minds are cautiously optimistic we can extract ourselves from the mess we’re in. But it won’t be an easy road.
Howell & Moe’s new book Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy tracks the troubling rise of Donald Trump to socio-economic forces—such as globalization, technological change, and immigration—that have generated widespread populist anger and will continue to do so long after he leaves office. In order to defuse the populist threat to democracy, they say, the nation needs to embrace programs and reforms that will ensure a more effective government for solving the complex and vexing problems of modernity. At the center of this reform project is a recrafting of the presidency to take advantage of its great promise and to guard against its dangers.
Kepler’s Literary Foundation’s journalist in residence, Angie Coiro, brings us the latest in our This Is Now series focusing on culture and politics. Join Angie, William Howell, and Terry Moe for a nuanced discussion of what can truly improve the odds of our country’s survival.
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Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
2020-08-20 19:00
Thursday, August 20, 7:00pm
featuring Caroline Goodwin
online on Zoom
registration link to come
bio to come
Upcoming at Third Thursdays:
September: Peter Carroll

VIRTUAL EVENT: Lloyd Kahn, The Half-Acre Homestead
2020-08-20 19:00 - 21:00
Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn for a presentation of his new book, The Half-Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening.
Register for this free Crowdcast event here.
This is a free event. The book may be purchased below.
You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!
Lloyd, the former shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, has published seven books on owner building, showcasing hundreds of builders, but this is his first book on his own work, and that of his wife Lesley, in building and house and creating a garden in the seaside town of Bolinas over a 46-year period.
The Half-Acre Homestead chronicles how Lloyd and Lesley started with a vacant half-acre piece of land, built their own home, created a garden with vegetables and fruit, and raised chickens, bees, and goats. The book also covers cooking, foraging, fishing, crafts, birds, butterflies, and tools. All of their work was done by hand and they have never paid rent or had a mortgage.
Over 500 photos illustrate all the above facets of their lives and provide clear explanations of building skylights, maintaining a septic system, building greenhouses and raised vegetable beds. There is a section on unique kitchen tools, as well as advice on useful tools used in construction. The Half-Acre Homestead is filled with advice for anyone thinking of building a home these days.
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early ’60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late ’60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, “The Shelter Library Of Building Books,” include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from a Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers.
Kahn lived in Santa Cruz in the ’50s. He was a surfer before wetsuits, and was a beach lifeguard in 1955. He also lifeguarded at the Santa Cruz Plunge and taught swimming at The Plunge at Pleasure Point. He went into the insurance business in 1960, and was Jack O’Neill’s first insurance broker.

[Virtual Ruby] AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners by Margaret
2020-08-20 19:30
[This is a Virtual Ruby* event, taking place over Zoom. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able!]
Jean Rhys said that “reading makes immigrants of us all,” that “it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” Now more than ever, it’s vital—and heartening—to read, and read widely. We’ll read thrilling, mind-blowing, intriguing, heartbreaking, comic, strange, and/or provocative books by women and nonbinary people of color—and, each month, we’ll gather to talk about what we’ve read! When possible, we’ll also have the writer join us.
This August, we’ll be reading THE REVISIONERS by local author and friend of The Ruby, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Margaret will be joining us for the discussion.
About THE REVISIONERS
“Sexton takes on [Toni Morrison’s artful invocation of the ghost] in her new novel The Revisioners. . . She writes with such a clear sense of place and time that each of these intermingled stories feels essential and dramatic in its own way.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“A powerful tale of racial tensions across generations.” —People
In 1924, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine’s family.
Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine’s descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother, Martha, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays Ava to be her companion. But Martha’s behavior soon becomes erratic, then threatening, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine’s converge.
The Revisioners explores the depths of women’s relationships—powerful women and marginalized women, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between mothers and their children, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core, The Revisioners ponders generational legacies, the endurance of hope, and the undying promise of freedom.
About MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON
MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON, born and raised in New Orleans, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

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Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
2020-08-20 20:00 | Nomadic Press, 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, 94601, United States
A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.
This month’s features are TBA.
Donations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space.
The 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early
Free parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).

