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SUMMARY:Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were Infinite and celebrate a week early for Anna-Marie McLemore’s new book The Mirror Season.  \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Loy Gilbert is the author of the William C. Morris Debut Award finalist Conviction and Stonewall Honor Book Picture Us in the Light. When We Were Infinite is a powerful\, achingly romantic drama about the secrets we keep\, from each other and from ourselves. \nAll Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends—Grace Nakamura\, Brandon Lin\, Sunny Chen\, and Jason Tsou—to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark\, these friends are all she has—even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides\, she’s certain she’ll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him\, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence in Jason’s home\, and the whole group is shaken. Beth and her friends make a pact to do whatever it takes to protect Jason\, no matter the sacrifice. But when even their fierce loyalty isn’t enough to stop Jason from making a life-altering choice\, Beth must decide how far she’s willing to go for him—and how much of herself she’s willing to give up. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist The Weight of Feathers\, Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, Wild Beauty \, Blanca & Roja\, and Dark and Deepest Red. The Mirror Season is “An unforgettable story of trauma and healing\, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care.” ―Karen M. McManus\, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying \nWhen two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party\, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería\, his secret forest of otherworldly trees\, and the swallows returning to their hometown. \nThis is sure to be a fantastic and thought provoking conversation. \nA post-event temporary access recording of the webinar will be shared with all guests who register. Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelly-loy-gilbert-and-anna-marie-mclemore/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 9 for the launch of Rebecca Handler’s debut novel\, Edie Richter is Not Alone on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84332843511\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84332843511#  or +13462487799\,\,84332843511#\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: 843 3284 3511\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdvjc80K3q \nPraise for Edie Richter is Not Alone \n“Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting\, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page\, Rebecca Handler’s novel is that rare thing: a perfect book.”\n—Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less  \n“Rebecca Handler’s debut novel Edie Richter Is Not Alone features a witty protagonist in the midst of an emotional and physical journey to Western Australia. Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore—it made me laugh with recognition and tear up with empathy. Reading this book will make you feel the way all good literature does: it will make you feel less alone.”\n—Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty  \nAbout Edie Richter is Not Alone \nFunny\, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth\, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move\, Edie and her husband were content\, if socially awkward―given her disinclination for small talk.\nIn Perth\, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world\, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways\, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life\, and rather than escaping her past\, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she’s done. Everybody\, from the wildlife to her new neighbors\, is keen to engage\, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying\, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking\, and impossible to stop. Something\, in the end\, has to give.\nWritten in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist’s observations and idiosyncrasies\, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler’s debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman’s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rebecca-handler/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new book \nModel Citizen: a memoir \npublished by MCD/FSG \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———– \nThe intimate\, gorgeous\, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer\, father\, alcoholic\, addict. \nAfter years of hard-won sobriety\, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter\, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five—his third\, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl\, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart\, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? \nTold in stunning\, surreal\, time-hopping vignettes\, Model Citizen is a raw\, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life\, throwing the wild joys\, tragedies\, embarrassments\, and adventures of his past into bold relief. His story is heartbreakingly real and yet unreal\, which he captures in vivid\, uncanny imagery\, waking hallucinations that imagine hearts as hot air balloons\, drug cravings as wry Nazi doctors\, secrets as emaciated second selves. \nAnd yet Mohr’s memoir pulses with humanity and humor\, capturing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the dark pit of his past\, learning to love and be loved\, while never letting go of those experiences that shaped him and broke him. A darkly beautiful\, funny\, incisive confession\, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience\, drawing the universal and human out of every moment. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of the memoir “Sirens” (2017)\, as well as five novels including “Damascus”\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times.  His novel “All This Life” won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial. \nLidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and a critical book on war and narrative\, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. The Misfit’s Manifesto\, a book based on her recent TED Talk\, was publishe by TED Books. Her new collection of fiction\, Verge\, was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. Her writing has appeared widely in publications that include Guernica Magazine\, Ms.\, The Iowa Review\, Zyzzyva\, Another Chicago Magazine\, The Sun\, Exquisite Corpse\, TANK\, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights)\, Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil)\, Forms at War (FC2)\, Feminaissance (Les Figues Press)\, and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY)\, as well as online at The Rumpus. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-mohr-in-conversation-with-lidia-yuknavitch/
