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SUMMARY:Sorrowland & Victories Greater Than Death: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon & Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Green Apple\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be available to stream on Facebook Live. \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sorrowland-victories-greater-than-death-a-conversation-with-rivers-solomon-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman in conversation with Marc Stein
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman and Marc Stein discuss \nLet The Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York\, 1987-1993 \nby Sarah Schulman \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nTwenty years in the making\, Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \nOne of O\, the Oprah Magazine‘s 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021\, one of and Cosmopolitan‘s LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021\, one of The Observer‘s Spring Books You Don’t Want to Miss\, and one of Bloomberg‘s 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring \n“A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it\, the one we live in now.” –Alexander Chee \nIn just six years\, ACT UP\, New York\, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races\, genders\, sexualities\, and backgrounds\, changed the world. Armed with rancor\, desperation\, intelligence\, and creativity\, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable\, ingenious\, and multifaceted attack on the corporations\, institutions\, governments\, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington\, DC\, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry\, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda\, and battled—and beat—The New York Times\, the Catholic Church\, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism\, in its complex and intersectional power\, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. \nBased on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists\, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings\, conflicts\, achievements\, and ultimate fracture. Schulman\, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation\, explores the how and the why\, examining\, with her characteristic rigor and bite\, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever\, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. \nSarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans\, Rat Bohemia\, and Maggie Terry)\, nonfiction (including Stagestruck\, Conflict is Not Abuse\, and The Gentrification of the Mind)\, and theater (Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and more)\, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls\, Mommy Is Coming\, and United in Anger\, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Slate\, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island\, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities\, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival\, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker\, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment\, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. \nMarc Stein is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author of multiple books on queer topics\, including most recently The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press\, 2019). His next book\, Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism\, will be published by the University of California Press\, in 2022. \n  \nPraise for Let the Record Show: \n\n\n  \n\n\n“A masterful work twenty years in the making . . . Schulman holds a unique position to chronicle this critical history and connect it with our own chaotic moment.” —Lauren LeBlanc\, Observer \n“A significant boots-on-the-ground account . . . Readers are right there with activists\, hearing their stories from them but also others who knew them . . . Vital\, democratic truth-telling.” —Kirkus (starred review) \n“[A] fine-grained history . . . [Schulman’s] firsthand perspective and copious details provide a valuable testament to the courage and dedication of many unheralded activists.” —Publishers Weekly \n“People often speak of the authoritarian handbook\, and I always wonder\, what is the opposite? Maybe this book\, in fact. In so many ways. Sarah Schulman has written more than an authoritative history of ACT UP NY here– it is a masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it\, the one we live in now. I can’t think of a book like this–it is an almost entirely new model\, uniquely possible as the result of Schulman’s life’s work. As one of our only genuinely intellectual iconoclasts\, she returns to us with this story of a movement that changed the world at least once\, now a part of the work to change that world again. Any reader will be changed\, I think\, by the stories here–radicalized and renewed\, which to me is something better than just hope.” –Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Characteristically forthright\, Sarah Schulman gives us the most comprehensive history of the ACT UP movement in New York to date through a wide range of interviews\, a trenchant commentary\, and a sustained testament to collaborative action and its history. From this extraordinary history told with the multiple voices of participants\, Schulman makes clear that the history of HIV and AIDS in this country has been marred by popular narratives and bouts of grandstanding that largely failed to acknowledge the thousands of lives still lost annually from AIDS\, the schisms that opened up serious issues of power within the movement\, and the specific ways that people of color and poor people remained unserved by the scientific advances widely celebrated. This work also tells us why so many people become activists: to understand social and political forces that seem overwhelming\, to work with others to give order to their world\, and to find community in suffering\, anger\, analysis\, and action. This book lets us know that neither our sorrow nor our rage is finished\, and that the work of acknowledgement of all who struggled and suffered remains our task.” —Judith Butler \n“In the style of the late great Howard Zinn\, Sarah Schulmam has written an epic\, moving and important People’s History of the Act up Movement\, filled with powerful storytelling and invaluable lessons in the do’s and don’t of organizing. We owe a great deal to Schulman for the depth and years of her research\, for her commitment to telling a story that lifts and honors a group rather than highlighting only a few individuals\, and for her willingness to tell the whole truth with serious rigor and love.”–V (formerly Eve Ensler)\, author of The Vagina Monologues \n“Sarah Schulman’s remarkable book Let the Record Show offers a thorough and corrective retelling of the history of ACT-UP\, introducing a diverse cast of characters that has been largely erased from what passes as the official HIV/AIDS narrative. She brings extraordinary reporting\, finely calibrated detail and her own lived experience to a book that is at once a love letter to the movement that refused to back down as it forced an epidemic to its knees and a road map for a new generation of activists grappling with social change.” —Linda Villarosa\, contributing writer\, The New York Times Magazine \n“With heart\, anger and rigor\, Sarah Schulman shows us how AIDS has shaped our political world by letting the people of ACT UP tell us what they did in their own words. Let The Record Show is more than a single book; it’s an encyclopedia\, an oral history\, and a map. Indeed\, as the most marginalized people are again at risk during yet another viral pandemic\, Schulman (and the voices she foregrounds so lovingly) gives us an activist guide for communally creating a better world. It is a masterpiece—the book on AIDS history I wish had been available for me to read years ago.” –Steven Thrasher\, Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting\, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and author of The Viral Underclass \n“Sarah Schulman has achieved the near impossible in this riveting and powerful book. She writes with the knowledge and experience of a passionate insider as she lays out a detailed and deep history of ACT UP. Yet she has a sharp eye for the bigger picture\, offering a broad analysis\, bringing in diverse\, fascinating\, and illuminating perspectives. Not until this book has an author captured how ACT UP was grounded