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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Norman Fischer / When You Greet Me I Bow
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Norman Fischer‘s new book\, When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. More to be announced soon\, but won’t you save the date and join us? \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order When You Greet Me I Bow here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\n“Looking backwards at a life lived\, walking forward into more life to live built on all that\, trying not to be too much influenced by what’s already been said and done\, not to be held to a point of view or an identity previously expressed\, trying to be surprised and undone and maybe even dismayed by what lies ahead.” – Norman Fischer \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, and translator whose writings\, teachings\, and commitment to interfaith dialogue have supported and inspired Buddhist\, Jewish\, and other spiritual practitioners for decades. When You Greet Me I Bow spans the entirety of Norman Fischer’s career and is the first collection of his writings on Buddhist philosophy and practice. Broken into four sections—the joy and catastrophe of relationship; thinking\, writing\, and emptiness; cultural encounters; and social engagement—this book allows us to see the fascinating development of the mind and interests of a gifted writer and profoundly committed practitioner. \nAbout the author\nNorman Fischer is a Zen teacher\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. A beloved figure in the Buddhist world\, he is also well-known for his efforts at interreligious dialogue. His numerous books include The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path\, What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #72
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker.\n\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\n\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\n\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\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/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\n\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: John Green\, The Anthropocene Reviewed
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author John Green and special guest Sarah Green will discuss John’s new collection of personal essays\, Anthropocene Reviewed\, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. \nPurchase tickets for this event here.\nTicketing: $30–$70 \n\nAll tickets include a signed hardcover copy of THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED; choose store pickup or have it shipped to you.\n\n\nYou will receive an emailed invitation to this Zoom event before the event begins\, including emailed reminders both the day before and an hour before the event.\n\nEach ticket includes a $1 charitable donation to a cause John is very passionate about: maternal health in Sierra Leon. Read more about Partners in Health HERE \nOn The Anthropocene Reviewed: \nThe Anthropocene is the current geological age\, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast\, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu—on a five-star scale. John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection that includes both beloved essays and all-new pieces exclusive to the book. \nJohn Green is the award-winning\, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska\, The Fault in Our Stars\, and Turtles All the Way Down. His books have received many accolades\, including a Printz Medal\, a Printz Honor\, and an Edgar Award. John has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also the writer and host of the critically acclaimed podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother\, Hank\, John has co-created many online video projects\, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. He lives with his family in Indianapolis\, Indiana. You can visit John online at johngreenbooks.com
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner / The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner for The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The First Ten Years here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn 2009\, 22-year-old Joseph Fink\, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast\, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could snag free tickets to their shows. \nMeg Bashwiner\, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright\, was living with her parents in New Jersey\, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company. \nJoseph and Meg’s stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. They quickly became friends. Within a year\, they were a couple. Within five years they were touring the world\, performing on some of the world’s greatest and not so great stages. \nIn this candid\, soul-baring memoir\, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten years together\, each telling their story as they remember it\, without having consulted the other. We hear both sides of their first kiss\, first breakup\, first getting back together\, the death of a father\, marriage\, international fame\, world tours\, mental illness\, and discussions about having children. Sometimes\, they recall things differently—neither agrees on who paid for the morning after pill on their first date. Sometimes they remember the exact same details in the same way—but still have their own narrative on just what those details mean. \nPoignant\, funny\, and real\, alternately told in Joseph and Meg’s remarkably different\, yet equally compelling voices\, The First Ten Years is the story of two individuals finding their way in the world and becoming “adults” as they learn to become a couple. \n\nAbout the authors\nJoseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts and is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead\, and co-author of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale\, It Devours!\, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home\, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void\, Partially Stars\, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe\, The Buying of Lot 37\, and Who’s a Good Boy.  \nMeg Bashwiner is a writer\, performer\, tour manager\, podcaster and producer. She is the emcee for the international touring live show of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. She is an alumni member of the acclaimed New York theater company The New York Neo-Futurists. They live in the Hudson Valley and Los Angeles. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
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SUMMARY:Aminatta Forna
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Window Seat: Notes From a Life In Motion \npublished by Grove Press \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness\, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical\, our relationship with the natural world\, and the stories that we tell ourselves. \n“These essays\, ranging across continents and time\, so broad in their themes and so deep in their perceptions\, are essential reading\, combining Aminatta Forna’s great gifts as a storyteller and her razor-sharp analytical skills.”—Salman Rushdie \n\nAminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices\, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize Literature Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Now\, she returns with The Window Seat\, an elegantly rendered\, thought-provoking collection of new and previously published essays. In this wide-ranging collection\, Forna writes intimately about displacement\, trauma and memory\, love\, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. \n\n\nIn “Obama and the Renaissance Generation\,” she documents how\, despite the narrative of Obama’s exceptionalism\, his father\, like her own\, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In “The Last Vet\,” time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh\, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone\, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown\, becomes a meditation on what a society’s treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In “Crossroads\,” she examines race in America from an African perspective\, and in “Power Walking” she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman’s body. \n\n\nThe Window Seat is\, in the words of acclaimed author Chinelo Okparanta\, “a journey . . . These essay are altogether a sharp\, elegant meditation . . . on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.” \nAminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones\, The Memory of Love\, and The Hired Man\, as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water. Forna’s books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and Vogue. She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University. \nVisit: https://www.aminattaforna.com/ \n\nPraise for The Window Seat \n“Novelist Forna (Happiness) explores notions of place\, identity\, and movement in this bracing collection . . . Forna is a razor sharp prose stylist . . . and her attention to detail moves the collection forward . . . Full of careful observations\, Forna’s meditations hit the mark.”