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SUMMARY:ReTargeting Iran
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ\n\nWhat will it take to reverse the current US escalation trajectory\, and what about after the election? Is there a potential for a diplomatic solution\, and can Washington and Tehran find common ground? \nDavid Barsamian is the author of ReTargeting Iran\, a new book of conversations with experts on the US-Iran relationship. \nRegister for this virtual book talk\, co-sponsored by Institute for Policy Studies and City Lights Books\, when David talks with two of those experts\, Hader Hashemi and Trita Parsi\, in an event moderated by Phyllis Bennis. \nRegister on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/retargeting-iran/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David Eagleman
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWith rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly\, from Khaled Hosseini and Russell Brand alike\, Livewired is a fascinating review of the brain that you absolutely need right now. With his usual clarity\, approachability and brilliance\, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers with this book a hope that even 2020 cannot crush: the ability of your brain\, perhaps the world’s most complex machine\, to adapt constantly to change. How does the brain absorb new experiences\, sensory input\, and insight? How does it interface with new technologies\, or the sudden loss of sight? The answers this beloved writer puts forward will delight and inform you. \nBolstered by Eagleman’s wit and contagious enthusiasm\, Livewired details the connection between our bodies and minds\, the brain’s adaptations to grief\, responses to change\, and more. It is a manual to the self that you didn’t know you needed\, accented with captivating stories from the frontiers of neuroscience. \nIn an hour-long conversation online with Angie Coiro for This is Now\, return favorite Eagleman shares science that is triumphant and hopeful. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-eagleman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:eading from her new book \nFor Now \npublished by Yale 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 to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nIn this raucous meditation\, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit\, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors\, friends\, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. \nFor Myles\, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention\, as devotion\, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is\, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent\, generous\, and always insightful\, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists. \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. \nPraise for the Writing of Eileen Myles\n\n“Myles possesses\, in abundance\, two qualities of the highest value for a writer\, irreverence and relentless curiosity.”\n―New York Times Book Review\n\n“[Myles’s] work is hard to describe\, best encountered on its own terms; suffice to say it combines frankness and beauty in a truly original way.”\n—The Guardian\n\n“Myles is a big deal\, a rock star\, sort of like the Patti Smith of contemporary poetry…. Myles is relentlessly casual\, and even joyful. [Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell\, and like a hip Virgil\, is happy to show us the way.”\n—NPR.org\n\n“To read Eileen Myles is to feel as if the poet\, after spotting you across the room at a crowded party\, has guided you by the elbow to a private corner to confide their personal theories of the universe.”\n―O\, the Oprah Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-myles-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "A Very Gay Book Reading"
DESCRIPTION:The Perfectly Queer reading series returns to host “A Very Gay Book Reading” online via Zoom Tuesday\, September 29\, 7pm to 8:15pm. Four Gay authors will read from brand new books: Rick May (GAY ALL YEAR)\, Wayne Goodman (ALL THE RIGHT PLACES)\, Rob Rosen (TED OF THE D’UBERVILLES)\, and Jim Provenzano (FINDING TULSA). \nThe Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84457652109pwd=aVJGenpUa3F5Ym11VDNwVHNtNllVZz09 \nThis event is free. Copies of all four books are available at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco or by ordering from your local independent bookstore. \nAuthor information:\nRick May’s short fiction has been published in his three collections GAY ALL YEAR: Twelve Optimistic Stories\, INHUMAN BEINGS: Monsters\, Myths\, and Science Fiction\, and GINGER SNAPS: Photos & Stories (with photographer David Sweet) and numerous anthologies and literary periodicals. He lives in San Francisco. \nWayne Goodman lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner Rick May (and too many cats). His writing tends to be historical fiction with a focus on LGBTQ+ characters. He is the host of Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with Queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing\, he likes to play piano music from the Gilded Age. \nJim Provenzano is the author of seven novels including FINDING TULSA and the Lambda Literary Award winner EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU and Lambda Literary Award finalist MESSAGE OF LOVE\, plus several plays and a short story collection. A prolific journalist\, editor\, and photographer in LGBTQ+ media for three decades\, he lives in San Francisco. \nRob Rosen is an editor and the author of numerous short stories and the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-a-very-gay-book-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. her writing as appear in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery\, Becoming a Good Creature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book\, Becoming a Good Creature. Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir\, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s beautiful\, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead\, pass it on. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSchool is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature\, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship\, compassion\, and how to be a better creature in the world. \nSy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs\, others with four\, or even eight! Some have had fur\, feathers\, or hooves. But they’ve all had one thing in common: a lesson to share. \nThe animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways\, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas\, dogs\, octopuses\, tigers\, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect. \nSY MONTGOMERY In addition to researching films\, articles\, and over twenty books\, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal\, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science\, three honorary degrees\, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock\, New Hampshire\, with her husband\, Howard Mansfield\, and their border collie\, Thurber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sy-montgomery-becoming-a-good-creature-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83537126052#  or +12532158782\,\,83537126052#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kWpuBjfHD \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SFPL Live - Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate this local author\, educator\, poet\, activist and Mission District native. Bac Sierra’s new book Pura Neta\, the long awaited sequel to Barrio Bushido is due out in mid September Pochino Press. Benjamin Bac Sierra will be interviewed by  Luis Rodriguez\, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca and most recently From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice.  \nBenjamin Bac Sierra  was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps\, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War\, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley\, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law. Currently\, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.  \nLuis Rodriguez is a former Los Angeles Poet Laureate. He has 16 books\, is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center & Bookstore. Rodriguez has two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction\, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing (Touchstone\, 2012)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, and a mandatory read\,  Always Running: La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books\, 1993)\, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His latest book\, From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer\, explores race\, culture\, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.  \nConnect with Ben Bac Sierra: Website \nConnect with Luis Rodrigues: Website | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/PuraNeta9-30-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live:  https://youtu.be/gzha5aCxQhY \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-live-benjamin-bac-sierra-in-convo-with-luis-rodriguez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoetrope Magazine Fall Issue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates the award winning literary periodical’s fall issue. Editor Michael Ray and Managing Editor Manjula Martin are joined by several contributors in an afternoon of readings and celebration. \n \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase the journal (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\nFounded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997\, Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly print magazine of short fiction\, one-act plays\, and essays on film. Among the most celebrated literary periodicals in the world\, it has won every major story award\, including four National Magazine Awards for Fiction\, along with a number of design commendations. The magazine’s contributors comprise the most promising and significant writers of our era: Mary Gaitskill\, Colum McCann\, Rachel Cusk\, Jim Shepard\, Elena Ferrante\, Daniel Alarcón\, Karen Russell\, Yiyun Li\, Jonathan Lethem\, Wes Anderson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Mamet\, Ha Jin\, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Margaret Atwood\, Pedro Almodóvar\, Ethan Coen\, Yoko Ogawa\, Charles D’Ambrosio\, Neil Jordan\, Haruki Murakami\, and many more. \nZoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine—the editors invite a different artist to design each edition in its entirety. Past guest designers include David Lynch\, Zaha Hadid\, William Eggleston\, Agnès Varda\, Kara Walker\, David Bowie\, Ed Ruscha\, Iggy Pop\, Guillermo del Toro\, Abbas Kiarostami\, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte\, PJ Harvey\, Elizabeth Peyton\, Gus Van Sant\, Tom Waits\, Laurie Anderson\, Julian Schnabel\, Mary Ellen Mark\, David Byrne\, Helmut Newton\, Lou Reed\, and John Baldessari\, among others. \nThe magazine is published quarterly in March\, June\, September\, and December and printed in California by Community Printers\, Inc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoetrope-magazine-fall-issue-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mendelsohn Acclaimed writer discusses his new book\, Three Rings\, with local Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Mendelsohn is joined in conversation by Chris Jennings to discuss his latest book\, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile\, Narrative\, and Fate (University of Virginia Press). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Register here. \nAbout Three Rings\nIn this genre-defying book\, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. \nCombining memoir\, biography\, history\, and literary criticism\, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own–works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach\, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature\, Mimesis\, in Istanbul… Francois Fenelon\, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey\, The Adventures of Telemachus–a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years–resulted in his banishment… and the German novelist W. G. Sebald\, self-exiled to England\, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement\, nostalgia\, and separation from home. \nIntertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggles to write two of his own books–a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father–that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion\, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders\, languages\, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history\, art and life. \nAbout the authors\nDaniel Mendelsohn is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, where he is Editor-at-Large. His books include the memoirs An Odyssey: A Father\, a Son\, and an Epic and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million as well as three collections of essays and criticism\, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones. He teaches literature at Bard College. \nChris Jennings is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. He graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. He lives in Northern California with his family and dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mendelsohn-acclaimed-writer-discusses-his-new-book-three-rings-with-local-chris-jennings/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Yamile Saied Méndez
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 2nd at 6pm PDT\, when Yamile Saied Méndez dicusses her YA debut novel\, Furia\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82109506823 \nWebinar ID: 821 0950 6823 \nAbout Furia \nA powerful\, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina\, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. \nIn Rosario\, Argentina\, Camila Hassan lives a double life. \nAt home\, she is a careful daughter\, living within her mother’s narrow expectations\, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow\, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. \nOn the field\, she is La Furia\, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament\, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams\, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. \nBut the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left\, Diego has become an international star\, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now\, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated\, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her. \nFilled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina\, heart-soaring romance\, and breathless action on the pitch\, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own. \nAbout Yamile Saied Méndez \nYamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine American who loves meteor showers\, summer\, astrology\, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids\, two adorable dogs\, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient\, she’s a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Méndez is also part of Las Musas\, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx middle grade and young adult authors. Furia is her first novel for young adult readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-yamile-saied-mendez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #29
