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SUMMARY:Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger\nTuesday\, May 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n\n\nWith compelling\, universal fluency\, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays the practical and emotional adversities of her diverse characters in elegant and direct prose. Whether describing hardships of a lonely Indian wife adapting to life in the United States or illuminating the secret pain of a young couple as they discuss their betrayals during a series of electrical blackouts\, Lahiri’s bittersweet stories are deeply compassionate\, while avoiding sentimentality. Also an accomplished translator\, Lahiri’s forthcoming novel\, Whereabouts\, is her first full-length self-translation. The book follows a woman wavering between stasis and movement\, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties\, as she wanders parks\, bridges\, piazzas\, streets\, stores\, coffee bars\, and the sidewalks around her house. Lahiri will also publish her first collection of poems in Italian\, Il quaderno di Nerina\, in 2021. Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies\, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. She is the director of Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing. \nMonica Seger is a professor and scholar\, whose research and teaching addresses twentieth and twenty-first century Italian literature\, film and media; the environmental humanities; and gender studies. She serves as the Program Director for Italian Studies at William & Mary University\, and is affiliate faculty in the programs of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies; Film and Media Studies; and Environmental Science and Policy. Seger is the author of Landscapes in Between: Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film\, and is currently working on a new monograph considering narrative expressions of toxic embodiment in contemporary Italy. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jhumpa-lahiri-in-conversation-with-monica-seger/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kevin McIlovy and Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 18 at 6pm PT when Kevin McIlvoy discusses his latest novel\, One Kind Favor\, with Peter Orner on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88148839841\n\nAbout One Kind Favor\nBased loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014\, ONE KIND FAVOR explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in the small fictional community of Cord\, North Carolina\, the ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker\, the groundbreaking literary icon\, engages Lincoln in a love triangle and brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of ONE KIND FAVOR\, Kevin McIlvoy’s sixth novel\, echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will\, at last\, have their way.\n\nAbout Kevin McIlvoy\nKevin McIlvoy is the author of seven previous books: five novels\, a book of short stories\, and a book of prose poetry. He is a retired Regents Professor of Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s\, Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, Missouri Review\, and other literary magazines. He lives in Asheville\, North Carolina.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kevin-mcilovy-and-peter-orner/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers\nThursday\, May 20\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThe news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big—scary big\, like a brushfire coming at you uphill. Authorities\, medical and political\, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests. Michael Lewis’s new riveting nonfiction thriller\, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story\, pits a rogue band of visionaries\, working under the radar\, against the weight and disinterest of officialdom. It is a race against time\, and the deadline is now…or yesterday. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker\, Moneyball\, The Blind Side\, The Big Short\, and The Undoing Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis-in-conversation-with-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Wells and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 20 at 6pm PT when Martha Wells is joined by Annalee Newitz to discuss Fugitive Telemetry\, the latest in The Murderbot Diaries\, on Zoom!\n\nSigned copies available!\nSpecial Murderbot Diary will be available for the first 20 copies sold!\nBe sure to write “diary!” in your order comment to receive yours.\nWhile supplies last.\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89627822577\n\nPraise for The Murderbot Diaries\n“I love Murderbot!” —Ann Leckie\n\n“The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I’ve enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!” —N. K. Jemisin\n\n“We are all a little bit Murderbot.”—NPR\n\nAbout Fugitive Telemetry\nThe New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back!\nHaving captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.\n\nNo\, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had\, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.\nWhen Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station\, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was)\, how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward\, at least)\, and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)\n\nYes\, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-wells-and-annalee-newitz-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes...
