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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Suleika Jaouad with Elizabeth Gilbert (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A searing\, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and\, ultimately\, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. \nIn the summer after graduating from college\, Suleika Jaouad was preparing\, as they say in commencement speeches\, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found\, however\, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. \nIt started with an itch—first on her feet\, then up her legs\, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion\, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and\, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday\, a diagnosis: leukemia\, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that\, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York\, she had lost her job\, her apartment\, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed\, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. \nWhen Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after three and a half years of chemo\, a clinical trial\, and a bone marrow transplant—she was\, according to the doctors\, cured. But as she would soon learn\, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1\,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so\, she realized that she had no idea how to live. \nHow would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend\, Oscar\, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day\, 15\,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous\, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce\, tender\, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again. \nSuleika Jaouad is an Emmy Award–winning writer\, speaker\, cancer survivor\, and activist. She served on Barack Obama’s President’s Cancer Panel\, and her advocacy work\, reporting\, and speaking has been featured at the United Nations\, on Capitol Hill\, and on the TED Talk main stage. When she’s not on the road with her 1972 Volkswagen camper van and her rescue dog Oscar\, she lives in Brooklyn. \nElizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat\, Pray\, Love\, as well as the short story collection\, Pilgrims—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist\, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper’s Bazaar\, Spin\, and The New York Times Magazine\, and her stories have appeared in Esquire\, Story\, and the Paris Review. Her most recent novel is City of Girls.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-suleika-jaouad-with-elizabeth-gilbert-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Kim Stanley Robinson is joined in conversation by Robin Sloan to discuss his latest novel\, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit Books). \n“If I could get policymakers\, and citizens\, everywhere to read just one book this year\, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.” —Ezra Klein \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Ministry for the Future\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020 \nFrom legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. \nThe Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination\, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate\, postapocalyptic world\, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. \nIt is a novel both immediate and impactful\, desperate and hopeful in equal measure\, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. \nAbout Kim Stanley Robinson\nKim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Ada Calhoun\, Why We Can't Sleep
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual event with Ada Calhoun who will discuss We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis (available in paperback on January 19th)\, an in-depth exploration of the “new” midlife crisis hitting Generation X women—a topic she began writing about in a viral essay on Oprah.com.  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \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! \n\nWhen Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis\, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable\, too? \nCalhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs\, HR trends\, credit card debt averages\, and divorce data. At every turn\, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials\, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age\, problems that were being largely overlooked. \nSpeaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to “have it all\,” Calhoun found that most were exhausted\, terrified about money\, under-employed\, and overwhelmed. Instead of being heard\, they were told instead to lean in\, take “me-time\,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. \nIn Why We Can’t Sleep\, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring\, empowering\, and essential reading for all middle-aged women\, and anyone who hopes to understand them. \n“A superb mix of personal stories and deep research about a generation of women who are facing unprecedented pressure as they enter middle age. It’s at once realistic\, but positive\, asking women to face up to reality\, let go of expectations\, find a support system and accept this stage isn’t forever.” — Huffington Post \nADA CALHOUN is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give\, named one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W magazine; and the history St. Marks Is Dead\, one of the best books of 2015\, according to Kirkus and the Boston Globe. She has collaborated on several New York Times bestsellers\, and written for the New York Times\, New York\, and The New Republic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ada-calhoun-why-we-cant-sleep/
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SUMMARY:Tim Harford in conversation with Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd)
DESCRIPTION:Tim Harford\, called  “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman)\, and Randall Munroe in conversation about The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (Riverhead Books). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Data Detective\nFrom “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart\, lively\, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. \nToday we think statistics are the enemy\, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake\, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are\, at heart\, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly—understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray—statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter. \nAs “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman)\, Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective\, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience\, curiosity\, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result\, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh\, unexpected\, and insightful. \nAbout the participants\nTim Harford is an award-winning columnist\, broadcaster\, and economist. He is the author of Messy\, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy\, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist\, and is the host of the Cautionary Tales podcast. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society\, and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to improving economic understanding. \nRandall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer\, the science question-and-answer blog What If\, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist\, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-harford-in-conversation-with-randall-munroe-creator-of-xkcd/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nicole Perlroth in conversation with David Sanger
DESCRIPTION:discussing Nicole Perlroth’s new book \nThis Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race \nPublished by Bloomsbury Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nFrom The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth\, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive\, invisible\, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare. \nZero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy’s arsenal\, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone\, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant\, alter an election\, and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine). \nFor decades\, under cover of classification levels and non-disclosure agreements\, the United States government became the world’s dominant hoarder of zero days. U.S. government agents paid top dollar-first thousands\, and later millions of dollars- to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence. \nThen the United States lost control of its hoard and the market. \nNow those zero days are in the hands of hostile nations and mercenaries who do not care if your vote goes missing\, your clean water is contaminated\, or our nuclear plants melt down. \nFilled with spies\, hackers\, arms dealers\, and a few unsung heroes\, written like a thriller and a reference\, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews\, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow\, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel. \nNicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants\, airports\, and elections\, North Korea’s cyberattacks against movie studios\, banks and hospitals\, Iranian attacks on oil companies\, banks and the Trump campaign and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks\, including a months-long hack of The Times. Her first book\, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends\,” about the global cyber arms race\, will