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \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: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-29-tickets-122775722491; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. 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 \nNomadic Press is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #28\nTime: Oct 2\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83208913825 \nMeeting ID: 832 0891 3825\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83208913825# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83208913825# 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 (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 832 0891 3825\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kr39Am2nf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir\, Here We Are\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81346922046\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81346922046#  or +12532158782\,\,81346922046#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 813 4692 2046\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/ktyp7X41Q \nPraise for Here We Are \n“Aarti Shahani’s book is destined to take its place among the finest memoirs written in recent decades—a heartbreaking\, hilarious and tender love letter to the millions of people who have made their way across lands and oceans to try and find a new life in America. This book will take you on a vivid\, almost cinematic journey that is both beautiful and unforgettable.”\n—Guy Raz\, co-creator of How I Built This\, Wow in the World and TED Radio Hour \nIncluded in Library Journal‘s list of Best Books 2019. \n“This timely\, bittersweet immigration story will resonate powerfully with readers.”\n—Publishers Weekly \n“As it chronicles immigrant tragedy and triumph\, this provocative book also reveals the dark underside of the American judicial system and the many pitfalls for people of color within a landscape of white privilege. A candid and moving memoir.”\n—Kirkus \n“A worthy addition to immigration discourse\, this book is a raw and engaging glimpse into the challenges immigrant families face that are either too traumatic or mundane to land on the news.”\n—BookPage \nAbout Here We Are \nHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream\, the justice system that took it away\, and the daughter who fought to get it back\, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aarti-namdev-shahani/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mike Jung In Conversation with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich --VIRTUALLY!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation between Mike Jung and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich as they discuss Jung’s new novel\,The Boys in the Back Row. \nJung will debut his forthcoming music video opus of absurdity\, “Kitten Time\,” announce the winners of his pre-order giveaway\, and possibly even perform a live song. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will take place live on Crowdcast. Pre-registration required. Click here to save your spot! \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to purchase a signed copy of the book through our website and / or to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s virtual events. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot”. Thank you! \nBest friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park\, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol–a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course\, their final adventure together is more than just that–really\, it’s a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship\, and their honest love and support for one another. That’s exactly what we love so much about The Boys in the Back Row it’s an unabashed ode to male friendship\, because love between boys\, platonic or otherwise\, is something to celebrate. And of course\, because this is Mike Jung\, we’ll be celebrating it with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore! \nMike Jung is the author of  Geeks\, Girls\, and Secret Identities\, Unidentified Suburban Object\, and The Boys in the Back Row\, and contributed to the anthologies Dear Teen Me\, Break These Rules\, 59 Reasons to Write\, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy\, and The Hero Next Door. His books have been honored by the Bank Street College of Education\, Children’s Book Council Reading Beyond List\, Cooperative Children’s Book Center\, Georgia State Book Awards\, Iowa Children’s Choice Awards\, Kansas State Reading Circle\, National Parenting Publications Awards\, Parents Choice Foundation\, and Texas Bluebonnet Awards. He’s proud to be a founding member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks team\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with his family. Find Mike on Facebook\, Twitter\, or at www.mikejung.com. \nOlugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of many books including The Two Naomis and the forthcoming It Doesn’t Take a Genius. Her nonfiction includes Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins\, and Saving Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Fight for Our Future. She has contributed to a number of anthologies\, including We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and was the editor of We Need Diverse Books’ The Hero Next Door. She lives with her family in NYC. Find her on Instagram @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-jung-in-conversation-with-olugbemisola-rhuday-perkovich-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Book Launch: A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of Ruby member Sunisa Manning’s debut novel\, A Good True Thai (Epigram Books\, September 2020)\, hailed by Kirstin Chen\, author of Bury What We Cannot Take\, as “an astounding debut from a talented new voice\,” and a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Sunisa will be in conversation with Ruby member Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods. The poet Monica Sok\, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, will read an invocation to open the event. \nBooks are available for purchase here through East Bay Booksellers. \nAbout the book: \nSet in the 1970s\, A Good True Thai is a historical epic that captures one of the most famous periods of political unrest and artistic openness in Thailand’s history. It follows the story of three young people –Det\, Lek and Chang – whose paths converge at a local university. Det is the descendant of royalty through his mother\, the granddaughter of a king. Influenced by Lek and Chang’s political fervour\, Det radicalises\, and the three of them venture into the Thai jungle to fight alongside the communists. As they are embroiled in the perils of political revolution\, they must learn to tame and reconcile their love for one another. A Good True Thai was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. \nAbout Sunisa: \nSunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus and other places. She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge\, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writers Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-tickets-119361010997
