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SUMMARY:Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an online book launch and discussion on January 26\, 2021 at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST featuring author Aaron Wright discussing THIRTEEN DOORS: A FAMILY’S FIGHT FOR EQUAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION with author Bianca Marais. \nAdmission with a copy of the book is $25\, and admission only is $10. All proceeds go to benefit A Great Good Place for Books. \nAaron was raised in the heart of the Central Valley in California. He is the son of two educators—his father worked in special education and his mother in early childhood education. Aaron was raised with an awareness of\, and appreciation for\, access issues for marginalized and vulnerable students. \nWhen his daughter was diagnosed with autism at an early age and initially denied access to special education\, Aaron began a quest to understand\, and ensure compliance with\, the state and federal protections afforded disabled students. \nAs a nurse and disadvantaged student advocate\, Aaron’s drive to understand how the public education system works became a passion. Early in his family’s journey toward a free and appropriate education for his daughter\, he found that the issues were far larger than his family. \nQuietly\, Aaron began to pen his family’s journey in a memoir. A true labor of love\, Thirteen Doors took more than four years to write. \nOnce the initial manuscript was complete\, he gave it to his unsuspecting wife as a Mother’s Day gift. Over the course of another year and a half\, the manuscript was revised\, edited\, and most importantly given the seal of approval by his daughter. Aaron’s ultimate hope is to engage a national audience in a deep and meaningful conversation about our most vulnerable students and how they are losing their access to a suitable education and what can be done to change the system that is traumatizing children and their parents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-fundraiser-for-ggp-author-aaron-wright-discussing-thirteen-doors-with-author-bianca-marais/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Roy Richard Grinker in conversation with Steve Silberman / Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Roy Richard Grinker’s new book Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness. Joining him in conversation is Steve Silberman (NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Nobody’s Normal here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nFor centuries\, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill\, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal\, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century\, through America’s major wars\, and into today’s high-tech economy. \nNobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history\, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness\, that we learn from within our communities\, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today\, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century\, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. \nGrinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry\, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud\, his own daughter’s experience with autism\, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science\, historical archives\, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia\, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of\, and variances in\, our cultural response to neurodiversity. \nUrgent\, eye-opening\, and ultimately hopeful\, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. \nRoy Richard Grinker is professor of anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University. He is the author of several books\, including Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. He lives in Washington\, DC. \nSteve Silberman is an award-winning science writer and the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\, which Oliver Sacks called “a sweeping and penetrating history presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity.” The book became a widely-praised bestseller in the United States and the United Kingdom. His TED talk\, The Forgotten History of Autism\, has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 35 languages. He lives with his husband Keith in San Francisco. Author photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-roy-richard-grinker-in-conversation-with-steve-silberman-nobodys-normal-how-culture-created-the-stigma-of-mental-illness/
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SUMMARY:The Echoing Ida Collective
DESCRIPTION:evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book \nThe Echoing Ida Collection \nEdited by Cynthia R. Greenlee\, Kemi Alabi\, and Janna A. Zinzi \npublished by The Feminist Press \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 shortly. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link to be posted shortly. \n———– \nRooted in reproductive justice\, Echoing Ida harnesses the power of media for social justice—amplifying the struggles and successes of contemporary freedom movements in the US. \nFounded in 2012\, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who—like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the “way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. \nThis anthology collects the best of Echoing Ida for the first time\, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster\, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Imagining a gender-expansive and liberated future\, these essays affirm the powerful combination of #BlackGirlMagic and the hard\, unceasing labor of Black people to reimagine the world in which we live. \n“A rich awakening to the revolution and evolution of Black women and nonbinary voices\, and a deeply majestic tribute to the expanse of Black cultural movements—in singular reverence and collective power.” —Rebecca Carroll\, author of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir \n“Fueled by curiosity and generous with their vulnerability\, the Idas ask probing questions of themselves\, each other\, and the world. Right now media outlets are scrambling to hire writers who can find and tell important stories about race\, gender\, sexuality\, and power. Editors nationwide should know the Idas’ names\, seek them out\, and pay them well for their insights and analysis.” —Dani McClain\, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the editors: \nJanna A. Zinzi is a communications strategist\, writer and performer. \n\n\n\n\n\nCynthia R. Greenlee is a writer\, editor\, and historian of the African-American experience. She is a former senior editor at Rewire.News. \n\n\n\n\n\nKemi Alabi is a poet\, teaching artist\, and cultural strategy director of Forward Together.
