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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #33
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-33-tickets-126619904543; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nNomadic Press is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #33\nTime: Oct 30\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82565267961 \nMeeting ID: 825 6526 7961\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82565267961# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82565267961# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 825 6526 7961\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kL67YYo7z
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SUMMARY:Hollister Rand - Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what’s going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges facing us right now? \nGet answers to these questions from the spirits themselves! Experience the peace of knowing that those you love remain close to you. \nDuring the event\, a number of audience members will receive messages from loved ones living in the spirit world. There will be time to ask general questions about mediumship and what life is like on the other side. \nDuring the last twenty-five years\, Hollister Rand’s dedication to the healing work of mediumship has included events and workshops in the United States and abroad. Hollister’s work on television includes Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood and America Now. Her radio appearances include Sirius XM’s “The Séance with John Edward” (on John Edward Psychic Radio)\, KOST FM’s Angels in Waiting\, KBIG-FM’s Radio Medium\, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. \nHollister’s first book\, I’m Not Dead\, I’m Different: Kids in Spirit Teach Us About Living a Better Life on Earth\, published by HarperCollins\, is available in several languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her impossibly small chihuahuas\, Bodhi and Amara Metta. Visit her at her website\, MediumHollisterRand.com \nPlease note: Spontaneous messages are provided throughout the evening. However\, everyone in attendance is not guaranteed a reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollister-rand-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-afterlife-but-were-afraid-to-ask-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Dena Rod\nKarla Brundage\nPeggy Morrison\nSharon Coleman\nNorma Smith\nZakiyyah G.E. Capehart\n\n\nCarol Dorf
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Orion Magazine presents Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election\, the State of Democracy\, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. \nJoin Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books for a post-Election Day exchange between two of the world’s most prominent voices for justice and the environment\, Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams. Solnit is currently an advisor to Orion\, while Williams is a contributing editor. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Please REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Most Radical Thing You Can Do\nThis event marks the publication of Orion’s new anthology\, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays from Orion Magazine. The collection includes work by both Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams\, as well as Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Glenis Redmond\, Bill McKibben\, Winona LaDuke\, Scott Russell Sanders\, Wendell Berry\, Sandra Steingraber\, Barbara Kingsolver\, and others. The book is available here. \nAbout the Authors\nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah.
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SUMMARY:Writers Against Trump
DESCRIPTION:Writers Against Trump\nJoin us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event featuring Steve Wasserman of Heyday Books as host. He will be joined by activist and writer Roberto Lovato\, activist and poet Margaret Randall\, and San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. \nEvent is free\, but requires registration \n(CLICK HERE) to register \nWriters Against Trump are American writers who have come together to oppose the racist\, destructive\, incompetent\, corrupt and fascist regime of Donald Trump\, and to give their language\, thought\, and time to his defeat in November. They believe that this presidency is uniquely dangerous to our present and future society. Writers Against Trump collaborates with organizations seeking to encourage voter turnout\, promote candidates who resist the Trump apparatus\, protect the election from fraud and theft\, and mobilize in the event of post-election trouble. \n\nWriters are well-positioned to advocate for our democracy. They understand the strength of words\, of rhetoric. Collectively\, American writing has brought so much change. And Writers Against Trump seek to honor the legacies of the revolutionary writers who came before us by joining in now——and their choir must be deafening. \nThe brutal and criminal regime called an “administration” may remain in power a while longer\, spewing disinformation\, exacerbating ill health\, earth-hatred\, obscene inequality\, race- and woman-hatred\, and encouraging violence\, but as an unintended consequence\, writers and booksellers across the nation are coming together to resist. Join us in this struggle. \nFor more information visit: www.writersagainsttrump.org