—Publishers Weekly \n“The Window Seat is gutsy\, funny\, risky and wise\, full of dazzling late night insight\, in-the-middle-of-everything epiphanies\, moments of sheer honesty blooming into gut truths\, in a clear-eyed voice that makes you listen in wonder.”—Marlon James\, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize \n“If you had to take the middle seat and sit next to anyone with the window seat\, Aminatta Forna would be the perfect stranger to talk to. Wise\, witty\, sensitive\, and sophisticated—about travel\, politics\, globalization\, writing\, and the nuances of the human heart and soul—Forna has lived a life of which many of us would be envious. Her essays illuminate that life but ours as well\, making us understand the many ways we are connected\, even if we only see each other from a distance.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Committed \n“The essays in this magnificent collection are exhilarating and expansive meditations on traveling—and living—in places so consequential and historically significant that they cannot be measured simply by distance. Who are we far from home? What becomes of those who return\, and what do we owe to those who stay behind? These are just a few of the questions that Forna raises in this sharply rendered\, personal collection. But she doesn’t stop there: by the end\, this book invites a reckoning with our rightful place on this earth. Generous in spirit and breathtakingly intelligent\, The Window Seat reminds us why Forna is one of our best writers working today.”—Maaza Mengiste\, author of The Shadow King \n“These brilliant essays\, reflections from a boundary-crossing life\, are urgently needed in America right now. Forna writes to us from a world where democracies are in the process of being made and unmade\, where “nation-building is no simple task\,” where lives are lost to civil war. With expert storytelling\, she provides a vivid context for our politics and culture. The Window Seat is a wise guidebook for how to be at home in the world.”—Eula Biss\, author of Having and Being Had \n“From the Shetlands to Sierra Leone\, from Teheran to Georgetown\, Aminatta Forna has been everywhere\, paid attention to everything and everyone. She is brilliant at thinking in narration and can thus tell superb stories about her life and experience. She contains multitudes\, and her essays are populated with those multitudes\, dense with unforgettable details and landscapes\, amazing people and animals\, astonishing histories. The Window Seat is dazzling.”—Aleksandar Hemon\, author of The Lazarus Project \n“The Window Seat is a journey. Imagine yourself on a scenic\, thought-provoking flight around the world—from the UK to New Zealand\, Sierra Leone to the USA—in this candid exploration of nostalgia for a lost past and the trappings of home. These essays are altogether a sharp\, elegant meditation on childhood\, adulthood\, race\, migration\, and itinerancy. Astutely balancing illuminating research with intimate personal anecdotes\, Forna expertly suffuses the book with her insights on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.”—Chinelo Okparanta\, author of Under the Udala Trees \n“Forna’s essays are simultaneously introspective and political\, big-hearted and hard-edged\, adventurous and wise. She can write about race and war and family and loss and everything in between\, and she has the words to match her extraordinary experience. This book enlarged my world.”—Juan Gabriel Vásquez\, author of Songs for the Flames \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Yusef Salaam\, Better\, Not Bitter
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Yusef Salaam\, one of the wrongfully incarcerated Central Park Five\, will discuss his powerful new book\, Better\, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice. This event is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch. \nSalaam’s memoir is an inspiring story that grew out of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice\, one that not only speaks to a moment in time or the rage-filled present\, but reflects a 400-year history of a nation’s inability to be held accountable for its sins. Yusef Salaam’s message is vital for our times\, a motivating resource for enacting change. Better\, Not Bitter has the power to soothe\, inspire and transform. It is a galvanizing call to action. \nTickets for this special event are available on Eventbrite! Click here! \nYusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison reform activist\, who\, at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997\, he left prison as an adult to a world he didn’t fully recognize or understand. In 2002\, the sentences for the Central Park Five were overturned\, and all Five were exonerated for the crime they didn’t commit. \nYusef now travels the world as an inspirational speaker\, speaking about the effects of incarceration and the devastating impact of disenfranchisement. He is an advocate and educator on issues of mass incarceration\, police brutality and misconduct\, press ethics and bias\, race and law\, and the disparities in the criminal justice system\, especially for men of color.
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren - The Complete Stories
DESCRIPTION:Noah Warren\, winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize\, celebrates the release of his second book of poems\, The Collected Stories (Copper Canyon Press) with Armen Davoudian\, Randall Mann\, and Katie Peterson. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon \n  \nAbout The Collected Stories\nThe Complete Stories announces its desire and its lie in the title; this is a book of shatter and loss. In his second collection\, Noah Warren–previously selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets–unravels histories both personal and public\, picking apart their ugliness\, beauty\, and irreducible singularity. Clothed in broken forms\, these poems of grieving and tentative joy ask finally how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts\, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility. \nAbout Noah Warren\nNoah Warren was born in Canada and is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass (2016)\, chosen by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is pursuing a PhD in English at UC Berkeley. He lives in Oakland. His poems appear in The Paris Review\, Poetry\, ZYZZYVA\, PEN America\, New England Review\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, AGNI\, Poets.org\, The Sewanee Review\, and elsewhere.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Wells and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 20 at 6pm PT when Martha Wells is joined by Annalee Newitz to discuss Fugitive Telemetry\, the latest in The Murderbot Diaries\, on Zoom!\n\nSigned copies available!\nSpecial Murderbot Diary will be available for the first 20 copies sold!\nBe sure to write “diary!” in your order comment to receive yours.\nWhile supplies last.\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89627822577\n\nPraise for The Murderbot Diaries\n“I love Murderbot!” —Ann Leckie\n\n“The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I’ve enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!” —N. K. Jemisin\n\n“We are all a little bit Murderbot.”—NPR\n\nAbout Fugitive Telemetry\nThe New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back!\nHaving captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.\n\nNo\, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had\, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.\nWhen Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station\, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was)\, how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward\, at least)\, and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)\n\nYes\, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-wells-and-annalee-newitz-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ethel Rohan with Joy Lanzendorfer / In the Event of Contact
