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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 
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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/
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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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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SUMMARY:Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS NOVEL\, MESSIAHS\, WITH CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required While In-Store\nYou can join this event virtually by registering at the link below. \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs\n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.”\n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.”\n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs‘ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy.\nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson\nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Practice of Presence for Healing Personal and Collective Grief
DESCRIPTION:In unsettling and uncertain times\, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in both our bodies and our communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name\, focus on\, or wade through the difficulties in our lives. But in order to heal\, we must make space for grief\, prioritizing our wholeness\, humanity\, and inherent divinity. \nSocial justice activist\, social worker\, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers to those who feel brokenhearted\, helpless\, confused\, powerless\, and desperate the tools they need to be present and openhearted with their grief. In her latest book\, Finding Refuge\, Michelle uses personal narrative\, meditation\, and journaling practices to explore being present with our hearts\, empowering us to see that we each have a role to play in taking intentional action to build momentum toward a shifting what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Through her work and writing\, Michelle invites us to pick up the shattered parts of ourselves and remember our strength\, wholeness\, and sacredness through the practice of presence and attending to our grief. \nJoin program innovation leader in mindfulness\, trauma\, and racial healing Jenee Johnson in a conversation with Michelle about her latest book\, her life and her work\, and learn how to process your own grief\, as well as family\, community\, and global grief. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-cassandra-michelle-august-4-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-practice-of-presence-for-healing-personal-and-collective-grief/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T180000
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 5 at 6pm PT when Kaveh Akbar reads from his latest poetry collection\, Pilgrim Bell\, in-person at 9th Ave! MASKS REQUIRED  \nYou can watch the livestream of this event online by registering at the link below: \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_LkAVIbOeRpqn-rACAEZ62g \nPraise for Pilgrim Bell \n“Kaveh Akbar exquisitely and tenaciously braids astonishment and atonement into a singular lyric voice . . . intensely inventive and original.” —Frank Bidart \n“[Akbar’s] poems have as much audacity as humility\, a rare mix of openness in a time of flinching anxiety.” —francine j. harris \n“Akbar’s poems offer readers\, religious or not\, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nAbout Pilgrim Bell \nKaveh Akbar’s exquisite\, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf \nWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision\, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal\, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is\, too\, a kind of self-destruction\, what does one do with the body’s question\, “what now shall I repair?” Here\, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence\, the indulgence of austerity\, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. \nRichly crafted and generous\, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits\, against the atrocities of the American empire\, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace\, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant\, revelatory\, and holy. \nAbout Kaveh Akbar \nKaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem! \nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW’s history and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests. \nWe’ll be having a limited live in-person audience and a simulcast on Zoom. Books will be available at the event thanks to Eastwind Books. If you’re joining us online\, we encourage you to order the book directly from their site: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ \nAbout Monkey Around \nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief. \nAbout the Author \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:(UPDATE: We are canceling the live in-person reading and will shift to online only\, please RSVP to receive the link to Zoom room or join us on Youtube or Facebook)\n\nWe are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem!\n\nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests.\n\nWe encourage you to order your copy of Monkey Around from Eastwind Books: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/\n\nAbout Monkey Around\nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.\n\nAbout the Author\nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series - Opposites Attract Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Words out Loud is a monthly first Friday spoken word series. Months alternate between featured readers and an Opposites Attract thematic open mic focusing on opposites. For August\, bring one poem each on the topics of high(s) and low(s)\, interpreted as you choose. Time allotted will depend on the number of participants but will likely be 2-3 minutes each.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-opposites-attract-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:eot3wexler@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T114500
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SUMMARY:Kat Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Kat Zhang\, children’s book author of Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao in an interactive food-themed read-aloud certain to delight. Learn how the mixture of culture and perseverance through cooking and food\, results in perfection through practice. For kids and their families. \nWatch this on YouTube. \nAbout Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao: Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong. Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance. Will Amy ever make the perfect bao? \nKat Zhang has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. After a childhood spent living in books\, she now builds stories for other people to visit. In addition to her Young Adult trilogy\, The Hybrid Chronicles\, she has also published two Middle Grade novels\, The Emperor’s Riddle and The Memory of Forgotten Things\, as well as two picture books\, Amy Wu & the Perfect Bao and Amy Wu & the Patchwork Dragon. The third in the series\, Amy Wu & the Warm Welcome\, will release in Summer 2022. \nConnect: Kat Zhang – Facebook | Kat Zhang – Instagram | Kat Zhang – Twitter \n\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/kat-zhang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T130000
