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SUMMARY:LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it affects on our lives. \n \nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Hwang\, Ben Tarnoff\, Xiaowei Wang\, and Moira Weigel \nMore than three years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights Booksellers. Now\, the crew at LOGIC return in an exciting new collaboration. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley\, for all their utopian imaginings\, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy\, truth\, privacy\, and safety\, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress\, have shown as much. \nTogether\, publisher Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and tech magazine Logic present an alternate story\, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation\, across borders and socioeconomic divisions\, from history through the future\, beyond platitudes and PR hype\, and past doom and gloom. This collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds\, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. City Lights is pleased to be partnering with the cultural hub Gray Area in presenting this extraordinary event. \nEvents are Free\, but registration is required. Click the links on each event listing to register. \nJoin us for three days of sessions \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nVoices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do–and How They Do It \nBen Tarnoff and Moira Weigel in conversation with Anna Wiener \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Voices from the Valley\, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry\, conducting unfiltered\, in-depth\, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels\, including a data scientist\, a start-up founder\, a cook who serves their lunch\, and a PR wizard. In the process\, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large\, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating\, revealing\, and at times lurid\, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. \nMoira Weigel is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, among other publications\, and she is a cofounder of Logic magazine. She received a fellowship to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2016 and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nBen Tarnoff is the author of the books A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Jacobin\, and Lapham’s Quarterly\, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nSubprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet \nTim Hwang in conversation with Allison Arlieff \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nBlockchain Chicken Farm \nwith Xiaowei Wang in conversation with An Xiao Mina     \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Blockchain Chicken Farm\, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward\, conservative\, and intolerant. Instead\, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. \nXiaowei Wang is a technologist\, a filmmaker\, an artist\, and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine\, their work encompasses community-based and public art projects\, data visualization\, technology\, ecology\, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the Index Design Awards and featured by The New York Times\, the BBC\, CNN\, VICE\, and elsewhere. They are working toward a PhD at UC Berkeley\, where they are a part of the National Science Foundation’s Environment and Society: Data Science for the 21st Century Research Traineeship. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nWhat Tech Calls Thinking\nwith Adrian Daub (interlocutor tba) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nAdrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often\, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of “disruption\,” Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly original\, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand\, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur\, and American traditions from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve and imagination\, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual refutation of Silicon Valley’s ethos\, pulling back the curtain on the self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself. \nAdrian Daub is a professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University\, and the director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of literature\, music\, and philosophy in the nineteenth century\, and he is the author of several books published by academic presses. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, n+1\, Longreads\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nWednesday\, October 14\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nLOGIC PANEL DISCUSSION\nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Huang\, Xiaowei Wang\, Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel. (Host TBA) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nIn this closing panel\, the LOGIC crew revisit some of the ideas of the last couple of days and explore possibilities of reimagining our relationships to technology. \n  \nGray Area is a cultural hub located to San Francisco’s Mission District. Their mission is to apply art and technology to create social and civic impact through education\, incubation and public events. They use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. They test and scale projects with high impact potential\, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists\, and inspire our community by promoting meaningful new work. They apply the promise and inspiration of digital art to a broader social context. Their programs are transforming cities into creative outlets\, applying technology to solve problems\, and shaping how art is created and consumed in the digital era. Visit them at: grayarea.org \n  \nTo learn more about LOGIC MAGAZINE visit: https://logicmag.io/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation about their new books. \n** Please note: this is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. ** \n\nAbout Miracle Country \nKendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows\, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada\, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. \nKendra’s parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful\, if harsh\, landscape\, prone to wildfires\, blizzards\, and gale-force winds. Above all\, they were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. After Kendra’s mother died of a rare autoimmune disease when Kendra was just sixteen\, however\, her once beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile\, as climate change\, drought\, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart\, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles\, and then Minneapolis\, land of tall trees\, full lakes\, water everywhere you look. \nBut after years of avoiding her troubled hometown\, she realized that she needed to come to terms with its past and present and had to go back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return\, emptiness and bounty\, the realities of a harsh and changing climate\, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and Rebecca Solnit\, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer. \n \nKendra Atleework is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays\, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in Bishop\, California. \nTo have Miracle Country sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nAbout Home Baked \n \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Salon\, Guernica\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. Author photo by Dennis Hearne. \nTo have Home Baked sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-kendra-atleework-miracle-country-and-alia-volz-home-baked/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joe Cottonwood
DESCRIPTION:Currently\, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London\, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry is Random Saints. Previous poetry books are Son of a Poet and Foggy Dog. In addition he is the author of nine popular novels and the award-winning memoir 99 Jobs: Blood Sweat and Houses. He lives in La Honda\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-cottonwood/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season’s great new culinary and cocktail titles. We are passionate about cookbooks and can’t wait to share our new favorites with you! \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-happy-hour-cookbooks-cocktails/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang‘s new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. \n** Please note ** \n\n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We’re happy to announce we have *signed copies* for the first 50 orders. If you’d like a copy of Subprime Attention Crisis\, you can purchase one here or below. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Questions? Write events@booksmith.com. \nAbout this event \nAdvertising is the seemingly unstoppable financial engine that has powered the meteoric growth of the modern web. What if it’s more fragile than it looks? \nIn his new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet\, researcher Tim Hwang makes the case that the core advertising model driving Google\, Facebook\, and many of the most powerful companies on the internet is — at its heart — a multibillion dollar financial bubble. Drawing parallels to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis\, Hwang shines a spotlight on the lack of transparency\, flawed incentives\, and outright fraud that keep this machine running. \nJoin us for a virtual book talk with the author and New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill. Hill writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Her work has appeared in Forbes Magazine\, The New Yorker\, and The Washington Post. Their discussion will tackle: \n\nWhy data-driven\, online advertising may be much\, much less effective than it looks\nThe long-term impact of the covid-19 recession on the media and online ads\nWhether or not the giants of Big Tech are already “too big to fail”\n\nThis discussion will also focus on the future\, and how we might be able to transition to a better\, more financially robust internet. Joining the discussion will be Desigan Chinniah\, who co-leads Grant for the Web—a $100 million fund launched in 2019 to spur open standards and pilot new sustainable business models for the internet. \nAbout the book\nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars\, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work\, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized\, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up\, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched\, convincing\, and alarming\, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet\, and its precarious future. \n“Using apt analogies and accessible terminology\, Hwang makes a persuasive case that the internet bubble is bound to burst. This wake-up call rings loud and clear.” – Publishers Weekly \n“In this well-grounded\, heretical attack on the fictions that uphold the online advertising ecosystem\, Subprime Attention Crisis destroys the illusion that programmatic ads are effective and financially sound. One can only hope that this book will be used to pop the bubble that benefits so few.” – danah boyd\, founder of Data & Society\, and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. Subprime Attention Crisis is his first book. \nModerator Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter based in New York for the New York Times. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion\, Forbes Magazine\, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. In 2018\, she gave a TED talk—”What your smart devices know (and share) about you”—in which she described what happened when she transformed her apartment into a smart home and monitored the data being sent out of it. \nPanelist Desigan Chinniah (aka-“Dees”) is a creative technologist\, certified firestarter\, sneakerhead and champion tea-drinker. After check-ins at various dot-coms (Mozilla Firefox\, eBay\, PayPal\, BBC\, Skype\, Ask Jeeves) over the last two decades\, he today has a portfolio of advisory roles with global early-stage technology startups. He recently co-created Grant for the Web\, a $100M fund supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons\, to catalyse alternative business models on the web using open protocols and web standards. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-tim-hwang-subprime-attention-crisis-advertising-and-the-time-bomb-at-the-heart-of-the-internet/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole\, The Campus Color Line
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book\, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom\, the remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equality. The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders’ actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.This is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“A stunning and ambitious origins story.”—Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author \nSome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation\, equal educational and employment opportunities\, housing discrimination\, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists\, as well as politicians\, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century\, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation’s college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range of colleges and universities across the United States\, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity. \nFocusing on the period between 1948 and 1968\, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents\, during a time of violence and unrest\, strategically\, yet often silently\, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. With courage and hope\, as well as malice and cruelty\, college presidents positioned themselves—sometimes precariously—amid conflicting interests and demands. Black college presidents challenged racist policies as their students demonstrated in the streets against segregation\, while presidents of major universities lobbied for urban renewal programs that displaced Black communities near campus. Some presidents amended campus speech practices to accommodate white supremacist speakers\, even as other academic leaders developed the nation’s first affirmative action programs in higher education. \nEddie R. Cole\, Ph.D.\, is associate professor of higher education and organizational change at UCLA\, and the author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eddie-r-cole-the-campus-color-line/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wedneday\, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey\, with Juli Delgado Lopera. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83728777787\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83728777787#  or +13462487799\,\,83728777787#\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 +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 837 2877 7787\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdhZtIyzOz \nPraise for The Wild Kindness \nAn exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. —KIRKUS \nBett Williams is a renegade…this book is a useful tool. —THE ROGUE LITERARY SOCIETY \nThe Wild Kindness is absolutely electric. It’s not only the subject matter\, which is mystical and fascinating. Bett William’s voice is untamed and inspired\, full of gonzo humor\, ambitious daring and high-vibrating heart. The personal\, the political\, the spiritual and the unknown come together into a mesmerizing read that is full-on literary fireworks. —MICHELLE TEA\, author of Valencia\, Black Wave\, Astro Baby\, and more \nOn the surface\, a book about mycology. Immediately beneath this\, a safe trip facilitated by a guide who places herself between heaven and earth\, between the fight for love and the fight itself; wholly engaged by both magic and the material plane. —KRISTIN HERSH\, singer-songwriter \nBett’s writing has brains\, charisma\, beauty and wit. —DENNIS COOPER\, author of the George Miles cycle \nAbout The Wild Kindness \nA funny\, lyrically brilliant memoir of learning to grow psychedelic mushrooms and discovering the vast power of mycelium wisdom and medicine. \nThe Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is the lyrical\, unforgettable memoir of Bett Williams’s relationship with psilocybin mushrooms\, otherwise known as magic mushrooms. In pursuit of self-healing\, she begins experimenting with mushrooms in solitary ceremonies by the fire. Word soon gets out about her New Mexican desert mushroom farm\, though\, and people arrive in droves. Not long after\, the police read her her Miranda Rights\, her relationships fall out of whack\, and her dog Rosie just might be CIA. \nOn a quest to find help through the psychedelic community\, Bett is led to Cleveland to meet Kai Wingo\, an African American leader within a high-dose psilocybin community\, and to Huautla de Jiménez\, home of well-known\, well-respected curandera María Sabina. Back home\, Bett begins a solid ritual practice with the help of her partner and friends\, bearing in mind the medicine’s indigenous roots and power to transform one’s life. \nAmidst the mainstream flood of New Age practices and products\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is a dreamlike reminder that psilocybin mushrooms are a medicine of the people\, not to be neatly packaged\, marketed\, or appropriated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bett-williams-and-juli-delgado-lopera/
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum's Fall Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems – live on Zoom!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forums-fall-reading-series/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface\, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free virtual event\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We have an early start time of 5pm PST. \n\nMost days\, Masha Maximow was sure she’d chosen the winning side. \nIn her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm\, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents\, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic\, and the pay was obscene. \nJust for fun\, and to piss off her masters\, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection\, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. \nWhen her targets were strangers in faraway police states\, it was easy to compartmentalize\, to ignore the collateral damage of murder\, rape\, and torture. But when it hits close to home\, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family — including boy wonder Marcus Yallow\, her old crush and archrival\, and his entourage of naïve idealists — Masha realizes she has to choose. \nAnd whatever choice she makes\, someone is going to get hurt. \n\n \nCory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian\, Locus\, and many other publications. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller\, as is its sequel\, Homeland. His novella collection Radicalized was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada\, he lives with his family in Los Angeles. \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free\, all-ages event but RSVP is required.