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SUMMARY:David D. Burns\, MD - Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Nearly 40 years ago\, David D. Burns\, MD\, a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy\, wrote Feeling Good\, a book with an uplifting message: When you change the way you THINK\, you can change the way you FEEL. Since its debut\, Feeling Good has sold more than 5 million copies\, making a positive difference in the lives of countless people\, and cognitive therapy has become the most popular and extensively researched form of psychotherapy in the world. \nNow in Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety\, Dr. Burns brings us a radical new approach that makes ultra-rapid recovery possible\, even in a single two-hour book-therapy session. Feeling Great emerged from 40 years of research on how therapy actually works and is based on this paradoxical idea: Your negative thoughts and feelings are NOT the result of some defect\, like a chemical imbalance in your brain or a “mental disorder\,” but from what’s most beautiful and awesome about you and your core values. And the moment you realize this\, recovery will be just a stone’s throw away. \nIn Feeling Great you will pinpoint and eliminate the powerful forces that keep you stuck; learn that your thoughts—and not the circumstances of your life—create all of your feelings; discover why depression and anxiety are the world’s oldest cons; crush the ten types of distorted thoughts that rob you of happiness and self-esteem; learn why self-acceptance is the greatest change a human being can make; and more. \nDavid D. Burns\, MD\, is an Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. More than 50\,000 mental health professionals have attended his workshops throughout the United States and Canada. His weekly Feeling Good Podcasts (approaching three million downloads) provide therapists and the general public alike with tips to overcome depression\, anxiety\, relationship conflicts\, and habits and addiction. Dr. Burns lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more\, visit FeelingGreattheBook.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-d-burns-md-feeling-great-the-revolutionary-new-treatment-for-depression-and-anxiety-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: American Short Fiction presents Esmé Weijun Wang for Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 15 at 4:30pm PDT when American Short Fiction hosts Esmé Weijun Wang as a part of their My Constellation of 8 series\nbenefitting Green Apple Books! \nJoin us by registering at the Crowdcast link below\nhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/my-constellation-of-8 \nThis fall\, American Short Fiction will host three virtual events featuring some of today’s most exciting and celebrated writers. Unlike other virtual events\, which importantly seek to promote and share a writer’s own work\, we’re inviting Roger Reeves on August 25th\, Esmé Weijun Wang on September 15th\, and Carmen Maria Machado on October 13th to discuss and share eight books that shaped their thinking\, changed them\, and helped them grow as writers\, as thinkers\, and as people. There will be an ASL interpreter provided at each virtual event. \nFor each “My Constellation of 8” event\, we’ve partnered with an independent bookstore of the author’s choice to sell the recommended texts as well as books by the writers themselves. During these socially distant times\, it seems particularly urgent to explore and discuss the ways in which we’re connected to one another\, the ways in which we’ve been influenced and shaped by the art and artists we admire\, and the ways in which we can support the independent bookstores that are\, in so many cases\, the beating hearts of their literary communities. \nOur second installment will feature award-winning writer Esmé Weijun Wang in conversation about eight of her literary influences with ASF‘s Coeditor Adeena Reitberger and will benefit Green Apple Books\, a trio of fiercely independent bookstores in San Francisco matching good books to curious readers since 1967. \nAbout Esmé Weijun Wang \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise\, which was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016. She received a 2018 Whiting Award\, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and was the recipient of fellowships to Yaddo and MacDowell. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, Esmé can be found at esmewang.com\, on Twitter @esmewang and on Instagram @esmewwang. \nAbout Green Apple Books \nGreen Apple Books is a trio of fiercely independent bookstores in San Francisco matching good books to curious readers since 1967. The stores welcome all\, offer a well-curated selection of books in all subject areas\, and engage broadly in the literary community within our walls and beyond. \nAbout American Short Fiction \nAmerican Short Fiction\, Inc.’s mission is to be a diverse\, inclusive\, and discerning publisher of today’s best literary short fiction. We believe that reading and writing are transformative acts and that literature has the power to change the way we see ourselves\, our world\, and our place in it. We strive to support established and emerging writers and advance the literary arts\, both nationally and within our Austin community\, and regularly host events that are free and open to the public. \nSponsors \nThis project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-american-short-fiction-presents-esme-weijun-wang-for-green-apple-books/
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Drew Daywalt
DESCRIPTION:We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome back Drew Daywalt\, (The Day the Crayons Quit)\, one of our all-time favorite picture book authors\, for a Sleepy: The Good Night Buddy Story Time\, his hilarious twist on the classic bedtime story. \n\n\n\n\nWhile sheltering in place\, take a break from the day to day at home and the bustle of being virtually back at school. Grab your kids\, their friends who they miss playing with\, and their cousins who you couldn’t visit this summer and get together – virtually – for a feel good\, laugh out loud story time \nRoderick hates going to bed and has become quite resourceful in coming up with ways to delay the dreaded hour when the lights must go out. Roderick’s loving parents—fed up with the distractions and demands that have become his anti-bedtime ritual—decide to get him a stuffed animal to cuddle with and help wind him down. However\, Sleepy quickly proves to be a bit high-maintenance. Just when he fears the night may never end\, Sleepy’s antics become too exhausting for Roderick to bear. How will a boy who routinely refuses to go to bed get a talkative stuffed animal to go to sleep? \nDrew Daywalt is the much loved\, incredibly funny New York Times best-selling author\, best known for writing The Day the Crayons Quit and its sequel\, The Day the Crayons Came Home\, both illustrated by Oliver Jeffers\, for which he won the EB White Read Aloud Award. Drew is also the author of The Legend of Rock\, Paper\, Scissors\, illustrated by Adam Rex\, Star Wars: BB-8 On the Run\, illustrated by Matt Myers\, and Sleepy: The Good Night Buddy\, illustrated by Scott Campbell\,. Drew is also a Hollywood screenwriter. \nIt’s impossible not to crack up while reading Sleepy: The Good Night Buddy. Join us and discover the pleasure of a great story told by a great storyteller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-drew-daywalt/
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SUMMARY:Chasten Buttigieg in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer - I Have Something to Tell You (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first session in our free Fall Leadership Lecture series in which Chasten Buttigieg joins Pulitzer-Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer to talk about his new memoir\, I Have Something to Tell You. \nThroughout the past year\, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage\, having left his classroom in South Bend\, Indiana\, to travel cross-country in support of his husband\, former mayor Pete Buttigieg\, and Pete’s groundbreaking presidential campaign. Through Chasten’s joyful\, witty social media posts\, the public gained a behind-the-scenes look at his life with Pete on the trail — moments that might have ranged from the mundane to the surprising\, but that were always heartfelt. \nChasten has overcome a multitude of obstacles to get here. In this moving\, uplifting memoir\, he recounts his journey to finding acceptance as a gay man. He recalls his upbringing in rural Michigan\, where he knew he was different\, where indeed he felt different from his father and brothers. He recounts his coming out and how he’s healed from revealing his secret to his family\, friends\, community\, and the world. And he tells the story of meeting his boyfriend\, whom he would marry and who would eventually become a major Democratic leader. \nWith unflinching honesty\, unflappable courage\, and great warmth\, Chasten Buttigieg relays his experience of growing up in America and embracing his true self\, while inspiring others to do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chasten-buttigieg-in-conversation-with-andrew-sean-greer-i-have-something-to-tell-you-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Kerri Arsenault in conversation with Kurt Andersen
