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SUMMARY:Patti Smith
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers present \nExtraordinary Dreamer: Patti Smith on “Year of the Monkey” \nPatti Smith in an intimate evening of reading and music \ncelebrating the paperback release of \nYEAR OF THE MONKEY \npublished by Vintage Books \nTickets: $35.00 \n(Purchase Tickets Here) \nThis is a virtual event. \nEach ticket purchase includes a paperback copy of Year of the Monkey (note: we can only ship within the United States)\, event admission for the live event\, and a link to the recorded conversation for viewing after October 8th. Book orders will begin shipping after September 1st. \nWe regret we cannot accept international orders for this event. \nShe redefined rock and roll for a generation\, defied conventional expectations at every turn\, and created enough zeitgeist-shaping art for more than one lifetime. Now Patti Smith has something new and beautiful to share: a “beautiful\, elegant\, and poetic” (NPR) memoir chronicling a transformational year of personal loss\, cross-country travel\, and political upheaval. Year of the Monkey reprises the spellbinding storytelling we all fell in love with in her National Book Award-winning Just Kids and bestselling M Train\, conjuring the complexity and magic of an extraordinary dreamer’s inner life. In this unique live experience\, Patti will play a few songs with longtime band mate Tony Shanahan and share passages from Year of the Monkey. \nCritical Praise for YEAR OF THE MONKEY \n“Poignant\, gorgeous—a picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life\, blending fiction and reality\, conjured characters and actual ones. She writes of seeing her image reflected on the surface of the toaster: ‘I noticed I looked young and old simultaneously.’ That describes her spirit perfectly.” —Maureen Dowd\, The New York Times\n \n“Elegant\, poetic\, wildly entertaining\, touching—a beautifully realized and unique memoir that chronicles a transformative year in the life of one of our most multi-talented creative voices. Part travel journal\, part reflexive essay on our times\, and part meditation on existence at the edge of a new decade of life . . . Effortlessly weaving together fiction and nonfiction\, Smith takes readers on two unique journeys: one that can be traced on a map and one\, infinitely richer and more complex\, that takes place inside her head and heart. Smith’s musical career sometimes threatens to overshadow her accomplishments in other creative fields—but every page in this book is packed with enough outstanding prose to constantly remind readers that Smith is an accomplished novelist\, essayist\, and poet who won the National Book Award in 2010. In her capable hands\, a simple look at New York City in winter becomes a flash of beautiful poetry. Smith’s approach to nonfiction is unique and brave: It counts as true if it happened\, if she imagined it\, and if she felt it. This is a book about Smith and the world all around. And that is just one more reason why everyone should read it.” —Gabino Iglesias\, NPR\n \n“Moving—an account of physical and intellectual wanderings . . . Smith does not rage against her approaching 70th birthday\, nor does she turn away from it. She finds art everywhere\, and remains a pioneer\, the same rules-shattering poet and National Book Award-winning writer . . . She is\, as she writes in Year of the Monkey\, ‘still going about my business\, that of being alive\, the best I can.’” —Jack Cline\, The Washington Post \n“Miraculous . . . A dream-driven\, reality-reclaiming masterpiece laced with poetry and philosophy and surrealism and the hardest realism there is: that of hope . . . Smith is aglow; she moves through this world as a time-traveler\, an eavesdropper\, a vagrant\, a vagabond in the land of literature and life; she is a human mirror. She. invites us to relinquish the different names we give to the living of life and just live it\, with all its disorienting uncertainty. Reflecting on clarifying dreams\, worrying for our shared future\, Smith reminds us that the only remedy for a broken reality is more truth. She reaches\, with a lucid and luminous hand\, for the buoyancy that is our lifeline.” —Maria Popova\, Brain Pickings\n \n“A lucid dream of a memoir . . .Smith sees mystical connections everywhere—and\, floating along on the drifts of her words\, the reader does\, too.” —The New Yorker\n \n“Deft and enigmatic. . . Life  can’t help but confound us; love is enough to sustain us\, and loss\, if not revocable\, can\, for the moment\, be redeemed. [But] Smith is too smart for easy consolations; she has been through too much . . . She summons this scene\, this moment\, giving it the weight of a reckoning. Year of the Monkey reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source.” —David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times\n \n“Smith began writing Year of the Monkey on New Year’s Day 2016\, a transformative year for the artist that brought aging\, the loss of friends\, and overall disillusionment. Juxtaposed with this personal narrative are Smith’s descriptions of western landscapes she visited . . . Fact and fiction increasingly blur\, a combination made surreal by Smith’s obsession with details that keep popping up in various locations . . . A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence—expressed with Smith’s signature poetic flair.” —Christian Allaire\, Vogue \n“Since 1975\, Patti Smith has been blurring the lines between music\, poetry\, and prose\, howling with grief and roaring with delight\, whether onstage or via the written word. Year of the Monkey [is] her preternatural latest memoir . . . In this slim\, hallucinatory volume\, Smith roves the country in real time\, visiting favorite haunts\, hitching rides with strangers\, contemplating the fuzzy border between waking and dreaming\, and mourning the results of the 2016 presidential election. But just as a sense of gloom begins to settle\, the sun peeks through the clouds. For while ‘there is nothing in heaven like the suffering of real life…\,’ she writes\, ‘I still keep thinking something wonderful is about to happen.’” —Leigh Haber\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\n \n“Lyrical\, poignant . . . [the book] chronicles Smith’s travels and beautifully veers between dreamlike solitary reveries. Smith gives voice in the book to a national feeling of grief framed by her own personal losses; she sums up the nexus of aging\, steeped in reflection and loss. She notices every detail like a photographer\, with her words exquisitely framed by nuance.” —Solvej Schou\, Associated Press \n“Reading about [Smith’s life] makes the world shimmer with possibility. We follow her as she hitchhikes through the desert and gets left for dead\, meets weirdos and mystics in diners up and down the coast\, then takes off for Kentucky to help the playwright Sam Shepard finish his final project. A book full of riddles and fantasies [and] about one woman’s 2016. Grief on a colossal\, national scale has a way of making the most personal\, quotidian sufferings feel small and unimportant. At the same time\, it makes those typical human tragedies appear suddenly of a piece with the world around them. Patti Smith writes beautifully.” —Kaitlyn Tiffany\, Vox\n \n“A fascinating journey . . . powerful stuff. Smith [has a] peculiar brand of wandering—dead phone\, no car\, scant provisions\, vague itinerary . . . The book has little about music\, [but] what’s there is priceless. Year of the Monkey [also] includes charming\, quirky photos by the author\, and achingly sweet recollections.” —Claude Peck\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\n \n“In her third memoir\, Smith is both haunted and joyed by the passage of time. Losses surround her [in] the year she turns 70—a year of devastation\, with catastrophes both unique to her life and ones shared across America. As she crosses the country in a series of solitary adventures infused with the memories of her life on the road\, she meets the world with curiosity and openness. The many [who] revere Smith will take a thrill in her vivid recollections of long ago days on the stage and the streets of Greenwich Village\, while anyone consumed by the fears of today will find them expressed vividly by a beautiful voice.” —Adrienne Gaffney\, San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“Smith’s grace and erudite philosophy is a welcome balm in these times . . . Her latest memoir is an introspective look at her year of solo wandering—she documents that year’s massive political and social change her own lyrical way. The American canon is littered with ‘road trip memoirs\,’ but if there’s a voice we’d want to add to that genre\, it would be Smith.” —Town & Country\n \n“Lovely\, dreamlike . . . a slim volume [with a] minor-key melancholy. The punk poet’s latest memoir unfold like the stack of old Polaroids in her New York apartment: ‘One after another\, each a talisman on a necklace of continuous travels.’” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Compelling—ruminations\, adventures\, unexpected connections: [this] personal\, cross-country odyssey captured by her prose and Polaroid portraits finds Smith mining magical moments within even the most seemingly mundane of circumstances. She weaves threads of everyday experiences and warm recollections together in the manner of a waking dream. Funny moments make Smith relatable.  The narrative thread is transformation.  