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SUMMARY:FREEMAN'S: Best New Writings on LOVE
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman with Robin Coste Lewis\, Tommy Orange\, and Matt Summell \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by Litquake and City Lights as part of the LITQUAKE 2020 Festival on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse\, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series\, Freeman’s Love asks this question\, bringing together literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange\, Anne Carson\, Louise Erdrich\, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging writers such as Gunnhild Øyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinović. \nMehmedinović contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the aftermath of his wife’s stroke\, describing how the two reassembled their lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo’s charming and painful “Good People” introduces us to two sets of married professors who have been together for decades\, and for whom love still exists\, but between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami tells the tale of a one-night stand that feels like a dying sun. \nTogether\, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the complexities of love\, tracing it from its earliest stirrings\, to the forbidden places where it emerges against reason\, to loss so deep it changes the color of perception. In a time when we need it the most\, this issue promises what only love can bring: a solace of complexity and warmth. \n\n\nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages.  \nRobin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. In 2015\, her debut poetry collection\, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf) won the National Book Award in poetry––the first time a poetry debut by an African-American had ever won the prize in the National Book Foundation’s history\, and the first time any debut had won the award since 1974. Lewis’s writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, such as Time Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Transition\, and Best American Poetry. \nTommy Orange is an American novelist and a writer from Oakland\, California. His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Orange was also the recipient of 2019 American Book Awards. Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. \nMatt Sumell is a graduate of University of California\, Irvine’s MFA programme\, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review\, Esquire\,Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles\, California. \n\nAbout LITQUAKE: \nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nwww.litquake.org
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Ishmael Reed with Tennesee Reed
DESCRIPTION:Each reading from their new books of poetry published by Dalkey Archive \nWhy The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nby Ishmael Reed \nCalifia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nby Tennessee Reed \n——— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n————- \nPurchase Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \nPurchase Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \n————- \nabout Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nThe poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around the house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. “Moving Richmond” was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem\, in huge letters forged into weathering steel billboards greets passengers who enter the new Bay Area mass transit hub in Richmond. Other poems were commissioned by musicians. “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was performed by Gregory Porter. “Red Summer\, 2015” appeared in print first and then was set to music by David Murray. The longest poem in the book\, “Jazz Martyrs\,” was begun when I learned about the number of black Jazz greats who didn’t live past the age of forty. I have been fortunate to live beyond the age of 80. I’ve found out who my best friends are. The ones who got me there. \nabout Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nA new collection of poems from the poet Tennessee Reed produced between the years 2012 and 2019. \nIshmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, The Last Days of Louisiana Red\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. In 2003\, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater. His most recent essay collection\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico\, was published in 2019 by Baraka Books of Montreal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\nA graduate of UC Berkeley\, Tennessee Reed is Secretary of Oakland PEN\, and the author of the collections Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books)\, Electric Chocolate (Raven’s Bones Press)\, and Airborne (Raven’s Bones Press). She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ishmael-reed-with-tennesee-reed/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody\,\nas they discuss their latest books and answer your questions about the art of memoir! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84986160532 \nAbout The Wanting Was a Wilderness \nHow did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir\, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore why. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing\, Jones realizes she must confront some difficult truths\, both in her life and on the page. THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS is a profoundly original work that blends criticism\, craft analysis\, and a memoir of Jones’s own time in the wilderness. The result is a celebration of WILD and a map of our long path to self-discovery. \nAbout The Long Accomplishment \nRick Moody\, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm\, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful\, month-by-month account. \nAt this story’s start\, Moody\, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression\, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is\, fully and for the first time in his life\, “Yes.” \nAnd so his second marriage begins as he emerges\, humbly and with tender hopes\, from the wreckage of his past\, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages\, the deaths of friends\, and robberies\, just for starters. As Moody has put it\, “This is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists\, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment\, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times\, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple\, lifting them above their hardships\, and the reader is buoyed along with them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-night-of-memoir-with-alden-jones-and-rick-moody-2/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