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SUMMARY:Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nIn a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating\,” author\, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence with awe-inspiring implications. Get ready for a dynamic and exciting conversation about the brain with Kepler’s. \nIn a century rife with neuroscientific and biological advances\, researchers have made little progress one very big question: how do the simple cells of the brain create complex consciousness and intelligence? \nHawkins\, cofounder of the neuroscience research company Numenta\, dares to answer with A Thousand Brains. In a compulsively readable book accessible even to the casual science reader\, he lays forth a simple and yet mold-breaking theory: that intelligence arises from the interaction of maplike reference structures in the brain\, which build hundreds of thousands of interconnected models of everything a person knows. These maplike reference frames can tell you how to achieve goals\, how to get from one place to another\, who you are and how you’re connected to the world. \nFor the past fifteen years\, Hawkins and his Silicon Valley based research team have studied the neocortex\, the part of the brain we associate with everything responsible for intelligence. Now with his “thousand brains” theory of the structure that runs the show\, Hawkins proposes answers to some of neurosciences most stubborn questions—questions about the very nature of consciousness. \nOn March 10th\, join us for an online conversation between Jeff Hawkins and award-winning science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy as they share with us A Thousand Brains. Starting with basic information on how the brain works for anyone to understand\, they’ll discuss a Jeff’s new theory and explore what it could mean not only for advancements in science like machine intelligence\, but also its broader implications for all of us as people. This will be a smart\, fun night celebrating a key moment in our understanding of the human brain: don’t miss it! \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. \nRegistration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-hawkins-with-anil-ananthaswamy/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection\, Sarahland\, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85188314830\n\nPraise for Sarahland\n“A bold collection that explores how we might break free from or reimagine ourselves and our places in the universe.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n“Reading SARAHLAND is pure pleasure – what a voice! What a constant flow of funny and vulnerable and distinct awarenesses! Sam Cohen’s writing is joyously itself and places its own keen\, insightful gaze on the ways we relate to ourselves and to others.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\n“I’m deeply struck by the emotional wisdom\, the cultural smarts\, the literary vulnerability and serious skills happening in SARAHLAND. Rarely do I feel so seen by a book. I gobbled this work up with feverish excitement and gratitude\, and weeks later feel like I am carrying these stories around in my head and in my heart.”—Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir\n\n“Cohen handles her sentences\, her Sarah’s\, both gently and confidently. The result: a debut of equal parts ugly and beauty\, a debut full of heartbreakingly real characters.” —Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of Pizza Girl\nAbout Sarahland\n\n“Queer\, dirty\, insightful\, and so funny” (Andrea Lawlor)\, this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.\n\nNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29\n\nIn Sarahland\, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us\, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories\, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it\, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story\, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure—and a new set of problems—by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses\, Cohen explodes this search for self\, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving “Sarah” gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman\, an aging lesbian literally growing roots\, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end\, “Sarah” will continue.\n\nIn each Sarah’s refusal to adhere to a single narrative\, she potentially builds a better home for us all\, a place to live that demands no fixity of self\, no plague of consumerism\, no bodily compromise\, a place called Sarahland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sam-cohen-and-andrea-lawlor-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Elizabeth Wetmore - Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-passage-presents-elizabeth-wetmore-valentine/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poets and scholars\, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening” series. Their works are profound explorations of the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics and of the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance
URL:https://litseen.com/event/social-listening-4-nathaniel-mackey-fred-moten/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Elemental: Earth Stories A celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press
DESCRIPTION:Center for the Art of Translation presents Jessica Cohen\, Allison Charette\, and Brian Bergstrom in conversation about the latest installment in the Calico Series\, Elemental: Earth Stories. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Elemental: Earth Stories\nA family’s heirloom stones unearth a story spanning war\, illness\, and radioactivity. A pipeline installed to protect a town from flooding results in a howling that disturbs the town’s inhabitants. A political prisoner embarks on an epic flight toward freedom\, literally blown like a kite in the wind. \nA whirlwind of fantastic new writing from Japan\, Iran\, Norway\, Germany\, Madagascar\, Iraq\, Poland\, and Israel\, this collection of fiction and reportage maps the intimate\, ongoing relationship between human civilization and the natural world. Do we set the limits on our existence? Or is it wind\, water\, fire\, and earth that define–even control–us? Borrowing from eco-literature and mythology\, Elemental unflinchingly takes up the earth. \n“Stone\, earth\, water\, ice\, wind\, and burning heat. The stories here dig deep and unexpectedly into life’s fundamentals—the elements and the passions—bringing into English\, many for the first time\, writers of stature from across the globe. A celebration of both storytelling and translation\, Elemental is essential\, a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds.” —Hugh Raffles\, author of The Book of Unconformities \nAbout the Calico Series\nThe Calico Series\, published biannually by Two Lines Press\, captures vanguard works of translated literature in stylish\, collectible editions. Each Calico is a vibrant snapshot that explores one aspect of our present moment\, offering the voices of previously inaccessible\, highly innovative writers from around the world today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elemental-earth-stories-a-celebration-of-the-latest-installment-of-the-calico-series-from-two-lines-press/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Arisa White / Who's Your Daddy\, with Dan Alter\, Michael 'MJ' Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Arisa White for her new book Who’s Your Daddy. She’ll be joined for a group reading by former students (bottom row\, from R-L) Dan Alter\, Michael ‘MJ’ Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of Who’s Your Daddy here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA lyrical\, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer\, Black\, Guyanese American woman who\, while seeking to define her own place in