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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Arisa White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Arisa White’s new poetry collection\, WHO’S YOUR DADDY\, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3. MK and Vickie read from their newest collections\, DEAR ANIMAL\, and PALM FROND WITH ITS THROAT CUT\, respectively.\nJoin us from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time on Zoom. Get the link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-arisa-white-friends/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun\, Goodbye\, Again
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun\, the wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too\, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe about Goodbye\, Again\, Sun’s new collection of touching and hilarious personal essays\, stories\, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health\, happiness\, and what it means to belong.  \n“This poetic\, humorous\, and heartfelt collection will have readers nodding along\, laughing\, and maybe even crying\, but more than anything they will be engrossed and craving more. Similar to Sun’s previous work\, this is another standout.” —Library Journal\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below—we will have signed copies in stock!\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nJonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique\, funny\, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider\, to short humor pieces\, conversations\, and memorable one-liners. \nJonny’s honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive\, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. \nIt also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry.\n \nJonathan Sun is the author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too\, and the wildly popular twitter account @jonnysun. He’s also an architect\, designer\, engineer\, artist\, playwright\, and comedy writer. His work across multiple disciplines broadly addresses narratives of human experience. As a playwright\, Jonathan’s works have been performed at the Yale School of Drama\, the Hart House Theater in Toronto\, the Toronto Theater Lab’s First Sight festival\, and the University of Toronto Drama Festival (where he received the President’s Awards for Best Production and Outstanding Playwriting). As an artist and illustrator\, his work has been commissioned by the New Haven ArtSpace\, and has been exhibited at Yale University and the University of Toronto. \nDemi Adejuyigbe is a writer and comedian in Los Angeles best known for his work on The Good Place\, The Late Late Show\, and the Amber Ruffin Show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonny-sun-goodbye-again/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
DESCRIPTION:Watch & share this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter and Long Now Live. \nWhat is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For much of human history\, these questions have been the province of religion and philosophy. What answers can science provide? \nIn this talk\, Sean Carroll will share what physicists know\, and don’t yet know\, about the nature of time. He’ll argue that while the universe might not have purpose\, we can create meaning and purpose through how we approach reality\, and how we live our lives. \nSean Carroll is a Research Professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology\, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research has focused on fundamental physics and cosmology\, especially issues of dark matter\, dark energy\, spacetime symmetries\, and the origin of the universe. \nRecently\, Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics\, the emergence of spacetime\, and the evolution of entropy and complexity. Carroll is the author of Something Deeply Hidden\, The Big Picture\, The Particle at the End of the Universe amongst other books and hosts the Mindscapes podcast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sean-carroll-the-passage-of-time-and-the-meaning-of-life/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Stacey Lee’s wonderful historical fiction rejoice! \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to announce we are launching Stacey Lee’s powerful and critically acclaimed new novel\, Luck of the Titanic\, the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck\, twin British-Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage.  We couldn’t be more excited. \n This is the Titanic story you need\, a story bound to become your new favorite. Here’s what people are saying:: \n “Stacey Lee’s superpower is her ability to turn history’s forgotten into today’s unforgettable; and you’ll never forget the terror and joy of travelling with Valora Luck\, whose unsinkable spirit gleams like a rescue flare through the icy murk of the past.” —Elizabeth Wein (Code Name Verity) \n* “A gem from start to bittersweet finish.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“This is the kind of book I absolutely love. Heroism and heartbreaking tragedy\, seen through the eyes of those who have been left off the pages of our history books.” —Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) \n“Hope\, heroism\, and heartache collide in an unforgettable story\, suffused with love.” —Julie Berry (Lovely War) \n“With a plot as tense as a walk on a tightrope and a wily heroine you’ll cheer on till the very end\, Luck of the Titanic is historical fiction at its most thrilling.” Laura Ruby\, (Bone Gap) \nStacey Lee is the author of Under a Painted Sky\, Outrun the Moon\, Secret of a Heart Note\, and The Downstairs Girl \, is the winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. She will be chatting with Stephanie Garber\, author of Caraval\, Legendary\, and Finale. \nJoin us online to celebrate with two of our longtime favorite authors for one of the most anticipated books of the Spring.  It doesn’t get better than this!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-lee-with-stephanie-garber-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Ian Manuel with Messiah Ramkissoon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 4 at 6pm PT when we welcome Ian Manuel for the launch of his book\, My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime\, Punishment\, Hope\, and Redemption\, with Messiah Ramkissoon on Zoom!\n\nLimited signed bookplates available.\nIn partnership with Youth Justice Network\nwith proceeds benefitting the Prisoners Literature Project\nGreen Apple will donate 10% of each copy sold to PLP\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88615146964\n\nAbout My Time Will Come\nAt fourteen Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole. My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art.\n\n“Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking\, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy\n\n“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges\, prosecutors\, juvenile probation officers\, sociologists\, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see\, today\, thirty years later\, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will Come\n\nThe United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders\, mostly youth of color\, to life in prison without parole\, regardless of the scientifically proven singularities of the developing adolescent brain—a heinous wrinkle in the scandal of mass incarceration. In 1991\, Ian Manuel\, then fourteen\, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys\, he shot Debbie Baigrie\, a young white mother of two\, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson\, attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative\, has insisted\, none of us should be judged by only the worst thing we have ever done.\n\nCapturing the fullness of his humanity\, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa\, Florida—a neighborhood riddled with poverty\, gang violence\, and drug abuse—and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances\, only to find himself\, partly through his own actions\, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life\, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the at once wrenching and inspiring story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system\, and how his victim\, an extraordinary woman\, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom\, which was achieved by a crusade on the part of the Equal Justice Initiative to address the barbarism of our judicial system and bring about “just mercy.”\n\nFull of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption\, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case\, through his dedication to writing poetry.\n\nAbout Ian Manuel\nIan Manuel lives in New York City. He is a motivational speaker at schools and social organizations nationwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ian-manuel-with-messiah-ramkissoon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Jonny Sun / Goodbye\, Again: Essays\, Reflections\, and Illustrations