\n>  To have Attack Surface shipped to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-cory-doctorow-attack-surface/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:How Much of These Hills Is Gold \nBY C PAM ZHANG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question worth putting to West Coast literature. To grow up in California in the 1980s was to encounter this period in history books as one of heroism and hucksterism\, as if 300\,000 people coming to a state in search of gold over five years—that would be 120 million in today’s population—wasn’t more than a rush. These were not tourists. Many became permanent residents who dug in\, created camps\, and drove Indigenous people from their land. The ’49ers permanently altered the state’s landscape and—with more than half of them coming from outside the United States—its demographics. Nearly 30\,000 arrived from China\, bringing with them history and culture and food and family. They were often met by “frontier justice\,” as it was euphemistically called. What couldn’t be done by outright force was eventually upheld by law\, with legislation directly aimed at Chinese migrants to make prospecting prohibitively expensive or shut down immigration for them all together. \nAt last there is a novel that looks right into this history and imagines it from within. It might be a stretch to call it California’s Beloved\, but C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold moves with the same rough magic and has a similar relationship to history as Toni Morrison’s haunted and beautiful book. Only here history\, too\, becomes a ghost. We never hear the word “California” in this novel\, and it’s nearly 100 pages before the word “gold” is seen. Still\, by tilting this period through a refractive lens\, Zhang has powerfully evoked the precarious existence many of its residents lived and allows us to inhabit the bodies of two girls: Lucy\, 12\, and Sam\, who is 11. They’ve lost their mother\, Ma\, already\, and their father\, Ba\, soon follows. Broke\, hungry\, and aware that their situation is not safe\, the sisters saddle up a stolen horse and carry their father’s body on the run. Their behavior quickly begins to map onto the skittery emigration pattern their father charted when he brought them to these hills with dreams of gold\, land\, a farm\, good living. That was before drink and miner brutality and grief waylaid him. Sam has a lot of her father in her; she learns to sneak out and prospect at a young age and is ready for a fight. She wants to take chances. Lucy is cautious\, eager to find official paths\, to seek approval—even from a dubious East Coast teacher writing a book about people like her family. Lucy hasn’t forgone risk; she simply takes different ones. \nZhang takes a chance herself here\, wading into the well-trod territory of the western\, but she’s a writer of immense poise. Having grown up and lived in 13 cities\, she wrote the first draft of this novel in Bangkok\, far away from the golden hills where the book unfolds. Clearly her mind’s eye is lucid\, though. She writes lean but sensual prose that vividly conjures the stench and muck and wonder of traveling across a landscape that has been brutally used. The moon hangs high on cold nights. In Zhang’s universe\, buffalo might still be alive somewhere\, and tigers roam those hills. Each day\, the girls find something new\, a dying if still hardy prospector needing help one day\, a dried-up salt lake where they can preserve their father on another. Zhang creates an epic tale in a small space; her story reaches back and back and then yokes forward the lives Ma and Ba lived before\, the incredible journeys they underwent so they could have the privilege of living on the precarious edge of a nearly fictional enterprise. What is gold anyway? Movingly\, we hear in flashback how the girls’ father ordered and told the world for his daughters\, in fables that move like water. As the sisters come of age in the shadow of this inheritance\, the past as evanescent as California rain\, Zhang allows us to appreciate how hard it is for them not to be driven one way or the other. Do they move toward great gambles\, and\, if it’s required\, violence\, or toward finding ways to know and contain official history\, so that they might write it themselves? Taking a risk\, as Colson Whitehead did in The Underground Railroad\, to imagine history as even stranger than we allow\, C Pam Zhang has proved it’s possible to do both. \n—John Freeman \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s (the latest issue of which is devoted to California)\, the author of several books\, including The Park\, and the host of Alta’s new California Book Club. He last wrote for Alta about establishing a new California curriculum.  \nSign up to hear Freeman discuss How Much of These Hills Is Gold with C Pam Zhang at the kickoff event for Alta’s California Book Club\, on Thursday\, October 15\, at 5 p.m. Pacific time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco’s Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his initial book in 2014 of Haight Ashbury and his 2017 award winning book on the The Mission. His approach in each case has been to develop an in-depth understanding of each neighborhood through close collaboration with leading non-profits\, community organizations\, artists and local businesses. In this book he collaborates with freelance writer Kathy Chin Leong\, who has conducted over 100 interviews in the course of writing the text\, captions and sidebar stories that provide context to the images. Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong will be in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres\, author and journalist.  \nAll revenue from book sales will be donated to collaborating non-profit organizations.  \nDick Evans is a San Francisco–based photographer with an interest in documenting the colorful and rapidly changing neighborhoods of the city. Born into a ranching family in Eugene\, Oregon\, he graduated as an engineer from Oregon State University and subsequently obtained a master’s in management from Stanford. He has spent his fifty-year career in the global metals sector\, living in five countries and multiple locations in Africa\, Europe\, and North America. It was during these travels that he developed an appreciation for the diversity and richness of different cultures—both global and local—and an interest in documentary photography. \nKathy Chin Leong is an award-winning journalist with articles published in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, National Geographic Books\, Sunset Magazine\, and many other newspapers and magazines.  As a second-generation ABC (American-born Chinese)\, she grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset district\, and spent nearly every weekend in Chinatown visiting her grandmother and helping her mother shop for groceries.  While she has travelled the globe to Lebanon\, France\, Thailand\, and Canada\, rediscovering her Chinatown roots through collaboration on this book has been a journey of a lifetime.  Kathy lives in Sunnyvale\, California with her devoted husband Frank Leong Jr. and is the proud mother of two grown children\, Gwendolyn and Aaron. \nBen Fong-Torres began contributing to Rolling Stone in spring 1968\, just months after it began. In over a decade there\, he became senior editor and wrote more than 30 cover stories. He was portrayed in Almost Famous. Ben also is a broadcaster\, from KSAN in the ‘70s to Moonalice Radio today and has won 5 Emmys for co-anchoring the Chinese New Year Parade on KTVU. He is the author of a dozen books\, including his best-selling memoir\, The Rice Room.  \nConnect \nSan Francisco’s Chinatown the book – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook   \nHeyday Books – Website | Twitter | Instagram \nKathy Chin Leong – Instagram | Facebook  \nBen Fong-Torres – Website  \nZoom Reservation  \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-franciscos-chinatown-dick-evans-and-kathy-chin-leong-in-conversation-with-ben-fong-torres/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities
DESCRIPTION:Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). \nVisit our Crowdcast channel to register for this event. \nAbout The Book of Unconformities\nWhen Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other\, he reached for rocks\, stones\, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored\, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. \nA moving\, profound\, and affirming meditation\, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles\, Icelandic lava\, mica from a Nazi concentration camp\, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard\, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape\, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. \nAs Raffles follows these fundamental objects\, unearthing the events they’ve engendered\, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious\, indifferent\, and willful as time itself. \n“A spellbinding time travelogue . . . Raffles’s dense\, associative\, essayistic style mirrors geological transformation\, compressing and folding chronologies like strata in metamorphic rock . . . Mesmerizing.” —Harpers Magazine \nAbout Hugh Raffles\nHugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science\, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays\, Granta\, Orion\, and The New York Times\, and he is the recipientof the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hugh-raffles-in-conversation-with-stephen-sparks-about-the-book-of-unconformities/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, October 