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita\, author of I-Hotel\, Letters to Memory\, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 | 2:30 PM PDT \nAbout the books: \nI Hotel – A multi-voiced fusion of prose\, playwriting\, graphic art\, and philosophy that spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas\, one for each year\, I Hotel begins in 1968\, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated\, students took to the streets\, the Vietnam War raged\, and cities burned. \nAs Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students\, laborers\, artists\, revolutionaries\, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day\, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion\, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2497/I_Hotel.html \nLetters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians\, anthropologists\, classicists—their disciplines\, and Yamashita’s engagement with them\, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family\, and our borders\, to ideas of debt\, forgiveness\, civil rights\, orientalism\, and community. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1626/Letters_to_Memory.html \nSansei and Sensibility – In these buoyant and inventive stories\, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial\, cultural\, emotional\, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies\, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives’ freezers\, tape-record high school locker-room chatter\, or collect a community’s gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team\, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A.\, bake sales replace ballroom dances\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2176/Sansei_and_Sensibility.html \nAbout the Authors: \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAbout the host: \nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html \n— \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita-in-conversation-with-andrew-way-leong/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections\, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83679639869 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83679639869#  or +13462487799\,\,83679639869#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 836 7963 9869\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kmEIyss6Y \nPraise for Hosts and Guests \n“Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests is a fine book full of rich nuance\, complex emotions\, and sharp observations. These are poems replete with hosts and guests from a wide range of ecosystems in which Horace\, Rihanna\, Leviticus\, Dickinson\, and even Pikachu and Pokémon Go make smooth appearances. Hosts and Guests is a book that feels as though\, in Klug’s own words\, ‘day’s first words // arrive like nets\, flung / from somewhere behind // our heads.’ These are beautifully crafted\, contemplative poems that stay with you long after you’ve read them.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Living Weapon: Poems \n“What’s the secret of these fresh and mysterious poems? In their lightness of touch\, clarity\, probity\, and almost Japanese spareness\, they bathe the ordinary in otherworldly light. Cicadas\, young parents\, a baby\, North American bars and highways\, jellyfish\, a Horatian ode\, the death of Pompey\, religious faith feeling its way\, an inchworm shrinking from em dash to hyphen—all find their places\, revealed\, in Nate Klug’s delicately paced syntax and gracious reticence. A book both timely and ageless\, a balm\, a boon.”—Rosanna Warren\, author of So Forth: Poems\n \nAbout Hosts and Guests \nAn exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments” \nNate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests\, his exciting second collection\, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pokémon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine\, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude\, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the “immiserated quiet” of modern life\, love poems and poems of new fatherhood\, and studies of a restless\, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency\, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled\, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world\, social commentary\, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work\, “The visual is rendered sonically\, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses\, to speak the lines\, to taste the syllables.” \nAbout Rain in Plural \nThe highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \nRain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain\, who has been praised by The Rumpus as a master of musicality and enlightening allusions. In the wholly original world of these new poems\, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the polis\, using silence and montage\, lyric and antilyric\, to envision what she calls creating between liberties. With a moral precision embracing us without eschewing I\, she rethinks questions of citizenship\, the selections of sensory memory\, and\, by extension\, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes\, I accept the truth in newspapers / by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. // To each weather forecast I give thanks: / merci for every outdated // dusk/dawn. Agrippina the Younger\, Franz Kafka\, Bob Dylan\, a butoh performance\, an unnamed Raku tea bowl–each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness\, synchrony\, coincidences\, and accidents\, Rain in Plural beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-nate-klug-and-fiona-sze-lorrain/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nAphasia \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nMauro Javier Cárdenas\, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—”an original\, insubordinate novel” (New York Times)—pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family\, as well as his own behavior\, as an immigrant in America. \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book (Link to be posted soon) \n———– \nAntonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister—even though he knows he won’t be able to avoid thinking about his sister—because his sister is on the run after allegedly threatening to shoot her neighbors\, and has been claiming that Antonio\, Obama\, the Pentagon\, and their mother are all conspiring against her. Nevertheless\, Antonio is going to try his best to be as avoidant as possible\, because he worries that what’s been happening to his sister might somehow infect his relatively contented\, ordered American life\, and destabilize the precarious arrangement with his ex-wife that’s allowed him to stay close to his two daughters. \nIn fact\, he’s busy doing everything except facing his problems head-on: transcribing recordings of his mother speaking about their troubled life in Colombia\, transcribing