VIRTUAL: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
2020-08-21 18:00
SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with SUYS Program Manager to virtually uncover archival content around a specific queer theme, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month in a digital forum.

Jack & Agyu: Children's Story Time with Justine Villanueva
2020-08-22 10:30 - 11:30
Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children’s story time featuring a live read-aloud of Filipino children’s book, Jack and Agyu, with author Justine Villanueva.
​Jack & Agyu is written in English and includes a translation in Binukid, one of the indigenous languages in Bukidnon, a region in the south of the Philippines. The book also provides translations into Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, and Bisaya-Cebuano, one of the major languages in the Philippines. Additionally, the book features the Baybayin script, a Tagalog based ancient script.
About the book:
Jack & Agyu tells the story of an imaginative and adventurous young boy, Jack, who longs to find himself in the books that he reads. Crushed when he realizes he is different looking from all his favorite book characters, he goes off to right what he feels is wrong. His path leads him to trouble but, also, to healing and empowerment as he reconnects with the stories of his ancestors from the Philippines.
Vibrantly illustrated by Lynnor Bontigao with characters based on Filipino mythology- the sirena (mermaid), syokoy (mermen), and diwata (fairies), to name a few- Jack & Agyu is sure to draw kids into an adventure that is exciting as much as it is self-affirming!
Jack and Agyu is the winner of the 2020 Gold Benjamin Franklin Award in the Children’s Picture Book (4-7 years) Category.
About the Author:
Justine Villanueva traces her ancestral roots to the Bukidnon tribe of Kalasungay, Bukidnon. She is the third child of Julieta Li and Ernesto Villanueva, a fifth child of Filemon Villanueva and Felipa Okit, a descendant of Apu Mansaliwa. Justine’s creative work focuses on decolonization, social justice, and learning to reconnect with the living Earth. She lives in Davis, California with her husband and two young boys. www.justinevillanueva.com
About the Illustrator:
Lynnor Bontigao graduated from the University of the Philippines with a fine arts degree in visual communications. Her love of children’s books began when she joined Ilustrador ng Kabataan (InK, a Philippines-based group of children’s books illustrators). In New York, she worked as a programmer for 15 years but she never forgot her love of drawing. She now pursues her dream of making picture books that both kids and kids at heart will enjoy. Lynnor lives in New Jersey with her husband, two kids, and one tiny dog. www.lynnorbontigao.com
Autographed copies of Jack & Agyu, along with Villanueva’s first trilingual children’s book Mama, Mama, Do You Know What I Like?, are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2066 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704.

Meera Sriram VIRTUAL LAUNCH
2020-08-23 11:00 - 13:00
Celebrating the publication of her picture book A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India.
To register, go to:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/book-launch-a-gift-for-amma/

Sunday, August 23, 2020 – 11:00am

A young girl explores the vibrant rainbow of items for sale in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her mother. Includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown of Chennai, India.
This #OwnVoices book includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown. Endnotes explain all the items on sale and introduce readers to markets around the world.

The Tree and the Vine: The Queer Fiction of Dola de Jong
2020-08-23 12:00 - 14:00
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with Transit Books present
Editor Kristen Gehrman in conversation with Jennifer Croft