publish in February 2021. The book\, and several of her Times articles\, have been optioned for television. A Bay Area native\, Ms. Perlroth is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University. \nDavid E. Sanger is a national security correspondent and a senior writer. In a 36-year reporting career for The New York Times\, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes\, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book\, “The Perfect Weapon: War\, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age\,’ examines the emergence of cyberconflict as the primary way large and small states are competing and undercutting each other\, changing the nature of global power. \nCritical praise for This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends \n“The best kind of reportage . . . a rollicking fun trip\, front to back\, and an urgent call for action before our wired world spins out of our control. I’ve covered cybersecurity for a decade and yet paragraph after paragraph I kept wondering: ‘How did she manage to figure *that* out? How is she so good?'” –  Garrett M. Graff\, Wired\, author of New York Times bestseller THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY \n“A stemwinder of a tale of how frightening cyber weapons have been turned on their maker. Perlroth takes a complex subject that has been cloaked in techspeak and makes it dead real for the rest of us.” –  Kara Swisher\, co-founder of Recode and host of the New York Times podcast “Sway” \n“Perlroth’s terrifying revelation of how vulnerable American institutions and individuals are to clandestine cyberattacks by malicious hackers is possibly the most important book of the year . . . Perlroth’s precise\, lucid\, and compelling presentation of mind-blowing disclosures about the underground arms race a must-read exposé.” –  Booklist\, starred review \n“The definitive history of cyberwarfare. Nicole Perlroth connects the dots and the behind the scenes action of every serious intrusion\, cyberattack and cyberespionage revelation in the last decade\, offering recommendations for stopping the cyberwar none of us want to see.” –  Clint Watts\, author of MESSING WITH THE ENEMY \n“A must-read tale of cloak-and-dagger mercenary hackers\, digital weapons of mass destruction and clandestine\, ne’er-do-well government agencies. Perlroth’s intrepid reporting shows why the consequences could be frightening.” –  Lawrence Ingrassia\, author of BILLION DOLLAR BRAND CLUB \n“Usually\, books like this are praised by saying that they read like a screenplay or a novel. Nicole Perlroth’s is better: her sensitivity to both technical issues and human behavior give this book an authenticity that makes its message–that cybersecurity issues threaten our privacy\, our economy\, and maybe our lives–even scarier.” –  Steven Levy\, author of HACKERS and FACEBOOK \n“Reads like a modern-day John le Carré novel\, with terrifying tales of espionage and cyber warfare that will keep you up at night\, both unable to stop reading\, and terrified for what the future holds.” –  Nick Bilton\, Vanity Fair\, author of AMERICAN KINGPIN \n“An essential cautionary tale [that] exposes the motivations and misgivings of the people helping governments hack into our devices. After Perlroth’s incisive investigation\, there’s no excuse for ignoring the costs of the cyber arms race. Indeed\, we are already deeply vulnerable.” –  Sarah Frier\, Bloomberg\, author of NO FILTER \n“100% gripping. For anyone interested in cybersecurity\, whether as student\, policymaker\, or citizen\, it is well worth your read.” –  P.W. Singer\, author of LIKEWAR \n“Nicole Perlroth does what few other authors on the cyber beat can: she tells a highly technical\, gripping story as if over a beer at your favorite local dive bar. A page-turner.” –  Nina Jankowicz\, author of HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR \n“[A] wonderfully readable new book. Underlying everything Perlroth writes is the question of ethics: what is the right thing to do? Too many of the people she describes never seemed to think about that; their goals were short-term or selfish or both . . . a rip-roaring story of hackers and bug-sellers and spies that also looks at the deeper questions.” –  Steven M. Bellovin\, Professor of Computer Science\, Columbia University \n“From one of the literati\, a compelling tale of the digerati: Nicole Perlroth puts arresting faces on the clandestine government-sponsored elites using 1s and 0s to protect us or menace us-and profit.” –  Glenn Kramon\, former senior editor\, The New York Times \n“The murky world of zero-day sales has remained in the shadows for decades\, with few in the trade willing to talk about this critical topic. Nicole Perlroth has done a great job tracing the origin stories\, coaxing practitioners into telling their fascinating tales and explaining why it all matters.” –  Kim Zetter\, author of COUNTDOWN TO ZERODAY \n“Reads like a thriller. A masterful inside look at a highly profitable industry that was supposed to make us safer\, but has ended up bringing us to the brink of the next world war.” –  John Markoff\, former New York Times cybersecurity reporter \n“A whirlwind global tour that introduces us to the crazy characters and bizarre stories behind the struggle to control the internet. It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t all so very true.” –  Alex Stamos\, Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and former head of security for Facebook and Yahoo \n“Lays bare the stark realities of disinformation\, hacking\, and software vulnerability that are the Achilles’ Heel of modern democracy. I work in this field as a scientist and technologist\, and this book scared the bejesus out of me. Read it.” –  Gary McGraw\, author of SOFTWARE SECURITY \n“A powerful case for strong cybersecurity policy that reduces vulnerabilities while respecting civil rights.” –  Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-perlroth-in-conversation-with-david-sanger/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Valeria Luiselli
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 11TH FEATURED WRITER: VALERIA LUISELLI\nValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa\, and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize. \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-valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Naz Beheshti - Pause. Breathe. Choose. (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A leading-edge guide to how well-being drives success across all aspects of life. \nCEO\, executive wellness coach\, and thought leader Naz Beheshti distills the most valuable lessons she learned from her first boss and mentor\, Steve Jobs\, into a holistic method to live your best life. Presenting the highly effective framework that Beheshti has used with clients for over a decade\, this book is a guide for self-discovery\, better choices\, and purposeful growth. \nNow more than ever\, when stress and burnout are ubiquitous\, we must access our authentic self by closing the gap between leading with our head and our heart. When we integrate every aspect of our life (career\, relationships\, self-care\, and self-development) and fuel that ecosystem as a whole\, we can both be well and do well. Rooted in neuroscience\, mindfulness\, and positive psychology\, Pause. Breathe. Choose. offers more than eighty proven strategies to improve yourself and your workplace and achieve sustainable success. \nNaz Beheshti is the author of Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being. She is an executive wellness coach\, speaker\, Forbes contributor\, and CEO and founder of Prananaz\, a company that provides corporate wellness solutions for improving leadership effectiveness\, employee engagement and well-being\, and company culture. Clients include Nike\, JPMorgan Chase\, Omega Institute\, UCSF\, Columbia University\, and Stanford University. Naz also cofounded Rise2Shine\, a nonprofit helping to alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti. She lives in New York City. Visit her online at NazBeheshti.com. \nBJ Fogg\, PhD\, is the founder of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University and author of the New York Times bestselling book Tiny Habits. In addition to his research\, Fogg teaches industry innovators how human behavior really works. He created the Tiny Habits Academy to help people around the world. He lives in Northern California and Maui.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naz-beheshti-pause-breathe-choose-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virginia Loh-Hagan on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading the award-winning Nian\, the Chinese New Year Dragon\, an illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale about a dragon that threatens a village each spring and Mei\, the young girl who is destined to defeat him. \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 13\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nMei hates springtime. Why? Because it’s only in the spring that Nian\, a fierce dragon\, is able to leave his mountain prison under the sea to terrorize the local village. When the villagers hear the rumblings of Nian’s hungry stomach\, they know that winter has ended and spring is coming. But this year on the night before the first day of spring\, a magical warrior visits Mei in her dreams. He tells Mei that it is her destiny to face and defeat Nian. But she must do it within 15 days or the dragon will be free forever. Author Virginia Loh-Hagan (PoPo’s Lucky Chinese New Year) gives this retelling of the Nian legend an original twist\, while explaining the origins of Chinese New Year traditions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-loh-hagan-on-instagram-igtv/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Vendela Vida (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida’s newest release\, We Run the Tides is an achingly beautiful story of female friendship\, betrayal\, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco. \nTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend\, Maria Fabiola\, own the streets of Sea Cliff\, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches\, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day\, walking to school with friends\, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened\, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. \nSuspenseful and poignant\, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost\, the pain of too much freedom\, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth\, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth\, in all its beauty and confusion. \nVendela is the award-winning author of six books\, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She is a founding editor of The Believer magazine\, and co-editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence\, or the Appearance of Confidence\, a collection of interviews with musicians. Two of Vida’s novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the year\, and she is the winner of the Kate Chopin Award\, given to a writer whose female protagonist chooses an unconventional path. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia\, the San Francisco writing center for youth\, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-vendela-vida-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Russo - Super Host (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. \nBennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now\, at age fifty-five\, his wife has left him\, he hasn’t sold a painting in two years\, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work\, claiming they’ll have more value retrospectively…when he’s dead. So\, left with a large West London home and no income\, he’s forced to move into his artist’s studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site\, AirBed. \nA stranger now in his own home\, with his daughter\, Mia\, off at art school\, and any new relationships fizzling out at best\, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests—lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie—unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. \nWarm\, witty\, and utterly humane\, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age\, relationships\, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life. \nKate Russo grew up in Maine but now divides her time between there and the United Kingdom. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art\, and exhibits in both the UK and the US. \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of the novels Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-russo-super-host-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82735553371. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpUncannyValley or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/UncannyValleyAB. \nA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. \nNamed one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, the Los Angeles Times\, ELLE\, Esquire\, Parade\, Teen Vogue\, The Boston Globe\, Forbes\, The Times (UK)\, Fortune\, Chicago Tribune\, Glamour\, The A.V. Club\, Vox\, Jezebel\, Town & Country\, OneZero\, Apartment Therapy\, Good Housekeeping\, PopMatters\, Electric Literature\, Self\, The Week (UK) and BookPage. One of Amazon’s Best 100 Books of 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” –Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-of-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uncanny-valley-by-anna-wiener-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jenara Nerenberg - Divergent Mind (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD\, autism\, synesthesia\, high sensitivity\, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. \nAs a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer\, entrepreneur\, and devoted mother\, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her “symptoms”—only ever labeled as anxiety—were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist\, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity—a framework that moves away from pathologizing “abnormal” versus “normal” brains and instead recognizes the vast diversity of our mental makeups. \nWhen it comes to women\, sensory processing differences are often overlooked\, masked\, or mistaken for something else entirely. Between a flawed system that focuses on diagnosing younger\, male populations\, and the fact that girls are conditioned from a young age to blend in and conform to gender expectations\, women often don’t learn about their neurological differences until they are adults\, if at all. As a result\, potentially millions live with undiagnosed or misdiagnosed neurodivergences\, and the misidentification leads to depression\, anxiety\, low self-esteem\, and shame. Meanwhile\, we all miss out on the gifts their neurodivergent minds have to offer. \nDivergent Mind is a long-overdue\, much-needed answer for women who have a deep sense that they are “different.” Sharing real stories from women with high sensitivity\, ADHD\, autism\, misophonia\, dyslexia\, SPD\, and more\, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely-held misconceptions (for example\, it’s not that autistic people lack sensitivity and empathy\, they have an overwhelming excess of it). \nNerenberg also offers us a path forward\, describing practical changes in how we communicate\, how we design our surroundings\, and how we can better support divergent minds. When we allow our wide variety of brain makeups to flourish\, we create a better tomorrow for us all. \n \nJenara Nerenberg lectures widely on neuroscience\, innovation\, sensitivity\, leadership\, and diversity. Selected as a “brave new idea” presenter by the Aspen Institute for her work on re-framing mental differences\, Jenara is also the founder and host of The Neurodiversity Project. She holds degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and UC Berkeley. Her work has been published in Fast Company\, New York magazine\, Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution\, Garrison Institute\, Elaine Aron’s HSP\, Healthline\, KQED\, and elsewhere. In addition to her work as a journalist\, Jenara is a frequent workshop facilitator\, speaker\, and event host for institutions including the Stanford Graduate School of Business and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nLulu Miller is the cohost of Radiolab\, cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia\, and a Peabody Award–winning science journalist. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker\, VQR\, Orion\, Electric Literature\, Catapult\, and beyond. Her favorite spot on earth is Humpback Rocks. She is the author of Why Fish Don’t Exist. \nJenara Nerenberg photo courtesy of author
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenara-nerenberg-divergent-mind-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell in conversation with Melissa Broder
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of Brontez Purnell’s new book \n100 Boyfriends \npublished by MCD x FSG Originals \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nAn irrerverent\, sensitive\, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero \n“It’s like that saying\, ‘Where god closes a door\, he opens a window\,’ but in this particular case the window was on the fifth floor and the house was on fire.” \nTransgressive\, foulmouthed\, and devastatingly funny\, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting—and often losing—the urge to self-sabotage. His characters solicit sex on their lunch breaks\, expose themselves to racist neighbors\, sleep with their coworker’s husbands\, rub Preparation H on their hungover eyes\, and\, in an uproarious epilogue\, take a punk band on a disastrous tour of Europe. They also travel to claim inheritances\, push past personal trauma\, and cultivate community while living on the margins of a white supremacist\, heteronormative society. \nArmed with a deadpan wit that finds humor in even the lowest of nadirs\, Brontez Purnell—a widely acclaimed underground writer\, filmmaker\, musician\, and performance artist—writes with the peerless zeal\, insight\, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. From dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama\, Purnell indexes desire\, desperation\, race\, and loneliness with a startling blend of levity and vulnerability. Together\, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are a singular and uncompromising vision of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller\, as fearless as he is human. \nBrontez Purnell is a writer\, musician\, dancer\, filmmaker\, and performance artist. He is the author of a graphic novel\, a novella\, a children’s book\, and the novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. The recipient of a 2018 Whiting Writers’ Award for Fiction\, he was named one of the thirty-two Black Male Writers of Our Time by T: The New York Times Style Magazine in 2018. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers\, a cofounder of the experimental dance group the Brontez Purnell Dance Company\, the creator of the renowned cult zine Fag School\, and the director of several short films\, music videos\, and the documentary Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock. Born in Triana\, Alabama\, he’s lived in Oakland\, California\, for more than a decade. \nMelissa Broder is the author of the novels MILK FED (Feb 2\, 2021) and THE PISCES\, the essay collection SO SAD TODAY\, and five poetry collections\, including SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems (Summer 2021) and LAST SEXT. Broder has written for The New York Times\, Elle.com\, VICE\, Vogue Italia\, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut. Her poems appear in POETRY\, The Iowa Review\, Guernica\, Fence\,  et al. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. \nPraise for 100 Boyfriends: \n\n\n  \n\n\n“This stunning collection of vignettes from artist\, punk rocker\, and Whiting Award winner Purnell forms a delightfully crass\, kaleidoscopic worldview. Each story introduces new heartbreaks and reminders that moments of intimacy often end in loneliness . . . Purnell brilliantly immerses the reader in Black\, queer desire with humor\, self-awareness\, and just the right amount of vulgarity.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Each story in 100 Boyfriends is a minor eclipse: stunning in scope\, technically blinding\, and entirely miraculous. I laughed and I cried and I laughed until I cried—Brontez Purnell is a marvel.“ –Bryan Washington\, author of Memorial and Lot \n“In the vast history of the universe there is only one Brontez Purnell\, and thank god we get him. From cruising to crushes\, cumming to closure\, 100 Boyfriends is a mandatory read for the funny-sexy lit freaks among us—a candy box of Euro boys and Daddies\, blue pills and satanic exes—all told in an addictively-delicious voice by a writer who is somehow both wildly cool and deprecatingly humble at the same time.” —Melissa Broder\, author of The Pisces and So Sad Today \n“Brontez Purnell has such seemingly casual genius that at times you forget you’re reading a book and are transported to some couch/bus/basement where the drugs are really good and your friend is really funny\, maybe your weird closeted cousin is on HarlemHookups in the corner\, and all of a sudden your friend says some fucking Sappho ass\, weird ass\, brilliant ass bullshit. I love this slut of a book\, it’s a slut ass maker. 100 Boyfriends or no new boyfriends at all\, Purnell’s autofiction/memoir/whatever the hell this marvelously sad and intoxicating book is shook me up good with its honesty and blunt-to-face endings\, the jokes and stories I didn’t know we were allowed to tell outside of circles of faggots and misfits. But this book is in those circles\, makes you tea and steals for you\, it invites us in\, but would we mind shutting the hell up cause it’s a little hungover? The light is coming through the windows so clear.” —Danez Smith\, author of Homie \n“No one writes like Brontez Purnell. It’s not just that he is hilariously irreverent\, which he is\, but that he reserves reverence for that which is deserving. 100 Boyfriends is like a good lover\, at turns vulgar and vulnerable\, dirty and desperate\, and always grinding toward magic.” —Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals \n“Scathingly lucid\, filthily pure\, this is the most astute\, witty\, acid-tongued and emotionally generous book about relationships—from one night stands to internet no-no’s to ill-conceived crushes to long-term loves\, requited and otherwise—I’ve read. Painfully knowing yet never jaded\, 100 Boyfriends dissects\, explodes\, lambasts\, and revels in the ugly beauty of imperfect intimacies with prose that consistently puts its finger on the bleeding pulse of contemporary desire. An unforgettable ode to the heart that beats inside every longing body.”–Maryse Meijer\, author of The Seventh Mansion \n“The stories in 100 Boyfriends took me on a journey: They made me laugh. They made me gasp. They made me feel. Brontez Purnell is a vibrant literary voice you won’t soon forget. I love this book.” —De’Shawn Charles Winslow\, author of In West Mills
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-in-conversation-with-melissa-broder/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kink: On & Off the Page
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, FEBRUARY 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE NEW SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY\, KINK\, WITH AN EVENING OF READINGS\, LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS\, AND CONVERSATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KINK.COM! \nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nAbout the Event \nKink.com and Green Apple Books are partnering for an exclusive launch party for a new short fiction anthology\, KINK. Edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell\, KINK brings together 15 acclaimed writers and their stories of power\, pain\, fetish and desire. \nThis groundbreaking event goes one step further\, tying readings by celebrated authors to live demonstrations and conversations with some of the BDSM community’s most respected voices. \nJoin us as authors and kinksters converge to explore the fact and the fiction in this powerful collection. Featured authors include Vanessa Clark\, Garth Greenwell\, and R.O. Kwon\nAbout KINK \nKINK is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love\, desire\, BDSM\, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. They explore bondage\, power-play\, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates\, therapists’ offices\, underground sex clubs\, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains\, sure\, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful\, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires\, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers\, including: Callum Angus\, Alexander Chee\, Vanessa Clark\, Melissa Febos\, Kim Fu\, Roxane Gay\, Cara Hoffman\, Zeyn Joukhadar\, Chris Kraus\, Carmen Maria Machado\, Peter Mountford\, Larissa Pham\, and Brandon Taylor\, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors.\nAbout the Authors \nVanessa Clark is an intersex trans fem author that has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar\, POPSUGAR\, Vice\, and Them\, and has written articles for Vox. Pronouns: she/they. Even though she lives in New Jersey\, she is more likely spending her free time at some of the best indie bookstores\, parks\, museums\, and record shops in New York City. On social media\, you can find her on Facebook (@vcerotica) and Twitter (@FoxxyGlamKitty). \nGarth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You\, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year\, was longlisted for the National Book Award\, and was a finalist for several other awards. His second book of fiction\, Cleanness\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020. He coedited the anthology Kink\, out in 2021. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Iowa City. \nR.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was named a best book of the year by over forty publications and is being translated into seven languages. She coedited the anthology Kink\, out in 2021. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, and her writing is published in the New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Paris Review\, NPR\, and elsewhere.\nA Note About This Event \n– THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Please join from your personal computer\, laptop\, tablet or smartphone. \n– You must be 18+ \n– Please log in on time. \n– All sales are final. \n– A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent via the email you registered with. \n– Please download Zoom immediately to your computer\, smartphone or tablet once you receive the link. This will save you time and also ensure that you will be able to join the event on time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kink-on-off-the-page/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Adam O. Davis & Emma Hine - Index of Haunted Houses & Stay Safe
DESCRIPTION:Join Book Passage in welcoming Adam O. Davis (author of Index of Haunted Houses) and Emma Hine (author of Stay Safe) for a reading and discussion celebrating their debut poetry collections\, both of which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and were recently published by Sarabande Books. \n \nIndex of Haunted Houses is a book of ghost stories\, and for the most part\, ghosts are jealous monsters\, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here\, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors\, slam doors\, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words\, the more charged they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money\, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones\, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. There is\, too\, an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment\, and persists\, despite being in the past\, present\, or future. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut\, one that will surprise\, convince\, and most of all\, delight. \n“From ‘the body of New Jersey’ to ‘the desert/like a house of belief\,’ the poems of Index of Haunted Houses traverse the entirety of time and space that we call American. In this book\, Adam O. Davis means for language as precise as ‘ledgers lavish with loss\,’ to lead us to the place within us where history meets landscape. This is a brilliant debut.”\n—Jericho Brown \n \nAt the center of Emma Hine’s stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark\, their mother has a brain tumor\, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors\, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer\, a transparent body washed up on a beach\, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: “On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet\, so she taught herself / to take it off.” The sisters’ environment of ocean and sand\, forests and farmhouses\, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later\, as the speaker ages\, we find ourselves in the mountains\, in an art museum\, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination\, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary\, a powerful debut. \n“Simply said: this is the renewable energy we’ve been waiting for. So attuned are these poems to their introspective nature and terrors of the self\, their wild narratives\, and linguistic spells\, this book begins to feel like its own solar farm: each page\, a panel of skyshine and wonderments.”