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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
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LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody on Paul Valéry
DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody discusses his translation of The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry. \nAbout The Idea of Perfection \nA fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry\, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. \nHeir to Mallarmé and the symbolists\, godfather to the modernists\, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers\, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot\, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems\, it turns out\, are inseparable from another\, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. \nBehind the published works\, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet\, there hides another story\, a private life of the mind\, that has its record in 28\,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at\, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet\, nor his occasional sketchbook\, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought\,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent\, as rigorous\, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. \nThe Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse\, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse\, The Young Fate\, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody\, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice\, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Author \nPaul Valéry is one of the major figures of twentieth-century French literature. After a promising debut as a young symbolist in Mallarmé’s circle\, Valéry withdrew from public view for almost twenty years\, and was almost forgotten by 1917 when the publication of the long poem La Jeune Parque made him an instant celebrity. He was best known in his day for his small output of highly polished lyric poetry\, and posthumously for the 28\,000 pages of his Notebooks. He died in 1945. \nNathaniel Rudavsky-Brody was born in Columbus\, Ohio. He has translated the work of French and Belgian poets\, including Benjamin Fondane\, for which he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. He is the author of two volumes of poetry in French and one in English\, and has worked as a typesetter\, a programmer\, and a private tutor in Greece.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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