in both the feminist and civil rights movements\, nor how the group spawned new movements and inspired a new generation of queer activism while dramatically influencing the course of the AIDS epidemic and making a mark on American culture. The writing is crisp and compassionate. The stories are vivid — heroic\, painful\, breathtaking and joyous. Sarah Schulman has produced a definitive and monumental work.” —Michelangelo Signorile\, author of It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance\, Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-in-conversation-with-marc-stein/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Suzanne Simard\, Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Leading forest ecologist Suzanne Simard will join us to discuss Finding the Mother Tree. In this\, her first book\, Simard brings us into her world\, the intimate world of the trees\, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp\, but are a complicated\, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social\, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSuzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson\, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Simard writes—in inspiring\, illuminating\, and accessible ways—how trees\, living side by side for hundreds of years\, have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses\, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication\, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence\, traits that are the essence of civil societies—and at the center of it all\, the Mother Trees: the mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \n“This book promises to change our understanding about what is really going on in the forest\, and other pressing mysteries about the real world.”—Michael Pollan \n“It completely overturned my view of nature.”—Kristin Ohlson\, New York Times bestselling author \nSUZANNE SIMARD was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is Professor of Forest Ecology in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suzanne-simard-finding-the-mother-tree/
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Kaufman in conversation with Francesca Caparas
DESCRIPTION:discussing Cynthia Kaufman’s new book \nThe Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook \nforeword by Bill McKibben \npublished by PM Press\n\n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Links coming soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Links coming soon. \n———– \nThe Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our species has ever faced. By explaining the entrenched forces that are preventing rapid action\, it helps you understand the nature of the political reality we are facing and arms you with the tools you need to overcome them. The book offers background information on the roots of the crisis and the many rapidly expanding solutions that are being implemented all around the world. It explains how to engage in productive messaging that will pull others into the climate justice movement\, what you need to know to help build a successful movement\, and the policy changes needed to build a world with climate justice. It also explores the personal side\, how engaging in the movement can be good for your mental health. It ends with advice on how you can find the place where you can be the most effective and where you can build climate action into your life in ways that are deeply rewarding. \nCynthia Kaufman is the director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action\, where she also teaches community organizing and philosophy. The author of Getting Past Capitalism: History\, Vision\, Hope (Lexington Books\, 2012)\, she is a lifelong social change activist\, having worked on issues such as tenants’ rights\, police abuse\, union organizing\, international politics\, and most recently climate change. \nFrancesca Caparas teaches English and Asian American Studies at De Anza College and she is the Faculty Coordinator of the Jean Miller Resource Room for Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality. She is the 2020-21 Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines where she will be researching discourses of digital literacy. Her interests and community work include international human rights\, intersectional feminism\, digital culture\, and decolonization. \nAdvance Praise for The Sea Is Rising and So Are We \n“The Sea is Rising and So Are We is a rare kind of book\, at once a primer for activists and an astute commentary on a set of critical topics that even a seasoned climate stalwart could benefit from. It takes on some really tough questions—transformational change\, how to talk about the emergency\, the need for a specifically global politics of climate justice—and it does in a manner that is both simple and sophisticated. It’s not an easy balance\, but Kaufman pulls it off.”\n—Tom Athanasiou\, author of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming \n“Cynthia Kaufman’s The Sea Is Rising and So Are We is a valuable overview of where we as a species are in the existential fight to prevent catastrophic climate disruption. It covers a lot\, from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment of our situation to the need for a personally supportive movement culture to sustain our climate activism. It is an accessible\, up-to-date resource both for those who have been in the climate fight for decades and those who know they need to do so but haven’t yet figured out how.”\n—Ted Glick\, longtime climate organizer and author of Burglar for Peace \n“In The Sea Is Rising and So Are We Cynthia Kaufman has provided us with a vital manual for confronting the climate crisis and its root causes. Kaufman offers compelling analysis\, a comprehensive mapping of the political landscape\, and practical guidance for action—all in a straightforward and accessible manner. Most importantly\, she offers hope.”\n—Tony Roshan Samara\, Program Director of Land Use and Housing at Urban Habitat
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-kaufman-in-conversation-with-francesca-caparas/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Waterlog Reissue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MAY 25 AT 6PM PT FOR THE REISSUE OF ROGER DEAKIN’S CLASSIC\, WATERLOG: A SWIMMER’S JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAIN\,\nWITH CRAIG POPELARS\, BONNIE TSUI\, AND PETE MULVIHILL ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83346470886\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83346470886#  or +12532158782\,\,83346470886#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kPwSATyv \nAbout Waterlog\n“Like swimming through Alice’s Wonderland.” —Lynne Cox \nA swimming journey would give me access to that part of our world which\, like darkness\, mist\, woods or high mountains\, still retains most mystery. It would afford me a different perspective on the rest of land-locked humanity. \nA masterpiece of nature writing\, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us. \nIn an attempt to discover his island nation from a new perspective\, Roger Deakin embarks from his home in Suffolk to swim Britain—the seas\, rivers\, lakes\, ponds\, pools\, streams\, lochs\, moats\, and quarries. Through the watery capillary network that braids itself throughout the country\, Deakin immerses himself in the natural habitats of fish\, amphibians\, mammals\, and birds. And as he navigates towns\, private property\, and sometimes dangerous waters and inclement weather\, Deakin finds himself in precarious situations: he’s detained by bailiffs in Winchester\, intercepted by the coast guard at the mouth of a river\, and mistaken for a dead body on a beach. The result of this surprising journey is a deep dive into modern Britain\, especially its wild places. \nWith enchanting descriptions of natural landscapes\, and a deep well of humanity\, boundless humor\, and unbridled joy\, Deakin beckons us to wilder waters and inspires us to connect to the larger world in a most unexpected way. Thrilling\, vivid\, and lyrical\, Waterlog is a fully immersive adventure—a remarkable personal quest\, a bold assertion of the swimmer’s right to roam\, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA #120: The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event to celebrate the latest installment of ZYZZYVA—The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares\, which reminds us of the essential synergy between art and science—how important literature is\, as a critical challenge to technology’s momentum\, as a creative force driving innovation\, and\, sometimes\, as a conscience. \nJoin us for an evening featuring contributors Juhea Kim\, Troy Jollimore\, Lee Conell\, and William Brewer—and for a special reading by Alex Torres of Anthony Veasna So’s story “Generational Differences\,” which also appears in ZYZZYVA’s new issue. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the issue here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the authors\nJuhea Kim is the founder and editor of Peaceful Dumpling\, an online magazine covering sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. Her first novel\, Beasts of a Little Land\, will be published in the fall by Ecco. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a collection of essays. \nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews. His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico. \nLee Conell is the author of the novel The Party Upstairs\, which was awarded the Wallant Award\, as well as the story collection Subcortical\, which was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of the poetry collections I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-120-the-technology-issue-stories-dreams-nightmares/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA #120: The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event to celebrate the latest installment of ZYZZYVA—The Technology Issue: Stories\, Dreams\, & Nightmares\, which reminds us of the essential synergy between art and science—how important literature is\, as a critical challenge to technology’s momentum\, as a creative force driving innovation\, and\, sometimes\, as a conscience. \nJoin us for an evening featuring contributors Juhea Kim\, Troy Jollimore\, Lee Conell\, and William Brewer—and for a special reading by Alex Torres of Anthony Veasna So’s story “Generational Differences\,” which also appears in ZYZZYVA’s new issue. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the issue here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the authors\nJuhea Kim is the founder and editor of Peaceful Dumpling\, an online magazine covering sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. Her first novel\, Beasts of a Little Land\, will be published in the fall by Ecco. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a collection of essays. \nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews. His first collection of poetry\, Tom Thomson in Purgatory\, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico. \nLee Conell is the author of the novel The Party Upstairs\, which was awarded the Wallant Award\, as well as the story collection Subcortical\, which was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of the poetry collections I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:REVIVAL SEASON Book Launch with Author Monica West
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 25\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online book launch of REVIVAL SEASON with author Monica West. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81681297923. \nPreorder your copy of  REVIVAL SEASON at http://bit.ly/ggpRevivalSeason\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/RevivalSeasonAB. \nDescription\n\nThe daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this “tender and wise” (Ann Patchett\, author of Commonwealth) debut novel. \nEvery summer\, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam’s father—one of the South’s most famous preachers—holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease.This summer\, the revival season doesn’t go as planned\, and after one service in which Reverend Horton’s healing powers are tested like never before\, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in her father—and in her faith. \nWhen the Hortons return home\, Miriam’s confusion only grows as she discovers she might have the power to heal—even though her father and the church have always made it clear that such power is denied to women. Over the course of the next year\, Miriam must decide between her faith\, her family\, and her newfound power that might be able to save others\, but\, if discovered by her father\, could destroy Miriam. \nCelebrating both feminism and faith\, Revival Season is a story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a Southern\, black\, Evangelical community. Monica West’s transporting coming-of-age novel explores complicated family and what it means to live among the community of the faithful. \nAbout the Author\n\nBorn and raised in Cleveland\, Ohio\, Monica West received her BA from Duke University\, her MA from New York University\, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She was a Southern Methodist University Kimbilio Fellow in 2014\, and she will be a Hedgebrook Writer in Residence in 2021. Revival Season is her first novel. \nPraise For…\n\n“Explosive…. West does a fantastic job illuminating the struggles faced by women and girls in the Southern Baptist evangelical movement\, and the change in Miriam is palpable and moving. West’s deep understanding of her characters and community makes for essential reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nWest’s debut is a bold insight into traditional southern Christianity and its contradictions to contemporary perspectives on gender equality. She writes with a melodic cadence that is honest and often heartbreaking. Her characters are three-dimensional people who tug at readers’ emotions. West’s refreshing literary voice and thought-provoking perspective hint at a wealth of stories to come.—Booklist \n“Tender and wise\, Revival Season explores a girl’s faith in both her family and in God. Monica West’s formidable talent is matched by her generosity of spirit\, making the most winning combination a reader could wish for.”—Ann Patchett
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revival-season-book-launch-with-author-monica-west/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sara Davis and Hilary Leichter
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Leichter chats with Sara Davis about her new novel\, The Scapegoat (FSG). \n“Sara Davis’s The Scapegoat is ingenious\, suspenseful\, wise\, sad\, sometimes very frightening\, and often very funny\, too. The novel gets at the terrifyingly convincing lies (or stories) that we tell ourselves\, inevitably about that which we most need to know. The Scapegoat made me fall in love again with the form of the novel!” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Little Labors \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Scapegoat\nN is employed at a prestigious California university\, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous\, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father—unanticipated and\, as it increasingly seems to N\, surrounded by murky circumstances. His investigation leads him to a hotel built over a former Spanish mission\, a site with a dark power and secrets all its own. On campus\, a chance meeting with a young doctor provokes uncomfortable feelings on the direction of his life\, and N begins to have vivid\, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa\, and a shameful episode from his past. \nMeanwhile\, a shadowy group of fringe academics surfaces in relation to his father’s death. Their preoccupation with a grim chapter in California’s history runs like a surreal parallel to the staid world of academic life\, where N’s relations with his colleagues grow more and more hostile. As he comes closer to the heart of the mystery\, his ability to distinguish between delusion and reality begins to erode\, and he is forced to confront disturbing truths about himself: his irrational antagonism toward a young female graduate student\, certain libidinal impulses\, and a capacity for violence. Is he the author of his own investigation? Or is he the unwitting puppet of a larger conspiracy? \nWith this inventive\, devilish debut\, saturated with unexpected wit and romanticism\, Sara Davis probes the borders between reality and delusion\, intimacy and solitude\, revenge and justice. The Scapegoat exposes the surreal lingering behind the mundane\, the forgotten history underfoot\, and the insanity just around the corner. \nAbout Sara Davis and Hilary Leichter\nSara Davis\, the daughter of two Stanford immunologists\, grew up in Palo Alto\, California and received her BA and MFA at Columbia University. She has taught creative writing in New York City and Detroit. She has been awarded residencies from Ucross\, Vermont Studio Center\, and Ragdale. She lives in Shanghai\, China. The Scapegoat is her first book. \nHilary Leichter is author of the novel Temporary. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Harper’s\, n+1\, Bookforum\, Conjunctions\, the Cut\, and American Short Fiction. She teaches at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-davis-and-hilary-leichter/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n \nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nJoin Litquake for the exclusive Bay Area launch of the new anthology The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco (Chronicle Prism)\, featuring stories from 25 acclaimed writers about living in one of the most turbulent cultural epicenters in the U.S. Join us for a rollicking evening of stories and conversation\, with The End of the Golden Gate contributors Gary Kamiya\, John Law\, Kimberly Reyes\, and Alia Volz. Moderated by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nA percentage of this book’s proceeds will be given to charities that help those in the bay experiencing homelessness. Every copy purchased offers a small way to help those in need. \nOver the last few decades\, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley\, tech companies\, and more. Countless articles\, blogs\, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become\, a place millions of people have loved to call home\, and yet are compelled to consider leaving. In this beautifully written collection\, writers take on this Bay Area-dweller’s eternal conflict: Should I stay or should I go? \nIncluding an introduction written by Gary Kamiya and essays from Margaret Cho\, W. Kamau Bell\, Michelle Tea\, Beth Lisick\, Daniel Handler\, Bonnie Tsui\, Stuart Schuffman\, Alysia Abbott\, Peter Coyote\, Alia Volz\, Duffy Jennings\, John Law\, and many more\, The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time\, shapeshifting to become something new for each generation of city dwellers. \nWith essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution\, gentrification\, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco’s most beloved neighborhoods\, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement\, as well as the fight to preserve the art\, music\, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love. \nGary Kamiya is an author\, journalist and historian of San Francisco. His latest book\, with artist Paul Madonna\, is Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City. He is also author of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. His award-winning history column “Portals of the Past” appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco. \nJohn Law has been involved in creating underground culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for 40 years. He was an original member of the legendary San Francisco urban adventure and pranks group The Suicide Club\, was integral to the creation of The Cacophony Society\, and is co-founder of the Burning Man Festival. Law is still involved in the worldwide urban exploration underground\, and collaborates with a number of artists and businesses on various projects. He is co-author of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp)\, and lives in San Francisco. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist\, and has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, and many other places. She’s written nonfiction for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, and poetry for journals including American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Columbia Journal\, and The Stinging Fly. She is author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for nonfiction from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and many other publications. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell and Ucross. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-golden-gate-writers-on-loving-and-sometimes-leaving-san-francisco/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to present an evening of readings and conversation with Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education). Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors books below: \n\nSpecial Education by Caroline M. Mar\nSan Franshitshow by Cal Calamia\n\nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout San Franshitshow by Cal Calamia\nSan Franshitshow is an emotional reckoning with self\, love\, and the world that unfolds amidst a turbulent gender transition upon arrival into a new city. It chronicles the pain of loss and of coming to terms with yourself in a world that would prefer you did not: how this struggle impacts every area of your life. It expresses the power of self-acceptance with grace and humor. Calamia’s debut is a unifying force of a memoir—a poignant\, tender collection of poetry that will open your heart—every poem as raw as a tear-stained diary page. \nCal Calamia is a bilingual queer trans educator\, activist\, and poet from Chicago. His performative work has been featured at many spoken word series across The Bay\, and his first book San Franshitshow was just published by Nomadic Press. Notable accomplishments include impressing a teacher in kindergarten when he correctly spelled vacation\, attending two classes of an MFA program\, and often being told his class is a student’s favorite. Find out more about Cal at calcalamia.com. Author photo by Ariel Robbins. \nAbout Special Education by Caroline M. Mar\nSpecial Education is a powerful collection of poems confronting American identity in the 21st century. In large part\, it traces a new teacher’s poetic journey to understanding her work and herself. Mar’s poems\, which move between free verse and received forms\, between the “I” of her speaker-narrator and the voices of colleagues\, students\, and the world around all of them\, investigate a variety of topics—how love is expressed by doing something one hates for a partner who loves it\, what a charging bear on a camping trip can reveal about gender\, the failures of an education system as depicted through colors and images on a slideshow presentation. \nThe collection closes on a speaker both more and less certain about her place in the world. Her hometown\, as she gazes across it in “Views\,” is changing dramatically as she asks\, “Why nostalgia / for a place that is still my place?” By the poem’s end\, having covered everything from the places where her grandparents died to the effects of the next big earthquake to luxury cars\, the speaker has revealed herself to both be inside of and resistant to the machinations of systems that seem prepared to crush her students: education\, racism\, gentrification\, ableism. What does life look like on an everyday scale against the churning of the world? In Special Education\, Mar embraces this truth and\, in poems that show us what we have yet to learn\, employs both her systemic mind and poetic voice to confront the “ugly little loves” that the world makes of us all. \nCaroline Mei-Lin Mar is the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press\, 2020). A high school health educator in San Francisco\, she is doing her best to keep her gentrifying hometown queer and creative. Carrie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, an alumna of VONA\, a member of Rabble Collective\, and a board member of Friends of Writers. He work has recently appeared in Nimrod\, Storyscape\, Pinwheel\, and Anomaly\, among others\, and she has been granted residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale. You can write to Carrie at P.O. Box 460491\, San Francisco\, CA 94114 – she’ll (eventually) write you back. Author photo by Jessica Tong-Ahn. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-cal-calamia-san-franshitshow-and-caroline-m-mar-special-education/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Mackey