DESCRIPTION:William Sites in conversation with John Corbett \nexploring the new book \nSun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City \npublished by University of Chicago Press \nExploring acclaimed Jazz Master Sun Ra’s deep-rooted connection to the City of Chicago and its relation to AfroFuturism. \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase the book (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nSun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb\, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago\, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side\, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished\, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles\,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism\, revisionist Christianity\, and science fiction to jazz\, blues\, Latin dance music\, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep\, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu\, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. \nWilliam Sites is associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. \nJohn Corbett is the co-owner of the Chicago art gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey\, as well as a founder of the Sun Ra Archives. \nWhat has been said about Sun Ra’s Chicago: \n\n\n“Sun Ra’s Chicago is a masterful account of the musician’s formative years. Sites deftly applies a wider lens to his biography\, analyzing the urban spaces and networks that shaped Sonny Blount’s transformation from an itinerant musician into the otherworldly philosophical leader of the Arkestra. This book is essential reading not only for Sun Ra listeners but for readers interested in the crosscurrents of Black intellectual thought and the utopian possibilities\, past and present\, of America’s cities.” Erik S. Gellman\, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay \n\n\n\n\n“Like its subject\, Sun-Ra’s Chicago is a category buster—social history\, musicology\, urban studies\, hermeneutics\, cultural reclamation—and as such\, a revelation. Sites tells a story of countercultural ferment in 1950s south side Chicago that is detailed and provocative. Sun Ra\, Alton Abraham\, and the members and friends of the Arkestra were truly a ‘creative class’ long before that term\, as we know it\, was coined.” Larry Bennett\, author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sun-ras-chicago-afrofuturism-and-the-city/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Little Hill
DESCRIPTION:Alli Warren reads with Jena Osman for the Poetry Project virtual events series. \nMotion Studies and Little Hill\, the new books of Jena Osman and Alli Warren\, both exist at the precarious intersection of surveillance and escape\, power and its holes\, in the sexy and frustrated dailiness of resistance. These books ask how to live while indignant and horrified\, implicated in that which is struggled against\, always accountable to something more than what is known or knowable\, to each other. \n\nAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment. \n“[Warren] has begun writing longer poems\, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young\, Anselm Berrigan\, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear the durational projects\, the self-conscious day-scores\, of Bernadette Mayer and of Lewis Warsh farther back in the tradition.”—Brian Blanchfield\, pen.org \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“In Little Hill Alli Warren’s principle method is articulation of exquisite units of speech (thought) that\, maintaining separation\, are capable of connection. The line might be a sentence or a part of one . . . I mean a delicious sense of grammatical distinctness is maintained. The poet\, also a lone unit\, seems to exist less in relation than as that lone one\, condemning this hard world with its villain work and elusive hierarchies. The language is precise\, lush\, unexpected and often thrilling. Articulation would seem to be the true other\, or maybe nature is. The book is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley\, author of For the Ride and Benediction \n“The number of gasps and everything else gets lost in the concentration of Little Hill. Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best. ‘This is an old machine with a pulley / It makes music work\,’ Warren writes\, reworking the ancient technology of poetry to a shine! Dear Poet\, thank you for the wow WOW wowing!”––CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Reading Alli Warren’s Little Hill\, I find it incredible that amidst the relentless circulation of capital and commodities—and despite attempts to make all life yield to the logics of extraction\, work\, accumulation\, and the entrepreneurial self—a remainder is created\, that of poetry. Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. ‘I saw the death of the earth in a child’s toy\,’ she writes. Everywhere the speaker looks there is ‘congealed shit\, sometimes on sale.’ Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/little-hill/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Special Event for Kids: Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver with Varian Johnson and Lisa Yee — Alien Superstar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:mmy Award winner Henry Winker and Lin Oliver are back for the second installment of the New York Times bestselling middle grade series that Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney calls “truly out of this world!” \nAfter escaping his oppressive red dwarf planet and landing a role on a popular Hollywood sitcom\, Buddy Burger seems destined for high-flying success. His legions of fans love his six eyes\, his suction cup feet\, and even his excessive need for avocados. It seems nothing can stop his rise to super-stardom—until the arrival of Citizen Cruel\, a shape-shifting Squadron member sent from Buddy’s home planet to bring him back by any means necessary. Will Buddy conquer this clever and unpredictable enemy? How long can he continue to keep his alien identity secret from his friends and fans? Is there enough guacamole on Earth to sustain him? And chips to go with it? Action-packed and full of laughs\, Alien Superstar: Lights\, Camera\, Danger! is the second book in the exciting New York Times bestselling middle grade series. \nHenry Winkler is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, writer\, director\, and producer who has created some of the most iconic TV roles\, including Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli on Happy Days and Gene Cousineau on Barry. \nLin Oliver is a children’s book writer and a writer and producer for both TV and film. She is currently the executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She and Henry both live in Los Angeles. \nVarian Johnson is the author of nine novels\, including The Parker Inheritance\, which was named a 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book among other accolades. His middle grade caper novel\, The Great Greene Heist\, has been named to over twenty-five state reading and best-of lists. In addition\, Varian has written for the Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts middle-grade fantasy series as well as novels and short stories for YA audiences. \nLisa Yee’s debut novel\, Millicent Min\, Girl Genius\, won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her other novels for young people include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time\, So Totally Emily Ebers\, Absolutely Maybe\, and a series about a 4th grader\, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) and Bobby the Brave (Sometimes). She also the author of American Girl’s Kanani books\, the DC Super Hero Girls middle grade novel series\, Good Luck\, Ivy\, and the Lea Clark series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/special-event-for-kids-henry-winkler-and-lin-oliver-with-varian-johnson-and-lisa-yee-alien-superstar-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR REYNA GRANDE IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:The Distance Between Us \nBY REYNA GRANDE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrande puts a human face on the fraught issue of immigration in her acclaimed memoir. At age nine\, Grande leaves Mexico as an undocumented immigrant to join her father in the United States—El Otro Lado\, or “the other side.” The pursuit of happiness is elusive and filled with tragedy\, but Grande finds her own path\, becoming the first person in her family to go to college. A 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist\, The Distance Between Us has been selected by many citywide reading programs throughout the U.S.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-reyna-grande-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author: Rand Quinn\, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
