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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rebecca Roanhorse in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders / Black Sun
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She’ll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  We’re happy to offer signed bookplates for the first 50 preorders! If you’d like a copy of Black Sun\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy\, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies\, political intrigue\, and forbidden magic. \nA god will return\nWhen the earth and sky converge\nUnder the black sun \nIn the holy city of Tova\, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal\, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse\, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. \nMeanwhile\, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship\, Xiala\, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless\, the passenger\, Serapio\, is a young man\, blind\, scarred\, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows\, when a man is described as harmless\, he usually ends up being a villain. \nCrafted with unforgettable characters\, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade. \n\n \nRebecca Roanhorse is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning\, Storm of Locusts\, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn\, and Race to the Sun. She has won the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus Awards for her fiction\, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (formerly Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her forthcoming book\, Black Sun\, is out in October. She lives in New Mexico with her family. \n \nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, the Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have a copy of Black Sun sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rebecca-roanhorse-in-conversation-with-charlie-jane-anders-black-sun/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nRegister for this Crowdcast event here! \nAn Onion in My Pocket is a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods\, peeling off layer by layer like an onion\, recounting her own personal\, culinary\, and gardening experiences\, and her adventures with family and friends.  It’s a most timely book and a joy to read.” —Lidia Bastianich \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Taylor\, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading\, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon\,” a story about a man who discovers that his new wife is a bigot. They will discuss their editing process\, and how to write anti-racist stories with racist characters without being morally didactic. Q&A to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-white-fragility-an-editorial-discussion/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:celebrating their new book \nSpirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nFrom two bestselling\, prizewinning\, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a rich\, illustrated\, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. \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———– \nGary Kamiya’s Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco was a #1 bestseller and an award winner. Now he joins forces with celebrated\, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before\, Kamiya’s captivating narratives accompany Madonna’s masterful pen-and-ink drawings\, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. \nPaul Madonna’s atmospheric images will awe: be amazed by his astonishing wide-angle drawing for a jaw-dropping new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world.” And Kamiya’s engaging prose\, accompanying each image\, offers fascinating vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville\,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. \nHandsome and irresistible–much like the city it chronicles–Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed\, personal\, loving\, informed portrait of a beloved city. \nGary Kamiya is a writer\, journalist\, and historian. He is the author of the bestselling book Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco and the history column “Portals of the Past” (soon to be a podcast) which appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He was a co-founder and longtime executive editor of the groundbreaking web site Salon.com\, and the former executive editor of San Francisco Magazine. He also offers unique walking tours by appointment and is available as a speaker about all things San Francisco. Visit: https://www.garykamiya.com \n\nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series “All Over Coffee” and the author of four books\, All Over Coffee\, Everything is its own reward\, On to the Next Dream\, and Close Enough for the Angels. Paul’s work is about pairing elements: text and images; concept and craft; thought and beauty. Paul’s drawings and stories have appeared in numerous international books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. He is the Comics Editor for TheRumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine (1993-94)\, for which he proudly received no money. \nVisit: www.paulmadonna.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-kamiya-with-paul-madonna/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David Livingstone Smith & David P. Barash / On Inhumanity
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He’ll be in conversation with David P. Barash\, author of the just-out Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order On Inhumanity here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nThe Rwandan genocide\, the Holocaust\, the lynching of African Americans\, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again-that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche-deeper than prejudice itself-leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization\, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. This book looks at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity\, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it\, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result. \n“This brilliant and powerful book is a philosophically sophisticated and prophetically courageous treatment of dehumanization\, especially in regard to race. It is timely and needful in our monstrous times! Don’t miss it!” – Cornel West\, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy\, Harvard University\, author of Black Prophetic Fire \n“This book is firm but gentle\, wise but accessible. Its reflections on our worst habits of politics are phrased in such a way that they allow us to see what better habits might be.” – Timothy Snyder\, Richard C. Levin Professor of History\, Yale University\, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century \n“On Inhumanity profoundly interrogates the processes that lead ordinary people to engage in horrific acts of violence against others. Tracing common themes across the Holocaust\, lynching\, and genocides\, Smith identifies dehumanization—seeing human