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new poetry collection \nDOUBLE TRIO \npublished by New Directions \n     \nThree new books in a spectacular limited edition box carry the tradition of the long poem far into the 21st century with a “low-lit\, slow-drag ebullience” \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nFor thirty-five years the poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive-making like no other: two elegiac\, intertwined serial poems—”Song of the Andoumboulou” and “Mu“—that follow a mysterious\, migrant “we” through the rhythms and currents of the world with lyrical virtuosity and impassioned expectancy. In a note to this astonishing box set of new work\, Mackey writes: \n“I turned sixty-five within a couple of months of beginning to write Double Trio and I was within a couple of months of turning seventy-one when I finished it.… It was a period of distress and precarity inside and outside both. During this time\, a certain disposition or dispensation came upon me that I would characterize or sum up with the words all day music. It was a time in which I wanted never not to be thinking between poetry and music\, poetry and the daily or the everyday\, the everyday and the alter-everyday. Philosophically and technically\, the work meant to be always pertaining to the relation of parts to one another and of parts to an evolving whole.” \nStructured in part after the last three movements of John Coltrane’s Meditations—”Love\,” “Consequence\,” and “Serenity”—Double Trio stretches Mackey’s explorations and improvisations of free jazz into unprecedented poetic territory. \nNathaniel Mackey was born in Miami\, Florida\, in 1947. He is the author of several books of fiction of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (Bookforum)\, poetry\, and criticism and has received many awards for his work\, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem\, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society\, the Bollingen Prize\, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University. \nWhat has been said about the work of Nathaniel Mackey: \n\nStill sourcing and exploring two massive\, braided streams of retrospective invention—’Mu’ and Song of the Andoumboulou—Mackey’s liturgy falls and sprays and pools in Double Trio. Bottomless\, modal\, modular as McCoy Tyner’s matched\, augmented threes\, surfaces bloomed with turbulent\, recombinant bottom like Bill Dixon’s double-bassed ensembles\, Double Trio doesn’t culminate: it promises. \n—Fred Moten \n\nFor decades\, National Book Award-winner Mackey has devoted himself to creating a long poem that covers ambitious territory — and he begins this installment by recalling how early free jazz musicians re-invented the multi-disc record collection because they needed several albums to record their fertile improvisations; you might say that Double Trio is Mackey’s multi-disc box set. Double Trio is a libretto of metaphysical music and probably the most important poetry collection to come out this year. \n—Ken Chen\, NPR \n\n\nMackey’s own rare combinations create an astonishing and resounding effect: his words go where music goes: a brilliant and major accomplishment. \n—Don Share\, The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Citation \n\nBecause of their crablike logic Mackey’s lines feel simultaneously abraded and buffed\, their meanings fugitive\, tremulous\, mercurial. He is a lyric poet whose probing of wounds and the whir of words reaches into epic dimensions. \n—John Palettella\, The Nation \n\n\nMackey is doing what might be the most technically virtuosic rhythmo- syntactic work in the English language. No one comes close. I hope these two long poems never end. \n—Mike Lala\, Brooklyn Rail \n\n\nNathaniel Mackey is a poet of ongoingness involved in a kind of spiritualist or cosmic pursuit. \n—Edward Hirsch\, The Washington Post \n\n\nMackey’s major prose project is an experiment in serial fiction called From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. It feels\, sentence to sentence and page to page\, like a work in the act of being created. It is not simply writing about jazz\, but writing as jazz… There is a cliché about music writing\, sometimes attributed to Thelonious Monk\, among others: ‘ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.’ If so\, Nathaniel Mackey is compelled\, rather than deterred\, by the multiform madness of the enterprise. he is the Balanchine of the architecture dance. \n—David Hajdu\, The New York Times \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-mackey/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Happy Hour\, Summer Reading Edition
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as we share with you our picks for great summer reading. Bookshop’s owner\, Casey; head book buyer\, Melinda; and Bookshop staff members will share some of their favorite new reads. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast by clicking here! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookshop-happy-hour-summer-reading-edition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Mike Katz & Crispin Kott / Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host the virtual launch for Mike Katz and Crispin Kott and their new book Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area. We’ll have a special video introduction by Joel Gion\, percussionist with the Brian Jonestown Massacre who wrote the foreword to the book. Stay tuned for more information\, but please save the date and join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order **signed** copies of Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area here. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nSan Francisco’s rich and unique cultural history since its time as a gold rush frontier town has long made it a bastion of forward thinking and freedom of expression. It makes perfect sense\, then\, that both it and the surrounding Bay Area should prove to be a crucible for some of the most enduring and influential music of the rock and roll era. \nFrom the heady days of Haight-Ashbury in the ’60s to today\, San Francisco and the Bay Area have provided a distinctive soundtrack to the American experience that has often been confrontational\, controversial\, enlightening\, and always entertaining. \nPerhaps best known for the ’60s psychedelic scene which included the Grateful Dead\, Jefferson Airplane\, Creedence Clearwater Revival\, Santana\, the Steve Miller Band\, Sly & the Family Stone\, and Janis Joplin\, the Bay Area’s rock and roll history twists and turns like Lombard Street itself. The first wave San Francisco punks wrought the Avengers and Dead Kennedys; punk later gripped the East Bay\, giving us Green Day and Rancid. From the folk and blues eras through the chart-topping sounds of Journey and Huey Lewis & the News. The rock equivalent of Manifest Destiny carried wave upon wave of young musicians in search of fame\, fortune and the great lost chord to Golden Gate City. San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have collectively produced countless key figures in rock and roll\, from musicians to journalists to entrepreneurs. The modern concept of the vast outdoor rock festival took root in and around San Francisco. \nThe Bay Area is also where music history happened to artists from almost everywhere else: San Francisco is where the Beatles played their final concert and the Sex Pistols fell apart; where the Clash recorded much of their second album; where a drug-addled Keith Moon passed out during a concert by the Who only to be replaced behind the drum kit by an eager fan. \nRock and roll is baked into the Bay Area’s culture and story to this day. A guide to the places that shaped the local scene and world-famous sound\, the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area will take you to where music makers lived\, rocked\, performed\, recorded\, met\, broke up\, and much\, much more. \nAbout the authors\nMike Katz was born in Atlanta\, came of age in New Orleans\, and eventually made his home in New York City. He is a rock historian\, voracious reader\, veteran bookseller\, photographer\, and father to a much smarter daughter\, Alison. He currently lives in Monterey\, CA. \nCrispin Kott was born in Chicago\, raised in New York\, and has called everywhere from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Atlanta home. An avid music enthusiast and failed drummer\, he’s written for numerous print and online publications\, and has shared with his son Ian and daughter Marguerite a love of reading\, writing\, and record collecting. As a longtime Brooklyn resident and recent returnee to the Bay Area\, Crispin has been able to indulge in his love of Rock & Roll of the past\, present\, and future. \nMike Katz and Crispin Kott also co-authored Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City (Globe Pequot\, June 2018) and Little Book of Rock and Roll Wisdom (Lyons Press\, October 2018). \nJoel Gion is a percussionist with the Brian Jonestown Massacre. In addition to writing the foreword to the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area\, Gion is creating personal non-fiction on Patreon. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-mike-katz-crispin-kott-rock-and-roll-explorer-guide-to-san-francisco-and-the-bay-area/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The GUNCLE Book Launch with Author Steven Rowley
