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SUMMARY:Launch for Dr. Naomi Wolf / Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special event to launch Dr. Naomi Wolf‘s new book Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event — tickets can be purchased in advance here. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Outrages\, which is included with each ticket. \nUntil 1857\, the State did not link the idea of homosexuality to deviancy. In the same year\, the concept of the obscene was coined. New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is the story\, brilliantly told\, of why this two-pronged State repression took hold — first in England and spreading quickly to America — and why it was attached so dramatically\, for the first time\, to homosexual men. Before 1857\, it wasn’t homosexuality that was a crime\, but the act of sodomy. But in a single stroke\, not only did love between men become illegal\, but anything referring to this love alsowas ruled obscene\, unprintable\, unspeakable. Wolf paints the dramatic ways this played out among a bohemian group of sexual dissidents\, including American poet Walt Whitman and closeted English critic John Addington Symonds\, as\, decades before the infamous 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde\, dire prison terms became the government’s penalty for homosexuality. Most powerfully\, Wolf recounts how a dying Symonds helped write the book on sexual inversion that created our modern understanding of homosexuality. And she argues that his secret memoir\, mined here fully for the first time\, stands as the first gay rights manifesto in the West. \n\nNaomi Wolf‘s most recent books include Vagina\, Give Me Liberty\, and The End of America\, all New York Times best-sellers\, and of the landmark international bestseller\, The Beauty Myth. She lives in New York City. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Outrages\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Outrages to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– If you’d like a signed copy of any of Naomi’s books but are unable to attend the event\,order here and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n– RSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-dr-naomi-wolf-outrages-sex-censorship-and-the-criminalization-of-love/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong and Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:Ocean Vuong discusses his new novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous with Rebecca Solnit. \nPraise for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \n“A bruised\, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. A powerful testimony to magic and loss. A marvel.” —Marlon James\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will be described — rightly—as luminous\, shattering\, urgent\, necessary. But the word I keep circling back to is raw: that’s how powerful the emotions here are\, and how you’ll feel after reading it – scoured down to bone. With a poet’s precision\, Ocean Vuong examines whether putting words to one’s experience can bridge wounds that span generations\, and whether it’s ever possible to be truly heard by those we love most.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere \n“This book—gorgeous is right there in the title—finds incredible\, aching beauty in the deep observation of love in many forms. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel contains all the power of his poetry\, and I finished the book knowing that we are seeing only the very beginning of his truly magnificent talent.” —Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers \n“Ocean Vuong runs up against the limits of language—this book is addressed to a mother who cannot read it—and expands our sense of what literature can make visible\, thinkable\, felt across borders and generations and genres. This is a courageous\, embodied inquiry into the tangle of colonial and personal histories. It is also a gorgeous argument for astonishment over irony—for the transformative possibilities of love.” —Ben Lerner\, author of Leaving the Atocha Stationand 10:04 \n“One is not often given the chance to apply words like “brilliant” and “remarkable” to any novels\, certainly not first novels.  Thank you\, Ocean Vuong\, for this brilliant and remarkable first novel.” —Michael Cunningham\, author of The Hours \nAbout On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \nOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker\, Little Dog\, is in his late twenties\, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known\, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son\, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race\, class\, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment\, immersed as we are in addiction\, violence\, and trauma\, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. \nWith stunning urgency and grace\, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds\, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive\, and how to make of it a kind of joy\, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ocean-vuong-and-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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