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nan Online Open Mic\n& Community Listening Space\nw/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team! \nThursday\, May 20th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: https://bit.ly/3dwQpO2 \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nOpen mic sign-ups will be ON THE ZOOM CALL!\nIf you want to share [& remember you don’t have to share!]\, once you’re on the Zoom call\, look for posted instructions for signing up. REMEMBER: The open mic list fills up quickly\, so sign up as soon as you can.\nREGISTRATION is for attendance\, not for an open mic spot. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/chelseacoleman1184 or via chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-24/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 21 at 6pm PT when Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his latest book\, Son of the Storm\, with Rebecca Roanhorse on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\n\nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass\n\n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn\n\n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter\n\n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings\n\nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.\n\nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy.\n\nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alice Sparkly Kat on Postcolonial Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Astrologer and author Alice Sparkly Kat is ushering in a new wave of astrology that is intersectional\, inclusive\, and geared towards queer and POC communities. In their cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language\, Alice uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets\, sun\, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history\, redefine the body in the world\, and assert our politics of the personal. \nAlice believes that too often\, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism\, used as a force of oppression\, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. Dedicated to unmasking the political power of astrology\, Alice shows how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. \nJoin educator\, creator\, and astrologer Kirah Tabourn for a conversation with Alice Sparkly Kat on their work and their latest book\, Postcolonial Astrology. Kirah and Alice share insights into ways we can use astrology to challenge our own practices\, interrogate our truths\, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/kat-sparkly-alice-may-21-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-sparkly-kat-on-postcolonial-astrology/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks 25th Anniversary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Youth Speaks invites you to join us in celebrating 25 years of supporting and challenging young people to develop and amplify their voices as creators of societal change. Come for a night of youth poetry\, some special guests\, and learn more about our home for the next 25 years and beyond. The fundraiser will be emceed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph with special guests Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs with a special musical guest. \nTICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-25th-anniversary-fundraiser/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 22 at 12pm PT when Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders discuss their latest books\, Sorrowland and Victories Greater Than Death!\n\nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow.\nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation.\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be available to stream on Facebook Live.\n\nAbout Sorrowland\nSorrowland is a triumphant\, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.\n\nVern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There\, she gives birth to twins\, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest\, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go\, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of\, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family\, Vern has to face the past\, and more troublingly\, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here\, monsters aren’t just individuals\, but entire nations. It is a searing\, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold\, unignorable voice in American fiction.\n\nRivers Solomon writes about life in the margins\, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award\, Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for a Lambda\, a Hurston/Wright\, an Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) and a Locus award. Solomon’s second book\, The Deep\, based on the Hugo-nominated song by Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping\, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and shortlisted for a Nebula\, Locus\, Hugo\, Ignyte\, Brooklyn Library Literary\, British Fantasy\, and World Fantasy award. Solomon’s short work appears in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review\, the New York Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, Guernica\, Best American Short Stories\, Tor.com\, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy\, and elsewhere. A refugee of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade\, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.\n\nAbout Victories Greater Than Death\nVictories Greater Than Death is a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders.\n\nOutsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy. “Just please\, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”\n\nTina never worries about being ‘ordinary’–she doesn’t have to\, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains\, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon\, and one day soon\, it’s going to activate\, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy\, after all\, is intergalactic–she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero\, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates\, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed–and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian\, but Tina….is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war\, badly–the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily\, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust\, and her best friend Rachel\, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy coming in April 2021\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future got 700\,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rivers-solomon-and-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sorrowland & Victories Greater Than Death: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon & Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Green Apple\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be available to stream on Facebook Live. \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sorrowland-victories-greater-than-death-a-conversation-with-rivers-solomon-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: Art Crime and the FBI