\n—Major Jackson \n  \nAdam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses\, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton poetry prize\, which was published by Sarabande Books in September 2020. The recipient of the 2016 George Bogin Memorial award from the Poetry Society of America\, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, The Best American Poetry 2021\, The Paris Review\, and ZYZZYVA. He lives in San Diego\, California\, where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School. \nEmma Hine is the author of Stay Safe\, which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books in January. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel\, Gulf Coast\, The Offing\, The Paris Review\, and The Southern Review\, among others\, and she currently works at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-o-davis-emma-hine-index-of-haunted-houses-stay-safe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Zak Salih and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZAK SALIH DISCUSSES HIS DEBUT NOVEL\, LET’S GET BACK TO THE PARTY\, WITH LYDIA KIESLING ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81593291711\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81593291711#  or +13462487799\,\,81593291711#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kihUOUm66 \nPraise for Let’s Get Back to the Party \n“With an artist’s eye for beauty and an art historian’s for detail\, Zak Salih excavates the lives of his characters and leaves no stone unturned to ask questions about what it means to be a queer individual\, to be a queer community\, to be queer alone and with others. Let’s Get Back to the Party is a book for those of us who simultaneously adore and abhor the pains and ecstasies of social closeness—which is to say it’s a book for us now\, us all.””—Matt Ortile\, author of The Groom Will Keep His Name \n“[A] stirring ode to the many faces of queerness. … What unfolds is an intimate saga that brims with necessary conversations about cultural identity.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine: “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021” \n“Let’s Get Back to the Party is a gorgeous\, raw\, tender\, trenchant novel about men figuring out how to live. At once gimlet-eyed and generous to his wonderfully drawn characters–fallible\, lovable\, and endlessly real–Salih paints a vivid portrait of the paradoxes of queer life in contemporary America\, his characters navigating love and friendship in communities shaped both by freedom and fear\, and by trauma that is both collective and individual. This is a stellar debut from a huge talent.”—Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \nAbout Let’s Get Back to the Party \nA Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * LGBTQ Reads * Paperback Paris\nOne of Advocate‘s “22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year” \nIt is 2015\, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling\, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher\, newly single and desperately lonely\, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. \nWhen he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington\, D.C.\, he can’t help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five\, the men haven’t seen each other in more than a decade. But Oscar has no interest in their shared history\, nor in the sense of be­longing Sebastian craves. Instead\, he’s outraged by what he sees as the death of gay culture: bars overrun with bachelorette parties\, friends cou­pling off and having babies. For Oscar\, confor­mity isn’t peace\, it’s surrender. \nWhile Oscar and Sebastian struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world\, each is drawn into a cross-generational friendship that treads the line between envy and obsession: Se­bastian with one of his students\, Oscar with an older icon of the AIDS era. And as they collide again and again\, both men must reckon not just with one another but with themselves. \nProvocative\, moving\, and rich with sharply drawn characters\, Let’s Get Back to the Party in­troduces an exciting and contemporary new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zak-salih-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Daniel Nayeri Discusses Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 18\, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Daniel Nayeri to discuss his new novel\, EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story). \nThis book is a favorite of GGP’s staff. Donna describes it as “magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once.” \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89898033801.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89898033801 \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/author-daniel-nayeri-discusses-everything-sad-is-untrue-a-true-story/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zetta Elliott on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart\, a powerful\, affirming poem in which a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. \n“A resonant exultation of community and the importance of self-reflection.”–Publishers Weekly \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 20\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is a place inside of me\na space deep down inside of me\nwhere all my feelings hide.  \nSummertime is filled with joy—skateboarding and playing basketball —until his community is deeply wounded by a police shooting. As fall turns to winter and then spring\, fear grows into anger\, then pride and peace. \nIn her stunning debut\, illustrator Noa Denmon articulates the depth and nuances of a child’s experiences following a police shooting–through grief and protests\, healing and community–with washes of color as vibrant as his words. \nHere is a groundbreaking narrative that can help all readers–children and adults alike–talk about the feelings hiding deep inside each of us. \nZetta Elliott is an award-winning Black feminist writer of poetry\, plays\, essays\, novels\, and stories for children. Her poetry has been published in We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and her picture book\, Bird\, won the Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest and the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers. She lives in West Philadelphia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zetta-elliott-on-instagram-igtv/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Prepping to Publish: a workshop for writers of color
DESCRIPTION:Geared toward marginalized writers who may lack access to MFA programs\, workshops\, and conferences\, Prepping to Publish is a six-hour\, two-session intensive. Sonora will select 8 to 12 students based on the quality of their submissions\, and students will leave the course with a formatted manuscript\, a critiqued query letter\, and a tailored list of editors\, journals\, and publishing houses that might be a good home for their work. \n  \nInstructor: \nSONORA JHA\, Ph.D.\, is an essayist\, novelist\, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign (Random House India\, 2013) and the forthcoming How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood\, Masculinity\, and the Making of my Family (Sasquatch Books\, 2021). She teaches fiction and essay writing for the Richard Hugo House and Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat\, and her writing has garnered many awards and residencies. \n  \nThis workshop is part of a three-event collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United in support of writers of color. The events are made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \n  \nFor the other events\, please visit the links below: \n  \nPanel: Creating Our Own Table\, Wednesday\, April 7th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table-tickets-133253297199 \n  \nReading: Isolation\, Thursday\, May 13th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation-tickets-133266558865 \n  \n  \nABOUT POC UNITED: \nPOC United is a literary safe space of creative play far removed from the white gaze\, a place where writers of color can focus on one another in solidarity. To showcase multi-genre works by writers of color\, POC United created GRAFFITI\, a bestselling anthology\, which is a Silver Winner of the 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Anthologies. For more on POC United\, please visit pocunited.com. \n  \nFree \n  \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prepping-to-publish-a-workshop-for-writers-of-color/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Reading: The Unexpected Friend