beings as subhuman creatures—as the central feature of these mass atrocities\, as well as of everyday forms of racial oppression. Most compelling is that Smith refuses to conclude that dehumanization is our inevitable destiny and instead charts a course for resisting it. On Inhumanity brilliantly provides a chilling warning of repeating the past and a hopeful call to create a more humane future.” – Dorothy Roberts\, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights\, University of Pennsylvania\, author of Fatal Invention: How Science\, Politics\, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. \nYou can order On Inhumanity here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nDavid Livingstone Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford\, Maine. He has written or edited nine books\, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean\, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press\, 2011)\, which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. His work has been translated into seven languages. David is an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers\, but also by historians\, legal scholars\, psychologists\, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries\, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media\, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit\, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence. \nDavid P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. He’s written more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles on human and animal behavior\, and has written\, co-authored and edited 39 books\, most recently Threats: intimidation and its discontents\, which was just published on Oct. 1 by Oxford University Press. \nYou can order Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-david-livingstone-smith-david-p-barash-on-inhumanity/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beast Generation Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012\, we\, Beast Generation writers\, lived a never-ending literary feast. We gathered in the Mission\, at the street corners (16th and Mission)\, in a former voodoo and black magic temple Viracocha\, Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, in the bars like Amnesia and Make Out Room or Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley. They read poetry and prose\, played music and acted at festivals and happenings like Bay Area Generations\, Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop\, Saturday Night Special\, Quiet Lightning\, Get Lit\, Tourette’s Without Regrets\, Poetry Flash\, Donde Esta Mi Gente\, Perfectly Queer\, The Naked Bulb\, Skinless\, Swill\, Word Performances\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitCrawl\, Literary Death Match\, and organizations like Nomadic Press\, Poetry Flash\, Small Press Distribution\, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, Kundiman\, Kearney St Workshop\, Manic D Press\, Be About It Press\, Milvia Street\, Liminal Space\, Foglifter Journal\, the SF Creative Writing Institute\, the East Bay Review\, Full of Crow\, Pandemonium Press. And with many MANY of these writers taking to the road to read with poets in Seattle\, Portland\, Cleveland\, Kansas City\, Pittsburg\, Albuquerque New York\, Paris\, Mexico City\, Rabat and others. It was a loud and fun family\, with a sense of purpose and belonging. \nThe Beast Crawl was born in 2012 in Oakland CA to establish an annual gathering of this tribe in one region at one time in the East Bay (pig latin for “Beast”) to celebrate the merging of homegrown literary talent with the other kindred Beasts across the world. With this event\, the East Bay emerged as a hotbed of raw\, diverse literary talent with venues such as the Awaken Cafe\, Bench & Bar\, Chapter 510\, the Dept. of Make Believe\, the Creative Growth Center\, Classic Cars West\, Era Art Bar\, Econojam Records\, Feelmore 510\, The Legionairre\, Telegraph Beer Garden\, Farley’s East\, EM Wolfman Books\, The Golden Bull\, Laurel Books\, The Layover Lounge\, The New Parkway\, Oaklandish\, Kingston 11\, Spice Monkey\, The Starline Social Club\, Sweet Bar\, The Octopus Literary Salon\, Radio Bar\, and Woods Brewing Company hosting new up and coming authors. \nBy 2020\, with many of the venues closed or out of business\, festivals and readings canceled by the pandemic\, depression\, fires and smoke\, the Beasts might have lost a platform but not their voice. We will join forces again on October 24\, 2020\, and speak up online. Join us for a whole day marathon on a YouTube channel of one of San Francisco’s oldest indie bookstores\, Globus Books. The city will live up to its tradition: LitCrawl and Bay Area Poetry festival will be bringing more voices to you that very day. Let’s read like it is 2012! \nWith a week before the historic election\, our country\, state and city face a political\, economic and environmental crisis. The arts\, literature and poetry are here to do what they always do: offer humanity. Our land is on fire\, the plague is near and tyrants are at large but our spirits soar and are invincible. Long live Poetry! \nThis event will be live streaming on the Globus Books YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos. It is free for all. The recording of this show will be serialized and featured on the same channel later. Join us! \nReading: \nYoussef Alaoui\nLynn Alexander\nKyrsten Bean\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nSteven Black\nPam Benjamin\nKwan Booth\nMya Byrne\nWolfgang Carstens\nMK Chavez\nMissy Church\nJoe Clifford\nSharon Coleman\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nSean Craven\nCassandra Dallett\nRohan DaCosta\nJenee Darden\nNatasha Derenstein\nFred Dodsworth\nMG Dufresne\nAndy Dugas`\nJoe Donohoe\nTony DuShane\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLee Foust\nJK Fowler\nBill Gainer\nCassandra Rockwood-Rice Ganem\nCharlie Getter\nSteve Goldberg\nSteven Gray\nDazie Grego-Sykes\nJason Hardung\nHollie Hardy\nNicole Henares\nNazelah Jamison\nMaisha Johnson\nNick Johnson\nJuba Kalamka\nVernon Keeve III\nYume Kim\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nCharles Kruger\nAllsion Landa\nJoel Landmine\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nRIchard Loranger\nMichelle Lyn\nBrandon Loberg\nJoe Loya\nSean Manzano\nColleen McKee\nKR Morrison\nAmanda Muniz\nGinger Murray\nAlexandra Naughton\nJason Neese\nZephir O’Meara\nDawn Oberg\nPatty Orozco-Cronin\nSarah Page\nJohn Alfred Panzer\nLauren Dissident Parker\nIndiana Pehlivanova\nRob Pierce\nTom Pitts\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez\nRoger Porter\nHK Rainey\nSimon Rogghe\nKim Shuck\nCybele Zufolo Siegel\nJon Siegel\nTodd Siegel\nRyan Snellman\nJan Steckel\nSB Stokes\nJohn Swain\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nAndrew Thomas\nLauren Traetto\nKeeley Ann Tulloh\nRene Vaz\nAlia Volz\nSandra Wassile\nJason Whitacre\nArisa White\nMaw Shein Win\nZarina Zabrisky\nJames Zealous \nBios coming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-generation-uprising/
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CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition!
