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SUMMARY:Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond with Whitney Leigh Morris - What's Your Story? (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Transformational questions for personal and collective change. \nIn this time of global reckoning\, revolution\, and reinvention\, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to excavate the narratives that have shaped your life and write a new\, fulfilling story for the future. Consisting of 150+ questions—designed to be answered in as little as five minutes or as long as a lifetime—What’s Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution is essential for anyone ready to begin living their most authentic\, creative\, and meaningful life. \n\nExplore by area of life: Each chapter invites you to explore a different part of life as you move through your day—from waking up and encountering your mind\, to being in relationship with your body\, other people\, nature\, and technology\, to reflecting on community\, identity\, and mortality.\nExplore by theme: Five themes\, color-coded throughout each chapter\, allow you to explore a particular focus from beginning to end: creativity and self-expression; self-care; activism; spirituality; and grief\, loss\, and the work of healing.\n\n“Finding the voice to know\, write\, and speak your story can mean the difference between an existence of repressed silence and a life of joyful fulfillment\,” write the authors. “Our stories have the power to limit or liberate us.” \nRebecca Walker is a best-selling author\, editor\, and cultural critic who has contributed to the global conversation about race\, gender\, culture\, and power for over two decades. She has spoken at over four hundred universities\, conferences\, literary festivals\, and corporate campuses around the world\, and is a co-founder of the Third Wave Fund\, an organization that supports women and transgender youth working for social justice. Rebecca has won many awards\, and was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation. She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more at rebeccawalker.com. \nLily Diamond is a writer\, educator\, and advocate working to democratize wellness through storytelling\, accessible practices for inner and outer nourishment\, and revolutionary acts of self-care in relationship to our earth and human communities. Lily is author of bestselling memoir-cookbook Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body\, Heart\, and Table\, and her work has been featured in the New York Times\, VICE\, Healthyish\, Women’s Review of Books\, Refinery29\, and more. She lives in Maui\, Hawai‘i\, where she grew up\, on occupied native Hawaiian land. Learn more at lilydiamond.com. \n \nWhitney Leigh Morris is a Small Space Lifestyle Consultant based in Venice\, California. A firm believer that you don’t need to “live large” to live beautifully\, Morris uses her blog and Instagram account to share tips and ideas geared towards helping individuals\, couples\, and families live comfortably\, contentedly\, and less wastefully in compact quarters. Morris also shares her experiences and advice via a diverse array of editorial outlets and speaking engagements\, and via her mini video series\, Tiny Takeaways. She is the author of the book\, Small Space Style: Because You Don’t Need to Live Large to Live Beautifully. Morris is an engaged member of the Venice community\, is on the Board of The Rightway Foundation\, and was named a Wall Street Journal Woman of Note. She lives at the Cottage with her husband\, their child\, and two rescue beagles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-walker-and-lily-diamond-with-whitney-leigh-morris-whats-your-story-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Paraic O'Donnell with Helen MacDonald - The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:London\, 1893: high up in a house on a dark\, snowy night\, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling\, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mystery\, the story of a city cloaked in shadow\, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls\, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? \nOn the case is Inspector Cutter\, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss\, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls\, stumbles into a role as Cutter’s sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters—despite her employer’s preference that she stick to a women’s society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer\, he leads them all\, at last\, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands. \nBy turns smart\, surprising\, and impossible to put down\, The House on Vesper Sands offers a glimpse into the strange undertow of late nineteenth-century London and the secrets we all hold inside us. \nParaic O’Donnell is a writer of fiction\, poetry and criticism. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, the Irish Times\, Winter Papers\, and elsewhere.  His US debut novel\, The House on Vesper Sands (Tin House)\, is an IndieNext pick and was a Guardian and Observer book of the year for 2018 when it was published in the UK. \nHelen Macdonald is a writer\, poet\, illustrator\, and naturalist\, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the bestselling author of Vesper Flights and H Is for Hawk\, as well as a cultural history of falcons\, titled Falcon\, and three collections of poetry\, including Shaler’s Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College\, Cambridge\, has worked as a professional falconer\, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paraic-odonnell-with-helen-macdonald-the-house-on-vesper-sands-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Steven Kotler - The Art of Impossible (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Learn about The Art of Impossible from bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler as he decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes\, artists\, scientists\, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible\, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities\, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. \nWhat does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations\, exceed our expectations\, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements? We are capable of so much more than we know—that’s the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building upon cutting-edge neuroscience and over twenty years of research\, Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective Steven Kotler lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement. If you want to aim high\, here is the playbook to make it happen! \nInspirational and aspirational\, pragmatic and accessible\, The Art of Impossible is a life-changing experience disguised as a how-to manual for peak performance that anyone can use to shoot for the stars (space-suit\, not included.) \nSteven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author\, an award-winning journalist\, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of nine bestsellers (out of thirteen books total)\, including The Art of Impossible\, The Future is Faster Than You Think\, Stealing Fire\, The Rise of Superman\, and Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes\, translated into over 40 languages\, and appeared in over 100 publications\, including the New York Times Magazine\, Wired\, Atlantic Monthly\, TIME\, and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio\, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Along with his wife\, author Joy Nicholson\, he is the cofounder of the Rancho de Chihuahua\, a hospice and special needs dog sanctuary.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-kotler-the-art-of-impossible-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:This is Now: Simon Winchester