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-by-sunisa-manning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present…\nThe Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr / A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with the authors of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area\, Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr. \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of A People’s Guide to San Francisco\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n\nA People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area\, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule\, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence\, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures\, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. \nThe book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley’s wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region\, like bankers’ wealth did in the past\, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area\, with its rich political legacies? \nWith over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from\, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers\, educators\, or longtime residents\, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands\, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay\, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers\, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region. \n\n \nRachel Brahinsky is Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco\, affiliated with Urban and Public Affairs\, Politics\, and Urban Studies. Her research is focused on race\, property\, and urban change. \n \nAlexander Tarr is Assistant Professor of Geography at Worcester State University. His research\, writing\, and cartography examine the development of cities\, food politics\, and digital culture. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rachel-brahinsky-and-alexander-tarr-a-peoples-guide-to-the-san-francisco-bay-area/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel\, HAMNET. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85002634130. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPHamnet\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/HamnetAB. \nAugust 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“I loved Hamnet in very much the same way I loved Lincoln in the Bardo. This novel explores the way the dead haunt the living—especially how the death of a child haunts their parents—and does it in the context of a fascinating historical figure and time. But we know so much about the Lincolns\, and so little about the Shakespeares. Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to construct a palpably real emotional life for all the members of the Shakespeare family—but especially for Shakespeare’s wife—is just magical. This is a powerful and haunting novel.”— Nina Barrett\, Bookends & Beginnings\, Evanston\, IL \nDescription\n\nEngland\, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land\, an ever-present threat\, infecting the healthy\, the sick\, the old and the young\, alike. The end of days is near\, but life always goes on. \nA young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary\, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer\, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast\, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband\, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. \nA luminous portrait of a marriage\, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss\, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten\, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time\, Hamnet is mesmerizing\, seductive\, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. \nAbout the Author\n\nBorn in Northern Ireland in 1972\, Maggie O’Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award); Instructions for a Heatwave; This Must Be the Place; and most recently\, I Am\, I Am\, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. \nPraise For…\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \n“Hamnet is an exploration of marriage and grief written into the silent opacities of a life that is at once extremely famous and profoundly obscure… In Hamnet\, Shakespeare’s marriage is complicated and troubled\, yet brimming with love and passion… This novel is at once about the transfiguration of life into art– it is O’Farrell’s extended speculation on how Hamnet’s death might have fueled the creation of one of his father’s greatest plays– and at the same time\, it is a master class in how she\, herself does it… O’Farrell has a melodic relationship to language.  There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world… We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glover’s workshop\, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed\, and we can see how the pale London sun “reaches down\, like ladders\, through the narrow gaps in buildings to illuminate the rain glazed street.”… As the book unfolds\, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief\, the most damaged marriage\, and most shattered heart might find some solace\, some healing.”\n–Geraldine Brooks\, the New York Times Book Review [COVER] \n“All too timely…inspired…[An] exceptional historical novel ”\n—The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books\npresent the Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus:Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Paul Corman Roberts\n CV\nDevorah major- special guest\nDeborah Fruchey\nHannah Ingebretsen\nHalim Madi\nPeggy Morrison\n Abe Becker\n Sheryl Bize-Boute\nLisa Lim
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossushome-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Katherine May On Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
DESCRIPTION:Katherine May joins us from the UK to discuss her new book\, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Riverhead Books). \n“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” — Elizabeth Gilbert \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Wintering\nSometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness\, the death of a loved one\, a break up\, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May\, her husband fell ill\, her son stopped attending school\, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time\, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. \nA moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature\, mythology\, and the natural world\, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation\, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath\, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. \nUltimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat\, joy in the hushed beauty of winter\, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical\, not linear. A secular mystic\, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. \nAbout Katherine May\nKatherine May is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The Times (London)\, Good Housekeeping\, and Cosmopolitan. She lives by the sea in Whitstable\, England and is an avid lover of the outdoors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-may-on-wintering-the-power-of-rest-and-retreat-in-difficult-times/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali\, Gillian Conoley\, and Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new collection\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84685235176Or iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84685235176# or +12532158782\,\,84685235176#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 846 8523 5176\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc6CqHx1gM\n\nAbout The Voice of Sheila Chandra\nTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome\, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival\, but of persistence\, as this part research-based\, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.\n\nAbout the Author\nKazim Aliwas born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-gillian-conoley-and-brian-teare/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Fowzia Karimi