15\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel\, THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87385059906. \n(Order your copy of THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP at https://bit.ly/GGPLostFound\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/LostFoundAB.) \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nI really loved THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP by Susan Wiggs! \nIt resonated with me on several levels! \n1. Natalie inherits the book store after her mother dies unexpectedly. I inherited GGP fifteen years ago when my friend Debi Echlin died unexpectedly. \n2. She moved down from Sonoma and so did I. \n3. And like Natalie\, I discovered the book store was everything I never knew I wanted and\, or\, fundamentally needed. \n4. She discovered the book store really belonged to the community\, she was lucky enough to get to be it’s steward-I’ve learned the same lesson! \n5. She also discovers in order to have an awesome book store you need to surround yourself with the best staff\, which I can say I’m lucky to have the BEST staff! \nThrow in financial challenges\, a few good men\, a long lost book and a store full of hand sellers and you have the perfect summer read! \n— Kathleen \n  \nJuly 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“This is an absolutely splendid novel that spoke volumes to me. You have a girl who experiences a tragedy that leads to a better life\, despite issues and hardship along the way\, and a guy right in front of her who is perfect for her though she assumes he is not. I highlighted so many passages in this book to savor and remember. This is a perfect story for bookstore lovers and lovers of books.”\n— Patty Reed\, Ferguson Books & More\, Grand Forks\, ND \nDescription\n\n“A wonderful exploration of the past and the future and\, most importantly\, of what it means to be present in the here and now.  Full of the love of words\, the love of family\, and the love of falling in love\, The Lost and Found Bookshop is a big-hearted gem of a novel that will satisfy and entertain readers from all walks of life.  Lovely!”—Garth Stein\, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing In The Rain \nIn this thought-provoking\, wise and emotionally rich novel\, New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs explores the meaning of happiness\, trust\, and faith in oneself as she asks  the question\, “If you had to start over\, what would you do and who would you be?”  \nThere is a book for everything . . .  \nSomewhere in the vast Library of the Universe\, as Natalie thought of it\, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about. \nIn the wake of a shocking tragedy\, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew\, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father. \nBut the gruff\, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it’s best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it\, she plans to close the bookstore and sell the derelict but valuable building on historic Perdita Street\, which is in need of constant fixing. There’s only one problem–Grandpa Andrew owns the building and refuses to sell. Natalie adores her grandfather; she’ll do whatever it takes to make his final years happy. Besides\, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. \nAfter she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop\, Natalie carries out her grandfather’s request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher to do the necessary and ongoing repairs. His young daughter\, Dorothy\, also becomes a regular at the store\, and she and Natalie begin reading together while Peach works. \nTo Natalie’s surprise\, her sorrow begins to dissipate as her life becomes an unexpected journey of new connections\, discoveries and revelations\, from unearthing artifacts hidden in the bookshop’s walls\, to discovering the truth about her family\, her future\, and her own heart. \n  \nAbout the Author\n\nSusan Wiggs’s life is all about family\, friends…and fiction. She lives at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound\, and in good weather\, she commutes to her writers’ group in a 21-foot motorboat. She’s been featured in the national media\, including NPR\, PRI\, and USA Today\, has given programs for the US Embassies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo\, and is a popular speaker locally\, nationally\, internationally\, and on the high seas. \nFrom the very start\, her writings have illuminated the everyday dramas of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her books celebrate the power of love\, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. Today\, she is an international best-selling\, award-winning author\, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries and languages. According to Publishers Weekly\, Wiggs writes with “refreshingly honest emotion\,” and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is “one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book.” Booklist characterizes her books as “real and true and unforgettable.” \nHer novels have appeared in the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List\, and have captured readers’ hearts around the globe with translations into more than 20 languages and 30 countries. She is a three-time winner of the RITA Award\,. Her recent novel\, The Apple Orchard\, is currently being made into a film\, and The Lakeshore Chronicles has been optioned for adaptation into a series. \nThe author is a former teacher\, a Harvard graduate\, an avid hiker\, an amateur photographer\, a good skier and terrible golfer\, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. She lives on an island in Puget Sound\, where she divides her time between sleeping and waking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-wiggs-discussing-the-lost-and-found-bookshop-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar
DESCRIPTION:THE RACKET READING SERIES:\nTOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR\nZOOM LINK TO COME!\nWe’re doing a weekly reading series.\nAnd this week\, oooooh weeee\, are we excited. Hector Tobar – author of Deep Down Dark and The Last Great Road Bum and much\, much more – is joining us for TOTAL RECALL. It’ll be a night of nostalgic\, memory\, tricks of memory\, not being able to remember things and so on and so on.\nDoors @ 7:00PM. Show @ 7:15PM.\nLINK TO COME.\n\nTHE READERS (for now):\nHéctor Tobar\nSage Curtis\nClaire Calderón\nDanielle Truppi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-total-recall-w-hector-tobar/
LOCATION:ZOOOM
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book\, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \nAbout Erosion: Essays of Undoing\nTerry Tempest Williams’s fierce\, spirited\, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America’s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?” \nWe know the elements of erosion: wind\, water\, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here\, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy\, science\, compassion\, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which “oil rigs light up the horizon.” And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction\, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and\, at times\, within herself. \nThese essays are Williams’s call to action\, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional\, geographical\, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered\, worn\, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nErosion is a book for this moment\, political and spiritual at once\, written by one of our greatest naturalists\, essayists\, and defenders of the environment. She reminds us that beauty is its own form of resistance\, and that water can crack stone. \nAbout Terry Tempest Williams\nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tempest-williams-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ACCENTED | She Who Has No Master(s): Would That
DESCRIPTION:The She Who Has No Master(s) Collective will discuss their virtual exhibit “Would That” at the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery \nThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora \, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers\, poets\, artists\, actors\, filmmakers\, scholars\, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. \n—\nThis installation of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora will be Friday\, October 16th\, 2020 at 7:30pm PST \, hosted by the She Who Has No Master(s) Collective\, featuring Dao Strom\, Diana Khoi Nguyen\, Sophia Terazawa\, Vi Khi Nao\, and Vina Vo. The conversation will center around the collective’s ongoing virtual exhibit in collaboration with Salt Lake City Community College and the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery. \nShe Who Has No Master(s) : Would That gathers into poetic concert the voices of: Angie Chau / Lan Duong / Vi Khi Nao / Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen / Diana Khoi Nguyen / Hoa Nguyen / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud / Aimee Phan / Abbigail N. Rosewood / Dao Strom / Sophia Terazawa / Stacey Tran / Julie Thi Underhill \nAs women/womxn of the Vietnamese diaspora\, our bodies hold many would thats: hungers\, silences\, absences\, wonder(ings)s\, and wound(er)ings. There are many things we might wonder would that be\, would that have been\, would we be—other/not Other(ed) than we are or have been? However\, in the Vietnamese language—which we stem from but here do not write in—there is no such thing as the subjective tense\, which\, if it is to be conveyed in Vietnamese must rely on the context—the surrounding environment—of its