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the launch for Ethel Rohan and her new story collection In the Event of Contact. She’ll be joined in conversation by Joy Lanzendorfer (Right Back Where We Started From). \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors’ books below – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nIn the Event of Contact by Ethel Rohan \nRight Back Where We Started From by Joy Lanzendorfer \nAbout the book\nIn the Event of Contact chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection\, or its lack. Among them\, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic\, redemptive act\, if he can only remember how; and an aspirational\, angst-ridden mother captains the skies. \nAmidst backgrounds of trespass and absence\, the indelible characters of In the Event of Contact seek renewed belief in themselves\, recovery\, and humanity. \nAbout the authors\nEthel Rohan is the author of In the Event of Contact\, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize. Her debut novel The Weight of Him (St. Martin’s Press and Atlantic Books\, 2017) was an Amazon\, Bustle\, KOBO\, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book\, and was shortlisted for the Reading Women Award. She is also the author of the story collections Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone\, the former longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has appeared widely\, including The New York Times\, World Literature Today\, The Washington Post\, PEN America\, Tin House\, Guernica\, and more. Raised in Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco where she is a member of the Writers Grotto. \nJoy Lanzendorfer’s work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, NPR\, Smithsonian\, Poetry Foundation\, and many others. Her writing was included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and was notable in The Best American Essays 2019 and 2020. Grants and residencies include the Discovered Awards for Emerging Literary Artists\, Wildacres Residency Program\, and the Speculative Literature Foundation. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-ethel-rohan-with-joy-lanzendorfer-in-the-event-of-contact/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #35
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# 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+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-35/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 21 at 6pm PT when Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his latest book\, Son of the Storm\, with Rebecca Roanhorse on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\n\nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass\n\n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn\n\n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter\n\n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings\n\nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.\n\nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy.\n\nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #59
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\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:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman 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\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-59/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:Alice Sparkly Kat on Postcolonial Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Astrologer and author Alice Sparkly Kat is ushering in a new wave of astrology that is intersectional\, inclusive\, and geared towards queer and POC communities. In their cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language\, Alice uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets\, sun\, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history\, redefine the body in the world\, and assert our politics of the personal. \nAlice believes that too often\, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism\, used as a force of oppression\, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. Dedicated to unmasking the political power of astrology\, Alice shows how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. \nJoin educator\, creator\, and astrologer Kirah Tabourn for a conversation with Alice Sparkly Kat on their work and their latest book\, Postcolonial Astrology. Kirah and Alice share insights into ways we can use astrology to challenge our own practices\, interrogate our truths\, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/kat-sparkly-alice-may-21-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-sparkly-kat-on-postcolonial-astrology/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, MAY 21 AT 6PM PT WHEN SUYI DAVIES OKUNGBOWA DISCUSSES HIS LATEST BOOK\, SON OF THE STORM\, WITH REBECCA ROANHORSE ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89187601455#  or +13462487799\,\,89187601455#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kddeXIFxNY \nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass \n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn \n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter \nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa. \n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings \nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy. \nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T200000
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks 25th Anniversary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Youth Speaks invites you to join us in celebrating 25 years of supporting and challenging young people to develop and amplify their voices as creators of societal change. Come for a night of youth poetry\, some special guests\, and learn more about our home for the next 25 years and beyond. The fundraiser will be emceed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph with special guests Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs with a special musical guest. \nTICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-25th-anniversary-fundraiser/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T120000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 22 at 12pm PT when Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders discuss their latest books\, Sorrowland and Victories Greater Than Death!\n\nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow.\nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation.\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be available to stream on Facebook Live.\n\nAbout Sorrowland\nSorrowland is a triumphant\, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.\n\nVern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There\, she gives birth to twins\, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest\, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go\, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of\, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family\, Vern has to face the past\, and more troublingly\, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here\, monsters aren’t just individuals\, but entire nations. It is a searing\, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold\, unignorable voice in American fiction.\n\nRivers Solomon writes about life in the margins\, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award\, Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for a Lambda\, a Hurston/Wright\, an Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) and a Locus award. Solomon’s second book\, The Deep\, based on the Hugo-nominated song by Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping\, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and shortlisted for a Nebula\, Locus\, Hugo\, Ignyte\, Brooklyn Library Literary\, British Fantasy\, and World Fantasy award. Solomon’s short work appears in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review\, the New York Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, Guernica\, Best American Short Stories\, Tor.com\, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy\, and elsewhere. A refugee of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade\, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.\n\nAbout Victories Greater Than Death\nVictories Greater Than Death is a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders.\n\nOutsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy. “Just please\, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”\n\nTina never worries about being ‘ordinary’–she doesn’t have to\, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains\, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon\, and one day soon\, it’s going to activate\, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy\, after all\, is intergalactic–she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero\, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates\, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed–and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian\, but Tina….is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war\, badly–the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily\, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust\, and her best friend Rachel\, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy coming in April 2021\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future got 700\,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rivers-solomon-and-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sorrowland & Victories Greater Than Death: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon & Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Green Apple\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be available to stream on Facebook Live. \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sorrowland-victories-greater-than-death-a-conversation-with-rivers-solomon-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T200000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman in conversation with Marc Stein
