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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Zeyn Joukhadar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel that follows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. \nZeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars\, which has been translated into twenty languages\, was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature\, a 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. He is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in KINK: Stories (edited by RO Kwon & Garth Greenwell)\, Salon\, The Paris Review\, Shondaland\, [PANK]\, and elsewhere\, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Joukhadar has received fellowships from the Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program\, the Arab American National Museum\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. \nCatherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of colour\, radical mother\, theatre practitioner\, award-winning author\, and the Artistic Director of b current performing arts. Catherine’s first full-length fiction\, Scarborough\, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript and was shortlisted for various awards. Her one-woman show\, The Femme Playlist\, premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2014 as part of the afterRock Play Series co-produced by b current\, Eventual Ashes and Sulong Theatre. She has released two children’s books\, M is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book and I Promise\, and her second novel\, Crosshairs\, is coming soon.
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
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SUMMARY:he Best Women's Travel Writing\, Volume 12 with Editor Lavinia Spalding (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Travelers’ Tales announces publication of the newest collection in the award-winning series that invites you to travel along with intrepid female nomads as they wander the globe. The essays in The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World\, edited by Lavinia Spalding and illustrated by Colette Hannahan\, transport readers to secret corners of place and emotion\, on adventures far-ranging and vivid.  Joining Lavinia for the Volume 12 book launch are contributors: Eva Holland\, whose essay is about survival in the Canadian arctic; Sivani Babu who wrote about returning to her grandparents’ home\, a book publishing print house in Rajahmundry\, India; Alia Volz who traveled to Cuba to settle a debt; and Naomi Melati Bishop\, born in Indonesia\, whose story is about travel on stolen tickets. Introduction by Travelers’ Tales Executive Editor\, Larry Habegger. \nLavinia Spalding has edited five previous editions of The Best Women’s Travel Writing. She is the author of Writing Away and the co-author of With a Measure of Grace and This Immeasurable Place\, and she introduced the e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue\, A Motor-Flight Through France. Lavinia’s work appears in such publications as Tin House\, Longreads\, Yoga Journal\, Sunset\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and The Guardian\, and has been widely anthologized. Her AFAR essay “Playing by Heart” received a Lowell Thomas Gold Award and was recognized by The Best American Travel Writing. She is also a public speaker and teacher. When she isn’t leading international writing workshops\, she lives with her family in New Orleans and on Cape Cod. Find more at laviniaspalding.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/he-best-womens-travel-writing-volume-12-with-editor-lavinia-spalding-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Community Roundtable: Christmas Holiday
DESCRIPTION:Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is to keep the community united during the time apart through our online\, roundtable discussions. We will be hosting online roundtables every-other-week with different topics to engage with the CHSA community. \n\n\nHere is our upcoming schedule! Feel free to join all topics* of interest to you: \n\nDecember 9th-Christmas Holiday. A hearty discussion about the Christmas holiday with the CHSA community and your favorite holiday memories.\nJanuary 13th-Miss Chinatown. A discussion about memories of the Miss Chinatown pageant in preparation for the Chinese New Year celebration.\n\nInterested in joining? Click here to register! \nPlease note: this is an interactive event. We encourage everyone to check that their microphones and cameras are working so that they can engage in the discussion. Space is limited to encourage participation among attendees. \n*Topics and discussion dates are subject to change depending on current events and interest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-roundtable-christmas-holiday/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #5: Gifts for the Hard-To-Shop-For
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 10\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on gifts for the hard-to-shop-for on your list in this last episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82851929183. \nThis is our fifth and lat 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\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/3: Adult Fiction\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82851929183\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-5-gifts-for-the-hard-to-shop-for-2/
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SUMMARY:Ken Layne Creator of Desert Oracle on the hidden histories of the Mojave
DESCRIPTION:Ken Layne joins us from Joshua Tree to celebrate the publication of Desert Oracle Volume 1 (MCD/FSG)\, a collection of writing from his self-published periodical. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Desert Oracle\nFor the past five years\, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical\, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique\, its canary-yellow-covered\, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next\, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show\, a podcast\, a live performance. Now\, for the first time—and including both classic and new\, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. \nStraight out of Joshua Tree\, California\, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales\, singing sand dunes\, sagebrush trails\, artists and aliens\, authors and oddballs\, ghost towns and modern legends\, musicians and mystics\, scorpions and saguaros\, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner\, around a campfire\, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. \nFrom journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy\, and musings on everything from desert flora\, rumored cryptid sightings\, and other paranormal phenomena\, Ken Layne’s Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single\, essential volume. \nAbout Ken Layne\nKen Layne is a professional high-speed typist\, a broadcaster\, and the editor/publisher of Desert Oracle\, the pocket-size quarterly field guide to the strange and intriguing American deserts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ken-layne-creator-of-desert-oracle-on-the-hidden-histories-of-the-mojave/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #5: Gifts for the Hard-To-Shop-For
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 10\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on gifts for the hard-to-shop-for on your list in this last episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82851929183. \nThis is our fifth and lat 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\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/3: Adult Fiction\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82851929183\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-5-gifts-for-the-hard-to-shop-for/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Arthur A. Levine on Instagram IGTV!
