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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Before Columbus Foundation 41st Annual American Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community\, honoring excellence in American Literature without restriction to race\, sec\, ethnic background or genre. \nConnect with the Before Columbus Foundation – Website | Facebook \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n 
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SUMMARY:Eoin Colfer
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS ONLINE \nEoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl  which gained a huge worldwide readership for its mix of hilarious mayhem and snarky humor. Artemis Fowl\, the boy-genius criminal mastermind\, deals with fantastical beings and megalomaniacal villains in madcap adventures over eight books. There’s a movie adaptation that came out this year directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Judi Dench\, a series of graphic novels\, and the series spin offs revolving around the Fowl Twins . \nEoin is also the author of the critically acclaimed WARP trilogy\, Airman\, Half Moon Investigations\, The Supernaturalist\, The Wish List and Highfire And he was named Ireland’s Laureate for children’s literature in 2014 \nWe are thrilled that Eoin is writing more stories in the Artemis Fowl universe and are excited for Eoin to tell us about his second Fowl Twins adventure\, Deny All Charges\, which starts with a bang – literally. \nArtemis’s little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission\, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder\, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz\, are lucky to escape with their lives but the Fowl parents and fairy police force place the twins under house arrest.. Myles has questions which must infuriate someone\, because Myles is abducted and spirited away from his twin. Can Beckett and Lazuli collaborate to find and rescue him? Will Beckett be able to come up with a genius plan without a genius on hand? \nDon’t miss this opportunity to meet Eoin Colfer and rediscover the joy of another Fowl Brothers adventure that will keep you engaged\, entertained\, and grinning. \n\nPhoto of Eoin Colfer by Sonya Sones.
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Book Club: Minor Feelings
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nEastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to discuss the month’s book selection. October’s book club pick is Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Sunday\, October 25 at 2pm PST. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook* group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \n​Book Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \n  \nAbout the book: \nPoet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir\, cultural criticism\, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism\, this collection is vulnerable\, humorous\, and provocative–and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship\, art and politics\, identity and individuality\, will change the way you think about our world. \nBinding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants\, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame\, suspicion\, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality–when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small\, they’re dissonant–and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. \nWith sly humor and a poet’s searching mind\, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language\, to shame and depression\, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art\, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche–and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth. \nCathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Boston Review\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program in poetry. \nReview \nCatherine Park Hong examines her development from a ‘model minority’ Asian American into new awareness of racial injustice and identification with people of color. The essays take us through her younger years with the 1992 burning of L.A. Koreatown\, and as an adult enduring racist slurs and discrimination. Hong shares a growing criticism of white privilege and racial inequality through her essays. Importantly she discovered her rebellious influencers Richard Pryor\, Yuri Kochiyama\, Theresa Cha\, among the race activists who helped define an Asian American movement and liberated their generation in unity with the long sixties Black Power Movement. \nBook Club Reading Guide \nHow do you define your racial identity\, and what are your major influences? \nThe Model Minority controversy has gripped Asian Americans. Has being defined as a Model Minority helped Asian American ethnicities attain opportunities\, or is it an elusive gamble for white privileges? \nAs an Asian American\, do you identify as a person of color? And how has racial discrimination affected you or your family? \nWe are challenged by the book to join Asian Americans in support of Black Lives Matter. What side of history should Asian Americans stand? \n~ \nEastwind Book Club is co-sponsored by OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD) and AsAmNews (www.asamnews.com).
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Fall Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles\, for which each author will be reading from their work. Be the first to own these new treasures: \n \nwyrd] bird by Claire Marie Stancek \nThis Red Metropolis What Remains by Leia Penina Wilson \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win \nQuiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan \nThe Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association by David Rothman \n\n** Please note: This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. ** \n\nAbout wyrd] bird by Claire Marie Stancek \n \nIn times fraught with ecological and individual loss\, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen\, a dream journal\, a fragmentary notebook\, a collection of poems\, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary\, mythical\, and historical figures from Milton’s Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats’s hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading\, cross-questioning\, and upsetting some of that tradition’s central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic\, wyrd] bird searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body\, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning\, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips\, stubbornly\, onto love. \n \nClaire Marie Stancek is the author of two previous poetry books\, Oil Spell and MOUTHS. With Jane Gregory and Lyn Hejinian\, she co-edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n\nAbout Storage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win \n \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \n \nMaw Shein Win‘s poetry chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects\, 2013) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press\, 2016). A full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Maw was the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018) and often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.” \n\nAbout This Red Metropolis What Remains by Leia Penina Wilson \n \nAnswering a call to go feral\, these poems are part invocation and part prayer\, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains\, Leia Penina Wilson composes a mysteriously stark and playful pop-surreal romp through a mythic apocalypse. Dropping in and out of this mystic narrative are voices of characters who are trying to survive and to reconcile their own belonging. \nThese poems reckon with what happens in the aftermath of brutality\, questioning what anyone can or should do after tragedy\, questioning everything until they begin to break down even their own authority. The landscape in the world of This Red Metropolis What Remains is itself deeply unsettled. Each form varies and reflects an endless transformation of embodiment and interrogation. These poems ask what can be recovered\, if anything\, through an uninterrupted interrogation of memory\, category\, and language and with an unbroken attention to the speaker’s own power. Creating shifting architecture and landscape that reveals both the disintegration of cultural time and the eternity of interior time\, confession and lyric wrap both speaker and listener together. \n \nLeia Penina Wilson is a Samoan poet. She is the author of i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) from Red Hen Press\, and Splinters are Children of Wood from Notre Dame Press. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Dream Pop Press\, and Split Lip Magazine. \n\nAbout Quiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan \n \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \n \nNathalie Khankan’s work appears in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, Crab Creek Review\, and The Laurel Review. Her book quiet orient riot was selected by Dawn Lundy Martin as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st/2nd Book Prize. She is the founding director of The Danish House in Palestine and teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. Straddling Danish\, Finnish\, Syrian and Palestinian homes and heirlooms\, Nathalie currently lives in San Francisco. \n\nAbout The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association by David Rothman \n \nThis magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose’s Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his “More Recent Ancestral Home” of Manhattan. \nIn The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association\, David Rothman weaves a rich story about real estate\, family\, and memory. Daniel\, the protagonist\, is haunted by the memories of his childhood experiences in his grandmother’s apartment\, a home that he desperately wants to inhabit. One day he discovers a hidden relic on Rivington Street: a tenement reclamation office run by an eccentric centurion named Hannah. When Daniel inquires about the chances of reclaiming his grandmother’s old tenement\, Hannah is not impressed. “Things don’t work like that\, you rude\, young schlub!” And so begins Daniel’s journey to take back his past and to secure an affordable space for his family in downtown Manhattan. This is a journey full of twists and turns\, ups and downs\, and an ending that would make even the most thick-skinned New York real estate agent shake. \nThe Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association is the winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Novelette Prize\, selected by Meg Ellison. \nDavid Rothman has had short stories published in such journals as Glimmer Train\, Hybrido\, The Piltdown Review\, Newtown Literary\, among others. He has a Master’s Degree in English and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin\, and has taught writing for the City University of New York for over twelve years. He is the drummer for the NYC-based band\, The Edukators\, and is a proud resident of Jackson Heights\, Queens (and has little or no interest in reclaiming his actual grandparents’ tenement on the Lower East Side). \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-omnidawn-fall-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:D.L. Lang\nYolanda Morrissette\nTyrice Brown\nJos Burns\nAquila Lewis- Ross\nElizabeth Costello
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Kandinsky: Dramatist\, Poet. Talk and Reading: Lissa Tyler Renaud
DESCRIPTION:Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky’s writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud\, one of the world’s leading scholars of Kandinsky’s lesser-known rich heritage. \nThis event is in English and will be held on Zoom on October 26\, 2020\, at 1.00 pm PST (SF)\, 3 pm EST (NY). There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program. \nPART 1\nKANDINSKY: Dramatist\, Dramaturg\, and Demiurge of the Theatre\nWassily Kandinsky\, independently of his revolutionary contributions to painting\, also wrote on and for the theatre from 1908 until his death in 1944. In his day\, his theories of dramatic art\, as well as his own plays\, were hailed by great theatrical innovators such as Hugo Ball\, founder of Dada\, and Oskar Schlemmer\, founder of the Bauhaus Theatre. He also crossed paths with important theatrical figures such as Diaghilev\, Stanislavsky\, Massine\, Andre Breton\, and many others. Today\, although his writings offer an important link between traditional and experimental values in the theatre\, they have been almost entirely neglected. This paper\, delivered in an earlier version at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in St. Petersburg\, Russia\, offers introductions to Kandinsky’s dramatic theories\, to the plays he wrote\, and to the two extraordinary programs he outlined for training the theatre artist. \nPART 2\nSome Known and Unknown Poems by Kandinsky\nKandinsky wrote poetry that was new when he wrote it and is still new now. In the world of early 20th century experimental poetry\, a host of painter-poets\, sculptor-poets\, musician-poets\, dancer-poets all wanted to challenge conventional language in one way or another. Kandinsky approached the matter of breaking ground in language from a variety of inventive directions that influenced countless others. What he called the “inner voice” that compelled his work has now been widely heard for over a century\, not least through his singular poetry. A longtime recitalist\, I will read selections from Kandinsky’s 1912/13 series of groundbreaking poems entitled Sounds–a remarkable departure from Russia’s 19th century “Golden Age” verse poetry–as well as poems unknown in English. \nLissa Tyler Renaud (MFA Directing; Ph.D. Theatre History/Criticism\, UC Berkeley 1987). Lifelong actress. Since 1985\, founder-director of the Actors’ Training Project studio based in Oakland\, for training inspired by Kandinsky’s work. Since 2004\, as visiting professor\, master teacher\, invited speaker\, actor-scholar and recitalist\, she has taught\, lectured and published widely on theatre training\, dramatic theory and the early European avant-garde: at major theatre institutions of Asia\, around the U.S\, in England\, Mexico\, Russia and Sweden. Founding editor\, English-French Critical Stages; board member. Co-editor\, The Politics of American Actor Training (Routledge); invited chapter\, Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky. Editor\, Wuzhen Theatre Festival\, China; Editor\, Stan Lai: Twelve Plays (U. Michigan Press\, pending). Senior Writer\, Scene4; founder-editor\, “Kandinsky Anew” series. \nThe program is produced and hosted by author Zarina Zabrisky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kandinsky-dramatist-poet-talk-and-reading-lissa-tyler-renaud/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte\, Sarah Rosenthal\, and Ayana Yonesaka