the world\, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father. \n“This beautifully\, honestly conceived genius of a book shook me to the core.” – Dara Wier \n“What she gives us are archives\, allegories\, and wholly new songs.” – Terrance Hayes \n“In these crisply narrative poems\, which unreel like heart-wrenching fragments of film\, Arisa White not only names that gaping chasm between father and daughter\, but graces it with its true and terrible face.” – Patricia Smith \n\nAbout the authors\nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, A Penny Saved\, and Hurrah’s Nest. Her poetry has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, NAACP Image Award\, California Book Award\, and Wheatley Book Award. The chapbook “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. She’s the co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up\, the second book in the Fighting for Justice series for young readers\, which received the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle-Grade Nonfiction and the Maine Literary Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Who’s Your Daddy is her poetic memoir debut from Augury Books. Arisa serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. Author photo by Nye’ Lyn Tho. \nDan Alter’s poems and reviews have been published in journals including Field\, Fourteen Hills\, Pank\, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles will be out in 2021 from Eyewear Press. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an IBEW electrician. \nMichal ‘MJ’ Jones is a poet and parent in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, and TriQuarterly Review. They are an assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Press\, and have received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, VONA/Voices\, and Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently an MFA graduate fellow at Mills College. \nHernan De La Cruz Ramos is a poet from northern NJ and he currently resides in Oakland\, CA. He has been published in The Night Heron Barks and can be found on social media @penpalsocks \nA.A. Vincent is a disabled poet and essayist\, and is a product of Chicago’s South Side and its suburbs. Her work has appeared in Santa Clara Review\, SF Weekly\, Quiet Lightning\, and Street Sheet SF. She received her MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-arisa-white-whos-your-daddy-with-dan-alter-michael-mj-jones-hernan-de-la-cruz-ramos-a-a-vincent-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers
DESCRIPTION:The Mill Valley Public Library & The Marin Poetry Center invite you to a virtual book launch for Heyday Books’ release of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers.  \nThe evening will celebrate fifty years of poetry written in and inspired by the High Sierra workshop. Pulitzer Prize winners Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Sharon Olds\, and Greg Pardlo will join Brenda Hillman & other notables to read a poem from this unique collection. The evening of poetry and celebration\, including a musical introduction by Cornelius Eady\, is sure to inspire! \nFor more information about the anthology and how to order a copy\, visit MPC’s Bookshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-to-these-rocks-50-years-of-poems-from-the-community-of-writers/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Joe Ide\, Smoke
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with bestselling author and staff favorite Joe Ide\, who will discuss Smoke\, the newest installment in his IQ series. Isaiah Quintabe—an unlicensed detective for all seasons—and his best friend and masterful sidekick\, Juanell Dodson\, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the “aggressively entertaining” IQ series (New York Times). This time\, their lives may never be the same. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nIsaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ\, the genius of East Long Beach; instead\, he’s a man on the road and on the run\, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer. \nHis old partner\, Juanell Dodson\, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency\, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual\, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job. \nIde is the crime writer’s crime writer\, and he’s filled his best novel yet with desperate souls\, courageous outcasts\, an ex-stripper who’ll do anything to protect her son\, and wild half-brothers who may be the very incarnation of evil. With deft plotting\, lacerating humor\, and a keen eye for the ways in which characters rise or fall based on their ties to one another\, Smoke is Joe Ide’s crowning achievement. \n“Ide has displayed a rare ability to mix dark comedy and gut-churning drama…mixmaster Ide’s compulsion to blend light and dark (Isaiah’s confrontation with the serial killers\, while gruesome\, takes the form of “a slapstick movie shot in a burning insane asylum”) affects the two plots in surprising ways\, again producing an emotion-rich form of character-driven tragicomedy\, but one in which peril forever loiters in the shallows.” —Booklist \nJoe Ide is of Japanese American descent. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles\, Joe’s favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers before writing his debut novel\, IQ\, inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes. Joe lives in Santa Monica\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-joe-ide-smoke/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of EVERYTHING AFTER with Author Jill Santopolo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 11\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, EVERYTHING AFTER\, with author Jill Santopolo. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88322734719. \n(Order your copy of  EVERYTHING AFTER at https://bit.ly/ggpEverythingAfter\, or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/EverythingAfterAB. \nDescription\n\nThe Light We Lost mixes with a touch of Daisy Jones and the Six in this novel of first love\, passion\, and the power of choice–and how we cannot escape the people we are meant to be. \nTwo loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. \nEmily has come a long way since she lost her two passions fifteen years ago: music\, and Rob. She’s a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband\, Ezra\, she has a beautiful life. They’re happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily’s present too closely echoes her past\, and parts of her story that she’d hoped never to share come to light\, her perfect life is suddenly upturned. Then Emily hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away. The melody and voice are hauntingly familiar. Could it be? As Emily’s past passions come roaring back into her life\, she’ll find herself asking: Who is she meant to be? Who is she meant to love? \nAbout the Author\n\nJill Santopolo is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words. Her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is also the author of three successful children’s and young-adult series and works as the associate publisher of Philomel Books. Santopolo travels the world to speak about writing and storytelling. A New Yorker at heart\, Jill is currently living in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-of-everything-after-with-author-jill-santopolo/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Alan Chazaro\, Raina J. León\, Tongo Eisen Martin\, and Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 11 AT 7PM PT\, FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING BAY AREA POETRY AND ALAN CHAZARO’S LATEST COLLECTION PIÑATA THEORY\, ON ZOOM!