DESCRIPTION:Look behind the scenes at the stories of infamous art heists and the efforts to recover long lost works\, with one of the most famous art detectives in the world\, sharing tales from the trenches of his long career solving art crimes with the FBI. Drawing on cases he worked on personally\, this seminar explores notorious art heists and daring recovery operations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Wittman founded the FBI’s National Art Crime Team and served for 20 years as the FBI’s investigative expert. Wittman is responsible for recovering more than $300 million in stolen art and cultural property around the world. He authored the New York Times Best Seller Priceless-How I Went Undercover to Rescue The World’s Stolen Treasures. \nThis seminar will draw on cases that have made headlines over his long career in law enforcement. Wittman’s career has taken him from Spain to extract $50 million worth of Goya and Brueghel paintings from a Spanish mobster to France to save a priceless Rodin. He has rescued Rembrandts\, Renoirs and even the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king. He will also share his greatest challenge: working undercover to track the criminals behind the century’s largest unsolved art crime\, the $500-million-dollar theft from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston. \n\nTuesday\, May 25\nART CRIME AND THE FBI: HOW MASTERPIECES ARE STOLEN AND RECOVERED WITH ROBERT WITTMAN\nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n\n\n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-art-crime-and-the-fbi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n \nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nJoin Litquake for the exclusive Bay Area launch of the new anthology The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco (Chronicle Prism)\, featuring stories from 25 acclaimed writers about living in one of the most turbulent cultural epicenters in the U.S. Join us for a rollicking evening of stories and conversation\, with The End of the Golden Gate contributors Gary Kamiya\, John Law\, Kimberly Reyes\, and Alia Volz. Moderated by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nA percentage of this book’s proceeds will be given to charities that help those in the bay experiencing homelessness. Every copy purchased offers a small way to help those in need. \nOver the last few decades\, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley\, tech companies\, and more. Countless articles\, blogs\, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become\, a place millions of people have loved to call home\, and yet are compelled to consider leaving. In this beautifully written collection\, writers take on this Bay Area-dweller’s eternal conflict: Should I stay or should I go? \nIncluding an introduction written by Gary Kamiya and essays from Margaret Cho\, W. Kamau Bell\, Michelle Tea\, Beth Lisick\, Daniel Handler\, Bonnie Tsui\, Stuart Schuffman\, Alysia Abbott\, Peter Coyote\, Alia Volz\, Duffy Jennings\, John Law\, and many more\, The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time\, shapeshifting to become something new for each generation of city dwellers. \nWith essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution\, gentrification\, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco’s most beloved neighborhoods\, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement\, as well as the fight to preserve the art\, music\, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love. \nGary Kamiya is an author\, journalist and historian of San Francisco. His latest book\, with artist Paul Madonna\, is Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City. He is also author of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. His award-winning history column “Portals of the Past” appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco. \nJohn Law has been involved in creating underground culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for 40 years. He was an original member of the legendary San Francisco urban adventure and pranks group The Suicide Club\, was integral to the creation of The Cacophony Society\, and is co-founder of the Burning Man Festival. Law is still involved in the worldwide urban exploration underground\, and collaborates with a number of artists and businesses on various projects. He is co-author of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp)\, and lives in San Francisco. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist\, and has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, and many other places. She’s written nonfiction for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, and poetry for journals including American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Columbia Journal\, and The Stinging Fly. She is author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for nonfiction from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and many other publications. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell and Ucross. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-golden-gate-writers-on-loving-and-sometimes-leaving-san-francisco/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carlo Rovelli
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 27 at 6pm PT when bestselling author Carlo Rovelli discusses his latest book\, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution\, on Zoom! \nPlease note this is a ticketed event. \nTickets include admission to the event and a copy of the book with signed bookplate!