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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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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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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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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210608T150000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210614T180000
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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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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210624T203000
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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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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: Doctors\, Diseases\, and Deities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of the art\, science\, and archaeology of medicine in Ancient Rome. This conversation examines a remarkable discovery in Rimini\, Italy that has given us an extraordinary amount of information concerning medicine and medical technology in ancient Rome. The “Domus del Chirurgo\,” (“House of the Surgeon”) is a treasure trove of artifacts that tell us a great deal about the practice of medicine almost 2000 years ago. We will then go on to discuss the Antonine Plague of the 2nd century\, one of the most severe pandemic events the Roman world ever confronted.\n\n\n\nThrough a combination of primary sources\, archaeological discoveries\, and modern science\, Sarah will examine the pathology of the plague as well as its impact on the economic\, political\, and religious life of the Roman Empire. What exactly was the “Antonine Plague?” Was it a factor in the destabilization of the Empire in the 3rd century? And most importantly\, what lessons can we learn about how to react to population-impacting medical crises today? \nSarah Yeomans is an archaeologist specializing in the Imperial period of the Roman Empire with a particular emphasis on ancient science and religion. Currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Southern California\, she is adjunct faculty at both St. Mary’s College of Maryland and West Virginia University. A native Californian\, Sarah holds an M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Sheffield\, England\, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Southern California. Her current research involves ancient Roman medicine and the impact of pandemic events on Roman society. She is generally happiest when covered in dirt\, roaming archaeological sites somewhere in the Mediterranean region but particularly in Rome\, where she lived for six years. \nTuesday\, June 29\nDOCTORS\, DISEASES\, AND DEITIES: ILLNESS AND INJURY IN ANCIENT ROME WITH SARAH YEOMANS\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+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-doctors-diseases-and-deities/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / Better Ancestors: Valentina De Roca Fuerte\, Lourdes Figueroa\, Kelechi Ubozoh\, ASHA & Teju Adisa-Farrar
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents the third Better Ancestors\, featuring readings and performance by Valentina De Roca Fuerte\, Lourdes Figueroa\, Kelechi Ubozoh\, ASHA and Teju Adisa-Farrar. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nOne of Quiet Lightning’s efforts to diversify and move toward racial equity\, Better Ancestors is a new quarterly showcase of writers of color. Developed in partnership with Michael Warr\, the series features 5 authors reading or performing whatever they choose. Each author selects one performer for the following show\, so the series – and community – is self-generating. All authors are paid and published in an end of the year anthology. \nWhy Better Ancestors? As one of our initiatives to diversify from a board that has historically been mostly white\, this showcase aims to provide a long-term\, forward-thinking goal. As a society\, we are suffering the consequences of pervasive systemic injustice against people of color\, queer and trans people\, the poor\, disabled\, and otherwise disadvantaged. But we are all ancestors of the future. If the planet is to remain inhabitable; if the function of humanity is not to sort and oppress our descendants based on their skin color\, accent\, or material property\, we must be better ancestors. This begins by listening to one another\, and by giving each other space to be heard. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS (pictured above\, clockwise from top left)\nValentina De Roca Fuerte is a performing poet\, awakening visual artist\, workshop facilitator\, and creative wellness educator. Born in Bogotá Colombia\, raised in the DMV & Washington state\, to now living in Harlem; she carries all these places with her. Her words are motivated by the urgency to write through brown immigrant women’s pain & power. She recently graduated with a Masters in Art Politics from NYU Tisch & is now teaching brilliant middle-schoolers in Brooklyn. \nKelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate who blends the reality of trauma\, race\, and mental health into her writing. Kelechi co-hosts the Bay Area submission-based reading series MoonDrop Productions with Cassandra Dallett. She has performed at the Berkeley Poetry Festival (2019)\, Oakland’s Beast Crawl (2016-2017) and San Francisco’s Litquake (2018-2019). For the past three years she has performed at Litcrawl with Cocoa Fly\, an all-Black women troupe. Her work is published in Endangered Species\, Enduring Values edited by Shizue Seigel. In 2019\, she published her anthology with