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children’s story time featuring a live read-aloud of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story with author Raya Rahman. \nThe story centers around Faisal\, a young Rohingya boy in a Bangladeshi refugee camp\, who finds a bird with a broken wing and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy\, so the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals\, they are faced with a difficult choice. Can they let go of something they dearly love? \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT\nhttps://unexpectedfriend.eventbrite.com \nCopies of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nAbout the Book\nIn the midst of a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh\, Faisal\, a young Rohingya boy\, finds an injured bird and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy and the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals\, they face the dilemma of holding on to or losing something they dearly love. \nThoughtfully illustrated with detailed imagery\, The Unexpected Friend is a fictional story based on the real lives of Rohingya children living in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar\, Bangladesh. Their individual stories were compiled through the dedicated work of aid agencies Save the Children\, Plan International and World Vision and transformed into a storybook in partnership with Guba Publishing\, for the purpose of gifting it to the children in the camps. \nThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority of 1.3 million\, formerly living in the Rakhine State within Myanmar. Risking death by sea or on foot\, nearly 700\,000 have fled the destruction of their homes and persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma) for neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017. Bangladesh now houses 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp. \nThemed around universal childhood joys that are relatable by all children\, the story helps young children to empathize with situations that are different than their own. With artwork that authentically depicts life in a crowded refugee camp\, ‘The Unexpected Friend – A Rohingya Children’s Story’ is a fitting book to introduce children to social justice\, specifically the worldwide refugee humanitarian crisis. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Save the Children’s Rohingya Relief Fund. \nAbout the Author\nRaya Rahman is the founder of Guba Publishing. After a decade of working in the corporate world\, she now partners with other authors\, illustrators and non-profit organizations to publish diverse and multicultural children’s stories and learning resources. Raya lives in Oakland\, California with her husband and their two spirited daughters\, who were her main inspiration for starting a children’s publishing house. \nAbout the Illustrator\nInshra Russell is the founder of a boutique creative services agency called Studio Inku\, that works in partnership with Guba Publishing to create high quality picture books for children. Inshra is a multi-platform content creator with a portfolio of projects that includes short films\, photography\, illustrations\, graphic design and video production. She lives in London\, U.K. with her husband and their son\, Ruben. Find her on www.studioinku.com. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-book-reading-the-unexpected-friend/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bill Zarchy - Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Equal parts time travel tale\, thriller\, and baseball saga\, Bill Zarchy’s debut novel Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale is a gripping\, humorous\, and entertaining look at what happens when past and present collide in the 9th inning\, with the bases loaded and no one warming up in the bullpen. \nOn a freezing night in 1778\, General George Washington vanishes. Walking away from the Valley Forge encampment\, he takes a fall and is knocked unconscious\, only to reappear at a park near San Francisco—during the summer of 2014. Washington befriends two Berkeley twenty-somethings who help him cope with the astonishing—and often comical—surprises of the twenty-first century. \nWashington’s absence from Valley Forge\, however\, is not without serious consequences. As the world rapidly devolves around them—and their beloved Giants fight to salvage a disappointing season—George\, Tim\, and Matt are catapulted on a race across America to find a way to get George back to 1778. \n“I grew up fascinated by the presidents—and Washington in particular\,” recalls author Bill Zarchy. “George became my touchstone for trying to understand the alluring technology of my mid-century boyhood—aviation\, photography\, trains\, cars\, rockets\, satellites\, television\, movies: How would I explain this to George Washington\, if he were to come back to life right now?” Zarchy continues\, “I originally thought of this as a comic\, fish-out-of-water story\, but as I learned more about my subject\, so much emerged about George: A charismatic leader\, but a soft-spoken\, uninspiring orator. A courageous man\, who endured the burden of dental pain throughout his life. A powerful\, ambitious man\, but a kind\, gentle husband and stepfather. A 6’ 2” giant\, at a time when most men were much shorter. A skillful horseman\, a graceful dancer\, a man’s man who enjoyed the company of women. Perhaps most significantly\, like most of the Founding Fathers\, he was a slave owner\, though history establishes that Washington\, privately\, had at least a dawning awareness that slavery was evil and immoral.” \nBill Zarchy filmed projects on six continents during his 40 years as a cinematographer\, captured in his first book\, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil. Now he writes novels\, takes photos\, and talks of many things. His career includes filming three former presidents for the Emmy-winning West Wing Documentary Special\, the Grammy-winning Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em\, feature films Conceiving Ada and Read You Like A Book\, PBS science series Closer to Truth\, musical performances as diverse as the Grateful Dead\, Weird Al Yankovic\, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle\, and countless high-end projects for technology and medical companies. His tales from the road\, personal essays\, and technical articles have appeared in Travelers’ Tales and Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies\, the San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers\, and American Cinematographer\, Emmy\, and other trade magazines. Bill has a BA in Government from Dartmouth and an MA in Film from Stanford. He taught Advanced Cinematography at San Francisco State for twelve years. He is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of the EPIC Storytelling Program at Stagebridge in Oakland. This is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-zarchy-finding-george-washington-a-time-travel-tale-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lauren Oyler and Anna Wiener
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, FEBRUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN LAUREN OYLER IS JOINED BY ANNA WIENER TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, FAKE ACCOUNTS\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633184310\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82633184310#  or +12532158782\,\,82633184310#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd9BjI5wzd \nPraise for Fake Accounts \n“This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it.” —Zadie Smith \n“Oyler has written a startlingly lucid account of what it does to a person to live a life filled with lies\, why it’s so painful to be unable to trust anything or anyone\, including yourself…I laughed a lot while reading this\, even when—especially when—I very much saw myself as the joke. What Fake Accounts is ultimately asking\, then\, is a question we could all do well to pose to ourselves with some frequency: Who do you think you’re fooling?” ––Kristin Iversen\, Refinery29\, One of the Best New Books of the Year \n“Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts is such an ensorcelling blend of insight\, comedy and suspense\, you almost don’t notice yourself being filleted alive in these pages. A note to fellow readers of the twenty-first century: Anyone familiar with the allure of social media will adore this coolly observed novel. A note to fellow writers of the twenty-first century: Oh crap\, she did it.” —Sloane Crosley\, author of Look Alive Out There and I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Fake Accounts \nA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers Weekly\, starred review). \nOn the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration\, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist\, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery\, irony\, and outrage\, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually\, she’s relieved—he was always a little distant—and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women’s March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. \nSuddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues\, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin\, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life\, from dating apps to expat meetups\, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can’t trust anyone—shouldn’t the feeling be mutual? \nNarrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit\, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community\, delusions and gaslighting\, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lauren-oyler-and-anna-wiener/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tanya Selvaratnam - Assume Nothing (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In Assume Nothing\, award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman\, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America. \nWhen Tanya Selvaratnam met then New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016\, they seemed like the perfect match. Both were Harvard alumni; both studied Chinese; both were interested in spirituality and meditation\, both were well-connected rising stars in their professions—Selvaratnam in entertainment and the art world; Schneiderman in law and politics. \nBehind closed doors\, however\, Tanya’s life was anything but ideal. Schneiderman became controlling\, mean\, and manipulative. He drank heavily and used sedatives. Sex turned violent\, and he called Tanya—who was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Southern California—his “brown slave.” He isolated and manipulated her\, even threatening