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SUMMARY:Bradford Pearson with Patrick Radden Keefe - The Eagles of Heart Mountain (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The impeccably researched\, deeply moving\, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores. \nIn the spring of 1942\, the United States government forced 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California\, Oregon\, Washington\, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14\,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody\, Wyoming\, at the base of Heart Mountain. \nBehind barbed wire fences\, they faced racism\, cruelty\, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home\, many established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. \nThat is\, until the fall of 1943\, when the camp’s high school football team\, the Eagles\, started its first season and finished it undefeated\, crushing the competition from nearby\, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement\, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off\, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided\, and some were jailed for their decisions. \nThe Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait of one of the darkest moments in American history. \nBradford Pearson is the former features editor of Southwest: The Magazine. He has written for The New York Times\, Esquire\, Time\, and Salon\, among many other publications. He grew up in Hyde Park\, New York\, and now lives in Philadelphia. The Eagles of Heart Mountain is his first book. \nPatrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream\, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He is also the writer and host of Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series from Pineapple Street Studios\, Crooked Media\, and Spotify\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and pop music during the Cold War. In addition to The New Yorker\, his work has appeared in The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine\, Slate\, and other publications. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship\, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation\, the New America Foundation\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bradford-pearson-with-patrick-radden-keefe-the-eagles-of-heart-mountain-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham\, What You Don't Know
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book\, What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood\, delves into queerness\, Blackness\, and the love that dismantles whiteness. This event will include a reading\, Q&A\, and demonstration of Higginbotham’s disco collage workshop. A “backdrop” for collages will be included with every copy of What You Don’t Know purchased from Bookshop Santa Cruz\, while supplies last. (Preorder your copy below.) \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nWhat You Don’t Know is a book about knowing deeply that you matter—always did\, always will. It’s a book about what schools get wrong and churches don’t say; but institutions are made by people and the people are evolving. It’s a book about being known and cherished by family\, and living in communion with your own personal Jesus\, Buddha\, Spirit\, Source\, Father\, Mother\, God\, breath\, inner space\, outer space\, nothingness\, and however else we name and relate to our divinity and humility in the presence of all we don’t know. \n“A visually rich story that speaks truth to power for LGBTQ+ kids and their families and allies.” —Kirkus Reviews \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nANASTASIA HIGGINBOTHAM is the author and illustrator of Divorce Is the Worst\, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness\, Death Is Stupid\, and Tell Me About Sex\, Grandma—all part of the Ordinary Terrible Things series. She lives in Brooklyn. Librarians love her\, but not as much as she loves them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-anastasia-higginbotham-what-you-dont-know/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 28TH FEATURED WRITER: K-MING CHANG\nK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at http://kmingchang.com \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-k-ming-chang-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 28TH FEATURED WRITER: K-MING CHANG\nK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at http://kmingchang.com \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-k-ming-chang/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gizzi reads from \nNow It’s Dark: New Poems \npublished by Wesleyan University Press \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———– \n (Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nThe poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics\, are concerned with grieving\, with poetry and death\, with beauty and sadness\, with light. As Ben Lerner has written\, “Gizzi’s poetry is an example of how a poet’s total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion.” With litany\, elegy\, and prose\, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail\, these original poems possess\, even in their sorrowing moments\, a dizzying freedom. \nPeter Gizzi is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics\, Threshold Songs\, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems\, 1987–2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks\, folios\, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke\, MA. Visit: https://www.petergizzi.org/ \nCA Conrad is the author of nine books of poetry and essays\, including their latest book is JUPITER ALIGNMENT: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals (Ignota Books\, forthcoming 2020) and While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)\, which won a Lambda Book Award. A documentary about their work\, The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films)\, is viewable online on their website. 