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SUMMARY:Marc Ribot in conversation with Elliott Sharp
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.         \n\ncelebrating the launch of Mark Ribot’s new book \nUnstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist \npublished by Akashic Books \n\nIconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection. \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time\, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here\, in his first collection of writing\, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music\, life\, and death. Through essays\, short stories\, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice\, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. \nIn the first section of the book\, “Lies and Distortion\,” Ribot turns his attention to his instrument—”my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I’m constantly forcing it to be something else”—and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (The Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live)\, while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists’ rights. Elsewhere\, we glimpse fragments of Ribot’s life as a traveling musician—he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection\, “Sorry\, We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties\,” Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together\, these stories and essays cement Ribot’s position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time. \nListen to an interview with Marc Ribot at The Quarantine Tapes (Literary Hub). \nMARC RIBOT has released twenty-five albums under his own name over a forty-year career\, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez. Rolling Stone points out that “Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new\, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs\, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss\, Elvis Costello\, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case\, Diana Krall\, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union\, Solomon Burke\, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards\, Marianne Faithfull\, Joe Henry\, Allen Toussaint\, Medeski\, Martin & Wood\, Caetano Veloso\, Allen Ginsberg\, Madeleine Peyroux\, Norah Jones\, the Black Keys\, and many others. Ribot works regularly with GRAMMY Award–winning producer T Bone Burnett and New York composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as Walk the Line\, The Kids Are All Right\, and The Departed. Unstrung is his latest work. \nELLIOTT SHARP is a contemporary classical composer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s\, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from contemporary classical\, avant-garde\, free improvisation\, jazz\, experimental\, and orchestral music to noise\, no wave\, and electronic music. He is the author of the book IrRational Music published by Terra Nova Press. \nWhat is being said about UNSTRUNG \n“Unstrung has all the honesty\, original angles\, beauty\, and clangor found in Marc Ribot’s playing. His compassionate writing about Frantz Casseus gives a human face to his calls for artists’ rights. Like life itself\, this book is bloody\, funny\, and bloody funny.”\n—Elvis Costello\, musician \n“An insightful tour through the razor-sharp mind of one of the world’s most original and influential guitar masters. Ribot’s acerbic wit\, self-deprecating humor\, and profoundly vexing love-hate relationship with all things guitar make for a fun and stimulating read.”\n—John Zorn\, musician \n“Ribot writes with great care for words\, for sounds . . . A good writer\, like a good musician\, and Ribot is both\, needs to know what they’re composing to be able to understand it\, maybe even do it better the next time. His stories are moving and compassionate . . . revelatory\, honest\, and insightful . . .”\n—Lynne Tillman\, from the Introduction \n“In the beginning\, we may have thought Marc Ribot was a full-time Lower East Side tenants rights activist who moonlit as an ubiquitous downtown noise guitarist. Now we come to find out he’s a phenomenal essay writer who has the nerve to be one of our loudest and most beloved electric jazz improvisers . . . [Ribot] composes essays about music and life of sublime wit\, probity\, and severe self-reckoning . . .”\n—Greg Tate\, author of Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture \n“Don’t let the fact that I am calling Marc Ribot a thinking musician distract from the raw and the righteous aspects of his playing and of this book. You have to love something completely to want to look for a way out. Here is more proof of Marc’s love and understanding of music\, of those who make it and of all the imaginings that it might jar loose!”\n—Arto Lindsay\, musician \n“Marc Ribot\, the thinking person’s roving guitar wrangler\, always has something on his mind. It’s great to drift around in the woods and fields (and airports) behind the forehead of this man one’s known before mostly by the music he’s made. Take a ramble with Marc.”\nRichard Hell\, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-ribot-in-conversation-with-elliott-sharp/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210808T130000
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Authors on the Street @ Inner Sunset Flea
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, August 8th at 12pm PT for the latest Authors on the Street event at Inner Sunset Flea! \nFeaturing writers Jazmin Darznik\, Michael Warr\, Emily Willingham\, Jadie Jang\, and Barbara Jane Reyes \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders \nLocated at the San Franpsycho Stage of the Inner Sunset Flea Market \nat 9th Ave and Irving St \nAbout this Event \nAn in-person\, outdoor literary event featuring poetry\, science\, literary fiction\, fantasy and MORE! \nYES\, in-person book events are *back*! The Inner Sunset Flea has graciously allowed us to feature some authors with new and recent books. Just to be clear: this is an in-person\, outdoor reading\, with no zoom screens or webcams or headphones involved. (We love virtual events\, but we’ve missed seeing people’s faces in person.) \nOnce again\, this event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. This time around\, Authors on the Street features: \nJasmin Darznik \nMichael Warr \nEmily Willingham \nJadie Jang \nBarbara Jane Reyes \nAbout the Authors \nJasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bohemians\, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. The novel was chosen by the New York Times and Oprah Daily as one of the best books of historical fiction in 2021. Her debut novel\, Song of a Captive Bird\, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and she has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts. You can learn more about her at www.jasmindarznik.com. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is a 2021 San Francisco Artist Grantee and 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, and The Armageddon of Funk and We Are All The Black Boy from Tia Chucha Press. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, 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. His poetry is translated into Chinese by poet Chun Yu as part of the “Two Languages / One Community” project. Michael is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nEmily Willingham is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons From the Animal Penis. Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology\, both after taking a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years\, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Aeon\, Undark\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American. \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is the author of Monkey Around. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter. \nBarbara Jane Reyes was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She is an adjunct professor in the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-authors-on-the-street-inner-sunset-flea/
LOCATION:Inner Sunset Flea Market\, 800 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Author Armistead Maupin
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 9 \n12:00pm-1:30pm PDT \n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin will discuss living through two pandemics (AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today)\, LGBTQ+ aging\, legacy\, and the power of writing and creativity. Our additional guest is Wilfred Labiosa\, the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nArmistead Maupin \nLaunched in 1976 as a groundbreaking serial in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. The series now encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales of the City\, More Tales of the City\, Further Tales of the City\, Babycakes\, Significant Others\, Sure of You\, Michael Tolliver Lives\, and Mary Ann in Autumn. The final Tales novel\, The Days of Anna Madrigal\, was released in January 2014. It premiered at #3 on the Independent Bestseller list and #7 on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nMaupin’s 1992 novel\, Maybe the Moon\, which followed the serio-comic adventures of a dwarf actress working in Hollywood\, was named one of the ten best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. The Night Listener (2000)\, a psychological suspense novel inspired by an eerie episode in Maupin’s own life\, became a 2006 feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. In 2017 he wrote a memoir titled Logical Family which grew out of his critically acclaimed one-man show of the same name. Neil Gaiman said this about Logical Family; “Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers\, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating\, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” \nIn 1997 Maupin received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle of New York. In 2002 he was honored with the Trevor Project’s Life Award “for his efforts in saving young lives.” Maupin was the first recipient of Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award for his literary contribution to San Francisco. In 2012 he was awarded Lambda’s Pioneer Award which is bestowed on individuals who have broken new ground in the field of LGBT literature and publishing. In 2014 he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He also received the Visionary Award from the 2014 Outfest Legacy Awards for his collected novels and their “…diverse\, interconnected community of San Francisco bohemians — which shaped our collective fantasy of what LGBT life is and could be….” Maupin is the subject of a new documentary titled Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. He lives in London with his husband Christopher Turner\, a photographer. \nWilfred Labiosa \nWilfred Labiosa\, PhD\, (he/him/él) has been a community leader for more than thirty years. He has been working in the public health field for more than 25 years with marginalized communities such as the Latino and LGBT communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. He has published extensively his research with the dually-diagnosed Latino community\, mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis; works as a consultant and/ or supervisor on state\, national and international projects that focus on mental health\, HIV/AIDS prevention\, homeless\, youth\, Latinos\, LGBTQ+\, people with dual diagnosis or evidence-based treatment modalities. He has worked with LGBT and HIV organizations locally\, nationally and internationally for many years\, as a mentor\, mental health provider or evaluator. Born and raised in Puerto Rico; He graduated with a doctorate degree from Simmons University\, School of Social Work\, and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University’s Department of Counseling Psychology\, and a graduate certificate from Suffolk University’s management of non-profits. His Bachelor’s degree is from Boston University. He is currently the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nSAGE \nSAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City\, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers. \nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19 \n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-author-armistead-maupin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Claire Luchette and Helen Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 9th at 6pm PT when Claire Luchette joins us to discuss her debut novel\, Agatha of Little Neon\, with Helen Ellis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_a1ZP3ZfGTBO12osWiJnR7Q \nPraise for Agatha of Little Neon \n“Full of small devotions\, pith and vigor\, and a bounty of tender feeling for a world that is not quite as full of grace as it could be\, this bold debut shines with a light all its own.” —Alexandra Kleeman \n“Claire Luchette is so wildly talented that I would follow her anywhere . . . A novel that’s blazingly original\, wry\, and perfectly attuned to the oddness—and the profundity—of life.” —Cristina Henriquez \nAbout Agatha of Little Neon \nClaire Luchette’s debut\, Agatha of Little Neon\, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood\, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t)\, and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self. \nAgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together\, laugh together\, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet\, purposeful life. \nBut when the parish goes broke\, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket\, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house\, where they live alongside their charges\, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school\, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women\, the church\, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? \nDisarming\, delightfully deadpan\, and full of searching\, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about sisterhood\, friendship\, and devotion\, about figuring out how we fit in (or don’t)\, and about the unexpected friends who help us find our truest selves. \nAbout Claire Luchette \nClaire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Lighthouse Works\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette’s first novel. \nAbout Helen Ellis \nHelen Ellis is the author of Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light\,Southern Lady Code\, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama\, she lives with her husband in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-claire-luchette-and-helen-ellis/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Poetry & Poetic Prose"