DESCRIPTION:Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. \nSan Francisco’s school board is once again rethinking its student assignment system. Debates over student assignment trace back over a half century and map the long struggle to desegregate the city’s schools. In Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools\, Rand Quinn explains the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. Student assignment — once the remedy for government discrimination through busing and other desegregative mechanisms — soon became a tool intended to create diversity. \nRand Quinn is associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the origins and political consequences of private sector engagement in public education\, the politics of race and ethnicity in urban school reform and the impact of community-based institutions\, organizations and action in education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rand-quinn-class-action-desegregation-and-diversity-in-san-francisco-schools/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Reza Farazmand / City Monster
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand for his first graphic novel City Monster! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a *signed* copy of City Monster. The book can be picked up from Booksmith in San Francisco or we can ship it to you\, anywhere in the world. We’re currenrly offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay\, otherwise additional shipping fees will apply (we’ll invoice you separately once the book ships). If you have any questions\, don’t hesitate to email events@booksmith.com. \nCity Monster is set in a world of supernatural creatures and follows a young monster who moves to the city. As he struggles to figure out his future\, his new life is interrupted by questions about his mysterious roommate—a ghost who can’t remember the past. Joined by their neighbor\, a vampire named Kim\, they explore the city\, meeting a series of strange and spooky characters and looking for answers about life\, memories\, and where to get a good beer. \nWith Reza’s signature style\, and familiar snark\, this graphic novel is equal parts irreverent and insightful\, the perfect vehicle for conveying the utter absurdity of our bizarre and confusing times. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in Los Angeles. He started putting his comics on the internet in college at PoorlyDrawnLines.com and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a *signed* copy of City Monster. The book can be picked up from Booksmith in San Francisco or we can ship it to you\, anywhere in the world. We’re currenrly offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay\, otherwise additional shipping fees will apply (we’ll invoice you separately once the book ships). If you have any questions\, don’t hesitate to email events@booksmith.com. \nTo order additional signed copies of City Monster\, order here. \n​ \nThis is an all-ages\, virtual event that begins at 6pm PST. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reza-farazmand-city-monster/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:An Unnatural History of America A panel discussion on the work of Charles Bowden
DESCRIPTION:Join the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks and a panel of writers for a discussion of the work of the late Charles Bowden\, whose “Unnatural History of America” series has just been published in full by the University of Texas Press. \nMore information on participants soon. For more on Charles Bowden\, read this tribute on Aeon. \n“Like the beasts and criminals he admired\, Bowden was a complicated\, contradictory creature. He loved dogs\, dirt\, wine\, worms\, Cadillacs\, cacti. He held backyard parties to watch summer cereus flowers bloom at midnight\, and owned scores of guns but was reluctant to shoot them lest they scare the birds.” — Wes Enzinna\, Harper’s Magazine \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE. \nAbout Charles Bowden\nCharles Bowden (1945-2014) was the author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues\, Bowden was a contributing editor for GQ\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review\, High Country News\, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award\, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction\, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice. He wrote The Red Caddy in 1994.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-unnatural-history-of-america-a-panel-discussion-on-the-work-of-charles-bowden/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #3: Adult Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 19\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult nonfiction in this third episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81183755875 \nThis is our third recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81183755875\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-3-adult-nonfiction/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T130000
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SUMMARY:Panel: How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America\, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series\, with a roundtable conversation about Indigenous narratives\, visibility\, and storytelling. \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n  \nHow We Go Home\, edited by oral historian Sara Sinclair\, shares contemporary first-person Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land\, rights\, and life. In myriad ways\, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss\, injustice\, resilience\, and the struggle to share space with settler nations. In this roundtable conversation\, narrator Ashley Hemmers will be joined by the book’s editor\, Sara Sinclair\, and News from Native California editor\, Terria Smith\, to discuss representation and visibility of Indigenous communities today. \nThis event is cosponsored by Voice of Witness (VOW)\, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. The VOW Book Series depicts human rights issues through the edited oral histories of people—VOW narrators—who are most deeply impacted and at the heart of solutions to address injustice. The series explores issues of race-\, gender-\, and class-based inequity through the lenses of the criminal justice system\, migration\, and displacement. The VOW Education Program connects over 20\,000 educators\, students\, and advocates each year with these stories and issues through oral history-based curricula\, trainings\, and holistic educational support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-how-we-go-home-voices-from-indigenous-north-america/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T173000
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SUMMARY:Tania Amochaev: One Hundred Years of Exile
DESCRIPTION:In “One Hundred Years of Exile: In Search of My Father’s Russia” San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through one hundred years of history to find peace with her father.\n\n\n \n\n\nThis event is in English and will be held on Zoom on November 20\, 2020\, at 4.00 pm PST (SF)\, 7 pm EST (NY). There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program.\n\n\n \n\n\nDaughter and father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American\, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation left Tania with deep resentment.\n\n\n \n\n\nDecades later\, his unexpected death made Romanov explore her Russian heritage. A meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family sent Tania on a quest in time and space. Cossacks\, revolution\, escapes\, Stalin’s Purges: the Amochaevs’ family story reflects Russian history.\n\n\n \n\n\nTania Romanov is an award-winning travel photographer and the author of three books\, “Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women”\, “Never a Stranger”\, a travel story collection; and “One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia.” (2021). A Solas Award winner\, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian. Born in the former Yugoslavia\, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste\, Italy\, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools\, U.C. Berkeley\, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, eventually serving as CEO of three technology companies. When not on the road\, Tania splits her time between San Francisco and Sonoma County.\n\n\n \n\n\nThis program is produced and hosted by author Zarina Zabrisky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tania-amochaev-one-hundred-years-of-exile/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T180000