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. \n—– \nThe story of the world is the story of land: stories of taming\, acquiring\, and exploiting this basic building block of human culture. But can the ground beneath us truly be owned? \nWith his trademark keen intellect\, insatiable curiosity\, and narrative verve\, Winchester tackles the tale of the billions of acres under our care: how we acquire it\, steward it\, fight over it\, share it. Who actually owns the world’s land—and why does it matter? \nPerhaps no author could take on this massive topic better than Simon Winchester—not only one of the most entertaining speakers we’ve had the pleasure of hosting\, but also one of the most impressive historians. His 1990’s bestseller\, The Professor and the Madman\, has sold millions of copies and is a modern classic. Since then\, he has racked up one literary hit after another\, all due to a knack for finding and shaping fascinating stories within a subject. Pacific\, The Perfectionists\, The Map That Changed the World—history alive with Winchester’s gifts of language and detail. \nKepler’s Literary Foundation is proud to launch Simon Winchester’s Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. \nIn conversation with Angie Coiro\, Winchester explores how the very ground beneath us has shaped human history. Invite your book club\, and don’t miss it! \n\n**Get your tickets early\, as webinar space is limited! Bring up to one additional friend on a second screen with our “Bring a Friend” option\, and turn it into a book club event.*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-simon-winchester-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Panel: Black Crime Writers – Celebrating the Past\, Looking Toward the Future
DESCRIPTION:Authors\, S.A. Cosby\, Kellye Garrett\, Gar Anthony Haywood and Cheryl A. Head discuss the history of Black writers of crime fiction and the future of Black writers in the genre. \nREGISTER \nYouTube Live \n  \nS.A. Cosby is an Anthony award-winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines His story Slant-Six was selected as a Distinguished Story in Best American MysteryStories for 2016. His short story The Grass Beneath My Feet won the Anthony award for best short story in 2019. His writing has been called “gritty and heartbreaking” and “dark\, thrilling and tragic.” His style and tone is influenced by his varied life experiences which includes but are not limited to being a bouncer\, construction worker\, retail manager and for six hours a mascot for a major fast food chain inside the world’s hottest costume. Twitter | Facebook \nKellye Garrett is the acclaimed author of the Detective by Day mysteries about a semi-famous\, mega-broke Black actress who takes on the deadliest role of her life: Private Detective. The first\, Hollywood Homicide\, won the Agatha\, Anthony\, Lefty and Independent Publisher “IPPY” awards for best first novel. The second\, Hollywood Ending\, was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards. Prior to writing novels\, Garrett spent eight years working in Hollywood\, including a stint writing for Cold Case. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Sisters in Crime and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color. Her next project is an #ownvoices domestic suspense novel about a woman looking into the overdose death of a one-time reality star found within blocks of her house—her own estranged younger sister. Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nGar Anthony Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony award-winning author of twelve crime novels\, including the Aaron Gunner private eye series and Joe and Dottie Loudermilk mysteries. His short fiction has been included in the BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthologies and Booklist has called him “a writer who has always belonged in the upper echelon of American crime fiction.” He has written for network television and both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He and his wife Donna currently make their home in Denver\, Colorado. Website | Facebook \nCheryl A. Head is originally from Detroit\, and now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington\, D.C.\, where she has navigated a successful career as a writer\, television producer\, filmmaker\, broadcast executive and media funder. Her self-published debut novel\, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel\, was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist in both the African American Literature and Historical Fiction categories. Her award-winning\, Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (Bywater Books) is set in Detroit featuring a Black\, lesbian private investigator. When not writing fiction\, Head consults on a wide range of diversity issues. She is a Senior Associate at Livingston Associates\, a member of the Bouchercon Board of Directors and former Director of Inclusion for the board of the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS). Website | Twitter | Facebook \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-black-crime-writers-celebrating-the-past-looking-toward-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nPoets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event\nFloaters \nMARTIN ESPADA\, a poet who stirs our social consciousness\, has published twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry. \nHis latest book\, Floaters\, offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies\, songs of protest and songs of love.  The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over the border.  Espada bears eloquent witness to  confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries – the fallen dreamers\, rebels\, and poets – or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria\, Espada invokes ferocious\, incandescent spirits. \nDENNIS BERNSTEIN \, a poet and investigative journalist\, is the producer of Flashpoints (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have appeared in numerous newspapers\, magazines and websites. His latest book of poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon\, with typographic visualizations by Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermath\, to prison\, street life\, poverty\, love and loss\, to open heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness\, vulnerability\, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the writing has a freshness rarely encountered.  The book was a winner for Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest\, and a finalist in the International Book award for Poetry. \nSuggested Donation $1-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-espada-and-dennis-bernstein-floaters-tickets-130079233489 ken@kpfa.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-martin-espada-dennis-bernstein-a-zoom-event-floaters/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, January 19\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87225317750. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpCityWeBecame or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/CityBecameAB. \n“A glorious fantasy.”–Neil Gaiman \n  \nThree-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet\, a story of culture\, identity\, magic\, and myths in contemporary New York City. \n  \nIn Manhattan\, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn’t remember who he is\, where he’s from\, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city\, see its history\, and feel its power. \n  \nIn the Bronx\, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city\, so beautiful and powerful it’s as if the paint is literally calling to her. \n  \nIn Brooklyn\, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city\, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. \n  \nAnd they’re not the only ones. \n  \nEvery great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths\, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She’s got six.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-city-we-became-by-n-k-jemisin-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: James J. Siegel\, Ben Kline\, and Caroline Earleywine
