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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:An in-person event to celebrate the release of Orwell’s Roses\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 30\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDance Palace\n\n503 B St\n\nPoint Reyes Station\, CA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\n$28 + tax (each ticket includes a copy of the book)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for our first in-person event in a year and a half as we welcome Rebecca Solnit to Point Reyes to celebrate the publication of Solnit’s latest book\, Orwell’s Roses (Viking). Rebecca will be joined in conversation by artist and writer Jenny Odell\, author of the bestselling How to Do Nothing. \nWe require proof of vaccination for all attendees. Please reserve your spot early\, as we expect tickets to go quickly. We will also provide a streaming option for those unable to make it in-person. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON. \n“A kaleidoscopic view of a man we thought we knew\, by a woman who keeps surprising us with her dazzling mind.  Solnit has written an exquisitely layered book soaring in its reach\, subversive in its scope\, and joyous in its pleasure to read.  Her exploration into how and why cultivating beauty matters\, alongside fighting injustices as Orwell’s garden supported his fierce critique of fascism\, reminds us of the singular fact: life is both flower and thorn. This profound and graceful book not only redefines what is ‘Orwellian\,’ it reimagines how we might live a life of greater intention by opening our hearts to what is beautiful\, brave\, and of Earth.” —Terry Tempest Williams\, author of Erosion \nAbout Orwell’s Roses\n“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book\, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants\, particularly flowers\, and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist\, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. \nSparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936\, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores  his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England\, fighting in the Spanish Civil War\, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left)\, to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections\, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism\, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions\, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica\, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden\, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell\, as well as a reflection on pleasure\, beauty\, and joy as acts of resistance. \nAbout Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell\nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including Recollections of My Nonexistence\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications. \nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford and has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, New York Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The Believer\, The Paris Review\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. She lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-and-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Dance Palace\, 503 B St\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Atsuro Riley
DESCRIPTION:Reads from his highly anticipated collection of poems\, Heard-Hoard\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 14\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAtsuro Riley reads from Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press)\, his highly anticipated collection of poems. \n“Intoxicating. . . Sounds unheard and unrivaled since Atsuro Riley’s acclaimed debut permeate Heard-Hoard.  His elegant rhythms are atmospheric and robust\, his neologisms transform the ‘weed-embrangling snuffle-path\,’ his vernacular is magical as ‘dew-sparks galaxifying the crabgrass.’ Amid each mesmerizing reading\, like dancing to a good song for a good long time before truly hearing its lyrics\, Heard-Hoard’s remarkable stories crystallize; music becomes narrative. Atsuro Riley is an extraordinary poet. This book holds all the meanings of fantastic.” — Terrance Hayes\, National Book Award winning poet \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Heard-Hoard\nWinner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. \nRecognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative\,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang.  In Heard-Hoard\, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems\, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. \nAt once an album of tales\, a portrait gallery\, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook\, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries\, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.”  From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak\,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore. \nAbout Atsuro Riley\nAtsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard\, winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and  Romey’s Order\, which was the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, The Believer Poetry Award\, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. His work has been honored with the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry\, Riley lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/atsuro-riley/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joshua Ferris - A Calling for Charlie Barnes
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nThurs.\, October 7\, 2021 • 5:30pm PT • Live • Online \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE\nSUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER\n\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\nFrom a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world’s hidden truths—until his two lives come crashing together. \nSomeone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes\, and it doesn’t appear to be going well. Too often divorced\, discontent with life’s compromises\, and in a house he hates\, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles\, his dreams dwindle further\, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot. \nThen\, against all odds\, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son\, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it—in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love—at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be. \nA Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall\, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned. \nJoshua Ferris is the author of three previous novels\, Then We Came to the End\, The Unnamed\, and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour\, and a collection of stories\, The Dinner Party. He was a finalist for the National Book Award\, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and was named one of The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” writers in 2010. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-ferris-a-calling-for-charlie-barnes/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rhys Bowen - God Rest Ye\, Royal Gentlemen
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nThurs.\, Oct 7\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Live • Online \nSigned Copies Available! \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE\nSUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\nGeorgie is back and hanging the stockings with care when a murder interrupts her Christmas cheer in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series from Rhys Bowen. \nGeorgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in her lovely new home. She suggests to her dashing husband\, Darcy\, that they have a little house party\, but when Darcy receives a letter from his aunt Ermintrude\, there is an abrupt change in plans. She has moved to a house on the edge of the Sandringham estate\, near the royal family\, and wants to invite Darcy and his new bride for Christmas. Aunt Ermintrude hints that the queen would like Georgie nearby. Georgie had not known that Aunt Ermintrude was a former lady-in-waiting and close confidante of her royal highness. The letter is therefore almost a royal request\, so Georgie\, Darcy\, and their Christmas guests: Mummy\, Grandad\, Fig\, and Binky all head to Sandringham. \nGeorgie soon learns that the notorious Mrs. Simpson\, mistress to the Prince of Wales\, will also be in attendance. It is now crystal clear to Georgie that the Queen expects her to do a bit of spying. There is tension in the air from the get-go\, and when Georgie pays a visit to the queen\, she learns that there is more to her request than just some simple eavesdropping. There have been a couple of strange accidents at the estate recently. Two gentlemen of the royal household have died in mysterious circumstances and another has been shot by mistake during a hunt. Georgie begins to suspect that a member of the royal family is the real target but her investigation will put her new husband and love of her life\, Darcy\, in the crosshairs of a killer. \nRhys Bowen\, a New York Times bestselling author\, has been nominated for every major award in mystery writing\, including the Edgar®\, and has won many\, including both the Agatha and Anthony awards. She is also the author of the Molly Murphy Mysteries\, set in turn-of-the-century New York\, and the Constable Evans Mysteries\, set in Wales as well as two internationally bestselling stand alone novels. She was born in England and now divides her time between Northern California and Arizona.