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN 3: BURGER / ALMEIDA / JACOBSEN / WATKINS
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-nov.eventbrite.com \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Burger is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland CA. She writes poetry and personal narratives that explore empathy and constructs of self. Her books include Sonny\, a novella about the Trinity atomic bomb test and a family’s dissolution\, and Then Go On\, a collection of short prose about conundrums of relation. Her visual practice includes painting\, mixed media\, and fiber arts. Her work uses geometric and biomorphic forms to trace a synesthesia of thinking. She was awarded the Small Time residency from SPT in 2019\, and residencies at the Banff Centre in Alberta and Pond Farm in Sonoma County. She’s working on a memoir about gender\, class\, religion\, and the behavior of black holes. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018)\, and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti’s Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues\, 2019). She teaches at the Bard microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and runs 18 Owls Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColter Jacobsen is an artist and avid poetry reader living in Ukiah\, California\, home to one of the largest Haiku festivals in America. He is cohabitating with one human\, two dogs\, three cats\, and ten chickens. He’s worried that there may be more to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Mark Mahaney \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck\, Jarrad Powell\, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006\, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown\, Fred Frith\, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Documenta 14\, the Kronos Quartet\, The Living Earth Ensemble\, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players among others. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartet was awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has subsequently been performed at the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration\, the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin Germany and in Seattle Wa\, as part of the 2nd Annual Town Hall New Music Marathon featuring violist Eyvind Kang. Zachary has performed in numerous festivals across the United States\, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pioneering Drone Metal band Earth during their 2015 European tour. In 2008\, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery’s Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the The American Music Center and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An excerpt of this piece is published on a compilation album entitled ”The Harmonic Series‚” along side Pauline Oliveros\, Ellen Fullman\, Theresa Wong Charles Curtis and Duane Pitre among others. Zachary recently completed Documentado / Undocumentado a multi media interactive book in collaboration with Guillermo Gómez Peña\, Gustavo Vasquez\, Jennifer Gonzalez and Felicia Rice. His sound art work entitled Third Floor::Designed Obsolescence\, “spoke as a metaphor for the breakdown of the dream of technology and the myth of our society’s permanence\,” review by Susan Noyes Platt in the Summer 05 issue of ARTLIES. Zachary releases music on the labels Sige\, Cassauna\, Confront (UK)\, The Tapeworm and Touch (UK). Novembre Magazine (DE)\, ITCH (ZA)\, Walrus Press and the New York Miniature Ensemble have published his writings and scores. Zachary has been an artist in resident at the Espy Foundation\, Djerassi and the Headlands Center for The Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-3-burger-almeida-jacobsen-watkins/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Simon Han and Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 20 at 6pm PST when Simon Han discusses his debut novel\, Nights When Nothing Happened\, with Meng Jin on Zoom! \nPreorder here and receive a signed bookplate! Be sure to write “signed” in your order comment. While supplies last. \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88142035691\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88142035691#  or +13462487799\,\,88142035691#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 881 4203 5691\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcCopBcGFW \nPraise for Nights When Nothing Happened \nNamed a Most Anticipated book for Fall by USA Today\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Esquire\, The Millions\, and more. \n“A tender\, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore\, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America \n“Absolutely luminous… Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga. . . Shocks\, awes\, and delights.” —Bryan Washington\, author of Memorial \n“Achingly tender and emotionally devastating. A stunning debut that will stay with me.” —Charles Yu\, author of Interior Chinatown\n \nAbout Nights When Nothing Happened \nA little girl’s sleepwalking odysseys trigger a chain reaction that threatens to undo the fragile stability of her immigrant family. \nFrom the outside\, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas\, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child\, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn’t this what they sacrificed so much for? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night\, putting into motion a string of misunderstandings that not only threaten to set their community against them but force to the surface the secrets that have made them fear one another. How can a man make peace with the terrors of his past? How can a child regain trust in unconditional love? How can a family stop burying its history and forge a way through it\, to a more honest intimacy? \nNights When Nothing Happened is gripping storytelling immersed in the crosscurrents that have reshaped the American landscape\, from a prodigious new literary talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-simon-han-and-meng-jin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Heather Bourbeau\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Aileen Cassinetto & Chris Stroffolino
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response\, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. \nCurated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response)\, the first event in the series features Heather Bourbeau\, Aileen Cassinetto\, Tongo Eisen-Martin and Chris Stroffolino responding to the mural Justice for Luís D. Góngora Pat by Marina Perez-Wong and Elaine Chu\, working with Justice4Luis. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n– ABOUT THE PROJECT – \nWall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley with the SF Poster Syndicate live printing posters. However\, due to the pandemic the poets will instead be filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley. Kotian will be creating videos for each series that will be presented as part of live online events (of which this is the first). All the events are free and open to the public. \nThe poets are creating new poems in response to the murals\, and will be reading those and other selected works at the events. The specific dates for each event will be announced in the month prior to the event. \nWall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. \n– ABOUT THE AUTHORS – \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery\, The Cardiff Review\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She is the Chapman University Flash Fiction winner and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been featured in several anthologies\, including America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience and Respect: Poems About Detroit Music (Michigan State University Press). She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nAileen Cassinetto is the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, California. Widely anthologized\, she is the author of the poetry collections\, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems\, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asahi Shimbun\, The Banyan Review\, Moss Trill\, The Nonconformist Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and Vox Populi\, among others. Aileen is the curator of the social justice-themed reading series “Power to the Poets” and the forthcoming Peninsula virtual book festival featuring new releases from SF Bay Area writers. \nTongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco\, California\, and received an MA from Columbia University. He is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and Heaven Is All Goodbyes(City Lights Publishers\, 2017)\, which received the California Book Award and an American Book Award. A poet\, movement worker\, and educator\, his latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nChris Stroffolino currently lives in Oakland\, California and teaches English at Laney College. He’s published several books of poetry and essays\, and may sometimes be heard—but not seen (in the social distancing era)—playing trumpet in a hidden location at Lake Merritt. \n\n– OTHER PARTICIPATING AUTHORS + EVENTS –  \nJanuary 2021: Karla Brundage\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Tureeda Mikell and Kim Shuck responding to the work We Want Respect\, Freedom\, Land\, Housing\, Justice\, Peace\, Bread by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / remix by CUBA D8\, Mace \nMarch 2021: Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts and Tim Xonnelly responding to the mural Affordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible by the SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) \nJune 2021: Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim\, and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO) \n– ABOUT THE CURATORS –  \nMegan Wilson is a visual artist\, writer\, and activist based in San Francisco. Wilson has been a core organizer of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) since 2001. In 2018 she co-directed and co-organized (with Christopher Statton and Nano Warsono) CAMP’s second international exchange and residency project\, Bangkit /Arise between artists from Yogyakarta\, Indonesia and San Francisco/Bay Area in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The second phase of the project will take place 2021-22. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in October 2020. \nYou can read more about CAMP and Wall + Response here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-wall-response-heather-bourbeau-tongo-eisen-martin-aileen-cassinetto-chris-stroffolino/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Facing You: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19
DESCRIPTION:From acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, and an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. \nPraise for Facing You: \n“For decades\, Uche Nduka’s refulgent poetry has shone out amid the various national and cultural contexts in which he has found himself\, from Nigeria to Germany to Brooklyn. The brief poems of Facing You showcase Nduka at his most iconic. Casual and elemental\, Surreal and Blue\, these poems are like fuses: exactly equal to their tasks. Facing You proves the pliant strength of the lyric\, its ability\, in a handful of blunt and turning lines\, to reverse reality with the ease of an upraised mirror. Nduka’s poetry models the principle of agile\, flamelike survival amid this most leaden of worlds.”––Joyelle McSweeney \n“Uche Nduka’s lyrical abstractions are razor sharp and lighting fast. Each poem turns several corners in the blink of an eye. A Nigerian-American poet by way of Germany and Holland\, Nduka has honed his genius on the whetting stones of a tri-continental cosmopolitanism. His voice is both courtly and sensual\, and his poems as frankly sexual as they are defiantly explosive. Like Rimbaud\, Nduka sings the pride of exile\, the debauchery of imagination\, with wile and wit. We are lucky to have him.”—Kit Robinson \n“It’s not enough to be in love. These poems want to lose themselves in you. In Facing You\, Uche Nduka conjures up the kind of romance that ends up in movies and songs––a love so strong you dissolve into your lover. At the same time\, Nduka’s short and leaping phrases play hard to get. Just when you think you might be closer to making contact\, he pivots\, leaving you to feel like a rug has been pulled out from under you. What do we make of this push-and-pull dynamic from a speaker who says\, ‘I need a hell of a lot / of love to run my life on’? I think it means that Nduka’s poems understand how difficult intimacy is\, how it can feel like chasing a dream\, how it requires constant courage to overcome the fear of being hurt: ‘You must have the guts / to tear absence apart.’ It’s much easier to run away. Facing You lives in the gap between the desire for intimacy and intimacy itself\, the exact place where meaning-making both comes to be and breaks down. It holds us suspended between language and sense\, speech-sounds and communication\, where we can feel the full brunt of our yearning.”—Anaïs Duplan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/facing-you-city-lights-spotlight-series-no-19/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chinese Workers & the Pacific Salmon Canning Industry
DESCRIPTION:Join CHSA in welcoming brothers Jim & Philip Chiao for an exploration into the history of Chinese in the Pacific salmon canning industry. \nIn 1852\, 19-year-old William Hume traveled from Maine to California by way of Panama. Unlike most young men of the time\, he did not come to prospect for gold. Instead\, he made a living by fishing in the Sacramento River\, later founding the first salmon cannery on the west bank of the Sacramento River. In 1870\, Hume and his brothers hired 15 Chinese workers\, beginning four decades of Chinese dominance in the labor market of the salmon canning industry along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. \nSpeakers Jim and Philip Chiao spent three summers working in Alaska canneries during their college years\, personally experiencing the life of cannery workers during the early 1970s. Recently\, they have documented their Alaska experiences in a blog on their website. Jim and Philip will take the audience on a guided historical tour of Chinese American and Chinese workers in the canning industry. They will trace 150 years of Chinese workers in the canning industry\, starting with the founding of the industry\, the expansion and dominance of Chinese workers in the labor market\, and its eventual demise. Along the way\, they will highlight the major events that shaped the industry and affected the Chinese workers. \nThe program will last from 1-2pm. Audience members will be able to ask the speakers questions at 2pm. Advanced questions can be submitted to info@chsa.org. \nClick here to register and learn more. \n\n \nJames Chiao is an Electrical Engineer by profession. He received a BSEE from University of Washington and a MSEE from CWRU. He had spent 30+ years working in various high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley and retired 4 years ago. He has been active in the non-profit organization Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN)\, which he co-founded with others in 1996\, and has served as its (co-)president for 5 years. He is currently a member of FCSN’s board of directors\, and a member of Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP)’s advisory board. He and his wife are residents of Fremont. \nPhilip C. Chiao is an Architect by profession. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University go Washington\, and a Master of Architecture degree from University of Illinois. He had worked in various architectural firms and had at times established his own practices. He retired from his profession in 2016. He is a member of the Design Review Committee for the City of Pasadena\, and a member of the Board for Prado homeowner association. He and his wife are residents of Pasadena. They have a son and daughter and three grandchildren. \n\nConnect with CHSA! Those who sign-up for this program will automatically be registered for the CHSA newsletter for information about future CHSA programs and museum content.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinese-workers-the-pacific-salmon-canning-industry/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Under the Dome: Paul Celan at 100 Celebration