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman and Marc Stein discuss \nLet The Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York\, 1987-1993 \nby Sarah Schulman \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nTwenty years in the making\, Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. \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———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \nOne of O\, the Oprah Magazine‘s 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021\, one of and Cosmopolitan‘s LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021\, one of The Observer‘s Spring Books You Don’t Want to Miss\, and one of Bloomberg‘s 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring \n“A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it\, the one we live in now.” –Alexander Chee \nIn just six years\, ACT UP\, New York\, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races\, genders\, sexualities\, and backgrounds\, changed the world. Armed with rancor\, desperation\, intelligence\, and creativity\, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable\, ingenious\, and multifaceted attack on the corporations\, institutions\, governments\, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington\, DC\, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry\, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda\, and battled—and beat—The New York Times\, the Catholic Church\, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism\, in its complex and intersectional power\, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. \nBased on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists\, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings\, conflicts\, achievements\, and ultimate fracture. Schulman\, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation\, explores the how and the why\, examining\, with her characteristic rigor and bite\, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever\, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. \nSarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans\, Rat Bohemia\, and Maggie Terry)\, nonfiction (including Stagestruck\, Conflict is Not Abuse\, and The Gentrification of the Mind)\, and theater (Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and more)\, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls\, Mommy Is Coming\, and United in Anger\, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Slate\, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island\, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities\, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival\, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker\, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment\, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. \nMarc Stein is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author of multiple books on queer topics\, including most recently The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press\, 2019). His next book\, Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism\, will be published by the University of California Press\, in 2022. \n  \nPraise for Let the Record Show: \n\n\n  \n\n\n“A masterful work twenty years in the making . . . Schulman holds a unique position to chronicle this critical history and connect it with our own chaotic moment.” —Lauren LeBlanc\, Observer \n“A significant boots-on-the-ground account . . . Readers are right there with activists\, hearing their stories from them but also others who knew them . . . Vital\, democratic truth-telling.” —Kirkus (starred review) \n“[A] fine-grained history . . . [Schulman’s] firsthand perspective and copious details provide a valuable testament to the courage and dedication of many unheralded activists.” —Publishers Weekly \n“People often speak of the authoritarian handbook\, and I always wonder\, what is the opposite? Maybe this book\, in fact. In so many ways. Sarah Schulman has written more than an authoritative history of ACT UP NY here– it is a masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it\, the one we live in now. I can’t think of a book like this–it is an almost entirely new model\, uniquely possible as the result of Schulman’s life’s work. As one of our only genuinely intellectual iconoclasts\, she returns to us with this story of a movement that changed the world at least once\, now a part of the work to change that world again. Any reader will be changed\, I think\, by the stories here–radicalized and renewed\, which to me is something better than just hope.” –Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Characteristically forthright\, Sarah Schulman gives us the most comprehensive history of the ACT UP movement in New York to date through a wide range of interviews\, a trenchant commentary\, and a sustained testament to collaborative action and its history. From this extraordinary history told with the multiple voices of participants\, Schulman makes clear that the history of HIV and AIDS in this country has been marred by popular narratives and bouts of grandstanding that largely failed to acknowledge the thousands of lives still lost annually from AIDS\, the schisms that opened up serious issues of power within the movement\, and the specific ways that people of color and poor people remained unserved by the scientific advances widely celebrated. This work also tells us why so many people become activists: to understand social and political forces that seem overwhelming\, to work with others to give order to their world\, and to find community in suffering\, anger\, analysis\, and action. This book lets us know that neither our sorrow nor our rage is finished\, and that the work of acknowledgement of all who struggled and suffered remains our task.” —Judith Butler \n“In the style of the late great Howard Zinn\, Sarah Schulmam has written an epic\, moving and important People’s History of the Act up Movement\, filled with powerful storytelling and invaluable lessons in the do’s and don’t of organizing. We owe a great deal to Schulman for the depth and years of her research\, for her commitment to telling a story that lifts and honors a group rather than highlighting only a few individuals\, and for her willingness to tell the whole truth with serious rigor and love.”–V (formerly Eve Ensler)\, author of The Vagina Monologues \n“Sarah Schulman’s remarkable book Let the Record Show offers a thorough and corrective retelling of the history of ACT-UP\, introducing a diverse cast of characters that has been largely erased from what passes as the official HIV/AIDS narrative. She brings extraordinary reporting\, finely calibrated detail and her own lived experience to a book that is at once a love letter to the movement that refused to back down as it forced an epidemic to its knees and a road map for a new generation of activists grappling with social change.” —Linda Villarosa\, contributing writer\, The New York Times Magazine \n“With heart\, anger and rigor\, Sarah Schulman shows us how AIDS has shaped our political world by letting the people of ACT UP tell us what they did in their own words. Let The Record Show is more than a single book; it’s an encyclopedia\, an oral history\, and a map. Indeed\, as the most marginalized people are again at risk during yet another viral pandemic\, Schulman (and the voices she foregrounds so lovingly) gives us an activist guide for communally creating a better world. It is a masterpiece—the book on AIDS history I wish had been available for me to read years ago.” –Steven Thrasher\, Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting\, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and author of The Viral Underclass \n“Sarah Schulman has achieved