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers
DESCRIPTION:Discusses his new novel\, Bewilderment\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 23\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Diesel\, a Bookstore and Vroman’s Bookstore\, we present Richard Powers\, who will discuss Bewilderment (W.W. Norton)\, his highly anticipated follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning The Overstory. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON \nAbout Bewilderment\nLonglisted for the 2021 Booker Prize \nA heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. \nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by New York Magazine\, Chicago Tribune\, BookPage\, Literary Hub\, The Millions\, New Statesman\, and Times of London \nThe astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old\, Robin\, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm\, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled\, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control\, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… \nWith its soaring descriptions of the natural world\, its tantalizing vision of life beyond\, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love\, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful\, imperiled planet? \nAbout Richard Powers\nRichard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book\, The Overstory\, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
DESCRIPTION:Launch event featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer\, John Hausdoerffer\, Gavin van Horn\, and others\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, September 21\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to celebrate the release of the 5-volume set\, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Chelsea Green) with editors and contributors Gavin Van Horn\, John Hausdoerffer\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, and more. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations\nFrom The Center for Humans and Nature\, a collection in five volumes: essays\, interviews\, poetry\, and stories of solidarity that highlight the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings \nWe live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans–and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe\, this community of life is our kin–and\, for many cultures around the world\, being human is based upon this extended sense of kinship. \nKinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. More than 70 contributors–including Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Richard Powers\, David Abram\, J. Drew Lanham\, and Sharon Blackie–invite readers into cosmologies\, narratives\, and everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our response and responsibility. These diverse voices render a wide range of possibilities for becoming better kin. \nContents: \nPlanet What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections\, and of our profound longing for kinship?\nPlace To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth’s bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based beings\, systems\, and communities that mutually shape one another?\nPartners How do relations between and among different species foster a sense of responsibility and belonging in us?\nPersons Which experiences expand our understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human beings?\nPractice What are the practical\, everyday\, and lifelong ways we become kin? \nFrom the recognition of nonhumans as persons to the care of our kinfolk through language and action\, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a guide and companion into the ways we can deepen our care and respect for the family of plants\, rivers\, mountains\, animals\, and others who live with us in this exuberant\, life-generating\, planetary tangle of relations. \nProceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the nonprofit\, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature\, which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The Center brings together philosophers\, ecologists\, artists\, political scientists\, anthropologists\, poets and economists\, among others\, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community of life. \nAbout the participants\nGavin Van Horn is the Creative Director and Executive Editor for the Center for Humans and Nature. His writing is tangled up in the ongoing conversation between humans\, our nonhuman kin\, and the animate landscape. He is the co-editor (with John Hausdoerffer) of Wildness: Relations of People and Place\, and (with Dave Aftandilian) City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness\, and the author of The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds. If he’s not up a tree or in a kayak\, you can find Gavin slow-walking the footpaths\, beaches\, and forests of the Chicagoland area. \nDr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother\, botanist\, writer and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse\, New York and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a student of the plant nations. Her writings include Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. As a writer and a scientist\, her interests include not only restoration of ecological communities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York\, tending gardens domestic and wild. \nJohn Hausdoerffer is author of Catlin’s Lament: Indians\, Manifest Destiny\, and the Ethics of Nature as well as co-author and co-editor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place and What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? John is the Dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University and co-founder of Coldharbour Institute\, the Center for Mountain Transitions\, and the Resilience Studies Consortium. John serves as a Fellow and Senior Scholar for the Center for Humans and Nature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kinship-belonging-in-a-world-of-relations/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rich and Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Discuss George Stewart’s pioneering eco-novel\, Storm\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, September 20\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Rich and Chris Jennings discuss George Stewart’s pioneering and prescient eco-novel\, Storm (NYRB Classics). \nOriginally published in 1941\, Stewart’s novel was praised by the likes of Wallace Stegner\, who wrote of Storm: “Weather is here for the first time given the importance in fiction that it has in fact. . . . It is impossible to forget\, anywhere in the novel\, the impending weight of that mighty movement of the air. . . . Stewart with admirable ingenuity and sure craftsmanship has let us look for a moment at the mortar that holds a civilization together. A good many of his readers will never again . . . note a cloud without remembering at least momentarily that the air\, not the earth\, is our mortal home.” \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Storm\nA thrilling\, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. \nWith Storm\, first published in 1941\, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco\, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map\, a developing storm\, he