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated\, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters\, an essay collection\, and a film\, all of which investigate postmodern dance. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nIf you’d like to order a copy of The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow\, you can do that here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn their book The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow\, poets Valerie Witte and Sarah Rosenthal engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Through research into these innovative women’s dances\, ideas\, and lives\, Witte and Rosenthal use language from and about the choreographers to create a series of co-written sonnets that are interwoven with letters between the two poets. These letters describe the process of composing the poems and branch into discussions of dance\, poetics\, gender\, transgression\, and the unfolding disaster of the current political scene. Together\, the poems and letters construct an environment of reflection\, intimacy\, and vulnerability\, one that is both challenging and invitational. \nWitte and Rosenthal will read from The Grass Is Greener\, and briefly describe the essay project which their book has spawned. Rosenthal and dancer-choregrapher Ayana Yonesaka will then introduce and screen their short film\, We Agree on the Sun\, which draws on one of the essays to explore the intersection of dance and houselessness. A Q&A will follow. \nSarah Rosenthal (pictured top left) is the author of several books and chapbooks including The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Valerie Witte) Lizard (Chax\, 2016)\, and Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive\, 2010). She has done grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Soul Mountain\, Ragdale\, New York Mills\, Hambidge\, and This Will Take Time\, and has been a Headlands Center Affiliate Artist. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach\, develops curricula for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom\, and serves on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net. Author photo by Denise Newman. \nValerie Witte (pictured top center) is the author of a game of correspondence (Black Radish Books\, 2015) and The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal)\, as well as two chapbooks. She is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School\, and for eight years\, she helped produce many innovative books by women as a member of Kelsey Street Press. In her daytime hours\, she edits education books in Portland\, OR. Read more at valeriewitte.com. Photo by Andrew Hedges. \nBorn and raised in Sapporo\, Japan\, Ayana Yonesaka (pictured top right) moved to San Francisco in 2009 to pursue her career in dance. Since graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Dance from San Francisco State University in 2013\, she has worked in the Bay Area as a dance instructor\, performer\, and choreographer. In addition to teaching at San Francisco Youth Ballet Academy\, RoCo Dance & Fitness\, and ODC\, she also directs ayanadancearts\, a company she founded in 2017. Ayana aims to create highly innovative choreography that is rooted in contemporary dance aesthetics with a strong Japanese cultural narrative. Her work seamlessly navigates her Japanese and American identities\, choreographing through a unique cross-Pacific framework. Photo by jGuerzonPictorials. \nPlease note: \n> This is a free\, all-ages event but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n> If you’d like to order a copy of The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow\, you can do that here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n> If you have any questions or concerns\, don’t hesitate to write events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-intercollab-a-reading-and-film-screening-with-valerie-witte-sarah-rosenthal-and-ayana-yonesaka/
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra\, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice. Cartoon\, a Homeboy who had been banished from the barrio twenty years earlier\, has returned from his educational and spiritual odyssey. He finds the hood under attack\, and it is no longer the gangs\, but the monsters of cafes\, cheese schools and micro-breweries\, protected by their own police force\, that are destroying the native San Franciscans. In order to strategize a meaningful movement\, Cartoon visits his old mentor\, El Lobo\, a barrio shot caller who is now serving a life prison sentence in San Quentin. Cartoon then recruits the young Homeys to begin implementing amor action in the hood\, until the police murder a Loved One\, which ultimately sparks The Revolt of the Roots. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/OTSPBkClb10-26-20 \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-book-club-pura-neta-by-benjamin-bac-sierra/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sandor Ellix Katz: James Beard Award-winner discusses his new book\, Fermentation as Metaphor
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book\, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). \nThis event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit our Crowdast Channel to register. \nAbout Fermentation as Metaphor\nBestselling author Sandor Katz–an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene” (New York Times)–delivers a mesmerizing treatise on the meaning of fermentation alongside his awe-inspiring photography of this transformative process\, teaching us with words and images about ourselves\, our culture\, and being human. \nIn 2012\, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation\, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world\, a runaway bestseller\, and a James Beard Book Award winner. Since then his work has gone on to inspire countless professionals and home cooks worldwide\, bringing fermentation into the mainstream. \nIn Fermentation as Metaphor\, stemming from his personal obsession with all things fermented\, Katz meditates on his art and work\, drawing connections between microbial communities and aspects of human culture: politics\, religion\, social and cultural movements\, art\, music\, sexuality\, identity\, and even our individual thoughts and feelings. He informs his arguments with his vast knowledge of the fermentation process\, which he describes as a slow\, gentle\, steady\, yet unstoppable force for change. \nThroughout this truly one-of-a-kind book\, Katz showcases fifty mesmerizing\, original images of otherworldly beings from an unseen universe–images of fermented foods and beverages that he has photographed using both a stereoscope and electron microscope–exalting microbial life from the level of “germs” to that of high art. When you see the raw beauty and complexity of microbial structures\, Katz says\, they will take you “far from absolute boundaries and rigid categories. They force us to reconceptualize. They make us ferment.” \nFermentation as Metaphor broadens and redefines our relationship with food and fermentation. It’s the perfect gift for serious foodies\, fans of fermentation\, and non-fiction readers alike. \nAbout Sandor Ellix Katz\nSandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee\, his explorations in fermentation developed out of overlapping interests in cooking\, nutrition\, and gardening. He is the author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation\, which was a New York Times bestseller and won a James Beard Foundation award in 2013–as well as the forthcoming Fermentation as Metaphor (October 2020). The hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. The New York Times calls Sandor “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” \nSee also this Believer interview with Sandor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandor-ellix-katz-james-beard-award-winner-discusses-his-new-book-fermentation-as-metaphor/
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson\, The Ministry for the Future