the near impossible in this riveting and powerful book. She writes with the knowledge and experience of a passionate insider as she lays out a detailed and deep history of ACT UP. Yet she has a sharp eye for the bigger picture\, offering a broad analysis\, bringing in diverse\, fascinating\, and illuminating perspectives. Not until this book has an author captured how ACT UP was grounded in both the feminist and civil rights movements\, nor how the group spawned new movements and inspired a new generation of queer activism while dramatically influencing the course of the AIDS epidemic and making a mark on American culture. The writing is crisp and compassionate. The stories are vivid — heroic\, painful\, breathtaking and joyous. Sarah Schulman has produced a definitive and monumental work.” —Michelangelo Signorile\, author of It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance\, Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-in-conversation-with-marc-stein/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Suzanne Simard\, Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Leading forest ecologist Suzanne Simard will join us to discuss Finding the Mother Tree. In this\, her first book\, Simard brings us into her world\, the intimate world of the trees\, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp\, but are a complicated\, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social\, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSuzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson\, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Simard writes—in inspiring\, illuminating\, and accessible ways—how trees\, living side by side for hundreds of years\, have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses\, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication\, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence\, traits that are the essence of civil societies—and at the center of it all\, the Mother Trees: the mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \n“This book promises to change our understanding about what is really going on in the forest\, and other pressing mysteries about the real world.”—Michael Pollan \n“It completely overturned my view of nature.”—Kristin Ohlson\, New York Times bestselling author \nSUZANNE SIMARD was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is Professor of Forest Ecology in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suzanne-simard-finding-the-mother-tree/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210525T180000
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Kaufman in conversation with Francesca Caparas
DESCRIPTION:discussing Cynthia Kaufman’s new book \nThe Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook \nforeword by Bill McKibben \npublished by PM Press\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. Links coming soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Links coming soon. \n———– \nThe Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our species has ever faced. By explaining the entrenched forces that are preventing rapid action\, it helps you understand the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools you need to overcome them. The book offers background information on the roots of the crisis and the many rapidly expanding solutions that are being implemented all around the world. It explains how to engage in productive messaging that will pull others into the climate justice movement\, what you need to know to help build a successful movement\, and the policy changes needed to build a world with climate justice. It also explores the personal side\, how engaging in the movement can be good for your mental health. It ends with advice on how you can find the place where you can be the most effective and where you can build climate action into your life in ways that are deeply rewarding. \nCynthia Kaufman is the director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action\, where she also teaches community organizing and philosophy. The author of Getting Past Capitalism: History\, Vision\, Hope (Lexington Books\, 2012)\, she is a lifelong social change activist\, having worked on issues such as tenants’ rights\, police abuse\, union organizing\, international politics\, and most recently climate change. \nFrancesca Caparas teaches English and Asian American Studies at De Anza College and she is the Faculty Coordinator of the Jean Miller Resource Room for Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality. She is the 2020-21 Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines where she will be researching discourses of digital literacy. Her interests and community work include international human rights\, intersectional feminism\, digital culture\, and decolonization. \nAdvance Praise for The Sea Is Rising and So Are We \n“The Sea is Rising and So Are We is a rare kind of book\, at once a primer for activists and an astute commentary on a set of critical topics that even a seasoned climate stalwart could benefit from. It takes on some really tough questions—transformational change\, how to talk about the emergency\, the need for a specifically global politics of climate justice—and it does in a manner that is both simple and sophisticated. It’s not an easy balance\, but Kaufman pulls it off.”\n—Tom Athanasiou\, author of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming \n“Cynthia Kaufman’s The Sea Is Rising and So Are We is a valuable overview of where we as a species are in the existential fight to prevent catastrophic climate disruption. It covers a lot\, from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment of our situation to the need for a personally supportive movement culture to sustain our climate activism. It is an accessible\, up-to-date resource both for those who have been in the climate fight for decades and those who know they need to do so but haven’t yet figured out how.”\n—Ted Glick\, longtime climate organizer and author of Burglar for Peace \n“In The Sea Is Rising and So Are We Cynthia Kaufman has provided us with a vital manual for confronting the climate crisis and its root causes. Kaufman offers compelling analysis\, a comprehensive mapping of the political landscape\, and practical guidance for action—all in a straightforward and accessible manner. Most importantly\, she offers hope.”\n—Tony Roshan Samara\, Program Director of Land Use and Housing at Urban Habitat
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-kaufman-in-conversation-with-francesca-caparas/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210525T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Waterlog Reissue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MAY 25 AT 6PM PT FOR THE REISSUE OF ROGER DEAKIN’S CLASSIC\, WATERLOG: A SWIMMER’S JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAIN\,\nWITH CRAIG POPELARS\, BONNIE TSUI\, AND PETE MULVIHILL ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83346470886\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83346470886#  or +12532158782\,\,83346470886#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kPwSATyv \nAbout Waterlog\n“Like swimming through Alice’s Wonderland.” —Lynne Cox \nA swimming journey would give me access to that part of our world which\, like darkness\, mist\, woods or high mountains\, still retains most mystery. It would afford me a different perspective on the rest of land-locked humanity. \nA masterpiece of nature writing\, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us. \nIn an attempt to discover his island nation from a new perspective\, Roger Deakin embarks from his home in Suffolk to swim Britain—the seas\, rivers\, lakes\, ponds\, pools\, streams\, lochs\, moats\, and quarries. Through the watery capillary network that braids itself throughout the country\, Deakin immerses himself in the natural habitats of fish\, amphibians\, mammals\, and birds. And as he navigates towns\, private property\, and sometimes dangerous waters and inclement weather\, Deakin finds himself in precarious situations: he’s detained by bailiffs in Winchester\, intercepted by the coast guard at the mouth of a river\, and mistaken for a dead body on a beach. The result of this surprising journey is a deep dive into modern Britain\, especially its wild places. \nWith enchanting descriptions of natural landscapes\, and a deep well of humanity\, boundless humor\, and unbridled joy\, Deakin beckons us to wilder waters and inspires us to connect to the larger world in a most unexpected way. Thrilling\, vivid\, and lyrical\, Waterlog is a fully immersive adventure—a remarkable personal quest\, a bold assertion of the swimmer’s right to roam\, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-waterlog-reissue-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA #120: The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event to celebrate the latest installment of ZYZZYVA—The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares\, which reminds us of the essential synergy between art and science—how important literature is\, as a critical challenge to technology’s momentum\, as a creative force driving innovation\, and\, sometimes\, as a conscience. \nJoin us for an evening featuring contributors Juhea Kim\, Troy Jollimore\, Lee Conell\, and William Brewer—and for a special reading by Alex Torres of Anthony Veasna So’s story “Generational Differences\,” which also appears in ZYZZYVA’s new issue. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the issue here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the authors\nJuhea Kim is the founder and editor of Peaceful Dumpling\, an online magazine covering sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. Her first novel\, Beasts of a Little Land\, will be published in the fall by Ecco. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a collection of essays. \nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews. His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico. \nLee Conell is the author of the novel The Party Upstairs\, which was awarded the Wallant Award\, as well as the story collection Subcortical\, which was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of the poetry collections I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-120-the-technology-issue-stories-dreams-nightmares/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA #120: The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event to celebrate the latest installment of ZYZZYVA—The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares\, which reminds us of the essential synergy between art and science—how important literature is\, as a critical challenge to technology’s momentum\, as a creative force driving innovation\, and\, sometimes\, as a conscience. \nJoin us for an evening featuring contributors Juhea Kim\, Troy Jollimore\, Lee Conell\, and William Brewer—and for a special reading by Alex Torres of Anthony Veasna So’s story “Generational Differences\,” which also appears in ZYZZYVA’s new issue. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the issue here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the authors\nJuhea Kim is the founder and editor of Peaceful Dumpling\, an online magazine covering sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. Her first novel\, Beasts of a Little Land\, will be published in the fall by Ecco. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a collection of essays. \nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews. His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico. \nLee Conell is the author of the novel The Party Upstairs\, which was awarded the Wallant Award\, as well as the story collection Subcortical\, which was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of the poetry collections I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-120-the-technology-issue-stories-dreams-nightmares-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:REVIVAL SEASON Book Launch with Author Monica West
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 25\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online book launch of REVIVAL SEASON with author Monica West. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81681297923. \nPreorder your copy of  REVIVAL SEASON at http://bit.ly/ggpRevivalSeason\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/RevivalSeasonAB. \nDescription\n\nThe daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this “tender and wise” (Ann Patchett\, author of Commonwealth) debut novel. \nEvery summer\, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam’s father—one of the South’s most famous preachers—holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease.This summer\, the revival season doesn’t go as planned\, and after one service in which Reverend Horton’s healing powers are tested like never before\, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in her father—and in her faith. \nWhen the Hortons return home\, Miriam’s confusion only grows as she discovers she might have the power to heal—even though her father and the church have always made it clear that such power is denied to women. Over the course of the next year\, Miriam must decide between her faith\, her family\, and her newfound power that might be able to save others\, but\, if discovered by her father\, could destroy Miriam. \nCelebrating both feminism and faith\, Revival Season is a story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a Southern\, black\, Evangelical community. Monica West’s transporting coming-of-age novel explores complicated family and what it means to live among the community of the faithful. \nAbout the Author\n\nBorn and raised in Cleveland\, Ohio\, Monica West received her BA from Duke University\, her MA from New York University\, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She was a Southern Methodist University Kimbilio Fellow in 2014\, and she will be a Hedgebrook Writer in Residence in 2021. Revival Season is her first novel. \nPraise For…\n\n“Explosive…. West does a fantastic job illuminating the struggles faced by women and girls in the Southern Baptist evangelical movement\, and the change in Miriam is palpable and moving. West’s deep understanding of her characters and community makes for essential reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nWest’s debut is a bold insight into traditional southern Christianity and its contradictions to contemporary perspectives on gender equality. She writes with a melodic cadence that is honest and often heartbreaking. Her characters are three-dimensional people who tug at readers’ emotions. West’s refreshing literary voice and thought-provoking perspective hint at a wealth of stories to come.—Booklist \n“Tender and wise\, Revival Season explores a girl’s faith in both her family and in God. Monica West’s formidable talent is matched by her generosity of spirit\, making the most winning combination a reader could wish for.”—Ann Patchett
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revival-season-book-launch-with-author-monica-west/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sara Davis and Hilary Leichter
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Leichter chats with Sara Davis about her new novel\, The Scapegoat (FSG). \n“Sara Davis’s The Scapegoat is ingenious\, suspenseful\, wise\, sad\, sometimes very frightening\, and often very funny\, too. The novel gets at the terrifyingly convincing lies (or stories) that we tell ourselves\, inevitably about that which we most need to know. The Scapegoat made me fall in love again with the form of the novel!” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Little Labors \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Scapegoat\nN is employed at a prestigious California university\, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous\, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father—unanticipated and\, as it increasingly seems to N\, surrounded by murky circumstances. His investigation leads him to a hotel built over a former Spanish mission\, a site with a dark power and secrets all its own. On campus\, a chance meeting with a young doctor provokes uncomfortable feelings on the direction of his life\, and N begins to have vivid\, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa\, and a shameful episode from his past. \nMeanwhile\, a shadowy group of fringe academics surfaces in relation to his father’s death. Their preoccupation with a grim chapter in California’s history runs like a surreal parallel to the staid world of academic life\, where N’s relations with his colleagues grow more and more hostile. As he comes closer to the heart of the mystery\, his ability to distinguish between delusion and reality begins to erode\, and he is forced to confront disturbing truths about himself: his irrational antagonism toward a young female graduate student\, certain libidinal impulses\, and a capacity for violence. Is he the author of his own investigation? Or is he the unwitting puppet of a larger conspiracy? \nWith this inventive\, devilish debut\, saturated with unexpected wit and romanticism\, Sara Davis probes the borders between reality and delusion\, intimacy and solitude\, revenge and justice. The Scapegoat exposes the surreal lingering behind the mundane\, the forgotten history underfoot\, and the insanity just around the corner. \nAbout Sara Davis and Hilary Leichter\nSara Davis\, the daughter of two Stanford immunologists\, grew up in Palo Alto\, California and received her BA and MFA at Columbia University. She has taught creative writing in New York City and Detroit. She has been awarded residencies from Ucross\, Vermont Studio Center\, and Ragdale. She lives in Shanghai\, China. The Scapegoat is her first book. \nHilary Leichter is author of the novel Temporary. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Harper’s\, n+1\, Bookforum\, Conjunctions\, the Cut\, and American Short Fiction. She teaches at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-davis-and-hilary-leichter/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T183000