suspects\, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists\, linemen\, snowplow operators\, a general\, a couple of decamping lovebirds\, and an unlucky owl\, and the storm\, surging and ebbing\, will bring long-needed rain\, flooded roads\, deep snows\, accidents\, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world. \nAbout George Stewart and the event participants\nGeorge R. Stewart (1895–1980) was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. He received his PhD in English literature from Columbia in 1922 and joined the English faculty at the University of California\, Berkeley\, in 1924. He was a sociologist\, toponymist\, and founding member of the American Name Society\, and the author of more than twenty books\, including the highly successful novel Earth Abides and several works of American history. In addition to Storm\, NYRB Classics publishes his study of American place names\, Names on the Land. \nNathaniel Rich is the author of Second Nature; Losing Earth\, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Award and a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists; and the novels King Zeno\, Odds Against Tomorrow\, and The Mayor’s Tongue. \nChris Jennings grew up in New York City. He graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. He is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. He lives in Northern California with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-rich-and-chris-jennings/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin - Hollywood Eden
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSun.\, Sept. 19\, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Corte Madera Store \nBUY THE BOOK\nThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera location\nFrom the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas\, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. \nFrom surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas\, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959—a class that included Jan & Dean\, Nancy Sinatra\, and future members of the Beach Boys—who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who created the idea of modern California for the rest of the world. From the Beach Boys’ “California Girls” to the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’\,” they crafted an image of the West Coast as the promised land—a sun-dappled vision of an idyllic life in the sand and surf. \nBut their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later\, as\, one by one\, each met their destinies head-on. Compelling\, evocative\, and ultimately tragic\, Hollywood Eden travels far beyond the music into the desires of the human heart and the price of living out a dream. A rock ‘n’ roll opera loaded with violence\, deceit\, intrigue\, low comedy\, and high drama\, it tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads\, crashed cars\, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-hollywood-eden/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T130000
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SUMMARY:Alix Ohlin - We Want What We Want
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSat.\, September 18\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Live • Online \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE\nSUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER\n\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\nA collection of glittering\, surprising\, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives from Alix Ohlin\, award-winning author of Dual Citizens. \nIn the mordantly funny “Money\, Geography\, Youth\,” Vanessa arrives home from a gap year volunteering in Ghana to find that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. Unable to reconcile the girl she went to dances with in the eighth grade and the woman in her father’s bed\, Vanessa turns to a different old friendship for her own\, unique diversion. \nIn the subversive “The Brooks Brothers Guru\,” Amanda drives to upstate New York to rescue her gawky cousin from a cult\, only to discover clean-cut\, well-dressed men living in a beautiful home\, discussing the classics\, and drinking sophisticated cocktails\, moving her to wonder what freedoms she might willingly trade away for a life of such elegant comfort. \nAnd in “The Universal Particular\,” Tamar welcomes her husband’s young stepcousin into their home\, imagining they are saving this young woman from Somalia by way of Stockholm\, only to find their cool suburban life of potlucks and air-conditioning knocked askew in ways they cannot quite understand. \nPopulated with imperfect families\, burned potential\, and inescapable old flames\, the thirteen stories in We Want What We Want are\, each one\, diamond-sharp—sparkling with pain\, humor\, and beauty. \nAlix Ohlin is the author of six books\, including the novel Dual Citizens\, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Best American Short Stories\, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver\, where she is the Director of the UBC School of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alix-ohlin-we-want-what-we-want/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210916T180000
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SUMMARY:Meg Lowman
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 16\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding Scale ($0 -$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Lowman discusses The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux). \n“The Arbornaut is about a shy girl who loved to play outdoors and became a scientist who educated the world about the abundant life in the treetops. I loved it.”\n—Temple Grandin\, author of Animals Make Us Human\, Animals in Translation\, and Thinking in Pictures \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Arbonaut\nNicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic\, the biologist\, botanist\, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “CanopyMeg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world’s treetops\, along her journey as a tree scientist\, and into climate action \nWelcome to the eighth continent! \nAs a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia\, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn’t monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt\, gathered hundreds of feet of rope\, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went\, into the trees. \nForty years later\, Lowman remains one of the world’s foremost arbornauts\, known as the “real-life Lorax.” She planned one of the first treetop walkways and helps create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. \nWith a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as it is practical in its optimism\, The Arbornaut chronicles Lowman’s irresistible story. From climbing solo hundreds of feet into the air in Australia’s rainforests to measuring tree growth in the northeastern United States\, from searching the redwoods of the Pacific coast for new life to studying leaf eaters in Scotland’s Highlands\, from conducting a BioBlitz in Malaysia to conservation planning in India and collaborating with priests to save Ethiopia’s last forests\, Lowman launches us into the life and work of a field scientist\, ecologist\, and conservationist. She offers hope\, specific plans\, and recommendations for action; despite devastation across the world\, through trees\, we can still make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. \nA blend of memoir and fieldwork account\, The Arbornaut gives us the chance to live among scientists and travel the world—even in a hot-air balloon! It is the engrossing\, uplifting story of a nerdy tree climber—the only girl at the science fair—who becomes a giant inspiration\, a groundbreaking\, ground-defying field biologist\, and a hero for trees everywhere. \nAbout Meg Lowman\nMeg Lowman\, PhD\, aka “CanopyMeg\,” is an American biologist\, educator\, ecologist\, writer\, editor\, and public speaker. She is the executive director of the TREE Foundation and a professor at the National University of Singapore\, Arizona State University\, and Universiti Sains Malaysia. Nicknamed the “real-life Lorax” by National Geographic and “Einstein of the treetops” by The Wall Street Journal\, Lowman pioneered the science of canopy ecology. Her motto is “no child left indoors.” She travels extensively for research\, outreach\, and speaking engagements for audiences large and small.