recordings of his ex-wife speaking about her idyllic life in the Czech Republic; writing about former girlfriends whose words and deeds still recur in his mind; rereading stories by American writers that allow him to skirt the subject of his sister’s state of mind without completely destroying his own. \nWritten in long\, unravelling sentences that accommodate all the detritus of thought—scenes real and imagined\, headphones and heartache\, Toblerones and Thomas Bernhard—Aphasia captures the immensity of the present moment as well as the pain of the past. It cements Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s place as one of the most innovative and extraordinary novelists working today. \nMauro Javier Cárdenas is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again\, which The New York Times called “an original\, insubordinate novel.” In 2017\, the Hay Festival included him in Bogotá39\, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #1: Cookbooks and Gift Books
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83160582546. \nThis is our first recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/12: Kids & graphic novels;\n11/19: Adult non-fiction\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\n6120 LaSalle Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-1-cookbooks-and-gift-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T150000
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SUMMARY:Awesome Asian Americans: Children's Story Time with Oliver Chin
DESCRIPTION:It’s about time – rebel girls\, rad women\, little leaders\, and great guys are Asian American too! \nReaders will enjoy learning about 20 trailblazers who have contributed to our country. All compelling personalities\, these unique men and women come from diverse backgrounds and vocations. \nFeatured Asian Americans in the book are:\n-Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (actor)\n-Bruce Lee (martial artist)\n-Mindy Kaling (comedian)\n-Lea Salonga (singer)\n-Yuri Kochiyama (activist)\n-Helen Zia (journalist)\n-and more! \nArtist Juan Calle’s 60 dynamic color illustrations bring these fascinating and relevant portraits to life. Immigrants and their children continue to enrich our nation’s culture. Discover important chapters of American history not covered in school textbooks\, and the marvelous accomplishments of these groundbreaking pioneers. \n—\nAbout the authors and illustrator: \nOliver Chin wrote the popular annual children’s book series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac\, Julie Black Belt\, Welcome to Monster Isle. He co-wrote The Asian Hall of Fame series with Phil Amara. He lives in San Francisco\, CA. \nPhil Amara was an editor at Dark Horse Comics\, and wrote The Nevermen\, The Treehouse Heroes\, and So\, You Wanna Be A Comic Book Artist? He is an elementary school teacher in Boston\, MA. \nJuan Calle founded Liberum Donum Studios (Bogotá\, Colombia) which works on TV\, film\, and video games. Juan created the children’s book Good Dream\, Bad Dream and illustrated The Year of the Rooster and The Asian Hall of Fame series. \nAbout Immedium: \nImmedium\, Inc. inspires a world of imagination\, and creates entertaining books that have multi-dimensional appeal. Based in San Francisco\, CA\, Immedium sits on the Pacific Rim\, a vibrant intersection for crossover cultural trends from Asia and America. Embracing an increasingly diverse and “multimedia” world\, Immedium publishes titles ranging from eye-catching children’s books and contemporary non-fiction to commentaries on art and popular culture. Visit us at www.immedium.com. ​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/awesome-asian-americans-childrens-story-time-with-oliver-chin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ayşegül Savaş Reading
DESCRIPTION:You must register to attend this event! \nFree and Open to the Public. \nCo-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. \n\n\n\n\n\nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling. Her second novel White on White is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and The Guardian. She lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194939
CREATED:20201003T205305Z
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SUMMARY:Bookseller Happy Hour: GIFT PICKS
DESCRIPTION:Make gift giving easy! Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers share terrific books that make great gifts for everyone on your list. Have your holiday list nearby and get ready to check it off and finish your shopping. \nRegister for this free event on Crowdcast here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookseller-happy-hour-gift-picks/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T200000
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Omnidawn Books present \nMaw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n \nreading from new poetry \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n   \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-with-nathalie-khankan-and-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan celebrating new Omnidawn Books with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n       \nreading from new poetry \nCity Lights celebrates the book launch of \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \n \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nSu Hwang is a recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature\, the Academy of America Poets James Wright Prize\, and writer-in-residence fellowships to Dickinson House and Hedgebrook\, among others\, Her debut poetry collection BODEGA\, published with Milkweed Editions\, won the 2020 Minnesota Book Awards in poetry. Born in Seoul\, Korea\, Su Hwang has called NYC and San Francisco home before transplanting to the Twin Cities to attend the University of Minnesota\, where she received her MFA in poetry. She teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW)\, and is the co-founder of Poetry Asylum with poet/educator/activist/healer Sun Yung Shin. She currently lives in South Minneapolis. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-and-nathalie-khankan-with-su-hwang-and-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, November 10\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett’s new novel\, THE VANISHING HALF. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSweeney\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/SweeneyAB. \nDescription\nAn accomplished storyteller returns with her biggest\, boldest\, most entertaining novel yet—a hilarious\, heartfelt story about books\, love\, sisterhood\, and the surprises we discover in our DNA that combines the wit of Jonathan Tropper with the heart of Susan Wiggs. \nMaggie\, Eliza\, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport\, Connecticut. But their mother’s death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories\, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father\, Bill Sweeney\, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics\, publishers\, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one cool June night\, his shell-shocked daughters return to their childhood home. They aren’t quite sure what the future holds without their larger-than-life father\, but they do know how to throw an Irish wake to honor a man of his stature. \nBut as guests pay their respects and reminisce\, one stranger\, emboldened by whiskey\, has crashed the party. It turns out that she too is a Sweeney sister. \nWhen Washington\, DC based journalist Serena Tucker had her DNA tested on a whim a few weeks earlier\, she learned she had a 50% genetic match with a childhood neighbor—Maggie Sweeney of Southport\, Connecticut. It seems Serena’s chilly WASP mother\, Birdie\, had a history with Bill Sweeney—one that has remained totally secret until now. \nOnce the shock wears off\, questions abound. What does this mean for William’s literary legacy? Where is the unfinished memoir he’s stashed away\, and what will it reveal? And how will a fourth Sweeney sister—a blond among redheads—fit into their story? \nBy turns revealing\, insightful\, and uproarious\, The Sweeney Sisters is equal parts cautionary tale and celebration—a festive and heartfelt look at what truly makes a family. \nAbout the Author\n\nLian Dolan is a writer and broadcaster\, whose name is pronounced like “Liam” but with an “n.”  She is the creator and host of “Satellite Sisters”\, the award-winning and top-rated radio talk show she produces with her four real sisters: Julie\, Liz\, Sheila\, and Monica. She also created the popular podcast about modern motherhood\, “The Chaos Chronicles”\, developed by Nick at Nite for TV. Lian is the author of two Los Angeles Times best-selling novels\, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife\, and a regular columnist for Pasadena Magazine. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont\, she now lives in Pasadena\, California with her husband and two sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-sweeney-sisters-by-lian-dolan-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Valzhyna Mort and Carolyn Forché
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 12 at 5pm PDT when Valzhyna Mort discusses her latest collection\, Music for the Dead and Resurrected\, with Carolyn Forché on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86323484580\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86323484580#  or +12532158782\,\,86323484580#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 863 2348 4580\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keG6gjR1YS \nPraise for Music for the Dead and Resurrected \n“The voice of Valzhyna Mort is a miraculous reminder that words can do many things—they can dance\, can bask in irony\, can praise love but they can also tell the truth. These poems are not only moving\, they do the most elementary work of human language. They elevate the miserable\, the barbarian\, the numb to the level of universal idiom of wisdom and grace.” ―Adam Zagajewski\, author of Asymmetry  \n“At the core of Valzhyna Mort’s lyric fusion of personal and collective history is the uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction at Chernobyl\, spreading the radiation of an unknown tongue across her natal city of Minsk\, Belarus\, a city that hides its column-ribs/under a nurse-clean robe of snow pandemics. In the liminal space between language and silence\, at dizzying imaginative speed\, Mort transmutes her third language\, English\, into something resembling a fourth: the language of all that has been kept from consciousness concerning the century past. Her lyric art in contemporary English is astonishing\, and glimmering beneath it is something not often encountered: the sensibility of another world\, arriving to inform our perilous present. Music for the Dead and Resurrected is fiercely original\, and a tour de force.”―Carolyn Forché\, author of In the Lateness of the World    \n“Mort is well-known in Europe as a crusader on behalf of Belarusian language and identity. In English\, cast in rapid-fire free verse lyrics and sequences\, her poems seem to channel her country’s complicated and highly pressurized history into a voice that is simultaneously strange\, intimate\, lonesome\, hilarious\, surreal\, and all too real . . .”―Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \nAbout Music for the Dead and Resurrected \nIn her letters to the dead\, the prizewinning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. \nIn Music for the Dead and Resurrected Valzhyna Mort asks how we mourn after a century of silence and propaganda. How do we remember our history and sing after being silenced? Mort draws on intimate and paradoxical firsthand accounts of a past grandparent generation of the Soviet labor camps\, redistribution of land\, and massacres of World War II in Belarus. As her country is being run by a longtime dictator\, the poet creates a ceremony of mythmaking for the erased history and family. \nMusic for the Dead and Resurrected is a space where the living and the dead can coexist\, where the Belarusian woods can act as witnesses to forgotten lives\, and where musical form can create a new lyric mythology and an uncompromised language of remembrance. Mort\, born in Belarus and now living in America\, teaches us that the remembrance of private histories has a power to confront collective\, violent American myths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-valzhyna-mort-and-carolyn-forche/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ling Ma