DESCRIPTION:      \n\ndiscussing two new books \n\nMill Town: Reckoning With What Remains\, by Kerri Arsenault \npublished by St. Martins Press \nEvil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History\, by Kurt Andersen \npublished by Random House \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nabout MILL TOWN \n\n\n\nA galvanizing and powerful debut\, Mill Town is an American story\, a human predicament\, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? \nKerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico\, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople\, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family. Years after she moved away\, Arsenault realized the price she paid for her seemingly secure childhood. The mill\, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone\, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic\, physical\, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe\, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.” \nMill Town is an personal investigation\, where Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports\, talks to family and neighbors\, and examines her own childhood to illuminate the rise and collapse of the working-class\, the hazards of loving and leaving home\, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease. Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks\, Whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? \nabout EVIL GENIUSES \nWhen did America give up on fairness? The New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants\, only the rich get richer\, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future. \nDuring the twentieth century\, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge\, secure\, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s\, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs\, the superrich\, and right-wing zealots\, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress\, making greed good\, workers powerless\, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia\, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests\, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope. \nWhy and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural\, economic\, and political chronicle\, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh\, provocative\, and eye-opening history of America’s undoing\, naming names\, showing receipts\, and unsparingly assigning blame—to the radical right in economics and the law\, the high priests of high finance\, a complacent and complicit Establishment\, and liberal “useful idiots\,” among whom he includes himself. \nOnly a writer with Andersen’s crackling energy\, deep insight\, and ability to connect disparate dots and see complex systems with clarity could make such a book both intellectually formidable and vastly entertaining. And only a writer of Andersen’s vision could reckon with our current high-stakes inflection point\, and show the way out of this man-made disaster. \nKerri Arsenault serves on the board of the National Books Critics Circle\, is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine\, and Contributing Editor at Lithub. Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University’s Communication for Development master’s programme. Her writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Lithub\, Oprah.com\, and The Minneapolis Star Tribune\, among other publications. She lives in New England. Mill Town is her first book. \n\nKurt Andersen is author of Heyday and Turn of the Century and frequently writes for New York and Vanity Fair. He is host and cocreator of the Peabody Award–winning public radio program Studio 360. In 2006\, he founded Very Short List\, an email service for connoisseurs of culture who would never call themselves “connoisseurs.” He was cofounder of Spy magazine\, and has been a columnist and critic for the New Yorker and Time. Andersen lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn. \nPraise for Mill Town\n\n\n“In this masterful debut\, the author creates a crisp\, eloquent hybrid of atmospheric memoir and searing exposé… Bittersweet memories and a long-buried atrocity combine for a heartfelt\, unflinching\, striking narrative combination.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n“[A] powerful\, investigative memoir….Arsenault paints a soul-crushing portrait of a place that’s suffered ‘the smell of death and suffering’ almost since its creation. This moving and insightful memoir reminds readers that returning home–“the heart of human identity”–is capable of causing great joy and profound disappointment.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred) \n“In Mill Town\, Kerri Arsenault has managed a literary hat trick\, combining humanity\, science\, and capitalism\, and the price paid not only by her own family in a single state\, but across generations\, industries\, and geographies. She has laid out\, in elegant prose and harrowing reportage\, the price we may all pay\, and in this\, she has managed to create at once both a cautionary tale and a literary treasure.” —Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us \n“[Mill Town] is about the better\, more prosperous American life those industries afforded us before we fell ill\, as well as the Devil’s bargain that made all this possible\, maybe even inevitable. Mill Town is for anyone who’s ever wondered about the Calvinistic calculus whereby the elect become truly wealthy while the damned (read: poor\, dark-skinned\, newly arrived) find early graves.” —Richard Russo\, author of Chances Are… and Empire Falls \n“Mill Town is a powerful\, blistering\, devastating book. Kerri Arsenault is both a graceful writer and a grieving daughter in search of answers and ultimately\, justice. In telling the story of the town where generations of her family have lived and died\, she raises important and timely questions.” —Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance \n“The book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling\, quick-moving\, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender\, it is written in a clear-running prose that lifts often into poetry\, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river of Mill Town: sluggish\, ancient\, dangerous\, freighted with America’s sins. This is a book about residues and legacies; I know that Mill Town will stay with me for years to come.” —Robert Macfarlane\, author of Underland \n“Kerri Arsenault’s pursuit of truth is as compassionate as it is relentless. The result\, her book\, is tender\, enthralling\, and\, ultimately\, devastating.” —Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn \nIn Mill Town\, Kerri Arsenault probes deeply\, searchingly\, into webs of family and community\, history and science\, power and commerce and the price of loyalty to create what could be called an Our Town for the 21st century\, updated and expanded to account for ecological horror… Arsenault’s relentless\, unsparing exploration goes to the heart of American life\, and I can think of no book that’s more relevant to this moment in time than Mill Town.” —Ben Fountain\, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n“[A] sweeping\, brutal expose of American corporations’ ruining natural resources\, poisoning the environment\, endangering the health and safety of the working class\, and hiding and denying their crimes. This book is full of love and sadness. It’s also breathtakingly wide-ranging\, cogently angry\, brilliantly written\, harrowing\, heartbreaking\, urgent\, and timely.” —Kate Christensen\, author of The Great Man \n“A tender howl about the graveyard of industry. This fierce and impeccable work really got my blood boiling about the plunder mechanism of capitalism and its blow against life.” —Emily Raboteau\, author of Searching for Zion \n“This memoir-slash-history tracks the rise and mostly decline of Mexico\, Maine\, a small mill town on the Androscoggin River that has been the home of the author’s family for generations. Arsenault writes nonfiction with the density and beauty of poetry\, in this telling of the costs and tolls (environmental\, physical\, cultural\, medical) of industrialization and its aftermath.” —Mark Lamster\, Architecture Critic\, Dallas Morning News \n“Profoundly important… Tender\, angry\, full of respect and bewilderment\, it is a complex love letter to a hometown. It’s also a powerful glimpse of how corporate power\, small town pride\, and death are entwined in America: a vivid insight to the unbuilding of an American dream\, this will be one of the major nonfiction books of a year in which the debate over what America is will rage.” —John Freeman\, author of Dictionary of the Undoing \n“Spanning ten years\, Arsenault’s hand keeps moving as across the paper on some tombstone for a rubbing. Slowly\, beautifully\, terribly something comes to the surface.” —David Searcy\, author of Shame and Wonder