celebrating the new book
The Tree and the Vine
by Dola de Jong
Translated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman
published by Transite Books
(Purchase Book Here) in the near future
When Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Erica, a reckless young journalist, pursues passionate but abusive affairs with different women. Bea, a reserved secretary, grows increasingly obsessed with Erica, yet denial and shame keep her from recognizing her attraction. Only Bea’s discovery that Erica is half-Jewish and a member of the Dutch resistance—and thus in danger—brings her closer to accepting her own feelings.
First published in 1954 in the Netherlands, Dola de Jong’s The Tree and the Vine was a groundbreaking work in its time for its frank and sensitive depiction of the love between two women, now available in a new translation.
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Dola de Jong (1911–2003) was born Dorothea Rosalie de Jong in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She worked as a dancer and a reporter before she fled the country in 1940. Settling first with her husband in Tangiers, she immigrated to the United States. She was the author of sixteen books for adults and children, including The Tree and the Vine and The Field, which won the City of Amsterdam Literature Prize in 1947.
Kristen Gehrman lives in The Hague, The Netherlands. Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, she studied linguistics and literary translation at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. In addition to her work as a literary translator, she teaches translation, editing, and writing at Leiden University and VU Amsterdam.
Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights.

VIRTUAL: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
2020-08-24 11:00 - 13:00
Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fourth event in the series features Erin Hatton discussing her book Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment.
This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers.
Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of “employment” reigns supreme—one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that coercion—as well as precarity—is a defining feature of work in America today.
Theoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work, pushing beyond concepts like “career” and “gig work.” Through this bold analysis, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it—and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it.

Erin Hatton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo.

UC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith

8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies
8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration
8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.
To have Coerced sent to your door, order here.

VIRTUAL: Launch for Richard Kadrey / Ballistic Kiss
2020-08-24 18:00 - 20:00
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Upstream author Richard Kadrey to celebrate his new novel Ballistic Kiss, the latest and penultimate volume in his Sandman Slim series.
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> This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
> We are pleased to be able to offer signed copies of Ballistic Kiss! You can purchase one here, below, or when completing your registration – just be sure to request a signed copy when checking out.

Sandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive, high-octane page-turner—the next to last volume in the popular and acclaimed fantasy adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey.
As the battle between warring angels continues, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared—and how to get rid of them—it’s Stark.
Armed with the Room of Thirteen Doors, Stark quickly learns that the answer may reach back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of small-time actor, Chris Stein. As he begins to dig into the cold case, another area of Stark’s life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with Janet, a woman he saved during the High Plains Drifter zombie attack.
Janet’s brush with the living dead hasn’t quenched her thirst for danger. She’s an adrenaline junkie and a member of The Zero Lodge—a club that promises “there’s zero chance you’ll get out alive.” The Lodge attracts thrill seekers who flock to perilous events such as night walks through the LA Zoo—with its deadliest animals uncaged. Joining the lodge to be with Janet, Stark makes a pair of crucial discoveries that could decide the fate of LA and Heaven itself.
To prevent the Little Cairo haunting from consuming the city, Stark must piece together the connections between the Lodge and a missing angel last seen in a Hollywood porn palace. But while he may dispatch the ghosts, Stark knows that without his help, the bloody war in Heaven could rage forever.

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy, The Everything Box, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird. He also writes the Vertigo comic Lucifer.