DESCRIPTION:Fowzia Karimi is a writer\, illustrator\, and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing Program. As Publishers Weeklydescribes\, her illuminated debut novel Above Us the Milky Way “renders a family’s wartime emigration through a polyphonic mix of voices and genres along with evocative color illustrations and photographs.” Karimi also illustratedThe Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors by A. Kendra Greene. She is the recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and lives in Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fowzia-karimi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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SUMMARY:Bathsheba Demuth and Elizabeth Rush Discuss the award-winning environmental history\, Floating Coast
DESCRIPTION:Bathsheba Demuth and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elizabeth Rush join us for a conversation about Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \n“A brilliant hybrid.… Often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research\, intense looking and listening\, and its clear ethical vision.” — Robert Macfarlane\, author of Underland \nAbout Floating Coast\nA Nature Top-Ten Book of 2019 \nAn NPR\, Library Journal\, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019 \n“A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created.” —Sven Beckert\, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of Cotton: A Global History \nFloating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia\, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska\, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American and European colonization. Rapidly\, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How\, under conditions of extreme scarcity\, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? \nDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region\, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet. \nAbout the participants\nBathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University\, specializing in the United States and Russia\, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. \nElizabeth Rush‘s journalism has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Harper’s\, Pacific Standard\, and the New Republic\, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship\, awarded by Brown University; the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Pedagogical Innovation in the Humanities; the Metcalf Institute Fellowship; and the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University and her BA from Reed College. She lives in Rhode Island\, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bathsheba-demuth-and-elizabeth-rush-discuss-the-award-winning-environmental-history-floating-coast/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patti Smith
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers present \nExtraordinary Dreamer: Patti Smith on “Year of the Monkey” \nPatti Smith in an intimate evening of reading and music \ncelebrating the paperback release of \nYEAR OF THE MONKEY \npublished by Vintage Books \nTickets: $35.00 \n(Purchase Tickets Here) \nThis is a virtual event. \nEach ticket purchase includes a paperback copy of Year of the Monkey (note: we can only ship within the United States)\, event admission for the live event\, and a link to the recorded conversation for viewing after October 8th. Book orders will begin shipping after September 1st. \nWe regret we cannot accept international orders for this event. \nShe redefined rock and roll for a generation\, defied conventional expectations at every turn\, and created enough zeitgeist-shaping art for more than one lifetime. Now Patti Smith has something new and beautiful to share: a “beautiful\, elegant\, and poetic” (NPR) memoir chronicling a transformational year of personal loss\, cross-country travel\, and political upheaval. Year of the Monkey reprises the spellbinding storytelling we all fell in love with in her National Book Award-winning Just Kids and bestselling M Train\, conjuring the complexity and magic of an extraordinary dreamer’s inner life. In this unique live experience\, Patti will play a few songs with longtime band mate Tony Shanahan and share passages from Year of the Monkey. \nCritical Praise for YEAR OF THE MONKEY \n“Poignant\, gorgeous—a picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life\, blending fiction and reality\, conjured characters and actual ones. She writes of seeing her image reflected on the surface of the toaster: ‘I noticed I looked young and old simultaneously.’ That describes her spirit perfectly.” —Maureen Dowd\, The New York Times\n \n“Elegant\, poetic\, wildly entertaining\, touching—a beautifully realized and unique memoir that chronicles a transformative year in the life of one of our most multi-talented creative voices. Part travel journal\, part reflexive essay on our times\, and part meditation on existence at the edge of a new decade of life . . . Effortlessly weaving together fiction and nonfiction\, Smith takes readers on two unique journeys: one that can be traced on a map and one\, infinitely richer and more complex\, that takes place inside her head and heart. Smith’s musical career sometimes threatens to overshadow her accomplishments in other creative fields—but every page in this book is packed with enough outstanding prose to constantly remind readers that Smith is an accomplished novelist\, essayist\, and poet who won the National Book Award in 2010. In her capable hands\, a simple look at New York City in winter becomes a flash of beautiful poetry. Smith’s approach to nonfiction is unique and brave: It counts as true if it happened\, if she imagined it\, and if she felt it. This is a book about Smith and the world all around. And that is just one more reason why everyone should read it.” —Gabino Iglesias\, NPR\n \n“Moving—an account of physical and intellectual wanderings . . . Smith does not rage against her approaching 70th birthday\, nor does she turn away from it. She finds art everywhere\, and remains a pioneer\, the same rules-shattering poet and National Book Award-winning writer . . . She is\, as she writes in Year of the Monkey\, ‘still going about my business\, that of being alive\, the best I can.’” —Jack Cline\, The Washington Post \n“Miraculous . . . A dream-driven\, reality-reclaiming masterpiece laced with poetry and philosophy and surrealism and the hardest realism there is: that of hope . . . Smith is aglow; she moves through this world as a time-traveler\, an eavesdropper\, a vagrant\, a vagabond in the land of literature and life; she is a human mirror. She. invites us to relinquish the different names