to kill her if she tried to leave. \nTwenty-five percent of women in America are victims of domestic abuse. Tanya never thought she would be a part of this statistic. Growing up\, she witnessed her father physically and emotionally abuse her mother. Tanya knew the patterns and signs of domestic violence\, and did not see herself as remotely vulnerable. Yet what seemed impossible was suddenly a terrifying reality: she was trapped in a violent relationship with one of the most powerful men in New York. \nSensitive and nuanced\, written with the gripping power of a dark psychological thriller\, Assume Nothing details how Tanya’s relationship devolved into abuse\, how she found the strength to leave—risking her career\, reputation\, and life—and how she reclaimed her freedom and her voice. In sharing her story\, Tanya analyzes the insidious way women from all walks of life learn to accept abuse\, and redefines what it means to be a victim of intimate violence. \nTanya Selvaratnam is the author of The Big Lie: Motherhood\, Feminism\, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. Her essays have been published in the New York Times\, Vogue\, The Art Newspaper\, SheKnows\, Glamour\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, and on CNN\, and she has been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center. She is an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning Filmmaker\, and she has been a producer for Aubin Pictures\, For Freedoms\, Glamour Women of the Year\, the Meteor\, Planned Parenthood\, and the Vision & Justice Project. \nTiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, founder of the Webby Awards\, and author of the national bestselling book 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time\, Creativity\, and Connection\, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. Her spoken cinema performance Dear Human premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Find more at tiffanyshlain.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tanya-selvaratnam-assume-nothing-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents the launch for Dr. Euan Angus Ashley / The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with Dr. Euan Angus Ashley for his new book The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Genome Odyssey here. We’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nSince the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003\, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350\,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world\, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1\,000. \nFor the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future\, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins\, and to decode what it really means to be human. \nIn The Genome Odyssey\, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that\, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients\, he introduces readers to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers\, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures. \nHe describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and interpret a complete human genome\, how they broke genome speed records to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five times on the first day of her life\, and how they found a boy with tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece of his genome. \nThese patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future where genome sequencing is available for all\, where medicine can be tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like viruses at the genomic level\, and where our medical system as we know it has been completely revolutionized. \nAbout the author\nEuan Ashley is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University. He was born in Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow. He attended Oxford University\, completing a PhD there before moving to Stanford University where he trained in Cardiology. He joined the Stanford faculty\, where he led the team that carried out the first medical interpretation of a human genome. Ashley has received awards from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. He was recognized by the Obama White House and received the Medal of Honor from the American Heart Association. \nHis articles have appeared in the many journals\, including Lancet\, the New England Journal of Medicine\, the Journal of the American Medical Association\, Nature and Cell. He appears regularly on local and national radio and TV. He is the founder of three companies and advisor to several Silicon Valley companies. With three young children\, he spends his spare time trying to understand American football\, play the saxophone\, and conduct research on the health benefits of single malt Scotch whisky. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-the-launch-for-dr-euan-angus-ashley-the-genome-odyssey-medical-mysteries-and-the-incredible-quest-to-solve-them/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Pajama Party with Mitali Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special pajama party with local author Mitali Perkins and her dog to celebrate the launch of Mitali’s new picture book\, Home is in Between!  Bring your pet or favorite stuffy and cozy up for a virtual bedtime story. See you there! Book is recommended for ages 3-7. Pre-register to save a spot! \nThis event will take place live on Crowdcast. Pre-registration required. Click here to save your spot. \nPre-order signed copies of Home Is In Between below. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 23\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nShanti misses the warm monsoon rains in India. Now in America\, she watches fall leaves fly past her feet. \nStill\, her family’s apartment feels like a village: Mama cooking luchi\, funny stories in Bangla\, and Baba’s big laugh. But outside\, everything is different – trick-or-treating\, ballet class\, and English books. \nBack and forth\, Shanti trudges between her two worlds. She remembers her village and learns her new town. She watches Bollywood movies at home and Hollywood movies with her friends. She is Indian. She is also American. How should she define home? \nMitali Perkins has written several books for young readers\, including Between Us and Abuela\, Forward Me Back to You\, You Bring the Distant Near (a National Book Award Nominee\, a Walter Honor Book\, a South Asia Book Award Winner\, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year\, and a Shelf Awareness 2017 Best Book of the Year)\, Rickshaw Girl (a NYPL Top 100 Book)\, and Bamboo People (an ALA Top 10 YA novel). Mitali was born in India and currently resides in Northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-pajama-party-with-mitali-perkins/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Heather McGhee\, The Sum of Us
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Marcus Books\, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch\, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza\, Principal at Black Futures Lab and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. McGhee’s new book\, The Sum of Us\, is a powerful exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us—including white people—from one of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers. \nRegister for this free online event by clicking here! \nThe Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing\, still the richest country in the world\, but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. At the heart of the book are the humble stories of Americans yearning to be a part of a better America\, including white supremacy’s collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy\, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a vision for the future of our country—one whose population has ties to every place on the globe—where we finally realize that life can be so much more than zero-sum. \n“Racism is not merely destructive to people of color. It is self-destructive to many white people. Racism is anti-American and anti-human as Heather McGhee expertly and judiciously proves in The Sum of Us. This is the book I’ve been waiting for. The Sum of Us can help us come together to build a nation for us all\, with policies that benefit us all.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist \nHeather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy. The former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos\, McGhee has drafted legislation\, testified before Congress and contributed regularly to news shows including NBC’s Meet the Press. She now chairs the board of Color of Change\, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. McGhee holds a BA in American studies from Yale University and a JD from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. \nAlicia Garza believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An author\, political strategist\, organizer\, and cheeseburger enthusiast\, Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network\, serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, and is a co-founder of Supermajority\, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia has become a powerful voice in the media and frequently contributes thoughtful opinion pieces and expert commentary on politics\, race and more to outlets such as MSNBC and The New York Times. She has received numerous accolades and recognitions\, including being on the cover of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World issue and being named to Bloomberg’s 50 and Politico’s 50 lists. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book\, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (One World Penguin Random House)\, and she warns you — hashtags don’t start movements. People do.     