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SUMMARY:The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n \nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nJoin Litquake for the exclusive Bay Area launch of the new anthology The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco (Chronicle Prism)\, featuring stories from 25 acclaimed writers about living in one of the most turbulent cultural epicenters in the U.S. Join us for a rollicking evening of stories and conversation\, with The End of the Golden Gate contributors Gary Kamiya\, John Law\, Kimberly Reyes\, and Alia Volz. Moderated by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nA percentage of this book’s proceeds will be given to charities that help those in the bay experiencing homelessness. Every copy purchased offers a small way to help those in need. \nOver the last few decades\, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley\, tech companies\, and more. Countless articles\, blogs\, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become\, a place millions of people have loved to call home\, and yet are compelled to consider leaving. In this beautifully written collection\, writers take on this Bay Area-dweller’s eternal conflict: Should I stay or should I go? \nIncluding an introduction written by Gary Kamiya and essays from Margaret Cho\, W. Kamau Bell\, Michelle Tea\, Beth Lisick\, Daniel Handler\, Bonnie Tsui\, Stuart Schuffman\, Alysia Abbott\, Peter Coyote\, Alia Volz\, Duffy Jennings\, John Law\, and many more\, The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time\, shapeshifting to become something new for each generation of city dwellers. \nWith essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution\, gentrification\, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco’s most beloved neighborhoods\, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement\, as well as the fight to preserve the art\, music\, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love. \nGary Kamiya is an author\, journalist and historian of San Francisco. His latest book\, with artist Paul Madonna\, is Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City. He is also author of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. His award-winning history column “Portals of the Past” appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco. \nJohn Law has been involved in creating underground culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for 40 years. He was an original member of the legendary San Francisco urban adventure and pranks group The Suicide Club\, was integral to the creation of The Cacophony Society\, and is co-founder of the Burning Man Festival. Law is still involved in the worldwide urban exploration underground\, and collaborates with a number of artists and businesses on various projects. He is co-author of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp)\, and lives in San Francisco. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist\, and has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, and many other places. She’s written nonfiction for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, and poetry for journals including American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Columbia Journal\, and The Stinging Fly. She is author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for nonfiction from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and many other publications. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell and Ucross. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-golden-gate-writers-on-loving-and-sometimes-leaving-san-francisco/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to present an evening of readings and conversation with Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education). Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors books below: \n\nSpecial Education by Caroline M. Mar\nSan Franshitshow by Cal Calamia\n\nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout San Franshitshow by Cal Calamia\nSan Franshitshow is an emotional reckoning with self\, love\, and the world that unfolds amidst a turbulent gender transition upon arrival into a new city. It chronicles the pain of loss and of coming to terms with yourself in a world that would prefer you did not: how this struggle impacts every area of your life. It expresses the power of self-acceptance with grace and humor. Calamia’s debut is a unifying force of a memoir—a poignant\, tender collection of poetry that will open your heart—every poem as raw as a tear-stained diary page. \nCal Calamia is a bilingual queer trans educator\, activist\, and poet from Chicago. His performative work has been featured at many spoken word series across The Bay\, and his first book San Franshitshow was just published by Nomadic Press. Notable accomplishments include impressing a teacher in kindergarten when he correctly spelled vacation\, attending two classes of an MFA program\, and often being told his class is a student’s favorite. Find out more about Cal at calcalamia.com. Author photo by Ariel Robbins. \nAbout Special Education by Caroline M. Mar\nSpecial Education is a powerful collection of poems confronting American identity in the 21st century. In large part\, it traces a new teacher’s poetic journey to understanding her work and herself. Mar’s poems\, which move between free verse and received forms\, between the “I” of her speaker-narrator and the voices of colleagues\, students\, and the world around all of them\, investigate a variety of topics—how love is expressed by doing something one hates for a partner who loves it\, what a charging bear on a camping trip can reveal about gender\, the failures of an education system as depicted through colors and images on a slideshow presentation. \nThe collection closes on a speaker both more and less certain about her place in the world. Her hometown\, as she gazes across it in “Views\,” is changing dramatically as she asks\, “Why nostalgia / for a place that is still my place?” By the poem’s end\, having covered everything from the places where her grandparents died to the effects of the next big earthquake to luxury cars\, the speaker has revealed herself to both be inside of and resistant to the machinations of systems that seem prepared to crush her students: education\, racism\, gentrification\, ableism. What does life look like on an everyday scale against the churning of the world? In Special Education\, Mar embraces this truth and\, in poems that show us what we have yet to learn\, employs both her systemic mind and poetic voice to confront the “ugly little loves” that the world makes of us all. \nCaroline Mei-Lin Mar is the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press\, 2020). A high school health educator in San Francisco\, she is doing her best to keep her gentrifying hometown queer and creative. Carrie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, an alumna of VONA\, a member of Rabble Collective\, and a board member of Friends of Writers. He work has recently appeared in Nimrod\, Storyscape\, Pinwheel\, and Anomaly\, among others\, and she has been granted residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale. You can write to Carrie at P.O. Box 460491\, San Francisco\, CA 94114 – she’ll (eventually) write you back. Author photo by Jessica Tong-Ahn. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-cal-calamia-san-franshitshow-and-caroline-m-mar-special-education/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Mackey