adjoining words; what surrounds the action or description places it in or out of time. Which may be to say\, what surrounds us is what places us in relation to: history\, inheritance\, the present\, possible futures. We have migrated through time and across geographies\, and time and contexts in varying ways have migrated with and within us. As bodies\, we know ourselves to be repositories of no-longer-present actions and events\, of many layers of witness and memory\, of inheritances both evident and abstract\, of potential futures too—desires\, fears\, unknowns. But what if we dis-place our (kn)own bodies from the seeable backgrounds\, and what if we re-make those bodies? What if we absent our enfigured selves and ask you instead to (learn to) read anew the spaces left behind? This exhibit explores those spaces of the self\, and self-conception/s\, and challenges how you will read us\, how you will see us\, as a cohesive yet collective\, diasporic\, multi-voiced\, Vietnamese-feminine descended entity. \nAbout the Guests: \nDAO STROM is the author of the poetry collection\, Instrument (Fonograf Editions\, 2020)\, and its musical companion piece\, Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records\, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book\, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press\, 2018); a memoir\, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People\, and song cycle\, East/West (2015)\, and two books of fiction\, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys (2006) and Grass Roof\, Tin Roof (2003). She has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation\, Literary Arts\, RACC\, NEA\, and others. She is co-founder of the art collective\, She Who Has No Master(s). \nA poet and multimedia artist\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018)\, which was selected by Terrance Hayes. In addition to winning the 92Y “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest\, 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and Colorado Book Award\, she was also a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. A Kundiman fellow\, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. \nSophia Terazawa is the author of two chapbooks: I AM NOT A WAR (Essay Press) and Correspondent Medley (Factory Hollow Press)\, winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona\, and her favorite color is purple. \nVI KHI NAO is the author of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press\, 2019) Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit\, 2018)\, Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913\, 2017)\, The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014)\, & of the short stories collection\, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize)\, the novel\, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press\, 2016). Her work includes poetry\, fiction\, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. \nShe Who Has No Master(s) is a project of multi-voiced collectivity\, hybrid poetics\, encounters\, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through a collaborative art and writing process this project brings together voices of women/womxn writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. She Who Has No Master(s) initiated in 2015 as a group of Vietnamese women writers (and we include in this designation: cis\, queer\, trans\, nonbinary) who in coming together aim to express the diversity and complexity of our diasporic experiences and perspectives. This collective-collaborative process roots itself in the literary art form\, but expresses the literary in hybrid and multiple modalities to create “multi-voice” and hybrid-poetic artworks. Each piece and/or series will always engage different formations and numbers of “voices” with the belief that this poly-vocality\, while honoring the nuances of individual visions and beings\, also expresses the dynamic plurality and connectivity that exists within our diaspora. // She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). \nAbout the Host: \nVina Vo is a writer\, storyteller\, community building consultant and facilitator living in the Bay Area. She is the co-editor of the anthology this is my body (Nomadic Press\, 2019). She is consistently envisioning a world where people can create their way to freedom through her community work and also her work as co-founder of the Novalia Collective: novaliacollective.com \nAbout the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nDVAN is partnering with Eastwind Books of Berkeley for all book sales and shipping\, and books from featured authors will be available on https://asiabookcenter.com for a discounted price. \nAll funds raised for ACCENTED will go towards supporting DVAN’s mission to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora and connect them to diasporic communities all over the globe. \nThis program is sponsored by the DVAN@SFSU Project of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. \nFor more information about the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) please visit our website at https://dvan.org or follow us on Instagram (@weare_dvan) \nDVAN believes that the stories\, imaginaries\, and poetics of a thriving Vietnamese diaspora can unite our global community. Our mission is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese voices. DVAN presents nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora and to promote understanding and dialogue within our community\, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees\, immigrants\, survivors\, and descendants\, and our stories must be heard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/accented-she-who-has-no-masters-would-that/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T113000
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SUMMARY:Life in Space: Translation of a Poetry Book by Galina Rymbu
DESCRIPTION:Globus Books is honored to present a new book LIFE IN SPACE\, by Galina Rymbu (Галина Рымбу)\, translated by Joan Brooks and with the foreword by Eugene Ostashevsky\, forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in October 2020. Galina Rymbu will read her poetry and take part in the discussion\, along with translators\, poets and publishers Eric Amling of After Hours\, Charles Bernstein\, Ida Börjel\, Eugene Ostashevsky\, Matvei Yankelevich. This event is in Russian and English will be held on Zoom on October 17\, 2020\, at 8 pm by Lviv time\, 10.00 AM PST (SF)\, 1 pm EST (NY)\, 7 pm Berlin. There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program. \nGalina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution\, movement in time and space\, life\, and livelihood emerge. Rymbu seeks a radical feminist and leftist poetics that does not condescend to the oppressed but rather embraces the complexity of every emotion and political position\, and of language itself. She opens her poetry to the violence of propaganda\, biopolitical manipulation\, ideological pressures\, as well as the violence of personal intimacy. Life in Space is Rymbu’s first full-length collection in English translation and includes poems selected from her three books as well as more recent work. \nLife in Space is translated by Joan Brooks\, and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan\, Charles Bernstein and Kevin M.F. Platt\, and Anastasiya Osipova (with Marijeta Bozovic\, Catherine Ciepiela\, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Pavel Khazanov\, Mila Nazyrova\, Eugene Ostashevsky\, Val Vinokur\, and Michael Wachtel)\, and a preface by Eugene Ostashevsky. \nThis book is a co-production with After Hours Editions\, who published Rymbu’s first English-language chapbook\, White Bread. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nGalina Rymbu was born in 1990 in the city of Omsk (Siberia\, Russia) and lives in Lviv\, Ukraine. She edits F-Pis’mo\, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory\, as well as Gryoza\, a website for contemporary poetry. She is the co-founder and co-curator of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for emerging Russian-language poets. She has published three books of poems in Russia: Moving Space of the Revolution (Argo-Risk)\, Time of the Earth (kntxt)\, and Life in Space (NLO). Her essays on cinema\, literature\, and sexuality have appeared on Séance\, Colta\, Your Art\, and other journals. English translations of her work have appeared in The White Review\, Arc Poetry\, Berlin Quarterly\, Music & Literature\, n+1\, Asymptote\, Powder Keg\, and Cosmonauts Avenue\, as well as in the chapbook White Bread (After Hours Editions). Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages and stand-alone collections of her work have been published in Latvian\, Dutch\, Swedish\, and Romanian. \nThe bios of participants are forthcoming. \nThis program is hosted and produced by Zarina Zabrisky. \nГлобус представляет перевод новой книги Галина Рымбу\, “Жизнь в простанстве”\, в переводе Джоан Брукв\, вышедший в октябре 2020 в издательстве Ugly Duckling Presse\, представляют Эрик Алминг\, Чарльз Бернстин\, Ида Бёрьел\, Eugene Ostashevsky и Matvei Yankelevich. Галина Рымбу прочтет свои стихи и примет участие в обсуждении. Событие состоится в конференции Zoom 17 октября в 20.00 во Львиве\, 10.00 в Сан-Франциско\, 13.00 в Нью-Йорке\, 19.00 в Берлине. Количество мест ограничено. Присылайте запрос на почту Глобуса в ФБ. Мы также будет транслировать live streaming на канале Глобуса в YouTube\, и позже отредактированная программа будет размещена там же. (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) \nБиографии участников будут размещены здесь скоро!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/life-in-space-translation-of-a-poetry-book-by-galina-rymbu/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T140000