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-lowman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Erin Gordon with Michael Krasny - Peeps
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSat.\, September 11\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Corte Madera Store \nIn conversation with Michael Krasny \nBUY THE BOOK\n\nThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera location\n\nA coming-of-middle-age novel\, Peeps tells the story of Meg\, a 51-year-old podcaster who has spent her life afraid of “what ifs.” After an unexpected divorce\, Meg might finally have the chance to obtain what she calls a Big Life\, but isn’t sure she can pull it off. After her mother’s death\, Meg gathers the courage to seek answers from her uncle about her disinterested and cruel mother. To get to him\, she moves out of her Santa Monica home and drives across the country in a new RV she nicknames Irv.\nAlong her journey\, Meg conducts interviews for her podcast called Peeps\, in which she asks everyday people the same seven questions to “peep” into their lives and uncover shared humanity. Meg’s narrative is peppered with lively transcripts of her interviews with the ordinary yet fascinating people she meets. The podcast enables Meg to process the complicated grief and relief related to her mother’s death\, her divorce\, and her only child leaving home for college. \nPeeps is evocative of The Wizard of Oz and Wild; like Dorothy and Cheryl—and many middle-aged women—Meg seeks to find her place in the world. Discerning readers will enjoy spotting the subtle references and symbols from both iconic stories. \nThe author of smart and moving book club fiction\, Erin Gordon is a former lawyer and legal affairs journalist. A Bay Area native with degrees from both UC Berkeley and Stanford\, Gordon’s novels explore themes of friendship\, parenthood and self-discovery. \nMichael Krasny is the former host of the award winning KQED Forum\, a program discussing news and public affairs\, current events\, culture\, health\, business and technology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erin-gordon-with-michael-krasny-peeps/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T190000
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about her new book\, On Freedom\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 9\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning poet\, critic\, and author Maggie Nelson joins us to discuss her latest book\, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press). Conversation partner TBD. \n“[Maggie Nelson] traces the limits of liberty and the call to care in this expansive and sharp-eyed study. . . . Nelson turns each thought until it is finely honed and avoids binaries and bromides. While the literary theorizing is rich\, this account soars in its ability to find nuance in considering questions of enormous importance. . . . Once again\, Nelson proves herself a masterful thinker and an unparalleled prose stylist.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout On Freedom\nAn expansive\, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day \nSo often deployed as a jingoistic\, even menacing rallying cry\, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation\, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy\, justice\, and well-being\, or is freedom’s long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate\, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art\, sex\, drugs\, and climate. \nDrawing on a vast range of material\, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life\, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think\, experience\, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing “practices of freedom” by which we negotiate our interrelation with—indeed\, our inseparability from—others\, with all the care and constraint that entails\, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion. \nFor Nelson\, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture—from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation\, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of freedom\, a means of forging fortitude\, courage\, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating\, essential book for challenging times. \nAbout Maggie Nelson\nMaggie Nelson is a poet\, critic\, and award-winning author of The Argonauts\, Bluets\, The Art of Cruelty\, Jane: A Murder and The Red Parts. She lives in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T170000
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Discusses her latest book\, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 2\, 2021 – 5:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of the modern classic An Indigenous People’s History of the United States\, joins us to discuss her latest book of historical reckoning\, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press). Roxanne will be joined in conversation by legendary writer Ishmael Reed\, \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”—Ishmael Reed \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Not “A Nation of Immigrants”\nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good‑-but inaccurate–story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nAbout Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro. \nIshmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down\, Conjugating Hindi\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico and most recently Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues and The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to CounterPunch and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-and-ishmael-reed/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T180000
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SUMMARY:Lucas Bessire and William DeBuys