DESCRIPTION:reading The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol\, a new larger-than-life holiday hero who brings Hanukkah wonder and generosity to anyone in need! “A new\, entertaining\, and thoughtful addition to the Hanukkah canon.”–Kirkus Reviews \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, December 12\, 2020 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nNate Gadol is a great big spirit with eyes as shiny as golden coins and a smile that is lantern bright. He can make anything last as long as it is needed\, like a tiny bit of oil that must stretch for eight nights\, a flower that needs to stay fresh to cheer up someone ailing\, or a small lump of chocolate that grows to allow the Glasers to treat their children over the holiday and\, during a harsh winter when medicine is needed more than sweets\, spurs them to share what little they have with the O’Malleys. In this charming holiday hybrid story\, well-known children’s author and editor Arthur A. Levine pairs with award-winning illustrator Kevin Hawkes to offer a mythical\, magical take on the way Jewish families came to give and receive gifts over Hanukkah\, just as their Christian neighbors do at Christmas\, thanks to a loving spirit named Nate Gadol working behind the scenes–together with a certain jolly old soul. \nArthur A. Levine has been a children’s book editor for more than thirty years. He is also the author of many acclaimed picture books for children\, including What a Beautiful Morning\, illustrated by Katie Kath\, and The Very Beary Tooth Fairy\, illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen. He had his own eponymous imprint at Scholastic Press and has published many of the most exceptional children’s titles of all time\, including J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series\, Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass\, Shaun Tan’s The Arrival\, and Peggy Rathmann’s Officer Buckle and Gloria.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arthur-a-levine-on-instagram-igtv/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patrick Earl Ryan in conversation with Jewelle Gomez
DESCRIPTION:New Orleans native PATRICK EARL RYAN and writer\, icon\, and activist JEWELLE GOMEZ discuss writing\, queerness\, and If We Were Electric\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special virtual event – New Orleans native PATRICK EARL RYAN and writer\, icon\, and activist JEWELLE GOMEZ discuss writing\, queerness\, and Ryan’s award-winning debut short story collection\, IF WE WERE ELECTRIC\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, the first selected by Roxane Gay as the new editor of the prestigious series. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation \n\nPraise for IF WE WERE ELECTRIC: \n“IF WE WERE ELECTRIC\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Earl Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and wow!” – Roxane Gay \n“Infused with all the mystique and mystery that New Orleans is known for comes this enchanting\, hypnotic debut story collection from Patrick Earl Ryan… The stories feature outliers and miscreants trapped in situations that often feel claustrophobic but are impossible to ignore. Ryan is a true natural at weaving textured language and complex characterization into plots that are serpentine and saturated with emotional complexity. This quality is exceptional for a debut author and a definite determinant for a gilded literary career ahead. Addictively gorgeous and mesmerizing\, Ryan’s collection of twelve literary gems are meant to be savored\, re-read\, and reflected upon as readers await his next creation.” – Jim Piechota\, the Bay Area Reporter \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. He is the author of If We Were Electric\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, and the James White Review. He was the founder and editor in chief of the LGBTQ literary journal Lodestar Quarterly. \nJEWELLE GOMEZ\, playwright\, novelist\, poet\, and cultural worker\, is the author of eight books\, including the first Black Lesbian vampire novel\, The Gilda Stories. In print more than 25 years\, the novel will soon be a television mini-series. Jewelle’s fiction\, poetry\, and essays have appeared in over 100 anthologies. She is playwright-in-residence at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-earl-ryan-in-conversation-with-jewelle-gomez/
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SUMMARY:MandoMeet
DESCRIPTION:Join CHSA for a chance to learn Mandarin with specialist Kathy Yang! Kathy is an expert Mandarin teacher. For our MandoMeet sessions\, all levels of adult learners are welcomed. New learners are always welcomed\, check out our MandoMeet page for past lessons and learning materials. \nTo join\, make sure to RSVP. As there is limited space is available for the class\, only sign-up for MandoMeet if you are able to attend the session live. Recordings of the lesson are not available. Please contact CHSA if you have any questions about registration. \nChoose between a free ticket or provide a donation to support free programming by the Chinese Historical Society of America. There is a suggested donation of $5. \nFeel free to join the program at 12:50pm for a check-in with Kathy prior to the lesson beginning. Online access information will be sent out 2 hours and 10 minutes before the lesson begins. \nWhile no materials are required for the lesson\, colorful sticky notes and markers are highly encouraged. Similar writing material is also beneficial to participant learning. We also recommend learners check their microphones and cameras before coming to class.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mandomeet/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T140000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Claire Marie Stancek with Dan Beachy-Quick & Jennifer Firestone / wyrd] bird
