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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. ​
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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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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!
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Maw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Omnidawn Books present \nMaw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo \n \nreading from new poetry \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House – by Maw Shein Win \nand \nQuiet Orient Riot – by Nathalie Khankan \n   \n——- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books \n———– \nabout Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, spirits believed to have the power to influence everyday lives\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nAssemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive\, and Win must summon “a circle of drums and copper bells” to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This careful curation of unlikely objects and images becomes an act of ritual collection that uses language to interrogate how pain in life can transform someone into a nat or a siren that lives on. Restrained lines request our imagination as we move with the poet through haunted spaces and the objects that inhabit them. \nabout Quiet Orient Riot \nTracing the conception of a child through to her birth\, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction\, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems\, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory\, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel’s sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state\, yet not recognized by it. \nWhile Quiet Orient Riot chronicles a journey that is specific and localized\, the larger questions that emerge from these poems reach beyond this particular story. The book asks questions of itself\, wondering what kind of language may hold precarious life and what kind of poem may see an unborn body through emergency\, diminishment\, and into blossoming. \nThrough the trials of pregnancy and birth\, demographic and religious imperatives\, these poems are concerned with many kinds of worship. They bow to a “chirpy printed sound\,” “what grows in the rubble\,” and “the capacity for happiness despite visual evidence.” Wherever you look\, there are water holes for the thirsty and a grove of “little justices.” \nMaw Shein Win is the author of Invisible Gifts: Poems and her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Maw is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016–18). She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nNathalie Khankan teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and she is the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine. Her work has previously appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, and Crab Creek Review. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Children of the Land published by HarperCollins. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nOmnidawn Publishing\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work they choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Their intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. mnidawn books are frequently reviewed in Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Rain Taxi\, Lana Turner\, The Journal\, Jacket\, and Pleiades\, and have been reviewed in Chicago Review\, American Book Review\, The Village Voice\, The Midwest Book Review\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, HOW2\, The New Review of Literature\, Small Press Traffic Newsletter\, Electronic Poetry Review\, Interim\, and ARC (Canada’s National Poetry Magazine)\, as well as many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win-with-nathalie-khankan-and-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201105T222129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T222129Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201024T231024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T231024Z
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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:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201102T220646Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201024T230614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T230614Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201028T234604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201028T234604Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201114T162533Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201003T143319Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T194943
CREATED:20201003T205414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201003T205414Z
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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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SUMMARY:FREEMAN'S: Best New Writings on LOVE
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman with Robin Coste Lewis\, Tommy Orange\, and Matt Summell \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by Litquake and City Lights as part of the LITQUAKE 2020 Festival 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———– \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse\, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series\, Freeman’s Love asks this question\, bringing together literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange\, Anne Carson\, Louise Erdrich\, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging writers such as Gunnhild Øyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinović. \nMehmedinović contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the aftermath of his wife’s stroke\, describing how the two reassembled their lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo’s charming and painful “Good People” introduces us to two sets of married professors who have been together for decades\, and for whom love still exists\, but between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami tells the tale of a one-night stand that feels like a dying sun. \nTogether\, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the complexities of love\, tracing it from its earliest stirrings\, to the forbidden places where it emerges against reason\, to loss so deep it changes the color of perception. In a time when we need it the most\, this issue promises what only love can bring: a solace of complexity and warmth. \n\n\nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages.  \nRobin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. In 2015\, her debut poetry collection\, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf) won the National Book Award in poetry––the first time a poetry debut by an African-American had ever won the prize in the National Book Foundation’s history\, and the first time any debut had won the award since 1974. Lewis’s writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, such as Time Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Transition\, and Best American Poetry. \nTommy Orange is an American novelist and a writer from Oakland\, California. His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Orange was also the recipient of 2019 American Book Awards. Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. \nMatt Sumell is a graduate of University of California\, Irvine’s MFA programme\, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review\, Esquire\,Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles\, California. \n\nAbout LITQUAKE: \nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nwww.litquake.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freemans-best-new-writings-on-love/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ishmael Reed with Tennesee Reed
DESCRIPTION:Each reading from their new books of poetry published by Dalkey Archive \nWhy The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nby Ishmael Reed \nCalifia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nby Tennessee Reed \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 Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \nPurchase Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \n————- \nabout Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nThe poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around the house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. “Moving Richmond” was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem\, in huge letters forged into weathering steel billboards greets passengers who enter the new Bay Area mass transit hub in Richmond. Other poems were commissioned by musicians. “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was performed by Gregory Porter. “Red Summer\, 2015” appeared in print first and then was set to music by David Murray. The longest poem in the book\, “Jazz Martyrs\,” was begun when I learned about the number of black Jazz greats who didn’t live past the age of forty. I have been fortunate to live beyond the age of 80. I’ve found out who my best friends are. The ones who got me there. \nabout Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nA new collection of poems from the poet Tennessee Reed produced between the years 2012 and 2019. \nIshmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, The Last Days of Louisiana Red\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. In 2003\, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater. His most recent essay collection\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico\, was published in 2019 by Baraka Books of Montreal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\nA graduate of UC Berkeley\, Tennessee Reed is Secretary of Oakland PEN\, and the author of the collections Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books)\, Electric Chocolate (Raven’s Bones Press)\, and Airborne (Raven’s Bones Press). She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ishmael-reed-with-tennesee-reed/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody\,\nas they discuss their latest books and answer your questions about the art of memoir! \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/84986160532 \nAbout The Wanting Was a Wilderness \nHow did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir\, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore why. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing\, Jones realizes she must confront some difficult truths\, both in her life and on the page. THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS is a profoundly original work that blends criticism\, craft analysis\, and a memoir of Jones’s own time in the wilderness. The result is a celebration of WILD and a map of our long path to self-discovery. \nAbout The Long Accomplishment \nRick Moody\, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm\, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful\, month-by-month account. \nAt this story’s start\, Moody\, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression\, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is\, fully and for the first time in his life\, “Yes.” \nAnd so his second marriage begins as he emerges\, humbly and with tender hopes\, from the wreckage of his past\, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages\, the deaths of friends\, and robberies\, just for starters. As Moody has put it\, “This is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists\, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment\, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times\, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple\, lifting them above their hardships\, and the reader is buoyed along with them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-night-of-memoir-with-alden-jones-and-rick-moody-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