She is equally a participant and observer of life; as much as art provides sustenance and solace for her in troubled times\, by the end she is invoking a greater call to action. If there is anyone capable of living in the past\, present and future simultaneously\, and occupying space between reality and dreams\, it is Smith. It may not be easy to conveniently explain Smith’s style or approach\, but that is not the point. You simply need to surrender to it to be inspired.” —Bryan Reesman\, Newsday \n“One of America’s finest memoirists. Funny and weird\, sober and sad\, Year of the Monkey is simultaneously a travelogue of Smith’s journeys through California\, Arizona\, Portugal and Kentucky; a fantastical dream-journal full of imagined conversations; and a clear-eyed meditation on Smith’s relationships with two of her oldest\, dearest friends—playwright Sam Shepard and music producer Sandy Pearlman—who passed away as she was writing it. It’s perhaps the closest she’s come to synthesizing the penetrating maturity of her latter-day writings with the improvisational wildness of her early free-form poems and songs.” —Andrew Barker\, Variety\n \n“In her poetic prose and [with] snaps of her trusty Polaroid camera\, Smith captures truth and beauty\, challenges and victories. Year of the Monkey traces her year of wandering across California’s Santa Cruz coast and the West\, searching for answers for questions she never knew she had . . . Smith’s writing is impressionistic; fact and fiction intermix and she captures authentic moments that never fade away.” —Drew Tewksbury\, Los Angeles Times \n“Whether it’s guttural\, poetic lyricism or compassionate nonfiction\, Patti Smith’s writing style and ability are truly unrivaled. In Year of the Monkey\, her words are paired with Polaroids as she explores aging\, grief and the dire global embrace of right-wing nationalism.” —Lizzie Manno\, Paste \n“In the time since her exquisite memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award in 2010\, godmother of punk Patti Smith has been documenting her travels with her pen and trusty Polaroid. In Year of the Monkey\, her wanderlust drives her from San Francisco to Santa Cruz to Arizona to Kentucky to New York . . . Along the way\, she meets fellow nomads\, mourns for loved ones both in the process of dying and those long gone\, and she drinks a whole lot of coffee. A keen observer of the world around her\, Smith is equally adept at documenting her inner terrain. Wherever she wanders\, it’s always worth the trip.” —Emily Rems\, Bust \n“This is the modern-day Patti Smith: older\, wiser\, seeing the world\, and reporting it all back to us in only the way she can. You can’t read this and not feel inspired after you put it down.” —Inside Hook \n“From meditations on poetry\, politics\, art\, and dreams\, to her own lyrical way of interacting with the world\, Year of the Monkey confirms Patti Smith cannot be boxed in by either genre or medium. The book also includes Smith’s Polaroids from her travels—yes\, she is somehow a talented photographer on top of everything else.”\n—Jeva Lange\, The Week\n \n“Lyrical: a book [that] defies all familiar categories\, playfully exploring the seam between reality and fantasy. It’s full of mysterious characters who emerge from somewhere out of the American landscape. [After] a New Year’s Day opening—Smith lost and alone in a part of Santa Cruz usually clogged with tourists–we follow her to Venice Beach\, Arizona\, Kentucky\, Seattle\, and New York. The beating heart of the book comes with Smith’s visits to Sam Shepard at his Kentucky horse ranch….A rich\, kaleidoscopic narrative of surprises and insights.” —Wallace Baine\, Good Times\n\n“Smith is always willing to see where a new road might lead. Her career has been a study of language\, with interest in melodic refrains\, surreal images\, and reverent tones. Year of the Monkey is absolutely true in eternal truths\, ornamented by a sense of poetry . . . A stunning\, soothing work.” —Megan Volpert\, PopMatters  \n“Over the course of a year leading up to her 70th birthday\, rock legend Patti Smith stood witness to the fragility of life. There’s an explicit dreamlike quality and focus to The Year of the Monkey\, which offers a very specific glimpse into the life of an artist facing her mortality without coasting. Through her trips\, cups of coffee\, and dreams\, Smith radiates compassionate and concern as she meditates upon the practice of sitting with loss and change during ever-turbulent times.” —Lauren LeBlanc\, Observer \n“A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith’s third memoir\, set during the Chinese year of the monkey\, the year when she moves from age 69 to 70. She begins on New Year’s Day\, 2016\, the morning after finishing a three-night run at the Fillmore in San Francisco and sitting at the deathbed of a long-time friendwho introduced her to City Lights\, Caffe Trieste and the Grateful Dead. She chronicles cafés\, hitchhiking trips\, strange motels in Santa Cruz and vivid dreams. With great tenderness\, she describes visiting Sam Shepard in the final months of his life and helping him get his last book completed.”\n—Jane Ciabattari\, BBC \n“Magical\, rich—the unique artistry of Smith’s prose remains.” —Fiona Sturges\, The Guardian (UK)\n \n“Extraordinary.” —Bryan Appleyard\, The Times (UK) \n“It was a year of disruption\, wandering\, dreams and surreal visions: this year of the monkey on the Chinese zodiac was also the year Smith turned 70\, and a trickster election hurled the country into a dark looking-glass realm. Smith writes with fresh lucidity\, wit\, bittersweet wonder\, and stoic sorrow\, shifting in tone from lyrical to hallucinatory to hard-boiled as she describes her meditative and investigative meanderings along the Pacific coast and in the desert. Keenly sensitive to atmosphere\, she finds herself ‘in the middle of the unexplained’ as she travels with cosmic spontaneity and ‘an almost religious simplicity’ . . . She remembers her life-saving childhood library and a cherished\, then dying friend. Smith also chronicles with exquisite poignancy her last visits with her soul mate Sam Shepherd . . . Elegiac\, vital\, and magical.”\n—Donna Seaman\, Booklist  [starred review] \n“Luminous . . . Smith wanders between waking and dreaming in a year filled with the death of a close friend and the political turmoil of the 2016 election . . . In light of her 70th birthday\, she writes lyrically on various subjects: she describes Allen Ginsberg’s poetry\, which she carries along her travels­\, as an ‘expansive hydrogen bomb;’ caught up in Belinda Carlisle’s infectious beat\, she imagines a ‘nonviolent hubris spreading across the land.’ She discovers that her most meaningful insights come from her vivid dreams\, and she feels a palpable melancholia over having to wake up from them. Smith casts a mesmerizing spell with exquisite prose.”\n—Publishers Weekly [starred review]\n \n“Intriguing—a memoir that evolves around the transformations both in Smith’s life and the American political landscape. Disturbing yet humorous\, with the boundary between fiction and nonfiction blurred\, Smith’s work is unlikely to disappoint.”\n—Jianan Qian\, The Millions \n“Captivating . . . a chronicle of a year filled with deep losses and rich epiphanies. The titular year\, 2016\, set Smith\, [who] refers to herself as the ‘poet detective\,’ on a quixotic quest\, with a mysterious companion unexpectedly reappearing amid a backdrop of rock touring\, vagabond traveling\, and a poisonous political landscape. Throughout\, Smith ponders time and mortality—no surprise considering her milestone birthday\, and the experience of losing friends who have meant so much to her. She stresses the importance of memory\, and the timeless nature of a person’s spirit . . . Redemptive.”\n—Kirkus [starred review] \n 
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SUMMARY:Aarti Namdev Shahani - Here We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with journalist and activist Aarti Namdev Shahani for the paperback release of her heart-wrenching debut memoir\, Here We Are. We’ve partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club members across the country\, who can tune in to hear a discussion and participate in the live Q&A. Register through the link above. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends. \nAarti Namdev Shahani is the author of memoir Here We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares. She is a correspondent for NPR based in Silicon Valley\, covering the largest companies on earth. Her reporting has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists\, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award\, and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. Before journalism\, Shahani was a community organizer in New York City\, helping prisoners and families facing deportation. Her activism was honored by the Union Square Awards and Legal Aid Society. She received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, with generous support from the university and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She completed her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of Chicago. She was among the youngest recipients of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University and is an alumna of A Better Chance\, Inc. Shahani grew up in Flushing\, Queens—in one of the most diverse zip codes in the country—and believes every American should visit her hometown to understand what makes America great.