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerri-arsenault-in-conversation-with-kurt-andersen/
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SUMMARY:Robert Macfarlane: A virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland
DESCRIPTION:Robert Macfarlane joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland (W.W. Norton). \nMore details coming soon\, so keep an eye on this space for registration info. \nAbout Underland\nNational Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award \n“Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times.” —Terry Tempest Williams\, New York Times Book Review \nIn Underland\, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth\, literature\, memory\, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves\, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap\, to a deep-sunk “hiding place” where nuclear waste will be stored for 100\,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness\, burial\, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. \nGlobal in its geography and written with great lyricism\, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent\, this is a book that will change the way you see the world. \nAbout Robert Macfarlane \nRobert Macfarlane’s prize-winning and best-selling books include Mountains of the Mind\, The Old Ways\, Landmarks\, and\, with Jackie Morris\, The Lost Words. He lives in Cambridge\, England\, where he is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-macfarlane-a-virtual-event-to-celebrate-the-paperback-release-of-underland/
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SUMMARY:Zach Norris and Rosemarie Day VIRTUALLY
DESCRIPTION:Rosemarie Day and Zach Norris discuss both of their books\, the pandemic’s effect on communities of color and lower income communities\, public health policy across a wider range of issues\, and much more! \nRosemarie Day\, author of Marching Toward Coverage: How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare\, is the founder and CEO of Day Health Strategies\, which helps to implement national health reform. She’s been working in healthcare and related fields for more than 25 years\, including as the founding deputy director and chief operating officer of the Health Connector in Massachusetts\, where she helped launch the award-winning organization that established the first state-run health insurance exchange in the state. She also served as the chief operating officer for the Massachusetts Medicaid program. Rosemarie lives in Somerville\, MA; this is her first book. Connect with her @Rosemarie_Day1 or at rosemarieday.com. \nZach Norris\, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities\, is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him at zachnorris.comand on Twitter (@ZachWNorris). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Register with Eventbrite. We encourage you to support these causes by purchasing the authors’ books. See below.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-norris-and-rosemarie-day-virtually/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Sue Miller (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Sue Miller’s latest book\, Monogomy\, is an engrossing and haunting novel about marriage\, love\, family\, happiness and sorrow. \nSue is recognized internationally for her elegant and sharply realistic accounts of the contemporary family. Her books have been widely translated and published in 22 countries around the world. \nThe Good Mother\, the first of her ten novels\, was an immediate bestseller (more than six months at the top of the New York Times charts). Subsequent novels include three Book-of-the-Month main selections:  Family Pictures (a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award)\, While I Was Gone (an Oprah’s Book Club selection)\, and The Senator’s Wife. Her non-fiction book\, The Story of My Father\, was heralded by BookPage as a “beautiful\, spare memoir about her relationship with her father during his illness and death from Alzheimer’s disease.”  Her numerous honors include a Guggenheim and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. \nSue is a committed advocate for the writer’s engagement with society at large\, having held a position on the Board of PEN-American Center. For four years she was Chair of PEN New England\, an active branch that worked with writing programs in local high schools and ran classes in prisons. She has taught fiction at\, among others\, Amherst\, Tufts\, Boston University\, Smith\, and MIT.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-sue-miller-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin: Celebrating City Lights Spotlights Series Vol. 19 & 20
DESCRIPTION:      \nreading from \nFacing You/Spotlight #19\, by Uche Nduka \nNatch/Spotlight #20\, by Sophia Dhalin \nboth published by City Lights Books \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n——— \nCity Lights celebrates two new books in it Spotlight Reading series \nabout Facing You \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \nabout Natch \nQueer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection. \nSophia Dahlin’s first full-length collection\, Natch\, is a dazzling array of queer erotic lyrics demanding pasture in the romantic sublime. By turns dreamy\, hysterical\, earthy\, and perverse\, the poems of Natch speak the dialogue of a person’s parts\, the dynamism of a queer body desiring something between rest and consumption. In her stunningly assured voice\, compounded of bravado and vulnerability\, Dahlin outlines the threshold where feeling takes over the body’s functioning\, desire leads us past deciding\, and we are so lustful that we are not dead when we have finished dying. \nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian. \nSophia Dahlin earned her BA from Bard College and her MFA from the University of Iowa\, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her work has appeared in many journals\, including BOMB\, Fence\, Lambda Literary\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Recluse. With Jacob Kahn\, she edits the chapbook press Eyelet. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she teaches with California Poets in the Schools\, conducts generative writing workshops\, and hosts readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCritical Praise for Facing You \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \nPraise for Facing You: \n“For decades\, Uche Nduka’s refulgent poetry has shone out amid the various national and cultural contexts in which he has found himself\, from Nigeria to Germany to Brooklyn. The brief poems of Facing You showcase Nduka at his most iconic. Casual and elemental\, Surreal and Blue\, these poems are like fuses: exactly equal to their tasks. Facing You proves the pliant strength of the lyric\, its ability\, in a handful of blunt and turning lines\, to reverse reality with the ease of an upraised mirror. Nduka’s poetry models the principle of agile\, flamelike survival amid this most leaden of worlds.”––Joyelle McSweeney \n“Uche Nduka’s lyrical abstractions are razor sharp and lighting fast. Each poem turns several corners in the blink of an eye. A Nigerian-American poet by way of Germany and Holland\, Nduka has honed his genius on the whetting stones of a tri-continental cosmopolitanism. His voice is both courtly and sensual\, and his poems as frankly sexual as they are defiantly explosive. Like Rimbaud\, Nduka sings the pride of exile\, the debauchery of imagination\, with wile and wit. We are lucky to have him.”—Kit Robinson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uche-nduka-and-sophia-dahlin-celebrating-city-lights-spotlights-series-vol-19-20/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lara Mimosa Montes
DESCRIPTION:Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES\, a meditation on the Bronx of the 70s and 80s\, gentrification\, trauma\, and loss. Her work has appeared in Fence\, BOMB\, Jacket2\, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has been awarded residencies from Storm King: Shandaken\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018\, Lara was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry. Currently\, she is a senior editor of Triple Canopy and lives in Minnesota.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lara-mimosa-montes/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011425
CREATED:20200910T062813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200910T062813Z
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SUMMARY:Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led