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Claire Marie Stancek for her new book of poems\, wyrd] bird. She’s joined by Dan Beachy-Quick and Jennifer Firestone. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of wyrd] bird here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn times fraught with ecological and individual loss\, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen\, a dream journal\, a fragmentary notebook\, a collection of poems\, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary\, mythical\, and historical figures from Milton’s Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats’s hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading\, cross-questioning\, and upsetting some of that tradition’s central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic\, wyrd] bird searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body\, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning\, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips\, stubbornly\, onto love. \nIn addition to wyrd] bird (Omnidawn Publishing)\, Claire Marie Stancek is the author of two previous poetry books\, Oil Spell (Omnidawn Publishing) and MOUTHS (Noemi Press). She earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from University of California\, Berkeley\, where she currently works as a staff writer. With Jane Gregory and Lyn Hejinian\, she co-edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, she now lives in Oakland\, California. \nDan Beachy-Quick is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. His most recent books include Arrows (Tupelo Press) and Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions)\, a collection of translations from the ancient Greek. Recently long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry\, his work has been supported by the Monfort\, Lannan\, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University\, where he is an University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. \nJennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry: Story (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books])\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books) and Holiday (Shearsman Books). She is currently collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-claire-marie-stancek-with-dan-beachy-quick-jennifer-firestone-wyrd-bird/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - David Harris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:David Harris’s newest release\, My Country ‘Tis of Thee: Reporting\, Sallies\, and Other Confessions is a wide-ranging and incisive anthology conveying the spirit of the 1960s and ’70s. \nDavid Harris is a reporter\, a clear-eyed idealist\, an American dissident\, and\, as these selected pieces reveal\, a writer of great character and empathy. Harris gained national recognition as an undergraduate for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. His writings trace a bright throughline of care for and attention to outsiders\, the downtrodden\, and those who demand change\, and these eighteen pieces of long-form journalism\, essays\, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection of writings by an always-independent journalist follow Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War\, through regular contributions to many publications\, including Rolling Stone and the New York Times\, and on into the twenty-first century. \nPeter Coyote is the author of the 1960’s counter-culture memoir Sleeping Where I Fall\, which received universally excellent reviews and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, about mentors and the search for wisdom\, was nominated as one of the top five nonfiction books published in California in 2015. His third book is forthcoming\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha)\, which combines 50 years of Buddhist practice and acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” Peter has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and transmitted teacher\, Peter is currently giving live weekly dharma talks on Facebook and preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-david-harris-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T190000
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SUMMARY:WALTER MOSLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:Devil in a Blue Dress \nBY WALTER MOSLEY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMosley’s celebrated 1990 novel introduces readers to Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins\, a World War II veteran who turns to detective work to make a living. Rooted in Watts\, a historically African American neighborhood of Los Angeles\, the story reinvigorated the hard-boiled mystery genre\, populating it with rarely seen nonwhite characters. The book’s success led to a bestselling series of Easy Rawlins mysteries that follow the character into the 1960s (and to a 1995 film adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress\, directed by Carl Franklin and starring Denzel Washington).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walter-mosley-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T075057
CREATED:20201201T224357Z
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross\, S*an D. Henry-Smith\, Jamie Townsend\, Topazu\, Subset
DESCRIPTION:Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 \nReadings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith \nIntroduced by Jamie Townsend \nMusic by Topazu & Visuals by Subset \nFriday\, December 10\, 6pm \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-dec.eventbrite.com \nNoah Ross is a bookseller\, editor\, and poet based in Berkeley\, CA. Noah is the author of Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions\, 2019)\, Active Reception (Nightboat Books\, 2021)\, and an editor of Baest: a journal of queer forms & affects\, and\, with Lindsay Choi\, Mo0on/IO. \nS*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry\, photography\, and performance\, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. S*an is also the author of two chapbooks\, Body Text and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life\, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System. Wild Peach\, released fall 2020\, is their first full length collection. \nJamie Townsend is a genderqueer poet and editor living in Oakland. They are the author of 6 chapbooks as well as the full collections Shade (Elis Press\, 2015) and Sex Machines (speCt!