DESCRIPTION:William Sites in conversation with John Corbett \nexploring the new book \nSun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City \npublished by University of Chicago Press \nExploring acclaimed Jazz Master Sun Ra’s deep-rooted connection to the City of Chicago and its relation to AfroFuturism. \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 the book (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nSun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb\, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago\, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side\, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished\, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles\,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism\, revisionist Christianity\, and science fiction to jazz\, blues\, Latin dance music\, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep\, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu\, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. \nWilliam Sites is associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. \nJohn Corbett is the co-owner of the Chicago art gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey\, as well as a founder of the Sun Ra Archives. \nWhat has been said about Sun Ra’s Chicago: \n\n\n“Sun Ra’s Chicago is a masterful account of the musician’s formative years. Sites deftly applies a wider lens to his biography\, analyzing the urban spaces and networks that shaped Sonny Blount’s transformation from an itinerant musician into the otherworldly philosophical leader of the Arkestra. This book is essential reading not only for Sun Ra listeners but for readers interested in the crosscurrents of Black intellectual thought and the utopian possibilities\, past and present\, of America’s cities.” Erik S. Gellman\, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay \n\n\n\n\n“Like its subject\, Sun-Ra’s Chicago is a category buster—social history\, musicology\, urban studies\, hermeneutics\, cultural reclamation—and as such\, a revelation. Sites tells a story of countercultural ferment in 1950s south side Chicago that is detailed and provocative. Sun Ra\, Alton Abraham\, and the members and friends of the Arkestra were truly a ‘creative class’ long before that term\, as we know it\, was coined.” Larry Bennett\, author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sun-ras-chicago-afrofuturism-and-the-city/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Little Hill
DESCRIPTION:Alli Warren reads with Jena Osman for the Poetry Project virtual events series. \nMotion Studies and Little Hill\, the new books of Jena Osman and Alli Warren\, both exist at the precarious intersection of surveillance and escape\, power and its holes\, in the sexy and frustrated dailiness of resistance. These books ask how to live while indignant and horrified\, implicated in that which is struggled against\, always accountable to something more than what is known or knowable\, to each other. \n\nAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment. \n“[Warren] has begun writing longer poems\, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young\, Anselm Berrigan\, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear the durational projects\, the self-conscious day-scores\, of Bernadette Mayer and of Lewis Warsh farther back in the tradition.”—Brian Blanchfield\, pen.org \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“In Little Hill Alli Warren’s principle method is articulation of exquisite units of speech (thought) that\, maintaining separation\, are capable of connection. The line might be a sentence or a part of one . . . I mean a delicious sense of grammatical distinctness is maintained. The poet\, also a lone unit\, seems to exist less in relation than as that lone one\, condemning this hard world with its villain work and elusive hierarchies. The language is precise\, lush\, unexpected and often thrilling. Articulation would seem to be the true other\, or maybe nature is. The book is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley\, author of For the Ride and Benediction \n“The number of gasps and everything else gets lost in the concentration of Little Hill. Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best. ‘This is an old machine with a pulley / It makes music work\,’ Warren writes\, reworking the ancient technology of poetry to a shine! Dear Poet\, thank you for the wow WOW wowing!”––CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Reading Alli Warren’s Little Hill\, I find it incredible that amidst the relentless circulation of capital and commodities—and despite attempts to make all life yield to the logics of extraction\, work\, accumulation\, and the entrepreneurial self—a remainder is created\, that of poetry. Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. ‘I saw the death of the earth in a child’s toy\,’ she writes. Everywhere the speaker looks there is ‘congealed shit\, sometimes on sale.’ Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/little-hill/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T120000
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SUMMARY:Special Event for Kids: Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver with Varian Johnson and Lisa Yee — Alien Superstar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:mmy Award winner Henry Winker and Lin Oliver are back for the second installment of the New York Times bestselling middle grade series that Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney calls “truly out of this world!” \nAfter escaping his oppressive red dwarf planet and landing a role on a popular Hollywood sitcom\, Buddy Burger seems destined for high-flying success. His legions of fans love his six eyes\, his suction cup feet\, and even his excessive need for avocados. It seems nothing can stop his rise to super-stardom—until the arrival of Citizen Cruel\, a shape-shifting Squadron member sent from Buddy’s home planet to bring him back by any means necessary. Will Buddy conquer this clever and unpredictable enemy? How long can he continue to keep his alien identity secret from his friends and fans? Is there enough guacamole on Earth to sustain him? And chips to go with it? Action-packed and full of laughs\, Alien Superstar: Lights\, Camera\, Danger! is the second book in the exciting New York Times bestselling middle grade series. \nHenry Winkler is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, writer\, director\, and producer who has created some of the most iconic TV roles\, including Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli on Happy Days and Gene Cousineau on Barry. \nLin Oliver is a children’s book writer and a writer and producer for both TV and film. She is currently the executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She and Henry both live in Los Angeles. \nVarian Johnson is the author of nine novels\, including The Parker Inheritance\, which was named a 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book among other accolades. His middle grade caper novel\, The Great Greene Heist\, has been named to over twenty-five state reading and best-of