DESCRIPTION:The most effective and long-lasting student strike in U.S. history took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The first Black Student Union\, the first Black Studies Department\, the only College of Ethnic Studies\, and the admission of thousands of students of color resulted from this four-and-a-half-month strike which shut down 80% of the campus. It has been called the movement which “changed academia forever.” \nJoin Kitty Kelly Epstein and Bernard Stringer\, co-authors of Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led (Myers Education Press\, 2020)\, in a virtual Meet the Authors program to learn about the historic strike and its insights for today’s mass movements. \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the African American Museum & Library at Oakland and Holy Names University. To register for a Zoom link\, email aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/changing-academia-forever-black-student-leaders-analyze-the-movement-they-led/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 17th at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom.\n\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83365473355 \nWebinar ID: 833 6547 3355 \nAbout Pale Colors in a Tall Field \nA powerful\, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets. \nCarl Phillips’s new poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely\, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here\, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors\, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid\, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically\, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives\, in turn\, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender\, dynamic\, and startling books yet. \nAbout the Author \nCarl Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His recent books include Wild Is the Wind and the prose collection The Art of Daring: Risk\, Restlessness\, Imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carl-phillips-and-kimberly-reyes-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 17 at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83365473355\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83365473355#  or +13462487799\,\,83365473355#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 833 6547 3355\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/krzPT8Ica\n \nAbout Pale Colors in a Tall Field \nA powerful\, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets \nCarl Phillips’s new poetry collection\, Pale Colors in a Tall Field\, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely\, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here\, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors\, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid\, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically\, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives\, in turn\, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender\, dynamic\, and startling books yet. \nAbout the Author \nCarl Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His recent books include Wild Is the Wind and the prose collection The Art of Daring: Risk\, Restlessness\, Imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carl-phillips-and-kimberly-reyes/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011425
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200912T200505Z
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: ALL THE FEELS 2020
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020\nan ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space\nfor communal connection & mortal vulnerability\nw/Ned Buskirk\, the You’re Going to Die Team\n& music from The Singer and The Songwriter! \nThursday\, September 17th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3bmNi8W \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nYOU CAN DONATE VIA…\nEVENTBRITE: https://bit.ly/3jGIHkM\nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020\nis an ONLINE open mic and listening space\, an excavation and deepening for ourselves\, with our community and the world\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death and dying\, to embrace our mortality\, to grieve\, bereave and honor what we’ve lost and love… while celebrating\, together\, the extraordinary fact of being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-all-the-feels-2020/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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SUMMARY:Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend \nJoin us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver\, for her book Spectra (Coffee House Press). She’ll be joined by award judge Jason Bayani\, reading his own work\, with the two poets in conversation with one another and the audience. With emcee\, Brent Awa Jensen. \nThis remote access event takes place promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning will be provided here. For any other accommodation requests\, please contact poetry@sfsu.edu. \nSupported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center\, Omnidawn Publishing\, and Coffee House Press. \n\nAshley Toliver’s Spectra is an immensely moving work. Its three-act structure entrenches within the violent friction between nature and manmade forms and between nature and the human body. Under Toliver’s carefully measured pen\, this movement through violence brought to mind for me\, persistence: the persistence to withstand the structures of domesticity (and all those structures domesticity is nestled under); the persistence to withstand an attack from within the body as that same body is bearing a new life. It is Toliver’s persistence that tempers and\, at times\, wields the flame of this violence\, it is this persistence that seeks to create from absence\, and from the first page to the last it absolutely mesmerizes me. In the poem “Standing Outside Your House with a Match and a Gallon of Gasoline”\, Toliver writes “I still don’t know what kind of woman/ I am. But as the flame nears the fingers/ that trust the match\, as close as the skin/ can stand it to singe\, I call this the nerve/ to find out—”. As taken as I am by the journey within the book\, I am also moved by the vision the book creates\, a vision of a woman holding both the fire of life and death in her hands\, that searches within it all with a keen strength and wonder. And how gorgeous and powerful of a vision Ashley Toliver makes\, what this vision\, when we acknowledge it from a Black woman’s lens\, means within the context of this time; what it pulls back from erasure; what it invokes and empowers. I am deeply in awe of this book— this book that is constantly seeking\, that seeks to reclaim and repossess\, that knows this is worthy of our persistence\, at least until death\, which\, as Toliver writes\, is “the last road to awe I know.”—Jason Bayani\n\nAshley Toliver is the author of Spectra (Coffee House Press\, 2018)\, which in addition to being awarded The Poetry Center Book Award\, was a finalist for the 2018 Believer Book Award\, 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Oregon Book Award. She teaches poetry at the The Attic Institute in southeast Portland and serves as poetry editor at Moss. A Journal of the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation\, Oregon Literary Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2013. \nJason Bayani is the author of Locus (Omnidawn Publishing\, 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing\, 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. His publishing credits include World Literature Today\, Muzzle Magazine\, Lantern Review\, and other publications. Jason performs regularly around the country and debuted his solo theater show “Locus of Control” in 2016 with theatrical runs in San Francisco\, New York\, and Austin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecipients of the Poetry Center Book Award\, 1980–present \nFeatured: \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.du\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vkk_2FCGR_2MnME4SCTseA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-center-book-award-reading-ashley-toliver-and-jason-bayani-reading-and-in-conversation-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T190000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 17\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Peter Neil Carroll \nonline on Zoom\nregistration link to come \nPeter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His sixth collection of poetry\, recently published\, is Something is Bound to Break (Main Street Rag). Earlier titles include Fracking Dakota; Elegy for Lovers; and A Child Turns Back to Wave which won the Prize Americana. He lives in Belmont CA with photographer/writer Jeannette Ferrary. [Quarantine makes it difficult to sell books but Peter will offer free shipping; contact him at peterncarroll@gmail.com or order from the publisher. \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nTBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessica Garrison\, The Devil's Harvest