\, 2020). They are also the editor of Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader (Nightboat\, 2019) and Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk (Jet Tone\, 2019). With Nick DeBoer they curate Elderly. \nTopazu is a San Francisco-based selector whom hosts the local Infinite Beat Ambient showcase and radio show Infinite Beat on SutroFM. Since 2015\, the show features producers\, artists and DJs that are shaping the Bay Area sound in experimental synthesis as well as celebrates romanticism\, nostalgia and cinematic themes with modern day electronics.Besides curating Infinite Beat\, she has been featured DJing many local shows including Sure Thing\, Surface Tension\, Honey Soundsystem and Recombinant Media Labs. With her interests in abstract textures\, carnal rhythms and her exuberance in darker\, chaotic noise\, Topazu has also supported many international artists such as Wolfgang Voigt\, Evigt Morker\, Silent Servant\, Takaaki Itoh and Marie Davidson. She was a featured performer for the first San Francisco edition of Mutek in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-noah-ross-san-d-henry-smith-jamie-townsend-topazu-subset/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T075057
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SUMMARY:Elif Shafak
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussing her new novel \n10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \nShortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage\, NPR\, Washington Post\, and The Economist \nA moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times\, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. \nIn the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul\, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby\, she remembers her life-and the lives of others\, outcasts like her. \nTequila Leila’s memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces\, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions\, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul\, Leila makes her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking\, finding a home in the city’s historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark\, violent world\, but Leila is tough and open to beauty\, light\, and the essential bonds of friendship. \nIn Tequila Leila’s death\, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life\, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end\, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion. \nElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She writes in both Turkish and English\, and has published 18 books\, 11 of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 54 languages. Her latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; and chosen Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her previous novel\, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey\, the US and the UK\, including St Anne’s College\, Oxford University\, where she is an honorary fellow. \nShe is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women’s rights\, LGBT rights and freedom of speech\, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people “who will give you a much needed lift of the heart”. Shafak has judged numerous literary prizes\, and chaired the Wellcome Prize and is presently judging the Orwell Prize.\nvisit: www.elifshafak.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-shafak/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T180000
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SUMMARY:James Sullivan - Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Tom Barbash\nThursday\, December 19\, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event \nIn the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly told account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II\, that gave as good as it got\, and that was later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk. \nMore than the story of a single\, savage engagement\, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa\, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio\, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage\, so prolonged\, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After a three-month overhaul and with a reputation rising as the “fightin’est ship” in the Navy\, Plunkett (DD-431) plunged back into the war at Omaha Beach on D-Day\, and once again into battle during the invasion of Southern France—perhaps the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre. \nFeaturing five incredibly brave men—the indomitable skipper\, who will receive the Navy Cross; the gunnery officer\, who bucks the captain every step of the way to Anzio; a first lieutenant\, who’s desperate to get off the ship and into the Pacific; a seventeen-year-old water tender\, who’s trying to hold onto his hometown girl against all odds\, and another water tender\, who mans a 20mm gun when under aerial assault—the dramatic story of each plays out on the decks of the Plunkett as the ship’s story escalates on the stage of the Mediterranean. Based on Navy logs\, war diaries\, action reports\, letters\, journals\, memoirs\, and dozens of interviews with the men who were on the ship and their families\, Unsinkable transcends historical appreciation of a single military ship to become a timeless evocation of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives. \nJames Sullivan was born and raised in Quincy\, Massachusetts\, and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has written for The New York Times and National Geographic Traveler\, the magazine. He lives with his family outside Portland\, Maine\, 3.4 miles from the birthplace of film director John Ford\, who steamed into Omaha Beach on Plunkett. \nTom Barbash is the author of the novels The Dakota Winters and The Last Good Chance and the non-fiction books On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11; A Story of Loss and Renewal\, which was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and other publications\, and have been performed on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sullivan-unsinkable-five-men-and-the-indomitable-run-of-the-uss-plunkett-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201220T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201220T170000