\nFEATURED READERS INCLUDE:\nALAN CHAZARO\, RAINA J. LEÓN\, TONGO EISEN MARTIN\, AND BARBARA JANE REYES\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84144654181\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84144654181#  or +13462487799\,\,84144654181#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kfZgMQqEA\n \nPraise for Piñata Theory \nCante Jundo\, or “Deep Song\,” is what Garcia Lorca called poetry attached to the rhythms and waves of a continent\, its people\, its waters\, its history. In Alan Chazaro’s Piñata Theory\, those resonances echo across the field “between the countries of your body\,” the shared stories of cousin-cultures stretching across manmade boundaries. “I’ve become a borderland of tongues\,” writes Chazaro\, “a mezcla of eyes.” Here is the piñata\, unbroken\, containing\, holding together all the promise of youth and imagination. When it spills\, it spills lavishly and generously its treasures.—D.A. Powell \nThe great American philosopher Jay Z once said\, “You can’t heal/what you don’t reveal.” Such is the ethos of this debut collection. Pugilistic\, unflinchingly honest\, and damn right gorgeous\, Piñata Theory no se raja in decirnos how broken we are\, how broken we’ve been. Alan takes the hyphen in Mexican-American\, this unruly papier-mache we’ve inherited\, and clothes the hollow of us. So before leafing this book\, dear reader\, take a breath—for your sake\, for those who still can’t breathe. Stomach his hard-hitting truth\, because “We were made for beatdowns.” This some strong shit\, as blunt as a spliffed Swisher\, as the dusty 2×4’s we’d wield at dangling dulce. Whenever you ready\, step inside this circle of homies. We’re cheering on our Yay Area champ as he plants both feet in this poetry world. It’s his turn. And as he swings for our freedom\, sing like we did as kids\, “Dale dale dale\, no pierdas el tino.”—Antonio López \nWe don’t get to witness a root as it reaches out and absorbs from all around itself. But Piñata Theory by Alan Chazaro is evidence of this Mexican-American navigation—it is the bud and the strange blossom that doesn’t resist itself like Xicanos sometimes do. And in this way\, it is like the serious ache a family joke leaves. It’s the men watching other men cry\, lost gold teeth and the person that misses it\, the thoughts loose like dogs on the street and how in their wildness\, we must honor them. These poems reverb under the skin but not necessarily in the colonized body. The speaker in this collection knows better than to make their body fully responsible for the world. And yet\, they know where they participate. They don’t “live with dust in [their] eyes\,” or with unaccounted admiration for life. Piñata Theory is a record of layer\, and speaks of us in a humor that is pure pocho-dimensional. Its truth is a deep wound and the “fuck it” that follows. And still\, each poem seems to be written in a special wonder that gathers itself from many places inside the speaker’s one body\, one root.—Sara Borjas \nAbout Alan Chazaro \nAlan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley\, a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco\, and co-founding editor of HeadFake\, an online NBA zine. He chirps about Mexican memes\, the Golden State Warriors\, and Bay Area rap on Twitter @alan_chazaro
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-alan-chazaro-raina-j-leon-tongo-eisen-martin-and-barbara-jane-reyes/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #50
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-50/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Spring event\, featuring readings by Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \nAbout the authors \nRoberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins)\, a  New York Times “Editor’s Choice” that the paper’s Book Review hailed as a “powerful” nonfiction book and a “groundbreaking memoir.”  Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator\, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, California. As a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, he helped build a movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves in the United States and out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center\, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence\, terrorism\, the drug war and the refugee crisis—from Mexico\, Venezuela\, El Salvador\, Dominican Republic\, Haiti\, France and the United States\, among other countries. Order Unforgetting by Roberto Lovato. \nMatt Bell’s next novel\, Appleseed\, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done\, a guide to novel writing\, rewriting\, and revision\, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. His novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Book of the Year Honor Recipient\, and was selected as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, among other honors. Both In the House and Scrapper were selected by the Library of Michigan as Michigan Notable Books. Order books by Matt Bell. \nElizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York\, grew up in the Midwest\, and lives in Rome. She is the author of two short story collections eightball and Natural Disasters\, and the bestselling memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Best Travel Writing\, TIME\, El Pais\, Words Without Borders\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. Order books by Elizabeth Geoghegan. \nPaulo K Tiról is a composer\, lyricist and bookwriter of musical theatre from Manila\, Philippines. He was in the 2019-’20 class of Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows\, and an artist-in-residence at Access Theater with director Noam Shapiro. His projects include music and lyrics for On This Side of the World (NAMT Festival 2020\, Prospect Theater Co.’s IGNITE series\, workshop production at Access Theater\, all dir. Noam Shapiro); book\, music and lyrics for Called (DGF Fellows showcase\, dir. May Adrales); and orchestrations for Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s Felix Starro. His work has been presented at Joe’s Pub\, Barrington Stage\, Prospect Theater Co.’s Musical Theater Lab\, and more. Alongside his work in musical theatre\, Paulo is also a composer of liturgical music\, with work published by Oregon Catholic Press (OCP)\, and church music director working in New York City and Jersey City. Training: Ateneo de Manila University\, Berklee College of Music\, NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (full tuition scholarship)\, BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. He lives in Jersey City\, NJ with his husband Jeremy. More at www.paulophonic.com. \n  \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-babylon-salon-presents-roberto-lovato-matt-bell-elizabeth-geoghegan-paulo-k-tirol/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Word Week 2021 "Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan & Michelle Gallen Read Contemporary Irish Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Irish authors Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan\, and Michelle Gallen read from new work Saturday\, March 13\, 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom. Colm gives us a preview of his upcoming 2021 novel THE MAGICIAN\, based on the life of Thomas Mann\, from Los Angeles. Michelle reads from her rollicking debut novel set in Northern Ireland BIG GIRL\, SMALL TOWN from Dublin (7 p.m. Irish time). Paula shares poetry from her just-published retrospective work AS IF BY MAGIC from Greece\, where it will be 9 p.m.\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom. Get the Zoom link by rsvping Going on this event page or by emailing wordweeknoevalley@gmail.com. In response\, you will receive the Zoom information. Audience limit: 100 people.\n\nBuy books from Folio Books at www.foliosf.com/word-week-2021.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-2021-colm-toibin-paula-meehan-michelle-gallen-read-contemporary-irish-literature/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T120000