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with Jessica Garrison\, author of The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer\, a Terrorized Community\, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley\, the gut-wrenching\, unbelievable true story of Jose Martinez\, and how the criminal justice system fails our country’s most vulnerable immigrant communities. It melds the pacing and suspense of a true crime thriller with the rigor of top-notch investigative journalism. \nRegister for this Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nDrawing upon decades of case files\, interrogation transcripts\, on the ground reporting\, full access to Jose Martinez and his family\, along with Martinez’s own handwritten journals\, The Devil’s Harvest digs into one of the most important moral questions haunting our politically divided nation today: why do some deaths-and some lives-matter more than others? \nJessica Garrison is West Coast investigations editor for BuzzFeed News and spent more than a decade as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She has received numerous awards\, including a George Polk Award\, Investigative Reporters and Editors Award\, and a National Magazine Award for a series on immigrant guest workers. The book is based on Jessica’s BuzzFeed article\, “‘I Killed Them All’: The Unbelievable Story of One of America’s Bloodiest Hitmen.” That story has received over 5 million views.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jessica-garrison-the-devils-harvest-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T200000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree 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).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200919T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200919T153000
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading Presents Tomás Riley
DESCRIPTION:Please Share. Please Invite.\nJoin us as Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates Tomás Riley on Saturday September 19\, 2020 from 2-3:30pm PST.\nSee Jingletown feat\, Cathy Arellano\, Tomás Riley\, & Luivette Resto. for more info.\nHosted by Adela Najarro & Harold Tzn\nOpen mic limited to 5 readers\, 4 minutes max\, 1st come first serve. Doors open at 1:45pm.\nzoom id: 992 1716 1772\npswd: justice
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jingletown-reading-presents-tomas-riley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200919T180000
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CREATED:20200908T165257Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Ayad Akhtar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Ayad Akhtar‘s new novel\, Homeland Elegies\, is the profound and provocative story of an immigrant father and his son searching for belonging—in post-Trump America\, and with each other. \nAyad is a novelist and playwright whose work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of numerous awards\, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of American Dervish\, published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. As a playwright\, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center\, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama\, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center\, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama\, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award\, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award\, Olivier\, and Evening Standard nominations). As a screenwriter\, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. \nAdam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles\, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and The Orphan Master’s Son\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and the California Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adam’s other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His previous books are Emporium\, a short story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. Adam teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-ayad-akhtar-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200920T140000
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SUMMARY:Nasty Woman Press Literary Extravaganza: Shatter Some Glass! (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Meet some of the legendary\, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass\, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman Press! Discover why New York Times bestselling author Marcia Clark calls the collection “Moving\, often poetic\, and always compelling.” All profits from this unique work are donated to Planned Parenthoos! \nReaders and Participants Include: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin C. Stuart (Facilitator)\nRobin C. Stuart is a veteran cybercrime investigator and contributing author to the short story anthology\, Fault Lines: Stories by Northern California Crime Writers. She consults on all things cyber security for Fortune 100 companies\, authors\, screenwriters\, and media outlets including BBC and NowThis News. Robin is also a significant contributor to the Tech Interactive (formerly known as The Tech Museum of Innovation) acclaimed Cyber Detectives\, one of the museum’s most popular permanent exhibits\, which earned praise from the Obama Administration.\n\n\n\nKelli Stanley (Introduction/MC)\nKelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning author of the Miranda Corbie noir series set in 1940 San Francisco\, including City of Dragons\, City of Secrets\, City of Ghosts\, and City of Sharks. Other works include historical mysteries set in Roman Britain and numerous short stories and essays. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\, her proudest achievements have been her inclusion as a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in Publisher’s Weekly\, and her founding of Nasty Woman Press on November 9th\, 2016. Her next novel is set in 1985 in Humboldt County\, California. kellistanley.com\n\n\n\nMaria Alexander\nMaria Alexander is a multiple award-winning author of horror and mystery fiction. Since 1999\, her short fiction has appeared in critically acclaimed publications and anthologies. She also writes humorous mystery fiction under the pen name Quentin Banks. No Rhyme Goes Unpunished is her debut thriller satire. Death on the Argyle is due out Summer 2020. For more information\, visit her website at mariaalexander.net.\n\n\n\nEric Beetner\nEric Beetner is that writer you’ve heard about but never read. When you finally do\, you wonder why you waited so long. There are more than 20 books like Rumrunners\, All the Way Down\, and The Devil Doesn’t Want Me\, so you’d better get started. He also hosts the podcast Writer Types and the Noir at the Bar reading series in L.A.. He’s been described as “The 21st Century’s answer to Jim Thompson” (LitReactor)\, has been nominated for three Anthonys\, an ITW award\, Shamus\, Derringer and 5 Emmys. Seriously\, what are you waiting for? ericbeetner.com\n\n\n\nCara Black\nCara Black is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen of the Aimée Leduc investigations set in Paris\, including the most recent\, Murder in Bel-Air. The Wall Street Journal said of her Murder on the Left Bank\, “Even after 17 books\, Ms. Black has intriguing corners of Paris to reveal—from an enclave of ateliers once home to the likes of Gauguin and Rodin to a crime-ridden neighborhood where ‘no one wanted to be witnessed witnessing’.” She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity awards. In Paris she was awarded the Medaille de la Ville de Paris in recognition of her contributions to French culture. Cara gets to Paris whenever she can for research. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and dog. Find her at carablack.com\n\n\n\nRhys Bowen\nRhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels\, including The Victory Garden\, The Tuscan Child\, and the World War II-based In Farleigh Field\, the winner of the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Bowen’s work has won twenty honors to date\, including multiple Agatha\, Anthony\, and Macavity awards. Her books have been translated into many languages\, and she has fans around the world\, including seventeen thousand Facebook followers. A transplanted Brit\, Bowen divides her time between California and Arizona.\n\n\n\nAngel Luis Colón\nAngel Luis Colón is the Derringer and Anthony Award nominated writer of five books including his latest novel\, Hell Chose Me. In his down time\, he edits anthologies and produces The Bastard Title\, a podcast featuring interviews with writers. Keep up with him on Twitter via @GoshDarnMyLife. angelluiscolon.com\n\n\n\nAllison A. Davis\nAllison A. Davis writes poetry (most recently\, Three Rooms Press Annual Dada Magazine\, Maintenant 12 and 13)\, short stories\, and is currently shopping her novel\, But Not For Me. A background in journalism and art criticism\, her day job is a senior partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP\, a national law firm.