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George Dyson (Online)
2020-08-25 18:00 - 19:10
This event is online.
The hacker historian and author behind 2012’s Turing’s Cathedral returns to Kepler’s for the release of Analogia, a boldly philosophical book which explores the arc of technology from the stone ages to the predicted point of singularity. How has technology shaped humanity through time, and what lays in store when we develop technologies beyond our programmable control?
Dyson offers a rich historical glance that sweeps centuries, peppered with autobiographical elements including Freeman Dyson’s work on TRIGA (the safe nuclear reactor used around the word to create medical isotopes), and his own 1972 stint squatting on land in British Columbia in a tree house of his own design to get some distance from that very legacy. Dyson even delves into his noted love of kayak design. The resulting book is a treasure of philosophy, science, history, biography, and the ways we as human beings shift with emerging scientific breakthroughs. He pays especial attention to the development of complex networks and artificial intelligence.
After a sweeping four-part review of technology to date, Dyson projects into the future to suggest that perhaps machines and nature could join forces against… us. Don’t miss the author in person as he shares his expertise, exquisite logic and peerless prose. RSVP now to reserve your space in the webinar, and our emerging technological future.
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Martin Jay in conversation with Paul Breines
2020-08-25 18:00 - 20:00
discussing Martin Jay’s new book
Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations
published by Verso Press
The evening will begin with a short introduction by Robert Kaufman
Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century.
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This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.
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Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school’s history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin’s ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, from Löwenthal’s role in Weimar’s Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer’s involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness,” which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.
Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught Modern European Intellectual History and Critical Theory for forty-five years. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination; Marxism and Totality; Adorno; Permanent Exiles; Fin-de-siècle Socialism; Force Fields; Downcast Eyes; Cultural Semantics; Refractions of Violence; Songs of Experience; The Virtues of Mendacity; Essays from the Edge; Kracauer: l’exilé; and Reason after Its Eclipse. He has been a regular columnist for Salmagundi since 1987.
Paul Breines was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin and a member of the Student Council on Civil Rights when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. As part of the Freedom Ride Breines, along with three other students, traveled from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi via a Greyhound bus where all four participants were arrested in the Greyhound terminal in Jackson, Mississippi on 21 July 1961. Paul Breines is also Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Boston College. He is the author of TOUGH JEWS: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry, and co-author of The Young Lukaacs and the Origins of Western Marxism.
Robert Kaufman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where he also teaches in, and is former co-director of, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. His teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas, the Frankfurt School being one in particular. Kaufman is the author of Negatvive Romaticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats, Shelley, and Modern Poetry (forthcoming from Cornell University Press), and is at work on two related studies: Why Poetry Should Matter—to the Left: Frankfurt Constellations of Democracy and Modernism after Postmodernism? Robert Duncan and the Future-Present of American Poetry.

THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN | GGP Online Book Club
2020-08-25 19:00 - 21:00
Please join us on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN by Hendrik Groen.
The Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82208141566.
You can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSecretDiary, or in audiobook from Libro.fm, GGP’s audiobook partner, at https://bit.ly/SecretDiaryAB.

Staff Reviews

Just because you’re old doesn’t mean you can’t have fun and adventure. Hendrik is a rebel, determined to live life to the fullest.
— Mike

Description

A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove: a funny and tender-hearted tale about friendship, love, and an old man who is young at heart.
Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is….elderly. But at age 83 1/4, this feisty, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, exasperated by the indignities of aging, Hendrik has decided to rebel – on his own terms. He begins writing an exposé: secretly recording the antics of day-to-day life in his retirement home, where he refuses to take himself, or his fellow “inmates,” too seriously.

With an eccentric group of friends, he founds the wickedly anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club, and he and his best friend, Evert, gleefully stir up trouble, enraging the home’s humorless director and turning themselves into unlikely heroes. And when a sweet and sassy widow moves in next door, he polishes his shoes, grooms what’s left of his hair, and determines to savor every ounce of joy in the time he has left, with hilarious and tender consequences.

A bestselling phenomenon that has captured imaginations around the world, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is inspiring, charming, and laugh-out-loud funny with a deep and poignant core: a page-turning delight for readers of any age.
About the Author

Hendrik Groen started his diary on the literary website of Torpedo Magazine. He says about his novel: “There’s not one sentence that’s a lie, but not every word is true.” The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen has been translated into over twenty languages.
Praise For…

“Amusing [and] wickedly accurate…Reading The Secret Diary, I was constantly put in mind of Ken Kesey’s madhouse tale One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, another comi-tragedy concerning the tyranny of institutions of the unwanted. Enjoy Groen’s light touch but do not be fooled by it….The Secret Diary is a handbook of resistance for our time.”—The Express (UK)
“Funny and frank – a story with a great deal of heart.”—Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project
“A story about how friendship, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I’m an old man, I want to be Hendrik Groen.”—John Boyne, internationally bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
“An incredible picture of friendship… something we could all stand to emulate, no matter where we are in our lives.”—Bookpage, Top Fiction Pick for July
“Interspersed with Groen’s biting wit and comic take on aging and all it entails… A page-turning delight for adult readers of any age and locale.”—Booklist, starred review
“Poignant and true-to-life, an international bestseller.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Engaging and hilarious, Hendrik’s diary gives a dignity and respect to the elderly often overlooked in popular culture, providing readers a look into the importance of friendship and the realities of the senior care system in modern society.”—Publisher’s Weekly
“You might say he’s the Elena Ferrante of the octogenarian set – though whether or not he is actually an octogenarian (or a man) is also anyone’s guess. It’s an appealing novel with a lot of heart, reminding readers young and old that fun is to be found even in the routine of everyday life. And of course, the possibility that it’s more memoir than fiction is delightful.”—New York Post

VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America
2020-08-25 19:00 - 21:00
Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013), Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015), and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform.
PLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store, please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event.
Tickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here!
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, cohost of Pod Save America, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump, McConnell, Fox News, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics.
There is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First, Trump is not an aberration, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy.
Dan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife, Howli, and their daughter, Kyla.

VIRTUAL: Two Languages / One Community with Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu
2020-08-26 19:00 - 21:00
Booksmith presents Two Languages / One Community with poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu. They will be reading from and discussing their work.
Two Languages / One Community brings together African American and Chinese American writers in a rare cultural exchange based on dialogue and storytelling. Workshop participants write poems and short stories based on memories sparked by photographs of their parents, their younger selves, and other family members. The writing is translated in Chinese and English and published online at www.twolanguagesonecommunity.com and in the Catching Memory book series.
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This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
Use the links in the authors’ bios to purchase their books from Booksmith. You may also purchase Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr and Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu when completing your registration. We are offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.

Michael Warr‘s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton), and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk, We Are All The Black Boy, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/.

Chun Yu, Ph.D. is the author of the multi-award-winning memoir Little Green (Simon & Schuster) and a historical graphic novel in progress (Macmillan) and more. Her work has been published in the award-winning anthology Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Open Doors, Boston Herald, MIT Tech Talk, etc. Her new bilingual poetry collection in English and Chinese and her graphic novel on Chinese immigration experience have won San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity and Individual Artist Grants. Her work merges science, art, and spirituality based on her experiences as an immigrant from an ancient culture undergoing revolution to a new world of transformative science and technologies. She has won support from the Zellerbach Foundation and Poets & Writers etc. for her community work in poetry and writing. Chun holds a B.S. and M.S. from Peking University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers in chemistry, and was a postdoctoral fellow at a Harvard-MIT joint program. Her website: www.chunyu.org.

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.
Use the links in the authors’ bios to purchase their books from Booksmith. You may also purchase Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr and Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu when completing your registration. We are offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.

VIRTUAL EVENT: David Eagleman, Livewired
2020-08-27 19:00 - 21:00
Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher, bold vision, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly

VIRTUAL: Vanessa Veselka / The Great Offshore Grounds
2020-08-27 19:00 - 21:00
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Zazen author Vanessa Veselka for her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds.
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> This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
> If you’d like a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds, you can purchase one here, below, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.

On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except, instead of money, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another, as well as their definitions of freedom.
Moving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve, linguistic vitality, and undeniable tenderness.

Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA, and her nonfiction in GQ, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Atavist, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a union organizer, an independent record label owner, a train hopper, a waitress, and a mother. She lives in Portland, OR.

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.
To have a copy of The Great Offshore Grounds sent to your door, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.

Zoom Forward! Deborah Bryant & Jana Marcus
2020-08-28 17:00 - 19:00
VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Deborah Bryant and Jana Marcus, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers, keep our cultural spirits high, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.
The Zoom room will be open by 4:30, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links, including for this event, will be emailed to you.