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SUMMARY:Chinatown Pretty Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Los Angeles\, Chicago\, New York City\, and Vancouver. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown’s most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram\, Chinatown Pretty\, since 2014. \nRSVP to receive the Zoom link to participate in the live Q&A! The event will also be streamed via YouTube Live. \nThis event is presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) in partnership with Eastwind Books of Berkeley.\n— \nAbout the Authors:\nValerie Luu is a writer and one-half of the Vietnamese pop-up restaurant Rice Paper Scissors. She lives in San Francisco. \nAndria Lo is a freelance photographer whose work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle\, the New York Times\, and Wired. She lives in Berkeley. \nAbout the host:\nJanie Chen was born and raised in Oakland where she spent most of her Sunday afternoons at Chinatown strolling through the markets and eating dim sum with her grandparents. She currently studies ethnic studies and sociology at UC Berkeley. \n—\nFollow the authors at @chinatownpretty (IG) and www.chinatownpretty.com. \nCheck out the book’s cool trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHNfV5RNDo \nPre-order your copy from Eastwind Books of Berkeley today!1
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinatown-pretty-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184617
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SUMMARY:PREMIERE Watch Party & Community Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival\, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of the new animated film\, a talk with the auteur\, and a community conversation afterwards. Guests will receive an email with all the links the morning of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/premiere-watch-party-community-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T233000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184617
CREATED:20200925T231947Z
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kelliane Parker\nSusan Dambroff\nKeith M. Gaboury\nDaniel Ari\nElaine de Coligny\nPhyllis  Houseman\nnoemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossus-home-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184617
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nExciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift\, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell for her new book Stranger Faces. This nonfiction essay in five parts covers pieces of culture as broad ranging as Joseph Merrick (the “elephant man”) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. With Stranger Faces\, Serpell ask a key question: why do our actions towards one another hinge so much on a quick evaluation of looks? Serpell believes we assign too much meaning to a key physical feature—the face. \nPart of the Undelivered Lectures series from Oakland’s Transit Books\, this essay is equal parts savvy pop culture and college lecture hall-style\, highly-researched thought experiment. The resulting book is a joy for deep thinkers. At its core is a question not only of philosophy\, but of our shared humanity. \nThe face underlies our ideas about personhood. People relate to one another emotionally based on a specific kind of face; a theoretical “ideal” face\, easy to recognize and categorize. In conversation with Carmen Maria Machado\, Serpell unpacks the problem of this “ideal” in society. She turns our eyes toward faces which thwart quick recognition—disabled faces\, racially ambiguous faces\, digital faces\, the faces of the dead—and imagines a new ethics by relating to these faces differently. The resulting conversation is an unusual look at the picture frame through which we see the world\, and through which the world interprets us. \nA winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing\, NAMWALI SERPELL is a Zambian writer and Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her debut novel\, The Old Drift\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. \nCARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the celebrated short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She is a recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Lamda Literary Award\, and the Shirley Jackson Award. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-with-carmen-maria-machado/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184617
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rebecca Roanhorse in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders / Black Sun
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She’ll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  We’re happy to offer signed bookplates for the first 50 preorders! If you’d like a copy of Black Sun\, 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\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy\, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies\, political intrigue\, and forbidden magic. \nA god will return\nWhen the earth and sky converge\nUnder the black sun \nIn the holy city of Tova\, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal\, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse\, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. \nMeanwhile\, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship\, Xiala\, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless\, the passenger\, Serapio\, is a young man\, blind\, scarred\, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows\, when a man is described as harmless\, he usually ends up being a villain. \nCrafted with unforgettable characters\, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade. \n\n \nRebecca Roanhorse is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning\, Storm of Locusts\, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn\, and Race to the Sun. She has won the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus Awards for her fiction\, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (formerly Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her forthcoming book\, Black Sun\, is out in October. She lives in New Mexico with her family. \n \nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, the Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have a copy of Black Sun sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rebecca-roanhorse-in-conversation-with-charlie-jane-anders-black-sun/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201019T210000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nRegister for this Crowdcast event here! \nAn Onion in My Pocket is a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods\, peeling off layer by layer like an onion\, recounting her own personal\, culinary\, and gardening experiences\, and her adventures with family and friends.  It’s a most timely book and a joy to read.” —Lidia Bastianich \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T160000
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SUMMARY:Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Taylor\, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading\, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon\,” a story about a man who discovers that his new wife is a bigot. They will discuss their editing process\, and how to write anti-racist stories with racist characters without being morally didactic. Q&A to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-white-fragility-an-editorial-discussion/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T200000
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SUMMARY:Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:celebrating their new book \nSpirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nFrom two bestselling\, prizewinning\, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a rich\, illustrated\, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. \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) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nGary Kamiya’s Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco was a #1 bestseller and an award winner. Now he joins forces with celebrated\, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before\, Kamiya’s captivating narratives accompany Madonna’s masterful pen-and-ink drawings\, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. \nPaul Madonna’s atmospheric images will awe: be amazed by his astonishing wide-angle drawing for a jaw-dropping new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world.” And Kamiya’s engaging prose\, accompanying each image\, offers fascinating vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville\,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. \nHandsome and irresistible–much like the city it chronicles–Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed\, personal\, loving\, informed portrait of a beloved city. \nGary Kamiya is a writer\, journalist\, and historian. He is the author of the bestselling book Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco and the history column “Portals of the Past” (soon to be a podcast) which appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He was a co-founder and longtime executive editor of the groundbreaking web site Salon.com\, and the former executive editor of San Francisco Magazine. He also offers unique walking tours by appointment and is available as a speaker about all things San Francisco. Visit: https://www.garykamiya.com \n\nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series “All Over Coffee” and the author of four books\, All Over Coffee\, Everything is its own reward\, On to the Next Dream\, and Close Enough for the Angels. Paul’s work is about pairing elements: text and images; concept and craft; thought and beauty. Paul’s drawings and stories have appeared in numerous international books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. He is the Comics Editor for TheRumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine (1993-94)\, for which he proudly received no money. \nVisit: www.paulmadonna.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-kamiya-with-paul-madonna/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David Livingstone Smith & David P. Barash / On Inhumanity