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Jonny Sun again\, for his new book Goodbye\, Again: Essays\, Reflections\, and Illustrations! We are also pleased to announce we have **signed copies** for the first 100 orders! You can order Goodbye\, Again here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nAbout the book\nThe wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays\, stories\, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health\, happiness\, and what it means to belong. \nJonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique\, funny\, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider\, to short humor pieces\, conversations\, and memorable one-liners. \nJonny’s honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive\, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. \nIt also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry. \nAbout the author\nJonny Sun is the best-selling author and illustrator of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and the illustrator of Gmorning\, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He was a writer for the Emmy-nominated sixth season of the Netflix Original Series BoJack Horseman\, and is currently writing a movie\, a new book\, and multiple other projects. As a doctoral candidate at MIT and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB\, he studies social media\, virtual place\, and online community. He has a master’s degree in architecture from Yale and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. TIME Magazine named him one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet of 2017\, and in 2019\, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list\, and gave a TED Talk that has been viewed online over 3 million times. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-jonny-sun-goodbye-again-essays-reflections-and-illustrations/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Erica Hunt and Michael Palmer
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.\n\n       \nreading from new works \nJump The Clock by Erica Hunt – published by Nightboat \nLittle Elegies for Sister Satan by Michael Palmer – published by New Directions \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 coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase Jump The Clock by Erica Hunt – link coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase Little Elegies for Sister Satan by Michael Palmer – link coming soon! \n———– \nAbout Erika Hunt’s Jump The Clock \nErica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics—racial and gender justice\, feminist ethics\, and participatory democracy—showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately\, she finds that words matter\, savoring the small ones: articles\, pronouns\, collective\, plural and singular. This collection brings together out of print works and journals of the same period\, to speak across “crumpled” time\, the past seen from then to now. \nAbout Michael Plamer’s Little Elegies for Sister Satan \nLittle Elegies for Sister Satan presents searingly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer\, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation\, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Poetry Society of America’s Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars\, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again)\, as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages\, voices speak from a decentered place\, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds\,’ I think not of philosophy\, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.” \nErica Hunt is a poet and essayist\, author of Local History\, Arcade\, Piece Logic\, Veronica: A Suite in X Parts\, and Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems\, published by Nightboat Books in November 2020. Her poems and essays have appeared in BOMB\, Boundary 2\, Brooklyn Rail\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Poetics Journal\, Tripwire\, Recluse\, In the American Tree\, and Conjunctions. With Dawn Lundy Martin\, Hunt is the editor of an anthology of new writing by Black women\, Letters to the Future. Hunt has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, the Fund for Poetry\, and the Djerassi Foundation and is a past fellow of Duke University/University of Capetown Program in Public Policy. She teaches at Brown University. \nMichael Palmer is an American born in New York City in 1943 and long resident in San Francisco\, nearly all of Palmer’s poetry is published by New Directions: At Passages (1995); The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972–1995 (1998); The Promises of Glass (2000); Codes Appearing: Poems 1979–1988 (2001); Company of Moths (2005); and most recently\, Thread (2011). He is the translator of works by Emmanuel Hocquard\, Vicente Huidobro\, and Alexei Parshchikov\, among others\, and the editor of Code of Signals: Recent Writings in Poetics. For over thirty years he has collaborated with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-hunt-and-michael-palmer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Ian Manuel
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MAY 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE WELCOME IAN MANUEL FOR THE LAUNCH OF HIS BOOK\, MY TIME WILL COME: A MEMOIR OF CRIME\, PUNISHMENT\, HOPE\, AND REDEMPTION\, ON ZOOM!\nLIMITED SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE.\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH PRISONERS LITERATURE PROJECT\nGreen Apple will donate 10% of each copy sold to PLP \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88615146964\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88615146964#  or +12532158782\,\,88615146964#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbMq4Jxn3I \nAbout My Time Will Come \nAt fourteen Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole. My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art. \n“Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking\, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges\, prosecutors\, juvenile probation officers\, sociologists\, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see\, today\, thirty years later\, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will Come \nThe United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders\, mostly youth of color\, to life in prison without parole\, regardless of the scientifically proven singularities of the developing adolescent brain—a heinous wrinkle in the scandal of mass incarceration. In 1991\, Ian Manuel\, then fourteen\, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys\, he shot Debbie Baigrie\, a young white mother of two\, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson\, attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative\, has insisted\, none of us should be judged by only the worst thing we have ever done. \nCapturing the fullness of his humanity\, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa\, Florida—a neighborhood riddled with poverty\, gang violence\, and drug abuse—and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances\, only to find himself\, partly through his own actions\, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life\, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the at once wrenching and