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck's Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:featuring  special guests\, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete\, Lourdes Figuroa and more. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths and is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. Josiah Luis Alderete’s  book of poems is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nLourdes Figuroa is a proud 2009 and 2011 VONA alum. Her work has been published in the SF Poet’s 11 2008 & 2010\, Generations Literary Magazine\, Eleven Eleven\, Something Worth Revisin. Spooky Actions Books published her first chapbook\, yolotl\, and Backwords Press recently published her poem\, “War America War.” She received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Lourdes is a native of limbo nation and believes in your lung\, your throat. \n 
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Paul Madonna / Come to Light
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Paul Madonna to launch his new illustrated novel Come to Light. \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Come to Light\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n\nCome to Light is a fresh and original mystery with an unusual detective: Emit Hopper\, a former rock star turned author and artist. Six years ago\, Emit’s wife\, Julia\, went missing. Now the remains of her two hiking companions have been found buried in the California wilderness. But the discovery raises more questions than answers\, so with his love for classic detective books and rye whiskey\, Emit sets out across Europe chasing down clues\, sketchbook in hand. \nQuickly\, Emit finds himself embroiled in a plot far larger than he could have imagined: he becomes a target of a State Department investigation\, gets entangled in an international ring of art thefts\, and discovers his own artwork stolen. He meets an exuberant French nobleman\, a murderous five-year-old\, and a bohemian Roman heiress. From the Venice Biennale to the flooding of Piazza Navona\, you’ll find yourself laughing\, gasping\, and drawing right alongside Emit as he travels through some of the most beautiful regions of Europe\, unraveling a suspense-filled and surprisingly tangled mystery. \nReplete with strikingly rendered drawings that bring this exquisite and intriguing novel to life\, Come to Light is the thrilling follow-up to the adventures of Emit Hopper\, which debuted in Close Enough for the Angels. \n\n \nPaul Madonna is an award-winning artist and writer whose unique blend of drawing and storytelling has been heralded as an “all new art form.” He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee\, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for twelve years\, and the author of five books\, including Everything is its own reward (winner of the 2011 NCBA for best book) and the Emit Hopper Mystery Series. Paul’s work ranges from novels to cartoons to large-scale public murals\, and can be found internationally in print as well as in galleries and museums\, including the Oakland Museum of California and the William Blake Association in France. Paul was a founding editor for therumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and was the first (ever!) art intern at MAD magazine. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Come to Light\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Neal Karlen on Prince
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, October 8 at 6pm PDT when Neal Karlen joins us to discuss his book\, This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On+Off the Record\non Zoom!\nSigned bookplates available while supplies last! Preorder now! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83006881839\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83006881839#  or +13462487799\,\,83006881839#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 830 0688 1839\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kernyVVTav \nAbout This Thing Called Life \nAn unusual\, remarkably detailed biography of one of the most iconic musicians of our times\, by a reporter who did the only two long authorized interviews with Prince and became a lifelong friend. \nThis Thing Called Life subtly changes what we know about a massive star\, one who relentlessly controlled his own image and career\, and who everyone wanted to know. \nNeal Karlen interviewed Prince for the artist’s two Rolling Stone covers and\, according to Prince’s former fiancée Susannah Melvoin\, was “the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.” Indeed\, Prince and Karlen had known each other years before\, as two of the gang of Minneapolis boys who biked around the neighborhood and played basketball. Karlen says that not only can fans not understand Prince without understanding Minneapolis in the 70s\, but that anyone who knew Prince only knew 15% of him: that was all he was willing to give\, no matter how much he cared for them. \nGoing back to Prince Rogers Nelson’s roots\, including his contradictory and often tortured relationship with his father\, This Thing Called Life explains the star as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk\, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office\, frequented libraries\, jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward)\, who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible\, talk about movies and music and life\, and watch as he tries not to curse (instead dishing a healthy dose of “mamma jammas”). \nAbout Neal Karlen \nNeal Karlen writes regularly for The New York Times and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Minnesota journalism school. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Esquire\, GQ\, Elle\, The Forward\, Rolling Stone\, Newsweek\, and Olam\, among other publications. He lives in Minneapolis\, Minnesota.
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SUMMARY:13th Annual Life is Living Festival
DESCRIPTION:Life is Living is going virtual! \nMark your calendars to join in the largest celebration of Oakland taking place October 9th-11th\, online. \nLive Music\nTheater Stage\nKids Zone\nGrocery Giveaway\nDance Classes\nWorkshops\nAnd More! \nLife is Living will remain the beloved event you know and love so RSVP to get full access to all of your favorite zones and activations. \nStay tuned for more information about performers\, schedules\, and zones. \nABOUT THE FESTIVAL \nLife is Living is an eco-equity\, interdisciplinary festival that centers historically underserved neighborhoods and communities with programming in public spaces that have been otherwise neglected. For the last 13 years\, the Life is Living Festival has taken place at Little Bobby Hutton Park in West Oakland but due to the impacts of COVID and wildfires\, we must host the festival virtually this year. \nOur cohort consists of 100+ artists and organizations that power the festival as an intergenerational kaleidoscope of Oakland life. We’ve been Keeping Oakland\, Oakland Since 08\, holding sacred space in the vein of resistance\, art\, love\, honoring Black and Brown Lives\, and being a catalyst for larger discussions around environmental racism\, social ecology\, and social responsibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/13th-annual-life-is-living-festival/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201009T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shannon Lee and Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 9 at 7pm PDT when Shannon Lee\, discusses her book\, Be Water\, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee\, with author Jeff Chang on Zoom!\nSigned bookplates available while supplies last! Preorder now! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82886901195\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82886901195#  or +13462487799\,\,82886901195#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 828 8690 1195\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbz9GiV2MP \nAbout Be Water\, My Friend \nBruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth\, and how we can practice those teachings every day. \n“Empty your mind; be formless\, shapeless like water.” \nBruce Lee is a cultural icon\, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker\, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline—they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life. \nNow\, in Be Water\, My Friend\, Lee’s daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies\, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee’s teachings\, expanding on the foundation of his iconic “be water” philosophy. Over the course of the book\, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life\, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful\, self-expressed\, and free. \nThrough previously untold stories from her father’s life and from her own journey in embodying these lessons\, Shannon presents these philosophies in tangible\, accessible ways. With Bruce Lee’s words as a guide\, she encourages readers to pursue their essential selves and apply these ideas and practices to their everyday lives—whether in learning new things\, overcoming obstacles\, or ultimately finding their true path. \nBe Water\, My Friend is an inspirational invitation to us all\, a gentle call to action to consider our lives with new eyes. It is also a testament to how one man’s exploration and determination transcended time and place to ignite our imaginations—and to inspire many around the world to transform their lives. \nAbout the Shannon Lee \nShannon Lee is the CEO and Owner of the Bruce Lee Family Companies and President of the Bruce Lee Foundation\, as well as the daughter of the legendary martial artist and cultural icon\, Bruce Lee. Shannon’s mission is to provide access to her father’s philosophy and life through education and entertainment. She is the creator of Camp Bruce Lee through the Bruce Lee Foundation\, and has spoken at TED\, TEDx\, and Creative Mornings\, to name a few. Shannon lives in California with her daughter\, Wren\, where she co-hosts the Bruce Lee Podcast and executive produces Cinemax’s Warrior. \nAbout Jeff Chang \nJeff Chang is the Vice President for Narrative\, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. His books include Can’t Stop\, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, and Who We Be: A Cultural\nHistory of Race in Post Civil Rights America. His latest\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation\, was published in September 2016. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of theyear.” In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. He is featured in the PBS documentary series\, Asian Americans. Recently he helped to write the Cultural New Deal alongside a number of artists and culture bearers. A national leader in narrative and cultural strategy\, Jeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”; and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200. His next project is a biography of Bruce Lee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shannon-lee-and-jeff-chang/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T110000