\nLimited free\, event-only tickets available. \nAbout the Event \n“Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” —Neil Gaiman \nGreen Apple Books proudly presents an evening with world-renowned theoretical physicist and author of the bestselling books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time\, Carlo Rovelli\, celebrating his latest book\, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution. \nThis evening will include a conversation between Rovelli and a special guest and will be followed by an audience Q+A. Tickets include event access and a signed copy of Helgoland. Zoom login information will be sent no later than the morning of event date\, Thursday\, May 27. \nAbout Helgoland \nA startling new look at quantum theory\, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time. \nOne of the world’s most renowned theoretical physicists\, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland\, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. \nHelgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics\, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves\, distant objects that seem to be magically connected\, cats that appear both dead and alive)\, quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory\, yet it is still profoundly mysterious. \nAs scientists and philosophers continue to fiercely debate the meaning of the theory\, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships rather than substances. We and everything around us exist only in our interactions with one another. This bold idea suggests new directions for thinking about the structure of reality and even the nature of consciousness. \nRovelli makes learning about quantum mechanics an almost psychedelic experience. Shifting our perspective once again\, he takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better comprehend our place in it. \nPraise for Helgoland \n“This entertaining and legible guide paints the history of quantum theory and lays out its possible meanings.” —Scientific American \n“Physicist Rovelli (The Order of Time) dazzles with this look at the ’almost psychedelic experience’ of understanding quantum theory…These are big ideas\, but Rovelli easily leads readers through the knotty logic\, often with lyricism…Readers who follow along will be left in awe.” —Publisher’s Weekly\, STARRED REVIEW \nAbout Carlo Rovelli \nCarlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the United States\, and is currently directing the Quantum Gravity research group of the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille\, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics\, Reality Is Not What It Seems\, and The Order of Time are international bestsellers that have been translated into more than forty languages. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carlo-rovelli/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell in conversation with Alvin Orloff
DESCRIPTION:Brontez Purnell and Alvin Orloff discuss 100 Boyfriends\, SFPL’s On The Same Page selection for June 2021. Transgressive\, foulmouthed and brutally funny\, 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. Publisher’s Weekly writes\, “Purnell brilliantly immerses the reader in Black\, queer desire with humor\, self-awareness and just the right amount of vulgarity.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-in-conversation-with-alvin-orloff/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Ever After: Emiko Jean with Gloria Chao
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Eastwind Books\nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for Tokyo Ever After\, the latest from Emiko Jean. The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in this irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! Emiko will read from and discuss her work with Gloria Chao. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be livecasted on Facebook Live.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tokyo-ever-after-emiko-jean-with-gloria-chao/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 3rd at 6pm PT when Grace Perry is joined by Greg Mania to discuss her book\, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\n\nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay\n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You?\n\n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes\n\n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago\n\nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman\n\n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\n\n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell.\n\nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Show Us Your Spines QTPOC Resident's Reading (May/June)
DESCRIPTION:Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work with the SF Public Library Archives.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. Despite the pandemic\, RADAR is determined to make space for creatives\, so the residency lives on in the virtual world with the assistance of our Program Manager and SUYS co-conspirator\, Mason J. \nFor a month\, QTBIPOC writers work 1-on-1 with digital archives and QTBIPOC community members around a queer theme of their choice; writing/producing/directing pieces to be shared the following month at the Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work within the archives. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ \nJune 3rd\, 2021 \nvia TWITCH TV (twitch.tv/studsf) \n6:00pm – FREE \nFeaturing… \nNefertiti Asanti \nAshton Young \nSydney Latimer aka Divinewords \nJon Wai-Keung Lowe \n  \nLearn more about RADAR Productions and Show Us Your Spines at https://www.radarproductions.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-us-your-spines-qtpoc-residents-reading-may-june/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: M. Leona Godin & Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, June 4 at 6pm PT when M. Leona Godin joins us to discuss her book\, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness\, with Maggie Nelson on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89741184404\n\nPraise for There Plant Eyes\n“There Plant Eyes is so graceful\, so wise\, so effortlessly erudite\, I learned something new and took pleasure in every page. All hail its originality\, its humanity\, and its ‘philosophical obsession with diversity in all its complicated and messy glory.’” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts\n\n“This sighted disabled person learned so much from There Plant Eyes! The book took me on a cultural journey that showed how blindness is beautiful\, complex\, and brilliant.” —Alice Wong\, editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century\n\n“Godin moves effortlessly from erudite explorations of the construction of ‘blindness’ to incisive and often funny examinations of technology that helps—or does not help—the blind individual to personal stories of her own life. I was only a few pages in before I realized that what I thought about being blind was either wrong or woefully insufficient. The reader will be lost in admiration for Godin’s gifts as a writer and cultural critic.” —Riva Lehrer\, author of Golem Girl: A Memoir\n\nAbout There Plant Eyes\nA probing\, witty\, and deeply insightful history of blindness—in Western culture and literature\, and in the author’s own experience—that ranges from Homer and Milton to Louis Braille\, Helen Keller\, and Stevie Wonder\n\nM. Leona Godin begins her fascinating\, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how “blindness” has\, for millennia\, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how\, in metaphorical terms\, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness\, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations that they possess “superpowers.”\n\nGodin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates an analysis of blindness in art and literature (from King Lear to Star Wars) and culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane\, embossed printing\, digital technology) and a recounting of her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. Altogether\, Godin gives us a revelation of the centrality of blindness and vision to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-m-leona-godin-maggie-nelson/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Summer 2021 Performance