DESCRIPTION:August 9 at 7pm Pacific\, the Odd Mondays reading series brings you an hour of poetry and poetic prose on Zoom. Paul Corman-Roberts reads from his new poetry collection BONE MOON PALACE\, Penny Mickelbury from her historical novel TWO WINGS TO FLY AWAY\, and Tamsin Spencer Smith from her political thriller XISLE. Get the Zoom link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy all three books at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-poetry-poetic-prose/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin with Tommy Orange / Leave Society
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Tao Lin again for his new novel\, Leave Society. He’ll be in conversation with Tommy Orange. 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 Leave Society 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 2014\, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet\, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds–year by year\, over four years–he will flit in and out of optimism\, despair\, loneliness\, sanity\, bouts of chronic pain\, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments\, uncover secrets about nature and history\, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? \nExploring everyday events and scenes–waiting rooms\, dog walks\, family meals–while investigatively venturing to the edges of society\, where culture dissolves into mystery\, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt\, as it builds toward a stunning\, if unexpected\, romance\, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. \nAbout the authors\nTao Lin is the author of the memoir Trip\, the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia\, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program\, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-with-tommy-orange-leave-society/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: The Future of Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Many years before “quarantine” entered quotidian language during the COVID-19 pandemic\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were at work on a book about it\, researching centuries of medical isolation. Released in July 2021\, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine covers the black death\, Ebola\, and coronaviruses as well as agricultural diseases\, nuclear contamination\, and technology that could alter the practice of isolation. The authors join Alta Journal books editor David L. Ulin for a conversation on their eerily predictive research and what quarantine might look like in our future. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nGeoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City and the creator of the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, and many other publications. \nNicola Twilley is the cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod\, which looks at food through the lenses of science and history\, and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. \nManaugh and Twilley live in Los Angeles. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nQuarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see whether something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous\, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine\, we are considered infectious until proven safe. \nUntil Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe\, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from crumbling Mediterranean lazzarettos built to contain the black death to an experimental Ebola unit in London\, from the hallways of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for pandemics yet to come. \nBut the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. The authors tour a nuclear waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert\, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply\, and meet NASA’s planetary protection officer\, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. \nWith Until Proven Safe\, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive\, an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces—biological\, political\, technological—that shape our modern world. It is a thrillingly reported\, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom\, governance\, and mutual responsibility.• \n\n\n\n\n\nUntil Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley\nMCDbookshop.org \n$25.76\n\n\nBUY THE BOOK
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-the-future-of-quarantine/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Kiese Laymon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 11th at 6pm PT when Da’Shaun L. Harrison discusses their book\, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness\, with Kiese Laymon on Zoom! \nASL Interpretation Provided \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_IcplvrusQYe6T-3p_3sq9Q \nPraise for Belly of the Beast \n“Belly of the Beast is written with poise and lucidity. It pushes us to think past the pablum of telling fat folx all they gotta do is love themselves to enacting a movement that addresses the source and ramifications of societal anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Harrison forces us not to look away\, reminding us that all too often ‘health’ and ‘desire’ are used to annul Blackness. In a ‘post bo-po’ world\, desire and the sheer right to life can be rooted in something other than all the things named non-Black.” —Sabrina Strings\, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia \n“Da’Shaun Harrison is an insightful visionary\, world-builder\, and ingenious writer who brings us into deeper understandings and frameworks of the intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-fatness. Belly of the Beast brings us closer to ourselves because it brings us closer to the truth—that anti-Blackness is the foundation to how violence shapes our relationships to our bodies and each other. Harrison not only intervenes in the terror of white supremacist paradigms but develops the tools to imagine and build a new world. Belly of the Beast eats\, and it leaves no crumbs.”