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SUMMARY:Keir Graff Discussing The Tiny Mansion | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, October 10\, 2020 at 11 AM PDT for an online discussion with author Keir Graff discussing his new novel\, THE TINY MANSION \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86182840632. \n(Order your copy of THE TINY MANSION at https://bit.ly/ggpTinyMansion\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/TinyMansionAB.) \nDescription\n\nIn this pitch-perfect middle grade adventure\, twelve-year-old Dagmar must endure a summer living off-the-grid with her family in a tiny home. \nThe last thing twelve-year-old Dagmar wants is to spend her summer vacation squished into a tiny house with her dad\, her stepmom\, and her annoying five-year-old half brother. But after a sudden financial setback\, her family is evicted from their Oakland apartment\, and that’s just where they end up\, parked among the towering redwoods of Northern California. \nAs Dagmar explores the forest around their new and (hopefully) temporary home\, she discovers they are living next door to an eccentric tech billionaire and his very unusual extended family. There’s his brother\, a woodsman who sets dangerous booby traps all over the place\, and his sister\, a New Age animal lover who meditates to whale songs in an isolation tank. And then there’s the billionaire’s son\, Blake\, who has everything he could ever wish for–except maybe a friend. \nBut when a wildfire engulfs the forest\, everyone–rich and poor\, kid and adult–will have to work together to escape. And with both families at risk of losing everything\, it turns out it’s not the size of the home but the people you share it with that matters. \nAbout the Author\n\nKeir Graff is the author of the middle grade novels The Phantom Tower\, The Matchstick Castle\, and The Other Felix\, and a handful of books for grown-ups. Keir lives in Chicago with his wife\, Marya\, his sons\, Felix and Cosmo\, and two cats\, Toothless and Totoro. Learn more at keirgraff.com and follow him on Twitter @keirgraff. \nPraise For…\n\n“I loved this book! It was a pleasure to follow Dagmar\, a girl who knows how hard life can be\, as she takes on all the challenges that come her way\, with grit\, intelligence and a not insignificant amount of rebelliousness. This hard-to-put-down adventure is fast-paced and will captivate young readers.” –Marianne Malone\, author of The Sixty-Eight Rooms
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keir-graff-discussing-the-tiny-mansion-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T143000
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SUMMARY:Building Bridges Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce the Building Bridges Book Club\, a new partnership with the Marin Poetry Center and Mill Valley Library. \nThe Marin Poetry Center Building Bridges Book Club is an opportunity to read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and would like to take a closer look at form\, structure\, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive\, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask questions. Come prepared to read favorite poems\, lines\, and passages aloud. \nBook club meetings will take place on Zoom the second Saturday of each month from 1pm to 2:30pm PST. Information on how to RSVP coming soon! \nAt the first meeting\, on October 10\, participants will discuss John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books) with moderator Rebecca Foust. \nCopies of the book are available for purchase in-store or online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-bridges-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Barbara Jane Reyes and Friends
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Filipinx American History Month\, Eastwind Books is hosting a poetry reading featuring Barbara Jane Reyes\, Monica Ong\, Marianne Chan\, and Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. Join us for an afternoon of beautiful poetry! \nThe event will be held on Saturday\, October 10 at 3pm PST\, via Zoom. RSVP to receive the Zoom link. https://bjrpoetry.eventbrite.com \nFor more information and to purchase books by the authors\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\n~\nAbout the poets:\nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books\, 2003)\, Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005)\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2010)\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2015)\, and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband\, educator and poet Oscar Bermeo\, in Oakland. www.barbarajanereyes.com \nMonica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies (2015)\, selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design\, Ong has been awarded residencies most recently at the Studios at MassMoCA\, Millay Colony\, and Yaddo. You can find her work featured in Petrichor: A Journal of Image+Text\, Redivider\, ctrl+v\, Waxwing Magazine\, and anthologized in Poesia Visual 5. Based in Connecticut\, she currently serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. www.monicaong.com \nMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart\, Germany\, and Lansing\, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens from Sarabande Books (2020). Her poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, West Branch\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. www.mariannechan.com \nKimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is also the author of A Brief History of Fruit\, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry from the University of Akron Press\, and BETWEEN\, winner of the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College\, and you can find her on Twitter at @kqandrews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-barbara-jane-reyes-and-friends/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T163000
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SUMMARY:Resistencia Feminista: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations.\nRegister online now to get the link: https://zoom.us/…/tJIrdeihqTktG9K9LtYMbws5zmAUD_ZLbxhm\n“What does resistance mean to you in your experience of our current moment? What do you see as the role of poetry within Mexico’s current social movements?”\nIn what promises to be a stimulating dialogue\, the poets will respond to these questions while also reading their celebrated verse.\nThis event is part the launch of a groundbreaking new anthology\, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution\, from Tin House. As Julia Alvarez writes in her poignant introduction\, “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.”\nThis extraordinary collection is rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today.\nOne of those icons\, Kyra Galvan\, will be with us this afternoon\, virtually from Mexico City. The poets will also be reading the great Rosario Castellanos\, another poet in the anthology\, talking about what her legacy has meant to their development and writing today.\nThe other featured poets include:\nChary Gumeta\,Chiapas\nXel-Ha López Méndez\, Guadalajara\nZel Cabrera\, Mexico City\nFacilitated by Violeta Orozco (Vio Letra) and Crescencio López González.\nBios and pics coming shortly.\nThe event will be in English\, with bilingual readings of the poetry.\nThe anthology will be released on September 15. For more information and to pre-order it now\, please visit www.redpoppy.net\nThe poets of Resistencia explore feminist\, queer\, Indigenous\, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism\, dictatorships\, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection\, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity\, place\, and belonging\, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.\nIncluded in English translation alongside their original language\, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. Urgent\, timely\, and absolutely essential\, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.\n\nPraise for Resistencia:\n“Resistencia could not be more timely. It is a stunning collection of revelations and witness. . . . Indispensable.”\n-Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of The House of Broken Angels\n“A groundbreaking collection of works by over 50 poets\, Resistencia is alive with bravery\, feminism\, strength\, agency\, protest\, power and hope.”\n– Ms. Magazine\n“I read Resistencia n in one sitting\, rather breathlessly… The poems do not soothe but shake us awake\, and they call on us to do what they have done: to witness\, to listen\, to not only speak but sing.”\n– Maggie Smith\, author of Good Bones\n“Even surrounded in death and destruction\, there is a vibrancy in the lines. There is joy. There is living. Beauty’s put forward bravely.”\n– David Thomas Martinez\n“Reading these poems\, I felt as if this brilliant chorus of writers\, living and departed\, was delivering a call to action: ‘We have been here all along\, fighting. Won’t you join us?’”\n– Frances de Pontes Peebles\, author of The Air You Breathe\nPlease support this project\, support these poets\, support your soul by pre-ordering the book today: www.redpoppy.net\, or wherever books are sold. En México\, el libro está actualmente disponible en www.amazon.com.mx\nAnd please join us for this impactful afternoon\, Saturday\, October 10th.\nThis event is made possible with support from Red Poppy\, Artes de Mexico en Utah\, and Utah Humanities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistencia-feminista-contemporary-mexican-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T190000
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SUMMARY:Every Day We Get More Illegal
DESCRIPTION:Included in Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 & LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year! \nA State of the Union from the nation’s first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant\, compassionate\, and filled with hope. \n“Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art\, part oral\, part written\, part English\, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity\, fueled by collective pride\, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed.”— New York Times \n“Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be.”—NPR \n“From Basho to Mandela\, Every Day We Get More Illegal takes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance from a poet who declares\, ‘I had to learn . . . to take care of myself . . . the courage to listen to my self.’ In ways subtle and sometimes proudly loud\, this book makes it clear exactly why Juan Felipe Herrera continues to be recognized and sought after for his work. You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition \n“Everyday we get more illegal\, the poet says in this book of incantations and days\, of laborers touching the earth and migrants waiting crossing the border. To cross where? To the country that is itself in danger of becoming merely The Wall. Nothing else but The Wall. But Juan Felipe Herrera knows that ‘underneath the crust of The Wall things are always / in motion\,’ he knows that what saves us is tenderness. His father once walked to the ocean with a jar in his hand. The poet comes to his country with a book of songs\, and asks: America\, are you listening? We better listen. There is wisdom in this book\, there is a choral voice that teaches us ‘to gain\, pebble by pebble\, seashell by seashell\, the courage.’ The courage to find more grace\, to find flames.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Former Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium—a messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of the United States to then speak from the body politic in confrontation with an enemy system that threatens the networks that make us ethical and humane. Every book he writes becomes his best book and this collection is no exception. He brings unity and vulnerability to this wide-ranging and prophetic volume.”—Carmen Giménez Smith\, author of Be Recorder \n“In Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera shows off all of his styles. These poems talk directly to America\, to migrant people\, and to working people. Herrera has created a chorus to remind us we are alive and beautiful and powerful.”—José Olivarez\, author of Citizen Illegal \n“Few poets have more laurels upon which they could rest than Juan Felipe Herrera. As the former Poet Laureate of the United States he’s done more for poetry\, on the page and off\, than most anyone living. But in his new Every Day We Get More Illegal\, Herrera not only stretches\, complicates\, broadens his own oeuvre\, he challenges and expands what might be possible in the space of a poem. Herrera reaches out beyond language—’the fervent bones’—beyond the lyric medium itself\, towards what is too urgently broken for mere words: our moment\, our nation\, our humanity. ‘We brought in a new time\,’ he writes\, ‘this is the new time.'”—Kaveh Akbar\, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf \n“Juan Felipe Herrera upholds and elevates the great ancestral lineage of our Mexicano/Chicano/World/Word Masters. The Border lives in this man. The Border(s) will never leave him. He is the son of soul anarchy\, the lost stories of my America. He is the trickster magician who lifts the mirror to our faces—and allows us to see truth. When he breaks stride in this great walkabout of his\, he tumbles the false world down while always showing us the Better Way. These are poems fierce and compassionate. His Journey has served him well.”—Denise Chávez\, owner\, Casa Camino Real Bookstore\, Las Cruces NM \n“Juan Felipe Herrera breaks open language to convey unspeakable pain alongside unfathomable strength.”—Emma Ramadan\, co-owner\, Riff Raff Bookstore\, Providence\, RI \nIn this collection of poems\, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, coalesce into an urgent\, trenchant\, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then: a shift of register\, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. \nEvery Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience—filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/every-day-we-get-more-illegal/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T200000