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, June 5\, 2021 when Babylon Salon’s reading & performance series hosts a special Zoom-based show\, featuring Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies); Joshua Mohr (Model Citizen: A Memoir; Sirens; All This Life); Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl) and more!\nReading at 5pm PT/8pm ET. As always\, free admission. Zoom registration info coming soon!\nCo-hosted by our friends at The Booksmith and The Bindery\, now offering curbside pickup. https://www.babylonsalon.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-summer-2021-performance/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210608T140000
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SUMMARY:Slipping: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger in conversation with Yasmine El Rashidi
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n2:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm MT | 4:00 pm CT | 5:00 pm ET \n\n\nTwo Lines Press joins the Transnational Literary Series to celebrate Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping\, the Egyptian author’s first book to be brought into English by Robin Moger. Mohamed and Robin will be in conversation with Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi. \nMore details and registration information coming soon! \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nMohamed Kheir\n\n\nMohamed Kheir is a novelist\, poet\, short story writer\, journalist\, and lyricist. Slipping (Eflat Al Asabea\, Kotob Khan Publishing House\, 2018; Two Lines Press\, 2021) is his fourth novel and his first to be translated into English. He lives in Egypt.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nRobin Moger\n\n\nRobin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English currently based in Cape Town\, South Africa. He has translated several novels and prose works into English including Iman Mersal’s How To Mend (Kayfa ta)\, Nael Eltoukhy’s The Women of Karantina (AUC Press) and Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles (7 Stories Press).\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slipping-mohamed-kheir-and-robin-moger-in-conversation-with-yasmine-el-rashidi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210608T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chaney Kwak and Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 8 at 6pm PT when Chaney Kwak is joined by Daniel Handler for the launch of his book\, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87694059629\n\nPraise for The Passenger\n“In The Passenger\, Chaney Kwak debuts with the ultimate freelancer revenge story: What do you do when the cruise ship you are covering on assignment starts to sink? The result is a gripping story of survival\, capitalism\, maritime history—nothing less than a very modern adventure\, and an instant classic of travel writing.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\n\n“Chaney Kwak’s The Passenger is an unflinching debut about the calamity of survival. Kwak speaks through the silent archives of history—from thousands of Koreans who died at sea to the maritime disasters across the globe. With incendiary humor and transcendent clarity\, Kwak exhumes the crisis of our haunted relationships and goes beyond the headlines in every scrolling smartphone to demand a greater understanding of being alive.“—E. J. Koh\, author of The Magical Language of Others\n\n“Chaney Kwak’s The Passenger somehow\, in one slim volume\, manages to do it all: in this hybrid of investigative journalism and travel writing\, personal and familial memoir\, Kwak chronicles—with searing wit—his long hours aboard a sinking Viking cruise ship\, veering from his family’s history in post-WWII Korea to the history of successful lifeboat deployments\, all against the backdrop of his own failing relationship. Kwak observes human beings with a precise\, compassionate eye\, moving from poignancy as he contemplates his place in the universe to biting social commentary aimed at the Twitter-storm of armchair storm chasers hoping to capitalize on his doom. I loved this book. It left me longing\, guiltily\, for Kwak’s next misadventure.”—Lori Ostlund\, author After the Parade and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n\nAbout The Passenger\nIn March 2019\, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales\, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful\, harrowing\, funny\, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship.\n\nChaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road\, but this is a first even for him: trapped on the battered cruise ship\, he stuffs his passport into his underwear just in case his body has to be identified. As the massive cruise ship sways in surging waves\, Kwak holds on and watches news of the impending disaster unfold on Twitter\, where the cruise ship’s nearly 1\,400 passengers are showered with “thoughts and prayers.” Kwak uses his twenty-seven hours aboard the teetering ship to examine his family history\, maritime tragedies\, and the failing relationship back on shore with a man he’s loved for nearly two decades: the Viking Sky\, he realizes\, may not be the only sinking ship he needs to escape.\n\nThe Passenger takes readers for an unforgettable journey from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea\, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco. Kwak weaves his personal experience into events spanning decades and continents to explore the serendipity and the relationships that move us–perfect for readers who love to discover the world through the eyes of a perceptive and humorous observer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-chaney-kwak-and-daniel-handler-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Carol Queen on the State of Sex in 2021