DESCRIPTION:Legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his new novel—a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.\nThe Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination\, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate\, postapocalyptic world\, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful\, desperate and hopeful in equal measure\, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \n“A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate\, individual moments of humanity.” —Booklist\, starred review \n“A sweeping\, optimistic portrait of humanity’s ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nKim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-the-ministry-for-the-future/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She’ll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order Like Love here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nInfatuations. Attractions. Unexpected allure. Entanglements steeped in taboo and disruption. In Like Love\, Michele Morano takes on the intrigues\, strangeness\, and lessons of unconsummated romance with humor and imagination. \nLike Love poignantly interweaves episodes from adulthood with the backstory of a young family’s turbulent breakup. When Morano was an adolescent in blue-collar Poughkeepsie\, New York\, her mother left her father for a woman in an era when LGBTQ parents were widely viewed as “unfit.” Through the turmoil\, adolescent Morano paid attention\, tucking away the stories that were shaping her and guiding her understanding of love. \nTurning romantic clichés inside out and challenging us to rethink our notions about what it means to love\, Like Love tells hard and necessary truths about the importance of desire in growing\, traveling\, mourning\, parenting\, and figuring out who you are in the world. With precision and depth\, Morano explores what it means to find ourselves in relationships that are not quite—but almost—like love. \nMichele Morano is the author of the travel memoir Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Best American Essays\, Fourth Genre\, Ninth Letter\, and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women. Born and raised in Poughkeepsie\, New York\, Michele lives in Chicago\, where she chairs the English Department at DePaul University. Author photo by Kyle Brondeson. \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \nPlease Note: \n> This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n> You can order Like Love here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-michele-morano-in-conversation-with-ryan-van-meter-like-love/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86726028401\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86726028401#  or +13462487799\,\,86726028401#\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: 867 2602 8401\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdjIzCtyjv \nAbout Celeste Holm Syndrome \nIn this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters\, both well-known and lesser known\, from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit\, sexuality and gender\, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world\, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia\, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter\, Oscar Levant\, Martin Balsam\, Nina Foch\, Elizabeth Wilson\, Eric Blore\, Edward Everett Horton\, and the eponymous Celeste Holm all make appearances in these considerations of how essential character actors were\, and remain\, to cinema. \nPraise for Celeste Holm Syndrome \n“Well-observed reflections for true fans of the silver screen.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Fans of Hollywood’s Golden Age will delight in this affecting look at what makes actors truly memorable\, even if they’re not in the spotlight.”—Publishers Weekly \n“This gorgeously written book makes many brilliant observations about the tiny nuances of ‘character actors’ and in so doing makes an unassailable case that because we are all bit players in the cosmic firmament\, ‘interesting and endearing people’ are immeasurably more compelling than ‘heroes’ (whoever they might be).”—David Shields\, author of The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex\, Love\, Marriage\, Porn\, and Power \n“A great book about character actors would be enough\, but Lazar’s imaginative and ingratiatingly erudite series of meditations is much more. The author spins sprightly essays from each subject\, allowing biography and personal speculation to reinforce and enrich each other. The sublime tribute to Oscar Levant and melancholia is\, as they say\, worth the price of admission.”—Molly Haskell\, author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-lazar-and-joanna-eleftheriou/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T190000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month\, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry and the release of Barbara Jane Reyes’ sixth book of poetry\, Letters to a Young Brown Girl. Authors will read\, hold dialogue and have short Q & A. \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). \nShe 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. \nConnect with Barbara Jane Reyes – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nRachelle Cruz is the author of God’s Will for Monsters (Inlandia\, 2017)\, which won an American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize.  She was appointed the 2018-2020 Inlandia Literary Laureate. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things\, an anthology of Philippine Myths (Carayan Press\, 2015) with Melissa Sipin.  Her most recent book\, Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading\, Discussing and Creating Comics\, was published in Fall 2018. Her work has appeared in As/Us\, Yellow Medicine Review\, The Lit Pub\,The Collagist\, Bone Bouquet\, PANK\, Muzzle Magazine\, Inlandia: A Literary Journey\, among others. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour with Muriel Leung. She is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California\, Riverside.  An Emerging Voices Fellow\, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer\, she lives and writes in Southern California. \nConnect with Rachelle Cruz – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nJan-Henry Gray was born in the Philippines\, grew up in California and worked as a chef in San Francisco for more than 12 years. He lived undocumented in the US for more than 32 years. A graduate of San Francisco State University and Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program\, he received the inaugural Undocupoets Fellowship and awards from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Jan’s writing can be found in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color\, The Rumpus\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, DIAGRAM\, Fourteen Hills\, The Margins\, Quarterly West\, Puerto del Sol\, and other journals. He is the author of the chapbook Selected Emails from speCt! Books. His first book\, Documents\, was chosen by D.A. Powell as the winner of BOA Editions’ 2018 Poulin Poetry Prize. He is a Kundiman fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nConnect with Jan-Henry Gray – Website | Instagram | Facebook \nAldrin Valdez (they) is the author of ESL or You Weren’t Here(Nightboat Books\, 2018)\, selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry in 2019. They are a writer and visual artist. \nConnect with Aldrin Valdez – Instagram | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/BarbaraJaneReyes10-28-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/EkeYcNiNYlQ \n\n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-filipinx-poetry-w-barbara-jane-reyes-rachelle-cruz-jan-henry-gray-and-aldrin-valdez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Scott James / Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy\, 100 Lives Lost\, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy\, 100 Lives Lost\, and a 15-Year Search for Truth. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order Trial by Fire here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn only 90 seconds\, a fire in the Station nightclub killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. It would take nearly 20 years to find out why—and who was really at fault. \nAll it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island\, the two questions wouldn’t necessarily have the same answer. \nWithin 24 hours the governor of Rhode Island and the local police chief were calling for criminal charges\, although the investigation had barely begun\, key evidence still needed to be gathered\, and many of the victims hadn’t been identified. Though many parties could be held responsible\, fingers pointed quickly at the two brothers who owned the club. But were they really to blame? Bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Scott James investigates all the central figures\, including the band’s manager and lead singer\, the fire inspector\, the maker of the acoustical foam\, as well as the brothers. Drawing on firsthand accounts\, interviews with many involved\, and court documents\, James explores the rush to judgment about what happened that left the victims and their families\, whose stories he also tells\, desperate for justice. \nTrial By Fire is the heart-wrenching story of the fire’s aftermath because while the fire\, one of America’s deadliest\, lasted minutes\, the search for the truth would take years. \nPlease Note: \n> This virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n> You can order Trial by Fire here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. \nCancellation Policy:\nIn the event the venue cancels an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date for your purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-scott-james-trial-by-fire-a-devastating-tragedy-100-lives-lost-and-a-15-year-search-for-truth/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: July Westhale and MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection\, Via Negativa\, with MK Chavez\non Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84501134024\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84501134024#  or +12532158782\,\,84501134024#\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: 845 0113 4024\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb32Mu2uE7\n \nPraise for Via Negativa \n“In this stunning work\, Westhale (Trailer Trash) interrogates the vocabulary used to speak about desire\, the divine\, and literature. Presented as a series of linked lyric pieces\, the book spans a range of forms\, including lyric fragments\, single strophes\, and prose poems\, gracefully unified by an ongoing concern with the damage done by language\, as well as its redemptive potential…With subtlety and skill\, Westhale reminds the reader that sensory experience is irrevocably changed once it is relayed in language.” -Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nAbout Via Negativa \nVIA NEGATIVA\, often used to talk about the divine (a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not)\, is a book about the more difficult ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half grappling with divinity and the many manifestations of gender/the self\, and half an ars poetica\, VIA NEGATIVA is a gorgeous holy dunking\, a submersion into a rich field of lyricism and emotion that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright by interrogating the vocabulary used to speak about desire\, the divine\, and literature. Presented as a series of linked lyric pieces\, the book spans a range of forms\, including lyric fragments\, single strophes\, and prose poems\, gracefully unified by an ongoing concern with the damage done by language\, as well as its redemptive potential. With subtlety and skill\, Westhale reminds the reader that sensory experience is irrevocably changed once it is relayed in language. \nAbout July Westhale \nJuly Westhale is an essayist\, translator\, and the award-winning author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s\, The National Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, CALYX\, and The Huffington Post\, among others. When she’s not teaching\, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP magazine. \nAbout MK Chavez \nOakland-based writer MK Chavez is a champion for public health and social justice. She is the author of several chapbooks\, including MOTHERMORPHOSIS (Nomadic Press\, 2016). DEAR ANIMAL\, is her first full-length collection of poetry. Chavez is co-founder and co-curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of the Fruitvale Friday readings at Nomadic Press\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and recipient of a 2016 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to challenge all forms of oppression.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-july-westhale-and-mk-chavez/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:No Matter What Faith: A Conversation with Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most)\, good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College and how they manage to get through when what’s happening can’t be happening. Anne will read an excerpt from her upcoming book Dusk\, Night\, Dawn and Janine will read from The Opposite of Certainty. RSVP above and tune in on Anne Lamott’s Facebook Page at noon on October 29! \nAnne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help\, Thanks\, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; and Traveling Mercies; as well as several novels. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame\, she lives in Northern California. \nJanine Urbaniak Reid writes about her imperfect life\, what connects us\, and addresses the question of what it means to love fiercely in a sometimes dangerous and always uncertain world. She has been published in the Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and widely syndicated. Hoping to bring humanity into the healthcare discussion by sharing her experience as a mother of son with a brain tumor\, she penned a piece for the Post which went viral. She has been interviewed on national news networks\, and continues her work as a spokeswoman for healthcare justice. She graduated from the University of California at San Diego and was vice president of a San Francisco public relations firm before she began raising a family\, and then writing full time. She lives in Northern California with her family and a motley assortment of pets. She attends St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Marin City: all are welcome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-matter-what-faith-a-conversation-with-anne-lamott-and-janine-urbaniak-reid-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Nitasha Tamar Sharma with Andrew Way Leon
DESCRIPTION:Nitasha Tamar Sharma will discuss her writings on Desis hip hop culture and race and indigeneity in Hawai’i and the Pacific Islands. The talk will be hosted by Andrew Way Leong and will be followed by an audience Q&A. \nAbout the book:\nDr. Sharma’s first book\, Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans\, Blackness\, and a Global Race Consciousness (Duke University Press 2010)\, analyzes how second-generation members of an upwardly mobile and middle-class immigrant group use hip hop to develop racial—and not just ethnic—identities. The racial consciousness expressed by these hip hop artists as “people of color” facilitates the development of multiracial coalitions that cross boundaries while explicitly acknowledging “difference.”\nShe is also co-editor of Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i (University of Hawai‘i Press\, 2018) and is writing her second solo-authored book\, Hawai’i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific with Duke University Press. This ethnography is based on a decade of fieldwork including interviews with 60 people of African descent in the islands\, including Black Hawaiians\, Black Japanese\, and African Americans.\n—\nAbout the Authors:\nDr. Sharma is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies\, Department of African American Studies; Director\, Asian American Studies Program (2017-21); Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. \nAbout the host:\nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department.