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about drought\, extinction\, and ways forward\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 24\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire and novelist and conservationist William DeBuys join us for a virtual event about their new books\, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton UP) and The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss (Seven Stories Press). The two will discuss the increasingly imperiled water supply in the western U.S. and ways to confront the difficult challenges of the climate emergency. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains\n“Bessire’s Running Out masterfully shifts among scales and genres and in doing so lets the personal\, the historic\, and the geologic reveal their intimacies and competing urgencies. A beautiful and unusual book\, and wholly original.” –Rivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch \nThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. \nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas\, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers\, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture\, eroding democratic norms\, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable\, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead\, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive\, sustainable future. \nAn urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change\, Running Out is a revelatory account of family\, complicity\, loss\, and what it means to find your way back home. \nAbout The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss\n“The Trail to Kanjiroba is a transformative path on the page by one of America’s most eloquent writers. Bill deBuys has written a walking prayer about beauty\, hope\, and longing in the service of human dignity and a living planet. Though set in Nepal in the high altitude grace of Dolpo\, this is a spiritual pilgrimage contemplating the journey from grief toward love. Hands pressed together\, I hold these words close and bow.”–Terry Tempest Williams \nIn 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo\, a remote\, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal\, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction\, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned in recent years about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth–a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of the earth’s most remote regions\, his writing celebrates the staggering natural beauty and biodiversity he finds there\, and gives his readers a history lesson of two scientific discoveries–evolution and plate tectonics–that forever changed sapiens’ understanding of our planet. Written in a lush and nuanced style evocative of Paul Theroux or Peter Matthiessen\, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare\, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that needs to be done. \nAbout the authors \nWilliam deBuys is the author of ten books\, including The Last Unicorn\, one of Christian Science Monitor’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015; River of Traps\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. In 2008-2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New Mexico. \nLucas Bessire is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucas-bessire-and-william-debuys-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jones and Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Discuss Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 20\, 2021 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Jones discusses her new book\, Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul (Knopf) with the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks. \n“Beautifully written\, movingly told and meticulously researched. An elegy to the healing power of nature. A convincing plea for a wilder\, richer world.” —Isabella Tree\, author of Wilding \n“The connection between mental health and the natural world turns out to be strong and deep—which is good news in that it offers those feeling soul-sick the possibility that falling in love with the world around them might be remarkably helpful.” —Bill McKibben \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Losing Eden\nA fascinating look at why human beings have a powerful mental\, spiritual\, and physical need for the natural world—and the profound impact this has on our consciousness and ability to heal the soul and bring solace to the heart\, and the cutting-edge scientific evidence proving nature as nurturer. \nLucy Jones interweaves her deeply personal story of recovery from addiction and depression with that of discovering the natural world and how it aided and enlivened her progress\, giving her a renewed sense of belonging and purpose. \nJones writes of the intersection of science\, wellness\, and the environment\, and reveals that in the last decade\, scientists have begun to formulate theories of why people feel better after a walk in the woods and an experience with the natural world. She describes the recent data that supports evidence of biological and neurological responses: the lowering of cortisol (released in response to stress)\, the boost in cortical attention control that helps us to concentrate and subdues mental fatigue\, and the increase in activity in the parasympathetic nervous system\, slowing the heart and allowing the body to rest. \nAbout Lucy Jones\nLucy Jones was born in Cambridge\, England\, and educated at University College London. She has written extensively on culture\, science and na­ture. Her articles have been published on BBC Earth and in The Sunday Times\, The Guardian and the New Statesman. Her first book\, Foxes Un­earthed\, received the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award. Jones lives in Hampshire\, England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jones-and-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210812T190000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Sherrell and Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Discusses his new book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Co-sponsored by the Mesa Refuge.\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, August 12\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Sherrell discusses his new book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Penguin) with Bill McKibben. Co-sponsored by the Mesa Refuge. \n“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest\, this book helped me do the impossible: live in the space between grief and hope.” —Jenny Odell\, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Warmth \nWarmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it\, but how it feels to imagine a future–and a family–under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement\, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time\, to hope\, and to each other. At once a memoir\, a love letter\, and an electric work of criticism\, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not? \nAbout the Participants \nDaniel Sherrell is an organizer born in 1990. He helped lead the campaign to pass landmark climate justice legislation in New York and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant in creative nonfiction. Warmth is his first book. \nBill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change\, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more books\, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College\, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize as well as honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award\, sometimes called the alternative Nobel\, in the Swedish Parliament. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. \nMcKibben helped found 350.org\, the first global grassroots climate campaign\, and has organized on every continent\, including Antarctica\, for climate action. He played a leading role in launching the opposition to big oil pipeline projects\, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign\, which has become the biggest anti-corporate campaign in history\, with endowments worth more than $15 trillion stepping back from oil\, gas and coal. He stepped down as board chair of 350 in 2015\, and left the board and stepped down from his volunteer role as senior adviser in 2020\, accepting emeritus status. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife\, the writer Sue Halpern\, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014\, biologists credited his career by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni–in his honor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-sherrell-and-bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books on healthcare with Naomi Williams\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 10\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-e-standefer-kate-washington-naomi-williams-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Publication of Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties: A Tribute Panel
DESCRIPTION:Sat.\, August 7\, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Live • Online \nPanelists include: Bryan Washington\, Monica Sok\, and Mira Jacob \nModerated by Alex Torres \nExcerpt of Afterparties read by Anthony Veasna So’s sister\, Samantha So Lamb \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE  JOIN OUR E-NEWSLETTER\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\n  \nA vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic\, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities. \nSeamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted\, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth\, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California\, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race\, sexuality\, friendship\, and family. \nThe stories in Afterparties\, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail\, are like beams of wry\, affectionate light\, falling from different directions on a complicated\, struggling\, beloved American community” (George Saunders). \nAnthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, n+1\, Granta\, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton\, California\, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton\, California\, he taught at Colgate University\, Syracuse University\, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, California. \nMira Jacob is a novelist\, memoirist\, illustrator\, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award\, and her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews\, the Boston Globe\, Goodreads\, Bustle\, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn. \nMonica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Poetry Society of America\, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen\, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, California. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in BuzzFeed\, The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. Based in San Francisco\, he is currently working on a collection of essays and a collection of short stories. \nBryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree\, NBCC Award Finalist\, and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for his first book\, Lot\, which was also a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, and BuzzFeed\, among other publications. His bestselling debut novel Memorial was a GMA Book Club pick\, a New York Times Notable pick\, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year\, and a finalist for the NBCC Fiction Prize. He lives in Houston. \n  \nBryan Washington photo by Dailey Hubbard; Monica Sok photo by Andria Lo; Mira Jacob photo by Beowulf Sheehan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-publication-of-anthony-veasna-sos-afterparties-a-tribute-panel/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Cruwys via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:August 5 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Recurring Event (See all)\n\n\n\n\nFor poets and poetry lovers alike \nJoin with OHCA resident poet Cruwys Brown and 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Marin County\, CB Follett\, for an afternoon of poetry exploration\, reading\, and discussion. \nSubmit a short (one page max) poem to share and discuss in advance to office@ohanloncenter.org. This can be a poem you love\, or want to explore. One you have written or not. \nEight people max. \nSince space is limited please contact Erma Murphy\, erma@ohanoncenter.org to register. \n$10\, $8 OHCA members \nShort bio of Cruwys Brown\nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. He has been involved in poetry workshops over the past several years. He founded the Marin Poet Laureate Program with the Marin County Free Library System.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-cruwys-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy and Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 4\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). Ashley will be joined in conversation by writer and critic Ismail Muhammad. \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-and-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Rebanks and Nick Offerman
DESCRIPTION:On his acclaimed new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 6\, 2021 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed author James Rebanks joins us from the UK to discuss his new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Custom House). James will be joined in conversation by actor and author Nick Offerman. \n“James Rebanks’s story of his family’s farm is just about perfect.  It belongs with the finest writing of its kind.” — Wendell Berry \n“One of the most important books of our time. Anyone who cares about our land – indeed\, anyone who buys food – should read this book. Told with humility and grace\, this story of farming over three generations – where we went wrong and how we can change our ways – is at the forefront of a revolution. It will be our land’s salvation.” — Isabella Tree\, author of Wilding \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Pastoral Song\nThe Acclaimed International Bestseller * Named “Nature Book of the Year” by the Sunday Times (London) * Shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize \nAs a boy\, James Rebanks’s grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows\, of pastures grazed with livestock\, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet\, by the time James inherited the farm\, it was barely recognizable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. \nHailed as “a brilliant\, beautiful book” by the Sunday Times (London)\, Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse\, and the age-old rhythms of work\, weather\, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how\, guided by the past\, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his\, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. \nThis is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place\, and how\, against all the odds\, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia\, but somewhere decent for us all. \nAbout James Rebanks\nJames Rebanks runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. A graduate of Oxford University\, James works as an expert advisor to UNESCO on sustainable tourism. He uses his popular Twitter feed – @herdyshepherd1 – to share updates on the shepherding year. He is the author of The Shepherd’s Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-rebanks-and-nick-offerman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing from the Heart w/ Dr. PELLER MARION