inspiring story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system\, and how his victim\, an extraordinary woman\, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom\, which was achieved by a crusade on the part of the Equal Justice Initiative to address the barbarism of our judicial system and bring about “just mercy.” \nFull of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption\, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case\, through his dedication to writing poetry. \nAbout Ian Manuel \nIan Manuel lives in New York City. He is a motivational speaker at schools and social organizations nationwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ian-manuel/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida\, Cherilyn Parsons\, Carol Edgarian\n\nFrom the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover\, San Francisco has always been a city in flux\, a writer’s dream\, and a favorite setting for literature. Its boom-and-bust drama and breathtaking beauty also make it a perfect backdrop for coming-of-age stories: especially ones about girls who can’t be pigeonholed. \nWho better to chronicle the city’s growing pains—and those of two unforgettable teenage women—than two leading ladies of the Bay Area literary scene? Carol Edgarian\, publisher of Narrative Magazine\, has delivered “that rare novel you’ll want to buy for loved ones” (Andre Dubus III) with Vera\, a pulse-pounding\, often hilarious saga of a fierce 15-year-old\, the daughter of a bordello owner\, amidst the 1906 earthquake and fires. (Nob Hill\, Pacific Heights\, Market Street\, the longed-for “fire escape” ferry to Oakland—they’re all here.) \nWe wonder what Vera would have to say to Eulabee\, the protagonist of Vendela Vida’s funny\, poignant We Run the Tides\, who comes of age during the pre-tech-boom days of the 1990s (Eulabee haunts “Sea Cliff\,” China Beach\, the Haight). Vida\, co-founder of The Believer magazine\, 826 Valencia\, and other Bay Area literary institutions\, puts Eulabee squarely in the middle of a web of lies instigated by her fabulously-named friend Maria Fabiola\, a social climber (also very San Francisco). \nWhether you know San Francisco or not\, whether you long for its “good old days” or still find it magical\, these stories and this conversation\, part of the Festival’s “Writer to Writer” series\, will hit home for anyone who has undergone the harrowing journey of growing up. \nRegister Here\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link. \nThis event is also part of the Festival’s Women Lit series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/epicenter-of-girlhood-carol-edgarian-and-vendela-vida-on-coming-of-age-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with Author Jenny True
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 4\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with author Jenny True in conversation with Catherine Newman (author of HOW TO BE A PERSON: 65 HUGELY USEFUL\, SUPER-IMPORTANT SKILLS TO LEARN BEFORE YOU’RE GROWN UP). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795898890\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of YOU LOOK TIRED at http://bit.ly/ggpTired\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/TiredAB \nDescription\n\nIn the tradition of Ali Wong and Amy Schumer comes this whip-smart\, spit-out-your-coffee funny guide for new parents—from popular blogger and columnist Jenny True. Plenty of “new parent” guides cover the basics of breastfeeding\, bonding\, sleep\, and “getting back in shape.” But nowhere is a guide that tells you\, WTF is this squeeze bottle thing from the hospital?\nYou Look Tired is a totally honest\, tell-it-like-it-is guide for new moms who don’t want any more advice. Writing as Jenny True on her “Excruciatingly Personal Mommy Blog” and in the “Dear Jenny” column on Romper\, Jenny has been called the “postpartum feelings doula\,” as she doles out her unique mix of humor\, rage\, and encouragement (with a smidge of practical advice)\, including: \n\nBirth Hurts: Prenatal yoga is a waste of time.\nJabba the Hutt Was Just Postpartum: It explains so much.\nAn Open Letter to People Who Say\, “Looks like you have your hands full!”\n\nAnd much more! \nAbout the Author\n\nJenny Pritchett (alias Jenny True) is a nationally recognized columnist for Romper\, where she publishes advice on pregnancy and parenting\, as well as on her popular blog Jenny True: An Excruciatingly Personal Mommy Blog\, which was a finalist for the Mom 2.0 2019 People’s Choice Awards. Her columns have been featured in Elle\, Scary Mommy\, and the Longest Shortest Time podcast. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nAbout Catherine Newman\n\nCatherine Newman is the author of How to Be a Person (83\,000 copies in print)\, and  two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness. She’s also the co-author of Stitch Camp. Newman is the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine and the editor of the James Beard Award–winning kids’ cooking magazine ChopChop\, and has contributed to publications including the New York Times\, O the Oprah Magazine\, and Parents. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts\, with her family. Visit her at catherinenewmanwriter.com. \nPraise For YOU LOOK TIRED\n\n“In You Look Tired\, Jenny Pritchett dishes out hilarious\, in-your-face advice to overwhelmed moms and moms-to-be. If you don’t have a trust fund\, a live-in nanny\, or the organizational skills to breastfeed elegantly while getting a pedicure\, you need this book. In the voice of her popular alter ego Jenny True\, Pritchett tells it like it really is\, not the way it would be if you were floating through parenthood on a cloud of maternal fairy dust. There is no maternal fairly dust\, people! Fortunately\, there is Jenny True.”—Michelle Richmond\, New York Times bestselling author of five novels and two award winning story collections\, mother of one\, and Jenny True fan. \n“Completely hilarious\, utterly frank\, thoughtful\, and wise—this book is a breath of fresh air.” —Meaghan O’Connell\, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready \n“A must-have for moms-to-be.” —Bunmi Laditan\, author of The Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-you-look-tired-an-excruciatingly-honest-guide-to-new-parenthood-with-author-jenny-true/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 5\, 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nIsmail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer\, a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, and a board member at the National Books Critics Circle. He’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, and a Simpson Family Literary Fellow. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like The New York Times\, Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. \nIn Spring 2021\, Muhammad is teaching English 361: Contemporary Nonfiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-readings-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T160000
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SUMMARY:New Voice Series\, featuring Dan Lau\, with others tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Carlos Quinteros III \nThe Poetry Center is delighted to announce the New Voice series\, initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that will pair a poet alum of SF State\, a current SF State graduate student poet in Creative Writing\, and a current undergraduate student poet at SF State (any major)\, to each read their work and engage in conversation. For the premier event\, poet Dan Lau has been invited to appear along with student poets on Wednesday May 5\, 4:00 pm Pacific Time. \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, New Voice Series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-voice-series-featuring-dan-lau-with-others-tba/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Thalia Field and Anakana Schofield