\n—\nTo purchase copies of the featured authors’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com \nHIP HOP DESIS: SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS\, BLACKNESS\, AND A GLOBAL RACE CONSCIOUSNESS: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2633/Hip_Hop_Desis%3A_South_Asian_Americans%2C_Blackness%2C_and_a_Global_Race_Consciousness_%28_Refiguring_American_Music_%29.html \nBEYOND ETHNICITY: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2635/Beyond_Ethnicity%3A_New_Politics_of_Race_in_Hawai%27i.html \nLAMENT IN THE NIGHT: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-nitasha-tamar-sharma-with-andrew-way-leon/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Desirée Alvarez\, Anthony Cody\, Jennifer Hasegawa & Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host an evening with Desirée Alvarez\, Anthony Cody\, Jennifer Hasegawa and Kimberly Reyes. These fabulous writers will read from and discuss their new books. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nAbout Raft of Flame by Desirée Alvarez \nA painter and poet\, Desirée Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca’s passionate cante jondo\, or “deep song\,” and her own family history with Andalusian flamenco\, Alvarez weaves together a time- travelling epic that searches through myth\, culture\, and nature for the roots of identity. Navigating both her Latina and European heritage through works by artists of the ancient Americas and Spain\, Alvarez maps intersections between personal and political history. Searching narratives both fictitious and real\, Raft of Flame includes imagined conversations between a conquistador and an Olmec sculpture\, between Frida Kahlo and Velazquez\, and between The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy and Glinda the Good Witch. \nIn Raft of Flame\, Alvarez constructs and fleshes out a fantastic narrative of personal and cultural history\, offering glimpses into the art\, history\, and land that comprise her story. Her narrative explores how both nature and human populations continue to be trapped in the violence of colonialism. Vivid lyrics interrogate the complexities of mixed race\, digging the dualities\, upheavals\, and casts of characters that underly Alvarez’s identity. \nRaft of Flame won Omnidawn’s 2018 Lake Merritt Prize. \nDesirée Alvarez is a poet and painter living in New York City. Her second book\, Raft of Flame\, won the Lake Merritt Poetry Prize and was published by Omnidawn in April 2020. Her first book\, Devil’s Paintbrush\, received the 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Award. Her poetry is anthologized in What Nature (MIT Press\, 2018) and Other Musics: New Latina Poetry (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2019). She has published poems in Poetry\, Lit Hub\, Massachusetts Review\, Boston Review\, Fence\, and The Iowa Review\, been nominated for a Pushcart prize and received the Glenna Luschei Poetry Award from Prairie Schooner. Alvarez’s exhibits her work widely nationally and internationally\, and paintings are currently on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden Conservatory Gallery through November 2020. Celebrating magical connections between animals\, plants and humans\, her work has received three fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, a Poets House Fellowship\, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and European Capital of Culture. Alvarez teaches at New York City College of Technology\, CUNY and The Juilliard School. \nTo have Raft of Flame sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody \nThe 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican—American War\, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures\, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day. Borderland Apocrypha centers around the collective histories of these terrors\, excavating the traumas born of turbulence at borderlands. In this debut collection\, Anthony Cody responds to the destabilized\, hostile landscapes and silenced histories of borderlands. His experimental poetic reinvents itself and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin\, the page\, and the book in forms of resistance\, signaling a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. The poems ask the reader to engage in searching through the nested and cascading series of poems centered around familial and communal histories\, structural racism\, and natural ecosystems of borderlands. Relentless in its explorations\, this collection shows how the past continues to inform actions\, policies\, and perceptions in North and Central America. \nRather than a proposal for re-imagining the US/Mexico border\, Cody’s collection is an avant-garde examination of how borderlands have remained occupied spaces\, and of the necessity of liberation to usher the earth and its people toward healing. Part auto-historia\, part docu-poetic\, part visual monument\, part myth-making\, Borderland Apocrypha unearths history in order to work toward survival\, reckoning\, and the building of a future that both acknowledges and moves on from tragedies of the past. \nBorderland Apocrypha won Omnidawn’s 2018 1st/2nd Book Prize. \nAnthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn\, April 2020)\, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and longlist for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno\, California with lineage in both the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast\, Ninth Letter\, The Boiler\, ctrl+v journal\, among others. Anthony is a member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle and co-edited How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is a recent MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State where he continues to collaborate with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Anthony has received fellowships from CantoMundo\, Community of Writers\, and Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Conference. He provides communication support to CantoMundo\, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press. \nTo have Borderland Apocrypha sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living by Jennifer Hasegawa \nFrom the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus\, this is a field guide to flora\, fauna\, and mineralia encountered\, real and imagined. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments\, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit\, sprinkling us all with an antidotal salve to viewing any life as ordinary. \nBanzai has a literal translation of “10\,000 years” and was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today\, the word has a comparatively neutral translation of “Hurrah!” in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai\, recasting the language of war and dogmatic loyalty into the language of a life and poetry created against racism and harmful norms\, and toward tolerance and self-acceptance. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who has sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from a plastic surgery clinic in Asunción Paraguay. She was born and raised in Hilo\, Hawaiʻi and lives in San Francisco. The manuscript for her first book of poetry\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal\, Bamboo Ridge\, Tule Review\, and Vallum and is forthcoming in Bennington Review and jubilat. \nTo have La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Running to Stand Still by Kimberly Reyes \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.These poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nKimberly Reyes has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya\, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley\, Columbia University\, San Francisco State University\, and other places. She’s written for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Film Ireland\, The Echo Newspaper\, RTÉ Radio\, NY1 News\, Entropy\, The Irish Journal of American Studies\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, and The Stinging Fly. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. A second-generation New Yorker\, Kimberly was the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTo have Running to Stand Still sent to your door\, order here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-desiree-alvarez-anthony-cody-jennifer-hasegawa-kimberly-reyes/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:EmeryArts Poetry Reading with Sarah Kobrinsky