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Momtaza Mehri and Zoé Samudzi\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, alex cruse \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \nFor our third program in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\, we are delighted to welcome two of the more outstanding young Black writers and intellectuals at work in the US and UK. Momtaza Mehri\, in London\, and Zoé Samudzi\, here in the Bay Area\, will each read from their work\, engage in conversation with one another and with emcee alex cruse\, and respond to questions from the audience. We welcome this rare opportunity to bring these two Afro-diasporan writers and thinkers together across continents. \n\n“…A poet is drenched in a singularity\, sodden with its viscous specificity. A poem speaks for itself exactly when it declares it speaks for others. The Black poet is an isotope of both hope & despair. The Black poet is both a reluctant & enthusiastic interlocutor of what is known as the Black condition\, which conditions & structures the World that invented it. The Black poem asks you where it hurts & demands no particular answer. The Black poet knows this is a question one can spend a life trying to answer….”\n—Momtaza Mehri\, “Harlem Is Hijaz Is Havana Is Harar\, Or: The Whole Point of the Black Arts Movement Is That They Were Moving”\n“We [Afro-]diasporans joke often about the genre of poetry and prose born out of a longing for a motherland animated only by hungry verses. There’s a cowardice to this: nostalgic memory\, a narrativized nostalgia for memories and experiences and beauty that never belonged to you\, is easy. But situating oneself in the wake and afterlife of those traumas and beautiful/beautified struggles is far harder still.”\n—Zoé Samudzi on Momtaza Mehri\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, Summer 2020\n\nMomtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta\, Artforum\, The Guardian\, BOMB\, and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London. Her latest pamphlet\, Doing the Most with the Least\, was published in 2019 by Goldsmiths Press. More here. \n\n“As Black as Resistance [by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson] is an urgently needed book…a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state\, levels of inequality\, environmental degradation\, and resurgent fascism\, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and mus and do make.”\n—Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\n\nZoé Samudzi is a writer\, photographer\, and a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, Open Space\, and Verso\, among others. With William C. Anderson\, Samudzi is coauthor of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (foreword by Mariame Kaba\, AK Press\, 2018). More here. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nMomtaza Mehri\, Granta Podcast\, Ep. 94\, October 7\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri\, “Poets Should Ride the Bus: On Diane di Prima (1934–2020)\,” at Verso Books\, November 3\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri at Open Space\, 2018 \n“Blackness As a State of Matter: A Conversation with Zoé Samudzi\,” by Will Furtado\, at Contemporary And\, C&’s Top Articles of 2019 \nZoé Samudzi at Open Space\, 2018–2019 \nVideo: \nView earlier events in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3fVkVa5mS2iU5P5jmed6TQ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-momtaza-mehri-and-zoe-samudzi-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joanell Serra - (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: front-line responders and recovering patients; going out to work\, staying home to work\, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location\, age\, race\, and health\, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength\, ingenuity and love—for others and for self—to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country’s response. \nJoanell Serra lives with her human and canine family in Sonoma\, California. Her debut novel\, The Vines We Planted\, was inspired by the complex community and gorgeous scenery in the California Winery. Joanell also writes poetry\, creative non-fiction\,  and plays. Her short plays have been produced and her work has been published  in numerous literary magazines. The other hats she wears include licensed Marriage and Family Therapist\, Impact Coach\, retreat leader and non-profit consultant.  She conducts workshops on writing and personal transformation around the country and abroad.  More information and recent publications can be found at joanellserraauthor.com. \n“I’m a proponent of sharing our truth. These womens’ stories are raw and real. They make me want to cry\, or laugh\, or call them up and say this sh** happened to me too! We’ve got this. These women really are the heroines of the pandemic: nurses\, doctors\, teachers\, badass moms\, women having a mental health crisis\, healers\, grandmas… I love this.”\n—Jennifer Pastiloff\, best-selling author of On Being Human \n“The homefront has always been inhabited by women\, including anyone who identifies with and enters the space of “woman” – caretakers and home keepers and compassionate community builders. This collection reminds us how the heart warriors never give up or in\, which is the only reason we have a chance. Where are the purple heart medals for these legions of women. Secular Blessings on every one of their stories\, every single body.”\n—Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge: Stories
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanell-serra-heroics-womens-lived-experiences-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