DESCRIPTION:THE EVENT: \nThe Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Ling Ma\, author of Severance\, on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7PM. ​ \nThe event discussion will be moderated by Jiayang Fan. \nJiayang Fan became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016. Her reporting on China\, American politics\, and culture has appeared in the magazine and on newyorker.com since 2010. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe it’s the end of the world\, but not for Candace Chen\, a millennial\, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat\, wryly funny\, apocalyptic satire\, Severance. \n\nCandace Chen\, self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower\, is so devoted to routine that she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone\, still unfevered\, she photographs the eerie\, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. \n\nA send-up and takedown of the rituals\, routines\, and missed opportunities of contemporary life\, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story\, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale\, and a hilarious\, deadpan satire. Most important\, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive. \n\n\nTHE BOOK:  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTHE AUTHOR: \n\n\nLing Ma received her MFA from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor. Her writing has appeared in Granta\, Vice\, Playboy\, Chicago Reader\, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. A chapter of Severance received the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ling-ma/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #2: Kids' Books and Graphic Novels
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on kids’ books and graphic novels in this second episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81464519883. \nThis is our second recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/19: Adult non-fiction\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\n6120 LaSalle Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-2-kids-books-and-graphic-novels/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T210000
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SUMMARY:Diane Cook in Conversation with Dan Polsby\, Vintage Berkeley\, Virtually
DESCRIPTION:Pull up a chair in the comfort of your own home\, pour yourself a glass of lovely wine from Vintage\, and join the conversation between Diane Cook and Dan Polsby discussing her novel The New Wilderness\, shortlisted for the Booker Prize (announcement November 19). For info on joining and book sales write dan@vintageberkeley.com. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 12\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA daring\, passionate and terrifying novel about a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change. \nBea’s five-year-old daughter\, Agnes\, is wasting away\, consumed by the smog and pollution of the over-developed metropolis they call home. If they stay in the city\, Agnes will die\, but there is only one alternative – joining a group of volunteers in the Wilderness State. This vast expanse of unwelcoming\, untamed land is untouched by mankind. Until now. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers\, Bea and Agnes slowly learn how to survive on this unpredictable\, often dangerous land. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of her new existence\, Bea realises that saving her daughter’s life means losing her in a different way. \nAt once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood\, and what it means to be human\, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary\, compelling novel for our times. \nDiane Cook is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer. Her debut collection\, Man v Nature\, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, her stories have appeared in Harper’s\, Tin House and Granta\, and Best American Short Stories. The former producer for This American Life lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diane-cook-in-conversation-with-dan-polsby-vintage-berkeley-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Morgan Parker—Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \nRegister for this free event here. \nMorgan Parker is a poet\, essayist\, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a Pushcart Prize\, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations\, Live! at the Ace Hotel. She co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles. \nGary Young is the author of many volumes of poems and translations\, and has edited several anthologies and poetry textbooks\, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place. His most recent books are Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese published by White Pine Press (2018)\, and That’s What I Thought\, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books (2018). Young teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at the UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-morgan-parker-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T140000
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SUMMARY:Paul Kingsnorth & Martin Shaw