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads\, featuring Benjamin Garcia\, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat)\, Emily Hashimoto (A World Between) and Poupeh Missaghi (trans(re)lating house one). The panel will be lead by Lupita Reads. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of the authors’ books by clicking on the titles below. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nThrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia \nA World Between by Emily Hashimoto \ntrans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi \n— Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia — \n“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times\, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship\, family\, and Adam Rippon’s butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented\, one speaker recalls nights when “because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes.” Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other\, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \nWith language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous\, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. “Sometimes even a diamond was once alive” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says “has deadly superpowers.” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers\, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex\, unabashed\, and needed as survival. Garcia’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive. \nBenjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems\, Thrown in the Throat\, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali and published by Milkweed Editions. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow\, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place\, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets 2018\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review\, The Missouri Review\, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York. \nOrder Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia and have it delivered to your door. \n— A World Between by Emily Hashimoto — \nIn 2004\, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the brink of adulthood\, each full of possibility and big ideas\, and they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years later\, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco. Although grown and changed and each separately partnered\, the two find themselves\, once again\, irresistibly pulled back together. \nEmily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures the wonder and confusion of growing up and growing closer. Narrated in sparkling prose\, A World Between follows two strikingly different but interconnected women as they navigate family\, female friendship\, and their own fraught history. \nEmily Hashimoto is a queer writer of color from the suburbs of New Jersey. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in women’s and gender studies\, and her MS in Information Science from Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from VONA and Queer Arts. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The Rumpus and Bitch Magazine\, centering feminist critique and queer narratives. She lives in New York City with her wife and child. \nOrder A World Between by Emily Hashimoto and have it delivered to your door. \n— trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi — \nIn the aftermath of Iran’s 2009 election\, a woman undertakes a search for the statues disappearing from Tehran’s public spaces. A chance meeting alters her trajectory\, and the space between fiction and reality narrows. As she circles the city’s points of connection—teahouses\, buses\, galleries\, hookah bars—her many questions are distilled into one: How do we translate loss into language? \nMelding several worlds\, perspectives\, and narrative styles\, trans(re)lating house one translates the various realities of Tehran and its inhabitants into the realm of art\, helping us remember them anew. \nPoupeh Missaghi is a writer\, a translator both into and out of Persian\, an editor\, and an educator. She holds a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Denver\, an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University\, and an MA in translation studies. Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. Her nonfiction\, fiction\, and translations have appeared in numerous journals\, and she has several books of translation published in Iran. I’ll Be Strong for You\, her translation of Iranian author Nasim Marashi’s novel\, is forthcoming in spring 2021. As an editor\, she worked for many years with Asymptote and is co-editor of Matters of Feminist Practice from Belladonna* Collaborative. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Writing at the Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn; a faculty mentor at the low-residency MFA of Pacific Northwest College of Art\, Portland; as well as a writing consultant at Baruch College\, CUNY\, NY. \nOrder trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi and have it delivered to your door. \n– ABOUT THE MODERATOR – \nLupita Aquino—better known as Lupita Reads—is a passionate reader active in both the local and online book community through her Instagram account- @Lupita.Reads. She is the creator of the #LatinxBookstagramTour\, a columnist for the Washington Independent Review of Books\, a contributor for the Reading Women podcast\, and the co-founder and current moderator/curator for LIT on H St. Book Club. \n– PLEASE NOTE – \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-debut-authors-panel-with-lupita-reads-featuring-benjamin-garcia-emily-hashimoto-poupeh-missaghi/
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SUMMARY:Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading The Land of the Cranes\, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, January 30\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \nNine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels\, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan\, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government’s Immigration Customs Enforcement\, her father deported back to Mexico\, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp–Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her\, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart. \nAida Salazar is also the author of The Moon Within. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aida-salazar-on-instagram-live-igtv/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards - Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha\, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her own right\, a woman who sought to understand the meaning of life even before her husband left their marriage and their infant son Rahula to seek his own enlightenment. Author Barbara McHugh brings to life the world of the aristocratic clan into which Yasodhara and Siddhartha Gautama were born and imagines Yasodhara as intelligent\, resourceful and independent—a woman who had always sought her own spiritual path\, despite the constraints placed on women at the time. Following the Siddhartha’s departure\, Yasodhara devotes herself to her life as a mother\, but when the Buddha returns and their young son leaves his family to enter the sangha\, she is devastated to learn that\, as a woman\, she is prohibited from joining them. Bereft\, she leaves the comforts of her family to live in the wild and apprentices herself to a female holy woman. After many adventures of her own\, she conceals her gender and enters the Buddha’s sangha as a young monk named Ananda\, who will eventually become one of the Buddha’s closest confidants and ultimately the one who convinces the Buddha to allow women into their community. \nIn the best tradition of historical fiction\, McHugh\, as she states in the novel’s Historical Note\, mixes “fact and fiction\, taking advantage of modern scholarship\, while at the same time weaving in myths and symbolic narratives to express truth\nbeyond words” in order to portray “a Buddha who is both a historical being and an evolving\, collective creation of the human imagination.” McHugh brings the past vividly to life in Bride of the Buddha while also addressing issues still debated today\, including gender identity\, sexuality\, the role of women in religious communities\, motherhood\, and more. She has created a book that\, as Sam Keen\, author of Fire in the Belly and Your Mythic Journey writes\, brings “Yasodhara out of the shadows” and makes “…use of historical texts\, oral traditions\, and a vivid imagination\, [to create] a portrait of the bride of Buddha and the world in which he lived…unforgettable.” \nBarbara McHugh\, PhD\, is a Buddhist practitioner with a degree in religion and literature from The Graduate Theological Union and UC Berkeley. She is a published poet\, writing coach\, and book doctor. Her research for this book includes exhaustive study of Pali texts in translation and on-site explorations in India. \nDorothy Edwards‘ first published work is Langston’s Moon\, a children’s story about an African American family. Currently she is at work on a novel set in the Caribbean and a non-fiction book about imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-mchugh-with-dorothy-edwards-bride-of-the-buddha-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Sherry L. Smith with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Sherry L. Smith’s Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of a radical romance at the dawn of the twentieth century. \nThe opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America\, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood\, two aspiring poets and political activists whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. \nSelf-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that chartered a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal affair frequently intersected with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement (including an automobile trip she took across the country in 1915 carrying a petition with thousands of signatures demanding Congress pass the Nineteenth Amendment)\, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades\, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history. \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. A historian of the American West and Native America\, Smith’s other books include Hippies\, Indians\, and the Fight for Red Power and Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes\, 1880–1940\, both published by Oxford University Press. She is a former president of the Western History Association and received the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library\, which supported research for Bohemians West. Smith has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Fulbright Foundation\, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. She lives in Moose\, Wyoming\, and Pasadena\, California. \nPeter Coyote is the author of the 1960’s counter-culture memoir Sleeping Where I Fall\, which received universally excellent reviews and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book about mentors and the search for wisdom\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015. His third book\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha) combines 50 years of Buddhist practice with acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” It is forthcoming from Inner Traditions Press\, as his first book of poems\, The Tongue of a Crow. He has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and transmitted teacher\, Peter is currently giving live weekly dharma talks on Facebook\, preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-sherry-l-smith-with-peter-coyote-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK\, FOUR LOST CITIES: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE URBAN AGE\, ON ZOOM!\nPREORDER A COPY TODAY AND RECEIVE A SPECIAL SIGNED POSTCARD!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82512999396\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82512999396#  or +12532158782\,\,82512999396#\nWebinar ID: 825 1299 9396\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kqZY7eKSG \nPraise for Four Lost Cities \n“Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity.”— N. K. Jemisin\, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We Became \n“Cheerful\, curious\, amused\, and amusing\, Annalee Newitz is a fabulous tour guide through the latest archaeological perspectives on four of humankind’s most remarkable urban experiments. Along the way\, Newitz dispels myths\, evokes fascinating stories—and makes us think hard about our own urban future.”— Charles C. Mann\, author of 1491 and 1493 \n“Annalee Newitz is a brilliant writer with the heart of an archaeologist and the soul of a visionary. Four Lost Cities should open our eyes to all that may happen to our cities in the future. Vibrant and adventurous\, this is a necessary book for turbulent times.”— Sarah Parcak\, archaeologist and author of Archaeology from Space \nAbout Four Lost Cities \nA quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. \nIn Four Lost Cities\, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world\, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities\, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey\, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast\, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia\, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia\, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. \nNewitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology\, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning\, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves\, women\, immigrants\, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. \nFour Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past\, but\, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities\, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-annalee-newitz-and-charles-c-mann/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Gretel Ehrlich\, Unsolaced