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online book launch of THE GUNCLE with author Steven Rowley. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85438602842. \nOrder your copy of  THE GUNCLE at https://bit.ly/ggpGuncle\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/GuncleAB. \nDescription\n\nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. \nPatrick\, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP\, for short)\, has always loved his niece\, Maisie\, and nephew\, Grant. That is\, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits\, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children\, no matter how adorable\, Patrick is\, honestly\, overwhelmed. \nSo when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own\, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules” ready to go\, Patrick has no idea what to expect\, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love\, a somewhat-stalled acting career\, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting–even if temporary–isn’t solved with treats and jokes\, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility\, and the realization that\, sometimes\, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human. \nWith the humor and heart we’ve come to expect from bestselling author Steven Rowley\, The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love\, patience\, and family in even the most trying of times. \nAbout the Author\n\nSteven Rowley is the author of The Editor and the national bestseller Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He lives in Palm Springs\, California. \nPraise For…\n\nOne of O\, The Oprah Magazine‘s “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021”  \n“A laugh-out-loud heartwarmer.” –O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Heartwarming\, hilarious…Rowley finds humor and poignancy in the snappy narrative….Readers will find this delightful and illuminating.” –Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-guncle-book-launch-with-author-steven-rowley/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #60
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-60/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210531T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210531T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
CREATED:20210531T235844Z
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SUMMARY:AUTHORS ON THE STREET: a live\, in-person outdoor reading!
DESCRIPTION:An in-person\, outdoor celebration of books and community. Let’s gather and hear some fresh voices!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event \n\n\nWe’ve enjoyed all the Zoom events (and Crowdcast events and FB live events) during the past year or so — but we also miss gathering in person to hear authors read their work! So we’ve partnered with the wonderful folks at the Inner Sunset Flea to have an hour of spoken word\, featuring some of our favorite local wordsmiths! \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. Featuring: \n\nShruti Swamy (A House Is a Body)\nAnnalee Newitz (Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age)\nMike Chen (We Could Be Heroes)\nChaney Kwak (The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From a Sinking Ship)\nJosiah Luis Alderete (Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos)\n\nBRING YOUR OWN BOBA. This event is totally free and RSVP is not required (but please RSVP so you know that you’re coming!) And please buy some books from the lovely folks at Green Apple…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/authors-on-the-street-a-live-in-person-outdoor-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
CREATED:20210521T190327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T190327Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie O'Farrell with Daniel Mason
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nTHIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this thrilling conversation. Please note the 11:30 am PDT start time. Reserve your spot early! \n*** \nMaggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet is one of the most exciting novels of the decade—described as “inspired\,” “magnificent and searing\,” a “tour de force” by literary reviewers and gracing nearly all the “Best of 2020” lists in publishing\, it is a book that has already earned its place as a modern classic. A dazzling work of historical fiction\, this tale takes on one of the most iconic figures in history\, William Shakespeare\, and one of the most challenging moments in any lifetime: the loss of a child. \nHamnet\, a retelling of the plague story out of which Shakespeare experts believe the Bard’s most famous play grew\, is a richly realized novel set in the lifetime of the playwright during the the Black Plague\, yet he is by far the most central figure. Hamnet opens on the boy son of Shakespeare running for help after his sister’s sudden onset of sickness\, a sickness to which Hamnet himself will eventually succumb. Though we know the broad strokes of this story\, O’Farrell crafts the world with such affecting detail that readers are transported bodily to Elizabethan England. The novel also creates a vivid portrait of a powerful woman and fiercely loving mother in the form of Anne Hathaway\, a figure history has often brushed aside. O’Farrell writing has both beauty and a sense of deep human understanding sure to captivate… and Kepler’s is absolutely thrilled to welcome the author herself in celebration of the book’s paperback release. \n\n\n\n\nIn conversation with O’Farrell is none other than beloved local favorite and critically acclaimed novelist Daniel Mason (A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\, The Winter Soldier). Together\, these two titans of literature and historical fiction discuss one the book that has everyone talking. Don’t miss the behind-the-scenes story of your next favorite read; join us to dive deep with Hamnet. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-ofarrell-with-daniel-mason/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
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SUMMARY:Tahereh Mafi with Ransom Riggs
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to invite you to join us to celebrate the launch of Tahereh Mafi’s highly anticipated new novel An Emotion of Great Delight\, a searing own-voices story about a Muslim teen’s struggle in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Shadi\, along with her friends and the members of her Muslim community\, are subjected to discrimination and other cruelties\, while she struggles with tragedy within her own family. \nWe discovered the joys of Tahereh Mafi’s writing with the bestselling highly acclaimed Shatter Me series\, that gained her a legion of fans. We followed her through the incredible Furthermore\, and Whichwood\, obsessed over the National Book Award-longlisted A Very Large Expanse of Sea\, and couldn’t be more excited to hear Tahereh tell us more about Shadi and An Emotion of Great Delight. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a story of a child of immigrants forging a blurry identity\, discussing love and loneliness\, about navigating the hyphen of dual identity\, and reclaiming your right to joy—even when you’re trapped in the amber of sorrow. \nBooklist\, in a starred review\, called it “A bluntly powerful read that shouldn’t be missed.”. and The New York Review of Books said\, “Mafi seamlessly works in questions of identity\, race and Islamophobia [and] taps into the fierceness and passion of first love.” \nAnd who better to ask all the questions we want to know than Ransom Riggs\, author of the amazing Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series\, and Tahereh’s husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tahereh-mafi-with-ransom-riggs/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T200000