DESCRIPTION:Dark Mountain Project co-founder Paul Kingsnorth is joined by mythologist Martin Shaw for a conversation about Alexandria (Graywolf Press)\, the final volume in his epic trilogy about climate\, crisis\, and a world out of balance. \nRegistration info available soon. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Emergence Magazine\, which has published work by both writers. \nAbout Alexandria\nOne thousand years from now\, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world’s last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer\, and that seems to have brought them to the brink of extinction. A force that offers them a promise and a threat: a place called Alexandria. \nSet in a time on the far side of an apocalypse\, and perhaps on the verge of another\, Paul Kingsnorth’s radical new novel is a work of matchless\, mythic imagination. It is driven by elemental themes: community versus the self\, the mind versus the body\, machine over man—and the tension between an unstable present and an unknown\, unknowable future. \nAlexandria is the rousing conclusion to an extraordinary fiction project that began with Kingsnorth’s prizewinning novel The Wake\, one that maps two thousand years of troubled human history. \nAbout the authors\nPaul Kingsnorth is the author of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist\, Beast\, and The Wake. He cofounded the Dark Mountain Project\, a global network of writers\, artists\, and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink. \nMartin Shaw is a mythologist\, a storyteller\, an author\, and a designer of mythic life and oral tradition courses at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-kingsnorth-martin-shaw/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194939
CREATED:20201102T220646Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on 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/88012383591 \n  \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-earl-ryan-and-martin-pousson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on 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/88012383591\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +13462487799\,\,88012383591#  or +16465588656\,\,88012383591#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 880 1238 3591\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcAbeZacb9 \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-earl-ryan-and-martin-pousson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T140000
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay III
DESCRIPTION:The third in a series curated by poets Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky\, this event will bring together 2 Welsh poets: Rhys Trimble and Steven Hitchins and 2 Bay Area poets: MK Chavez and Lisa Rosenberg. \nRHYS \nSTEVEN \nMK \nLISA \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wales-to-bay-iii/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T150000
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CREATED:20201114T162533Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Andrew Paynter
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SUNDAY\, NOVEMBER 15 AT 1:00PM PT WHEN ANDREW PAYNTER JOINS US ON INSTAGRAM LIVE TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS\, ART\, AND WHAT MAKES SAN FRANCISCO GREAT; AND TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF HIS BOOK\, DO PHOTO.\nAndrew Paynter will be broadcasting live from Green Apple Books to share a special curation of some of his favorite Green Apple purchases over the years and how they’ve contributed to his artistic journey\, all to celebrate Paynter’s book\,\n Do Photo: Observe. Compose. Capture. Stand out. \nSigned copies of Paynter’s book will be available after the event! When purchasing online\, be sure to write “signed” in the order comments. \nAbout Do Photo \n“In a world where everyone is a photographer now\, how do you stand out? The answer can be found in this simple but profound book. It will train your eye to see what others don’t.” — David Hieatt \nThis isn’t a book about how to take the best pictures. It’s not even about the technical aspects of photography or how to “make it” as a photographer. In fact\, it argues that you should take fewer photographs. \nBy sharing 10 practices honed over a lifetime spent behind the lens working with clients such as Adidas\, Levi Strauss\, and Apple\, photographer Andrew Paynter encourages you to develop a more considered approach to photography so that you craft pictures with care. \nDo Photo teaches novice\, intermediate and advanced photographers – and everyone in between – how to use their cameras to really connect with subjects\, create memorable and more impactful photographs\, and to enjoy the process along the way. And guess what? It all starts before you even pick up the camera.\nAbout Andrew Paynter \nAndrew Paynter is a photographer and director based in Oakland\, California\, who is interested in exploring character and the creative process. His clients include Coca-Cola\, Adidas\, Levi Strauss\, Converse\, Apple\, American Express\, The North Face\, Rolling Stone\, and W magazine. He has also embarked on several long-term photographic collaborations including decade-long projects with Hiut Denim and artist Geoff McFetridge\, long-standing work with the bands Tortoise and The Mattson 2\, and his ongoing personal series Working Artists. Andrew’s work appears in Do Purpose and Do Open\, both by David Hieatt and published by Do Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-andrew-paynter/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T140000
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SUMMARY:Jackie Morris: Artist and illustrator of The Lost Spells and The Lost Words joins us from her studio in Wales
DESCRIPTION:Artist and illustrator Jackie Morris\, who has collaborated with Robert Macfarlane on The Lost Words and The Lost Spells\, joins us from her studio in Wales to talk about her recent projects\, what’s sustaining her through the pandemic\, and her new pillow book\, The Unwinding. \nNOTE: We are currently in the process of securing copies of The Unwinding from the UK. If you are interested in ordering a copy\, please contact sparks@ptreyesbooks.com. You can read more about The Unwinding on Brainpickings. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Lost Spells and The Lost Words\nSince its publication in 2017\, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now\, The Lost Spells\, a book kindred in spirit and tone\, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. \nThe Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature\, conjuring up red foxes\, birch trees\, jackdaws\, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells\, words of recollection\, charms of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away. \nAbout Jackie Morris\nJackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales\, with cats and dogs for company. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books\, and written some. The Lost Words\, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-morris-artist-and-illustrator-of-the-lost-spells-and-the-lost-words-joins-us-from-her-studio-in-wales/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T180000