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an evening of poetry reading with Emeryville’s former Poet Laureate Sarah Kobrinsky. Some ekphrastic poems inspired by the artwork in the 2020 Emeryville Art Exhibition will be read. Ekphrastic poems focus on works of art by interpreting\, inhabiting\, confronting\, and speaking to their subjects. The ekphrastic poems at this reading will focus on any of the 185 works of art in the virtual exhibition\, online now at www.emeryarts.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emeryarts-poetry-reading-with-sarah-kobrinsky/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman-celebration-his…\n\nIn celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell\, by City Lights Books\, we’re assembling a gathering of video contributions by poets\, artists\, and musicians\, AFTER what would be the late poet’s 95th birthday — our planned event from this past Spring for April 18\, Kaufman’s actual birthdate\, having been canceled. Now we’re back on track. \nThis remote-access event begins promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. \nCo-sponsored by The Poetry Center\, City Lights Books\, and The Green Arcade. \nMusicians: Bruce Ackley and Aurora Josephson (Steve Lacy’s songs to Bob Kaufman’s poems); Hafez Modirzadeh\, Francis Wong\, David Boyce \nPoets and other artists: Josiah Luis Alderete\, Will Alexander\, Arlene Biala\, James Cagney\, MK Chavez\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Dewey Crumpler\, Justin Desmangles\, Duane Deterville\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Agneta Falk\, C.S. Giscombe\, Leticia Hernández-Linares\, Jack Hirschman\, Genny Lim\, Sarah Menefee\, Alejandro Murguía\, Jevohn Newsome\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Kim Shuck; Tate Swindell with Jessica Loos\, Niko Van Dyke\, and Michael Young (reading “Second April”); Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, Michael Warr\, A.D. Winans + tba
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #33
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-33-tickets-126619904543; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nNomadic Press is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #33\nTime: Oct 30\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82565267961 \nMeeting ID: 825 6526 7961\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82565267961# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82565267961# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 825 6526 7961\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kL67YYo7z
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-33/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hollister Rand - Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what’s going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges facing us right now? \nGet answers to these questions from the spirits themselves! Experience the peace of knowing that those you love remain close to you. \nDuring the event\, a number of audience members will receive messages from loved ones living in the spirit world. There will be time to ask general questions about mediumship and what life is like on the other side. \nDuring the last twenty-five years\, Hollister Rand’s dedication to the healing work of mediumship has included events and workshops in the United States and abroad. Hollister’s work on television includes Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood and America Now. Her radio appearances include Sirius XM’s “The Séance with John Edward” (on John Edward Psychic Radio)\, KOST FM’s Angels in Waiting\, KBIG-FM’s Radio Medium\, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. \nHollister’s first book\, I’m Not Dead\, I’m Different: Kids in Spirit Teach Us About Living a Better Life on Earth\, published by HarperCollins\, is available in several languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her impossibly small chihuahuas\, Bodhi and Amara Metta. Visit her at her website\, MediumHollisterRand.com \nPlease note: Spontaneous messages are provided throughout the evening. However\, everyone in attendance is not guaranteed a reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollister-rand-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-afterlife-but-were-afraid-to-ask-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T080000
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anxious-people-by-frederik-backman-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Dena Rod\nKarla Brundage\nPeggy Morrison\nSharon Coleman\nNorma Smith\nZakiyyah G.E. Capehart\n\n\nCarol Dorf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossus-home-reading-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Orion Magazine presents Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election\, the State of Democracy\, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. \nJoin Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books for a post-Election Day exchange between two of the world’s most prominent voices for justice and the environment\, Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams. Solnit is currently an advisor to Orion\, while Williams is a contributing editor. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Please REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Most Radical Thing You Can Do\nThis event marks the publication of Orion’s new anthology\, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays from Orion Magazine. The collection includes work by both Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams\, as well as Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Glenis Redmond\, Bill McKibben\, Winona LaDuke\, Scott Russell Sanders\, Wendell Berry\, Sandra Steingraber\, Barbara Kingsolver\, and others. The book is available here. \nAbout the Authors\nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orion-magazine-presents-rebecca-solnit-and-terry-tempest-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writers Against Trump
DESCRIPTION:Writers Against Trump\nJoin us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event featuring Steve Wasserman of Heyday Books as host. He will be joined by activist and writer Roberto Lovato\, activist and poet Margaret Randall\, and San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. \nEvent is free\, but requires registration \n(CLICK HERE) to register \nWriters Against Trump are American writers who have come together to oppose the racist\, destructive\, incompetent\, corrupt and fascist regime of Donald Trump\, and to give their language\, thought\, and time to his defeat in November. They believe that this presidency is uniquely dangerous to our present and future society. Writers Against Trump collaborates with organizations seeking to encourage voter turnout\, promote candidates who resist the Trump apparatus\, protect the election from fraud and theft\, and mobilize in the event of post-election trouble. \n\nWriters are well-positioned to advocate for our democracy. They understand the strength of words\, of rhetoric. Collectively\, American writing has brought so much change. And Writers Against Trump seek to honor the legacies of the revolutionary writers who came before us by joining in now——and their choir must be deafening. \nThe brutal and criminal regime called an “administration” may remain in power a while longer\, spewing disinformation\, exacerbating ill health\, earth-hatred\, obscene inequality\, race- and woman-hatred\, and encouraging violence\, but as an unintended consequence\, writers and booksellers across the nation are coming together to resist. Join us in this struggle. \nFor more information visit: www.writersagainsttrump.org