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-heather-mcghee-the-sum-of-us/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T180000
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SUMMARY:Daphne A. Brooks
DESCRIPTION:discussing her new book \nLiner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound \npublished by Belknap Press / Harvard 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) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\nAn award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé. \nDaphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics\, collectors\, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. How is it possible\, she asks\, that iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry? \nLiner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer\, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer Black feminist critic of modern culture\, and Pauline Hopkins as America’s first Black female cultural commentator. Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording\, song collecting\, and rock and roll criticism. She makes lyrical forays into the blues pioneers Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith\, as well as fans who became critics\, like the record-label entrepreneur and writer Rosetta Reitz. In the twenty-first century\, pop superstar Janelle Monae’s liner notes are recognized for their innovations\, while celebrated singers Cécile McLorin Salvant\, Rhiannon Giddens\, and Valerie June take their place as cultural historians. \nWith an innovative perspective on the story of Black women in popular music—and who should rightly tell it—Liner Notes for the Revolution pioneers a long overdue recognition and celebration of Black woman musicians as radical intellectuals. \nDaphne A. Brooks is author of Jeff Buckley’s Grace and Bodies in Dissent\, winner of the Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American performance studies. A professor at Yale University\, she has written liner notes to accompany the recordings of Aretha Franklin\, Tammi Terrell\, and Prince\, as well as stories for the New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, and Pitchfork. \n  \nPraise for Liner Notes for the Revolution : \n\n\n“A spirited study of how Black women musicians and writers have informed each other despite gatekeepers’ neglect and dismissals… A sui generis and essential work on Black music culture destined to launch future investigations.“—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Enlightening…a fresh perspective on more than a century’s worth of Black female musicians… Brooks combines an impressive archive of musical works and the artists’ own words to convincingly reveal how they each impacted popular culture. Music aficionados should take note.“—Publishers Weekly \n“Daphne Brooks has written a gloriously polyphonic book. Moving through the tumult of the twentieth century and the millennium\, she scores\, archives\, and curates the history of Black woman musicians and their radical modernities\, all created in a culture that presumed they had no voices or minds. What did they do to be so Black\, brilliant\, and blue? Listen. And read on.”—Margo Jefferson\, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Negroland \n“Effortlessly poetic\, deeply historical\, and insistently imaginative\, Liner Notes for the Revolution doesn’t merely give voice to unheeded and crucial innovators; it offers a new method for approaching music history itself.”—Ann Powers\, author of Good Booty \n“Daphne Brooks’s brilliant evocation of what gets lost when women of color don’t speak\, let alone sing\, is one of the most moving testaments to the power of silence\, and what breaking that silence means\, that I have ever read. Vivid\, joyful\, and heartbreaking in its passionate understanding of soul in all its manifestations\, Liner Notes for the Revolution is itself a new kind of music: propulsive\, witty\, wise\, and true.”—Hilton Als\, author of White Girls \n“For Daphne Brooks\, black feminist sound is sensuous thought. In Liner Notes for the Revolution\, she feels and shows and says this with such devotion\, such critical and emotional intelligence\, such archival commitment and dexterity\, and such urgent social aspiration that listening itself is new again.”—Fred Moten\, author of All That Beauty \n“Liner Notes for the Revolution is a groundbreaking and breathtaking volume from one of our leading cultural historians that will forever change the way we write and think about American culture. Daphne Brooks insists upon the genius of black women music-makers\, listeners\, and critics. This transformative work of intellectual generosity is sure to join the ranks of classic works such as Amiri Baraka’s Blues People and Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces.”—Farah Jasmine Griffin\, author of Harlem Nocturne
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Anne Corley Baum - Small Mistakes\, Big Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Small Mistakes\, Big Consequences for Interviews is a lighthearted look at the top 20 interviewing mistakes that people make without realizing the potential consequences. Learn how to identify these common character mistakes that can make or break your interview—and hiring prospects. Avoid making these mistakes yourself and learn how to interview and manage these personality types. It also offers advice to the interviewer. \nSmall Mistakes\, Big Consequences: Develop Your Soft Skills to Help You Succeed is a lighthearted look at the top 16 business mistakes that people make without realizing the potential consequences.  Readers will learn how to identify these common mistakes that can make or break your relationships as well as learn how to avoid making these mistakes themselves\, and learn how to work with and manage people who exhibit these personality types. The book is filled with simple\, actionable business tips to help readers succeed. It’s a guide to navigating the speed bumps on the road to the corner office. \nAnne Corley Baum is the Lehigh Valley Market President for Capital BlueCross.  She has run leadership training programs through her own company Vision Accomplished\, that focuses on leadership development.  She has spent years serving in leadership roles and teaching leadership to high potential employees on their way to the C -Suite. She is a certified protocol and etiquette consultant and has run programs on perfecting your professional image\, leadership\, and executive coaching\, how to succeed in the international arena\, and dining at the corporate table. She has also led programs for young adults including interviewing and job skills and etiquette and dining programs for children and teens. She has been interviewing candidates for over 30 years for various positions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-corley-baum-small-mistakes-big-consequences/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lydia Millet Discussing her novel\, A Children's Bible
DESCRIPTION:Lydia Millet joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of A Children’s Bible (W.W. Norton)\, one of the New York Times “Top Ten Books of 2020”. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon. \nAbout A Children’s Bible\nLonglisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction \nPulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. \nContemptuous of their parents\, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor\, drugs\, and sex\, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate\, the group’s ringleaders—including Eve\, who narrates the story—decide to run away\, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. \nAs the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother\, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm. \nA Children’s Bible is a prophetic\, heartbreaking story of generational divide—and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation. \nAbout Lydia Millet\nLydia Millet has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives outside Tucson\, Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lydia-millet-discussing-her-novel-a-childrens-bible/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T172000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Tess Taylor & Danusha Laméris
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 25TH FEATURED WRITERS: TESS TAYLOR & DANUSHA LAMÈRIS \nTess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry\, including The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, and The Forage House\, called “stunning” by The San Francisco Chronicle. Work & Days was named one of The New York Times best books of poetry of 2016.  In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art as a part of the Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press\,  hailed as “brilliant” in the LA Times. \nDanusha Laméris’ first book\, The Moons of August (Autumn House\, 2014)\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, The American Poetry Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, Ploughshares\, and Tin House. She’s the author of Bonfire Opera\, (University of Pittsburgh Press\, Pitt Poetry Series\, 2020)\, and the recipient of the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Danusha teaches poetry independently and was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, California. \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-tess-taylor-danusha-lameris/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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