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone’s favorite construction crew is back in this brand-new addition to the Goodnight\, Goodnight series. Kids will be delighted to hear the author reader here story and to meet the illustrator of this awesome book\, where the crew CRASH-BANG-BOOMS through the demolition process. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sherri-duskey-rinker-ag-ford-construction-site-mission-demolition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr\, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
DESCRIPTION:The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. \nMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November\, 1930\, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco\, Detroit and New York. Still\, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. \nOnly twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera\, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place\, one filled with magnificent beauty\, horrific poverty\, racial tension\, anti-Semitism\, ethnic diversity\, bland Midwestern food and a thriving music scene\, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear\, cracks in her marriage widened and tragedy struck\, twice while she was living in Detroit. \nFrida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia\, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail\, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo. \nCelia Stahr is a professor at the University of San Francisco\, where she specializes in modern American and contemporary art with an emphasis on feminist art and gender studies\, as well as African and multicultural art. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Iowa and lives in the Bay Area. \nConnect with Celia Stahr – Website | Instagram | Blog \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-virtual-library-celia-stahr-frida-in-america-the-creative-awakening-of-a-great-artist/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books Night @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating three awesome new books! \n     \nThird Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White’s Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three excellent new titles: IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS by Robert Gordon\, CAR MA by Alison Mosshart\, and Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas. \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns! \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights and Third Man 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 (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nabout It Came From Memphis \nVienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history\, It Came From Memphis dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies\, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs\, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis\, Aretha\, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton\, Jim Dickinson\, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos\, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit. The Memphis aesthetic is to invert expectations: artists encounter imperfection with a joyous enthusiasm\, embracing mistakes and doing it all wrong by forging their own paths to get it exactly right\, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. A storyteller’s storyteller\, Robert Gordon puts you in the shotgun seat\, riding with the old coots and the young rebels as they pass a bottle and a blunt. Memphis changed the world\, this book might change you. The paragraph that begins updated and revised should be all bold. \nRobert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker\, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book\, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies\, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal\, William Buckley\, and the demise of civil discourse in America. He’s not the rockabilly singer\, he’s not author of Deep Blues\, and he’s not the university in Scotland. He lives in Memphis. \nVisit: TheRobertGordon.com \n  \nabout CAR MA \nCAR MA is artist and musician Alison Mosshart’s first printed collection of paintings\, photographs\, short stories\, and poetry. It is a book about cars\, rock n’ roll\, and love. It’s a book about America\, performance\, and life on the road. It’s a book about fender bender portraiture\, story tellin’ tire tracks\, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood. Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America’s highways- the last great roller coasters. Shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes. Mosshart ruminates that automobiles- with their doors and mirrors and windows\, engines and wheels and radios- portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit\, our inward reflections and outward visions\, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn’t. Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out … over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good and with the volume up that fucking loud. \nAlison Mosshart is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills\, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated rock n’ roll band\, The Dead Weather. Mosshart is also a visual artist\, working in paints\, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida\, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions: “Fire Power” at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC\, 2015\, “Fire Power Los Angeles” at Maxfield in Los Angeles\, 2017\, “Tonight Only” in Muscle Shoals\, Alabama\, 2016\, “Side Effects” at Panteon in Mexico City\, 2018\, and “Los Trachas” at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles\, 2018. \nVisit: Alison Mosshart on Facebook \n  \nabout Nine Bar Blues \nSheree Renée Thomas is a two-headed woman\, one crown\, earthbound\, rooted in the Mississippi Delta and the New Weird South\, the other spinning far off into space. And if music is the embedded memory of a culture\, then her remarkable fiction collection is its excavated soul. Individually\, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture\, but their shared song is the story of the blues. Thomas’s writing haunts and mesmerizes you. Her imagination takes you down through it like the best traditional blues song\, then opens you up again\, delivering you into that mysterious\, transcendental space that is the ninth bar. \nHaunting and evocative\, Nine Bar Blues carries the soul’s songbook\, from the dark laughter of strange sisters forced to make a perilous journey into a land their mothers have never known\, to the fortified funk of extraterrestrial mixtapes. \nSheree Renée Thomas imagines stories that are sonic rituals\, works that cultivate and affirm the magical and the mystical in everyday living. Nine Bar Blues explores the multitudinous forms of music and the people who make it and appreciate it—the body’s music\, the spirit’s music\, and what moves a soul forward in the crossroads journey of life. Her stories travel from haunted West African and Middle Eastern forests to the mysterious back roads in the Mississippi Delta\, from the ancestral realms of the afterlife to the alien sounds beyond. And throughout the journey\, Nine Bar Blues heralds the arrival of a unique writer whose voice carries the hope and the past-future-present of a people. \nVisit: Sheree Renée Thomas’ Website
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-night-city-lights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican’s new collection\, Central Air. Join us! \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nMike Puican and Michael Warr will share poems centered on cities they’ve called home. The poets met in Chicago\, a place that served as a living incubator for their writing over a period of 20 years. Puican has a new book of poems\, Central Air\, that focuses on the spiritual as well as the corporal intensities of Chicago. Warr grew up in San Francisco and spent his twenties in Chicago and Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia. \nThese gifted artists will present poems of place that contrast and compare life in these two great cities. \n\nAbout Central Air \nSet in the urban Chicago landscape\, Central Air explores the human challenge of living with strong desires\, limited knowledge\, and no saving direction. The voices in this mix of elegies and soft litanies negotiate lives within the strangeness and unpredictability of each moment. In every case\, language is a swift prayer\, ode\, and lyric. Chicago is an intensely experienced\, blue-collar homeplace where injustice is a given. The poems are stern\, compressed\, and unsentimental. But they are also empathic to human shortcomings and doubts\, scored in unobtrusive consistency in both voice and language. \nPuican’s focus on the city\, its people and underbellied spaces\, pays homage in the tradition of the great Chicago masters: Carl Sandburg\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Campbell McGrath. This contemporary Chicago son finds his own place with lyrical integrity. \n\nMike Puican has published poems in Poetry\, Bloomsbury Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, and New England Review\, among others. His work has also been featured on WBEZ\, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Puican was a member of the 1996 Chicago Slam Team and holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College. As a longtime board member of the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago\, he has been deeply involved in supporting and promoting other Chicago writers. He also leads poetry workshops at St. Leonard’s House for formerly incarcerated men and at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. \nMichael Warr‘s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, and We Are All The Black Boy. He is the recipient of the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award and is a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other honors include a Creative Work Fund Award\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-lunch-poems-san-francisco-and-chicago/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T015235
