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SUMMARY:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees\n\n  \ncelebrating \nA Life Among Fishes (from ORO Press) \nby Christopher Dewees \n& \nDesigning with Palms (from Timber Press) \nby Jason Dewees \nA Life Among Fishes explores the lifelong passion of fisheries by scientist and artist Christopher M. Dewees. The book features over 100 of his Japanese fish prints since 1969. Many of these are linked to stories about the journey\, and history and information about the art form are also described within. The book presents Dewees? half-century of printing fish and shellfish to full color. We follow his evolution from being exposed and fascinated to gyotaku as a graduate student to his status now as an internationally recognized master in the field. He documents his journey and growth by sharing fifty years of experiences and adventures. In recent years Dewees has focused more on writing stories and poems that are linked to his art. \nChristopher Dewees had a passion for fish since childhood. He is currently Marine Fisheries Specialist Emeritus at the University of California\, Davis. Since 1968 he has honed his skills in Japanese fish printing (gyotaku). His works have been featured in many individual and group exhibitions around the world. \nPalms are a landscape staple in warm\, temperate climates worldwide. But these stunning and statement-making plants are large\, expensive\, difficult to install\, and create unique design challenges. In Designing with Palms\, palm expert Jason Dewees shares every major aspect of designing and caring for palms. This definitive guide shares essential information on planting\, irrigation\, nutrition\, pruning\, and transplanting. A gallery of the most important species showcases the range of options available\, and stunning photographs by Caitlin Atkinson show examples of home and public landscapes that make good use of palms. \nJason Dewees is a staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor to Garden Design magazine\, and he blogs at The Palm Broker. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-dewees-with-jason-dewees/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Salutations: Reconnecting
DESCRIPTION:The sixth installment of our event series\, Salutations\, returns with a night of letter-reading on Reconnecting. \nSponsored by Chronicle Books\, Letters to My series\, and Green Apple. \nFor more information or to submit your letter for inclusion\, email salutationsSF@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/salutations-reconnecting/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael David Lukas / The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome The Oracle of Stamboul author Michael David Lukas back to the store to launch his anticipated second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Please join us! \n  \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary—perhaps magical—Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \n  \n— \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history\, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons\, religion\, magic\, love\, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”– Rabih Alameddine\, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman \n“Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo—with a bit of Berkeley thrown in. His prose is deeply evocative\, and a sense of mystery and profound tristesse pervade this unusual narrative\, which tells the story of a young California man on a quest to understand a puzzling gift left for him by his late father\, the descendant of generations of watchmen at the venerable Ben Ezra synagogue in the depths of Old Cairo. The novel is enhanced by Lukas’ impressive historical research on the Geniza and the colorful characters involved in rescuing its treasure trove of documents. But his greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful\, haunted\, shabby\, beleaguered\, yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”– Lucette Lagnado\, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years \n  \n— \n  \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas-the-last-watchman-of-old-cairo-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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