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, JANUARY 20 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMES J. SIEGEL\, BEN KLINE\, AND CAROLINE EARLEYWINE READ FROM THEIR WORK TO CELEBRATE SIEGEL’S LATEST COLLECTION\, THE GOD OF SAN FRANCISCO\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81646234969\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81646234969#  or +13462487799\,\,81646234969#\nWebinar ID: 816 4623 4969\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koVmWjynk \nPraise for The God of San Francisco \n“James Siegel’s The God of San Francisco is one man’s spiritual journey through a city marked by violence\, queer history\, and the legacy of AIDS. Nothing escapes his attention\, not the vanished Castro Funeral Home\, not the “pale\, bony torsos” sunning in Dolores Park. Here\, history is a landscape where loss meets redemption. Ultimately\, Siegel’s keen eye renders the sometimes painful\, hard-fought ways we travel far from where we begin; these poems are as vivid and heartfelt as the world they map.”—Bruce Snider\, author of Fruit and Paradise\, Indiana \n“The first time I met James Siegel I went to his reading series. I was curious because we hadn’t met and I know many of the poets in San Francisco. We’re reasonably close neighbors\, in a place where some no longer think that there are such things as neighbors. The reading was impressive\, as is the poet. Having now read The God of San Francisco I wonder if we aren’t differently aged versions of a similar child. James Siegel’s poems made me cry in deep and healing sobs and in a rhythm of clicking heels and rosaries. My family has lived for five generations in the Castro and I’m a bit possessive of those streets\, but Siegel’s clean\, accessible and loving translations of spaces to words made me feel at home. This collection goes far beyond the rainbow crosswalks and renamed businesses. This should be required reading for people who think they know.”—Kim Shuck\, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco \n“James Siegel’s The God of San Francisco reminds us that ‘this is where life ended/ but went on for those left behind’—a post-apocalyptic universe like HBO’s The Leftovers where one person’s heaven is another person’s hell. I am reminded of being a young\, queer Latinx boy who dreamt of living in San Francisco\, a city whose cultural and political history is entwined in the daily lives of its people. These poems are about a poet’s love for a city whose mythology continues to live. We tread survivor’s guilt\, communal history\, and its trauma\, yes\, but these are love poems. The God of San Francisco is Siegel’s love story of a city and its people.”—Ruben Quesada\, author of Revelations \nAbout The God of San Francisco \nIn The God of San Francisco\, James J. Siegel examines queer grief during the onset of the AIDS crisis through a lavender-and-leather pantheon: St. Christopher\, Allah\, and the God of San Francisco transubstantiate a sarcoma’s cicatrix into sequins\, a viral dowry into a benevolent plume of dazzling feathers. From Laramie\, Wyoming\, to Toledo\, Ohio\, Siegel performs a magisterial frilling of historical attention\, always emerging as “an extraordinary conflagration. A beautiful immolation.” At once an elegiac columbarium and search-and-rescue map for future bliss\, The God of San Francisco trills from the Castro Funeral Home to North Beach and back\, surmising death as something honeyed and lissome\, “eulogies eulogized.” Desire masquerades as “a raven gliding / on the backdrop of midnight” and “Jesus in fishnets\, / crossdressing his way through Nazareth\,” and desire cedes each poem’s boy\, spectral or otherwise\, a warm hand\, green grass\, “the sun’s rays on our skin.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-james-j-siegel-ben-kline-and-caroline-earleywine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, January 21\, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel\, WIDER THAN THE SKY\, with author Katherine Rothschild. Katherine will be in conversation with Randy Ribay\, author of PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83921967498. \n(Order your copy of WIDER THAN THE SKY at https://bit.ly/ggpWider\, or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/WiderThanTheSkyAB. Order PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING at http://bit.ly/ggpPatronSaints.) \nIn the wake of sudden tragedy\, twin sisters uncover a secret that rips open their world. Katherine Rothschild explores the pain and power of forgiveness in a stunning debut novel that will shatter your heart and piece it back together\, one truth at a time. \nSixteen-year-old Sabine Braxton doesn’t have much in common with her identical twin\, Blythe. When their father dies from an unexpected illness\, each copes with the loss in her own way—Sabine by “poeting” (an uncontrollable quirk of bursting into poetry at inappropriate moments) and Blythe by obsessing over getting into MIT\, their father’s alma mater. Neither can offer each other much support . . . at least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie. \nSoon\, the sisters unite in a mission to figure out who Charlie is and why he seems to know everything about them. They quickly make a life-changing discovery: their father died of an HIV- related infection\, Charlie was his lover\, and their mother knows the whole story. The revelation unravels Sabine’s world\, while practical Blythe seems to take everything in stride. Once again at odds with her sister\, Sabine chooses to learn all she can about the father she never knew. Ultimately\, she must decide if she can embrace his last wish for their family legacy—along with forgiveness. \nAbout the Author\n\nKatherine Rothschild\, PhD\, is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University\, a former Arabic dance instructor\, and an obsessive food truck follower. She’s the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center artist’s grant\, and her personal essays have been published on KQED/NPR\, in the San Francisco Chronicle\, and in several other publications. She graduated from UC Irvine’s creative writing program and earned an MFA in fiction writing at St. Mary’s College of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wider-than-the-sky-author-katherine-rothschild-in-conversation-with-randy-ribay/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Dan Polsby\, Vintage Berkeley--virtually
DESCRIPTION:discussing (with wine) Lethem’s latest novel The Arrest\, an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings\, the man that came between them\, and a nuclear-powered super car. \n“An impeccably executed\, moving\, and wildly inventive tale of madness and narrative at the end of the world. Lethem is at the top of his game.”–Emily St. John Mandel\, author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, January 21\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Vintage Berkeley’s virtual salon hosted by Dan Polsby and one of America’s most acclaimed novelists for a Zoom on his new novel…with glass (and book) in hand! The ex-Berkeleyite author of Motherless Brooklyn\, and the man the NYT recently called “a master at subverting expectations of form and genre and the author of some of the most original novels in recent decades” is back with an amazing new book! \nThe Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted–cars\, guns\, computers\, and airplanes\, for starters–quits working. \nBefore the Arrest\, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner\, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum\, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn’t hurt. \nNow\, post-Arrest\, nothing is what it was. Sandy\, who calls himself Journeyman\, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister\, Maddy\, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States\, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings’ life with his usual odious panache\, his motives are entirely unclear. Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he’s up to\, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him. \nWritten with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread\, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest. \nTo register and purchase the prescripted wine(s)\, click: https://www.vintageberkeley.com/holiday-gifts?category=Zoom+Events \nFor further information\, write dan@vintageberkeley.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-lethem-in-conversation-with-dan-polsby-vintage-berkeley-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry\, presented by EcoFarm Conference
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo\, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef\, educator\, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy\, just\, and sustainable food system. His fantastic books\, including the acclaimed Vegetable Kingdom\, are available through Bookshop Santa Cruz (below). \nREGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE. \nBuilding upon its farmer-to-farmer education model\, EcoFarm is an essential networking and educational hub for ecologically-minded farmers\, ranchers\, and all who work to support their success in growing a healthy and just food system and world. Read more about their four-day conference here. And see more books by authors appearing at this year’s conference here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bryant-terry-presented-by-ecofarm-conference/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Fishow and Emily Schultz