DESCRIPTION:An adventurous mix of writing and some art too \nThis drop-in and on-going Zoom group requires no experience. All you need to bring is a notebook and a pen. Peller will bring the instruction\, inspiration\, safe space\, writing and art prompts. \n\nFind your writing voice.\nDive into your creativity.\nDeepen your writing practice.  \nShare your stories\, memories\, and inspirations.\nGet steady positive affirmation for your work in a  community of passionate writers.\n\n  \nFirst and and fourth Wednesdays each month\n1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nContact facilitator Peller Marion via email to get the zoom link\npellermarion@gmail.com\nDonations accepted to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\n616 Throckmorton Avenue• Mill Valley• Ca.• 94941
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-from-the-heart-w-dr-peller-marion/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers\, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and writers. \n\n\n\nRick Barot‘s fourth book\, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions) was included on the NY Public Library’s 2020 Top Ten Poetry Books and longlisted for the National Book Award. He has authored three other poetry books: Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall\, Want\, and Chord\, and the chapbook\, During the Pandemic (Albion Books\, 2020). His poems and essays have appeared widely. He serves as the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop\, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. \nBarbara Jane Reyes’ most recent collection is Letters to a Young Brown Girl\, which was released in 2020. She was born in Manila and raised in the Bay Area. Her prior poetry books include: Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco (James Laughlin Award)\, Diwata (Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry)\, To Love as Aswang\, and Invocation to Daughters. Her chapbooks include: Easter Sunday\, Cherry\, and For the City that Nearly Broke Me. She is adjunct professor at USF’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. \nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-rick-barot-barbara-jane-reyes-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Interior Chinatown\, Tinseltown\, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling\, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
DESCRIPTION:When Trevor Noah of The Daily Show asked Charles Yu why he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel\, the devastating “parable for outcasts” (Kirkus) Interior Chinatown\, in the form of a screenplay\, Yu deadpanned\, “I work in Hollywood\, so I already had the software.” A veteran of several TV series (including HBO’S Westworld)\, Yu honed his hilarious\, convention-defying masterwork with an insider’s insight and an outlier’s genius. Yu found an oasis in the writer’s room of fellow novelist Jim Gavin’s (Middle Men) AMC cult-favorite series Lodge 49\, an underdog’s hymn that channels Thomas Pynchon\, counts Patton Oswalt and Tom Hanks as diehard fans\, and “makes as good an argument for the existence of a kind of shabby everyday magic as you’ll find anywhere” (NPR). \nBelly up to the bar and raise a drink with these two friends and fellow-travelers as they toast to creating worlds for page and screen\, making the ordinary extraordinary\, and finding strength—and hilarity—in difference and struggle. \nGet your Ticket\n  \n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/interior-chinatown-tinseltown-and-other-worlds-imagined-charles-yu-on-showbiz-and-storytelling-with-lodge-49s-jim-gavin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Literary Partners: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Dustin Parsons
DESCRIPTION:This reading series\, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together\, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who work together\, live together\, or a combination of both—to chat\, read favorites from their own and each others’ work\, and tell us what collaboration offers their creative practice. \n\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic\, Lucky Fish\, At The Drive-In Volcano\, and Miracle Fruit\, and the chapbook Lace & Pyrite\, a collaboration of garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her most recent book is the award-winning\, illustrated collection of nature essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, & Other Astonishments. \n\n\n\nDustin Parsons is the author of Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood\, with Diagrams\, and he has previously served as the non-fiction editor of The Mid-American Review. Awards for his writing include an Ohio Arts Grant and a New York Fine Arts grant in creative non-fiction\, the American Literary Review Prize in fiction\, the fiction prize from The Laurel Review and a “notable” in the Best American Essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-partners-aimee-nezhukumatathil-dustin-parsons/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Rick Barot was born in the Philippines in 1969 and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied at Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Barot is the author of four books of poetry: The Galleons (Milkweed Editions\, 2020)\, finalist for the National Book Award; Chord (Sarabande Books\, 2015)\, winner of the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award; Want (Sarabande Books\, 2008)\, winner of the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and The Darker Fall (Sarabande Books\, 2002)\, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. \n  \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of  Letters to a Young Brown Girl  (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. \nRegistration available soon here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-rick-barot-barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Crystal Williams & Yona Harvey
DESCRIPTION:This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers\, in this case pairing long-time friends who rarely have the opportunity to appear together. \nYona Harvey has published two collection of poetry: Hemming the Water\, for which she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (2020). Harvey’s work has appeared in Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING\, A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry and The Force of What’s Possible: Accessibility and the Avant-Garde. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay. \n\n\n\n\n\nCrystal Williams’ fourth book of poetry\, Detroit as Barn was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Cleveland State Open Book Prize\, and the Maine Book Award. Troubled Tongues was awarded the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award\, the Idaho Poetry Prize\, and the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, PEN: America\, The Indiana Review\, The Sun\, Tin House\, Ms. Magazine\, Ploughshares\, and Callaloo. \n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-crystal-williams-yona-harvey/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sandor Ellix Katz: James Beard Award-winner discusses his new book\, Fermentation as Metaphor