DESCRIPTION:Anakana Schofield joins Thalia Field for a conversation about her latest experimental work on animal rights\, Personhood (New Directions). \nThis event is presented in conjunction with Community Bookstore in Park Slope. \nThis will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Personhood\nA remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers \nWhether investigating refugee parrots\, indentured elephants\, the pathetic fallacy\, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the “invasive species crisis\,” Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection\, Bird Lovers\, Backyard\, Thalia Field’s essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous\, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals\, and other historical actors\, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status. \nAbout the writers\nThalia Field is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are Point and Line (2000)\, Incarnate: Story Material (2004)\, and Bird Lovers\, Backyard (2010). \nAnakana Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fiction\, essays\, and literary criticism. Her previous novels are Malarky (2012) and Martin John (2015). The UK edition of Bina was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. Schofield lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thalia-field-and-anakana-schofield/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T193000
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SUMMARY:Imagine Us\, the Swarm Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 5 | 6-7:30pm PST\nvia Zoom\nno fee \nKSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us\, The Swarm (Nightboat Books). In this collection of essays in verse\, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American\, queer and gendered experiences. Following the death of the poet’s father\, Imagine Us\, The Swarm contemplates vengeance\, eschews forgiveness and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. Moving between the past and the present\, Leung imbues memories with something new to alter time and design a different future. \nThis launch party will feature a reading from Leung’s new book in addition to readings by Truong Tran\, Hari Alluri\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, Angie Sijun Lou and Addie Tsai. There will also be a raffle\, giveaways\, and trivia games woven into the night. \nMuriel Leung\n\nMuriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm from Nightboat Books in 2021\, and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Leung co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently\, Leung is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. \n\n\nHari Alluri\n\nHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Fellowship for Poets of Color and recipient of grants from the Canada Council of the Arts\, his work appears recently or soon in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies\, as well as Apogee\, Solstice\, Tinderbox\, Witness and elsewhere. Alluri’s collaborations lately are through BIPOC Writing Community\, Community Building Art Works\, The Cultch\, The Digital Sala\, Massy Books and Soft Cedar. \n\n\nJanice Sapigao\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José\, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry\, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2017). She is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \n\n\nAddie Tsai\n\nAddie Tsai (she/they) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color\, and teaches courses in literature\, creative writing\, dance and humanities at Houston Community College. She also teaches in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA in Creative Writing. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin\, which made the 2021 Rainbow Book List\, and received press in Autostraddle\, Bustle\, Lambda Literary Review and others. Addie’s writing has been published in Foglifter\, VIDA Lit\, the Texas Review and elsewhere. They are the Fiction Co-Editor at Anomaly\, Staff Writer at Spectrum South and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \n\n\nTruong Tran\n\nTruong Tran is a poet ad visual artist. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at California Institute of Integral Studies\, The Telegraph Hill Gallery\, SOMArts\, Mina Dresden Gallery\, and The Peninsula Museum of Art. His books include\, Placing The Accents\, The Book of Perceptions\, Dust and Conscience\, Within The Margin\, Four Letter Words\, 100 Words and the much anticipated Book of the Other (October 2021). He is currently The Adjunct Professor of Poetry at Mills College where he teaches graduate courses about poetics and the crossing of writing and visual art. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAngie Sijun Lou\n\nAngie Sijun Lou is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Poetry Northwest\, FENCE\, Black Warrior Review\, the Adroit Journal\, the Asian American Literary Review\, Hyphen\, the Margins and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and a calculus instructor at San Quentin State Prison. She has received fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center\, Millay Colony and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imagine-us-the-swarm-book-launch/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Renée Watson\, Ways to Grow Love
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Renée Watson for an online event celebrating Ways to Grow Love\, the newest title in her Ramona-esque series for young readers\, starring Ryan Hart and her loveable family. \nRegister for this free event by clicking here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nRyan Hart and her family are back in another installment of stories about a Black girl finding her way and her voice as she grows through change and challenges. In this book\, Ryan finds herself wishing for lots of things—like for her new sister to be born healthy\, for her new recipes to turn out right\, for that camping trip to go better than she fears! And of course Ryan is facing these new challenges and new experiences in her classic style—with a bright outlook and plenty of spirit! \nInspired to write her own version of Ramona\, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson continues her delightful series. \nRenée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Ways to Make Sunshine\, Some Places More Than Others\, This Side of Home\, What Momma Left Me\, Betty Before X\, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz\, and Watch Us Rise\, co-written with Ellen Hagan\, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée lives in New York City. www.reneewatson.net; @harlemportland (Instagram); @reneewauthor (Twitter)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-renee-watson-ways-to-grow-love/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Durbin and Alex Dimitrov
DESCRIPTION:Kate Durbin celebrates her new collection of poetry \nHOARDERS \npublished by Wave Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nIn Hoarders\, Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard\, from Barbies to snow globes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium\, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects a cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender. In the absurdist tradition of Kafka and Beckett\, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition. \n“Though the swift-moving spectacle of the television show invites viewers to cast easy judgment on these hoarders\, Durbin employs poetry’s slower speed to show a more complicated picture. Instead of using [these stories] to make us feel better about ourselves for not being hoarders\, she indicts aspects of American culture we all participate in—religion\, capitalism—and reveals our complicity\, all the while dropping a lot of sight gags in the process.” —Rich Smith\, The Stranger  \nKate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. Her books of poetry include E! Entertainment\, The Ravenous Audience\, and ABRA\, which won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize. Durbin was the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence in Brisbane\, Australia in 2015. Her art and writing have been featured in the New York Times\, Art in America\, Artforum\, the Believer\, BOMB\, poets.org\, the American Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. She has shown her artwork nationally and internationally at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle\, The PULSE Art Fair in Miami\, MOCA Los Angeles\, the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Los Angeles\, peer to space in Berlin\, and more. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems\, including the upcoming Love and Other Poems\, as well as the chapbook American Boys. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry. He was the former senior content editor at the Academy of American Poets\, where he edited Poem-A-Day and American Poets. He has taught creative writing at Princeton University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College\, among other institutions. With Dorothea Lasky\, he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. Dimitrov lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-durbin-and-alex-dimitrov/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #57