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, JANUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN REBECCA FISHOW DISCUSSES HER LATEST COLLECTION\, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE\, WITH EMILY SCHULTZ ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89879534846\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89879534846#  or +12532158782\,\,89879534846#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kIzEKj0o8 \nPraise for The Trouble with Language \n“These stories burst with demented charm. Fans of Etgar Keret and Amelia Gray will relish Rebecca Fishow’s exciting debut.” –Catherine Lacey\, author of Pew: A Novel and Nobody is Ever Missing \n“A haunting\, compelling\, beautifully written trip through an America just below the surface of this one.  Fishow is so alert to the world\, through her language\, that it makes the reader more alert to the world too.  A wonderful debut that announces the arrival of a new\, deeply poetic\, voice to our literature.” –George Saunders\, author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December \n“I could read any one of these stories any number of times\, and their joy\, darkness and intelligence would remain fresh\, mysterious and bracing. Fishow is an extraordinary talent.” –Rivka Galchen\, author of Little Labors  and Atmospheric Disturbances \nAbout The Trouble with Language \nWinner of the Holland Prize for Fiction. \nWeaving together fabulist invention and gritty realism\, Rebecca Fishow’s debut collection\, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE\, unearths stories of men and women whose traumatic experiences make way for dazzlingly cerebral lives. A young man finds a severed head at his door years after his mother takes her own life. A married couple initiates a bloody jailbreak. A young woman poses nude for strangers in attempts to pay for mental health treatment\, while another finds herself rapidly shrinking in a hotel room. No two of these surprising and playful fictions are alike\, and each encourages us to peek behind life’s curtains to discover more bizarre\, enchanting\, and joyful truths. Wondrously assured\, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE heralds the arrival of a major talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rebecca-fishow-and-emily-schultz/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ACCENTED | For Your Consideration: Diasporic Vietnamese Filmmakers
DESCRIPTION:The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora\, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers\, poets\, artists\, actors\, filmmakers\, scholars\, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. \n— \nThis installation of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora will take place Friday\, January 22nd at 7:00 pm PST / 10:00 pm EST\, hosted by Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and will feature filmmakers Carol Nguyen (No Crying at the Dinner Table) and Bao Nguyen (BE WATER). We’ll be rolling out the virtual red carpet for our first ACCENTED of 2021 for an intimate conversation with filmmakers whose recent works\, partly inspired by their experiences in the Vietnamese diaspora\, are contenders for the 2021 Academy Awards. \nVisit https://bit.ly/ACCENTED8 to RSVP. General admission tickets are $5 or by donation. Share the event and tag DVAN on Facebook and Instagram (@weare_dvan) for a discount code! \nAbout the Guests: \nBao Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Saigon. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, HBO\, Vice\, NBC\, ARTE\, among others. He was the producer and cinematographer of NUOC 2030 a feature sci-fi that opened the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlinale and was awarded the Tribeca Sloan Filmmaker Award. In 2015\, he directed the documentary feature\, LIVE FROM NEW YORK! which opened the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. He produced Tran Thanh Huy’s ROM which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival where it won the festival’s top prize\, the New Currents award. In addition\, it was one of the highest grossing films in Vietnam in 2020. \nBao Nguyen’s latest directorial effort BE WATER world premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival was invited to other major festivals such as Cannes\, SXSW\, Telluride\, San Francisco\, Hot Docs\, Sydney\, Hong Kong\, among many others. BE WATER broke ratings records with its world broadcast premiere in the United States as part of Disney owned ESPN’s ’30 for 30′ series. Recently\, Nguyen has also formed a new production company\, EAST Films\, with offices in Los Angeles California and Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam. Nguyen\, alongside other creative partners Ham Tran\, Jenni Trang Le\, Anderson Le\, among others. They formed EAST to nurture and produce transnational stories with a focus on Southeast Asia. It is a creative studio with three silos — genre films for the local Vietnamese market\, Pan-Asian streaming series based in Southeast Asia\, and prestige fare to support the burgeoning cinema culture of Vietnam and bring it to international audiences. He is an alumnus of the 2012 and 2014 Berlinale Talent Campus as well as a Firelight Media Producers Fellow. He earned his BA at NYU and his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. \nCarol Nguyen (carolnguyenfilms.com) is a 22 year-old Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto and Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity\, family and memory. Her most recent film “NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its international premiere at IDFA 2019\, where she was also invited as the Opening Night speaker. It also received the Jury Prize for Short Documentary at SXSW. Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ignite fellow\, Adobe Creativity Scholar and a TIFF Share Her Journey ambassador\, where she strives to empower diverse voices and women through her own stories and personal experiences in the film industry. Today\, Carol is working towards developing her first documentary feature as well as an animated short. \nAbout the Host: \nViet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer\, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\, The Refugees\, and Race and Resistance: Literature\, Politics and Asian America. His most recent book was Chicken of the Sea\, done with his son Ellison. His next book is The Committed\, the sequel to The Sympathizer. \nAbout the Moderator: \nPhilip Nguyen is the producer of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora presented by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). He teaches Asian American Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and is the Community Organizing Manager for the Vietnamese American Roundtable\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in San Jose\, California. Philip serves as the President of the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) and as the Co-Chair of the Young Vietnamese Americans (YVA) Committee for PIVOT – The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization. \nWith curated custom cocktails by mixaphoria: Thuy Phan is the creator of mixaphoria\, a virtual bookbar that curates and designs cocktail pairings for books by diverse writers. mixaphoria’s mission is to encourage readers to engage with diverse literature and spark thoughtful discussions. Thuy’s recipes and book reviews for each pairing can be found at mixaphoria.com or on Instagram @mixaphoria. Thuy is also a dancer and lives in MA. \nIn partnership with: \nEastwind Books of Berkeley has been a major source for Asian American literature\, Asian Studies\, Language Learning\, Traditional Chinese Medicine\, and Martial Arts books. All books featured in ACCENTED are available at https://asiabookcenter.com for a special discounted price. \nThe Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit\, non-partisan\, community-based organization founded in 2004 upon the principle of empowering the next generation of Vietnamese youth with self-awareness\, passion for change and propensity for leadership. UNAVSA is a family of Vietnamese youth organizations working together to advance the interests of Vietnamese youth in order to build a stronger Vietnamese community at home and abroad. \nAbout the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nAll funds raised for ACCENTED will go towards supporting DVAN’s mission to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora and connect them to diasporic communities all over the globe.