we give to the living of life and just live it\, with all its disorienting uncertainty. Reflecting on clarifying dreams\, worrying for our shared future\, Smith reminds us that the only remedy for a broken reality is more truth. She reaches\, with a lucid and luminous hand\, for the buoyancy that is our lifeline.” —Maria Popova\, Brain Pickings\n \n“A lucid dream of a memoir . . .Smith sees mystical connections everywhere—and\, floating along on the drifts of her words\, the reader does\, too.” —The New Yorker\n \n“Deft and enigmatic. . . Life  can’t help but confound us; love is enough to sustain us\, and loss\, if not revocable\, can\, for the moment\, be redeemed. [But] Smith is too smart for easy consolations; she has been through too much . . . She summons this scene\, this moment\, giving it the weight of a reckoning. Year of the Monkey reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source.” —David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times\n \n“Smith began writing Year of the Monkey on New Year’s Day 2016\, a transformative year for the artist that brought aging\, the loss of friends\, and overall disillusionment. Juxtaposed with this personal narrative are Smith’s descriptions of western landscapes she visited . . . Fact and fiction increasingly blur\, a combination made surreal by Smith’s obsession with details that keep popping up in various locations . . . A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence—expressed with Smith’s signature poetic flair.” —Christian Allaire\, Vogue \n“Since 1975\, Patti Smith has been blurring the lines between music\, poetry\, and prose\, howling with grief and roaring with delight\, whether onstage or via the written word. Year of the Monkey [is] her preternatural latest memoir . . . In this slim\, hallucinatory volume\, Smith roves the country in real time\, visiting favorite haunts\, hitching rides with strangers\, contemplating the fuzzy border between waking and dreaming\, and mourning the results of the 2016 presidential election. But just as a sense of gloom begins to settle\, the sun peeks through the clouds. For while ‘there is nothing in heaven like the suffering of real life…\,’ she writes\, ‘I still keep thinking something wonderful is about to happen.’” —Leigh Haber\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\n \n“Lyrical\, poignant . . . [the book] chronicles Smith’s travels and beautifully veers between dreamlike solitary reveries. Smith gives voice in the book to a national feeling of grief framed by her own personal losses; she sums up the nexus of aging\, steeped in reflection and loss. She notices every detail like a photographer\, with her words exquisitely framed by nuance.” —Solvej Schou\, Associated Press \n“Reading about [Smith’s life] makes the world shimmer with possibility. We follow her as she hitchhikes through the desert and gets left for dead\, meets weirdos and mystics in diners up and down the coast\, then takes off for Kentucky to help the playwright Sam Shepard finish his final project. A book full of riddles and fantasies [and] about one woman’s 2016. Grief on a colossal\, national scale has a way of making the most personal\, quotidian sufferings feel small and unimportant. At the same time\, it makes those typical human tragedies appear suddenly of a piece with the world around them. Patti Smith writes beautifully.” —Kaitlyn Tiffany\, Vox\n \n“A fascinating journey . . . powerful stuff. Smith [has a] peculiar brand of wandering—dead phone\, no car\, scant provisions\, vague itinerary . . . The book has little about music\, [but] what’s there is priceless. Year of the Monkey [also] includes charming\, quirky photos by the author\, and achingly sweet recollections.” —Claude Peck\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\n \n“In her third memoir\, Smith is both haunted and joyed by the passage of time. Losses surround her [in] the year she turns 70—a year of devastation\, with catastrophes both unique to her life and ones shared across America. As she crosses the country in a series of solitary adventures infused with the memories of her life on the road\, she meets the world with curiosity and openness. The many [who] revere Smith will take a thrill in her vivid recollections of long ago days on the stage and the streets of Greenwich Village\, while anyone consumed by the fears of today will find them expressed vividly by a beautiful voice.” —Adrienne Gaffney\, San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“Smith’s grace and erudite philosophy is a welcome balm in these times . . . Her latest memoir is an introspective look at her year of solo wandering—she documents that year’s massive political and social change her own lyrical way. The American canon is littered with ‘road trip memoirs\,’ but if there’s a voice we’d want to add to that genre\, it would be Smith.” —Town & Country\n \n“Lovely\, dreamlike . . . a slim volume [with a] minor-key melancholy. The punk poet’s latest memoir unfold like the stack of old Polaroids in her New York apartment: ‘One after another\, each a talisman on a necklace of continuous travels.’” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Compelling—ruminations\, adventures\, unexpected connections: [this] personal\, cross-country odyssey captured by her prose and Polaroid portraits finds Smith mining magical moments within even the most seemingly mundane of circumstances. She weaves threads of everyday experiences and warm recollections together in the manner of a waking dream. Funny moments make Smith relatable.  The narrative thread is transformation.  She is equally a participant and observer of life; as much as art provides sustenance and solace for her in troubled times\, by the end she is invoking a greater call to action. If there is anyone capable of living in the past\, present and future simultaneously\, and occupying space between reality and dreams\, it is Smith. It may not be easy to conveniently explain Smith’s style or approach\, but that is not the point. You simply need to surrender to it to be inspired.” —Bryan Reesman\, Newsday \n“One of America’s finest memoirists. Funny and weird\, sober and sad\, Year of the Monkey is simultaneously a travelogue of Smith’s journeys through California\, Arizona\, Portugal and Kentucky; a fantastical dream-journal full of imagined conversations; and a clear-eyed meditation on Smith’s relationships with two of her oldest\, dearest friends—playwright Sam Shepard and music producer Sandy Pearlman—who passed away as she was writing it. It’s perhaps the closest she’s come to synthesizing the penetrating maturity of her latter-day writings with the improvisational wildness of her early free-form poems and songs.” —Andrew Barker\, Variety\n \n“In her poetic prose and [with] snaps of her trusty Polaroid camera\, Smith captures truth and beauty\, challenges and victories. Year of the Monkey traces her year of wandering across California’s Santa Cruz coast and the West\, searching for answers for questions she never knew she had . . . Smith’s writing is impressionistic; fact and fiction intermix and she captures authentic moments that never fade away.” —Drew Tewksbury\, Los Angeles Times \n“Whether it’s guttural\, poetic lyricism or compassionate nonfiction\, Patti Smith’s writing style and ability are truly unrivaled. In Year of the Monkey\, her words are paired with Polaroids as she explores aging\, grief and the dire global embrace of right-wing nationalism.” —Lizzie Manno\, Paste \n“In the time since her exquisite memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award in 2010\, godmother of punk Patti Smith has been documenting her travels with her pen and trusty Polaroid. In Year of the Monkey\, her wanderlust drives her from San Francisco to Santa Cruz to Arizona to Kentucky to New York . . . Along the way\, she meets fellow nomads\, mourns for loved ones both in the process of dying and those long gone\, and she drinks a whole lot of coffee. A keen observer of the world around her\, Smith is equally adept at documenting her inner terrain. Wherever she wanders\, it’s always worth the trip.” —Emily Rems\, Bust \n“This is the modern-day Patti Smith: older\, wiser\, seeing the world\, and reporting it all back to us in only the way she can. You can’t read this and not feel inspired after you put it down.” —Inside Hook \n“From meditations on poetry\, politics\, art\, and dreams\, to her own lyrical way of interacting with the world\, Year of the Monkey confirms Patti Smith cannot be boxed in by either genre or medium. The book also includes Smith’s Polaroids from her travels—yes\, she is somehow a talented photographer on top of everything else.”