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía\, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. \nAlejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love\, Nine Stories\, City Lights Books (winner of the American Book Award). In non-fiction he has published The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California\, University of Texas Press. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Currently he is a professor in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. In 2013 City Lights Books published his new book Stray Poems. His short story\, The Other Barrio\, was recently released as a full length feature\, filmed in the street of the Mission District. He was the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino to hold the position. \nConnect with Alejandro Murguía – Website \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl\, and co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published\, her work appears in Other Musics\, Latinas: Struggles & Protests\, Maestrapeace\, Huizache\, and Pilgrimage.  A four-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grantee\, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. \nConnect with Leticia Hernández-Linares – Website | Twitter \nJosé Héctor Cadena is a poet\, scholar and collage artist who grew up along the San Ysidro/Tijuana borderlands. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at The University of Kansas. His work has appeared in Raices y Mas: An Anthology of Young Border Voices\, Cipactli\, Transfer Magazine\, Pacific Review\, La Bloga\, Red Light Lit and San Diego Poetry Annual. \nZoom Reservation \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-native-tongues-tres-poetas-de-califas/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T190000
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SUMMARY:Funeral Diva
DESCRIPTION:A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era\, and its effects on life and art. \n“She is a writer for the future\, in that she defies genre.”—Hilton Als \n“Pamela Sneed’s Funeral Diva charts the ‘grieving patterns’ informing a life with unflinching honesty and clarity. This notable achievement\, traveling from youth to adulthood\, is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist’s life.”—Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen: An American Lyric \nIn this collection of personal essays and poetry\, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life\, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living\, the dying\, and the dead. Sneed’s poems not only converse with lovers past and present\, but also with her literary forebears—like James Baldwin\, Toni Morrison\, Audre Lorde—whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape. \nOffering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights\, Funeral Diva confronts today’s most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneed’s reflections on the two pandemics of her time\, AIDS and COVID-19\, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities. \n“Riveting\, personal\, open-hearted\, risky and wise. This is Pamela Sneed at the top of her gifts\, firmly grounding her history into our history\, enriching both\, acknowledging all the legacies and losses\, influences gold and ash.”—Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse \n“Pamela Sneed’s Funeral Diva is deft\, defiant\, and devastating. Nothing exists in her work without history\, without teaching me\, as she writes\, ‘the power of what words can do.’ Through her brilliant mind it’s evident that everything is truly connected. You just have to find the string.”—Tommy Pico\, author of Feed \n“Funeral Diva is urgent and necessary reading to live by. This is writing at its finest. Sneed poetically processes individuation\, life’s journey of becoming\, a visionary elegy that transforms trauma and abandonment to recognition and virtuosity. Here\, with perceptive awareness we are invited along the way with mysterious encounters\, beloved attachments\, and then the cruelties\, the sorrows\, and profane acts of injustices confronted and given Cassandra full due diligence. Sneed magnificently refuses to back down\, and gives courageous and compassionate requiem with imagination\, integrity and inspiration for humanity. Keep this book close to your heart and soul.”—Karen Finley\, author of Shock Treatment \n“Reminiscent of Audre Lorde’s Zami\, Pamela Sneed’s memoir is\, in itself\, a healing balm\, affirming in its truths and honesty. Sneed takes us by the hand and leads us while she meditates on her journey from being orphaned as a baby to coming of age as a black lesbian in the 1980’s\, sometimes cutting corners and jay walking into deeper memories of childhood hurts and adolescent desire—the result\, a syncopated rhythm with a brilliant mix of emotions and sensations and poetry to describe a period of being gay and black in the shimmering strangeness of a vibrant city on the cusp of the AIDS epidemic that claimed the lives of many. I cannot remember ever reading a book that illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on our community more poignantly than Funeral Diva.”—Nicole Dennis-Benn\, author of Patsy \n“Pamela Sneed takes enormous risks in this book. She tells the truth with fierce concentration and an abiding sense of purpose.”—Dorothy Allison\, author of Bastard Out of Carolina \n“In her latest collection\, Funeral Diva\, Pamela Sneed ‘articulates at a mathematical speed’ her journey as a Black lesbian poet coming to terms with a new name\, to her evolved consciousness as an activist in New York City in the rage and devastating loss of the HIV epidemic. Sneed delivers an immersive experience with a grief that is porous\, inexplicable\, urgent\, and untamed. In Sneed’s distinctive style of prophetic foreshadowing\, Funeral Diva is the tome for our awakening and for our survival.”—Erica Cardwell\, writer\, critic\, and educator \n“If you wonder what political agency feels like\, read this book. If you want to know what a broken heart feels like\, read this book. If you’re not sure how to express political agency in spite of a broken heart\, read this book.”—Avram Finkelstein\, author of After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images \n“What does death take? Something or someone unacceptably absent. And how does grief exact? The costs are incalculable. Silver linings are just damn insulting. Yet\, somehow Sneed qualifies loss in the perfect most appropriate forms. Not psalms\, not proverbs\, perhaps a hint of prophecy\, but mostly through righteous lamentations. In this book\, Sneed testifies with clarity\, urgency\, and conviction. These compositions are necessary to the very soul of art itself. The compositions are the spirit-work and mind-breath demanded by the much (and too often late) lamented—our lost loves who remain ever-present. Gratitude to the author. All of us should read and thank this poet repeatedly.”—Gregg Bordowitz\, author of General Idea: Imagevirus (The AIDS Project)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/funeral-diva/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T170000