DESCRIPTION:Carol Queen has been on the frontlines of the sex-positivity movement since the 1970s. A cultural sexologist\, author\, and co-founder of San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture\, Carol is a long-time advocate for sexual health and pleasure. As Staff Sexologist at Good Vibrations\, Carol developed their education program and is a leading educator in the field of sexual education in San Francisco and beyond. A long running sex advice columnist for BUST magazine\, Carol has brought her insight and knowledge to readers all over the world. \nJoin Sex Therapist and CIIS Sex Therapy Certificate Program Lead Zoe Sipe for a lively conversation with Carol as they explore the state of sex in 2021. Together\, they discuss societal views on sex\, social movements related to sex\, sex education\, sexual shame\, and sex positivity in civic life. \nFree\, suggested donation of $15. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/queen-carol-june-9-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carol-queen-on-the-state-of-sex-in-2021/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210610T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chenxing Han and Breeshia Wade
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 10 at 6pm PT when Breeshia Wade and Chenxing Han join us to discuss their books\, Grieving While Black and Be the Refuge on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84076096679\n\nPraise for Grieving While Black\n“Grieving While Black expands the notion of grief beyond its quick association with death to examine all of the spiritual and psychological tolls of racism and sexism. By drawing on her experiences as a birth doula and chaplain\, Breeshia Wade complicates grief itself by exploring different forms of loss while also imagining a path toward healing. A bracing\, illuminating read.”\n—BRIT BENNETT\, author of the New York Times best sellers The Vanishing Half and The Mothers\n\n“Breeshia Wade has written a moving testament to the power of grief and healing at the intersection of generational loss\, race\, and sexuality. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to enact compassionate antiracism in their activism and in their lives.”\n—SARAH VALENTINE\, PhD\, author of When I Was White\n\nAbout Grieving While Black\nAn exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver.\n\nMost of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one\, the end of a relationship\, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what’s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear\, what we love\, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life\, she connects sorrow not only to specific incidents but also to the ongoing trauma that is part and parcel of systemic oppression.\n\nWade reimagines our relationship to power\, accountability\, and boundaries and points to the long-term work we must all do in order to address systemic trauma perpetuated within our interpersonal relationships. Each of us has a moral obligation to attend to our own grief so that we can responsibly engage with others. Wade elucidates grief in every aspect of our lives\, providing a map back to ourselves and allowing the reader to heal their innate wholeness.\n\nPraise for Be the Refuge\n“In Be The Refuge\, Buddhists from all backgrounds will find truth in the words of like-minded people from various Asian streams\, dealing squarely with the complexity of ‘betwixt-and-between’ racial identities and life experiences.” –San Francisco Book Review (5/5 stars)\n\n“Chenxing Han writes with a singular grace\, missing nothing in a work that draws from a well of academic origins\, while merging cultural critique and luminous voices into a moving memoir. No doubt many an Asian American Buddhist will find themselves heard and championed here\, even as the book’s careful sifting of histories and possibilities makes it valuable reading for future scholarship. Above all\, Be the Refuge lives up to its name.”\n—erin Khuê Ninh\, author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature\n\nAbout Be the Refuge\nA must-read for modern sanghas–Asian American Buddhists in their own words\, on their own terms.\n\nDespite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American\, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse\, inclusive\, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism.\n\nBe the Refuge is both critique and celebration\, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital\, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic\, pan-Buddhist group\, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian American Buddhists’ own voices. With insights from multi-generational\, second-generation\, convert\, and socially engaged Asian American Buddhists\, Be the Refuge includes the stories of trailblazers\, bridge-builders\, integrators\, and refuge-makers who hail from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds.\n\nChampioning nuanced representation over stale stereotypes\, Han and the 89 interviewees in Be the Refuge push back against false narratives like the Oriental monk\, the superstitious immigrant\, and the banana Buddhist–typecasting that collapses the multivocality of Asian American Buddhists into tired\, essentialized tropes. Encouraging frank conversations about race\, representation\, and inclusivity among Buddhists of all backgrounds\, Be the Refuge embodies the spirit of interconnection that glows at the heart of American Buddhism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-chenxing-han-and-breeshia-wade-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Cooley and Anne Germanacos
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, June 14 at 6pm PT when Martha Cooley discusses her latest novel\, Buy Me Love\, with Anne Germanacos on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84120825850\n\nPraise for Buy Me Love\n“Buy Me Love is a terrific novel about the eternal confusions of money and our beloved notions of free will—as they play out for one woman with a lottery ticket. It has a superbly believable romance\, crooked family histories\, and a sneaky double plot. Readers drawn in by its sharpness and originality will find themselves richly rewarded by its striking turns.”\n—Joan Silber\, author of Improvement\n\n“Money—its seductive force\, the love of it\, its weird immaterial nature\, the good it can do\, and the risk that having it could obliterate who you are—is everyone’s suave adversary in Martha Cooley’s penetrating novel. She has drawn each of these characters with striking uniqueness. They could all use a bit more money. But it’s the possibility of suddenly having a lot more that fills the story with such danger and hope. If you got everything you wanted\, would you still want it? And would you still be you?”\n—Salvatore Scibona\, author of The Volunteer\n\nAbout Buy Me Love\nA novel about chance\, trust\, and a lottery ticket.\nDescribed by Publishers Weekly as Cooley’s “sharp latest”\, “Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers.”\n\nIn Brooklyn\, New York\, in 2005\, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after\, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket\, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother—a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad—about her preposterous good luck.\n\nAs the clock ticks\, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she’s met at her local gym. While she grapples with the burden of secret-keeping and the tug of a new intimacy\, a Brooklyn street artist named Blair Talpa is contending with her own challenges: a missing brother\, an urge to make art that will “derange orbits\,” and a lack of money.\n\nEn route to redeem the lottery ticket\, Ellen finds her prospects entwining by chance with Blair’s—which allows Ellen to reimagine luck’s relation to loss\, and the reader to revel in surprise.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-cooley-and-anne-germanacos-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210615T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210615T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Curtis Sittenfeld with Jane and Kelly McGonigal