Virtual Event: Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider
2020-08-28 18:00 - 20:00
Join us on Friday, August 28 at 6pm PDT when Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider discuss their new books, The Son of Good Fortune and Fruit, with author Molly Antopol on Zoom!
And stop by on Saturday, August 29 at 5pm when Lysley and Bruce join us for a special, social distanced book signing for Independent Bookstore Day at
Green Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave)!
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About The Son of Good Fortune
A bighearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino teenager as he redefines his relationships with his mother, his culture, and the place he calls home
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (typically in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries), he carefully avoids the spotlight.
But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago, on Excel’s tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are tago nang tago,” she told him, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life.
Casting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood, Excel takes a leap, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider?
Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other.
About Fruit
Bruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obsessed with procreation. Poems move between the scientific and the biblical, effortlessly sliding from the clinical landscape of a sperm bank to Mount Moriah as Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice. Exploring issues of sexuality, lineage, and mortality, Snider delves into subjects as varied as the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky; same-sex couple adoption; and Gregor Mendel’s death in 1884. Each poem builds into a broader examination of power and fragility, domesticity and rebellion, violence and devotion: heartrending vignettes of the aches and joys of growing up and testing the limits of nature and nurture. In language both probing and sensitive, Fruit delivers its own conflicted and celebratory answers to pressing questions of life, death, love, and biology.

Independent Bookstore Day 2020
2020-08-29 09:00 - 23:00
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with Bookshop Santa Cruz!
Independent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year, but we will still be celebrating alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide. Highlights will include exclusive IBD items for sale, an online Where’s Walt scavenger hunt, and virtual book trivia. IBD harnesses the creative power of authors, publishers, and booksellers to celebrate the reading community and drive readers to brick and mortar bookstores.
COMING SOON: Check out this year’s exclusive items here, only available on Saturday, August 29th.
ALL DAY FUN:
• ONLINE Scavenger Hunt: Where’s Walt
• VIRTUAL Book Bingo

Virtual and In-Store: Independent Bookstore Day
2020-08-29 10:00 - 18:00
Celebrate with us all day on Saturday, August 29, both in-store and online from the comfort fo your home.
In addition to indie-exclusive books and merch we will have available, we will also have…
Clement St. Activites
Scavenger Hunt in-store and on your phone!
Book Trivia you can win from your couch!
In-store Biography Boards which might make you an award-winning author!
Toni Morrison totes you can make yourself!
Virtual storytime for kids (and their adults)!

9th Ave. Activities
Blind date books you might fall in love with!
Hourly Raffles of books from the future!
Outdoor photobooth for smizing!
Prisoners Literature Project book drive for incarcerated readers!
Lysley Tenorio and Bruce Snider will join us for a social distanced signing at 5pm for their books
The Son of Good Fortune and Fruit

Browser Books Activities
Treasure hunt in-store to win a mini prize or grand prize!
Storytime for kids (and adults, too!)
Blow us away with your Book Puns! Using the hastags #bookpun and #bookstoreday2020 to win a prize!

No Fascist USA! Discussion Series, Talk #4 - Hilary Moore, James Tracy, and Shane Burley
2020-08-29 11:00 - 13:00
Hilary Moore, James Tracy, and Shane Burley in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements, past and present, and street-level organizing, with Hilary Moore, James Tracy, and Shane Burley.
Event co-sponsored by Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville) and Louisiville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).
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This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.
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Event is free, but registration is required
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City Lights LIVE presents the four talks about anti-fascist movements, past and present, and street-level organizing, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements.
Talk #4, happening on Saturday, August 29th at 11AM PST / 2PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley.
This event is co-sponsored by Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, KY and Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). Please consider supporting Carmichael’s Bookstore by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here).
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Hilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels, 2020).
James Tracy is an author, organizer, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
Shane Burley is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, etc.