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SUMMARY:Libra Party Online
DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance for this party:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN…\ncome celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we’ll have an open mic along with featured readers! please continue to check this space!\n\nIn June 2020\, Cassandra Dallett’s book A Pretty Little Wilderness was published by Be About It Press: https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little…/dp/0998601241\n\nIn January 2020\, Alexandra Naughton’s book a place a feeling something he said to you was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press: https://spookygirlfriendpress.tumblr.com/…/alexandra…\n\nthe event will happen on Zoom and also Facebook Live (for people who don’t want to go on zoom)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/libra-party-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T193000
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SUMMARY:Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River\, Drop Leaf\, 2016)’s Requisite is newly out from Platypus Press. Joining Tanya is Aricka Foreman\, whose first full-length book Salt Body Shimmer just came out with YesYes Books and features cover art by Lorna Simpson\, the same artist who did Requisite’s cover. We’re also thrilled to host Tanya’s fellow Platypus author Richard Georges and Bay Area poet-friends Elizabeth Robinson and Monica Mody! \nPLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE AT THIS LINK: \nhttps://ciis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcemhpz4jGtFiosb6rbc3rS8pKLI1MrZ- \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \n* \nARICKA FOREMAN is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit\, MI. Author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books)\, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Offing and spends her time in Chicago\, IL engaging poetry with photography & video. \nRICHARD GEORGES is a writer of essays\, fiction\, and three collections of poetry. His most recent book\, Epiphaneia (2019)\, won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature\, and his first book\, Make Us All Islands (2017)\, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book\, Giant (2018)\, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize. He is a recipient of a Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and has been listed or nominated for several other prizes\, including the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize\, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize\, and a Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing\, Richard works in higher education and lives in the British Virgin Islands. \nTANYA HOLTLAND is the author of Requisite\, a finalist for the Broken River Prize\, out now from Platypus Press\, and the chapbook Inner River from Drop Leaf Press. Her nonfiction and lyric essays appear in The Offing\, The Rupture\, OXALIS\, and elsewhere. A graduate of San Francisco State University’s English and Creative Writing MA program\, she was also an artist-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford where she authored the libretto Fated\, a collaboration with composer Daniela Candillari. A Los Angeles native of Dutch-Indonesian descent\, her work surrounds the intersections of memory\, ecology\, borders\, design\, and matriarchy. \nMONICA MODY is the author of Kala Pani (1913 Press) and two cross-genre chapbooks. Her poetry has also appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Poetry International\, Boston Review\, Indian Quarterly\, and Almost Island. Her awards include the Nicholas Sparks Postgraduate Writing Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame\, Naropa University’s Zora Neale Hurston Award\, and the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing. Mody has a PhD in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Notre Dame. She was born in Ranchi\, India and lives on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco). \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor\, from Free Verse Editions\, and Vivian Maier: 11 photographs in 20 poems\, a collaboration with Susanne Dyckman published by Dancing Girl Press. With Jennifer Phelps\, Robinson co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press. Robinson has new work recently published or forthcoming in Aurochs\, Caliban\, Denver Quarterly\, Fence\, Plume\,The Rumpus\, and Vestiges. Her creative nonfiction has recently been published in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time. \nDROP LEAF PRESS is run by six women in San Francisco and Oakland\, California. We seek joineries of the unexpected and the overlooked. We believe in flexibility and tactility. With each new voice\, each new book\, we create space: we add a leaf to the table\, room for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foreman-georges-holtland-mody-robinson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T200000
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SUMMARY:Tania Romanov in conversation with Don George - One Hundred Years of Exile (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. \nTania and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American\, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation leave Tania with deep resentment. Decades later\, his unexpected death exposes Tania’s open wounds and a host of unanswered questions about her father’s story and her Russian heritage. \nA serendipitous meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family\, followed by a baffling error that miraculously connects her with unknown relatives\, catapults Tania on a quest for answers in her father’s homeland. Tania’s story proves inseparable from Russia’s\, featuring Cossacks who fled revolution\, a family who survived Stalin\, and a family of royal exiles\, culminating in a meeting between princess and peasant. One Hundred Years of Exile is a moving story of how revisiting the past can bring not only forgiveness and redemption\, but something far more powerful as well. \nTania Romanov is an award-winning travel photographer and the author of three books: Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women; Never a Stranger\, a travel story collection; and One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia (2021). A Solas Award winner\, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian. Born in the former Yugoslavia\, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste\, Italy\, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools\, U.C. Berkeley\, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, eventually serving as CEO of three technology companies. When not on the road\, Tania splits her time between San Francisco and Sonoma County. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing and the editor of ten anthologies\, including A Moveable Feast\, The Kindness of Strangers\, Better Than Fiction\, and An Innocent Abroad. George is Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler\, where he writes feature articles and the monthly Trip Lit column. He is also Editor of BBC Travel‘s literary travel column\, Chance Encounters. \nAvailable in hardcover and paperback.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tania-romanov-in-conversation-with-don-george-one-hundred-years-of-exile-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Catherine Grace Katz (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Grace Katz‘s first book\, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills\, Roosevelts\, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War\, draws on newly accessible sources to bring to light both the untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin seventy-five years ago\, and the fateful reverberations during the waning days of World War II. \nCatherine is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College\, University of Cambridge in 2014\, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices. After graduating\, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the bookstore in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. \nStacy Schiff is the author of Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin\, France\, and the Birth of America\, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; and The Witches: Suspicion\, Betrayal\, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem\, which has been hailed by the New York Times “an almost novelistic\, thriller-like narrative.” Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-catherine-grace-katz-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline’s new collection\, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857330918\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87857330918# or +12532158782\,\,87857330918#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 878 5733 0918\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdm7c20lW2 \nPraise for The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\n“The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories is an extraordinary collection\, and the title story alone is an astonishing feat. . . . The collection takes us in stories across the Korean diaspora\, from ancient Korea to the Korean War to Korean Americans living in America in the recent past\, the present\, and even the future. [Caroline Kim] has a devastating sense of dramatic timing\, a keen ear for dialogue\, and experiments constantly\, with structure\, minimalism\, science fiction\, historical fiction\, returning always with insight\, intelligence\, and an expansive sense of their characters’ humanity\, which in turn points us to our own. These characters will live in my head a long time.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, The Queen of the Night\, and Edinburgh\n“Caroline Kim’s captivating story collection gathers an entrancing variety of voices spread across time and place. These diverse viewpoints reveal cohesive threads that address clashes of culture\, of generations\, of relationships\, of history\, carrying us from 18th-century Korea to the Korean War and our own contemporary then future world\, and strikingly reflects us all in riveting microcosms of story. Deeply moving and affecting\, these stories and their heartfelt characters will linger long after the last page is turned.” –Eugenia Kim\, author of The Kinship of Secrets and The Calligrapher’s Daughter. \nAbout the Book\nWinner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize\nExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora\, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America\, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War\, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter\, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot\, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try\, fail\, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor\, insight\, and curiosity\, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture\, communication\, travel\, and family. Ultimately\, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place—or people—that will feel like home. \nAbout the Author\nCaroline Kim was born in South Korea. She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Award and an MA in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She was nominated by Jellyfish Review for the 2019 Best of the Net. She is currently a graduate student in counseling at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, CA. Kim lives with her husband and three children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-caroline-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T180000