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SUMMARY:"A Christmas Memory" read by Thomas Lynch--virtually
DESCRIPTION:BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway’s event. This year it will be a bit different\, like everything else: We will host our dear friend Thomas Lynch virtually on Crowdcast. \nBased on Capote’s own boyhood in rural Alabama in the 1930s\, A Christmas Memory was originally published in Mademoiselle in 1956 and later was included in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s or to purchase a copy of the book through our website. \nRegistration is required to attend. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot” on Crowdcast. Click here to register. Thank you! \nOrder a copy of A Christmas Memory  from Mrs. Dalloway’s. A perfect gift for anyone on your list! \nThomas Lynch\, a longtime resident of the Elmwood\, is an actor and man-about-town. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, December 13\, 2020 – 3:00pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-christmas-memory-read-by-thomas-lynch-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210104T200000
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SUMMARY:Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry\, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete\, poets and writers who loved Pete will read their favorite poems. We’ll start with Good Times editor Steve Palopoli reading “Shopper’s Corner\,” Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz David Sullivan will read “I Wish I Was Billy Collins\,” Wellstone Books Publisher Steve Kettmann will read “Middle Age\,” novelist and Soho Press publisher Bronwen Hruska will read “The Woman of My Dreams\,” and Wallace Baine\, local author and man of letters\, will read … whatever he wants. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nMcLaughlin’s posthumous book\, I Wish I Was Billy Collins\, is part standup comedy\, part painfully revealing self-exploration—a tender\, heartbreaking\, hilarious book of poems about the male condition in the 21st Century. \nThese are poems to read and reread and then to read aloud to friends. Even nonplussed strangers will smile knowingly after being ushered into Pete McLaughlin’s world\, laughing at his manic\, self-deprecating take on the grim horror of waking up to find yourself a divorced middle-aged dude living by yourself with a cat\, one given to fits of projectile vomiting. \nThe poems range from a riff on the yearning of an “Angry Prius” who just wants to get out in the fast lane\, one time\, and drive all-out “mercilessly tailgating all comers\, / even senior citizens\,” to the revelations of “Middle Age\,” about being picked up by a woman in her sixties who “plays teasing\, exploratory footsie beneath the tablecloth/her unblinking green-light eyes/locked mercilessly onto mine/she winks knowingly\, her big toe somehow in my pocket now. \nPete McLaughlin grew up in San Francisco and was a standout runner in high school and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut\, before earning his teaching credential. He was an elementary school teacher and a high school coach for years before moving to Santa Cruz\, California\, where he often played his trumpet alone on the bluffs looking out at the pounding Pacific.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poems-to-make-you-laugh-cry/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T075057
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SUMMARY:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpMyYear or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/MyYearAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA darkly comic look at what happens when a young woman attempts to drug herself into a year-long hibernation. Extreme? Indeed. It also speaks to the myriad ways we can all choose to numb out and disconnect from life. \n— Samantha \n  \nWinter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List\n\n“Ottessa Moshfegh\, more than any other writer I can think of\, is great at capturing the feelings of despondency and malaise that come with living when and how we do. There are plenty of negative words to describe the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation—she’s detached and depressed\, she’s cruel and unfeeling—but Moshfegh writes her with such care and specificity I felt like I could live in her head forever.”\n— Theo Henderson\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \nDescription\n\nEntertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018 \n“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy\, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”\n— Entertainment Weekly  \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nNamed a Best Book of the Year by:\nThe Washington Post\, Time\, NPR\, Amazon\,Vice\, Bustle\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Kirkus Reviews\, Entertainment Weekly\, The AV Club\, & Audible \nAbout the Author\n\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Times bestseller. \nPraise For…\n\nNamed a best book of the year by The Washington Post\, Time\, The New York Times\, Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, GQ\, The Huffington Post\, Vice\, NPR\, LitHub\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly \nA New York Times bestseller \n“I don’t think I’m ever going to get over Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” —Parul Sehgal\, The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation-by-ottessa-moshfegh-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER \nWhether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program\, join our booksellers for a lively online discussion about each of the awesome titles in the program. Read three of the eight recommended books by February 28th and earn rewards from Bookshop\, Birichino Winery\, and Pacific Cookie Company! Read more about the Winter Reading Program here. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-winter-reading-program-mixer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T075057