DESCRIPTION:Gretel Ehrlich\, author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces\, will share her new book Unsolaced—a wondrous meditation on how water\, light\, wind\, mountain\, bird\, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n\nAmid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets\, this stunning collection of memories\, observations\, and narratives is acute and lyrical\, Whitmanesque in breadth\, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse. “Sentience and sunderance\,” Ehrlich writes. “How we know what we know\, who teaches us\, how easy it is to lose it all.” As if to stave off impending loss\, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland\, Africa\, Kosovo\, Japan\, and an uninhabited Alaskan island\, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them. \n“In lush\, evocative prose\, Ehrlich details some breathtakingly perilous journeys . . . A vigorous plea for responsible environmental stewardship and a treat for all fans of nature writing.” — Kirkus Review (starred) \nGRETEL EHRLICH is the author of Facing the Wave\, The Future of Ice\, Heart Mountain\, The Solace of Open Spaces\, and This Cold Heaven\, among other works of nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry. Ehrlich studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She divides her time between Montana and Hawaii.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-gretel-ehrlich-unsolaced/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 2\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88666921359\, \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpEverythingSadIsUntrue or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/EverythingSadAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA true refugee story told in a Scheherazade-like format. It’s the most engrossing book I’ve read this year: it’s magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once. I love this boy and I loved learning about his Iranian childhood and one-of-a-kind immigrant experience in Oklahoma. A MUST READ! \n— Donna \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: a rich history of a young Iranian refugee making a life in Oklahoma\, his relationship with his parents\, and finding an identity. \n— Amy \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: This beautiful book made me laugh and cry. I listened to the audiobook\, and the narrator’s voice is everything. He uses humor and myths to tell the tale of his Iranian family settling in Oklahoma and though it was written for kids\, it is great for all ages. \n— Sarah \n  \nDescription\n\nAt the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma\, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands\, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned\, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. \nBut Khosrou’s stories\, stretching back years\, and decades\, and centuries\, are beautiful\, and terrifying\, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them\, back to the sad\, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras\, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything\, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. \nWe bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past\, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh\, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. \nLike Scheherazade in a hostile classroom\, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). \nIt is Daniel’s. \nAbout the Author\n\nDaniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the publisher of Odd Dot\, an imprint of Macmillan\, making him one of the youngest publishers in the industry. He has served on the CBC diversity committee and the CBC panel committee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everything-sad-is-untrue-by-daniel-nayeri-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Kiki Petrosino
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \n\nKiki Petrosino\nKiki Petrosino is the author of four books of poetry: White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020)\, Witch Wife (2017)\, Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013) and Fort Red Border (2009)\, all from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry\, Best American Poetry\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, FENCE\, Gulf Coast\, Jubilat\, Tin House and on-line at Ploughshares. She teaches at the University of Virginia as a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-kiki-petrosino/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dispatches from the Race War
DESCRIPTION:Essays on racial flashpoints\, white denial\, violence\, and the manipulation of fear in America today. \n“What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks’ truth . . . to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch\, but to recognize their own role in co-creating . . . a fair\, inclusive\, truly democratic society.”—Michelle Alexander\, author of The New Jim Crow \nIn this collection of essays\, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America. Seen through the lens of major flashpoints during the Obama and Trump years\, Dispatches from the Race War faces the consequences of white supremacy in all its forms. This includes a discussion of the bigoted undertones of the Tea Party’s backlash\, the killing of Trayvon Martin\, current day anti-immigrant hysteria\, the rise of openly avowed white nationalism\, the violent policing of African Americans\, and more. Wise devotes a substantial portion of the book to explore the racial ramifications of COVID-19\, and the widespread protests which followed the police murder of George Floyd. \nConcise\, accessible chapters\, most written in first-person\, offer an excellent source for those engaged in the anti-racism struggle. Tim Wise’s proactive approach asks white allies to contend with—and take responsibility for—their own role in perpetuating racism against Blacks and people of color. Dispatches from the Race War reminds us that the story of our country is the history of racial conflict\, and that our future may depend on how—or if—we can resolve it. “To accept racism is quintessentially American\,” writes Wise\, “to rebel against it is human. Be human.” \n“Tim Wise’s new book gives us the tools we need to reach people whose understanding of our country is white instead of right. And without pissing them off!”—James W. Loewen\, author\, Lies My Teacher Told Me \n“Tim Wise’s latest is more urgent than ever. Unflinchingly\, and page after page\, Wise calls out a brutal truth\, one unwelcome to so many white people: The racial trauma playing out across this nation\, hour after hour\, day after day\, is inflicted—be it actively or unwittingly—by them. But as Wise also\, so rightly\, notes\, this isn’t the whole story. Despite what some would hope for this nation\, we are not doomed to a white-sparked race war. Just as this nation’s history is steeped in racial oppression\, so too is it rich with anti-racist resistance. It is to this anti-racist resistance that white people in particular\, but the country as a whole\, must now commit. . . . no matter what.”—Heather Ann Thompson\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dispatches-from-the-race-war/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nFEBRUARY 4TH FEATURED WRITER: LAUREN GROFF\nLauren Groff is the author of five books\, most recently Fates and Furies\, a novel\, and Florida\, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L’héroïne\, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.  Her next novel\, Matrix\, is slated for publication by Riverhead in September 2021. \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-lauren-groff/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dantiel W. Moniz in conversation with C Pam Zhang