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SUMMARY:Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the intersections of their new books \nReTargeting Iran \npublished by City Lights Books \n& \nOut of Mesopotamia \npublished by Akashic Books \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. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register \n————- \nPurchase ReTargeting Iran (CLICK HERE)  \nPurchase Out of Mesopotamia (CLICK HERE) \n————- \nAbout ReTargeting Iran\, edited by David Barsamian\, with Azadeh Moaveni and others \nThe United States and Iran seem to be permanently locked in a dangerous cycle of brinkmanship and violence. Both countries have staged cyber attacks and recently shot down one another’s aircraft. Why do both countries seem intent on escalation? Why did the U.S. abandon the nuclear deal (which\, according to the UN\, was working)? Where can Washington and Tehran find common ground? To address these questions and the political and historical forces at play\, David Barsamian presents the perspectives of Iran scholars Ervand Abrahamian\, Noam Chomsky\, Nader Hashemi\, Azadeh Moaveni\, and Trita Parsi. A follow-up to the previously published Targeting Iran\, this timely and urgent book continues to affirm the goodwill between Iranian and American people\, even as their respective governments clash on the international stage. \n  \nAbout Out of Mesopotamia: A Novel by Salar Abdoh \nSaleh\, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia\, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran’s most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There\, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war\, an existential battle\, a declaration of faith\, and\, for some\, a passing weekend affair. \nAfter weeks spent dodging RPGs\, witnessing acts of savagery and stupidity\, Saleh returns to civilian life in Tehran but finds it to be an unbearably dislocating experience. Pursued by his official handler from state security\, opportunistic colleagues\, and the woman who broke his heart\, Saleh has reason to again flee from everyday life. Surrounded by men whose willingness to achieve martyrdom both fascinates and appalls him\, Saleh struggles to make sense of himself and the turmoil in his midst. \nAn unprecedented glimpse into “endless war” from a Middle Eastern perspective\, Out of Mesopotamia follows in the tradition of the Western canon of martial writers—from Hemingway and Orwell to Tim O’Brien and Philip Caputo—but then subverts and expands upon the genre before completely blowing it apart. Drawing from his firsthand experience of being embedded with Shia militias on the ground in Iraq and Syria\, Abdoh gives agency to the voiceless while offering a meditation on war that is moving\, humane\, darkly funny\, and resonantly true.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/azadeh-moaveni-and-salar-abdoh/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T170000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Libby Copeland\, The Lost Family
DESCRIPTION:The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing\, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for American culture broadly. \nLibby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Washington Post\, New York magazine\, the New York Times\, the Atlantic and many other publications. She specializes in the intersection of science and culture. Copeland was a reporter and editor at the Post for eleven years\, has been a media fellow and guest lecturer and has made numerous appearances on television and radio. \nIn collaboration with the Bay Area’s scientific\, cultural and educational institutions\, the Bay Area Science Festival\, now in its 10th year\, is an annual celebration of science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics. Organized by the Science and Health Education Partnership at UCSF\, the Festival features hundreds of online activities\, provocative conversations and virtual tours of cutting-edge facilities\, all designed to connect residents with the region’s scientists and engineers. \nThe festival runs from Oct. 21-25 and at SFPL we will feature picture books with a science connection during our live story times that week. Also join us online for STEM workshops aimed at elementary school-age audiences that explore basic science\, engineering\, math and technology topics. \nCopies of The Lost Family\, signed and personalized by Libby Copeland\, can be purchased through The Village Bookstore in Pleasantville\, NY (Attention: Jennifer Kohn\, 914-769-8322). \nConnect with Libby Copeland – Website | Twitter | \nConnect with the Bay Area Science Festival – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nRegistration: http://bit.ly/LostFamily10-24-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/yQBUYM1E6Yw \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-libby-copeland-the-lost-family/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T015235
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Before Columbus Foundation 41st Annual American Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community\, honoring excellence in American Literature without restriction to race\, sec\, ethnic background or genre. \nConnect with the Before Columbus Foundation – Website | Facebook \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-before-columbus-foundation-41st-annual-american-book-awards/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T015235
CREATED:20201003T205728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201003T205728Z
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SUMMARY:Eoin Colfer
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS ONLINE \nEoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl  which gained a huge worldwide readership for its mix of hilarious mayhem and snarky humor. Artemis Fowl\, the boy-genius criminal mastermind\, deals with fantastical beings and megalomaniacal villains in madcap adventures over eight books. There’s a movie adaptation that came out this year directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Judi Dench\, a series of graphic novels\, and the series spin offs revolving around the Fowl Twins . \nEoin is also the author of the critically acclaimed WARP trilogy\, Airman\, Half Moon Investigations\, The Supernaturalist\, The Wish List and Highfire And he was named Ireland’s Laureate for children’s literature in 2014 \nWe are thrilled that Eoin is writing more stories in the Artemis Fowl universe and are excited for Eoin to tell us about his second Fowl Twins adventure\, Deny All Charges\, which starts with a bang – literally. \nArtemis’s little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission\, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder\, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz\, are lucky to escape with their lives but the Fowl parents and fairy police force place the twins under house arrest.. Myles has questions which must infuriate someone\, because Myles is abducted and spirited away from his twin. Can Beckett and Lazuli collaborate to find and rescue him? Will Beckett be able to come up with a genius plan without a genius on hand? \nDon’t miss this opportunity to meet Eoin Colfer and rediscover the joy of another Fowl Brothers adventure that will keep you engaged\, entertained\, and grinning. \n\nPhoto of Eoin Colfer by Sonya Sones.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eoin-colfer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T153000
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CREATED:20201003T145916Z
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Book Club: Minor Feelings
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nEastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to discuss the month’s book selection. October’s book club pick is Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Sunday\, October 25 at 2pm PST. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook* group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \n​Book Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \n  \nAbout the book: \nPoet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir\, cultural criticism\, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism\, this collection is vulnerable\, humorous\, and provocative–and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship\, art and politics\, identity and individuality\, will change the way you think about our world. \nBinding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants\, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame\, suspicion\, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality–when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small\, they’re dissonant–and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. \nWith sly humor and a poet’s searching mind\, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language\, to shame and depression\, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art\, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche–and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth. \nCathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Boston Review\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program in poetry. \nReview \nCatherine Park Hong examines her development from a ‘model minority’ Asian American into new awareness of racial injustice and identification with people of color. The essays take us through her younger years with the 1992 burning of L.A. Koreatown\, and as an adult enduring racist slurs and discrimination. Hong shares a growing criticism of white privilege and racial inequality through her essays. Importantly she discovered her rebellious influencers Richard Pryor\, Yuri Kochiyama\, Theresa Cha\, among the race activists who helped define an Asian American movement and liberated their generation in unity with the long sixties Black Power Movement. \nBook Club Reading Guide \nHow do you define your racial identity\, and what are your major influences? \nThe Model Minority controversy has gripped Asian Americans. Has being defined as a Model Minority helped Asian American ethnicities attain opportunities\, or is it an elusive gamble for white privileges? \nAs an Asian American\, do you identify as a person of color? And how has racial discrimination affected you or your family? \nWe are challenged by the book to join Asian Americans in support of Black Lives Matter. What side of history should Asian Americans stand? \n~ \nEastwind Book Club is co-sponsored by OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD) and AsAmNews (www.asamnews.com).