DESCRIPTION:A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. \nKlara and the Sun\, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature\, tells the story of Klara\, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities\, who\, from her place in the store\, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse\, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. \nKlara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator\, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? \nIn its award citation in 2017\, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro’s books as “novels of great emotional force” and said he has “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” \nKazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki\, Japan\, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world\, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages\, and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go\, both made into acclaimed films\, have each sold more than 2 million copies. He was given a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. \nPico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist\, often known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, and The Global Soul\, and is most recently the author of A Beginner’s Guide to Japan. An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, and other publications. He has travelled widely\, from North Korea to Easter Island\, and from Paraguay to Ethiopia\, while writing thirteen works of non-fiction and two novels. Since 1992 Pico has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur\, California\, and most of the rest in suburban Japan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kazuo-ishiguro-klara-and-the-sun/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Julia Turshen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Julia Turshen’s Simply Julia: 110 Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food is her first collection of recipes featuring a healthier take on the simple\, satisfying comfort food for which she’s known. \nJulia has always been cooking. As a kid\, she skipped the Easy-Bake Oven and went straight to the real thing. Throughout her life\, cooking has remained a constant\, and as fans of her popular books know\, Julia’s approach to food is about so much more than putting dinner on the table—it is about love\, community\, connection\, and nourishment of the body and soul. \nIn Simply Julia\, readers will find 110 foolproof recipes for more nutritious takes on the simple\, comforting meals Julia cooks most often. With practical chapters such as weeknight go-tos\, make-ahead mains\, vegan one-pot meals\, chicken recipes\, easy baked goods\, and more\, Simply Julia provides endlessly satisfying options comprised of accessible and affordable ingredients. Think dishes like Stewed Chicken with Sour Cream + Chive Dumplings\, Hasselback Carrots with Smoked Paprika\, and Lemon Ricotta Cupcakes—the kind of flavorful yet unfussy food everyone wants to make at home. \nIn addition to her tried-and-true recipes\, readers will find Julia’s signature elements—her “Seven Lists” (Seven Things I Learned From Being a Private Chef that Make Home Cooking Easier; Seven Ways to Use Leftover Buttermilk; Seven Ways to Use Leftover Egg Whites or Egg Yolks)\, menu suggestions\, and helpful adaptations for dietary needs\, along with personal essays and photos and gorgeous food photography. \nJulia is the bestselling cookbook author of Small Victories\, named a Best Cookbook by the New York Times and NPR; Feed the Resistance\, Eater’s Book of the Year\, 2017; and Now & Again\, named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon. She hosts the IACP-nominated podcast “Keep Calm and Cook On” and has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Vogue\, Bon Appétit\, Food & Wine\, and Saveur. She is the founder of Equity At The Table\, an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food. Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and pets. \nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Save Me the Plums\, Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me with Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, and For You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!; and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Times and served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-julia-turshen-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174547
CREATED:20210301T010209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T011421Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Michaeleen Doucleff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 15 at 6pm PT when Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff joins us to discuss her book\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy\, Helpful Little Humans\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88078828927 \nPraise for Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\n“Parents: You don’t have to go to kid birthday parties anymore! Or awkwardly straddle playground equipment! Or create chore charts! In her funny\, honest\, and practical book\, Michaeleen Doucleff collects ancient wisdom that can restore sanity to parenting.”\n—Amanda Ripley\, New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World and High Conflict \n“THIS IS THE PARENTING BOOK I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! Frustrated by the challenges of being a new parent\, investigative journalist Michaeleen Doucleff straps her kid on her back and travels thousands of miles to learn why and how indigenous cultures seem to raise kids to be far more skilled\, confident\, and content than the kids back at home. Armed with respect and curiosity\, Doucleff realizes that incessant communication with her child while attempting to control every small thing leads her child to feel anxiety and act out. And that giving a child autonomy while building a loving connection yields highly skilled kids who cooperate\, regulate their emotions\, and pitch in without waiting to be asked. Smart\, humbling\, and revealing\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent should force a re-set of modern American parenting and return a healthier and happier childhood to both parents and children.”\n—Julie Lythcott-Haims\, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult and Real American \n“Michaeleen Doucleff’s Hunt\, Gather\, Parent breathes a gust of fresh air onto the parenting bookshelf. She gives us a whole new way of looking at raising kids\, and it is so beautifully intuitive even as it runs counter to everything we have been taught as Western parents. I loved all the families she introduces us to\, the landscapes she brings to life\, and her honesty about her relationships with her own daughter. It really does take a village to raise a child\, and it is pure joy to follow Michaeleen and Rosy from village to village seeing how it can be done. I can’t wait to talk to other parents about this book.”\n—Angela C. Santomero\, creator\, head writer\, and executive producer of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Blue’s Clues\, and author of Radical Kindness and Preschool Clues \nAbout Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\nThe oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy\, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? \nWhen Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother\, she examines the studies behind modern parenting guidance and finds the evidence frustratingly limited and the conclusions often ineffective. Curious to learn about more effective parenting approaches\, she visits a Maya village in the Yucatán Peninsula. There she encounters moms and dads who parent in a totally different way than we do—and raise extraordinarily kind\, generous\, and helpful children without yelling\, nagging\, or issuing timeouts. What else\, Doucleff wonders\, are Western parents missing out on? \nIn Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities: Maya families in Mexico\, Inuit families above the Arctic Circle\, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. She sees that these cultures don’t have the same problems with children that Western parents do. Most strikingly\, parents build a relationship with young children that is vastly different from the one many Western parents develop—it’s built on cooperation instead of control\, trust instead of fear\, and personalized needs instead of standardized development milestones. \nMaya parents are masters at raising cooperative children. Without resorting to bribes\, threats\, or chore charts\, Maya parents rear loyal helpers by including kids in household tasks from the time they can walk. Inuit parents have developed a remarkably effective approach for teaching children emotional intelligence. When kids cry\, hit\, or act out\, Inuit parents respond with a calm\, gentle demeanor that teaches children how to settle themselves down and think before acting. Hadzabe parents are world experts on raising confident\, self-driven kids with a simple tool that protects children from stress and anxiety\, so common now among American kids.