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Beyond the Bottom Line
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nCan a company satisfy its shareholders while improving the world around us? For some businesses\, the shareholders come first— that’s their very structure. Others have broken away from that template\, to put the good of humanity on a par with profit. \nAwareness has deepened that businesses can and must be partners in tackling urgent issues like global warming and inequality. Now there are B-corps and social purpose corporations\, balancing profits with real purpose. Yet now some businesses also use “greenwashing” and other feel-good posturing to exploit the image of responsibility and play on consumer ethics in order to move product. \nCan the business world move beyond the bottom line? \nAdam Grant and Ben Cohen have long made the case for businesses doing well by doing good. Grant specializes in organization psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His Ted talks and books— especially Give and Take— show that generosity and altruism benefit everyone: company\, employees\, clients. And Ben Cohen\, together with co-founder Jerry Greenfield\, birthed the landmark Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company. The endeavor thrived\, even as its two creators openly endorsed political causes for the public good. \nJoin Adam Grant and Ben Cohen for a This Is Now conversation with Kepler’s in-house journalist\, Angie Coiro\, as they ponder the vision of a robust economy and a better world existing together. \n**Please consider joining with a donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited. ** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-beyond-the-bottom-line/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T193000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ron Nyren / The Book of Lost Light\, with Ann Packer\, Angela Pneuman\, Ann Cummins\, Lisa Michaels\, Cornelia Nixon\, Sarah Stone\, Rafael Yglesias + Vendela Vida
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual launch for Ron Nyren and his debut novel\, The Book of Lost Light\, winner of the 2019 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize. Join us for this special evening\, which will include a reading from the book and a panel discussion with Ron’s writers group of nearly two decades: Ann Packer (The Children’s Crusade)\, Angela Pneuman (Lay It on My Heart)\, Ann Cummins (Yellowcake)\, Lisa Michaels (Grand Ambition) Cornelia Nixon (The Use of Fame)\, Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater)\, Rafael Yglesias (The Wisdom of Perversity)\, and Vendela Vida (The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order The Book of Lost Light here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nJoseph Kylander’s childhood in early 20th century San Francisco has been shaped by his widowed father’s obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia’s fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The 1906 earthquake upends their eccentric routines\, and they take refuge with a capricious patron and a group of artists looking to find meaning after the disaster. The Book of Lost Light explores family loyalty and betrayal\, Finnish folklore\, the nature of time and theater\, and what it takes to recover from calamity and build a new life from the ashes. \n“Ron Nyren’s The Book of Lost Light is a beautifully written novel about the early days of photography; the capturing of time; acting; love\, and much else. At its center is a wonderfully complex relationship between a father and his son\, which is played out before\, during\, and after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The book is absolutely riveting\, and its images will stay with you long after you finish reading it. I loved it.” – Charles Baxter \n“I learned so much from this novel about the mad visions technology has always given us. In this quietly fabulous story\, an early-twentieth-century photographer believes he’s solving the mystery of time\, while his niece and his son have their own rocky fates. It’s so astute about ambition and has such a wise historical sense of the rich wreckage of San Francisco—I couldn’t stop reading.” – Joan Silber \nRon Nyren‘s novel\, The Book of Lost Light\, won the 2019 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Missouri Review\, The North American Review\, Glimmer Train Stories\, Mississippi Review\, Fourteen Hills\, Able Muse\, Dalhousie Review\, 100 Word Story\, and elsewhere. His stories have been shortlisted for the O. Henry Awards and the Pushcart Prize. He is the coauthor\, with his spouse and writing partner Sarah Stone\, of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers\, and a former editor of Furious Fictions: The Magazine of Short-Short Stories. Ron earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. A former Stegner Fellow\, he teaches fiction writing for Stanford University. \nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order The Book of Lost Light here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. The same applies for the other authors’ books – if you’d like a copy\, you can click on their titles\, above. \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-ron-nyren-the-book-of-lost-light-with-ann-packer-angela-pneuman-ann-cummins-lisa-michaels-cornelia-nixon-sarah-stone-rafael-yglesias-vendela-vida/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T210000
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SUMMARY:Bookseller Happy Hour: BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
DESCRIPTION:Choosing our “best” books of the year is always a challenge\, but talking about them is anything but. Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers reveal which books made the cut—and made their mark on us this year. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookseller-happy-hour-best-books-of-the-year/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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