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastwind-book-club-minor-feelings/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T140000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Fall Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles\, for which each author will be reading from their work. Be the first to own these new treasures: \n \nwyrd] bird by Claire Marie Stancek \nThis Red Metropolis What Remains by Leia Penina Wilson \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win \nQuiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan \nThe Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association by David Rothman \n\n** Please note: This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. ** \n\nAbout wyrd] bird by Claire Marie Stancek \n \nIn times fraught with ecological and individual loss\, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen\, a dream journal\, a fragmentary notebook\, a collection of poems\, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary\, mythical\, and historical figures from Milton’s Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats’s hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading\, cross-questioning\, and upsetting some of that tradition’s central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic\, wyrd] bird searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body\, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning\, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips\, stubbornly\, onto love. \n \nClaire Marie Stancek is the author of two previous poetry books\, Oil Spell and MOUTHS. With Jane Gregory and Lyn Hejinian\, she co-edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n\nAbout Storage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win \n \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \n \nMaw Shein Win‘s poetry chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects\, 2013) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press\, 2016). A full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Maw was the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018) and often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.” \n\nAbout This Red Metropolis What Remains by Leia Penina Wilson \n \nAnswering a call to go feral\, these poems are part invocation and part prayer\, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains\, Leia Penina Wilson composes a mysteriously stark and playful pop-surreal romp through a mythic apocalypse. Dropping in and out of this mystic narrative are voices of characters who are trying to survive and to reconcile their own belonging. \nThese poems reckon with what happens in the aftermath of brutality\, questioning what anyone can or should do after tragedy\, questioning everything until they begin to break down even their own authority. The landscape in the world of This Red Metropolis What Remains is itself deeply unsettled. Each form varies and reflects an endless transformation of embodiment and interrogation. These poems ask what can be recovered\, if anything\, through an uninterrupted interrogation of memory\, category\, and language and with an unbroken attention to the speaker’s own power. Creating shifting architecture and landscape that reveals both the disintegration of cultural time and the eternity of interior time\, confession and lyric wrap both speaker and listener together. \n \nLeia Penina Wilson is a Samoan poet. She is the author of i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) from Red Hen Press\, and Splinters are Children of Wood from Notre Dame Press. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Dream Pop Press\, and Split Lip Magazine. \n\nAbout Quiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan \n \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \n \nNathalie Khankan’s work appears in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, Crab Creek Review\, and The Laurel Review. Her book quiet orient riot was selected by Dawn Lundy Martin as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st/2nd Book Prize. She is the founding director of The Danish House in Palestine and teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. Straddling Danish\, Finnish\, Syrian and Palestinian homes and heirlooms\, Nathalie currently lives in San Francisco. \n\nAbout The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association by David Rothman \n \nThis magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose’s Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his “More Recent Ancestral Home” of Manhattan. \nIn The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association\, David Rothman weaves a rich story about real estate\, family\, and memory. Daniel\, the protagonist\, is haunted by the memories of his childhood experiences in his grandmother’s apartment\, a home that he desperately wants to inhabit. One day he discovers a hidden relic on Rivington Street: a tenement reclamation office run by an eccentric centurion named Hannah. When Daniel inquires about the chances of reclaiming his grandmother’s old tenement\, Hannah is not impressed. “Things don’t work like that\, you rude\, young schlub!” And so begins Daniel’s journey to take back his past and to secure an affordable space for his family in downtown Manhattan. This is a journey full of twists and turns\, ups and downs\, and an ending that would make even the most thick-skinned New York real estate agent shake. \nThe Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association is the winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Novelette Prize\, selected by Meg Ellison. \nDavid Rothman has had short stories published in such journals as Glimmer Train\, Hybrido\, The Piltdown Review\, Newtown Literary\, among others. He has a Master’s Degree in English and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin\, and has taught writing for the City University of New York for over twelve years. He is the drummer for the NYC-based band\, The Edukators\, and is a proud resident of Jackson Heights\, Queens (and has little or no interest in reclaiming his actual grandparents’ tenement on the Lower East Side). \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-omnidawn-fall-book-launch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:D.L. Lang\nYolanda Morrissette\nTyrice Brown\nJos Burns\nAquila Lewis- Ross\nElizabeth Costello
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossus-home-reading-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T143000
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SUMMARY:Kandinsky: Dramatist\, Poet. Talk and Reading: Lissa Tyler Renaud