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-57-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Soul Sister Revue w/ Yona Harvey\, Tarfia Faizullah\, Dante Micheaux & More
DESCRIPTION:Join Soul Sister Revue for its anniversary show as we turn 8 years strong and ask the question “What does Soul mean to you?” Readers include Yona Harvey (You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love)\, Tarfia Faizullah (Registers of Illuminated Villages)\, Dante Micheaux (Circus)\, CM Burroughs (Master Suffering)\, and Dimitri Reyes. The event is free\, but registration is required. Show Time: 7:00 pm EST\, 4pm PST\, 5pm MST\, or 6pm CST.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-sister-revue-w-yona-harvey-tarfia-faizullah-dante-micheaux-more/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="soul sister revue":MAILTO:soulsisterrevue@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T213000
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Angie Dribben and Ken Waldman reading from their poetry\, plus literary trivia quiz\, and open mic. \nAngie Dribben’s debut collection\, Everygirl\, a finalist for the 2020 Broadkill Review Dogfish Head Prize\, is out with Main Street Rag. She is Contributing Reviews Editor at Cider Press Review. Her poetry\, essays\, mixed media\, and reviews can be found or are forthcoming in Cave Wall\, EcoTheo\, Crab Creek Review\, Crack the Spine\, and others. Her poetry is widely-anthologized. \nKen Waldman combines Appalachian-style fiddling\, original poetry\, and smart storytelling for a performance uniquely his. Eighteen books include fifteen full-length poetry collections\, a memoir\, a creative writing manual\, and a children’s book. Nine CDs have received widespread radio airplay. Appearances include the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage\, Dodge Poetry Festival\, Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland\, Australia)\, plus concert series and clubs across America. He’s had work in Poet Lore\, Massachusetts Review\, and hundreds more. www.kenwaldman.com and www.trumpsonnets.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-4/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us for story time with Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith on Saturday\, May 8 at 12pm PT to celebrate\, Brave in the Water\, on Zoom!\n\nAn event especially for young readers!\nSan Francisco children’s book authors Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith will each read a story\,\nfollowed by a special opportunity to ask them any questions you may have about being a children’s book author!\nHow do they come up with storybook ideas?\nDo they make those drawings themselves?\nWhat books do they like to read?\nJoin us to find out and ask your own question!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83364102484\n\nAbout Brave in the Water\nAre you afraid to put your face in the water? So is Diante. He would like to play in the pool with other children. He’s not afraid to hang upside down\, though\, and he’s surprised to learn his grandma is. Can Diante help Grandma and become brave in the water?\n\nAbout Stephanie Wildman\nStephanie M. Wildman\, author of the forthcoming Brave in the Water\, became a Professor Emerita after serving as the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Chair at Santa Clara Law. She directed the school’s Center for Social Justice and Public Service. In 2007 the Society of American Law Teachers\, the largest national organization of law school faculty honored her with their Great Teacher Award. Her most recent books include: Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America 3d (with Richard Delgado\, Angela A. Harris\, Juan F. Perea\, and Jean Stefancic) (2015); Social Justice: Professionals Communities and Law (with Martha R. Mahoney and John O. Calmore) (2013) and Women and the Law Stories (with Elizabeth Schneider) (2011). Her book\, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America\, (with contributions by Margalynne Armstrong\, Adrienne D. Davis\, & Trina Grillo) won the 1997 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Meyers Center for Human Rights. She has authored dozens of law review articles and journalistic pieces. She is a grandmother\, mother\, spouse\, friend\, good listener\, and she is able to sit “criss-cross apple sauce” thanks to her yoga practice.\n\nAbout Emma Bland Smith\nEmma Bland Smith is the award-winning author of Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7\, the Most Famous Wolf in the West\, as well as other fiction and nonfiction books for children. Many of Emma’s books include animals—wolves\, dogs\, pigs\, even alligators! Emma is a librarian and author and lives in San Francisco with her husband\, two kids\, dog\, and cat—but no wolf\, pig\, or alligator. Visit her online at emmabsmith.com and on Twitter at @emmablandsmith.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-stephanie-wildman-and-emma-bland-smith-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mule Kick Blues Book Release with Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for \nMule Kick Blues: And Last Poems \npublished by City Lights \nThe last book by the late Beat Generation legend Michael McClure \nwith Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles \nand featuring Garrett Caples \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to pre-order/purchase book. \n———– \nThis event is followed by a livestreamed tribute to the life of Michael McClure with a roster of special guests happening on Sunday\, May 9th. Go here to register for that event too! \n  \nThe final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend\, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. \nMule Kick Blues is the final book of poems by Beat Generation legend Michael McClure. A powerful collection of new work written during the last years of McClure’s life\, Mule Kick Blues was readied for publication before the poet’s death in May 2020. Its opening section gives us a rare view into his thoughts about his own mortality\, particularly in the moving sequence “Death Poems.” The book takes its title from an innovative series of homages to blues musicians like Leadbelly and Howlin’ Wolf\, and evoking Kerouac’s concept of “blues” poems. Featuring shout-outs to lifelong friends like Philip Whalen\, Diane di Prima\, and Gary Snyder\, the long poem “Fragments of Narcissus\,” and the eco-logical and zen-infused themes for which he is known\, Mule Kick Blues is a definitive statement by one of the most significant American poets of the last sixty years. Introduction by poet Garrett Caples\, McClure’s editor at City Lights. \nEileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant\, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nAnne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado\, where she still teaches. Her poetry collections include Iovis I\, Iovis II\, Fast Speaking Woman\, Helping the Dreamer\, Kill or Cure\, and Trickster Feminism. She is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mule-kick-blues-book-release-with-anne-waldman-and-eileen-myles/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T190000
