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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89343683958#  or +12532158782\,\,89343683958#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 893 4368 3958\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwdCVhDnt \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nKeep an eye out for our upcoming auction of an archival print of Stevie by Tracy Anne Hart. Posting November 20\, 2020! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89343683958#  or +12532158782\,\,89343683958#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 893 4368 3958\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwdCVhDnt \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Editor Alice Quinn is joined by contributors to the anthology\, Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf)\, for this special virtual poetry reading. \nConfirmed participants so far include: \nForrest Gander\nBrenda Hillman\nAlice Quinn\nDean Rader\nTess Taylor\nNoah Warren\nJenny Xie\nMatthew Zapruder \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nAbout Together in a Sudden Strangeness \nAs the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world\, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if\, and what\, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response\, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox\, assembling this various\, intimate\, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages\, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves\, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength\, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital\, and\, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe\, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful\, darkly humorous\, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times\, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange\, providing wisdom\, companionship\, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. \nAbout Alice Quinn and the participants \nAlice Quinn\, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years\, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings\, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems\, Drafts\, and Fragments\, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-americas-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing the Virus with Caille Millner\, Jon Roemer\, David Dario Winner\, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Virus\, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic\, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism\, privilege\, and politics. The book tracks the virus’s progression from epidemiological threat to international crisis and sketches the evolution of Corona’s rapidly changing meaning over the past three-quarters of a year. Among the 31 works in the book\, Writing the Virus appeals to the power of love in the Black community as our strongest and most promising force for change (Millner); explores what it means to be a writer in precarious times (Roemer); and exposes the uncomfortable barriers of ethnicity\, civic cooperation\, and racism as experienced by someone going out for what is no longer an ordinary run (Winner). Writing the Virus\, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Winner\, was published November 1 by Outpost 19 Books. \nReaders of the evening: Caille Millner (“Something New”); Jon Roemer (“Uncertainty Ever After”); and David Dario Winner (“Daisy Assassin”). The event will be moderated by Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of Zyzzyva. \nCaille Millner\nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification (Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review\, Zyzzyva\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Paris Review Daily. \nJon Roemer\nJon Roemer is the publisher and senior editor at Outpost19 Books and author of the novel Five Windows. His writing has appeared at The Millions\, KGB Lit\, The Writer\, OZY\, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\, 3:AM\, and elsewhere. His public speaking includes the Editors’ Picks panel at Library Journal’s Day of Dialogue and Northwestern University’s guest lecture program. He is queer and based in San Francisco. \nDavid Dario Winner\nDavid Winner is the author of Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara. His work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Millions\, and other publications in the US and the UK. He is the fiction editor of the Rome-based magazine\, The American\, senior editor for Statorec\, and a regular contributor to the The Brooklyn Rail. \nOscar Villalon\nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of Zyzzyva. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Literary Hub\, the Believer\, Alta\, Zócalo Public Square\, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-virus-with-caille-millner-jon-roemer-david-dario-winner-and-oscar-villalon-virtual-event/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing the Virus with Caille Millner\, Jon Roemer\, David Dario Winner\, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Virus\, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic\, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism\, privilege\, and politics. The book tracks the virus’s progression from epidemiological threat to international crisis and sketches the evolution of Corona’s rapidly changing meaning over the past three-quarters of a year. Among the 31 works in the book\, Writing the Virus appeals to the power of love in the Black community as our strongest and most promising force for change (Millner); explores what it means to be a writer in precarious times (Roemer); and exposes the uncomfortable barriers of ethnicity\, civic cooperation\, and racism as experienced by someone going out for what is no longer an ordinary run (Winner). Writing the Virus\, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Winner\, was published November 1 by Outpost 19 Books. \nReaders of the evening: Caille Millner (“Something New”); Jon Roemer (“Uncertainty Ever After”); and David Dario Winner (“Daisy Assassin”). The event will be moderated by Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of Zyzzyva. \nCaille Millner\nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification (Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review\, Zyzzyva\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Paris Review Daily. \nJon Roemer\nJon Roemer is the publisher and senior editor at Outpost19 Books and author of the novel Five Windows. His writing has appeared at The Millions\, KGB Lit\, The Writer\, OZY\, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\, 3:AM\, and elsewhere. His public speaking includes the Editors’ Picks panel at Library Journal’s Day of Dialogue and Northwestern University’s guest lecture program. He is queer and based in San Francisco. \nDavid Dario Winner\nDavid Winner is the author of Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara. His work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Millions\, and other publications in the US and the UK. He is the fiction editor of the Rome-based magazine\, The American\, senior editor for Statorec\, and a regular contributor to the The Brooklyn Rail. \nOscar Villalon\nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of Zyzzyva. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Literary Hub\, the Believer\, Alta\, Zócalo Public Square\, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-virus-with-caille-millner-jon-roemer-david-dario-winner-and-oscar-villalon-virtual-event-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Best Kids Books of the Year Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop’s interim head Children’s buyer as she shares Bookshop’s picks for the Best Kids Books of the Year! From picture books to middle grade\, graphic novels to young adult\, there were so many fantastic books for young readers published in 2020. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nSee the books we are presenting here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-best-kids-books-of-the-year-presentation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Headlands Center for the Arts / Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to partner with the Headlands Center for the Arts to present an evening of readings by Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to all who register. \nAri Banias is a poet\, and the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016) and the forthcoming A Symmetry (W. W. Norton\, 2021). His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in bæst\, Hyperallergic\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, and The New Republic. Ari lives in Oakland. \nTomas Moniz’s debut novel\, Big Familia\, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway\, the LAMBDA\, and the Foreward Indies Awards. He edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies. He’s the recipient of the prestigious SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and the 2020 Artist Affiliate for Headlands Center for Arts. Among the residencies he’s attended\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\, the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm and others. He teaches creative writing at Berkeley City College\, Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen\, and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nShelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books\, 2022)\, winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize\, and the chapbook RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions). She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell\, Kundiman\, and Vermont Studio Center. \nHazel White Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard (Nightboat 2018)\, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Fence Ottoline Prize\, and California Book Award. She was one of the winners of a 1-minute monologue competition\, in Tony Labat’s public art project at SFMOMA. Her monologue was titled I Want You to End Racism. She’s writing now about violence. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion (7.13 Books). His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine and elsewhere. He is a Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist\, Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. \nHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary\, international arts center occupying a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands\, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands provides an unparalleled environment in support of the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public\, we offer opportunities for reflection\, dialogue\, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. Photo of the Headlands by Andria Lo. \nBooksmith is an an off-center general interest independent bookstore and legacy business\, a flagship of San Francisco’s Haight Street since 1976. Booksmith is the force behind The Bindery\, a multi-purpose events parlor established in 2017 that features The Arcana Project: a deep\, highly inclusive array of books—fiction and nonfiction\, from all over the world—presented in chronological order by the date they were written. Booksmith also organizes Berkeley Arts & Letters\, an East Bay speaker series since 2009 that features exceptional authors with new books. Between the three programs\, Booksmith produces over 250 events per year. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sherry Smith\, Bohemians West
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, DECEMBER 2\, 2020 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIRTUAL EVENT: Join us online as we welcome distinguished professor of history\, Sherry Smith in conversation with Geoffrey Dunn to talk about Smith’s new book\, Bohemians West: Free Love\, Family\, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century. \nThe opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America\, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood\, two aspiring poets whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. Self-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement\, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress\, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades\, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon \n“Sherry Smith is a scholar whose books read like the best fiction\, character-driven page-turners. In Bohemians West\, Smith takes the reader on a journey with two of the most interesting characters we have never heard of\, who were among the thousands of literary figures and activists who were ahead of their time.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. She now lives in Moose\, Wyoming and Pasadena\, California with her husband\, Robert W. Righter (also a historian) and their English Setter named Una. A historian of the American West and Native America\, Smith’s other books include Hippies\, Indians and the Fight for Red Power and Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes\, 1880-1940\, both published by Oxford University Press. She is Past President of the Western History Association and received the L.A. Times Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library\, which supported research for Bohemians West. Smith has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, The Fulbright Foundation\, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. \nGeoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. He is a senior correspondent for Metro Newspapers in California and a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post. He is the recipient of several national awards for investigative journalism. He is the author of numerous books\, including: The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power\, Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Volumes I and II; and Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee. He is the recipient of a Gail Rich Award; the Distinguished Historian Award from the History Forum; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chamber of Commerce. He was named Santa Cruz County’s Artist of the Year for 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sherry-smith-bohemians-west/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Yusef Komunyakaa
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \nYusef Komunyakaa\nYusef Komunyakaa’s books of poetry include Dien Cai Dau\, Neon Vernacular\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize\, Warhorses\, Emperor of Water Clocks\, and Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth (forthcoming from FSG). His honors include the William Faulkner Prize (Université Rennes\, France)\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays\, performance art and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia\, Wakonda’s Dream\, Testimony\, and Gilgamesh. He teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkley-lunch-poems-yusef-komunyakaa/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Danez Smith and Patricia Smith | Readings + Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Danez Smith and Patricia Smith for a joint reading and conversation. This reading is generously funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and part of ARC’s ongoing Poetry and the Senses initiative. Danez and Patricia will be joined in conversation by 2020 ARC Poetry fellow Menat Allah El Attma and ARC Program Director Laurie Macfee\, and will be taking questions from the online audience. \nPoetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement\, research\, and collaboration. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley\, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. \nThe theme for 2020 is emerge/ncy. What kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency\, sudden harm\, life-threatening violence\, and extreme circumstances\, but embedded within it is the word “emergence;” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal\, as ruptures that signal massive—if painful—change? \n\nDanez Smith is a Black\, Queer\, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul\, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award; they also wrote [insert] boy (YesYes Books\, 2014)\, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Montalvo Arts Center\, Cave Canem\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez’s work has been featured widely\, appearing on platforms such as Buzzfeed\, The New York Times\, PBS NewsHour\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Magazine\, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi\, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection\, “Homie”\, was published by Graywolf in January 2020. Find more at www.danezsmithpoet.com \n\nPatricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books\, 2017)\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2018 NAACP Image Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and was a  finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press\, 2008)\, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go\, Gotta Flow (CityFiles Press\, 2015)\, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press\, 2006)\, Close to Death (Zoland Books\, 1998)\, Big Towns Big Talk (Zoland Books\, 2002)\, Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha\, 1991);  the children’s book Janna and the Kings (Lee & Low\, 2013)\, and the history Africans in America (Mariner\, 1999)\, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Baffler\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, Tin House and in Best American Poetry\, Best American Essays and Best American Mystery Stories. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (University of Arkansas Press\, 2017)\, and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir (Akashic Books\, 2012). Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a Civitellian\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College\, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Engaging the Senses Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danez-smith-and-patricia-smith-readings-conversation/
LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Derek McCormack and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction \n       \ncelebrating the the release of two new novels \nCastle Faggot – by Derek McCormack – Afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley \nA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland. \nand \nThe Freezer Door – by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore \nA meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity. \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———– \nabout CASTLE FAGGOT \nCastle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet\, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland\, a playland for gay men\, and Castle Faggot\, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log\, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed\, some killed themselves\, all ended up as décor. \nThe book includes a map of Faggotland\, a photobook of the castle\, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse\, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe\, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack’s love of the lurid and the childlike\, of funhouses and sickhouses\, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says\, “the mystery of objects\, the lyricism of neglected lives\, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.” \nwhat has been said about CASTLE FAGGOT \n\n“In Derek McCormack’s home province\, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper—a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper\, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast—Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration\, a musical\, a puppet show\, a theory of cosmetics\, a work of poetics\, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence.” – Lisa Robertson\, author of The Baudelaire Fractal \n\nabout THE FREEZER DOOR \nWhen you turn the music off\, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness\, that means turn the music back on\, right? When you still feel the sadness\, even with the music\, that means there’s something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn’t sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.—The Freezer Door \nThe Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle\, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams\, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture\, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. \nFerocious and tender\, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity. \nWhat has been said about THE FREEZER DOOR \n\n“I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door. In a happy paradox common to great literature\, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty\, to wield non sequitur with grace and power\, to ponder the past while sticking with the present\, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit\, candor\, inventiveness\, and majesty.” -Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nabout the authors: \nDerek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells\, Haunted Hillbilly\,  and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)). (www.derekmccormack.com) \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014\, and her previous book\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle. (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/derek-mccormack-and-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nTo order the books\, click on the titles: Beowulf\, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley\, and The Future of Another Timeline\, by Annalee Newitz. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n– About Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley – \nNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley\, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English\, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine\, justice is rarely served\, and dragons live among us. \nA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender\, genre\, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. \nMaria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia\, Aerie\, and Queen of Kings\, and she has also written a memoir\, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard\, she is the author of The End of the Sentence\, and with Neil Gaiman\, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho\, and now lives in Brooklyn. \n– About The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz – \n1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert\, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat\, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. \n2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future\, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks\, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. \nTess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline–a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past\, present\, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity\, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? \nAnnalee Newitz is an American journalist\, editor\, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT\, and have written for Popular Science\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015\, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel\, Autonomous\, won a Lambda award. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-maria-dahvana-headley-beowulf-and-annalee-newitz-the-future-of-another-timeline/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145251
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SUMMARY:Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Elena Passarello A conversation about animals\, wonders\, and the exuberance of the natural world
DESCRIPTION:Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Elena Passarello in conversation about Aimee’s new book\, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions). \n“Sometimes we need teachers who remind us how to be flabbergasted and gobsmacked and flummoxed and enswooned by the wonders of this earth. How to be in stupefied and devotional love to the wonders of this earth. How to be in love with this\, our beloved earth. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders is as good and generous a teacher as one could ever ask for. This book enraptures with its own astonishments and reveries while showing us how to be enraptured\, how to revere. Which\, again\, is showing us how to be in love. I can think of nothing more important. Or wonderful.” — Ross Gay\, author of The Book of Delights \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout World of Wonders\nAs a child\, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution\, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona\, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape–she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. \n“What the peacock can do\,” she tells us\, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile\, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely\, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. \nWarm\, lyrical\, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura\, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. \nAbout the authors\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems\, including\, most recently\, Oceanic\, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Mississippi Arts Council\, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry\, the New York Times Magazine\, ESPN\, and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aimee-nezhukumatathil-elena-passarello-a-conversation-about-animals-wonders-and-the-exuberance-of-the-natural-world/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth 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\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-4-adult-fiction/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T193000