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book\, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). \nThis event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit our Crowdast Channel to register. \nAbout Fermentation as Metaphor\nBestselling author Sandor Katz–an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene” (New York Times)–delivers a mesmerizing treatise on the meaning of fermentation alongside his awe-inspiring photography of this transformative process\, teaching us with words and images about ourselves\, our culture\, and being human. \nIn 2012\, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation\, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world\, a runaway bestseller\, and a James Beard Book Award winner. Since then his work has gone on to inspire countless professionals and home cooks worldwide\, bringing fermentation into the mainstream. \nIn Fermentation as Metaphor\, stemming from his personal obsession with all things fermented\, Katz meditates on his art and work\, drawing connections between microbial communities and aspects of human culture: politics\, religion\, social and cultural movements\, art\, music\, sexuality\, identity\, and even our individual thoughts and feelings. He informs his arguments with his vast knowledge of the fermentation process\, which he describes as a slow\, gentle\, steady\, yet unstoppable force for change. \nThroughout this truly one-of-a-kind book\, Katz showcases fifty mesmerizing\, original images of otherworldly beings from an unseen universe–images of fermented foods and beverages that he has photographed using both a stereoscope and electron microscope–exalting microbial life from the level of “germs” to that of high art. When you see the raw beauty and complexity of microbial structures\, Katz says\, they will take you “far from absolute boundaries and rigid categories. They force us to reconceptualize. They make us ferment.” \nFermentation as Metaphor broadens and redefines our relationship with food and fermentation. It’s the perfect gift for serious foodies\, fans of fermentation\, and non-fiction readers alike. \nAbout Sandor Ellix Katz\nSandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee\, his explorations in fermentation developed out of overlapping interests in cooking\, nutrition\, and gardening. He is the author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation\, which was a New York Times bestseller and won a James Beard Foundation award in 2013–as well as the forthcoming Fermentation as Metaphor (October 2020). The hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. The New York Times calls Sandor “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” \nSee also this Believer interview with Sandor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandor-ellix-katz-james-beard-award-winner-discusses-his-new-book-fermentation-as-metaphor/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano: Fire in Paradise
DESCRIPTION:Journalist Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano discuss Fire in Paradise\, their account about the 2018 Camp Fire\, one of the worst wildfires in U.S. history. \nAbout Fire in Paradise\nThe harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. \nThere is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise\, California. On November 8\, 2018\, the community of 27\,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire\, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. The catastrophe seared the American imagination\, taking the front page of every major national newspaper and top billing on the news networks. It displaced tens of thousands of people\, yielding a refugee crisis that continues to unfold. \nFire in Paradise is a dramatic and moving narrative of the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents\, firefighters and police\, and scientific experts. Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano are California-based journalists who have reported on Paradise since the day the fire began. Together they reveal the heroics of the first responders\, the miraculous escapes of those who got out of Paradise\, and the horrors experienced by those who were trapped. Their accounts are intimate and unforgettable\, including the local who left her home on foot as fire approached while her 82-year-old father stayed to battle it; the firefighter who drove into the heart of the inferno in his bulldozer; the police officer who switched on his body camera to record what he thought would be his final moments as the flames closed in; and the mother who\, less than 12 hours after giving birth in the local hospital\, thought she would die in the chaotic evacuation with her baby in her lap. Gee and Anguiano also explain the science of wildfires\, write powerfully about the role of the power company PG&E in the blaze\, and describe the poignant efforts to raise Paradise from the ruins. \nThis is the story of a town at the forefront of a devastating global shift—of a remarkable landscape sucked ever drier of moisture and becoming inhospitable even to trees\, now dying in their tens of millions and turning to kindling. It is also the story of a lost community\, one that epitomized a provincial\, affordable kind of Californian existence that is increasingly unattainable. It is\, finally\, a story of a new kind of fire behavior that firefighters have never witnessed before and barely know how to handle.?What happened in Paradise was unprecedented in America. Yet according to climate scientists and fire experts\, it will surely happen again. \nAbout the authors\nAlastair Gee is an award-winning editor and reporter at the Guardian who has also written for The New Yorker online\, the New York Times\, and the Economist. Gee lives in New York City. \nDani Anguiano writes for the Guardian and was a reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record. Anguiano lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alastair-gee-and-dani-anguiano-fire-in-paradise/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Mary Ruefle
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ruefle is the author of many books\, including Dunce (Wave Books\, 2019)\, My Private Property (Wave Books\, 2016)\, Trances of the Blast (Wave Books\, 2013)\, Madness\, Rack\, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books\, 2012)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\, and Selected Poems (Wave Books\, 2010)\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also published a comic book\, Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics\, 2007)\, and is an erasure artist\, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books\, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors\, including the Robert Creeley Award\, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington\, Vermont.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-ruefle/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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