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Dantial W. Moniz new novel \nMilk Blood Heat \npublished by Grove Atlantic Press \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———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nA livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz\, one of the most exciting discoveries in today’s literary landscape\, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection\, race\, womanhood\, inheritance\, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida\, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls\, women\, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family\, faith\, forgiveness\, consumption\, and what we may\, or may not\, owe one another. \nA thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter—whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family’s church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father’s ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them. \nWise and subversive\, spiritual and seductive\, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth\, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star. \nDantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction\, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminars\, and a Tin House Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Paris Review\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, the Yale Review\, Joyland\, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\, and elsewhere. Milk Blood Heat is her first book. She lives in Northeast Florida. \nC Pam Zhang is the author of the novel How Much of These Hills is Gold published by Riverhead Books in 2020\, and was long-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dantiel-w-moniz-in-conversation-with-c-pam-zhang/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell'Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 4\, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, THE CHICKEN SISTERS\, with author KJ Dell’Antonia in conversation with Nancy Davis Kho\, author of THE THANK YOU PROJECT. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82283219224. \n(Order your copy of THE CHICKEN SISTERS at http://bit.ly/ggpChickenSisters or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/ChickenSistersAB.) \nDecember 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“I am charmed by The Chicken Sisters! Family fights\, fried chicken\, a dog and her puppies\, mental illness\, a shaky marriage\, a potential romance\, and a reality show taping all combine for a great small-town story. Generations of feuding sisters with competing chicken shack restaurants hash it out for the cameras\, their loved ones\, and themselves. The Chicken Sisters is a delightful read.”\n— Susan Williams\, M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers\, Greenville\, SC \nDescription\n\nINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK \n“A charming\, hilarious\, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also\, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”–Reese Witherspoon \nThree generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. \nIn tiny Merinac\, Kansas\, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state–and the legendary feud between their respective owners\, the Moores and the Pogociellos\, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore\, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi’s before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie’s. Tired of being caught in the middle\, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars\, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100\,000 to the winner. But in doing so\, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . . \nThe last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore\, Amanda’s sister\, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes\, helping the fading Mimi’s look good on Food Wars becomes Mae’s best chance to reclaim the limelight–even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie’s. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge\, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other\, or for their heritage? \nAbout the Author\n\nKJ Dell’Antonia is the former editor of Motherlode and current contributor to The New York Times\, as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent. She lives with her family on a small farm in Lyme\, New Hampshire\, but retains an abiding love for her childhood in Texas and Kansas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-chicken-sisters-author-kj-dellantonia-in-conversation-with-nancy-davis-kho/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T200000
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SUMMARY:The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell'Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 4\, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, THE CHICKEN SISTERS\, with author KJ Dell’Antonia in conversation with Nancy Davis Kho\, author of THE THANK YOU PROJECT. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82283219224. \n(Order your copy of THE CHICKEN SISTERS at http://bit.ly/ggpChickenSisters or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/ChickenSistersAB.) \nDecember 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“I am charmed by The Chicken Sisters! Family fights\, fried chicken\, a dog and her puppies\, mental illness\, a shaky marriage\, a potential romance\, and a reality show taping all combine for a great small-town story. Generations of feuding sisters with competing chicken shack restaurants hash it out for the cameras\, their loved ones\, and themselves. The Chicken Sisters is a delightful read.”\n— Susan Williams\, M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers\, Greenville\, SC \nDescription\n\nINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK \n“A charming\, hilarious\, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also\, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”–Reese Witherspoon \nThree generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. \nIn tiny Merinac\, Kansas\, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state–and the legendary feud between their respective owners\, the Moores and the Pogociellos\, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore\, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi’s before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie’s. Tired of being caught in the middle\, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars\, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100\,000 to the winner. But in doing so\, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . . \nThe last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore\, Amanda’s sister\, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes\, helping the fading Mimi’s look good on Food Wars becomes Mae’s best chance to reclaim the limelight–even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie’s. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge\, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other\, or for their heritage? \nAbout the Author\n\nKJ Dell’Antonia is the former editor of Motherlode and current contributor to The New York Times\, as well as the author of How to Be a Happier Parent. She lives with her family on a small farm in Lyme\, New Hampshire\, but retains an abiding love for her childhood in Texas and Kansas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-chicken-sisters-author-kj-dellantonia-in-conversation-with-nancy-davis-kho-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”.\nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by Georgina Marie!! And MC’s by Mia Ruiz\nLineup of readers:\nBrenda Yeager\, Beulah Vega\, Charity E. Yoro\, Lauren Traetto\, Melissa Eleftherion Carr\, K.R. Morrison\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Georgina Marie!\nTime: Feb 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the First Thu\, 6 occurrence(s)\nFeb 4\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 1\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 6\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 3\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 1\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0pdeqgqjgpGdWQXBj…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89423843331\nMeeting ID: 894 2384 3331\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,89423843331# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,89423843331# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 894 2384 3331\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbQpWeGiUH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-georgina-marie/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
CREATED:20210127T191024Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! A Tribute to Jory Post
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a tribute to Jory Post\, beloved Bookshop friend and champion of the written word. From coordinating Santa Cruz’s Open Read to producing the Zoom Forward Poetry Series to co-creating phren-Z\, Jory had a hand in so many aspects of local literary life. We will miss the many ways he turned his passion for the written word into creating community. \nThis special reading is sponsored by Catamaran\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.\nRegister to attend here. \nPLEASE NOTE: Though previous messaging said the event would be held January 29th\, we have pushed the date back to adequately prepare this tribute. We will feature some of Jory’s friends reading his work as well as photos and words from his family. \nTo subscribe directly to the Santa Cruz Writes email list\, which will provide you with weekly announcements for upcoming readings\, use https://mailchi.mp/cruzio/zoomforward where you will be sent a link to JOIN MEETING on Friday. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, email hannah@santacruzwrites.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-a-tribute-to-jory-post/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
CREATED:20210113T053503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T053503Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Dr. Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell with Faith Salie
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 5 AT 6PM PT WHEN DR. JUDY MELINEK AND T.J. MITCHELL ARE JOINED BY FAITH SALIE TO DISCUSS THEIR LATEST BOOK\, AFTERSHOCK\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82704963550\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82704963550#  or +12532158782\,\,82704963550#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kewskyOUPs \nAbout Aftershock \nWhen an earthquake strikes San Francisco\, forensics expert Jessie Teska faces her biggest threat yet in this explosive new mystery from the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff and First Cut. \nOn first glance\, the death appears to be an accident. The body is located on a construction site under what looks like a collapse beam. But when Dr. Jessie Teska arrives on the scene\, she notices the tell-tale signs of a staged death. The victim has been murdered. A rising star in the San Francisco forensics world\, Jessie is ready to unravel the case\, help bring the murderer to justice\, and prevent him from potentially striking again. \nBut when a major earthquake strikes San Francisco right at Halloween\, Jessie and the rest of the city are left reeling. And even if she emerges from the rubble\, there’s no guaranteeing she’ll make it out alive. \nWith their trademark blend of propulsive prose\, deft plotting and mordant humor\, this electrifying new installment in the Jessie Teska Mystery series offers the highest stakes yet. \nAbout the Authors \nJudy Melinek & T.J. Mitchell are the New York Times bestselling co-authors of Working Stiff: Two Years\, 262 Bodies\, and the Making of a Medical Examiner\, and the novel First Cut. Dr. Melinek studied at Harvard and UCLA\, was a medical examiner in San Francisco for nine years\, and today works as a forensic pathologist in Oakland and as CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. T.J. Mitchell\, her husband\, is a writer with an English degree from Harvard\, and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad to their children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dr-judy-melinek-and-t-j-mitchell-with-faith-salie/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T213000
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Derek N. Otsuji and Mark Tarren read from their poetry. Include open mic and literary trivia quiz. \nDerek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours\, winner of the 2021 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition. It will be published by SIU Press in fall 2021. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review\, The Southern Review\, Rattle\, Poet Lore\, and Pleiades. \nMark Tarren is a poet and writer who lives on remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. A Pushcart nominee\, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various literary journals including The New Verse News\, The Blue Nib\, Poets Reading The News\, Street Light Press\, Spillwords Press\, Tuck Magazine and Impspired Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
CREATED:20210105T183135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T183135Z
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SUMMARY:Generation Rising Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of “Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism” with author Loan Thi Dao and Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) \nHosted by Eastwind Books of Berkeley and co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Asian American Research Center (AARC) \nRSVP at https://generationrising.eventbrite.com \n—-\nTo purchase copies of the featured authors’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\nPaperback: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2721/GENERATION_RISING%3A_A_NEW_POLITICS_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIAN_AMERICAN_ACTIVISM_Available_to_order.html \nE-book: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2866/GENERATION_RISING%3A_A_NEW_POLITICS_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIAN_AMERICAN_ACTIVISM_%28EBOOK-PERSONAL%29_.html \n15% off all purchases with discount code HOLIDAY15! \nChoose to ship your orders (free shipping for orders $30+) to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. See Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/generation-rising-book-launch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