L.D. Green\, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health. She is currently working on a collection of poetry through memoir. \nASHA is an Artist\, Educator\, and Revolutionary. Originally from LA\, ASHA has been a public school teacher for the last 10 years in the bay area. She is an international poet\, striving to use art to create radical change. ASHA has been featured on the cover of Content Magazine\, KQED Arts\, and many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area\, as well as been an active speaker\, emcee\, and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights. Her Tedx tells her diasporic journey of identity through poetry\, and her latest book release\, Not Your Masi’s Generation tackles mental health and healing from generational trauma. Her dream is to establish her own K-12 school rooted in restorative practices\, art and social justice based standards. ASHA consistently uses her platform to voice out against injustice and to speak up for those who have been marginalized and silenced for centuries. \nTeju Adisa-Farrar is a Jamaican-American writer\, poet and geographer from Oakland. Her writing explores experiences of exclusion\, coloniality\, geographies of Blackness\, urban culture\, environmental equity\, and systemic change. Teju has performed poetry and conducted workshops all over the world including in Austria\, Denmark\, Portugal\, Botswana and the United States. She has been published on several digital sites and magazines\, as well as has an e-book of poetry entitled searching to find home (2014) and a poetry chapbook entitled to belong. (2017) based on her travels throughout Israel and Palestine. Teju is interested in documenting and mapping Black (read: alternative) futures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLourdes Figueroa was born in Yuba City\, California\, during a trip her parents made from Mexico to the USA when they worked in the campo tilling the soil. Her work is rooted in migration\, what her family lived when they moved to this country. In 2009 and 2011 she attended VONA. In 2012 she completed an MFA with a focus in poetry at USF. Her work has been published in Jack Hirschman’s Poets 11 2008 & 2010\, Generations\, Eleven Eleven\, Something Worth Revising and BACKWORDS Press. She currently works and lives in San Francisco with her wife. yolotl was her first chapbook\, published by Spooky Actions. Her chapbook Ruidos=To Learn Speak\, written during her Alley Cat Residency\, is forthcoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MICHAEL WARR (pictured above\, right)\nMichael Warr’s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. In 2020\, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nABOUT QUIET LIGHTNING\nNow in its 12th year\, Quiet Lightning is a literary movement to create and foster community around the written and spoken word. QL aims to democratize public space by offering performances\, curation opportunities\, and programming with no barriers to entry\, providing a launchpad for new and emerging artists\, a reliable platform for professional writers\, and an inclusive\, accessible gathering place for the public. QL is committed to care-taking and progressing the rich threads of literary culture that exist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of the 100 “people\, organizations\, and movements who are shaping the future of culture”\, Quiet Lightning’s flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a blind selection process and different curators for each show. The shows\, which are free to attend\, are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people\, and all participating artists are paid. QL has now produced 137 shows featuring 1\,673 readings by 879 local authors in 91 venues\, ranging from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks\, and has published 115 books and produced two films\, all selected by 74 different curators. In 2019\, Quiet Lightning pioneered an application process for limited-term board-membership\, called Disruptors\, to regularly bring new ideas and energy into the organization. QL maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nMAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION OR SUPPORT US ON PATREON\nEvery tax deductible donation helps Quiet Lightning invest in a sustainable\, ethical arts ecosystem\, with the goal of building that culture into the fabric of our lives. You can donate by Venmo or PayPal or pledge a recurring donation by becoming one of our supporters on Patreon\, which comes with a few additional perks and helps us expand on the work that we do. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-better-ancestors-valentina-de-roca-fuerte-lourdes-figueroa-kelechi-ubozoh-asha-teju-adisa-farrar/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: The Frozen North
DESCRIPTION:Journey to the (virtual) Arctic Circle\, and a look at the science\, culture\, and history of exploration at the top of the world. The Arctic has long fascinated people from around the world. Learn how myth compares with reality through the experiences of an Arctic scientist and traveler. \nFor most people\, the Arctic is a distant realm\, full of unlikely creatures such as the narwhal as well as fur-clad hunters equally at home on ice floes as on open tundra. Nowadays\, the Arctic also makes news for the rapid loss of sea ice and for the increasing development of resources and transportation routes. The changing Arctic affects the world’s weather and climate. Mineral development can disrupt traditional ways of life. China\, Russia\, and the United States vie for influence and opportunity in the far north. How do these stories intersect? \nHenry P. Huntington earned his bachelor’s degree in English at Princeton University and his master’s and a doctorate