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new poetry collection \nDOUBLE TRIO \npublished by New Directions \n     \nThree new books in a spectacular limited edition box carry the tradition of the long poem far into the 21st century with a “low-lit\, slow-drag ebullience” \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 book. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nFor thirty-five years the poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive-making like no other: two elegiac\, intertwined serial poems—”Song of the Andoumboulou” and “Mu“—that follow a mysterious\, migrant “we” through the rhythms and currents of the world with lyrical virtuosity and impassioned expectancy. In a note to this astonishing box set of new work\, Mackey writes: \n“I turned sixty-five within a couple of months of beginning to write Double Trio and I was within a couple of months of turning seventy-one when I finished it.… It was a period of distress and precarity inside and outside both. During this time\, a certain disposition or dispensation came upon me that I would characterize or sum up with the words all day music. It was a time in which I wanted never not to be thinking between poetry and music\, poetry and the daily or the everyday\, the everyday and the alter-everyday. Philosophically and technically\, the work meant to be always pertaining to the relation of parts to one another and of parts to an evolving whole.” \nStructured in part after the last three movements of John Coltrane’s Meditations—”Love\,” “Consequence\,” and “Serenity”—Double Trio stretches Mackey’s explorations and improvisations of free jazz into unprecedented poetic territory. \nNathaniel Mackey was born in Miami\, Florida\, in 1947. He is the author of several books of fiction of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (Bookforum)\, poetry\, and criticism and has received many awards for his work\, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem\, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society\, the Bollingen Prize\, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University. \nWhat has been said about the work of Nathaniel Mackey: \n\nStill sourcing and exploring two massive\, braided streams of retrospective invention—’Mu’ and Song of the Andoumboulou—Mackey’s liturgy falls and sprays and pools in Double Trio. Bottomless\, modal\, modular as McCoy Tyner’s matched\, augmented threes\, surfaces bloomed with turbulent\, recombinant bottom like Bill Dixon’s double-bassed ensembles\, Double Trio doesn’t culminate: it promises. \n—Fred Moten \n\nFor decades\, National Book Award-winner Mackey has devoted himself to creating a long poem that covers ambitious territory — and he begins this installment by recalling how early free jazz musicians re-invented the multi-disc record collection because they needed several albums to record their fertile improvisations; you might say that Double Trio is Mackey’s multi-disc box set. Double Trio is a libretto of metaphysical music and probably the most important poetry collection to come out this year. \n—Ken Chen\, NPR \n\n\nMackey’s own rare combinations create an astonishing and resounding effect: his words go where music goes: a brilliant and major accomplishment. \n—Don Share\, The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Citation \n\nBecause of their crablike logic Mackey’s lines feel simultaneously abraded and buffed\, their meanings fugitive\, tremulous\, mercurial. He is a lyric poet whose probing of wounds and the whir of words reaches into epic dimensions. \n—John Palettella\, The Nation \n\n\nMackey is doing what might be the most technically virtuosic rhythmo- syntactic work in the English language. No one comes close. I hope these two long poems never end. \n—Mike Lala\, Brooklyn Rail \n\n\nNathaniel Mackey is a poet of ongoingness involved in a kind of spiritualist or cosmic pursuit. \n—Edward Hirsch\, The Washington Post \n\n\nMackey’s major prose project is an experiment in serial fiction called From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. It feels\, sentence to sentence and page to page\, like a work in the act of being created. It is not simply writing about jazz\, but writing as jazz… There is a cliché about music writing\, sometimes attributed to Thelonious Monk\, among others: ‘ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.’ If so\, Nathaniel Mackey is compelled\, rather than deterred\, by the multiform madness of the enterprise. he is the Balanchine of the architecture dance. \n—David Hajdu\, The New York Times \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-mackey/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Happy Hour\, Summer Reading Edition
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as we share with you our picks for great summer reading. Bookshop’s owner\, Casey; head book buyer\, Melinda; and Bookshop staff members will share some of their favorite new reads. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast by clicking here! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookshop-happy-hour-summer-reading-edition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Mike Katz & Crispin Kott / Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host the virtual launch for Mike Katz and Crispin Kott and their new book Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area. We’ll have a special video introduction by Joel Gion\, percussionist with the Brian Jonestown Massacre who wrote the foreword to the book. Stay tuned for more information\, but please save the date and join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order **signed** copies of Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area here. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nSan Francisco’s rich and unique cultural history since its time as a gold rush frontier town has long made it a bastion of forward thinking and freedom of expression. It makes perfect sense\, then\, that both it and the surrounding Bay Area should prove to be a crucible for some of the most enduring and influential music of the rock and roll era. \nFrom the heady days of Haight-Ashbury in the ’60s to today\, San Francisco and the Bay Area have provided a distinctive soundtrack to the American experience that has often been confrontational\, controversial\, enlightening\, and always entertaining. \nPerhaps best known for the ’60s psychedelic scene which included the Grateful Dead\, Jefferson Airplane\, Creedence Clearwater Revival\, Santana\, the Steve Miller Band\, Sly & the Family Stone\, and Janis Joplin\, the Bay Area’s rock and roll history twists and turns like Lombard Street itself. The first wave San Francisco punks wrought the Avengers and Dead Kennedys; punk later gripped the East Bay\, giving us Green Day and Rancid. From the folk and blues eras through the chart-topping sounds of Journey and Huey Lewis & the News. The rock equivalent of Manifest Destiny carried wave upon wave of young musicians in search of fame\, fortune and the great lost chord to Golden Gate City. San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have collectively produced countless key figures in rock and roll\, from musicians to journalists to entrepreneurs. The modern concept of the vast outdoor rock festival took root in and around San Francisco. \nThe Bay Area is also where music history happened to artists from almost everywhere else: San Francisco is where the Beatles played their final concert and the Sex Pistols fell apart; where the Clash recorded much of their second album; where a drug-addled Keith Moon passed out during a concert by the Who only to be replaced behind the drum kit by an eager fan. \nRock and roll is baked into the Bay Area’s culture and story to this day. A guide to the places that shaped the local scene and world-famous sound\, the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area will take you to where music makers lived\, rocked\, performed\, recorded\, met\, broke up\, and much\, much more. \nAbout the authors\nMike Katz was born in Atlanta\, came of age in New Orleans\, and eventually made his home in New York City. He is a rock historian\, voracious reader\, veteran bookseller\, photographer\, and father to a much smarter daughter\, Alison. He currently lives in Monterey\, CA. \nCrispin Kott was born in Chicago\, raised in New York\, and has called everywhere from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Atlanta home. An avid music enthusiast and failed drummer\, he’s written for numerous print and online publications\, and has shared with his son Ian and daughter Marguerite a love of reading\, writing\, and record collecting. As a longtime Brooklyn resident and recent returnee to the Bay Area\, Crispin has been able to indulge in his love of Rock & Roll of the past\, present\, and future. \nMike Katz and Crispin Kott also co-authored Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City (Globe Pequot\, June 2018) and Little Book of Rock and Roll Wisdom (Lyons Press\, October 2018). \nJoel Gion is a percussionist with the Brian Jonestown Massacre. In addition to writing the foreword to the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area\, Gion is creating personal non-fiction on Patreon. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-mike-katz-crispin-kott-rock-and-roll-explorer-guide-to-san-francisco-and-the-bay-area/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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