CREATED:20210114T005950Z
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SUMMARY:Neurotica Erotica: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you are invited to attend a very fun generative poetry workshop where we will dive into all the juicy messiness of love—just in time for Valentine’s Day.  \nCathartic Release for the Pain of Broken-Hearted\, Unrequited\, Disappointed or Simply Messy LOVE. Let’s make a BIG MESS. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• Examples and discussion of “neurotic erotica” poems \n• Introduction to the anthology Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung \n• Generative writing prompt to pen your own love/anti-love poem \n• Time to write and share in a non-judgmental and supportive group setting (not critique) \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nThis is not your typical “love poem” workshop. Whether you’re single\, married\, in love\, in regret\, in denial\, in yearning\, or anywhere else around the outskirts of the heart\, you are invited to come and explore your *neuroses* around the phenomenon of love. We all know we have them\, so this is a space to write about them\, let them out\, face them\, love them\, transform them… \nIn this workshop\, we will explore the questions: Do love poems have to be sweet? Isn’t love messy and complicated? We will read and write poems that are dynamic in their imperfections. Whether you are in or out of a relationship\, you are invited to explore your neuroses around love and turn your wounds into words. \nArmine will be giving prompts from one of her favorite poetry anthologies\, Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung\, to get us in the mood to write some messy\, beautifully disheleved lovin’ (or non-lovin’) poems. However you come\, come as you are! Hugs and laughter will be provided.  \nAbout the Teacher:\nBorn in Beirut\, Lebanon\, Arminé Iknadossian immigrated to the United States in 1978 to escape the civil war. She is the author of All That Wasted Fruit (Main Street Rag Press\, 2018). She earned an MFA from Antioch University where she was awarded a fellowship from Summer Poetry in Idyllwild. After teaching English for 20 years\, Iknadossian wrote United States of Love & Other Poems (2015). During her tenure as a teacher\, The Los Angeles Writing Project awarded Iknadossian a fellowship for their summer residency. Iknadossian currently lives close to the sea with Henry the Cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neurotica-erotica-love-poems-for-the-nervous-highly-strung/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
CREATED:20201227T204506Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Chang-rae Lee (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Chang-rae Lee‘s latest novel\, My Year Abroad\, is an exuberant\, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure—and about the human capacities for pleasure\, pain\, and connection. \nTiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life\, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia\, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé\, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world\, of Pong\, and of himself. \nIn the breathtaking\, “precise\, elliptical prose” that Chang-rae Lee is known for (The New York Times)\, the narrative alternates between Tiller’s outlandish\, mind-boggling year with Pong and the strange\, riveting\, emotionally complex domestic life that follows it\, as Tiller processes what happened to him abroad and what it means for his future. Rich with commentary on Western attitudes\, Eastern stereotypes\, capitalism\, global trade\, mental health\, parenthood\, mentorship\, and more\, My Year Abroad is also an exploration of the surprising effects of cultural immersion—on a young American in Asia\, on a Chinese man in America\, and on an unlikely couple hiding out in the suburbs. Tinged at once with humor and darkness\, electric with its accumulating surprises and suspense\, My Year Abroad is a novel that only Chang-rae Lee could have written\, and one that will be read and discussed for years to come. \nChang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker\, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction\, as well as On Such a Full Sea\, A Gesture Life\, Aloft\, and The Surrendered\, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-chang-rae-lee-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210210
DTSTAMP:20260409T123935
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SUMMARY:Rabbit Island Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rabbit Island Launch\n\nVirtual Event \n\n\n\nJoin Community Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island\, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle\, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom\, brilliantly translated by Christina MacSweeney. \nMore information coming soon! \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabbit-island-launch/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T193000
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CREATED:20210203T044014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T044014Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Liat Berdugo / The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography\, Aesthetics\, and Politics in Israel and Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Liat Berdugo and her new book The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography\, Aesthetics\, and Politics in Israel and Palestine. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order *signed copies* of The Weaponized Camera here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nDrawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B’Tselem\, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank\, East Jerusalem\, and the Gaza Strip\, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine. \nUsing video stills as core material\, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level\, how Palestinians originally filmed to “shoot back” at Israelis\, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras\, including personal cell phone cameras\, thus creating a simultaneous\, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice\, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen\, but also who is seeing\, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5\,000 hours of footage\, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain\, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict. \nAbout the author\nLiat Berdugo is Assistant Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. She is also an artist\, writer and curator and has exhibited in galleries and festivals nationally and internationally. Her work has won several awards\, including fellowships at the Hambidge Center\, the Vermont Studio center\, and a year-long residency in Tel Aviv\, Israel\, through the Dorot Foundation. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-liat-berdugo-the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-videography-aesthetics-and-politics-in-israel-and-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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