\n\n\n\nDanny Gardner\nDanny Gardner is a multi-award-nominated author of genre fiction\, including A Negro and an Ofay\, his debut mystery novel. In another world\, he is a stand-up comedian and screenwriter\, and also the founder of Bronzeville Books. Born and raised in the Chi\, he lives and works in Los Angeles. www.bronzevillebooks.com\n\n\n\nHeather Graham\nHeather Graham is a legendary New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than two hundred novels and novellas\, published in twenty-five languages. She has been honored with awards from booksellers and writers’ organizations\, including the Silver Bullet and prestigious Thriller Master awards from the International Thriller Writers and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romance Writers of America. Heather’s books have been selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild\, and she has been quoted\, interviewed\, or featured in such publications as The Nation\, Redbook\, People\, and USA Today\, and has appeared on many newscasts including Today and Entertainment Tonight. www.theoriginalheathergraham.com\n\n\n\nRachel Howzell Hall\nRachel Howzell Hall\, author of the bestseller They All Fall Down (Forge)\, writes the acclaimed Lou Norton series. She is also co-author of The Good Sister with James Patterson\, which was included in the New York Times bestseller The Family Lawyer. She is on the board of directors for the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America\, and lives in Los Angeles. Her next novel And Now She’s Gone will be published September 2020. www.rachelhowzell.com\n\n\n\nLibby Fischer Hellmann\nLibby Fischer Hellman left a career in broadcast news in Washington\, DC and moved to Chicago 35 years ago\, where she\, naturally\, began to write gritty crime fiction. Twelve novels and twenty short stories later\, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few. With the addition of Jump Cut in 2016\, her novels include the now five-volume Ellie Foreman series\, which she describes as a cross between Desperate Housewives and 24; the hard-boiled 4-volume Georgia Davis PI series; and three stand-alone historical thrillers that Libby calls her “Revolution Trilogy.” Last fall The Incidental Spy\, a historical novella set during the early years of the Manhattan Project at the U of Chicago was released. Her short stories have been published in a dozen anthologies\, the Saturday Evening Post\, and Ed Gorman’s 25 Criminally Good Short Stories collection.  In 2005 Libby was the national president of Sisters In Crime\, a 3500 member organization dedicated to the advancement of female crime fiction authors.\n\n\n\nToni L.P. Kelner\nToni L.P. Kelner is actually two authors in one. As Toni\, she’s written eleven mystery novels and co-edited seven anthologies with Charlaine Harris. She won the Agatha for Best Short Story\, and has been nominated for the Anthony\, the Macavity\, and the Derringer. As Leigh Perry\, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries featuring adjunct professor Georgia Thackery and her pal Sid\, an ambulatory family skeleton. The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking is the most recent.\n\n\n\nJames L’Etoile\nJames L’Etoile uses his twenty-nine years behind bars as an influence in his novels\, short stories\, and screenplays. He is a former associate warden in a maximum-security prison\, a hostage negotiator\, facility captain\, and director of California’s state parole system. He is a nationally recognized expert witness on prison and jail operations. He has been nominated for the Silver Falchion for Best Procedural Mystery\, and The Bill Crider Award for short fiction. His published novels include At What Cost\, Bury the Past\, and Little River: The Other Side of Paradise.\n\n\n\nCatriona McPherson\nCatriona McPherson is the national best-selling and multi-award-winning author of the Dandy Gilver series of preposterous detective stories\, set in her native Scotland in the 1930s. She also writes darker contemporary standalone suspense and has recently begun the Last Ditch trilogy\, loosely based on her immigrant experience in a northern California college town. Catriona is a proud lifetime member and former national president of Sisters in Crime\, committed to advancing equity and inclusion for women\, writers of color\, LGBTQ+ writers and writers with disability in the mystery community.\n\n\n\nTravis Richardson\nTravis Richardson is originally from Oklahoma and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. He has been a finalist and nominee for the Macavity\, Anthony\, and Derringer short story awards. He has two novellas and his short story collection\, Bloodshot and Bruised\, came out in late 2018. Find out more at tsrichardson.com\n\n\n\nKaira Rouda\nKaira Rouda is an award-winning journalist and marketing executive best known for creating the first women consumer focused real estate brand\, “Real Living.” Her first book\, Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs encourages women to put their passions into action and create the life of their dreams. She took her own advice\, began writing novels\, and is now an international bestseller. She lives in Southern California with her family. Her latest book is The Favorite Daughter. Visit KairaRouda.com for more.\n\n\n\nClea Simon\nClea Simon is a former journalist and the Boston Globe-bestselling author of three nonfiction books and more than two dozen mysteries. While the majority of these (like her most recent\, An Incantation of Cats) are amateur sleuth mysteries\, she also writes darker crime fiction\, like the rock and roll suspense novel World Enough\, which was named a “must read” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Her upcoming psychological suspense Hold Me Down returns to the music world\, focusing on sexual abuse and recovery\, as well as love in all its forms. She can be reached at cleasimon.com\n\n\n\nAlexandra Sokoloff\nAlexandra Sokoloff is the Thriller Award-winning\, Bram Stoker\, and Anthony Award-nominated author of thirteen bestselling supernatural and crime thrillers. The New York Times has called her “a daughter of Mary Shelley” and her books “Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.” As a screenwriter she has sold original scripts and written novel adaptations for numerous Hollywood studios. She is also the author/presenter of the internationally acclaimed Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks\, workshops\, and blog. Her Thriller Award-nominated Huntress Moon series follows a haunted FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer\, smashing genre clichés and combatting the rise of violence against women on the page\, screen and life. alexandrasokoloff.com\n\n\n\nJacqueline Winspear\nJacqueline Winspear is the creator of the New York Times and National Bestselling series featuring psychologist and investigator\, Maisie Dobbs. Her first novel—Maisie Dobbs—received numerous award nominations\, including the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It was a New York Times Notable Book and a Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten Pick. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2015. In 2019 Jacqueline published her 16th novel\, The American Agent\, and a non-fiction book\, What Would Maisie Do? a journal featuring excerpts from the Maisie Dobbs’ series. jacquelinewinspear.com\n\n\n\nNasty Woman Press\nWe are a 501 (c)(4) non-profit publisher pledged to fight fascism\, racism\, misogyny\, anti-Semitism\, homophobia\, Islamophobia\, transphobia\, and bigotry while promoting human rights and civil rights in the United States and around the globe. As writers\, readers\, editors\, artists\, librarians\, designers\, publishing professionals\, and creative\, principled human beings\, we cherish the planet and our fragile environment\, support science and education\, and value health and social services. We believe in taking care of each other. We believe in a better\, kinder\, world. Every Nasty Woman Press anthology is created around a theme; that theme is linked to the non-profit to whom profits from the sale of that book will be donated. Shattering Glass is the first of our anthologies. Profits from this book will be donated to Planned Parenthood. For more information or to become a member\, please visit nastywomanpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nasty-woman-press-literary-extravaganza-shatter-some-glass-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery\, Becoming a Good Creature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book\, Becoming a Good Creature. Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir\, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s beautiful\, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead\, pass it on. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSchool is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature\, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship\, compassion\, and how to be a better creature in the world. \nSy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs\, others with four\, or even eight! Some have had fur\, feathers\, or hooves. But they’ve all had one thing in common: a lesson to share. \nThe animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways\, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas\, dogs\, octopuses\, tigers\, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect. \nSY MONTGOMERY In addition to researching films\, articles\, and over twenty books\, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal\, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science\, three honorary degrees\, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock\, New Hampshire\, with her husband\, Howard Mansfield\, and their border collie\, Thurber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sy-montgomery-becoming-a-good-creature/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Wade Davis (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Wade Davis‘ inspiring tale of hope and redemption\, Magdalena: River of Dreams\, braids together memoir\, history\, and journalism to form both a rare\, kaleidoscopic picture of Colombia’s most magnificent river and the epic story of a nation on the verge of a new period of peace. \nWade is a writer\, photographer\, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet\, Africa to Australia\, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013\, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of twenty-two books—including One River\, The Wayfinders\, and Into the Silence\, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize\, the top nonfiction prize in the English language—he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany\, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World\, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS. \nOne of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club\, Wade is the recipient of twelve honorary degrees\, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society\, the 2011 Explorers Medal\, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration\, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University\, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award\, the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration\, and the 2018 Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2016\, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018\, he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia. \nDon George is an editor-at-large for National Geographic Traveler magazine\, as well as host of the National Geographic Live series of conversations with notable authors. In four decades as a travel writer and editor\, Don has visited more than 90 countries on five continents. He has traveled throughout—and written extensively about—Europe and Asia. He has also lived in France\, Greece\, and Japan\, working as a translator in Paris\, a teacher in Athens\, and a television talk show host in Tokyo. Don is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George\, and has received dozens of writing awards\, including the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-wade-davis-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Translation\, Translation as Poetry with Ostashevsky
DESCRIPTION:Eugene Ostashevsky\, a Russian-American poet\, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work\, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry and his new writing project The Feeling Sonnets.\n\n\n \n\n\nOstashevsky is the author of three full-length poetry collections in English: Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2005)\, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008)\, and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (New York Review of Books\, 2017). The winner of international prizes\, The Pirate\, described by the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto as transforming “the absurdity of Russian Futurism into a postmodern poetics of immigration\,” was put to music by Lucia Ronchetti and staged at the 2019 Venice Biennale.\n\n\n \n\n\nAs translator\, Ostashevsky specializes in the 1920s-30s Leningrad avant-garde group OBERIU as well as other avant-garde and contemporary experimental Russian literature. He has published OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern UP\, 2006)\, Vvedensky’s An Invitation for me to Think (NYRB Poets\, 2013\, winner of the National Translation Award\, shared with Matvei Yankelevich)\, and is about to release\, together with Daniel Mellis\, an English-language recreation of Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows\, the first book of Russian Futurist typographic poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-as-translation-translation-as-poetry-with-ostashevsky/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Humanities Institute presents Margaret Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz
DESCRIPTION:Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New York Times best-selling author Kate Schatz (Stevenson ‘01\, creative writing). \nThis free\, live\, virtual event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program and culminates months of in-depth programming and community engagement focused on Atwood’s latest Booker Prize–winning novel\, The Testaments\, a sequel to her 1985 classic\, The Handmaid’s Tale. \n\nPlease note\, this event will not be recorded. Only registered viewers will be able to see and participate in this exclusive\, live conversation. RSVP now to secure your spot. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu \nThe 2020 Deep Read Program is made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics. \n\nDeep Read Partners \nUC Santa Cruz \nCollege Scholars Program \nCouncil of Provosts \nDivision of Student Success \nPorter College \nUniversity Library \nUniversity Relations \n\nCommunity \nBookshop Santa Cruz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-humanities-institute-presents-margaret-atwood-in-conversation-with-kate-schatz/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dan Beachy-Quick: Poet discusses his new translation\, Stone-Garland
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry\, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation\, a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to finding dazzling new\, overlooked\, and underrepresented voices\, brought into English by the best translators\, and to celebrating the art of translation. \nAbout Stone-Garland\nAnthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet\, a garland; “a flower-logic\, a petal-theory\, a blossom-word.” In Stone-Garland\, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots\, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. \nSimonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer\, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic\, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages\, sometimes in fragments\, sometimes in sustained glimpses. \nDrawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology\, first drafted in the first century BC\, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children\, gods and insects\, earth and water\, ideas and ideals. Throughout\, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs\, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.” \nSpare\, earthy\, lovely\, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave\, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden. \nAbout Dan Beachy-Quick\nDan Beachy-Quick is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. His books include Variations on Dawn and Dusk\, which was longlisted for the National Book Awards. His work has been supported by the Lannan\, Monfort\, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University\, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-beachy-quick-poet-discusses-his-new-translation-stone-garland/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Christina Quintana and Naomi J. Williams / Lava Falls
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She’ll be in conversation with Christina Quintana (The Heart Wants) and Naomi J. Williams (Landfalls). \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Lava Falls\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nThe spirited\, heart-driven people who populate these stories find surprising pockets of hope as they scrabble for ways to believe in themselves and the world. A woman returns to the Alaskan cabin of her survivalist childhood\, full of misgivings and memories. A trip to Yellowstone sparks a crisis for a man who feels kinship with the wolves he glimpses there. Nursing painful pasts\, sisters take a cruise together to Antarctica. A runaway finds salvation from violence in her own singing. And in the title novella\, a Grand Canyon rafting expedition profoundly changes the lives of six women. \n\n \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of eight books of fiction\, including The Evolution of Love\, Lava Falls\, and A Thin Bright Line\, which the New York Times said\, “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her stories have been translated into Japanese\, Spanish\, German\, and Chinese. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area. More about Lucy here. \n \nChristina Quintana (CQ) is a queer writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. CQ’s plays and musicals have been developed and produced with companies including Barrington Stage Company\, Southern Rep\, INTAR\, Ensemble Studio Theatre\, Lark Play Development Center\, Astoria Performing Arts Center\, and the Alliance Theatre\, among others. Her play Scissoring is available for licensing via Dramatists Play Service. Her poetry\, fiction\, and lyric nonfiction is published in Boudin: The Online Home of the McNeese Review\, P.S. I Love You\, PulpMag\, OnCuba\, Nimrod International Journal\, Foglifter Journal\, and beyond\, and is forthcoming in great weather for MEDIA\, and The Punch Magazine. Her poem “She-lium” was featured on Radiolab’s “Elements” episode in collaboration with Emotive Fruition. More about CQ here. \n \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zoetrope: All-Story\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Naomi was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Educated at Princeton\, Stanford\, and UC Davis\, today she makes her home in Sacramento\, California. She has taught creative writing at UC Davis\, Sacramento City College\, and the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. She’s hard at work on new writing projects\, including a novel about the early 20th-century Japanese poet Yosano Akiko. More about Naomi here. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-lucy-jane-bledsoe-in-conversation-with-christina-quintana-and-naomi-j-williams-lava-falls/