lists. In addition\, Varian has written for the Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts middle-grade fantasy series as well as novels and short stories for YA audiences. \nLisa Yee’s debut novel\, Millicent Min\, Girl Genius\, won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her other novels for young people include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time\, So Totally Emily Ebers\, Absolutely Maybe\, and a series about a 4th grader\, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) and Bobby the Brave (Sometimes). She also the author of American Girl’s Kanani books\, the DC Super Hero Girls middle grade novel series\, Good Luck\, Ivy\, and the Lea Clark series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/special-event-for-kids-henry-winkler-and-lin-oliver-with-varian-johnson-and-lisa-yee-alien-superstar-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR REYNA GRANDE IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:The Distance Between Us \nBY REYNA GRANDE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrande puts a human face on the fraught issue of immigration in her acclaimed memoir. At age nine\, Grande leaves Mexico as an undocumented immigrant to join her father in the United States—El Otro Lado\, or “the other side.” The pursuit of happiness is elusive and filled with tragedy\, but Grande finds her own path\, becoming the first person in her family to go to college. A 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist\, The Distance Between Us has been selected by many citywide reading programs throughout the U.S.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-reyna-grande-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author: Rand Quinn\, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
DESCRIPTION:Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. \nSan Francisco’s school board is once again rethinking its student assignment system. Debates over student assignment trace back over a half century and map the long struggle to desegregate the city’s schools. In Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools\, Rand Quinn explains the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. Student assignment — once the remedy for government discrimination through busing and other desegregative mechanisms — soon became a tool intended to create diversity. \nRand Quinn is associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the origins and political consequences of private sector engagement in public education\, the politics of race and ethnicity in urban school reform and the impact of community-based institutions\, organizations and action in education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rand-quinn-class-action-desegregation-and-diversity-in-san-francisco-schools/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="58124":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Reza Farazmand / City Monster
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand for his first graphic novel City Monster! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a *signed* copy of City Monster. The book can be picked up from Booksmith in San Francisco or we can ship it to you\, anywhere in the world. We’re currenrly offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay\, otherwise additional shipping fees will apply (we’ll invoice you separately once the book ships). If you have any questions\, don’t hesitate to email events@booksmith.com. \nCity Monster is set in a world of supernatural creatures and follows a young monster who moves to the city. As he struggles to figure out his future\, his new life is interrupted by questions about his mysterious roommate—a ghost who can’t remember the past. Joined by their neighbor\, a vampire named Kim\, they explore the city\, meeting a series of strange and spooky characters and looking for answers about life\, memories\, and where to get a good beer. \nWith Reza’s signature style\, and familiar snark\, this graphic novel is equal parts irreverent and insightful\, the perfect vehicle for conveying the utter absurdity of our bizarre and confusing times. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in Los Angeles. He started putting his comics on the internet in college at PoorlyDrawnLines.com and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a *signed* copy of City Monster. The book can be picked up from Booksmith in San Francisco or we can ship it to you\, anywhere in the world. We’re currenrly offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay\, otherwise additional shipping fees will apply (we’ll invoice you separately once the book ships). If you have any questions\, don’t hesitate to email events@booksmith.com. \nTo order additional signed copies of City Monster\, order here. \n​ \nThis is an all-ages\, virtual event that begins at 6pm PST. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reza-farazmand-city-monster/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T210000
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SUMMARY:An Unnatural History of America A panel discussion on the work of Charles Bowden
DESCRIPTION:Join the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks and a panel of writers for a discussion of the work of the late Charles Bowden\, whose “Unnatural History of America” series has just been published in full by the University of Texas Press. \nMore information on participants soon. For more on Charles Bowden\, read this tribute on Aeon. \n“Like the beasts and criminals he admired\, Bowden was a complicated\, contradictory creature. He loved dogs\, dirt\, wine\, worms\, Cadillacs\, cacti. He held backyard parties to watch summer cereus flowers bloom at midnight\, and owned scores of guns but was reluctant to shoot them lest they scare the birds.” — Wes Enzinna\, Harper’s Magazine \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE. \nAbout Charles Bowden\nCharles Bowden (1945-2014) was the author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues\, Bowden was a contributing editor for GQ\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review\, High Country News\, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award\, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction\, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice. He wrote The Red Caddy in 1994.
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