\n—Jeva Lange\, The Week\n \n“Lyrical: a book [that] defies all familiar categories\, playfully exploring the seam between reality and fantasy. It’s full of mysterious characters who emerge from somewhere out of the American landscape. [After] a New Year’s Day opening—Smith lost and alone in a part of Santa Cruz usually clogged with tourists–we follow her to Venice Beach\, Arizona\, Kentucky\, Seattle\, and New York. The beating heart of the book comes with Smith’s visits to Sam Shepard at his Kentucky horse ranch….A rich\, kaleidoscopic narrative of surprises and insights.” —Wallace Baine\, Good Times\n\n“Smith is always willing to see where a new road might lead. Her career has been a study of language\, with interest in melodic refrains\, surreal images\, and reverent tones. Year of the Monkey is absolutely true in eternal truths\, ornamented by a sense of poetry . . . A stunning\, soothing work.” —Megan Volpert\, PopMatters  \n“Over the course of a year leading up to her 70th birthday\, rock legend Patti Smith stood witness to the fragility of life. There’s an explicit dreamlike quality and focus to The Year of the Monkey\, which offers a very specific glimpse into the life of an artist facing her mortality without coasting. Through her trips\, cups of coffee\, and dreams\, Smith radiates compassionate and concern as she meditates upon the practice of sitting with loss and change during ever-turbulent times.” —Lauren LeBlanc\, Observer \n“A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith’s third memoir\, set during the Chinese year of the monkey\, the year when she moves from age 69 to 70. She begins on New Year’s Day\, 2016\, the morning after finishing a three-night run at the Fillmore in San Francisco and sitting at the deathbed of a long-time friendwho introduced her to City Lights\, Caffe Trieste and the Grateful Dead. She chronicles cafés\, hitchhiking trips\, strange motels in Santa Cruz and vivid dreams. With great tenderness\, she describes visiting Sam Shepard in the final months of his life and helping him get his last book completed.”\n—Jane Ciabattari\, BBC \n“Magical\, rich—the unique artistry of Smith’s prose remains.” —Fiona Sturges\, The Guardian (UK)\n \n“Extraordinary.” —Bryan Appleyard\, The Times (UK) \n“It was a year of disruption\, wandering\, dreams and surreal visions: this year of the monkey on the Chinese zodiac was also the year Smith turned 70\, and a trickster election hurled the country into a dark looking-glass realm. Smith writes with fresh lucidity\, wit\, bittersweet wonder\, and stoic sorrow\, shifting in tone from lyrical to hallucinatory to hard-boiled as she describes her meditative and investigative meanderings along the Pacific coast and in the desert. Keenly sensitive to atmosphere\, she finds herself ‘in the middle of the unexplained’ as she travels with cosmic spontaneity and ‘an almost religious simplicity’ . . . She remembers her life-saving childhood library and a cherished\, then dying friend. Smith also chronicles with exquisite poignancy her last visits with her soul mate Sam Shepherd . . . Elegiac\, vital\, and magical.”\n—Donna Seaman\, Booklist  [starred review] \n“Luminous . . . Smith wanders between waking and dreaming in a year filled with the death of a close friend and the political turmoil of the 2016 election . . . In light of her 70th birthday\, she writes lyrically on various subjects: she describes Allen Ginsberg’s poetry\, which she carries along her travels­\, as an ‘expansive hydrogen bomb;’ caught up in Belinda Carlisle’s infectious beat\, she imagines a ‘nonviolent hubris spreading across the land.’ She discovers that her most meaningful insights come from her vivid dreams\, and she feels a palpable melancholia over having to wake up from them. Smith casts a mesmerizing spell with exquisite prose.”\n—Publishers Weekly [starred review]\n \n“Intriguing—a memoir that evolves around the transformations both in Smith’s life and the American political landscape. Disturbing yet humorous\, with the boundary between fiction and nonfiction blurred\, Smith’s work is unlikely to disappoint.”\n—Jianan Qian\, The Millions \n“Captivating . . . a chronicle of a year filled with deep losses and rich epiphanies. The titular year\, 2016\, set Smith\, [who] refers to herself as the ‘poet detective\,’ on a quixotic quest\, with a mysterious companion unexpectedly reappearing amid a backdrop of rock touring\, vagabond traveling\, and a poisonous political landscape. Throughout\, Smith ponders time and mortality—no surprise considering her milestone birthday\, and the experience of losing friends who have meant so much to her. She stresses the importance of memory\, and the timeless nature of a person’s spirit . . . Redemptive.”\n—Kirkus [starred review] \n 
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SUMMARY:Aarti Namdev Shahani - Here We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with journalist and activist Aarti Namdev Shahani for the paperback release of her heart-wrenching debut memoir\, Here We Are. We’ve partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club members across the country\, who can tune in to hear a discussion and participate in the live Q&A. Register through the link above. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends. \nAarti Namdev Shahani is the author of memoir Here We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares. She is a correspondent for NPR based in Silicon Valley\, covering the largest companies on earth. Her reporting has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists\, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award\, and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. Before journalism\, Shahani was a community organizer in New York City\, helping prisoners and families facing deportation. Her activism was honored by the Union Square Awards and Legal Aid Society. She received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, with generous support from the university and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She completed her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of Chicago. She was among the youngest recipients of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University and is an alumna of A Better Chance\, Inc. Shahani grew up in Flushing\, Queens—in one of the most diverse zip codes in the country—and believes every American should visit her hometown to understand what makes America great.