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SUMMARY:LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it affects on our lives. \n \nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Hwang\, Ben Tarnoff\, Xiaowei Wang\, and Moira Weigel \nMore than three years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights Booksellers. Now\, the crew at LOGIC return in an exciting new collaboration. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley\, for all their utopian imaginings\, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy\, truth\, privacy\, and safety\, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress\, have shown as much. \nTogether\, publisher Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and tech magazine Logic present an alternate story\, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation\, across borders and socioeconomic divisions\, from history through the future\, beyond platitudes and PR hype\, and past doom and gloom. This collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds\, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. City Lights is pleased to be partnering with the cultural hub Gray Area in presenting this extraordinary event. \nEvents are Free\, but registration is required. Click the links on each event listing to register. \nJoin us for three days of sessions \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nVoices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do–and How They Do It \nBen Tarnoff and Moira Weigel in conversation with Anna Wiener \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Voices from the Valley\, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry\, conducting unfiltered\, in-depth\, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels\, including a data scientist\, a start-up founder\, a cook who serves their lunch\, and a PR wizard. In the process\, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large\, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating\, revealing\, and at times lurid\, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. \nMoira Weigel is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, among other publications\, and she is a cofounder of Logic magazine. She received a fellowship to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2016 and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nBen Tarnoff is the author of the books A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Jacobin\, and Lapham’s Quarterly\, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nSubprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet \nTim Hwang in conversation with Allison Arlieff \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nBlockchain Chicken Farm \nwith Xiaowei Wang in conversation with An Xiao Mina     \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Blockchain Chicken Farm\, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward\, conservative\, and intolerant. Instead\, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. \nXiaowei Wang is a technologist\, a filmmaker\, an artist\, and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine\, their work encompasses community-based and public art projects\, data visualization\, technology\, ecology\, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the Index Design Awards and featured by The New York Times\, the BBC\, CNN\, VICE\, and elsewhere. They are working toward a PhD at UC Berkeley\, where they are a part of the National Science Foundation’s Environment and Society: Data Science for the 21st Century Research Traineeship. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nWhat Tech Calls Thinking\nwith Adrian Daub (interlocutor tba) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nAdrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often\, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of “disruption\,” Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly original\, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand\, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur\, and American traditions from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve and imagination\, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual refutation of Silicon Valley’s ethos\, pulling back the curtain on the self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself. \nAdrian Daub is a professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University\, and the director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of literature\, music\, and philosophy in the nineteenth century\, and he is the author of several books published by academic presses. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, n+1\, Longreads\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nWednesday\, October 14\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nLOGIC PANEL DISCUSSION\nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Huang\, Xiaowei Wang\, Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel. (Host TBA) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nIn this closing panel\, the LOGIC crew revisit some of the ideas of the last couple of days and explore possibilities of reimagining our relationships to technology. \n  \nGray Area is a cultural hub located to San Francisco’s Mission District. Their mission is to apply art and technology to create social and civic impact through education\, incubation and public events. They use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. They test and scale projects with high impact potential\, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists\, and inspire our community by promoting meaningful new work. They apply the promise and inspiration of digital art to a broader social context. Their programs are transforming cities into creative outlets\, applying technology to solve problems\, and shaping how art is created and consumed in the digital era. Visit them at: grayarea.org \n  \nTo learn more about LOGIC MAGAZINE visit: https://logicmag.io/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-books-festival/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation about their new books. \n** Please note: this is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. ** \n\nAbout Miracle Country \nKendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows\, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada\, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. \nKendra’s parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful\, if harsh\, landscape\, prone to wildfires\, blizzards\, and gale-force winds. Above all\, they were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. After Kendra’s mother died of a rare autoimmune disease when Kendra was just sixteen\, however\, her once beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile\, as climate change\, drought\, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart\, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles\, and then Minneapolis\, land of tall trees\, full lakes\, water everywhere you look. \nBut after years of avoiding her troubled hometown\, she realized that she needed to come to terms with its past and present and had to go back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return\, emptiness and bounty\, the realities of a harsh and changing climate\, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and Rebecca Solnit\, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer. \n \nKendra Atleework is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays\, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in Bishop\, California. \nTo have Miracle Country sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nAbout Home Baked \n \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Salon\, Guernica\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. Author photo by Dennis Hearne. \nTo have Home Baked sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-kendra-atleework-miracle-country-and-alia-volz-home-baked/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joe Cottonwood
DESCRIPTION:Currently\, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London\, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry is Random Saints. Previous poetry books are Son of a Poet and Foggy Dog. In addition he is the author of nine popular novels and the award-winning memoir 99 Jobs: Blood Sweat and Houses. He lives in La Honda\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-cottonwood/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season’s great new culinary and cocktail titles. We are passionate about cookbooks and can’t wait to share our new favorites with you! \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-happy-hour-cookbooks-cocktails/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T100000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang‘s new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. \n** Please note ** \n\n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We’re happy to announce we have *signed copies* for the first 50 orders. If you’d like a copy of Subprime Attention Crisis\, you can purchase one here or below. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Questions? Write events@booksmith.com. \nAbout this event \nAdvertising is the seemingly unstoppable financial engine that has powered the meteoric growth of the modern web. What if it’s more fragile than it looks? \nIn his new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet\, researcher Tim Hwang makes the case that the core advertising model driving Google\, Facebook\, and many of the most powerful companies on the internet is — at its heart — a multibillion dollar financial bubble. Drawing parallels to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis\, Hwang shines a spotlight on the lack of transparency\, flawed incentives\, and outright fraud that keep this machine running. \nJoin us for a virtual book talk with the author and New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill. Hill writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Her work has appeared in Forbes Magazine\, The New Yorker\, and The Washington Post. Their discussion will tackle: \n\nWhy data-driven\, online advertising may be much\, much less effective than it looks\nThe long-term impact of the covid-19 recession on the media and online ads\nWhether or not the giants of Big Tech are already “too big to fail”\n\nThis discussion will also focus on the future\, and how we might be able to transition to a better\, more financially robust internet. Joining the discussion will be Desigan Chinniah\, who co-leads Grant for the Web—a $100 million fund launched in 2019 to spur open standards and pilot new sustainable business models for the internet. \nAbout the book\nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars\, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work\, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized\, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up\, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched\, convincing\, and alarming\, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet\, and its precarious future. \n“Using apt analogies and accessible terminology\, Hwang makes a persuasive case that the internet bubble is bound to burst. This wake-up call rings loud and clear.” – Publishers Weekly \n“In this well-grounded\, heretical attack on the fictions that uphold the online advertising ecosystem\, Subprime Attention Crisis destroys the illusion that programmatic ads are effective and financially sound. One can only hope that this book will be used to pop the bubble that benefits so few.” – danah boyd\, founder of Data & Society\, and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. Subprime Attention Crisis is his first book. \nModerator Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter based in New York for the New York Times. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion\, Forbes Magazine\, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. In 2018\, she gave a TED talk—”What your smart devices know (and share) about you”—in which she described what happened when she transformed her apartment into a smart home and monitored the data being sent out of it. \nPanelist Desigan Chinniah (aka-“Dees”) is a creative technologist\, certified firestarter\, sneakerhead and champion tea-drinker. After check-ins at various dot-coms (Mozilla Firefox\, eBay\, PayPal\, BBC\, Skype\, Ask Jeeves) over the last two decades\, he today has a portfolio of advisory roles with global early-stage technology startups. He recently co-created Grant for the Web\, a $100M fund supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons\, to catalyse alternative business models on the web using open protocols and web standards. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-tim-hwang-subprime-attention-crisis-advertising-and-the-time-bomb-at-the-heart-of-the-internet/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole\, The Campus Color Line
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book\, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom\, the remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equality. The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders’ actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.This is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“A stunning and ambitious origins story.”—Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author \nSome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation\, equal educational and employment opportunities\, housing discrimination\, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists\, as well as politicians\, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century\, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation’s college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range of colleges and universities across the United States\, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity. \nFocusing on the period between 1948 and 1968\, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents\, during a time of violence and unrest\, strategically\, yet often silently\, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. With courage and hope\, as well as malice and cruelty\, college presidents positioned themselves—sometimes precariously—amid conflicting interests and demands. Black college presidents challenged racist policies as their students demonstrated in the streets against segregation\, while presidents of major universities lobbied for urban renewal programs that displaced Black communities near campus. Some presidents amended campus speech practices to accommodate white supremacist speakers\, even as other academic leaders developed the nation’s first affirmative action programs in higher education. \nEddie R. Cole\, Ph.D.\, is associate professor of higher education and organizational change at UCLA\, and the author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eddie-r-cole-the-campus-color-line/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wedneday\, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey\, with Juli Delgado Lopera. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83728777787\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83728777787#  or +13462487799\,\,83728777787#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 837 2877 7787\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdhZtIyzOz \nPraise for The Wild Kindness \nAn exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. —KIRKUS \nBett Williams is a renegade…this book is a useful tool. —THE ROGUE LITERARY SOCIETY \nThe Wild Kindness is absolutely electric. It’s not only the subject matter\, which is mystical and fascinating. Bett William’s voice is untamed and inspired\, full of gonzo humor\, ambitious daring and high-vibrating heart. The personal\, the political\, the spiritual and the unknown come together into a mesmerizing read that is full-on literary fireworks. —MICHELLE TEA\, author of Valencia\, Black Wave\, Astro Baby\, and more \nOn the surface\, a book about mycology. Immediately beneath this\, a safe trip facilitated by a guide who places herself between heaven and earth\, between the fight for love and the fight itself; wholly engaged by both magic and the material plane. —KRISTIN HERSH\, singer-songwriter \nBett’s writing has brains\, charisma\, beauty and wit. —DENNIS COOPER\, author of the George Miles cycle \nAbout The Wild Kindness \nA funny\, lyrically brilliant memoir of learning to grow psychedelic mushrooms and discovering the vast power of mycelium wisdom and medicine. \nThe Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is the lyrical\, unforgettable memoir of Bett Williams’s relationship with psilocybin mushrooms\, otherwise known as magic mushrooms. In pursuit of self-healing\, she begins experimenting with mushrooms in solitary ceremonies by the fire. Word soon gets out about her New Mexican desert mushroom farm\, though\, and people arrive in droves. Not long after\, the police read her her Miranda Rights\, her relationships fall out of whack\, and her dog Rosie just might be CIA. \nOn a quest to find help through the psychedelic community\, Bett is led to Cleveland to meet Kai Wingo\, an African American leader within a high-dose psilocybin community\, and to Huautla de Jiménez\, home of well-known\, well-respected curandera María Sabina. Back home\, Bett begins a solid ritual practice with the help of her partner and friends\, bearing in mind the medicine’s indigenous roots and power to transform one’s life. \nAmidst the mainstream flood of New Age practices and products\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is a dreamlike reminder that psilocybin mushrooms are a medicine of the people\, not to be neatly packaged\, marketed\, or appropriated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bett-williams-and-juli-delgado-lopera/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum's Fall Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems – live on Zoom!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forums-fall-reading-series/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface\, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free virtual event\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We have an early start time of 5pm PST. \n\nMost days\, Masha Maximow was sure she’d chosen the winning side. \nIn her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm\, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents\, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic\, and the pay was obscene. \nJust for fun\, and to piss off her masters\, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection\, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. \nWhen her targets were strangers in faraway police states\, it was easy to compartmentalize\, to ignore the collateral damage of murder\, rape\, and torture. But when it hits close to home\, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family — including boy wonder Marcus Yallow\, her old crush and archrival\, and his entourage of naïve idealists — Masha realizes she has to choose. \nAnd whatever choice she makes\, someone is going to get hurt. \n\n \nCory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian\, Locus\, and many other publications. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller\, as is its sequel\, Homeland. His novella collection Radicalized was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada\, he lives with his family in Los Angeles. \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free\, all-ages event but RSVP is required.\n>  To have Attack Surface shipped to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-cory-doctorow-attack-surface/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:How Much of These Hills Is Gold \nBY C PAM ZHANG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question worth putting to West Coast literature. To grow up in California in the 1980s was to encounter this period in history books as one of heroism and hucksterism\, as if 300\,000 people coming to a state in search of gold over five years—that would be 120 million in today’s population—wasn’t more than a rush. These were not tourists. Many became permanent residents who dug in\, created camps\, and drove Indigenous people from their land. The ’49ers permanently altered the state’s landscape and—with more than half of them coming from outside the United States—its demographics. Nearly 30\,000 arrived from China\, bringing with them history and culture and food and family. They were often met by “frontier justice\,” as it was euphemistically called. What couldn’t be done by outright force was eventually upheld by law\, with legislation directly aimed at Chinese migrants to make prospecting prohibitively expensive or shut down immigration for them all together. \nAt last there is a novel that looks right into this history and imagines it from within. It might be a stretch to call it California’s Beloved\, but C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold moves with the same rough magic and has a similar relationship to history as Toni Morrison’s haunted and beautiful book. Only here history\, too\, becomes a ghost. We never hear the word “California” in this novel\, and it’s nearly 100 pages before the word “gold” is seen. Still\, by tilting this period through a refractive lens\, Zhang has powerfully evoked the precarious existence many of its residents lived and allows us to inhabit the bodies of two girls: Lucy\, 12\, and Sam\, who is 11. They’ve lost their mother\, Ma\, already\, and their father\, Ba\, soon follows. Broke\, hungry\, and aware that their situation is not safe\, the sisters saddle up a stolen horse and carry their father’s body on the run. Their behavior quickly begins to map onto the skittery emigration pattern their father charted when he brought them to these hills with dreams of gold\, land\, a farm\, good living. That was before drink and miner brutality and grief waylaid him. Sam has a lot of her father in her; she learns to sneak out and prospect at a young age and is ready for a fight. She wants to take chances. Lucy is cautious\, eager to find official paths\, to seek approval—even from a dubious East Coast teacher writing a book about people like her family. Lucy hasn’t forgone risk; she simply takes different ones. \nZhang takes a chance herself here\, wading into the well-trod territory of the western\, but she’s a writer of immense poise. Having grown up and lived in 13 cities\, she wrote the first draft of this novel in Bangkok\, far away from the golden hills where the book unfolds. Clearly her mind’s eye is lucid\, though. She writes lean but sensual prose that vividly conjures the stench and muck and wonder of traveling across a landscape that has been brutally used. The moon hangs high on cold nights. In Zhang’s universe\, buffalo might still be alive somewhere\, and tigers roam those hills. Each day\, the girls find something new\, a dying if still hardy prospector needing help one day\, a dried-up salt lake where they can preserve their father on another. Zhang creates an epic tale in a small space; her story reaches back and back and then yokes forward the lives Ma and Ba lived before\, the incredible journeys they underwent so they could have the privilege of living on the precarious edge of a nearly fictional enterprise. What is gold anyway? Movingly\, we hear in flashback how the girls’ father ordered and told the world for his daughters\, in fables that move like water. As the sisters come of age in the shadow of this inheritance\, the past as evanescent as California rain\, Zhang allows us to appreciate how hard it is for them not to be driven one way or the other. Do they move toward great gambles\, and\, if it’s required\, violence\, or toward finding ways to know and contain official history\, so that they might write it themselves? Taking a risk\, as Colson Whitehead did in The Underground Railroad\, to imagine history as even stranger than we allow\, C Pam Zhang has proved it’s possible to do both. \n—John Freeman \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s (the latest issue of which is devoted to California)\, the author of several books\, including The Park\, and the host of Alta’s new California Book Club. He last wrote for Alta about establishing a new California curriculum.  \nSign up to hear Freeman discuss How Much of These Hills Is Gold with C Pam Zhang at the kickoff event for Alta’s California Book Club\, on Thursday\, October 15\, at 5 p.m. Pacific time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco’s Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his initial book in 2014 of Haight Ashbury and his 2017 award winning book on the The Mission. His approach in each case has been to develop an in-depth understanding of each neighborhood through close collaboration with leading non-profits\, community organizations\, artists and local businesses. In this book he collaborates with freelance writer Kathy Chin Leong\, who has conducted over 100 interviews in the course of writing the text\, captions and sidebar stories that provide context to the images. Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong will be in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres\, author and journalist.  \nAll revenue from book sales will be donated to collaborating non-profit organizations.  \nDick Evans is a San Francisco–based photographer with an interest in documenting the colorful and rapidly changing neighborhoods of the city. Born into a ranching family in Eugene\, Oregon\, he graduated as an engineer from Oregon State University and subsequently obtained a master’s in management from Stanford. He has spent his fifty-year career in the global metals sector\, living in five countries and multiple locations in Africa\, Europe\, and North America. It was during these travels that he developed an appreciation for the diversity and richness of different cultures—both global and local—and an interest in documentary photography. \nKathy Chin Leong is an award-winning journalist with articles published in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, National Geographic Books\, Sunset Magazine\, and many other newspapers and magazines.  As a second-generation ABC (American-born Chinese)\, she grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset district\, and spent nearly every weekend in Chinatown visiting her grandmother and helping her mother shop for groceries.  While she has travelled the globe to Lebanon\, France\, Thailand\, and Canada\, rediscovering her Chinatown roots through collaboration on this book has been a journey of a lifetime.  Kathy lives in Sunnyvale\, California with her devoted husband Frank Leong Jr. and is the proud mother of two grown children\, Gwendolyn and Aaron. \nBen Fong-Torres began contributing to Rolling Stone in spring 1968\, just months after it began. In over a decade there\, he became senior editor and wrote more than 30 cover stories. He was portrayed in Almost Famous. Ben also is a broadcaster\, from KSAN in the ‘70s to Moonalice Radio today and has won 5 Emmys for co-anchoring the Chinese New Year Parade on KTVU. He is the author of a dozen books\, including his best-selling memoir\, The Rice Room.  \nConnect \nSan Francisco’s Chinatown the book – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook   \nHeyday Books – Website | Twitter | Instagram \nKathy Chin Leong – Instagram | Facebook  \nBen Fong-Torres – Website  \nZoom Reservation  \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
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SUMMARY:Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities
DESCRIPTION:Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). \nVisit our Crowdcast channel to register for this event. \nAbout The Book of Unconformities\nWhen Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other\, he reached for rocks\, stones\, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored\, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. \nA moving\, profound\, and affirming meditation\, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles\, Icelandic lava\, mica from a Nazi concentration camp\, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard\, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape\, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. \nAs Raffles follows these fundamental objects\, unearthing the events they’ve engendered\, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious\, indifferent\, and willful as time itself. \n“A spellbinding time travelogue . . . Raffles’s dense\, associative\, essayistic style mirrors geological transformation\, compressing and folding chronologies like strata in metamorphic rock . . . Mesmerizing.” —Harpers Magazine \nAbout Hugh Raffles\nHugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science\, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays\, Granta\, Orion\, and The New York Times\, and he is the recipientof the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hugh-raffles-in-conversation-with-stephen-sparks-about-the-book-of-unconformities/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, October 15\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel\, THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87385059906. \n(Order your copy of THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP at https://bit.ly/GGPLostFound\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/LostFoundAB.) \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nI really loved THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP by Susan Wiggs! \nIt resonated with me on several levels! \n1. Natalie inherits the book store after her mother dies unexpectedly. I inherited GGP fifteen years ago when my friend Debi Echlin died unexpectedly. \n2. She moved down from Sonoma and so did I. \n3. And like Natalie\, I discovered the book store was everything I never knew I wanted and\, or\, fundamentally needed. \n4. She discovered the book store really belonged to the community\, she was lucky enough to get to be it’s steward-I’ve learned the same lesson! \n5. She also discovers in order to have an awesome book store you need to surround yourself with the best staff\, which I can say I’m lucky to have the BEST staff! \nThrow in financial challenges\, a few good men\, a long lost book and a store full of hand sellers and you have the perfect summer read! \n— Kathleen \n  \nJuly 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“This is an absolutely splendid novel that spoke volumes to me. You have a girl who experiences a tragedy that leads to a better life\, despite issues and hardship along the way\, and a guy right in front of her who is perfect for her though she assumes he is not. I highlighted so many passages in this book to savor and remember. This is a perfect story for bookstore lovers and lovers of books.”\n— Patty Reed\, Ferguson Books & More\, Grand Forks\, ND \nDescription\n\n“A wonderful exploration of the past and the future and\, most importantly\, of what it means to be present in the here and now.  Full of the love of words\, the love of family\, and the love of falling in love\, The Lost and Found Bookshop is a big-hearted gem of a novel that will satisfy and entertain readers from all walks of life.  Lovely!”—Garth Stein\, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing In The Rain \nIn this thought-provoking\, wise and emotionally rich novel\, New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs explores the meaning of happiness\, trust\, and faith in oneself as she asks  the question\, “If you had to start over\, what would you do and who would you be?”  \nThere is a book for everything . . .  \nSomewhere in the vast Library of the Universe\, as Natalie thought of it\, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about. \nIn the wake of a shocking tragedy\, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew\, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father. \nBut the gruff\, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it’s best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it\, she plans to close the bookstore and sell the derelict but valuable building on historic Perdita Street\, which is in need of constant fixing. There’s only one problem–Grandpa Andrew owns the building and refuses to sell. Natalie adores her grandfather; she’ll do whatever it takes to make his final years happy. Besides\, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. \nAfter she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop\, Natalie carries out her grandfather’s request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher to do the necessary and ongoing repairs. His young daughter\, Dorothy\, also becomes a regular at the store\, and she and Natalie begin reading together while Peach works. \nTo Natalie’s surprise\, her sorrow begins to dissipate as her life becomes an unexpected journey of new connections\, discoveries and revelations\, from unearthing artifacts hidden in the bookshop’s walls\, to discovering the truth about her family\, her future\, and her own heart. \n  \nAbout the Author\n\nSusan Wiggs’s life is all about family\, friends…and fiction. She lives at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound\, and in good weather\, she commutes to her writers’ group in a 21-foot motorboat. She’s been featured in the national media\, including NPR\, PRI\, and USA Today\, has given programs for the US Embassies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo\, and is a popular speaker locally\, nationally\, internationally\, and on the high seas. \nFrom the very start\, her writings have illuminated the everyday dramas of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her books celebrate the power of love\, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. Today\, she is an international best-selling\, award-winning author\, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries and languages. According to Publishers Weekly\, Wiggs writes with “refreshingly honest emotion\,” and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is “one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book.” Booklist characterizes her books as “real and true and unforgettable.” \nHer novels have appeared in the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List\, and have captured readers’ hearts around the globe with translations into more than 20 languages and 30 countries. She is a three-time winner of the RITA Award\,. Her recent novel\, The Apple Orchard\, is currently being made into a film\, and The Lakeshore Chronicles has been optioned for adaptation into a series. \nThe author is a former teacher\, a Harvard graduate\, an avid hiker\, an amateur photographer\, a good skier and terrible golfer\, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. She lives on an island in Puget Sound\, where she divides her time between sleeping and waking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-wiggs-discussing-the-lost-and-found-bookshop-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
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