Disability Book Series: Nina G on Stutterer Interrupted
2020-08-29 14:00 - 15:30 | virtual
Join us for the next installment of the Disability Book Series, with Nina G and her book Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen.
The only female comedian who stuttered when she started 10 years ago, Nina G believes that the problem isn’t with the stutterer, but with a society that isn’t inclusive or accessible to those who experience this disability.
In her book Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen, Nina challenges the status quo of how people who stutter are perceived onstage and off.
As a child, Nina had a life-long dream of becoming a comedian, but never thought she’d be able to go up on stage and make people laugh. Her story is about how stuttering caused her to first abandon her dreams, then to embark on a journey that culminated in a career as one of only a handful of stuttering stand-up comedians working today.
How to Join
This event is free and will be on Zoom. We will send the Zoom access link to everyone who registers in advance for this program. Registration closes on 8/29 at 2 pm.
About Nina G
Nina G was the only woman who stuttered in the stand-up comedy world when she started nine years ago. She co-produced the Comedians with Disabilities Act, a national touring comedy show featuring exclusively comedians with disabilities. Nina’s brand of comedy reflects the experiences of many with disabilities. She tours the country as a conference keynote speaker including at a TEDx talk at San Jose State University. A Huffington Post contributor, she has a doctorate in psychology, teaches at a Bay Area Community College, and lives in Oakland, California. Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen is her second book.
Accessibility
This event will have both ASL interpreters and live CART captioning services.
For any additional accessibility needs, please contact Peter Estes at (415) 546-1333 ext 309 or peter@sdaction.org
Free
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VIRTUAL: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
2020-08-31 11:00 - 13:00
Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fifth event in the series features Sarah Jaquette Ray discussing her book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet.
This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.

Gen Z’s first “existential toolkit” for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation.
Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation—and perhaps the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time.

Sarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and is the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.

UC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith

8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies
8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration
8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.
To have A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety sent to your door, order here.

VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookseller Happy Hour: Hot Books, Cool Drinks!
2020-08-31 19:00 - 21:00
Join Bookshop booksellers as we share some of the hottest recommended books of the season, while you sip on the cool beverage of your choice from the comfort of home. Come spend an hour with us on Crowdcast to find your next great read.
Registration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.
This is a free event.
You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!

Katy Rose Pool and Laura Sebastian
2020-09-01 18:00 - 19:00
Calling all fantasy readers.

We are absolutely thrilled to be launching As the Shadow Rises, Katy Rose Pool’s sequel to the critically-acclaimed, action packed epic fantasy There Will Come a Darkness, that explores everything from ancient history to apocalyptic prophecies to fraught sibling relationships.
The Last Prophet has been found, yet he sees destruction ahead. In this sequel, kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult, the magical Graced are being persecuted, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the world hurtling toward its prophesized end, Anton’s haunting vision reveals the dangerous beginnings of a plan to stop the Age of Darkness.
There Will Come a Darkness is a Morris Award Finalist for best debut young adult novel, it garnered four starred reviews, and was a 2019 Kirkus Best Book of the Year

* “Adventurous relic-hunting, mind-blowing twists, budding love, and terrible betrayals feature in this multiple-narrator, character-driven study of power, agency, and identity and the ways these are affected by the interwoven threads of both history and legend.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Katy will be chatting with Laura Sebastian, author of Ash Princess series, and we couldn’t be more excited. Join these two incredible writers as they celebrate As the Shadow Rises and epic fantasy in general We can’t wait.

Virtual Event: Eula Biss
2020-09-01 18:00 - 19:00 | virtual
Join us on Tueday, September 1 at 6pm for the launch of bestselling author Eula Biss’ new book, Having and Being Had on Zoom!
Zoom Login Info
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Webinar ID: 840 6496 5260
Praise for Having and Being Had
“A major achievement. Having and Being Had, rather than leading through narrative, turns individual words and phrases, like capitalism, consumers, great America, husbandry, art, and work, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With astute consideration, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” —Claudia Rankine
“Eula Biss’s prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn’t know I felt about money, capitalism, and my place inside of an economy that always requires so much of me and gives back so little. A brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” —Alexander Chee
About Having and Being Had
A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land
“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,” Eula Biss writes, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fences—Having and Being Had examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides, like a chess player,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of accumulation and consumption, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself and her class, “In what have we invested?”