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion of the great Romanian-born poet Paul Celan \non the occasion of his 100th birthday \nwith Judith Butler\, Fady Joudah\, and more guests TBD \nhosted by Robert Kaufman \n— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register (Link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book (Link to be posted soon) \n— \nPaul Celan (1920–1970) is considered one of Europe’s greatest post-World-War II poets\, known for his astonishing experiments in poetic form\, expression\, and address. His poetry\, at times dealing directly with the personal aftermath of the Holocaust\, has been a touchstone for so many since his passing\, and his grappling with what poetry can mean or accomplish in the face of such atrocities has been a major reason why his legacy as one of the most important poets from the later half of the 21st century has endured so strongly. \nJoin us on the date of Celan’s 100th birthday as we celebrate his life and writings with readings and discussion with special guests\, especially highlighting three new books published on this occasion: \nUnder the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive\, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop with an introduction by Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard\n(City Lights Books) \nMemory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry\, a Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan\, translated by Pierre Joris with Commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux) \nMicroliths They Are\, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose by Paul Celan\, translated by Pierre Joris (Contra Mundum Press) \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nRobert Kaufman is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he also teaches in\, and is past co-director of\, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. Kaufman is the author of Negative Romanticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats\, Shelley\, and Modern Poetry (Cornell University Press in 2021)\, and is at work on two related books\, Why Poetry Should Matter—to the Left: Frankfurt Constellations of Democracy and Modernism after Postmodernism? Robert Duncan and the Future-Present of American Poetry. His essays on modern poetry\, aesthetics\, and critical theory have been published in numerous journals and edited volumes. \nJudith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Berkeley. They are the author of Frames of War\, Precarious Life\, The Psychic Life of Power\, Excitable Speech\, Bodies that Matter\, Gender Trouble\, The Force of Nonviolence\, and with Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau\, Contingency\, Hegemony\, Universality. \nFady Joudah has published four collections of poems\, The Earth in the Attic\, Alight\, Textu\, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and\, most recently\, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award\, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston\, with his wife and kids\, where he practices internal medicine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/under-the-dome-paul-celan-at-100-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:WL #UNBOUND: Poised to Soar: Nature-Writing Sensation Helen Macdonald with Vesper Flights
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 24 at 7:00 PM | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \n\nEnvironment/Nature\nWomen/Gender\n\nCamille T. Dungy\, Helen Macdonald\nHelen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir H is For Hawk\, a transcendent meditation on grief\, relationships\, and falconry\, established her as one of the world’s foremost nature and culture writers. She’s setting our imaginations soaring again with Vesper Flights\, a collection of her best-loved essays\, illuminating everything from mushroom-hunting to the poignant particulars of birds’ nests. As Helen wrote\, “animals don’t exist in order to teach us things\,” but her live conversation with American Book Award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy will show us how much we can learn by letting nature keep its secrets. \nIn association with the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC) the Golden Gate Audubon Society\, and Bay Nature. \nRegister To Receive Free Event Reminders\nThis is a public rebroadcast of a live event for Women Lit members. To join Women Lit or to learn more\, click here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wl-unbound-poised-to-soar-nature-writing-sensation-helen-macdonald-with-vesper-flights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T025008
CREATED:20201010T025532Z
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SUMMARY:The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, November 24\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett’s new novel\, THE VANISHING HALF. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81072907239. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpVanishing\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/VanishingAB. \nDescription\n\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD \nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick  \n“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson\, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel\, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid\, Wall Street Journal  \n“A story of absolute\, universal timelessness …For any era\, it’s an accomplished\, affecting novel. For this moment\, it’s piercing\, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly\nFrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers\, a stunning new novel about twin sisters\, inseparable as children\, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds\, one black and one white. \nThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small\, southern black community and running away at age sixteen\, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults\, it’s everything: their families\, their communities\, their racial identities. Many years later\, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white\, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still\, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies\, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation\, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect? \nWeaving together multiple strands and generations of this family\, from the Deep South to California\, from the 1950s to the 1990s\, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting\, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race\, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions\, desires\, and expectations\, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. \nAs with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers\, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative\, compassionate and wise. \nAbout the Author\n\nBrit Bennett is the author of the New York Times–bestselling novel The Mothers; a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for the best first book\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award; and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201128T213000
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CREATED:20201120T034024Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Silver Linings