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CREATED:20210424T173923Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Jeff Katzman\, M.D. and Dan O'Connor / Ensemble! Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host the virtual launch for Jeff Katzman\, M.D. and Dan O’Connor and their new book Ensemble! Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nI know what you’re thinking: Hold on…improv? Like getting on a stage in front of an audience? What if that’s not my thing? \nDon’t worry: this isn’t a book about becoming an improv theater expert\, and it’s not really a book about performing. It’s a book about loneliness–about our feelings of disconnection and isolation\, ones that we may have been experiencing since long before the pandemic. More importantly\, it’s a book about becoming unlonely–by borrowing from the collaborative and creative tools of improv. \nAuthors of Life Unscripted Jeff Katzman\, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico\, and Dan O’Connor\, multifaceted actor\, writer\, and director\, have created a process they call Ensembling that helps us build an ensemble of relationships in our lives and more deeply enjoy the groups we already belong to. This is a process of becoming a little vulnerable with each other\, and of embracing the moment in which we find ourselves. Drawing on concepts from narrative improvisational theatre and depth psychology\, the authors present us with the skills we need to connect with each other more actively and meaningfully. To ensemble or not to ensemble–that is not a question. With the rise of loneliness and isolation in an increasingly virtually connected society\, we must find ways to come together. We must ensemble! \n\nAbout the authors\nJeff Katzman is a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico\, serves as vice chair and director of an international program on psychological resilience training\, and maintains a private practice. He previously directed Behavioral Health Care services at the New Mexico VA Health Care System and programs for veterans with PTSD in Los Angeles. He holds multiple leadership roles in the American Academy of Dynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and is a board member of the Mentalizing Initiative in Los Angeles. Katzman has applied improvisational theatre with interdisciplinary hospital teams\, psychiatric trainees\, psychotherapists\, and patients. \nDan O’Connor is a multifaceted actor\, improviser\, writer\, and director working in television and stage around the world. He graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has trained with the American Conservatory Theater and Keith Johnstone since 1986. O’Connor is the founder and producing artistic director of Impro Theatre\, and co-founded BATS Improv in San Francisco and LA Theatresports. For 30 years\, he has trained writers\, actors\, and directors in narrative storytelling\, and has taught corporate clients to use improvisation as a tool for adaptation and change. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-jeff-katzman-m-d-and-dan-oconnor-ensemble-using-the-power-of-improv-and-play-to-forge-connections-in-a-lonely-world/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T200000
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Alice Waters\, We Are What We Eat
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Legendary chef and food activist Alice Waters will be in conversation with bestselling author Michael Pollan about her new book\, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto—an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nPlease note: We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto will publish on June 1st\, 2021\, the date of the event. Books will not be available for pickup/shipping prior to publication date. \nGet tickets to this special event here. \nIn We Are What We Eat\, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture\, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971\, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. \nCustomers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients\, to the dishes made by hand\, and to the welcoming hospitality that infused the small space–human qualities that were disappearing from a country increasingly seduced by takeout\, frozen dinners\, and prepackaged ingredients. Waters came to see that the phenomenon of fast food culture\, which prioritized cheapness\, availability\, and speed\, was not only ruining our health\, but also dehumanizing the ways we live and relate to one another. \nOver years of working with regional farmers\, Waters and her partners learned how geography and seasonal fluctuations affect the ingredients on the menu\, as well as about the dangers of pesticides\, the plight of fieldworkers\, and the social\, economic\, and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. So many of the serious problems we face in the world today–from illness\, to social unrest\, to economic disparity\, and environmental degradation–are all\, at their core\, connected to food. Fortunately\, there is an antidote. Waters argues that by eating in a “slow food way\,” each of us–like the community around her restaurant–can be empowered to prioritize and nurture a different kind of culture\, one that champions values such as biodiversity\, seasonality\, stewardship\, and pleasure in work. \nThis is a declaration of action against fast food values\, and a working theory about what we can do to change the course. As Waters makes clear\, every decision we make about what we put in our mouths affects not only our bodies but also the world at large–our families\, our communities\, and our environment. We have the power to choose what we eat\, and we have the potential for individual and global transformation–simply by shifting our relationship to food. All it takes is a taste. \n“In this warm\, passionate and very personal book Alice Waters lays out a stunningly convincing case for changing the way we eat. No jargon\, no big words\, just Alice walking about all the things that matter most to her. I’m going to give this book to everyone I love.” — Ruth Reichl\, author of Save Me the Plums \nAlice Waters is the executive chef\, founder\, and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. As the vice president of Slow Food International\, founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, and the winner of numerous awards\, including three James Beard Awards and the National Humanities Medal\, she has helped bring food awareness to people all over the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-alice-waters-we-are-what-we-eat/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell in conversation with Alvin Orloff
DESCRIPTION:Brontez Purnell and Alvin Orloff discuss 100 Boyfriends\, SFPL’s On The Same Page selection for June 2021. Transgressive\, foulmouthed and brutally funny\, 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. Publisher’s Weekly writes\, “Purnell brilliantly immerses the reader in Black\, queer desire with humor\, self-awareness and just the right amount of vulgarity.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-in-conversation-with-alvin-orloff/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
CREATED:20210424T173439Z
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SUMMARY:GOOD EGGS by Rebecca Hardiman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 1\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of GOOD EGGS by Rebecca Hardiman. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87633376119. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpGoodEggs or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/GoodEggsAB. \nMarch 2021 Indie Next List\n\n“Filled with warmth and hilarity\, this book reads like a mix of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye and a Maeve Binchy novel. The Irish setting is especially welcome on this side of the pond\, and of the three plotlines following different generations\, the absolute best paints 83-year-old pistol of a grandma Millie as a delightfully quirky and determined soul. A charming\, offbeat novel — perfect to savor as we emerge from this particular winter.”\n— Deb Wayman\, Fair Isle Books\, Washington Island\, WI \nDescription\n\n“A joyous\, exuberantly fun-filled novel of second chances. An absolute delight from start to finish!” —Sarah Haywood\, New York Times bestselling author \n“Bracing\, hilarious\, warm\, this novel is as wayward and mad as the human heart.” —Judy Blundell\, New York Times bestselling author \nA hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture\, becoming the calamitous force that will either undo or remake this family—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go\, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over. \nWhen Kevin Gogarty’s irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother\, Millie\, is caught shoplifting yet again\, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin\, recently unemployed\, is already at his wits’ end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work\, leaving him solo with his sulky\, misbehaved teenaged daughter\, Aideen\, whose troubles escalate when she befriends the campus rebel at her new boarding school. \nInto the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia\, Millie’s upbeat home aide\, who appears at first to be their saving grace—until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet. \nWith charm\, humor\, and pathos to spare\, Good Eggs is a delightful study in self-determination; the notion that it’s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family\, despite its maddening flaws\, can offer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/good-eggs-by-rebecca-hardiman-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