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He’ll be in conversation with David P. Barash\, author of the just-out Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order On Inhumanity here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nThe Rwandan genocide\, the Holocaust\, the lynching of African Americans\, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again-that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche-deeper than prejudice itself-leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization\, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. This book looks at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity\, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it\, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result. \n“This brilliant and powerful book is a philosophically sophisticated and prophetically courageous treatment of dehumanization\, especially in regard to race. It is timely and needful in our monstrous times! Don’t miss it!” – Cornel West\, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy\, Harvard University\, author of Black Prophetic Fire \n“This book is firm but gentle\, wise but accessible. Its reflections on our worst habits of politics are phrased in such a way that they allow us to see what better habits might be.” – Timothy Snyder\, Richard C. Levin Professor of History\, Yale University\, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century \n“On Inhumanity profoundly interrogates the processes that lead ordinary people to engage in horrific acts of violence against others. Tracing common themes across the Holocaust\, lynching\, and genocides\, Smith identifies dehumanization—seeing human beings as subhuman creatures—as the central feature of these mass atrocities\, as well as of everyday forms of racial oppression. Most compelling is that Smith refuses to conclude that dehumanization is our inevitable destiny and instead charts a course for resisting it. On Inhumanity brilliantly provides a chilling warning of repeating the past and a hopeful call to create a more humane future.” – Dorothy Roberts\, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights\, University of Pennsylvania\, author of Fatal Invention: How Science\, Politics\, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. \nYou can order On Inhumanity here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nDavid Livingstone Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford\, Maine. He has written or edited nine books\, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean\, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press\, 2011)\, which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. His work has been translated into seven languages. David is an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers\, but also by historians\, legal scholars\, psychologists\, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries\, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media\, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit\, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence. \nDavid P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. He’s written more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles on human and animal behavior\, and has written\, co-authored and edited 39 books\, most recently Threats: intimidation and its discontents\, which was just published on Oct. 1 by Oxford University Press. \nYou can order Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-david-livingstone-smith-david-p-barash-on-inhumanity/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T000100
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CREATED:20201021T213153Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Generation Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012\, we\, Beast Generation writers\, lived a never-ending literary feast. We gathered in the Mission\, at the street corners (16th and Mission)\, in a former voodoo and black magic temple Viracocha\, Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, in the bars like Amnesia and Make Out Room or Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley. They read poetry and prose\, played music and acted at festivals and happenings like Bay Area Generations\, Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop\, Saturday Night Special\, Quiet Lightning\, Get Lit\, Tourette’s Without Regrets\, Poetry Flash\, Donde Esta Mi Gente\, Perfectly Queer\, The Naked Bulb\, Skinless\, Swill\, Word Performances\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitCrawl\, Literary Death Match\, and organizations like Nomadic Press\, Poetry Flash\, Small Press Distribution\, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, Kundiman\, Kearney St Workshop\, Manic D Press\, Be About It Press\, Milvia Street\, Liminal Space\, Foglifter Journal\, the SF Creative Writing Institute\, the East Bay Review\, Full of Crow\, Pandemonium Press. And with many MANY of these writers taking to the road to read with poets in Seattle\, Portland\, Cleveland\, Kansas City\, Pittsburg\, Albuquerque New York\, Paris\, Mexico City\, Rabat and others. It was a loud and fun family\, with a sense of purpose and belonging. \nThe Beast Crawl was born in 2012 in Oakland CA to establish an annual gathering of this tribe in one region at one time in the East Bay (pig latin for “Beast”) to celebrate the merging of homegrown literary talent with the other kindred Beasts across the world. With this event\, the East Bay emerged as a hotbed of raw\, diverse literary talent with venues such as the Awaken Cafe\, Bench & Bar\, Chapter 510\, the Dept. of Make Believe\, the Creative Growth Center\, Classic Cars West\, Era Art Bar\, Econojam Records\, Feelmore 510\, The Legionairre\, Telegraph Beer Garden\, Farley’s East\, EM Wolfman Books\, The Golden Bull\, Laurel Books\, The Layover Lounge\, The New Parkway\, Oaklandish\, Kingston 11\, Spice Monkey\, The Starline Social Club\, Sweet Bar\, The Octopus Literary Salon\, Radio Bar\, and Woods Brewing Company hosting new up and coming authors. \nBy 2020\, with many of the venues closed or out of business\, festivals and readings canceled by the pandemic\, depression\, fires and smoke\, the Beasts might have lost a platform but not their voice. We will join forces again on October 24\, 2020\, and speak up online. Join us for a whole day marathon on a YouTube channel of one of San Francisco’s oldest indie bookstores\, Globus Books. The city will live up to its tradition: LitCrawl and Bay Area Poetry festival will be bringing more voices to you that very day. Let’s read like it is 2012! \nWith a week before the historic election\, our country\, state and city face a political\, economic and environmental crisis. The arts\, literature and poetry are here to do what they always do: offer humanity. Our land is on fire\, the plague is near and tyrants are at large but our spirits soar and are invincible. Long live Poetry! \nThis event will be live streaming on the Globus Books YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos. It is free for all. The recording of this show will be serialized and featured on the same channel later. Join us! \nReading: \nYoussef Alaoui\nLynn Alexander\nKyrsten Bean\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nSteven Black\nPam Benjamin\nKwan Booth\nMya Byrne\nWolfgang Carstens\nMK Chavez\nMissy Church\nJoe Clifford\nSharon Coleman\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nSean Craven\nCassandra Dallett\nRohan DaCosta\nJenee Darden\nNatasha Derenstein\nFred Dodsworth\nMG Dufresne\nAndy Dugas`\nJoe Donohoe\nTony DuShane\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLee Foust\nJK Fowler\nBill Gainer\nCassandra Rockwood-Rice Ganem\nCharlie Getter\nSteve Goldberg\nSteven Gray\nDazie Grego-Sykes\nJason Hardung\nHollie Hardy\nNicole Henares\nNazelah Jamison\nMaisha Johnson\nNick Johnson\nJuba Kalamka\nVernon Keeve III\nYume Kim\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nCharles Kruger\nAllsion Landa\nJoel Landmine\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nRIchard Loranger\nMichelle Lyn\nBrandon Loberg\nJoe Loya\nSean Manzano\nColleen McKee\nKR Morrison\nAmanda Muniz\nGinger Murray\nAlexandra Naughton\nJason Neese\nZephir O’Meara\nDawn Oberg\nPatty Orozco-Cronin\nSarah Page\nJohn Alfred Panzer\nLauren Dissident Parker\nIndiana Pehlivanova\nRob Pierce\nTom Pitts\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez\nRoger Porter\nHK Rainey\nSimon Rogghe\nKim Shuck\nCybele Zufolo Siegel\nJon Siegel\nTodd Siegel\nRyan Snellman\nJan Steckel\nSB Stokes\nJohn Swain\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nAndrew Thomas\nLauren Traetto\nKeeley Ann Tulloh\nRene Vaz\nAlia Volz\nSandra Wassile\nJason Whitacre\nArisa White\nMaw Shein Win\nZarina Zabrisky\nJames Zealous \nBios coming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-generation-uprising/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184617
CREATED:20200923T175358Z
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SUMMARY:Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition!