DESCRIPTION:Well friends\, 2020 has been a hell of a year. And here we are\, almost at the end of it. Join me this traditional season of gratitude in search of some silver linings\, at the last SNS of the year. (That’s right\, Dec. is my annual hiatus\, not returning until the end of January).\n\nNovember theme: SILVER LININGS\nNovember Features: SARA BIEL & SHAWNA SHERMAN\n(see bios below)\n\nOPEN MIC: Share your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum.\n\nSATURDAY\, November 28\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\nHosted by: Hollie Hardy\n\nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on Nov. 21. Requests added in the order received until the list is full.\nTo sign up\, please put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max.\n\nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, please RSVP to this FB event and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to me\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature and only letting in people we can verify.\n\nZOOM INFO:\nMeeting ID: 991 2777 8477\nPassword: 814144\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99127778477…\nPassword: 814144\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,99127778477# or +13462487799\,99127778477#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 991 2777 8477\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/abrmczrVqu\nOr Skype for Business (Lync):\nSIP:99127778477.814144@lync.zoom.us\n\nAUTHOR BIOS:\nSara Biel is a poet and social worker. She is passionate about collaborative art and performance processes\, and focuses on art as a medium for building community. Sara’s work has been featured in Oakland’s Moondrop productions and sPARKLE & bLINK. Sara is the editor of Colossus: Bay Area Poets Challenge Immigration Injustice\, And CoEditor of Colossus:Home.\nShawna Sherman is a poet and librarian born and raised in Hawaii and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing focuses on race and place and borrows from history in order to make sense of the present. As a librarian\, she works to hold space for African American writers and culture by curating community programming at a public library. Her work has appeared in Colossus: Home and on the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day website.\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/482040956103544/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-silver-linings/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T025008
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SUMMARY:The Roots of the Tree: Family Dynamics\, Forgiveness & Reconciliation with Dr. Marlena Fiol and Dr. Joshua Coleman (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Marlena Fiol\, author of Nothing Bad Between Us\, will be in conversation with renowned author Joshua Coleman in a very special virtual event. Join them on Sunday\, November 29th at 5:00pm PT for The Roots of the Tree: Family Dynamics\, Forgiveness\, and Reconciliation. In this hour-long conversation\, Marlena and Joshua will explore how families shape us\, for better or worse\, and how we in turn shape our worldview based on their influence. Join them by registering at the link above. \nMarlena Fiol\, PhD\, is a globally recognized author\, scholar and speaker. She is a spiritual seeker whose work explores the depths of who we are and what’s possible in our lives. Her significant body of publications on the topic\, coupled with her own raw identity-changing experiences\, makes her uniquely qualified to write about personal transformational change. She is also a certified tai chi instructor and freelance writer whose most recent work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and newsletters. \nDr. Joshua Coleman is an internationally known expert in parenting\, families and relationships. He is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families\, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists\, historians\, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University\, The University of California at Berkeley\, The University of London\, and Cornell Weill Medical School. He has weekly webinars for estranged parents and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication\, Greater Good Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-roots-of-the-tree-family-dynamics-forgiveness-reconciliation-with-dr-marlena-fiol-and-dr-joshua-coleman-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T025008
CREATED:20201104T173758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T173758Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89343683958#  or +12532158782\,\,89343683958#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 893 4368 3958\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwdCVhDnt \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nKeep an eye out for our upcoming auction of an archival print of Stevie by Tracy Anne Hart. Posting November 20\, 2020! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89343683958#  or +12532158782\,\,89343683958#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 893 4368 3958\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwdCVhDnt \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T210000
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SUMMARY:Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Editor Alice Quinn is joined by contributors to the anthology\, Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf)\, for this special virtual poetry reading. \nConfirmed participants so far include: \nForrest Gander\nBrenda Hillman\nAlice Quinn\nDean Rader\nTess Taylor\nNoah Warren\nJenny Xie\nMatthew Zapruder \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nAbout Together in a Sudden Strangeness \nAs the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world\, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if\, and what\, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response\, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox\, assembling this various\, intimate\, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages\, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves\, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength\, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital\, and\, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe\, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful\, darkly humorous\, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times\, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange\, providing wisdom\, companionship\, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. \nAbout Alice Quinn and the participants \nAlice Quinn\, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years\, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings\, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems\, Drafts\, and Fragments\, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-americas-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T213000