\nThis program is sponsored by the DVAN@SFSU Project of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. \nFor more information about the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) please visit our website at https://dvan.org or follow us on Instagram (@weare_dvan) \nDVAN believes that the stories\, imaginaries\, and poetics of a thriving Vietnamese diaspora can unite our global community. Our mission is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese voices. DVAN presents nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora and to promote understanding and dialogue within our community\, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees\, immigrants\, survivors\, and descendants\, and our stories must be heard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/accented-for-your-consideration-diasporic-vietnamese-filmmakers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Ed Lin Discusses new book\, ‘David Tung Can't Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Eastwind Book Club. Live discussion with author Ed Lin.\nAbout the book: David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale\, Asian-majority\, New Jersey suburb who works every day at his family’s restaurant. He strategizes every homeroom about how to improve his class rank so he can get into an Ivy League college. His only release? Hanging with his “real” friends once a week at Chinese school in NYC’s working-class Chinatown. \nEd Lin’s YA-novel debut takes on coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora with a heartwarming and humorous exploration of race\, class\, young love\, and the contradictory expectations of immigrant parents. \nLin is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent. He is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards and is an all-around standup kinda guy.His books include Waylaid\, and a mystery trilogy set in New York’s Chinatown in the ‘70s: This Is a Bust\, Snakes Can’t Run and One Red Bastard. Ghost Month\, published by Soho Crime\, is a Taipei-based mystery\, and Incensed and 99 Ways to Die continue that series. David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College\, his first YA novel\, is published by Kaya Press in October 2020.Lin lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, actress Cindy Cheung\, and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-ed-lin-discusses-new-book-david-tung-cant-have-a-girlfriend-until-he-gets-into-an-ivy-league-college/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:At The Door - The Preface (inaugural event)
DESCRIPTION:At The Door is a monthly reading series featuring and uplifting Black\, Indigenous\, and people of color voices. Started in collaboration by Danielle\, Ariel\, Randy\, and Kevin – check us out checkitatd.org\n\nJoin us for our inaugural reading event: “Preface”\nFeatured Readers:\nPreeti Vangani\nHernan de la Cruz Ramos\nGeorgina Marie\nJulayne Lee\nJames Cagney\n\nPreeti Vangani is an Indian poet & essayist. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions)\, her first book of poems ( winner of RL India Poetry Prize.)\nHer work has been published in BOAAT\, Gulf Coast\, Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the Poetry Editor for Glass\, a Poet Mentor at Youth Speaks and holds an MFA (Writing) from University of San Francisco.\n\nHernan De La Cruz Ramos is a poet from northern NJ and he currently resides in Oakland\, CA. He has been published in The Night Heron Barks and can be found on social media @penpalsocks\n\nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lakeport\, Northern California. She is the current Lake County Poet Laureate for 2020-2022\, the first Mexican-American and youngest to serve in this role for Lake County\, and is the new Literary and Poetry Out Loud Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council. She has served as co-editor for the Middletown Art Center’s RESILIENCE and RESTORE collections of written word and visual arts\, and is an assistant poetry editor for Rivet Journal\, an online literary journal from Red Bridge Press. In 2020 she was an Anne G. Locasio scholar for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference’s Poetry Workshop. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook Finding the Roots of Water (2018) and her second chapbook Tree Speak (2019). She is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript and a series of personal essays.\n\nJulayne Lee is a poet\, essayist\, artivist\, art curator and producer. Her debut collection of poems Not My White Savior was on Bitch Media’s Bitchreads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read in March and Entropy’s Best of 2018: Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections. Not My White Savior has been taught globally in Freshman Lit\, Race & Ethnicity\, Asian/Pacific Islander American Women and US and Asia: Empire and Racial Liberalism university courses. A Las Dos BrujasVONA and Rooted & Written alum\, Julayne has read and spoken on adoption at universities and symposiums throughout the U.S. & Korea. You can follow her on social media @julayneelle www.julaynelee.com\n\nOakland native James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In\nThe Hour of Chaos Theory\, winner of the PEN Oakland 2019 Josephine\nMiles award. His poems have appeared in Alta\, Poetry Daily\, Colossus:\nHome\, The Maynard\, and Civil Liberties United\, among others. Visit\nNomadicpress.org for his book\, and more writing at TheDirtyRat.blog\n\nZoom Invite:\n\nHi there\,\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Jan 23\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://smashprogram-org.zoom.us/…/tJMuduqhrTwrG9WmfngP…\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-the-preface-inaugural-event/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Wandering In Greece With Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, January 25\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of the new collection of travel writing\, WANDERING IN GREECE\, with editors Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88625831342. \n(Order your copy of WANDERING IN GREECE at http://bit.ly/ggpWanderingInGreece.) \n… The 8th anthology in the prize-winning Wandering series … \n  \nWandering in Greece: Athens\, Islands and Antiquities \n  \nOnce again workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar take Wanderland Writers on another adventure —this time to Greece to wander amid its islands\, its rocky shores\, and upon those wine-dark seas of legend and lore where they discover how travelers who come to Greece as\na seekers find not only Greece\, but\, as Lawrence Durrell\nonce wrote\, themselves—and generally so much more—\non the journey. \n  \nStone\, marble\, mountain\, sea and sky framed by endless blue—these are the elemental foundations of Greece\, just as Greece is the elemental foundation of Western Civilization. For thousands of years Greece and its culture\, philosophy\, politics and spirit has inspired and influenced the lives of generations. In Wandering in Greece\, this talented and inquisitive group of writers has captured some of the joy\, warmth\, grace\, and wisdom of Greece and its people. These stories\, poems and images will remind a whole new group of travelers that a visit is a must\, and those who have already ventured in Greece that they have to return.  \n—Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis\, ret.\, Lt. Governor of California \n  \nContributors include Daphne Beyers\, Joanna Biggar\, Sandra Bracken\, Connie Burke\, Barbara J. Euser\, Annelize Goedbloed\, Thomas Harrell\, Donna Hemmila\, Laurie McAndish King\, Linda Watanabe McFerrin\, Gayle McGill\, Mary Jean Pramik\, and Anne Sigmon. \n  \nFor more information go to www.wanderlandwriters.com \n  \nLinda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar have floated down the Canal du Midi in France\, danced in the sunlight of southern Greece\, toasted the best of times in Ireland\, devoured the culture and countryside of southern Italy\, wandered through landscapes lost and found in Costa Rica\, investigated the myths and magic of Cornwall\, uncovered the soul of Andalusia\, partied in Paris\, basked in the magic of Cuba and explored the Indonesian island that is known as an earthly Paradise in their award-winning series. In each destination\, they eat and drink\, laugh and get lost\, explore and expound with their merry band of travel writers. And they always return with a varied collection of tales\, some mystical\, some inspiring\, some funny\, some terrifying—each told in a different\, highly personal voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-wandering-in-greece-with-joanna-biggar-and-linda-watanabe-mcferrin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an online book launch and discussion on January 26\, 2021 at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST featuring author Aaron Wright discussing THIRTEEN DOORS: A FAMILY’S FIGHT FOR EQUAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION with author Bianca Marais. \nAdmission with a copy of the book is $25\, and admission only is $10. All proceeds go to benefit A Great Good Place for Books. \nAaron was raised in the heart of the Central Valley in California. He is the son of two educators—his father worked in special education and his mother in early childhood education. Aaron was raised with an awareness of\, and appreciation for\, access issues for marginalized and vulnerable students. \nWhen his daughter was diagnosed with autism at an early age and initially denied access to special education\, Aaron began a quest to understand\, and ensure compliance with\, the state and federal protections afforded disabled students. \nAs a nurse and disadvantaged student advocate\, Aaron’s drive to understand how the public education system works became a passion. Early in his family’s journey toward a free and appropriate education for his daughter\, he found that the issues were far larger than his family. \nQuietly\, Aaron began to pen his family’s journey in a memoir. A true labor of love\, Thirteen Doors took more than four years to write. \nOnce the initial manuscript was complete\, he gave it to his unsuspecting wife as a Mother’s Day gift. Over the course of another year and a half\, the manuscript was revised\, edited\, and most importantly given the seal of approval by his daughter. Aaron’s ultimate hope is to engage a national audience in a deep and meaningful conversation about our most vulnerable students and how they are losing their access to a suitable education and what can be done to change the system that is traumatizing children and their parents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-fundraiser-for-ggp-author-aaron-wright-discussing-thirteen-doors-with-author-bianca-marais/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Roy Richard Grinker in conversation with Steve Silberman / Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Roy Richard Grinker’s new book Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness. Joining him in conversation is Steve Silberman (NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Nobody’s Normal here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nFor centuries\, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill\, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal\, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century\, through America’s major wars\, and into today’s high-tech economy. \nNobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history\, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness\, that we learn from within our communities\, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today\, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century\, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. \nGrinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry\, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud\, his own daughter’s experience with autism\, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science\, historical archives\, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia\, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of\, and variances in\, our cultural response to neurodiversity. \nUrgent\, eye-opening\, and ultimately hopeful\, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. \nRoy Richard Grinker is professor of anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University. He is the author of several books\, including Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. He lives in Washington\, DC. \nSteve Silberman is an award-winning science writer and the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\, which Oliver Sacks called “a sweeping and penetrating history presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity.” The book became a widely-praised bestseller in the United States and the United Kingdom. His TED talk\, The Forgotten History of Autism\, has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 35 languages. He lives with his husband Keith in San Francisco. Author photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-roy-richard-grinker-in-conversation-with-steve-silberman-nobodys-normal-how-culture-created-the-stigma-of-mental-illness/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Echoing Ida Collective
DESCRIPTION:evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book \nThe Echoing Ida Collection \nEdited by Cynthia R. Greenlee\, Kemi Alabi\, and Janna A. Zinzi \npublished by The Feminist Press \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted shortly. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link to be posted shortly. \n———– \nRooted in reproductive justice\, Echoing Ida harnesses the power of media for social justice—amplifying the struggles and successes of contemporary freedom movements in the US. \nFounded in 2012\, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who—like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the “way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. \nThis anthology collects the best of Echoing Ida for the first time\, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster\, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Imagining a gender-expansive and liberated future\, these essays affirm the powerful combination of #BlackGirlMagic and the hard\, unceasing labor of Black people to reimagine the world in which we live. \n“A rich awakening to the revolution and evolution of Black women and nonbinary voices\, and a deeply majestic tribute to the expanse of Black cultural movements—in singular reverence and collective power.” —Rebecca Carroll\, author of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir \n“Fueled by curiosity and generous with their vulnerability\, the Idas ask probing questions of themselves\, each other\, and the world. Right now media outlets are scrambling to hire writers who can find and tell important stories about race\, gender\, sexuality\, and power. Editors nationwide should know the Idas’ names\, seek them out\, and pay them well for their insights and analysis.” —Dani McClain\, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the editors: \nJanna A. Zinzi is a communications strategist\, writer and performer. \n\n\n\n\n\nCynthia R. Greenlee is a writer\, editor\, and historian of the African-American experience. She is a former senior editor at Rewire.News. \n\n\n\n\n\nKemi Alabi is a poet\, teaching artist\, and cultural strategy director of Forward Together.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-echoing-ida-collective/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bradford Pearson with Patrick Radden Keefe - The Eagles of Heart Mountain (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The impeccably researched\, deeply moving\, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores. \nIn the spring of 1942\, the United States government forced 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California\, Oregon\, Washington\, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14\,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody\, Wyoming\, at the base of Heart Mountain. \nBehind barbed wire fences\, they faced racism\, cruelty\, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home\, many established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. \nThat is\, until the fall of 1943\, when the camp’s high school football team\, the Eagles\, started its first season and finished it undefeated\, crushing the competition from nearby\, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement\, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off\, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided\, and some were jailed for their decisions. \nThe Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait of one of the darkest moments in American history. \nBradford Pearson is the former features editor of Southwest: The Magazine. He has written for The New York Times\, Esquire\, Time\, and Salon\, among many other publications. He grew up in Hyde Park\, New York\, and now lives in Philadelphia. The Eagles of Heart Mountain is his first book. \nPatrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream\, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He is also the writer and host of Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series from Pineapple Street Studios\, Crooked Media\, and Spotify\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and pop music during the Cold War. In addition to The New Yorker\, his work has appeared in The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine\, Slate\, and other publications. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship\, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation\, the New America Foundation\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bradford-pearson-with-patrick-radden-keefe-the-eagles-of-heart-mountain-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham\, What You Don't Know
