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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/
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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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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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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/
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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/
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T210000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T170000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T190000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T140000
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-against-trump/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita-in-conversation-with-andrew-way-leong/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T150000
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SUMMARY:Awesome Asian Americans: Children's Story Time with Oliver Chin
DESCRIPTION:It’s about time – rebel girls\, rad women\, little leaders\, and great guys are Asian American too! \nReaders will enjoy learning about 20 trailblazers who have contributed to our country. All compelling personalities\, these unique men and women come from diverse backgrounds and vocations. \nFeatured Asian Americans in the book are:\n-Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (actor)\n-Bruce Lee (martial artist)\n-Mindy Kaling (comedian)\n-Lea Salonga (singer)\n-Yuri Kochiyama (activist)\n-Helen Zia (journalist)\n-and more! \nArtist Juan Calle’s 60 dynamic color illustrations bring these fascinating and relevant portraits to life. Immigrants and their children continue to enrich our nation’s culture. Discover important chapters of American history not covered in school textbooks\, and the marvelous accomplishments of these groundbreaking pioneers. \n—\nAbout the authors and illustrator: \nOliver Chin wrote the popular annual children’s book series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac\, Julie Black Belt\, Welcome to Monster Isle. He co-wrote The Asian Hall of Fame series with Phil Amara. He lives in San Francisco\, CA. \nPhil Amara was an editor at Dark Horse Comics\, and wrote The Nevermen\, The Treehouse Heroes\, and So\, You Wanna Be A Comic Book Artist? He is an elementary school teacher in Boston\, MA. \nJuan Calle founded Liberum Donum Studios (Bogotá\, Colombia) which works on TV\, film\, and video games. Juan created the children’s book Good Dream\, Bad Dream and illustrated The Year of the Rooster and The Asian Hall of Fame series. \nAbout Immedium: \nImmedium\, Inc. inspires a world of imagination\, and creates entertaining books that have multi-dimensional appeal. Based in San Francisco\, CA\, Immedium sits on the Pacific Rim\, a vibrant intersection for crossover cultural trends from Asia and America. Embracing an increasingly diverse and “multimedia” world\, Immedium publishes titles ranging from eye-catching children’s books and contemporary non-fiction to commentaries on art and popular culture. Visit us at www.immedium.com. ​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/awesome-asian-americans-childrens-story-time-with-oliver-chin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Ayşegül Savaş Reading
DESCRIPTION:You must register to attend this event! \nFree and Open to the Public. \nCo-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. \n\n\n\n\n\nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling. Her second novel White on White is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and The Guardian. She lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T210000
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SUMMARY:Bookseller Happy Hour: GIFT PICKS
DESCRIPTION:Make gift giving easy! Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers share terrific books that make great gifts for everyone on your list. Have your holiday list nearby and get ready to check it off and finish your shopping. \nRegister for this free event on Crowdcast here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookseller-happy-hour-gift-picks/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Omnidawn Books present \nMaw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n \nreading from new poetry \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n   \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \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. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \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.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-with-nathalie-khankan-and-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan celebrating new Omnidawn Books with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n       \nreading from new poetry \nCity Lights celebrates the book launch of \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \n \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \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. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \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.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nSu Hwang is a recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature\, the Academy of America Poets James Wright Prize\, and writer-in-residence fellowships to Dickinson House and Hedgebrook\, among others\, Her debut poetry collection BODEGA\, published with Milkweed Editions\, won the 2020 Minnesota Book Awards in poetry. Born in Seoul\, Korea\, Su Hwang has called NYC and San Francisco home before transplanting to the Twin Cities to attend the University of Minnesota\, where she received her MFA in poetry. She teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW)\, and is the co-founder of Poetry Asylum with poet/educator/activist/healer Sun Yung Shin. She currently lives in South Minneapolis. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-and-nathalie-khankan-with-su-hwang-and-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
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SUMMARY:The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, November 10\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett’s new novel\, THE VANISHING HALF. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSweeney\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/SweeneyAB. \nDescription\nAn accomplished storyteller returns with her biggest\, boldest\, most entertaining novel yet—a hilarious\, heartfelt story about books\, love\, sisterhood\, and the surprises we discover in our DNA that combines the wit of Jonathan Tropper with the heart of Susan Wiggs. \nMaggie\, Eliza\, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport\, Connecticut. But their mother’s death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories\, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father\, Bill Sweeney\, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics\, publishers\, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one cool June night\, his shell-shocked daughters return to their childhood home. They aren’t quite sure what the future holds without their larger-than-life father\, but they do know how to throw an Irish wake to honor a man of his stature. \nBut as guests pay their respects and reminisce\, one stranger\, emboldened by whiskey\, has crashed the party. It turns out that she too is a Sweeney sister. \nWhen Washington\, DC based journalist Serena Tucker had her DNA tested on a whim a few weeks earlier\, she learned she had a 50% genetic match with a childhood neighbor—Maggie Sweeney of Southport\, Connecticut. It seems Serena’s chilly WASP mother\, Birdie\, had a history with Bill Sweeney—one that has remained totally secret until now. \nOnce the shock wears off\, questions abound. What does this mean for William’s literary legacy? Where is the unfinished memoir he’s stashed away\, and what will it reveal? And how will a fourth Sweeney sister—a blond among redheads—fit into their story? \nBy turns revealing\, insightful\, and uproarious\, The Sweeney Sisters is equal parts cautionary tale and celebration—a festive and heartfelt look at what truly makes a family. \nAbout the Author\n\nLian Dolan is a writer and broadcaster\, whose name is pronounced like “Liam” but with an “n.”  She is the creator and host of “Satellite Sisters”\, the award-winning and top-rated radio talk show she produces with her four real sisters: Julie\, Liz\, Sheila\, and Monica. She also created the popular podcast about modern motherhood\, “The Chaos Chronicles”\, developed by Nick at Nite for TV. Lian is the author of two Los Angeles Times best-selling novels\, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife\, and a regular columnist for Pasadena Magazine. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont\, she now lives in Pasadena\, California with her husband and two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-sweeney-sisters-by-lian-dolan-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Valzhyna Mort and Carolyn Forché
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 12 at 5pm PDT when Valzhyna Mort discusses her latest collection\, Music for the Dead and Resurrected\, with Carolyn Forché on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86323484580\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86323484580#  or +12532158782\,\,86323484580#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 863 2348 4580\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keG6gjR1YS \nPraise for Music for the Dead and Resurrected \n“The voice of Valzhyna Mort is a miraculous reminder that words can do many things—they can dance\, can bask in irony\, can praise love but they can also tell the truth. These poems are not only moving\, they do the most elementary work of human language. They elevate the miserable\, the barbarian\, the numb to the level of universal idiom of wisdom and grace.” ―Adam Zagajewski\, author of Asymmetry  \n“At the core of Valzhyna Mort’s lyric fusion of personal and collective history is the uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction at Chernobyl\, spreading the radiation of an unknown tongue across her natal city of Minsk\, Belarus\, a city that hides its column-ribs/under a nurse-clean robe of snow pandemics. In the liminal space between language and silence\, at dizzying imaginative speed\, Mort transmutes her third language\, English\, into something resembling a fourth: the language of all that has been kept from consciousness concerning the century past. Her lyric art in contemporary English is astonishing\, and glimmering beneath it is something not often encountered: the sensibility of another world\, arriving to inform our perilous present. Music for the Dead and Resurrected is fiercely original\, and a tour de force.”―Carolyn Forché\, author of In the Lateness of the World    \n“Mort is well-known in Europe as a crusader on behalf of Belarusian language and identity. In English\, cast in rapid-fire free verse lyrics and sequences\, her poems seem to channel her country’s complicated and highly pressurized history into a voice that is simultaneously strange\, intimate\, lonesome\, hilarious\, surreal\, and all too real . . .”―Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \nAbout Music for the Dead and Resurrected \nIn her letters to the dead\, the prizewinning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. \nIn Music for the Dead and Resurrected Valzhyna Mort asks how we mourn after a century of silence and propaganda. How do we remember our history and sing after being silenced? Mort draws on intimate and paradoxical firsthand accounts of a past grandparent generation of the Soviet labor camps\, redistribution of land\, and massacres of World War II in Belarus. As her country is being run by a longtime dictator\, the poet creates a ceremony of mythmaking for the erased history and family. \nMusic for the Dead and Resurrected is a space where the living and the dead can coexist\, where the Belarusian woods can act as witnesses to forgotten lives\, and where musical form can create a new lyric mythology and an uncompromised language of remembrance. Mort\, born in Belarus and now living in America\, teaches us that the remembrance of private histories has a power to confront collective\, violent American myths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-valzhyna-mort-and-carolyn-forche/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ling Ma
DESCRIPTION:THE EVENT: \nThe Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Ling Ma\, author of Severance\, on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7PM. ​ \nThe event discussion will be moderated by Jiayang Fan. \nJiayang Fan became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016. Her reporting on China\, American politics\, and culture has appeared in the magazine and on newyorker.com since 2010. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe it’s the end of the world\, but not for Candace Chen\, a millennial\, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat\, wryly funny\, apocalyptic satire\, Severance. \n\nCandace Chen\, self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower\, is so devoted to routine that she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone\, still unfevered\, she photographs the eerie\, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. \n\nA send-up and takedown of the rituals\, routines\, and missed opportunities of contemporary life\, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story\, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale\, and a hilarious\, deadpan satire. Most important\, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive. \n\n\nTHE BOOK:  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTHE AUTHOR: \n\n\nLing Ma received her MFA from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor. Her writing has appeared in Granta\, Vice\, Playboy\, Chicago Reader\, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. A chapter of Severance received the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ling-ma/
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #2: Kids' Books and Graphic Novels
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on kids’ books and graphic novels in this second episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81464519883. \nThis is our second recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\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-2-kids-books-and-graphic-novels/
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