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201229T222115Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER \nWhether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program\, join our booksellers for a lively online discussion about each of the awesome titles in the program. Read three of the eight recommended books by February 28th and earn rewards from Bookshop\, Birichino Winery\, and Pacific Cookie Company! Read more about the Winter Reading Program here. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-winter-reading-program-mixer-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T075057
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89568964677\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89568964677#  or +13462487799\,\,89568964677#\nWebinar ID: 895 6896 4677\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kex7DqWe5z \nAbout Uplift and Empower \nDid you know that over 700 million people live on less than $2 a day? \nNearly 10% of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time.Eradicating extreme poverty may seem like a simple issue\, but in reality\, it’s very complex. \nIn Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation you’ll learn about: \n\nThe history and context of poverty and how the Industrial Revolution shaped modern social structures\nMajor challenges caused by poverty and what it means to live within the poverty mindset\nInnovative solutions to addressing poverty\, such as new methods for job creation and community engagement\nAnd so much more…\n\nThis book is an exploration into one of the most pressing issues of our time. It’s for anyone interested in becoming part of the solution\, and everyone that’s ready to Uplift and Empower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-danielle-hawa-tarigha/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry & Short Stories Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize)\, Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories)\, and Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts and Storage Unit for the Spirit House). \nAbout the authors and their books: \nBrian Komei Dempster is a professor of rhetoric and language and a faculty member in Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of San Francisco (USF)\, where he also serves as Director of Administration for the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies. editor of both From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America’s Concentration Camps and Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. Topaz\, his debut book of poetry\, received the 15 Bytes 2014 Book Award in Poetry. \nHis book Seize spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and ailing child — a child whose many medical problems create an obstacle course of moral and emotional dilemmas. How does a father come to terms with the large and unknowable mysteries of a child who cannot communicate in a “normative” way? How does a parent — especially one who is dependent on language — guide a child without the use of speech? And how does one become the parent of another when their own uncertainties\, their own wounds — intergenerationally from war\, from strained race relations\, from constantly being denied a place to belong — are still healing? \nCaroline Kim was born in Busan\, Korea but moved to America at an early age. She has lived on the East Coast\, Midwest\, and Texas but now makes her home in Northern California with her family. Her collection of stories\, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\, won the 2020 Pitt Drue Heinz Literature Prize. You can find her on Twitter at @carolinewriting. \nExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora\, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America\, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War\, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter\, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot\, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try\, fail\, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor\, insight\, and curiosity\, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture\, communication\, travel\, and family. Ultimately\, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place–or people–that will feel like home. \nMaw Shein Win is a writer\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018) and her forthcoming second full-length collection of poetry will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. You can find her on Twitter @mawsheinwin. \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, almost all of whom were once humans who died violently\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nYou can purchase the speakers’ works here: \nSeize: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2708/Seize.html \nThe Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2703/The_Prince_of_Mournful_Thoughts_and_Other_Stories_%28_Pitt_Drue_Heinz_Lit_Prize_%29.html \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2189/Storage_Unit_for_the_Spirit_House.html \nInvisible Gifts: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2019/Invisible_Gifts.html \n15% off all purchases with discount code HOLIDAY15! \nChoose to ship your orders (free shipping for orders $30+) to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-short-stories-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore--virtually