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SUMMARY:Writing the Virus with Caille Millner\, Jon Roemer\, David Dario Winner\, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Virus\, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic\, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism\, privilege\, and politics. The book tracks the virus’s progression from epidemiological threat to international crisis and sketches the evolution of Corona’s rapidly changing meaning over the past three-quarters of a year. Among the 31 works in the book\, Writing the Virus appeals to the power of love in the Black community as our strongest and most promising force for change (Millner); explores what it means to be a writer in precarious times (Roemer); and exposes the uncomfortable barriers of ethnicity\, civic cooperation\, and racism as experienced by someone going out for what is no longer an ordinary run (Winner). Writing the Virus\, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Winner\, was published November 1 by Outpost 19 Books. \nReaders of the evening: Caille Millner (“Something New”); Jon Roemer (“Uncertainty Ever After”); and David Dario Winner (“Daisy Assassin”). The event will be moderated by Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of Zyzzyva. \nCaille Millner\nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification (Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review\, Zyzzyva\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Paris Review Daily. \nJon Roemer\nJon Roemer is the publisher and senior editor at Outpost19 Books and author of the novel Five Windows. His writing has appeared at The Millions\, KGB Lit\, The Writer\, OZY\, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\, 3:AM\, and elsewhere. His public speaking includes the Editors’ Picks panel at Library Journal’s Day of Dialogue and Northwestern University’s guest lecture program. He is queer and based in San Francisco. \nDavid Dario Winner\nDavid Winner is the author of Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara. His work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Millions\, and other publications in the US and the UK. He is the fiction editor of the Rome-based magazine\, The American\, senior editor for Statorec\, and a regular contributor to the The Brooklyn Rail. \nOscar Villalon\nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of Zyzzyva. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Literary Hub\, the Believer\, Alta\, Zócalo Public Square\, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-virus-with-caille-millner-jon-roemer-david-dario-winner-and-oscar-villalon-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T213000
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SUMMARY:Writing the Virus with Caille Millner\, Jon Roemer\, David Dario Winner\, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Virus\, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic\, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism\, privilege\, and politics. The book tracks the virus’s progression from epidemiological threat to international crisis and sketches the evolution of Corona’s rapidly changing meaning over the past three-quarters of a year. Among the 31 works in the book\, Writing the Virus appeals to the power of love in the Black community as our strongest and most promising force for change (Millner); explores what it means to be a writer in precarious times (Roemer); and exposes the uncomfortable barriers of ethnicity\, civic cooperation\, and racism as experienced by someone going out for what is no longer an ordinary run (Winner). Writing the Virus\, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Winner\, was published November 1 by Outpost 19 Books. \nReaders of the evening: Caille Millner (“Something New”); Jon Roemer (“Uncertainty Ever After”); and David Dario Winner (“Daisy Assassin”). The event will be moderated by Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of Zyzzyva. \nCaille Millner\nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification (Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review\, Zyzzyva\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Paris Review Daily. \nJon Roemer\nJon Roemer is the publisher and senior editor at Outpost19 Books and author of the novel Five Windows. His writing has appeared at The Millions\, KGB Lit\, The Writer\, OZY\, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\, 3:AM\, and elsewhere. His public speaking includes the Editors’ Picks panel at Library Journal’s Day of Dialogue and Northwestern University’s guest lecture program. He is queer and based in San Francisco. \nDavid Dario Winner\nDavid Winner is the author of Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara. His work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Millions\, and other publications in the US and the UK. He is the fiction editor of the Rome-based magazine\, The American\, senior editor for Statorec\, and a regular contributor to the The Brooklyn Rail. \nOscar Villalon\nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of Zyzzyva. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Literary Hub\, the Believer\, Alta\, Zócalo Public Square\, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Best Kids Books of the Year Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop’s interim head Children’s buyer as she shares Bookshop’s picks for the Best Kids Books of the Year! From picture books to middle grade\, graphic novels to young adult\, there were so many fantastic books for young readers published in 2020. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nSee the books we are presenting here.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Headlands Center for the Arts / Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to partner with the Headlands Center for the Arts to present an evening of readings by Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to all who register. \nAri Banias is a poet\, and the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016) and the forthcoming A Symmetry (W. W. Norton\, 2021). His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in bæst\, Hyperallergic\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, and The New Republic. Ari lives in Oakland. \nTomas Moniz’s debut novel\, Big Familia\, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway\, the LAMBDA\, and the Foreward Indies Awards. He edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies. He’s the recipient of the prestigious SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and the 2020 Artist Affiliate for Headlands Center for Arts. Among the residencies he’s attended\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\, the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm and others. He teaches creative writing at Berkeley City College\, Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen\, and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nShelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books\, 2022)\, winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize\, and the chapbook RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions). She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell\, Kundiman\, and Vermont Studio Center. \nHazel White Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard (Nightboat 2018)\, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Fence Ottoline Prize\, and California Book Award. She was one of the winners of a 1-minute monologue competition\, in Tony Labat’s public art project at SFMOMA. Her monologue was titled I Want You to End Racism. She’s writing now about violence. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion (7.13 Books). His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine and elsewhere. He is a Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist\, Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. \nHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary\, international arts center occupying a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands\, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands provides an unparalleled environment in support of the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public\, we offer opportunities for reflection\, dialogue\, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. Photo of the Headlands by Andria Lo. \nBooksmith is an an off-center general interest independent bookstore and legacy business\, a flagship of San Francisco’s Haight Street since 1976. Booksmith is the force behind The Bindery\, a multi-purpose events parlor established in 2017 that features The Arcana Project: a deep\, highly inclusive array of books—fiction and nonfiction\, from all over the world—presented in chronological order by the date they were written. Booksmith also organizes Berkeley Arts & Letters\, an East Bay speaker series since 2009 that features exceptional authors with new books. Between the three programs\, Booksmith produces over 250 events per year. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-headlands-center-for-the-arts-ari-banias-vincent-chu-tomas-moniz-shelley-wong-hazel-white/
LOCATION:CA
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