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 15 at 6pm PT when Curtis Sittenfeld joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her novel\, Rodham\, with Jane and Kelly McGonigal on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437997954\n\nPraise for Rodham\n“[Curtis] Sittenfeld’s Rodham descends like an avenging angel. Here\, in the pages of this alternate history about Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” This isn’t just fiction as fantasy; it’s fiction as therapy.”—The Washington Post\n\n“[A] moving\, morally suggestive\, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any other in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction . . . By fanning out alternate narratives . . . [Rodham] asks us to imagine a different world. . . . And from there\, what a short —excruciating\, hopeful—leap it is to: Everything could be different.”—NPR\n\n“Sittenfeld at her best.”—The Wall Street Journal\n\nAbout Rodham\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York Post\n\nIn 1971\, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech\, she’s attending Yale Law School\, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome\, charismatic southerner and fellow law student\, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other\, the two find a profound intellectual\, emotional\, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.\n\nIn the real world\, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas\, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once\, as we all know\, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.\n\nBut in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction\, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage\, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades\, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private\, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton\, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.\n\nBrilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events\, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness\, moral ambivalence\, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power\, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men\, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.\n\nAbout Curtis Sittenfeld\nCurtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep\, The Man of My Dreams\, American Wife\, Sisterland\, and Eligible\, and the story collection You Think It\, I’ll Say It\, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Esquire\, and The Best American Short Stories\, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and Vanity Fair\, and on public radio’s This American Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-curtis-sittenfeld-with-jane-and-kelly-mcgonigal/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Queer Mystery Writers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Five acclaimed queer mystery writers\, Michael Nava (moderator)\, Cheryl A. Head\, Greg Herren\, Dharma Kelleher and P.J. Vernon discuss the mystery genre and its special attraction to queer writers. Presented by the San Francisco Public Library and the NorCal Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-mystery-writers-panel/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210617T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Krys Malcolm Belc and Alex McElroy
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 17 at 6pm PT when Krys Malcolm Belc discusses his book\, The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood\, with Alex McElroy on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87079245281\n\nPraise for The Natural Mother of the Child\n“A formally daring queer memoir about parenthood and inheritance and the way our bodies resist the binaries of the state; The Natural Mother of the Child is brilliant.“ —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House\n\n“All memoirs offer a study of a body through time\, but my favorites make this fact transparent\, refuse to separate the self from its tangible form. This memoir is an embodied story—of non-binary parenthood\, of true partnership and the challenge of navigating systems which were not designed with us in mind\, but on which our most intimate decisions sometimes depend. Above all\, this is a love story\, one which tracks the evolution of self through the relationships that define it. I loved this portrait of a queer family’s making\, its proof that the ways we love and are loved create us.“ —Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me & Girlhood\n\n“This is a gorgeous memoir about families\, raising children\, and figuring out how to live in a world where intimate matters are both inscribed by individual history and entangled with the workings of the State. A work of solace and communion\, this book is destined to be a major addition to the literature of parenthood and selfhood\, one that will be read for years to come.” —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State\n\n“Krys Malcolm Belc’s lyrical memoir brings much-needed nuance to all these old conversations about baby-making\, families\, parenting\, and gender. Belc’s narrative of his conscious creation of self and family is generous\, resonant\, and powerful—I will be pressing this lovely book into the hands of all the parents and parents-to-be I know!” —Andrea Lawlor\, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\n\nAbout The Natural Mother of the Child\nKrys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving\, birthing\, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.\n\nKrys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary\, transmasculine parent\, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet\, when his partner\, Anna\, adopted Samson\, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.”\n\nBy considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience\, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays\, Belc has created a new kind of life record\, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos\, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories\, which feels apart from his own experience.