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita\, author of I-Hotel\, Letters to Memory\, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 | 2:30 PM PDT \nAbout the books: \nI Hotel – A multi-voiced fusion of prose\, playwriting\, graphic art\, and philosophy that spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas\, one for each year\, I Hotel begins in 1968\, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated\, students took to the streets\, the Vietnam War raged\, and cities burned. \nAs Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students\, laborers\, artists\, revolutionaries\, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day\, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion\, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2497/I_Hotel.html \nLetters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians\, anthropologists\, classicists—their disciplines\, and Yamashita’s engagement with them\, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family\, and our borders\, to ideas of debt\, forgiveness\, civil rights\, orientalism\, and community. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1626/Letters_to_Memory.html \nSansei and Sensibility – In these buoyant and inventive stories\, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial\, cultural\, emotional\, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies\, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives’ freezers\, tape-record high school locker-room chatter\, or collect a community’s gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team\, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A.\, bake sales replace ballroom dances\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2176/Sansei_and_Sensibility.html \nAbout the Authors: \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAbout the host: \nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html \n— \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections\, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83679639869 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83679639869#  or +13462487799\,\,83679639869#\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: 836 7963 9869\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kmEIyss6Y \nPraise for Hosts and Guests \n“Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests is a fine book full of rich nuance\, complex emotions\, and sharp observations. These are poems replete with hosts and guests from a wide range of ecosystems in which Horace\, Rihanna\, Leviticus\, Dickinson\, and even Pikachu and Pokémon Go make smooth appearances. Hosts and Guests is a book that feels as though\, in Klug’s own words\, ‘day’s first words // arrive like nets\, flung / from somewhere behind // our heads.’ These are beautifully crafted\, contemplative poems that stay with you long after you’ve read them.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Living Weapon: Poems \n“What’s the secret of these fresh and mysterious poems? In their lightness of touch\, clarity\, probity\, and almost Japanese spareness\, they bathe the ordinary in otherworldly light. Cicadas\, young parents\, a baby\, North American bars and highways\, jellyfish\, a Horatian ode\, the death of Pompey\, religious faith feeling its way\, an inchworm shrinking from em dash to hyphen—all find their places\, revealed\, in Nate Klug’s delicately paced syntax and gracious reticence. A book both timely and ageless\, a balm\, a boon.”—Rosanna Warren\, author of So Forth: Poems\n \nAbout Hosts and Guests \nAn exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments” \nNate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests\, his exciting second collection\, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pokémon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine\, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude\, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the “immiserated quiet” of modern life\, love poems and poems of new fatherhood\, and studies of a restless\, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency\, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled\, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world\, social commentary\, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work\, “The visual is rendered sonically\, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses\, to speak the lines\, to taste the syllables.” \nAbout Rain in Plural \nThe highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \nRain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain\, who has been praised by The Rumpus as a master of musicality and enlightening allusions. In the wholly original world of these new poems\, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the polis\, using silence and montage\, lyric and antilyric\, to envision what she calls creating between liberties. With a moral precision embracing us without eschewing I\, she rethinks questions of citizenship\, the selections of sensory memory\, and\, by extension\, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes\, I accept the truth in newspapers / by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. // To each weather forecast I give thanks: / merci for every outdated // dusk/dawn. Agrippina the Younger\, Franz Kafka\, Bob Dylan\, a butoh performance\, an unnamed Raku tea bowl–each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness\, synchrony\, coincidences\, and accidents\, Rain in Plural beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-nate-klug-and-fiona-sze-lorrain/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nAphasia \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nMauro Javier Cárdenas\, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—”an original\, insubordinate novel” (New York Times)—pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family\, as well as his own behavior\, as an immigrant in America. \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book (Link to be posted soon) \n———– \nAntonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister—even though he knows he won’t be able to avoid thinking about his sister—because his sister is on the run after allegedly threatening to shoot her neighbors\, and has been claiming that Antonio\, Obama\, the Pentagon\, and their mother are all conspiring against her. Nevertheless\, Antonio is going to try his best to be as avoidant as possible\, because he worries that what’s been happening to his sister might somehow infect his relatively contented\, ordered American life\, and destabilize the precarious arrangement with his ex-wife that’s allowed him to stay close to his two daughters. \nIn fact\, he’s busy doing everything except facing his problems head-on: transcribing recordings of his mother speaking about their troubled life in Colombia\, transcribing recordings of his ex-wife speaking about her idyllic life in the Czech Republic; writing about former girlfriends whose words and deeds still recur in his mind; rereading stories by American writers that allow him to skirt the subject of his sister’s state of mind without completely destroying his own. \nWritten in long\, unravelling sentences that accommodate all the detritus of thought—scenes real and imagined\, headphones and heartache\, Toblerones and Thomas Bernhard—Aphasia captures the immensity of the present moment as well as the pain of the past. It cements Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s place as one of the most innovative and extraordinary novelists working today. \nMauro Javier Cárdenas is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again\, which The New York Times called “an original\, insubordinate novel.” In 2017\, the Hay Festival included him in Bogotá39\, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #1: Cookbooks and Gift Books
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83160582546. \nThis is our first recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/12: Kids & graphic novels;\n11/19: Adult non-fiction\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\n6120 LaSalle Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-1-cookbooks-and-gift-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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