\nNot only does Doucleff live with families and observe their techniques firsthand\, she also applies them with her own daughter\, with striking results. She learns to discipline without yelling. She talks to psychologists\, neuroscientists\, anthropologists\, and sociologists and explains how these strategies can impact children’s mental health and development. Filled with practical takeaways that parents can implement immediately\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent helps us rethink the ways we relate to our children\, and reveals a universal parenting paradigm adapted for American families. \nAbout the Author\nMichaeleen Doucleff is a correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk. In 2015\, she was part of the team that earned a George Foster Peabody award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Prior to joining NPR\, Doucleff was an editor at the journal Cell\, where she wrote about the science behind pop culture. She has a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a master’s degree in viticulture and enology from the University of California\, Davis. She lives with her husband\, daughter\, and German shepherd\, Mango\, in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-michaeleen-doucleff/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T190000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco has been\, and continues to be\, a popular setting for novels. Three authors who located recent novels in our City by the Bay will tell you why Monday\, March 15\, 7pm Pacific time.\n\n\n\n\nRoselle Lim Author\n(NATALIE TAN’S BOOK OF LUCK AND FORTUNE\, set in Chinatown)\, Katherine Seligman (AT THE EDGE OF THE HAIGHT)\, and Hilary Zaid (PAPER IS WHITE\, Dot.com-era San Francisco) will read from their books and discuss the use of setting in writing fiction. \n\n\nAlgonquin Books\n\n\n\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom. Get the link by rsvping on the event page https://bit.ly/3us9V51 or by emailing oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at https://www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-series/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T140000
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SUMMARY:Donna Leon
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nGuests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this thrilling conversation. Please note the 12 pm PDT start time. Reserve your spot early! \n*** \nDonna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti is one of the most likable\, captivating characters in mystery: incisive\, principled\, and dogged yet cultured\, this hard-driving detective has a uniquely soft edge\, and his fierce protectiveness of Venice and its people have long made Brunetti a reader favorite. The protagonist of Leon’s iconic Venice-based mystery series has been almost as loved as Leon for decades. \nOn March 16th\, Kepler’s Literary Foundation is thrilled to present the 30th book in Brunetti’s saga\, Transient Desires. Leon herself will join us for an exciting in-conversation webinar to share the new novel\, talk shop about the mystery genre\, the Venice she loves\, and more. Whether you’re a new reader or have followed every installment of Brunetti’s mysteries\, it’s time to celebrate— because this novel has all of the hallmarks that make Leon’s mysteries unputdownable. \nWhen two young American women return with brutal injuries after joyriding in the Laguna with local young men\, hawk-eyed Brunetti questions why their escorts vanish so quickly after bringing the injured women to the hospital. Following that thread\, Brunetti uncovers what a gut-wrenching\, complex case that leads to technically brilliant and ruthlessly organized criminals operating underground in the beautiful\, storied city. As pursuit of justice takes Brunetti further afield\, he must rely on new colleagues whose truthfulness and motivations are not always clear. Absorbing and richly atmospheric\, with a keen insight into human failing plus all of Leon’s finesse for finely plotted twists\, the 30th Brunetti mystery will be an absolute delight for diehard fans and new readers alike. \nJoin us for an engrossing escape to Venice with Donna Leon online with Kepler’s this March. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-leon/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T183000
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SUMMARY:Sky Nelson-Isaacs - Leap to Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:An investigation into the physics of light and our journey toward healing\, connection\, and wholeness. \nThe reductionism and materialism of our modern world make it easy to imagine everything can be cleanly broken down into smaller and smaller parts. Yet the straightforward example of light in a hologram\, which can’t be reduced to its parts\, points to an underlying interconnected reality—a wholeness. Physicist Sky Nelson-Isaacs uses numerous familiar examples—rainbows\, music\, photography—to illustrate a fundamental wholeness found in nature. \nJust as light is filtered as it passes through a filmstrip\, Nelson-Isaacs points out that our human experience is filtered through thoughts and feelings. This view provides an explanation as to why\, in our daily lived reality\, we can feel so broken and not-whole. Nelson-Isaacs weaves together cutting-edge ideas into the nature of space and time and original research\, with a compelling message of urgency. The filters we use to make choices everyday hide important information from us\, leading us away from experiences of flow. Through synchronicities\, we are led to life lessons tailored to our readiness for change. Nelson-Isaacs reconsiders the view of time itself\, suggesting that we live not just in this moment but on a timeline of history\, part of a wave moving from our past into our future. Every choice we make shifts what is available to us. Can we learn to rethink our lives and reality to remove our filters and realize the wholeness that we have inherent in ourselves and in our world? Yes\, says Nelson-Isaacs—and once we do that\, we can use the multiverse of possibilities to make choices that help us heal and grow into a greater sense of ourselves. \nSky Nelson-Isaacs is a theoretical physicist\, speaker\, author\, and musician. He has a masters degree in physics from San Francisco State University\, with a thesis in String Theory\, and a BS in physics from UC Berkeley. Nelson-Isaacs has dedicated his life to finding his own sense of purpose\, beginning as a student of the Yogic master Sri Swami Satchidananda when he was less than five years old. Discovering an early fascination with holograms and some of the most fundamental questions in physics\, he has sought for over two decades to establish a connection between synchronicity\, physics\, and real life using research and original ideas. An educator with nine years of classroom experience\, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sky-nelson-isaacs-leap-to-wholeness/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