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SUMMARY:Splitting the World Open: An International Roundtable of Dangerous Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:In 1968\, poet Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote\, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” More than half a century later\, women themselves feel split into a million pieces. This past year has been especially challenging for women\, typically society’s primary caretakers. Indeed\, mothers have been carrying an especially heavy load. Speaking one’s truth is hard when you’re totally exhausted. \nSo what better Mother’s Day gift for women (and all who love them) to spend an hour\, free of charge\, with three brilliant female authors\, writing from and about multiple corners of the globe—India\, the Middle East\, North Africa\, South America\, the United States—with woman-focused stories? And these aren’t just any stories: the work of all three novelists was shortlisted for the Booker Prize or the Booker International Prize\, the most prestigious literary awards in the world. \nIn Burnt Sugar\, Dubai-based Indian author Avni Doshi explores the intimate dynamics of mother-daughter conflict and postpartum depression with an ambivalence and caustic wit that ruffled some feathers. It’s that fearless artistry that landed her on the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist with Ethiopian-American novelist Maaza Mengiste\, whose novel The Shadow King (“a masterpiece\,” said the Washington Post) features a female soldier fighting fascism during Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. The story is inspired by the author’s great-grandmother\, one of those women who\, in Mengiste’s words\, “stepped forward out of the shadows and made themselves known.” Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán\, trained as a human rights lawyer before turning to literary work\, wrote The Remainder\, a finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\, to delve into the legacy of Chile’s military dictatorship. Her new novel\, Las Homicidas\, to appear in English translation in 2021\, explores an arguably even more dangerous topic: how rage against injustice can be so profound that it drives some women to kill\, and how that rage\, as with the frustrated anger of any oppressed group\, is often minimized and deflected. \nThis conversation offers a Mother’s Day like no other! The event is co-presented by Words Without Borders and moderated by Karen Phillips\, its executive director. Words Without Borders expands cultural understanding through the translation\, publication\, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature. \nRegister Here\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link. \nThis event is also part of the Festival’s Women Lit series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/splitting-the-world-open-an-international-roundtable-of-dangerous-women-writers/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eric Nguyen and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, May 10 at 6pm PT when Eric Nguyen joins us to discuss his debut novel\, Things We Lost to the Water\, with Lydia Kiesling on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88925265993\n\nPraise for Things We Lost to the Water\n“I was captivated. The writing is absolutely gorgeous…The voice is strong and this is a powerful novel…Well worth a read. Really enjoyed.”—Roxane Gay\, via Goodreads\n\n“This is an elemental book\, of water\, for sure\, but also of other elements of life\, including love and loss. Vietnamese people know all about these elements\, coming from a country whose entire length is bordered by a sea\, and from a history saturated with loss. Love is one element that has enabled their survival\, but sometimes at a cost. Eric Nguyen’s powerful novel ripples and gleams with the unpredictable flow and surge of love\, which\, like water\, can drown us or sustain us. From a war to a hurricane\, from an ocean to a flood\, Things We Lost to the Water proves itself to be a novel that sustains us.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer\n\n“Exquisitely well-written\, Things We Lost to the Water is a tender\, haunting story of loss\, love\, family and survival. A moving and powerful debut.”—Charles Yu\, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown\n\nAbout Things We Lost to the Water\nA stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped.\n\nWhen Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons\, she is jobless\, homeless\, and worried about her husband\, Cong\, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America\, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong\, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.\n\nBut with time\, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss\, her sons\, Tuan and Binh\, grow up in their absent father’s shadow\, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward\, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh\, now going by Ben\, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity—as individuals and as a family—threatens to tear them apart\, un­til disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eric-nguyen-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aaron Carnes\, In Defense of Ska
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aaron Carnes\, music editor at the Good Times\, will be in conversation with Good Times editor Steve Palopoli about Carnes’ new book In Defense of Ska. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nWhy doesn’t ska get its due as a rich\, diverse genre the way punk\, metal\, hip-hop and electronic music does? Or more to the point\, why are ska fans so embarrassed of this music they love? The era of ska shame is officially over. In Defense of Ska is the much-needed response to years of ska-mockery. No longer do ska fans need to hide in the basement\, skanking alone in their sharp suits\, slim ties and porkpie hats. Now the time to take to the streets and fight music snobbery\, or at least crank up the ska without being teased ruthlessly. \nIn a mix of interviews\, essays\, personal stories\, historical snapshots\, obscure anecdotes\, and think pieces\, In Defense of Ska dissects\, analyzes and celebrates ska in exactly the way fans have been craving for decades. This book will enlist ska-lovers as soldiers in the ska army\, and challenge ska-haters’ prejudices to the core. \nAaron Carnes is a music journalist based out of Sacramento\, California. His work has appeared in Playboy\, Salon\, Bandcamp Daily\, Sierra Club\, Noisey\, Sun Magazine\, and he’s the music editor at Good Times Santa Cruz weekly newspaper\, where he tries to sneak in ska content whenever his boss isn’t looking. Aaron has been listening to ska since the early ’90s. He used to play drums in a ska band. Now he just plays ska on his car stereo. When he’s not defending ska\, he enjoys backpacking with his wife Amy Bee\, and talking about music from every existing genre. Ska will always be his favorite. \nCarnes hosts the podcast In Defense of Ska and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @indefenseofska. His Substack newsletter is aaroncarnes.substack.com and Spotify playist\, which consists of the songs and bands mentioned in the book\, in order\, can be found here. \nAuthor photo credit: Amy Bee (Instagram: @_amy_bee)\nCover photo credit: Cam Evans (Instagram: @photofromcam)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aaron-carnes-in-defense-of-ska/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Lara Bazelon / A Good Mother