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SUMMARY:Words Out Loud Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION:Susana H. Case and Martha Addy Young read from their poetry\, Evening includes literary trivia quiz and open mic. \nSusana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry. Dead Shark on the N Train\, from Broadstone Books (2020)\, is her newest. It won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite. Drugstore Blue\, from Five Oaks Press\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks\, two of which won poetry prizes. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies. Dr. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City. See more at susanahcase.com.  \nMartha Addy Young is the recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She was the runner-up for the Bellevue Literary Review’s poetry prize\, and a finalist for the Larry Neal Writer’s Award and the Crosswinds Poetry Award. Her poem Dusk in Dupont Circle was recently featured in Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland. \nTo Join the Zoom Meeting \nZoom Link. Meeting ID: 876 4770 1054 \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87647701054  \nMeeting ID: 876 4770 1054
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T170000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Online Performance
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon presents a special online performance \n\n\nSaturday\, December 5\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering here\n\n\n\nin partnership with our friends at The Booksmith and The Bindery\, currently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing\n\n\n\nfeaturing\n \nDouglas Stuart \n(Shuggie Bain; Found Wanting; The Englishman) \nDouglas Stuart is a Scottish – American author. His debut novel\, Shuggie Bain\, was published in 2020 and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Stuart wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel\, Loch Awe. His short stories\, Found Wanting\, and The Englishman\, were published in The New Yorker magazine. His essay\, Poverty\, Anxiety\, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature was published by Lit Hub. Born in Glasgow\, Scotland\, he has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and since 2000 he has lived and worked in New York City. \nNafissa Thompson-Spires \n(Heads of the Colored People: Stories) \nNafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s “The Organist\,” The Paris Review Daily\, Dissent\, Buzzfeed Books\, The White Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, and other publications. Her short story “Heads of the Colored People…” won StoryQuarterly’s 2016 Fiction Prize\, judged by Mat Johnson. Her writing has received support from Callaloo\, Tin House\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois. Her first book\, Heads of the Colored People\, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award\, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. \nMeg Elison \n(Find Layla; The Book of Etta; Book of the Unnamed Midwife) \nMeg Elison is a science fiction and horror author\, as well as a feminist essayist and cultural critic. Her work has been on the Tiptree long list\, nominated for the Audie Award\, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, Shimmer\, Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Catapult\, Terraform\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. \nSarah Ladipo Manyika \n(Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun; In Dependence) \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, Zimbabwe\, and England. Sarah is a novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel\, In Dependence\, is an international bestseller while her second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah is host of Conversations Across the Diaspora and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency\, Hedgebrook. \nwith music by \nRachel Lightning Rose\n \nRock vocalist Rachel “Lightning” Rose is best known for her performances with Jefferson Starship and George Clinton\, and is an alumni of the world-famous Berklee College of Music. Her powerful vocals and surrealistic songwriting make for an immersive and chilling experience unlike anything else in popular music. \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-online-performance/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Alexander McCall Smith\, How to Raise an Elephant
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith will share How to Raise an Elephant\, the next book in his perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series\, which sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. \nTickets for this event are available for purchase on Eventbrite: click here! \nPlease note the morning start time\, as the author will be joining us from Scotland! \n“An escape from life’s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable—fragility\, fruit cake\, and all.” —The Boston Globe \nHOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT is the next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she’s faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child\, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? \nALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nTickets include entry to the virtual event plus a hardcover copy of HOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT. Please note that your book will become available after publication date on November 24th. \n\nThere are two ticket options: choose IN-STORE PICKUP or have it SHIPPED to you (either in the U.S. or Internationally for an extra fee).\n\n\nUpon purchase\, you will be registered for the event via the email address you provide in your payment information in Eventbrite\, and will receive access information there from Crowdcast (our virtual events platform). Please make sure you are allowing /receiving email from Crowdcast! Do not share your login information with others; duplicate and/or unrecognized attendees will be removed from the event.\n\n\nOnce the book has published\, please allow 1-3 days to process each order; shipping times vary from 3-10 business days (more for international orders). We will provide tracking information via email.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-alexander-mccall-smith-how-to-raise-an-elephant/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-zeyn-joukhadar-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201207T210000
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anxious-people-by-frederik-backman-ggp-online-book-club-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T140000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T210000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145251
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T130000
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CREATED:20201210T071424Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T160000
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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/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T143000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145251
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T180000
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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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