DESCRIPTION:Discussing Mason’s most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California Book Award for fiction. This event is hosted by Ashby Village. To register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83908237472. For further information: info@ashbyvillage.org or call 510.204.9200. Donations to Ashby Village encouraged. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 10\, 2021 – 2:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThese stories–among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner–cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile’s depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere\, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro\, these are tales of ecstasy\, epiphany\, and what the New York Times Magazine called the “struggle for survival…hand to hand\, word to word.” \n“An enchanting cabinet of curiosities and wonders….Mason is one of our best historical novelists\, creating panoramas of rich detail\, propulsive plot\, and artful character development….In his first story collection\, he shows how quickly and completely he can immerse readers in a foreign place and time….Nine tales of human endurance\, accomplishment\, and epiphany told with style and brio.”– Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \nDaniel Mason is also the author of The Piano Tuner\, A Far Country\, and The Winter Soldier. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Zoetrope\, and Lapham’s Quarterly. A recipient of a fellowship from the NEA\, he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford. \nDiane Del Signore is Executive Director of the Simpso Literary Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mason-in-conversation-with-diane-del-signore-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. \nWhere Do We Go From Chaos? \nAs Jon Meacham writes in a back-cover blurb\, “many of America’s most thoughtful voices offer their views of the next chapter of our national life\,” in Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump\, published this month by Santa-Cruz-based Wellstone Books. Join Stephen Mack Jones\, Mark Ulriksen\, Angela Wright Shannon\, and Steve Kettmann to hear brief excerpts from the essays and wide-ranging discussion. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast! \nHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist STEPHEN MACK JONES is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers August Snow and Lives Laid Away\, which was short-listed for the CWA-UK “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.” \nArtist and illustrator MARK ULRIKSEN has been a regular New Yorker magazine cover artist for over 25 years. He’s covered The Masters and British Open for Golf Digest\, painted murals for the Chicago Bears and written and illustrated the book Dogs Rule Nonchalantly. His past work for Wellstone Books includes the covers of Kiss the Sky by Dusty Baker\, Shop Around by Bruce Jenkins and Holy Toledo by Ken Korach. \nANGELA WRIGHT SHANNON is a freelance writer\, editor and actor. She was formerly a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer\, managing editor for The Winston-Salem Chronicle weekly newspaper\, and a regular panelist on “North Carolina This Week” on North Carolina Public Television. \nSTEVE KETTMANN is the co-founder\, with Sarah Ringler\, of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (www.wellstoneredwoods.org)\, a Soquel writers retreat center\, and publisher of Wellstone Books. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle\, he conceived and edited Game Time\, a collection of New Yorker baseball writing by Roger Angell; authored One Day at Fenway and Baseball Maverick; and has co-authored more than 12 books\, including six New York Times bestsellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-now-what/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. \nWhere Do We Go From Chaos? \nAs Jon Meacham writes in a back-cover blurb\, “many of America’s most thoughtful voices offer their views of the next chapter of our national life\,” in Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump\, published this month by Santa-Cruz-based Wellstone Books. Join Stephen Mack Jones\, Mark Ulriksen\, Angela Wright Shannon\, and Steve Kettmann to hear brief excerpts from the essays and wide-ranging discussion. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast! \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist STEPHEN MACK JONES is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers August Snow and Lives Laid Away\, which was short-listed for the CWA-UK “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.” \nArtist and illustrator MARK ULRIKSEN has been a regular New Yorker magazine cover artist for over 25 years. He’s covered The Masters and British Open for Golf Digest\, painted murals for the Chicago Bears and written and illustrated the book Dogs Rule Nonchalantly. His past work for Wellstone Books includes the covers of Kiss the Sky by Dusty Baker\, Shop Around by Bruce Jenkins and Holy Toledo by Ken Korach. \nANGELA WRIGHT SHANNON is a freelance writer\, editor and actor. She was formerly a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer\, managing editor for The Winston-Salem Chronicle weekly newspaper\, and a regular panelist on “North Carolina This Week” on North Carolina Public Television. \nSTEVE KETTMANN is the co-founder\, with Sarah Ringler\, of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (www.wellstoneredwoods.org)\, a Soquel writers retreat center\, and publisher of Wellstone Books. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle\, he conceived and edited Game Time\, a collection of New Yorker baseball writing by Roger Angell; authored One Day at Fenway and Baseball Maverick; and has co-authored more than 12 books\, including six New York Times bestsellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-now-what-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Gretchen Rubin‘s most recent release\, Outer Order\, Inner Calm is a lovely\, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and\, by extension\, our lives. \nGretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make our lives happier\, healthier\, more productive\, and more creative. But for most of us\, a rigid\, one-size-fits-all solution doesn’t work. When we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits\, we can find inner calm. \nWith a sense of fun\, and a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people\, Rubin suggests dozens of manageable tips and tricks for creating a more serene\, orderly environment\, including: \n\nNever label anything “miscellaneous”\nAsk yourself\, “Do I need more than one?”