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Lara Bazelon and her debut novel A Good Mother! More to be announced soon\, but won’t you save the date and join us? \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order A Good Mother here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nWhen young decorated combat veteran Travis Hollis is found stabbed through the heart at a U.S. Army base in Germany\, there is no doubt that his wife\, Luz\, is to blame. But was it an act of self defense? A frenzied attempt to save her infant daughter from domestic abuse? Or the cold blood murder of an innocent man? \nAs the case heads to trial in Los Angeles\, hard-charging attorney Abby Rosenberg is eager to return from maternity leave—and her quickly fracturing home life—to take the case and defend Luz. Abby\, a new mother herself\, is committed to ensuring Luz avoids prison and retains custody of her daughter. But as the evidence stacks up against Luz\, Abby realizes the task proves far more difficult than she suspected – especially when she has to battle for control over the case with her co-counsel\, whose dark absorption with Luz only complicates matters further. \nAs the trial careens toward an outcome no one expects\, readers will find themselves in the seat of the jurors\, forced to answer the question – what does it mean to be a good mother? A good lawyer? And who is the real monster? \nAbout the author\nLara Bazelon is an attorney\, journalist\, MacDowell Fellow\, former public defender\, and professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she holds the Phillip and Muriel C. Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy. She is also the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction\, as well as the upcoming nonfiction book\, Ambitious Like a Mother: Women\, Ambition\, and Motherhood\, and her writing has been published widely in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, The Washington Post\, and many others. Photo by Richard Gilligan. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-lara-bazelon-a-good-mother/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T180000
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:How do you make and keep friendships of a lifetime? Angie Coiro interviews Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. \n\n\nAbout this Virtual Event \n\n\nResearch has shown that people with close friends are happier\, healthier\, and live longer than people who lack strong social bonds. Despite this\, the average American hasn’t made a new friend in the past five years. \nWhy— when we are seemingly more connected than ever before— can it feel so difficult to create and maintain strong friendships? Why do we spend only four percent of our time with friends? \nMillennial workplace expert and friendship visionary Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky proposes a new solution for the mounting pressures of this modern life: focus on your friendships. \nIn an hour-long interview with journalist-in-residence Angie Coiro about Friendship in the Age of Loneliness\, this wonderful author offers practical habits and playful reminders on how to create meaningful connections\, make new friends\, and deepen relationships. Smiley will help you revisit your relationship with technology\, encourage you to prioritize real-world experiences\, send snail mail\, and really see your friends. In doing this\, he shares the key to a good life—a happier\, healthier\, longer\, richer life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-friendship-in-the-age-of-loneliness/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T200000
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SUMMARY:Francisco Goldman in conversation with Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nMonkey Boy: a novel \npublished by Grove Atlantic Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. \n———– \nGoldman’s first novel since his widely acclaimed\, national bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina Etranger)\, Monkey Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity – whether Jewish/Catholic\, white/brown\, native/expat – and one misfit’s quest to heal his damaged past and find love. \nOur narrator\, Francisco Goldberg\, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade\, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of “going home again.” It’s been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again. Soon he is beckoned back to Boston by the high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations\, and his mother\, Yolanda\, around whom his story orbits like a dark star. Backdropping this five day trip to his childhood home is the specter of Frank’s recently deceased father\, Bert\, an immigrant from Ukraine\, volcanically tempered\, pathologically abusive\, yet also at times infuriatingly endearing; as well as the high school bullies who gave him the moniker “monkey boy” and his estranged\, larger-than-life sister\, Lexi. \nTold in an open\, irresistibly funny and passionate voice\, this extraordinary portrait of growing up outside the dominant culture unearths the hidden cruelties in a predominantly white\, working-class Boston suburb where Francisco – aka Paco\, aka Frankie Gee – came of age. A crowning achievement from one of the most important American voices in the last 40 years. \nFrancisco Goldman has published four novels and two books of non-fiction.  The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.  His novels have been finalists for several prizes\, including\, twice\, The Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Ordinary Seaman was a finalist for The International IMPAC Dublin literary award.  The Divine Husband was a finalist for The Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murder won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award.  The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle\, published in 2013\, was named by the LA Times one of 10 best books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis “Premio Azul” 2017.  His most recent novel\, Say Her Name\, won the 2011 Prix Femina Etranger. His books have been published in 16 languages. \n\nValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s\, among other publications\, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City. \n\nAdvance Praise for Monkey Boy \n“Francisco Goldman . . . Francisco Goldberg? . . . Frankie Gee!—crafter of the tenderest dirtiest love scenes!—the wisest and spookiest children!—the fathers whose monstrosity breaks our hearts with compassion for them—who else can do all this? Francisco Goldman is uncategorizable\, as is this book which made me grow a second heart just to contain all its fierce tenderness. Goldman has been my literary hero from his first entrancing Long Night of White Chickens to this latest take-no-prisoners Monkey Boy. He is a true original\, that rarest of writers\, the kind we cannot live without.”—Susan Choi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/francisco-goldman-in-conversation-with-valeria-luiselli/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Linda Rui Feng and Meng Jin with The Ruby
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE RUBY\n\nJOIN US TUESDAY\, MAY 11 AT 6PM PT WHEN LINDA RUI FENG IS JOINED BY MENG JIN TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER!\nClick the link here to register for this event!\nIf you would like a signed copy of this book\, click here and write “signed” in your order comment. \nAbout this Event \n[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82204356202 ] \nIn partnership with Green Apple Books\, join us in celebrating the launch of Linda Rui Feng‘s debut novel\, Swimming Back to Trout River\, a Most-Anticipated selection from Electric Literature\, The Millions\, and Paperback Paris\, and hailed by award-winning author Garth Greenwall as“gorgeously orchestrated” and possessing “astonishing emotional force.” Linda will be in conversation with our very own Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods. \nSupport the author and beloved SF indie bookstore\, Green Apple Books by purchasing a signed copy of the book here (just indicate you’d like a signed copy in the “order comments” section)! \n  \nAbout Swimming Back to Trout River \nHow many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? \nIn the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village\, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents\, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s life exists in the idyllic countryside with the beloved grandparents who raised her. Junie’s growing determination to stay put with her grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. \nWhat Junie doesn’t know is that her parents\, Momo and Cassia\, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country\, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China’s Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie’s future in America\, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise\, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie’s birthday—even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. \nSwimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie\, Momo\, and Cassia while depicting their heartbreak and resilience\, tenderly revealing the hope\, compromises\, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants. \n  \nAbout Linda Rui Feng \nBorn in Shanghai\, Linda Rui Feng has lived in San Francisco\, New York\, and Toronto. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities and is currently a professor of Chinese cultural history at the University of Toronto. She has been twice awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for her fiction\, and her prose and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Fiddlehead\, Kenyon Review Online\, Santa Monica Review\, and Washington Square Review. Swimming Back to Trout River is her first novel. Visit LindaRuiFeng.com to learn more. \nAbout Meng Jin \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and currently lives in San Francisco. She is a Kundiman Fellow and graduate of the Hunter College MFA. Her novel\, Little Gods\, was released to critical acclaim in 2020. See more at www.mengj.in \nAbout The Virtual Ruby \n*While we shelter in place during the Covid-19 pandemic\, The Ruby’s physical location will be closed. As a collective\, we’ll continue to gather online for virtual workshops\, events\, and discussions. All are welcome to join us for these events. * For those who can afford it and would like to support The Ruby during this uncertain time\, we are offering 3 tiers of virtual membership: $5/week\, $15/week\, and $25/week. (Though we have some money in our emergency savings account to get us through the next little while\, we’re pretty nervous about the future\, and how long this might go on for.) Please help only if it’s feasible for you. If you’re in a tough time financially right now\, we absolutely get it. Please\, take care of yourself and stay connected to this community so we can help. \nHere are the tiers of virtual membership (use these links to sign up): \n$5/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/aRsJyABygL4FvvEJT \n$15/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/o56ggrnNNx9rzn6AA \n$25/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/q37HfmWSQMoLzPt4p \nWant to make a one-time donation of more or less? We can still accept donations through last year’s GoFundMe. Link is here. \nOur Virtual Ruby calendar will be updated as events are added. \nYou can register for this event here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-linda-rui-feng-and-meng-jin-with-the-ruby/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO by Donna Freitas | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 11\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO by Donna Freitas. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84073803712. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggp9Lives or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/9LivesAB\, \nDescription\n\nA deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother–and the many ways that life can surprise us \nIn every woman there are many stories . . . \nRose Napolitano is fighting with her husband\, Luke\, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them\, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children\, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She’s never wanted to have a child. The fight ends\, and with it their marriage. \nBut then\, Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins–again. This time the fight goes slightly differently\, and so does Rose’s future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining plays out again and again in each of Rose’s nine lives\, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new? Rose Napolitano’s experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means\, literally\, to reinvent a life and\, sometimes\, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined. \nA stunning novel about love\, loss\, betrayal\, divorce\, death\, a woman’s career and her identity\, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding one’s way into a future that wasn’t the future one planned\, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it. \nAbout the Author\n\nThis is Donna Freitas’s first adult novel. She is the author of Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention\, as well as books for young adults. Donna has written for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal\, and has appeared on NPR and the TODAY show. She’s on the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Brooklyn and Connecticut. \nPraise For…\n\nPraise for The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano: \n“Freitas’s prose is engaging and precise\, and her what-if format proves ideal for elegantly unpacking the tensions of the plot. She balances tightly written scenes of confrontation with Rose’s poignant reflections on how much she can compromise without losing herself completely. This isn’t one to miss. “\n—Publishers Weekly (starred)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nine-lives-of-rose-napolitano-by-donna-freitas-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: Mark Bittman and Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION:Food doesn’t just keep us alive—it’s a vital and constantly evolving part of our global culture. Author and food journalist Mark Bittman’s new book\, Animal\, Vegetable\, Junk\, digs into the history of what\, why\, and how we eat. He’ll be joined by chef and author Alice Waters for a conversation about everything from slow versus fast food to regenerative agriculture to how we teach future generations to eat. Waters’s forthcoming book\, We Are What We Eat\, will be published in June. Their hour-long discussion will be moderated by Alta Journal editor and publisher Will Hearst\, and the event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nMark Bittman has been a leading voice in global food culture and policy for more than three decades. His first cookbook\, Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking\, was published in 1994 and remains in print; since then\, he has written or cowritten 30 others\, including the How to Cook Everything series. A former New York Times columnist\, television host\, and regular on Today\, Bittman has received six James Beard Awards\, four IACP Awards\, and numerous other honors. \nBittman is also the editor in chief of the Bittman Project\, a newsletter and website focusing on all aspects of food\, from political to delicious. His most recent book is Animal\, Vegetable\, Junk: A History of Food\, from Sustainable to Suicidal. \nAlice Waters is a chef\, an author\, a food activist\, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California (est. 1971). She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995\, she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project\, which advocates for a free regenerative school lunch for all children and a sustainable-food curriculum in every public school. \nIn 2015\, Waters was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama\, proving that eating is a political act and that the table is a powerful means to advancing social justice and positive change. She is the author of 16 books\, including her critically acclaimed memoir\, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook; The Art of Simple Food; The Art of Simple Food II; and Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea. Her latest work\, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto\, will be available in June 2021.• \n\n\n \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN\n\n\n\nAnimal\, Vegetable\, Junk: A History of Food\, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman\nHoughton MifflinBookshop.org \n$28.00\n\nBUY THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPENGUIN PRESS\n\n\n\nWe Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Waters\nPenguin PressBookshop.org \n$26.00\n\nBUY THE BOOK
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-mark-bittman-and-alice-waters/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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