in Polar Studies at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Eagle River\, Alaska\, where he works as an independent researcher and on Arctic Ocean conservation for Ocean Conservancy. Huntington’s research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska\, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of marine mammals\, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice\, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals. \nTuesday\, July 27\nTHE FROZEN NORTH: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCTIC WITH DR. HENRY HUNTINGTON\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+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-the-frozen-north/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Mia P. Manansala\, Tonya M. Foster & Zoe Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon presents a special\nonline performance\nSaturday\, September 11\, 2021\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nZoom Registration coming soon\n\nAnna North \n(Outlawed; The Life and Death of Sophie Stark) \nA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON BEST OF THE MONTH AND EDITOR’S PICK \n“North’s knockout latest chronicles the travails of a midwife’s daughter who joins a group of female and nonbinary outlaws near the end of the 19th century . . . The characters’ struggles for gender nonconformity and LGBTQ rights are tenderly and beautifully conveyed. This feminist western parable is impossible to put down.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. Here to provide some is the scrappy new feminist Western novel Outlawed . . . It’s an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns\, heists\, a marriage of convenience\, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung.” – Vox \nAnna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels\,America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark\, which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2016 . She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel\,BuzzFeed\, Salon\, and the New York Times\, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. \n— \nVince Granata \n(Everything is Fine) \n“Although he writes of an unimaginable family tragedy\, Vincent Granata’s Everything is Fine reads like a testament to life itself. Suffused with emotional depth and intellectual inquiry\, this is a writer pushing the very limits of what language and love can capture: the suffering\, certainly\, but more so the astonishing power of forgiveness and survival. This book will never leave you.” —Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us \nVince Granata received his BA in history from Yale University and his MFA in creative writing from American University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts\, the I-Park Foundation\, and the Ucross Foundation\, and residencies from PLAYA and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and Fourth Genre\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2018. \n— \nTonya M. Foster \n(A Swarm of Bees in High Court) \nTonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine\, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry\, prose\, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo\, Tripwire\, boundary2\, MiPOESIAS\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, the Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. Tonya is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford and the Mellon Foundations\, from NYFA; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell colony. Her next collections are a cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos::Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Presse 2021)\, and Monkey Talk\, a cross-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthestics\, and surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. \n— \nMia P. Manansala \n(Arsenic and Adobo) \nMia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books\, baking\, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora\, queerness\, and her millennial love for pop culture. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award\, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award\, the 2017 William F. Deeck – Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers\, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She’s also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor. Her debut novel\, ARSENIC AND ADOBO\, came out May 4\, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series. \n— \nwith music by \nZoe Fitzgerald Carter \n(Imperfect Endings; Waterlines) \n“The questions that rise from her story are urgent\, important and timely…sharply focused\, engaged with essential ethical questions…the end of the book is so full of grace and acceptance that one might forget the memoir began with such urgent\, roaring questions.”—San Francisco Chronicle \nZoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon and Vogue. Imperfect Endings won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s literary contest\, was excerpted in O magazine and chosen as a finalist for the National MS Society’s Books for a Better Life Awards in the “Inspirational Memoir” category. It was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. \nZoe is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, where she teaches memoir. She has also taught (and run) writing workshops from Hawaii to Vermont\, and currently teaches memoir and songwriting at Left Margin Lit in Berkeley\, CA. In the last couple of years\, she’s been focusing on her career as a musician. Her first CD\, Waiting for the Earthquake came out in 2017 and can be found on all the streaming platforms. Her new album\, Waterlines\, was released in 2021. \n— \nin partnership with our friends at  \nThe Booksmith\, \ncurrently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing \nin their new location  at  \n1727 Haight Street\, San Francisco \n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-anna-north-vince-granata-mia-p-manansala-tonya-m-foster-zoe-fitzgerald/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karla Huebner\, Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\nKarla Huebner discusses her new book on the surrealist artist Toyen. \nPart art book and part biography\, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová\, 1902–80)\, a founding member of the Prague surrealist group\, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Toyen’s early life in Prague enabled her to become a force in three avant-garde groups—Devětsil\, Prague surrealism\, and Paris surrealism—yet\, unusually for a female artist of her generation\, Toyen presented both her gender and sexuality as ambiguous and often emphasized erotic themes in her work. \nKarla Huebner offers a re-evaluation of surrealism\, the Central European contribution to modernism\, and the role of female artists in the avant-garde\, along with a complex and nuanced view of women’s roles in and treatment by the surrealist movement. \nYouTube Live \nKarla Huebner is a professor of Art History at Wright State University in Dayton\, Ohio\, whose research focuses on Czech modernism\, feminism and gender\, surrealism\, and visual culture. \nConnect – Website | Instagram | Blog | Facebook \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Readings & Lectures\n\n\nEngage with your favorite writers and discover your next read. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArt\, Architecture & Photography\n\n\nLearn from world-class designers\, artists and experts in their fields. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nATTENDING PROGRAMS\nQuestions about the program or problems registering? Contact sfplcpp@sfpl.org. For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER\nThis program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link\, you will leave SFPL’s website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect personally identifying information about you\, such as name\, username\, email address\, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each third-party website or service that you visit or use\, including those third parties with whom you interact through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links\, please see the section of SFPL’s Privacy Policy describing Links to Other Sites. \nThe views and opinions expressed in programs presented by groups unaffiliated with SFPL do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SFPL or the City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karla-huebner-magnetic-woman-toyen-and-the-surrealist-erotic/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / virtual literary mixtape curated by Rhea Dhanbhoora & Mahdis Marzooghian
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing\, curated through a blind process by Rhea Dhanbhoora and Mahdis Marzooghian into a one-night only performance in two sets: \nSet 1: Ashley Mayne\, Amanda Spiller\, Steven Gray\, Courtney Arnold\, D. E. La Valle\, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman\, Melissa Flores Anderson\, Rietta Parker\, Andre Le Mont Wilson\, Sarah Plummer\, Ada Genavia \nSet 2: Sheila Black\, Lita Kurth\, Colette Chien\, Judit Hollos\, Charlie Getter\, Kate Oksas\, Amanda Woodward\, Cléo Charpantier\, Vince Montague\, Susana Praver-Perez\, Becca Rose Hall\, Mike Horan & Roger Topp \nAll selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 111\, featuring cover art by Yerrie Choo! \nPlease note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content)\, but RSVP is required. \nABOUT FREE SHOWS \nIf you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are two easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation of any amount: \nPaypal or Venmo \nOr consider supporting us on Patreon! \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nIf you’d like to purchase the book you can do that for $10 + shipping here\, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue. \nA note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book\, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds\, donations or not\, go toward local artists and independent businesses. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nRhea Dhanbhoora lives and writes in Upstate NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including Five on the Fifth\, Chronogram\, Connecticut Mag\, Artsy\, Broccoli Mag\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, and JMWW. She’s currently a freelance writer and editor\, reads for literary magazines\, is on the Board for Quiet Lightning\, and is working on several creative projects\, among which is a linked collection about women\, based in the underrepresented Parsi Zoroastrian diaspora. Her chapbook\, “Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons\,” is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press. Follow her work at rheadhanbhoora.com. \nMahdis Marzooghian is cofounder and co-Editor-in-Chief of Five on the Fifth. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Screen Fervor. She has a master’s degree in Professional Writing from Towson University and is currently a financial news editor at Money Map Press\, based in Baltimore. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Heartwood Literary Magazine\, Welter Literary Journal\, Mud Season Review\, Adirondack Review\, BULL Fiction Magazine\, and Lunch Ticket. Additionally\, her short essay\, “Collection Connection\,” was published in the 2012 series anthology\, Miso for Life: A Melting Pot of Thoughts. Mahdis recently finished her debut novel\, for which she is currently seeking representation. \nCan’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text\, like all of our previous readings! Find them\, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more\, @ Litseen. \nNot on our mailing list yet? Sign up for email updates of upcoming Quiet Lightning events and calls for submissions. \nFeatured images by Yerrie Choo\, featured artist for sPARKLE & bLINK 111 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-virtual-literary-mixtape-curated-by-rhea-dhanbhoora-mahdis-marzooghian/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: David Hoon Kim and Kevin Brockmeier