\n\nThe Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative\, with prose that delights in the intimate dailyness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-krys-malcolm-belc-and-alex-mcelroy-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210623T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathan Lee and Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, June 23 at 6pm PT when Jonathan Lee is joined by Megha Majumdar to discuss his latest novel\, The Great Mistake\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85879379881\n\nPraise for The Great Mistake\n“Jonathan Lee’s wily\, virtuosic\, very beautiful new novel is an intimate portrait of a public man that also serves as an X-ray of America. The Great Mistake is a great novel of New York\, in which the shaping of public space becomes inextricable from the loneliness\, longing\, and ferocious ambition of a single\, damaged man.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You\n\n“Jonathan Lee is quietly becoming one of the best young novelists on either side of the Atlantic. The Great Mistake is a sweeping historical novel that is also a gripping mystery.” —The Observer (UK)\n\n“Few writers working today have Jonathan Lee’s range or eye for detail. Fewer still are capable of\nroaming minds and histories with such bittersweet\, richly detailed ease\, or taking on with such profound depth all the messy\, hilarious\, heartbreaking humanity of a person\, and a time\, and indeed an entire city. The Great Mistake is a wonder and a delight.” —Téa Obreht\, author of The Tiger’s Wife\n\n“Riveting\, immersive…An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship” –Stephanie Danler\, author of Sweetbitter\n\nAbout The Great Mistake\nAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century\, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune\, and his mysterious murder.\n\nAndrew Haswell Green is dead\, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three\, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight\, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer\, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park\, no Metropolitan Museum of Art\, no Museum of Natural History\, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret\, a life locked within him that now\, in the hour of his death\, may finally break free.\nA work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion\, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed\, a murder that made a private man infamous\, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonathan-lee-and-megha-majumdar-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210624T190000
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SUMMARY:On Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence and hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in ways that are dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls in James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. \nSuzanne’s inspiring and accessible work illuminates how trees-living side by side for hundreds of years-have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past. Trees have agency about the future\, eliciting warnings and mounting defenses. They compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication-characteristics ascribed to human intelligence and traits that are the essence of civil societies-and at the center of all this complexity and nuance-the Mother Trees\, mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \nIn her latest book\, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest\, Suzanne writes of her own life\, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia\, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest\, and of her own journey-of love and loss\, of observation and change\, of risk and reward\, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology. \nJoin scholar and CIIS staff member Laura Pustarfi for a conversation about Suzanne’s life and work\, her latest book\, and learn more about the connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do\, and how these inseparable bonds enable our survival. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/simard-suzanne-june-24-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-finding-the-mother-tree/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jenny Bitner
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, June 25 at 6pm PT when Jenny Bitner discusses her book\, Here is a Game We Could Play\, on Zoom!\n\nBroadcast live from Green Apple Books\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84868544257\n\nPraise for Here is a Game We Could Play\n“Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person\, in its absence as much as its presence\, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection\, it is a ‘terrible and beautiful thing.”—Foreword Reviews\, starred review\n\n“Tender\, yearning\, and dangerously imagined. . . A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild.”—Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying\n\n“Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut.”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars\n\nAbout Here is a Game We Could Play\nThis original\, funny\, and moving novel follows Claudia\, a loner with an active fantasy life\, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships.\n\nA dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia\, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium\, loneliness\, and her obsessive fear of poisoning\, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover\, to whom she addresses letters about her life\, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios.\n\n​In each fantasy\, her lover takes a different form\, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden\, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms’ fairy tale\, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia\, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity—building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library\, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job\, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose\, the town’s new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose\, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past—the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed.\n\nFunny\, dark\, inventive\, and moving\, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender\, Angela Carter\, Rebecca Brown\, and Margaret Atwood.\n\nAbout Jenny Bitner\nJenny Bitner’s stories\, essays\, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, PANK\, Fence\, Mississippi Review\, The Fabulist\, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jenny-bitner-3/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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