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford in conversation with Rob Christopher
DESCRIPTION:celebrates the release of his new book \nRoy’s World: Stories 1973-2020 \npublished by Seven Stories Press \nIn a special presentation\, Barry Gifford will be joined by flimmaker Rob Christopher to explore the rich landscape of his seminal Roy Stores\, a tie-in to the new documentary\, Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago\, directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor\, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe\, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford’s most enduring works\, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youth. \nTo learn more about the film debut of Rob Christopher’s Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago visit: \nwww.roysworldfilm.com \n— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nBarry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time\, he’s been writing short stories\, his “Roy stories\,” that show America from a different vantage point\, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness. Reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories\, Gifford’s Roy stories amount to the coming-of-age novel he never wrote\, and are one of his most important literary achievements—time-pieces that preserve the lost worlds of 1950s Chicago and the American South\, the landscape of postwar America seen through the lens of a boy’s steady gaze. \nThe twists and tragedies of the adult world seem to float by like curious flotsam\, like the show girls from the burlesque house next door to Roy’s father’s pharmacy who stop by when they need a little help\, or Roy’s mom and the husbands she weds and then sheds after Roy’s Jewish mobster father’s early death. Life throws Roy more than the usual curves\, but his intelligence and curiosity shape them into something unforeseen\, while Roy’s complete lack of self-pity allow the stories to seem to tell themselves. \nThe author of more than forty works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages\, Barry Gifford writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels\, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side\, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career\, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir\, part-picaresque\, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Library Association\, the Writers Guild of America\, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nRob Christopher wrote\, directed\, and starred in the acclaimed fiction feature Pause of the Clock\, which had its World Premiere at the Denver Film Festival in 2015 and screened at the Gene Siskel Film Center in 2016. In January 2017 it was nominated for “Best Chicago Film” by the Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle. He wrote the introduction to the young adult edition of Sad Stories of the Death of Kings by Barry Gifford and edited several Roy stories for publication on the website Chicagoist. He is also author of the book Queue Tips: Discovering Your Next Great Movie and has written articles for such publications as the Chicago Reader and American Libraries. His film writing frequently appears in Cine-File Chicago. \nWhat has been said about the work of Barry Gifford: \n“Barry Gifford is a killer f**kin’ writer …Roy’s World captures his childhood and that time in Chicago\, and many other places. I really enjoyed watching it and then contemplating what goes on inside a person with this history. I really love that world and the things that can happen there.” —David Lynch \n“Nearly every Gifford story opens a Pandora’s Box of uncontrollable emotions. There’s no one like Barry Gifford\, which is the best reason to read him.” —Richard Dyer\, in The Boston Globe
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tara Fickle in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers (3rd Edition) in which she wrote the forward for. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \n—\nAbout the book:\nAs Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities\, mapping the virtual onto lived realities\, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor\, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts\, analog and digital games\, journalistic accounts\, marketing campaigns\, and archival material\, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles\, play the game\, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. \nExploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations\, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities\, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric\, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways. \n—\nAbout the Authors:\nTara Fickle is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Her first book\, “The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities\,” examines how games and game theory have shaped American racial typologies and US-Asian relations from the 19th century onwards. She also worked on Aiiieeeee!\, a seminal Asian American literary anthology. \nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department. \n—\nPurchase the authors’ books here: \nAiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2129/Aiiieeeee%21%3A_An_Anthology_of_Asian_American_Writers_%283rd_ed%29%29.html\nThe Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities : https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2525/Race_Card%3A_From_Gaming_Technologies_to_Model_Minorities_.html \nLament in the Night:\nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html \nChoose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \n—\nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Reading of Osip Mandelstam in English\, with Ilya Bernstein
DESCRIPTION:Globus Books presents a reading of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry in English. Mandelstam is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891–1938) began as one of the more original poets of the Russian avant-garde before the First World War\, but his extraordinary growth as a poet over the next quarter-century set him a great distance apart from almost all of his contemporaries. By the 1930s he was writing the most memorable poems in the language. In English\, Mandelstam has long been better appreciated for his biography than for his poetry. This is unfortunate: to his Russian admirers\, the value of Mandelstam’s poetry owes nothing to whatever might be the value of his biography. These translations and the accompanying commentary will attempt to remedy that misvaluation. \nIlya Bernstein will present his recently published book of translations of Mandelstam\, reading the poems\, and interweavingly talking about them\, their background\, Mandelstam and his background\, and the process of translating the poems into English. \nIlya Bernstein is a poet and translator. He was born in Moscow and came to the US as a child in 1980. A collection of his translations of Mandelstam\, Osip Mandelstam: Poems (M-Graphics Press\, 2020)\, has recently been published in a second\, revised edition with a new\, extended afterword on the poems. In addition to Mandelstam\, he has translated the children’s writings of Daniil Kharms and edited Yevgeny Baratynsky: A Science Not for the Earth\, Selected Poems and Letters (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2015). His own writings have appeared most recently in Stand\, Arion\, LVNG\, and his poetry collections include Attention and Man (UDP\, 2003) and Distances and Sounds (Ars Interpres\, 2020).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-of-osip-mandelstam-in-english-with-ilya-bernstein/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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