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone’s favorite construction crew is back in this brand-new addition to the Goodnight\, Goodnight series. Kids will be delighted to hear the author reader here story and to meet the illustrator of this awesome book\, where the crew CRASH-BANG-BOOMS through the demolition process. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sherri-duskey-rinker-ag-ford-construction-site-mission-demolition/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184617
CREATED:20201007T220352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T220352Z
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SUMMARY:SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr\, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
DESCRIPTION:The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. \nMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November\, 1930\, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco\, Detroit and New York. Still\, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. \nOnly twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera\, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place\, one filled with magnificent beauty\, horrific poverty\, racial tension\, anti-Semitism\, ethnic diversity\, bland Midwestern food and a thriving music scene\, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear\, cracks in her marriage widened and tragedy struck\, twice while she was living in Detroit. \nFrida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia\, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail\, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo. \nCelia Stahr is a professor at the University of San Francisco\, where she specializes in modern American and contemporary art with an emphasis on feminist art and gender studies\, as well as African and multicultural art. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Iowa and lives in the Bay Area. \nConnect with Celia Stahr – Website | Instagram | Blog \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-virtual-library-celia-stahr-frida-in-america-the-creative-awakening-of-a-great-artist/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T200000
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books Night @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating three awesome new books! \n     \nThird Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White’s Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three excellent new titles: IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS by Robert Gordon\, CAR MA by Alison Mosshart\, and Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas. \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns! \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights and Third Man 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 books (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nabout It Came From Memphis \nVienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history\, It Came From Memphis dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies\, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs\, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis\, Aretha\, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton\, Jim Dickinson\, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos\, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit. The Memphis aesthetic is to invert expectations: artists encounter imperfection with a joyous enthusiasm\, embracing mistakes and doing it all wrong by forging their own paths to get it exactly right\, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. A storyteller’s storyteller\, Robert Gordon puts you in the shotgun seat\, riding with the old coots and the young rebels as they pass a bottle and a blunt. Memphis changed the world\, this book might change you. The paragraph that begins updated and revised should be all bold. \nRobert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker\, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book\, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies\, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal\, William Buckley\, and the demise of civil discourse in America. He’s not the rockabilly singer\, he’s not author of Deep Blues\, and he’s not the university in Scotland. He lives in Memphis. \nVisit: TheRobertGordon.com \n  \nabout CAR MA \nCAR MA is artist and musician Alison Mosshart’s first printed collection of paintings\, photographs\, short stories\, and poetry. It is a book about cars\, rock n’ roll\, and love. It’s a book about America\, performance\, and life on the road. It’s a book about fender bender portraiture\, story tellin’ tire tracks\, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood. Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America’s highways- the last great roller coasters. Shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes. Mosshart ruminates that automobiles- with their doors and mirrors and windows\, engines and wheels and radios- portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit\, our inward reflections and outward visions\, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn’t. Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out … over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good and with the volume up that fucking loud. \nAlison Mosshart is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills\, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated rock n’ roll band\, The Dead Weather. Mosshart is also a visual artist\, working in paints\, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida\, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions: “Fire Power” at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC\, 2015\, “Fire Power Los Angeles” at Maxfield in Los Angeles\, 2017\, “Tonight Only” in Muscle Shoals\, Alabama\, 2016\, “Side Effects” at Panteon in Mexico City\, 2018\, and “Los Trachas” at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles\, 2018. \nVisit: Alison Mosshart on Facebook \n  \nabout Nine Bar Blues \nSheree Renée Thomas is a two-headed woman\, one crown\, earthbound\, rooted in the Mississippi Delta and the New Weird South\, the other spinning far off into space. And if music is the embedded memory of a culture\, then her remarkable fiction collection is its excavated soul. Individually\, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture\, but their shared song is the story of the blues. Thomas’s writing haunts and mesmerizes you. Her imagination takes you down through it like the best traditional blues song\, then opens you up again\, delivering you into that mysterious\, transcendental space that is the ninth bar. \nHaunting and evocative\, Nine Bar Blues carries the soul’s songbook\, from the dark laughter of strange sisters forced to make a perilous journey into a land their mothers have never known\, to the fortified funk of extraterrestrial mixtapes. \nSheree Renée Thomas imagines stories that are sonic rituals\, works that cultivate and affirm the magical and the mystical in everyday living. Nine Bar Blues explores the multitudinous forms of music and the people who make it and appreciate it—the body’s music\, the spirit’s music\, and what moves a soul forward in the crossroads journey of life. Her stories travel from haunted West African and Middle Eastern forests to the mysterious back roads in the Mississippi Delta\, from the ancestral realms of the afterlife to the alien sounds beyond. And throughout the journey\, Nine Bar Blues heralds the arrival of a unique writer whose voice carries the hope and the past-future-present of a people. \nVisit: Sheree Renée Thomas’ Website
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-night-city-lights/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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