CREATED:20210424T235706Z
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Ever After: Emiko Jean with Gloria Chao
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Eastwind Books\nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for Tokyo Ever After\, the latest from Emiko Jean. The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in this irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! Emiko will read from and discuss her work with Gloria Chao. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be livecasted on Facebook Live.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tokyo-ever-after-emiko-jean-with-gloria-chao/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T201014
CREATED:20210528T153948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210528T153948Z
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SUMMARY:Emiko Jean: Tokyo Ever After
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nCo-presented by Eastwind Books \nThe Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After\, a “refreshing\, spot-on” (Booklist\, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. In conversation with Gloria Chao\, the critically acclaimed author of American Panda\, Our Wayward Fate\, and Rent a Boyfriend. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emiko-jean-tokyo-ever-after/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T190000
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CREATED:20210516T221602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210516T221602Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 3rd at 6pm PT when Grace Perry is joined by Greg Mania to discuss her book\, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\n\nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay\n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You?\n\n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes\n\n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago\n\nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman\n\n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\n\n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell.\n\nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T193000
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SUMMARY:Show Us Your Spines QTPOC Resident's Reading (May/June)
DESCRIPTION:Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work with the SF Public Library Archives.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. Despite the pandemic\, RADAR is determined to make space for creatives\, so the residency lives on in the virtual world with the assistance of our Program Manager and SUYS co-conspirator\, Mason J. \nFor a month\, QTBIPOC writers work 1-on-1 with digital archives and QTBIPOC community members around a queer theme of their choice; writing/producing/directing pieces to be shared the following month at the Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work within the archives. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ \nJune 3rd\, 2021 \nvia TWITCH TV (twitch.tv/studsf) \n6:00pm – FREE \nFeaturing… \nNefertiti Asanti \nAshton Young \nSydney Latimer aka Divinewords \nJon Wai-Keung Lowe \n  \nLearn more about RADAR Productions and Show Us Your Spines at https://www.radarproductions.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-us-your-spines-qtpoc-residents-reading-may-june/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Stacy D. Flood / The Salt Fields: A Novella
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with Stacy D. Flood for his novella The Salt Fields. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nOn the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north\, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife\, the ghost of his drowned daughter\, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car\, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South—people seeking a new life\, whose motives\, declared or otherwise\, will change Minister’s life with devastating consequences. \n“Beautifully written and memorable.” \n– Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master \nAbout the author\nOriginally from Buffalo\, and currently living in Seattle\, Stacy D. Flood’s work has been published and performed nationally as well as in the Puget Sound Area. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, he has also been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon\, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts. In addition\, he is the recipient of the Gregory Capasso Award in Fiction from the University at Buffalo\, along with a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Author photo by Jennifer Richard Photography. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JUNE 3 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRACE PERRY IS JOINED BY GREG MANIA TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, THE 2000S MADE ME GAY: ESSAYS ON POP CULTURE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86068674144#  or +12532158782\,\,86068674144#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNFW2AmAb \nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay \n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You? \n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress \n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes \n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago \nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman \n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL \n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress \nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell. \nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:New Directions @ 85: The Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates the 85th anniversary of this trailblazing publishing house \n \nwith Forrest Gander as MC and special guests Barbara Epler\, Declan Spring\, and other surprise guests \nNew Directions was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin\, then a Harvard University sophomore\, via advice from Ezra Pound to “do something useful” after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing\, each titled New Directions in Poetry and Prose (until 1966’s NDPP 19). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas\, Marianne Moore\, Wallace Stevens\, Thomas Merton\, Denise Levertov\, James Agee\, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions publisheg program includes writing of all genres\, representing not only American writing\, but also a considerable amount of literature in translation from modernist authors around the world. Among some of the writers they have published are Nobel Prize Winners Andre Gide\, Pablo Neruda\, Boris Pasternak\, Octavio Paz\, Pulizer Prize Winners Hilton Als\, George Oppen\, Gary Snyder\, Williams Carlos Williams\, National Book Award Winners\, Yoko Tawada\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Man Booker Prize Winner Lazlo Kraznahokai as well as many others. \nThe current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and introducing to the US contemporary international writers; publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose; and reissuing New Directions’ classic titles in new editions. \nDrawing from the tradition of the early anthologies and series\, New Directions launched the Pearl series\, which presents short works by New Directions writers in slim\, minimalist volumes designed by Rodrigo Corral. \nJoin us for a celebration of this quintessential American Press. \n  \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n (CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n  \n \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-directions-85-the-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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