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SUMMARY:One City One Book: Chanel Miller
DESCRIPTION:One City One Book: Chanel Miller\nTue Mar 16th 6:00pm – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nLitquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection\, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event\, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art\, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. \nClick here to register and buy books. \nUniversally acclaimed and rapturously reviewed\, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking New York Times bestselling memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe\, but as Chanel Miller the writer\, the artist\, the survivor\, the fighter” (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators\, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable\, and\, ultimately\, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book\, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, People\, and NPR\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian-American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. Her contribution to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ special issue #WeToo: A Reader details her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member\, and the healing process she went through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-city-one-book-chanel-miller/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
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SUMMARY:Chanel Miller in conversation with journalist Robynn Takayama
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library is honored to announce its 16th Annual One City One Book selection\, Chanel Miller’s\, Know My Name. \nChanel Miller will join Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the CA court system.  Zoom doors will open at 5:50. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, NPR and the Washington Post\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. \nTakayama has contributed to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ #WeToo Reader. In it\, she shares her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member and the healing process she went through. \nFor Spanish or Cantonese\, please register. Closed captioning will be available in English. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/16/author-chanel-miller-conversation-journalist-robynn-takayama sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chanel-miller-in-conversation-with-journalist-robynn-takayama/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T200000
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SUMMARY:Kim Addonizio & Friends
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new collection \nNow We’re Getting Somewhere: Poems \npublished by W.W. Norton \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world. \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. \nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. \nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-addonizio-friends/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T200000
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CREATED:20210127T175549Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Naima Coster / What's Mine and Yours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host Naima Coster for her novel What’s Mine and Yours. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order What’s Mine and Yours here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students\, Gee and Noelle\, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years. \nOn one side of the integration debate is Jade\, Gee’s steely\, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss\, she is determined to give her son the tools he’ll need to survive in America as a sensitive\, anxious\, young Black man. On the other side is Noelle’s headstrong mother\, Lacey May\, a white woman who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn’t protect herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father\, Robbie. \nWhen Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students\, their paths collide\, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted\, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come. \nAs love is built and lost\, and the past never too far behind\, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive\, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years\, from the foothills of North Carolina\, to Atlanta\, Los Angeles\, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together. \n\nAbout the author\nNaima Coster is the author of Halsey Street\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Kweli\, the Paris Review Daily\, Catapult\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University\, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade\, in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-naima-coster-whats-mine-and-yours/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174547
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and novelist Kazim Ali discusses his new book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Northern Light\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a queer\, Muslim man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational? \nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused. \nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to. \nAbout Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz\nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light. \nNatalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem and When My Brother Was an Aztec\, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a USA fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kazim-ali/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robbie Arnott\, The Rain Heron
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott will discuss The Rain Heron\, his gripping new novel of myth\, environment\, adventure\, and an unlikely friendship.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d’état. High on the forested slopes\, she survives by hunting\, farming\, trading\, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit\, led by a young female soldier\, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical\, dangerous\, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story\, yet the soldier will not be deterred\, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. \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! \n“Superb descriptions of nature and weather\, of human emotion and animal instinct\, by Australian novelist Arnott evoke a landscape that is both startlingly immediate and mysteriously otherworldly: the perfect setting for a tense narrative of eco-disaster and fragile endurance. At once an urgent thriller and an elegiac fable\, this mesmerizing tale is as lyrical as it is suspenseful.” ―Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robbie-arnott-the-rain-heron/
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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