DESCRIPTION:Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky’s writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud\, one of the world’s leading scholars of Kandinsky’s lesser-known rich heritage. \nThis event is in English and will be held on Zoom on October 26\, 2020\, at 1.00 pm PST (SF)\, 3 pm EST (NY). There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program. \nPART 1\nKANDINSKY: Dramatist\, Dramaturg\, and Demiurge of the Theatre\nWassily Kandinsky\, independently of his revolutionary contributions to painting\, also wrote on and for the theatre from 1908 until his death in 1944. In his day\, his theories of dramatic art\, as well as his own plays\, were hailed by great theatrical innovators such as Hugo Ball\, founder of Dada\, and Oskar Schlemmer\, founder of the Bauhaus Theatre. He also crossed paths with important theatrical figures such as Diaghilev\, Stanislavsky\, Massine\, Andre Breton\, and many others. Today\, although his writings offer an important link between traditional and experimental values in the theatre\, they have been almost entirely neglected. This paper\, delivered in an earlier version at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in St. Petersburg\, Russia\, offers introductions to Kandinsky’s dramatic theories\, to the plays he wrote\, and to the two extraordinary programs he outlined for training the theatre artist. \nPART 2\nSome Known and Unknown Poems by Kandinsky\nKandinsky wrote poetry that was new when he wrote it and is still new now. In the world of early 20th century experimental poetry\, a host of painter-poets\, sculptor-poets\, musician-poets\, dancer-poets all wanted to challenge conventional language in one way or another. Kandinsky approached the matter of breaking ground in language from a variety of inventive directions that influenced countless others. What he called the “inner voice” that compelled his work has now been widely heard for over a century\, not least through his singular poetry. A longtime recitalist\, I will read selections from Kandinsky’s 1912/13 series of groundbreaking poems entitled Sounds–a remarkable departure from Russia’s 19th century “Golden Age” verse poetry–as well as poems unknown in English. \nLissa Tyler Renaud (MFA Directing; Ph.D. Theatre History/Criticism\, UC Berkeley 1987). Lifelong actress. Since 1985\, founder-director of the Actors’ Training Project studio based in Oakland\, for training inspired by Kandinsky’s work. Since 2004\, as visiting professor\, master teacher\, invited speaker\, actor-scholar and recitalist\, she has taught\, lectured and published widely on theatre training\, dramatic theory and the early European avant-garde: at major theatre institutions of Asia\, around the U.S\, in England\, Mexico\, Russia and Sweden. Founding editor\, English-French Critical Stages; board member. Co-editor\, The Politics of American Actor Training (Routledge); invited chapter\, Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky. Editor\, Wuzhen Theatre Festival\, China; Editor\, Stan Lai: Twelve Plays (U. Michigan Press\, pending). Senior Writer\, Scene4; founder-editor\, “Kandinsky Anew” series. \nThe program is produced and hosted by author Zarina Zabrisky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kandinsky-dramatist-poet-talk-and-reading-lissa-tyler-renaud/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte\, Sarah Rosenthal\, and Ayana Yonesaka
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated\, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters\, an essay collection\, and a film\, all of which investigate postmodern dance. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nIf you’d like to order a copy of The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow\, you can do that here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn their book The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow\, poets Valerie Witte and Sarah Rosenthal engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Through research into these innovative women’s dances\, ideas\, and lives\, Witte and Rosenthal use language from and about the choreographers to create a series of co-written sonnets that are interwoven with letters between the two poets. These letters describe the process of composing the poems and branch into discussions of dance\, poetics\, gender\, transgression\, and the unfolding disaster of the current political scene. Together\, the poems and letters construct an environment of reflection\, intimacy\, and vulnerability\, one that is both challenging and invitational. \nWitte and Rosenthal will read from The Grass Is Greener\, and briefly describe the essay project which their book has spawned. Rosenthal and dancer-choregrapher Ayana Yonesaka will then introduce and screen their short film\, We Agree on the Sun\, which draws on one of the essays to explore the intersection of dance and houselessness. A Q&A will follow. \nSarah Rosenthal (pictured top left) is the author of several books and chapbooks including The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Valerie Witte) Lizard (Chax\, 2016)\, and Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive\, 2010). She has done grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Soul Mountain\, Ragdale\, New York Mills\, Hambidge\, and This Will Take Time\, and has been a Headlands Center Affiliate Artist. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach\, develops curricula for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom\, and serves on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net. Author photo by Denise Newman. \nValerie Witte (pictured top center) is the author of a game of correspondence (Black Radish Books\, 2015) and The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal)\, as well as two chapbooks. She is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School\, and for eight years\, she helped produce many innovative books by women as a member of Kelsey Street Press. In her daytime hours\, she edits education books in Portland\, OR. Read more at valeriewitte.com. Photo by Andrew Hedges. \nBorn and raised in Sapporo\, Japan\, Ayana Yonesaka (pictured top right) moved to San Francisco in 2009 to pursue her career in dance. Since graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Dance from San Francisco State University in 2013\, she has worked in the Bay Area as a dance instructor\, performer\, and choreographer. In addition to teaching at San Francisco Youth Ballet Academy\, RoCo Dance & Fitness\, and ODC\, she also directs ayanadancearts\, a company she founded in 2017. Ayana aims to create highly innovative choreography that is rooted in contemporary dance aesthetics with a strong Japanese cultural narrative. Her work seamlessly navigates her Japanese and American identities\, choreographing through a unique cross-Pacific framework. Photo by jGuerzonPictorials. \nPlease note: \n> This is a free\, all-ages event but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n> If you’d like to order a copy of The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow\, you can do that here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n> If you have any questions or concerns\, don’t hesitate to write events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-intercollab-a-reading-and-film-screening-with-valerie-witte-sarah-rosenthal-and-ayana-yonesaka/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T200000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra\, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice. Cartoon\, a Homeboy who had been banished from the barrio twenty years earlier\, has returned from his educational and spiritual odyssey. He finds the hood under attack\, and it is no longer the gangs\, but the monsters of cafes\, cheese schools and micro-breweries\, protected by their own police force\, that are destroying the native San Franciscans. In order to strategize a meaningful movement\, Cartoon visits his old mentor\, El Lobo\, a barrio shot caller who is now serving a life prison sentence in San Quentin. Cartoon then recruits the young Homeys to begin implementing amor action in the hood\, until the police murder a Loved One\, which ultimately sparks The Revolt of the Roots. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/OTSPBkClb10-26-20 \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-book-club-pura-neta-by-benjamin-bac-sierra/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T210000
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SUMMARY:Sandor Ellix Katz: James Beard Award-winner discusses his new book\, Fermentation as Metaphor
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book\, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). \nThis event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit our Crowdast Channel to register. \nAbout Fermentation as Metaphor\nBestselling author Sandor Katz–an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene” (New York Times)–delivers a mesmerizing treatise on the meaning of fermentation alongside his awe-inspiring photography of this transformative process\, teaching us with words and images about ourselves\, our culture\, and being human. \nIn 2012\, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation\, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world\, a runaway bestseller\, and a James Beard Book Award winner. Since then his work has gone on to inspire countless professionals and home cooks worldwide\, bringing fermentation into the mainstream. \nIn Fermentation as Metaphor\, stemming from his personal obsession with all things fermented\, Katz meditates on his art and work\, drawing connections between microbial communities and aspects of human culture: politics\, religion\, social and cultural movements\, art\, music\, sexuality\, identity\, and even our individual thoughts and feelings. He informs his arguments with his vast knowledge of the fermentation process\, which he describes as a slow\, gentle\, steady\, yet unstoppable force for change. \nThroughout this truly one-of-a-kind book\, Katz showcases fifty mesmerizing\, original images of otherworldly beings from an unseen universe–images of fermented foods and beverages that he has photographed using both a stereoscope and electron microscope–exalting microbial life from the