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book\, What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood\, delves into queerness\, Blackness\, and the love that dismantles whiteness. This event will include a reading\, Q&A\, and demonstration of Higginbotham’s disco collage workshop. A “backdrop” for collages will be included with every copy of What You Don’t Know purchased from Bookshop Santa Cruz\, while supplies last. (Preorder your copy below.) \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nWhat You Don’t Know is a book about knowing deeply that you matter—always did\, always will. It’s a book about what schools get wrong and churches don’t say; but institutions are made by people and the people are evolving. It’s a book about being known and cherished by family\, and living in communion with your own personal Jesus\, Buddha\, Spirit\, Source\, Father\, Mother\, God\, breath\, inner space\, outer space\, nothingness\, and however else we name and relate to our divinity and humility in the presence of all we don’t know. \n“A visually rich story that speaks truth to power for LGBTQ+ kids and their families and allies.” —Kirkus Reviews \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nANASTASIA HIGGINBOTHAM is the author and illustrator of Divorce Is the Worst\, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness\, Death Is Stupid\, and Tell Me About Sex\, Grandma—all part of the Ordinary Terrible Things series. She lives in Brooklyn. Librarians love her\, but not as much as she loves them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-anastasia-higginbotham-what-you-dont-know/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 28TH FEATURED WRITER: K-MING CHANG\nK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at http://kmingchang.com \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-k-ming-chang-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 28TH FEATURED WRITER: K-MING CHANG\nK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at http://kmingchang.com \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-k-ming-chang/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gizzi reads from \nNow It’s Dark: New Poems \npublished by Wesleyan University Press \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link coming soon. \n———– \n (Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nThe poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics\, are concerned with grieving\, with poetry and death\, with beauty and sadness\, with light. As Ben Lerner has written\, “Gizzi’s poetry is an example of how a poet’s total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion.” With litany\, elegy\, and prose\, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail\, these original poems possess\, even in their sorrowing moments\, a dizzying freedom. \nPeter Gizzi is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics\, Threshold Songs\, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems\, 1987–2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks\, folios\, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke\, MA. Visit: https://www.petergizzi.org/ \nCA Conrad is the author of nine books of poetry and essays\, including their latest book is JUPITER ALIGNMENT: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals (Ignota Books\, forthcoming 2020) and While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)\, which won a Lambda Book Award. A documentary about their work\, The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films)\, is viewable online on their website. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-gizzi-in-conversation-with-ca-conrad/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads\, featuring Benjamin Garcia\, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat)\, Emily Hashimoto (A World Between) and Poupeh Missaghi (trans(re)lating house one). The panel will be lead by Lupita Reads. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of the authors’ books by clicking on the titles below. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nThrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia \nA World Between by Emily Hashimoto \ntrans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi \n— Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia — \n“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times\, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship\, family\, and Adam Rippon’s butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented\, one speaker recalls nights when “because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes.” Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other\, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \nWith language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous\, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. “Sometimes even a diamond was once alive” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says “has deadly superpowers.” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers\, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex\, unabashed\, and needed as survival. Garcia’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive. \nBenjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems\, Thrown in the Throat\, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali and published by Milkweed Editions. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow\, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place\, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets 2018\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review\, The Missouri Review\, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York. \nOrder Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia and have it delivered to your door. \n— A World Between by Emily Hashimoto — \nIn 2004\, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the brink of adulthood\, each full of possibility and big ideas\, and they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years later\, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco. Although grown and changed and each separately partnered\, the two find themselves\, once again\, irresistibly pulled back together. \nEmily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures the wonder and confusion of growing up and growing closer. Narrated in sparkling prose\, A World Between follows two strikingly different but interconnected women as they navigate family\, female friendship\, and their own fraught history. \nEmily Hashimoto is a queer writer of color from the suburbs of New Jersey. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in women’s and gender studies\, and her MS in Information Science from Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from VONA and Queer Arts. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The Rumpus and Bitch Magazine\, centering feminist critique and queer narratives. She lives in New York City with her wife and child. \nOrder A World Between by Emily Hashimoto and have it delivered to your door. \n— trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi — \nIn the aftermath of Iran’s 2009 election\, a woman undertakes a search for the statues disappearing from Tehran’s public spaces. A chance meeting alters her trajectory\, and the space between fiction and reality narrows. As she circles the city’s points of connection—teahouses\, buses\, galleries\, hookah bars—her many questions are distilled into one: How do we translate loss into language? \nMelding several worlds\, perspectives\, and narrative styles\, trans(re)lating house one translates the various realities of Tehran and its inhabitants into the realm of art\, helping us remember them anew. \nPoupeh Missaghi is a writer\, a translator both into and out of Persian\, an editor\, and an educator. She holds a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Denver\, an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University\, and an MA in translation studies. Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. Her nonfiction\, fiction\, and translations have appeared in numerous journals\, and she has several books of translation published in Iran. I’ll Be Strong for You\, her translation of Iranian author Nasim Marashi’s novel\, is forthcoming in spring 2021. As an editor\, she worked for many years with Asymptote and is co-editor of Matters of Feminist Practice from Belladonna* Collaborative. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Writing at the Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn; a faculty mentor at the low-residency MFA of Pacific Northwest College of Art\, Portland; as well as a writing consultant at Baruch College\, CUNY\, NY. \nOrder trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi and have it delivered to your door. \n– ABOUT THE MODERATOR – \nLupita Aquino—better known as Lupita Reads—is a passionate reader active in both the local and online book community through her Instagram account- @Lupita.Reads. She is the creator of the #LatinxBookstagramTour\, a columnist for the Washington Independent Review of Books\, a contributor for the Reading Women podcast\, and the co-founder and current moderator/curator for LIT on H St. Book Club. \n– PLEASE NOTE – \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-debut-authors-panel-with-lupita-reads-featuring-benjamin-garcia-emily-hashimoto-poupeh-missaghi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading The Land of the Cranes\, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, January 30\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \nNine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels\, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan\, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government’s Immigration Customs Enforcement\, her father deported back to Mexico\, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp–Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her\, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart. \nAida Salazar is also the author of The Moon Within. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aida-salazar-on-instagram-live-igtv/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards - Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha\, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her own right\, a woman who sought to understand the meaning of life even before her husband left their marriage and their infant son Rahula to seek his own enlightenment. Author Barbara McHugh brings to life the world of the aristocratic clan into which Yasodhara and Siddhartha Gautama were born and imagines Yasodhara as intelligent\, resourceful and independent—a woman who had always sought her own spiritual path\, despite the constraints placed on women at the time. Following the Siddhartha’s departure\, Yasodhara devotes herself to her life as a mother\, but when the Buddha returns and their young son leaves his family to enter the sangha\, she is devastated to learn that\, as a woman\, she is prohibited from joining them. Bereft\, she leaves the comforts of her family to live in the wild and apprentices herself to a female holy woman. After many adventures of her own\, she conceals her gender and enters the Buddha’s sangha as a young monk named Ananda\, who will eventually become one of the Buddha’s closest confidants and ultimately the one who convinces the Buddha to allow women into their community. \nIn the best tradition of historical fiction\, McHugh\, as she states in the novel’s Historical Note\, mixes “fact and fiction\, taking advantage of modern scholarship\, while at the same time weaving in myths and symbolic narratives to express truth\nbeyond words” in order to portray “a Buddha who is both a historical being and an evolving\, collective creation of the human imagination.” McHugh brings the past vividly to life in Bride of the Buddha while also addressing issues still debated today\, including gender identity\, sexuality\, the role of women in religious communities\, motherhood\, and more. She has created a book that\, as Sam Keen\, author of Fire in the Belly and Your Mythic Journey writes\, brings “Yasodhara out of the shadows” and makes “…use of historical texts\, oral traditions\, and a vivid imagination\, [to create] a portrait of the bride of Buddha and the world in which he lived…unforgettable.” \nBarbara McHugh\, PhD\, is a Buddhist practitioner with a degree in religion and literature from The Graduate Theological Union and UC Berkeley. She is a published poet\, writing coach\, and book doctor. Her research for this book includes exhaustive study of Pali texts in translation and on-site explorations in India. \nDorothy Edwards‘ first published work is Langston’s Moon\, a children’s story about an African American family. Currently she is at work on a novel set in the Caribbean and a non-fiction book about imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-mchugh-with-dorothy-edwards-bride-of-the-buddha-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Sherry L. Smith with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Sherry L. Smith’s Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of a radical romance at the dawn of the twentieth 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 and political activists whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. \nSelf-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that chartered a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal affair frequently intersected with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement (including an automobile trip she took across the country in 1915 carrying a petition with thousands of signatures demanding Congress pass the Nineteenth Amendment)\, 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. \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. 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 a former president of the Western History Association and received the Los Angeles 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. She lives in Moose\, Wyoming\, and Pasadena\, California. \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 about mentors and the search for wisdom\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015. His third book\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha) combines 50 years of Buddhist practice with acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” It is forthcoming from Inner Traditions Press\, as his first book of poems\, The Tongue of a Crow. He 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\, preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK\, FOUR LOST CITIES: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE URBAN AGE\, ON ZOOM!\nPREORDER A COPY TODAY AND RECEIVE A SPECIAL SIGNED POSTCARD!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82512999396\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82512999396#  or +12532158782\,\,82512999396#\nWebinar ID: 825 1299 9396\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kqZY7eKSG \nPraise for Four Lost Cities \n“Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity.”— N. K. Jemisin\, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We Became \n“Cheerful\, curious\, amused\, and amusing\, Annalee Newitz is a fabulous tour guide through the latest archaeological perspectives on four of humankind’s most remarkable urban experiments. Along the way\, Newitz dispels myths\, evokes fascinating stories—and makes us think hard about our own urban future.”— Charles C. Mann\, author of 1491 and 1493 \n“Annalee Newitz is a brilliant writer with the heart of an archaeologist and the soul of a visionary. Four Lost Cities should open our eyes to all that may happen to our cities in the future. Vibrant and adventurous\, this is a necessary book for turbulent times.”— Sarah Parcak\, archaeologist and author of Archaeology from Space \nAbout Four Lost Cities \nA quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. \nIn Four Lost Cities\, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world\, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities\, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey\, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast\, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia\, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia\, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. \nNewitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology\, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning\, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves\, women\, immigrants\, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. \nFour Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past\, but\, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities\, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-annalee-newitz-and-charles-c-mann/
LOCATION:CA
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