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck's Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:featuring  special guests\, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete\, Lourdes Figuroa and more. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths and is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. Josiah Luis Alderete’s  book of poems is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nLourdes Figuroa is a proud 2009 and 2011 VONA alum. Her work has been published in the SF Poet’s 11 2008 & 2010\, Generations Literary Magazine\, Eleven Eleven\, Something Worth Revisin. Spooky Actions Books published her first chapbook\, yolotl\, and Backwords Press recently published her poem\, “War America War.” She received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Lourdes is a native of limbo nation and believes in your lung\, your throat. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shucks-poem-jam/
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Paul Madonna / Come to Light
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Paul Madonna to launch his new illustrated novel Come to Light. \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Come to Light\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n\nCome to Light is a fresh and original mystery with an unusual detective: Emit Hopper\, a former rock star turned author and artist. Six years ago\, Emit’s wife\, Julia\, went missing. Now the remains of her two hiking companions have been found buried in the California wilderness. But the discovery raises more questions than answers\, so with his love for classic detective books and rye whiskey\, Emit sets out across Europe chasing down clues\, sketchbook in hand. \nQuickly\, Emit finds himself embroiled in a plot far larger than he could have imagined: he becomes a target of a State Department investigation\, gets entangled in an international ring of art thefts\, and discovers his own artwork stolen. He meets an exuberant French nobleman\, a murderous five-year-old\, and a bohemian Roman heiress. From the Venice Biennale to the flooding of Piazza Navona\, you’ll find yourself laughing\, gasping\, and drawing right alongside Emit as he travels through some of the most beautiful regions of Europe\, unraveling a suspense-filled and surprisingly tangled mystery. \nReplete with strikingly rendered drawings that bring this exquisite and intriguing novel to life\, Come to Light is the thrilling follow-up to the adventures of Emit Hopper\, which debuted in Close Enough for the Angels. \n\n \nPaul Madonna is an award-winning artist and writer whose unique blend of drawing and storytelling has been heralded as an “all new art form.” He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee\, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for twelve years\, and the author of five books\, including Everything is its own reward (winner of the 2011 NCBA for best book) and the Emit Hopper Mystery Series. Paul’s work ranges from novels to cartoons to large-scale public murals\, and can be found internationally in print as well as in galleries and museums\, including the Oakland Museum of California and the William Blake Association in France. Paul was a founding editor for therumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and was the first (ever!) art intern at MAD magazine. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Come to Light\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Neal Karlen on Prince
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, October 8 at 6pm PDT when Neal Karlen joins us to discuss his book\, This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On+Off the Record\non Zoom!\nSigned bookplates available while supplies last! Preorder now! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83006881839\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83006881839#  or +13462487799\,\,83006881839#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 830 0688 1839\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kernyVVTav \nAbout This Thing Called Life \nAn unusual\, remarkably detailed biography of one of the most iconic musicians of our times\, by a reporter who did the only two long authorized interviews with Prince and became a lifelong friend. \nThis Thing Called Life subtly changes what we know about a massive star\, one who relentlessly controlled his own image and career\, and who everyone wanted to know. \nNeal Karlen interviewed Prince for the artist’s two Rolling Stone covers and\, according to Prince’s former fiancée Susannah Melvoin\, was “the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.” Indeed\, Prince and Karlen had known each other years before\, as two of the gang of Minneapolis boys who biked around the neighborhood and played basketball. Karlen says that not only can fans not understand Prince without understanding Minneapolis in the 70s\, but that anyone who knew Prince only knew 15% of him: that was all he was willing to give\, no matter how much he cared for them. \nGoing back to Prince Rogers Nelson’s roots\, including his contradictory and often tortured relationship with his father\, This Thing Called Life explains the star as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk\, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office\, frequented libraries\, jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward)\, who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible\, talk about movies and music and life\, and watch as he tries not to curse (instead dishing a healthy dose of “mamma jammas”). \nAbout Neal Karlen \nNeal Karlen writes regularly for The New York Times and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Minnesota journalism school. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Esquire\, GQ\, Elle\, The Forward\, Rolling Stone\, Newsweek\, and Olam\, among other publications. He lives in Minneapolis\, Minnesota.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-neal-karlen-on-prince/
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