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 3 at 6pm PT when David Hoon Kim discusses his debut novel\, Paris is a Party\, Paris is a Ghost\, with Kevin Brockmeier on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_c6yfSwmBTWa9HbXpzeRuvA \nAbout Paris is a Party\, Paris is a Ghost \nIn a strangely distorted Paris\, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved. \nWhen Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room\, she’s already dead\, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend\, Henrik Blatand\, an aspiring translator\, these remnants are like clues\, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile\, Fumiko\, or perhaps her doppelgänger\, reappears: in line at the Louvre\, on street corners and subway platforms\, and on the dissection table of a group of medical students. \nHenrik’s inquiry expands beyond Fumiko’s seclusion and death\, across the absurd\, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them\, from a jaded group of Korean expats\, to an eccentric French widow\, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past\, where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirrors. And it mounts to a charged intimacy shared with his best friend’s precocious daughter\, who may be haunted herself. \nDavid Hoon Kim’s debut is a transgressive\, darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. With each successive\, echoic chapter\, Paris Is a Party\, Paris Is a Ghost plunges us more deeply beneath the surface of things\, to the displacement\, exile\, grief\, and desire that hide in plain sight. \nAbout David Hoon Kim \nDavid Hoon Kim is a Korean-born American educated in France\, who took his first creative writing workshop at the Sorbonne before attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Stegner Program. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Brins d’éternité\, Le Sabord and XYZ La revue de la nouvelle. He has been awarded fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, among others. Paris Is a Party\, Paris Is a Ghost is his first book. He writes in English and in French.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-david-hoon-kim-and-kevin-brockmeier/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chaney Kwak in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Cheaney Kwak\, author\, and Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZYVA will discuss writing\, travel\, near death experiences and Kwak’s debut novel. \nYouTube Live \nThe Passenger How A Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From A Sinking Ship is neither straight reported nonfiction\, nor straight memoir: it’s a compelling mix of the two that’s both harrowing in its closely reported details and laugh out loud funny in its searing honesty. By the end you’ll agree\, you couldn’t ask for a better guide to twenty -seven unforgettable hours aboard a maybe-sinking-ship than Chaney Kwak. – Joshua Bodwell\, Editorial Director \nChaney Kwak has written for publications such as The New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\,  Travel & Leisure  and a number of National Geographic anthologies. His fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Catamaran Literary Review\, Gertrude and other literary journals\, earning a special mention from the Pushcart Prize. \nA winner of the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards\, Kwak has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was a Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Brown Handler Resident. \nHe teaches nonfiction writing at the Stanford Continuing Studies program. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. His writing has been published in several publications\, including Freeman’s\, Zocalo\, The Believer and Lit Hub. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nConnect \nChaney Kwak – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nOscar Villalon – Twitter \nZYZZYVA – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Readings & Lectures\n\n\nEngage with your favorite writers and discover your next read. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaney-kwak-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Annie Zaleski with Kevin Smokler / Duran Duran's Rio
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Annie Zaleski for her new book\, Duran Duran’s Rio\, part of the acclaimed 331/3 book series. She’ll be in conversation with Booksmith BFF and author of Brat Pack America and Practical Classics\, Kevin Smokler. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Duran Duran’s Rio here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn the ’80s\, the Birmingham\, England\, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave\, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade’s music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act’s breakthrough 1982 LP\, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound-influences include danceable disco\, tangy funk\, swaggering glam\, and Roxy Music’s art-rock-the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as “Hungry Like the Wolf” and the title track. \nHowever\, Rio wasn’t a success everywhere at first; in fact\, the LP had to be buffed-up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos\, which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion\, and the group’s cutting-edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed\, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album\, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration-and a reflection of a musical\, cultural\, and technology zeitgeist. \nAbout the authors\nCleveland\, Ohio-based author\, journalist and editor Annie Zaleski is an award-winning writer with profiles\, interviews\, and criticism in a variety of publications. Bylines include Rolling Stone\, NPR Music\, The Guardian\, Salon\, Time\, Billboard\, The A.V. Club\, Vulture\, The Los Angeles Times\, Stereogum\, Cleveland Plain Dealer\, andLas Vegas Weekly. She also contributed liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time and Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript. \nKevin Smokler (@weegee) is a writer\, documentary filmmaker and event host with a focus on pop culture. He’s the author of the book Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies (2016) and the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013). In 2020\, he co-directed the documentary film Vinyl Nation on the contemporary renaissance of vinyl records in America\, which has screened at 27 film festivals in the US\, Europe and Australia. He’s appeared in conversation onstage with comedians\, playwrights\, authors\, magazine publishers\, architects\, musicians and filmmakers for the last 2 decades and lives in San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/annie-zaleski-with-kevin-smokler-duran-durans-rio/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210804T080000
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SUMMARY:Keith Boykin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6PM PT WHEN KEITH BOYKIN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\, RACE AGAINST TIME: THE POLITICS OF A DARKENING AMERICA\, AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i2ifIaLzTJS28dSVTok04Q \nPraise for Race Against Time\n“With clear insights and provocative analysis\, Keith Boykin showcases why he is one of the country’s foremost experts on race and politics in America. This book is timely\, relevant\, and important.”—Leah Wright Rigueur\, associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University \n“Race Against Time is Keith Boykin’s best book yet in a long list of books and anthologies that have helped define what cultural criticism is. This book is also an account of what it means to be overlooked in a capitalist landscape that denies the existence and contribution of black queer citizens. What floors me is that Boykin’s genius—from all the political and racial history from Reconstruction onward\, to his well-wrought recounting of the antics of US presidents from Reagan to Trump—still allows him to remain a man of hope and a writer that affirms the spirit in essays that speak to us as a comforting brother would.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tadition \n“In evocative fashion\, and through the depth of his personal experiences at the highest levels of American politics\, Keith Boykin traces the parameters of America’s ‘never-ending civil war\,’ from the shock of Clinton’s Black-voter-driven presidency though Bush and Obama and the white nationalist nightmare of Donald Trump. Race Against Time is essential reading at a calamitous time.”—Joy Reid\, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut \nAbout Race Against Time\nA Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. \nAfter a deadly pandemic\, shocking incidents of police brutality\, a racial justice crisis\, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue\, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America—a country in which there is no longer a predominant white majority. \nAs the Republican Party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections\, its leaders have incited white Americans in a last-ditch race against time to stop the advance of a new\, multiracial emerging majority. Keith Boykin\, long time political commentator\, has watched this white resentment consume the GOP over the course of a life in politics\, activism\, and journalism. He has also observed the divisions among Democrats\, as white progressives have postponed demands for full racial equity\, while Black voters have often been too forgiving of party leaders who have failed to deliver. America can no longer avoid its long overdue reckoning with the past\, Boykin argues. With the familiarity of personal experience and the acuity of historical insight\, Boykin urges us to fight racism\, sexism\, xenophobia\, and homophobia\, and save the union\, not just by making Black lives matter\, but by making Black lives equal. \nAbout Keith Boykin\nKeith Boykin is a CNN political commentator\, New York Times best-selling author\, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Boykin teaches at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington\, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. He was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show “My Two Cents\,” starred on the Showtime reality television series “American Candidate\,” was an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry\,” and he has appeared on many other TV shows\, including BET’s “Being Mary Jane.” A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School\, Boykin is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of four books. He lives in New York City.​​​​​​​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keith-boykin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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