level of “germs” to that of high art. When you see the raw beauty and complexity of microbial structures\, Katz says\, they will take you “far from absolute boundaries and rigid categories. They force us to reconceptualize. They make us ferment.” \nFermentation as Metaphor broadens and redefines our relationship with food and fermentation. It’s the perfect gift for serious foodies\, fans of fermentation\, and non-fiction readers alike. \nAbout Sandor Ellix Katz\nSandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee\, his explorations in fermentation developed out of overlapping interests in cooking\, nutrition\, and gardening. He is the author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation\, which was a New York Times bestseller and won a James Beard Foundation award in 2013–as well as the forthcoming Fermentation as Metaphor (October 2020). The hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. The New York Times calls Sandor “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” \nSee also this Believer interview with Sandor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandor-ellix-katz-james-beard-award-winner-discusses-his-new-book-fermentation-as-metaphor/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T210000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She’ll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order Like Love here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nInfatuations. Attractions. Unexpected allure. Entanglements steeped in taboo and disruption. In Like Love\, Michele Morano takes on the intrigues\, strangeness\, and lessons of unconsummated romance with humor and imagination. \nLike Love poignantly interweaves episodes from adulthood with the backstory of a young family’s turbulent breakup. When Morano was an adolescent in blue-collar Poughkeepsie\, New York\, her mother left her father for a woman in an era when LGBTQ parents were widely viewed as “unfit.” Through the turmoil\, adolescent Morano paid attention\, tucking away the stories that were shaping her and guiding her understanding of love. \nTurning romantic clichés inside out and challenging us to rethink our notions about what it means to love\, Like Love tells hard and necessary truths about the importance of desire in growing\, traveling\, mourning\, parenting\, and figuring out who you are in the world. With precision and depth\, Morano explores what it means to find ourselves in relationships that are not quite—but almost—like love. \nMichele Morano is the author of the travel memoir Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Best American Essays\, Fourth Genre\, Ninth Letter\, and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women. Born and raised in Poughkeepsie\, New York\, Michele lives in Chicago\, where she chairs the English Department at DePaul University. Author photo by Kyle Brondeson. \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \nPlease Note: \n> This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n> You can order Like Love here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-michele-morano-in-conversation-with-ryan-van-meter-like-love/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86726028401\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86726028401#  or +13462487799\,\,86726028401#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 867 2602 8401\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdjIzCtyjv \nAbout Celeste Holm Syndrome \nIn this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters\, both well-known and lesser known\, from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit\, sexuality and gender\, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world\, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia\, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter\, Oscar Levant\, Martin Balsam\, Nina Foch\, Elizabeth Wilson\, Eric Blore\, Edward Everett Horton\, and the eponymous Celeste Holm all make appearances in these considerations of how essential character actors were\, and remain\, to cinema. \nPraise for Celeste Holm Syndrome \n“Well-observed reflections for true fans of the silver screen.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Fans of Hollywood’s Golden Age will delight in this affecting look at what makes actors truly memorable\, even if they’re not in the spotlight.”—Publishers Weekly \n“This gorgeously written book makes many brilliant observations about the tiny nuances of ‘character actors’ and in so doing makes an unassailable case that because we are all bit players in the cosmic firmament\, ‘interesting and endearing people’ are immeasurably more compelling than ‘heroes’ (whoever they might be).”—David Shields\, author of The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex\, Love\, Marriage\, Porn\, and Power \n“A great book about character actors would be enough\, but Lazar’s imaginative and ingratiatingly erudite series of meditations is much more. The author spins sprightly essays from each subject\, allowing biography and personal speculation to reinforce and enrich each other. The sublime tribute to Oscar Levant and melancholia is\, as they say\, worth the price of admission.”—Molly Haskell\, author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-lazar-and-joanna-eleftheriou/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T190000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month\, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry and the release of Barbara Jane Reyes’ sixth book of poetry\, Letters to a Young Brown Girl. Authors will read\, hold dialogue and have short Q & A. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl(BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, Gravities of Center(Arkipelago Books\, 2003)\, Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005)\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2010)\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2015) and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). \nShe is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband\, educator and poet Oscar Bermeo\, in Oakland. \nConnect with Barbara Jane Reyes – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nRachelle Cruz is the author of God’s Will for Monsters (Inlandia\, 2017)\, which won an American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize.  She was appointed the 2018-2020 Inlandia Literary Laureate. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things\, an anthology of Philippine Myths (Carayan Press\, 2015) with Melissa Sipin.  Her most recent book\, Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading\, Discussing and Creating Comics\, was published in Fall 2018. Her work has appeared in As/Us\, Yellow Medicine Review\, The Lit Pub\,The Collagist\, Bone Bouquet\, PANK\, Muzzle Magazine\, Inlandia: A Literary Journey\, among others. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour with Muriel Leung. She is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California\, Riverside.  An Emerging Voices Fellow\, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer\, she lives and writes in Southern California. \nConnect with Rachelle Cruz – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nJan-Henry Gray was born in the Philippines\, grew up in California and worked as a chef in San Francisco for more than 12 years. He lived undocumented in the US for more than 32 years. A graduate of San Francisco State University and Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program\, he received the inaugural Undocupoets Fellowship and awards from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Jan’s writing can be found in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color\, The Rumpus\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, DIAGRAM\, Fourteen Hills\, The Margins\, Quarterly West\, Puerto del Sol\, and other journals. He is the author of the chapbook Selected Emails from speCt! Books. His first book\, Documents\, was chosen by D.A. Powell as the winner of BOA Editions’ 2018 Poulin Poetry Prize. He is a Kundiman fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nConnect with Jan-Henry Gray – Website | Instagram | Facebook \nAldrin Valdez (they) is the author of ESL or You Weren’t Here(Nightboat Books\, 2018)\, selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry in 2019. They are a writer and visual artist. \nConnect with Aldrin Valdez – Instagram | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/BarbaraJaneReyes10-28-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/EkeYcNiNYlQ \n\n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-filipinx-poetry-w-barbara-jane-reyes-rachelle-cruz-jan-henry-gray-and-aldrin-valdez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T200000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T200000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T140000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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