\nDon’t aim for minimalism\nRemember: If you can’t retrieve it\, you won’t use it\nStay current with a child’s interests\nBeware the urge to “procrasticlear”\n\nBy getting rid of things we don’t use\, don’t need\, or don’t love\, we free our minds (and our shelves) for what we truly value. \nGretchen is also the author of the bestselling books The Happiness Project\, Happier at Home\, Better than Before\, and The Four Tendencies. She’s also written a bestselling biography of Winston Churchill\, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill\, and one of John Kennedy\, Forty Ways to Look at JFK. She also hosts a popular\, award-winning podcast\, “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” and a blog\, where she writes about her daily adventures in happiness and habit-formation. She is also a regular columnist for O\, The Oprah Magazine and makes regular appearances on CBS This Morning. Before turning to writing\, Gretchen had a career in law. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School\, she clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-gretchen-rubin-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gina Apostol
DESCRIPTION:Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award–winning novel \nRevolution According to Raymundo Mata \npublished by Soho 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 to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nRaymundo Mata is a nightblind bookworm and a revolutionary in the Philippine war against Spain in 1896. Told in the form of a memoir\, the novel traces Mata’s childhood\, his education in Manila\, his love affairs\, and his discovery of the books of the man who becomes the nation’s great hero José Rizal (Rizal\, in real life\, is executed by the Spaniards for writing two great novels that spark revolution—the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. At the time Rizal died\, he was working on a third novel\, Makamisa). \nRaymundo Mata’s autobiography\, however\, is de-centered by another story: that of the development of the book. In the foreword(s)\, afterword(s)\, and footnotes\, we see the translator Mimi C. Magsalin (a pseudonym)\, the rabid nationalist editor Estrella Espejo\, and the neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic Dr. Diwata Drake make multiple readings of the Mata manuscript. Inevitably\, clashes between these readings occur throughout the novel\, and in the end the reader is on a wild chase to answer enduring questions: Does the manuscript contain Makamisa or is it Makamisa? Are the journals an elaborate hoax? And who is the perpetrator of the textual crime? \nIn this story about the love of books\, the story of a nation emerges. But what is a nation? What The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata imagines is that through acts of reading\, a nation is born. \nGina Apostol’s third book\, Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels\, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria\, Italy\, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, Gettysburg Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban\, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-apostol/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T150000
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SUMMARY:Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is to keep the community united during the time apart through our online\, roundtable discussions. We will be hosting online roundtables every-other-week with different topics to engage with the CHSA community. \n\n\nHere is our upcoming schedule! Feel free to join all topics* of interest to you: \n\nJanuary 13th-Miss Chinatown. A discussion about memories of the Miss Chinatown pageant in preparation for the Chinese New Year celebration.\n\nInterested in joining? Click here to register! \nPlease note: this is an interactive event. We encourage everyone to check that their microphones and cameras are working so that they can engage in the discussion. Space is limited to encourage participation among attendees. \n*Topics and discussion dates are subject to change depending on current events and interest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-roundtable-miss-chinatown/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T200000
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SUMMARY:Robert Jones Jr. - The Prophets (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning\, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals\, but also to each other\, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge\, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation\, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel’s love\, which was once so simple\, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony. \nWith a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison\, Robert Jones\, Jr. fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike\, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them\, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning\, The Prophets masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance\, but is also shot through with hope\, beauty\, and truth\, portraying the enormous\, heroic power of love. \nRobert Jones\, Jr. was born and raised in New York City. He received his BFA in creative writing with honors and MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. He has written for numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, Essence\, OkayAfrica\, The Feminist Wire\, and The Grio. He is the creator of the social justice social media community Son of Baldwin. Jones was recently featured in T Magazine‘s cover story\, “Black Male Writers of Our Time.” The Prophets is his debut novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-jones-jr-the-prophets-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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