—Hunter Shackelford\, author of You Might Die for This \n“I am continually blown away by Da’Shaun’s ability as a writer to wrestle so deeply and expertly with questions many of us would never even think to ask—whether they be about our world\, our politics\, our selves\, or our bodies. Every page challenges us to expand our imagination and reconstruct the ways we think\, talk\, and theorize about fatness\, Blackness\, gender\, health\, desire\, abolition\, and more. Belly of the Beast is a gift and a groundbreaker.” —Sherronda J. Brown\, editor-in-chief of Wear Your Voice magazine \nAbout Belly of the Beast \nExploring the intersections of Blackness\, gender\, fatness\, health\, and the violence of policing. \nTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society\, passed over for housing and jobs\, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals\, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination\, abuse\, condescension\, and trauma. \nIn Belly of the Beast\, Da’Shaun Harrison—a fat\, Black\, disabled\, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive\, fresh\, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. They foreground the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing\, disenfranchisement\, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive\, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness\, Blackness\, disability\, and gender\, these abuses are exacerbated. \nTaking on desirability politics\, the limitations of gender\, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality\, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat\, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial\, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad\,” and destroying the world as we know it\, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. \nAbout Da’Shaun L. Harrison \nDa’Shaun L. Harrison is a nonbinary abolitionist and community organizer based out of Atlanta\, GA. They once served as the Communications Director of #ATLisReady and Editor-in-Chief of Queer Black Millennial. Harrison now holds the honor of being the Associate Editor of Wear Your Voice Magazine and Lead Organizer of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo). Harrison has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to lecture at conferences and colleges and to lead workshops focused on race\, sexuality\, gender\, class\, religion\, (dis)abilities\, fatness\, and the intersection at which they all meet. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @DaShaunLH\, or through their website\, dashaunharrison.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-dashaun-l-harrison-and-kiese-laymon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nawaaz Ahmed and Nina McConigley
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 12th at 6pm PT when Nawaaz Ahmed discusses his debut\, Radiant Fugitives\, with Nina McConigley on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_bvWs1Xb1R5KoaIVf1tstCg \nPraise for Radiant Fugitives \n“Radiant Fugitives indeed glows. This is such a beautiful novel\, full of light and luminous sentences. Reading it felt like basking in a generous and lucid intelligence. Ahmed writes his characters and their worlds with honesty and compassion. This is a writer to watch\, a voice we need.” —Matthew Salesses\, author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear \n“I’ve never read a novel like Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives\, and\, I kid you not\, I’ve been waiting for this tremendous\, complex\, moving novel for years\, but never expected to receive it…There is so much of life in this book.” —Anita Felicelli\, Electric Literature \n“Lyrical and deeply moving\, Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives is about the search for love\, acceptance\, and family\, both chosen and received. The novel is big-hearted and clear-eyed\, a stellar debut.” —Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars \nAbout Radiant Fugitives \nA dazzling\, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. \nWorking as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco\, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West\, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now\, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son\, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother\, Nafeesa\, traveling alone to California from Chennai\, and her devoutly religious sister\, Tahera\, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. \nBut instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child\, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal\, misunderstanding\, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. \nTold from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth\, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran\, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance\, forgiveness\, and enduring love. \nAbout Nawaaz Ahmed \nNawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu\, India. Before turning to writing\, he was a computer scientist\, researching search algorithms for Yahoo. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and is the winner of several Hopwood Awards. He is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Djerassi\, and VCCA. He’s also a Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-nawaaz-ahmed-and-nina-mcconigley/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Vesuvio Cafe present \nA celebration of the paperback edition of \nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco \nby Alia Volz \npublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nModerated by Alexis Madrigal with Alia Volz\, Doug Volz\, Meridy Volz\n(This is a live event to take place in Kerouac Alley. Seating on a first-come\, first-serve basis) \n\n\nSure\, it’s unusual to throw a book launch 18 months after publication\, but that’s the way the brownie crumbles during a pandemic…\nCo-presented safely outdoors by City Lights Books and Vesuvio Café\, this will be the first opportunity to celebrate the bestselling memoir\, Home Baked\, in person. Alexis Madrigal from NPR’s Forum will interview Alia alongside her parents Doug and Meridy Volz (co-owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies and stars of the book). We’ll have a short reading and book signing\, plus more surprises and special guests TBD.\nHome Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award\, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. It was the inaugural pick for the citywide Total SF Book Club\, and an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique story has been featured of Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air.\nJoin us in Jack Kerouac Alley to meet the people behind the wild stories.\n********\nAbout Home Baked:\nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.\nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.\nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.\nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.\n\nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her bestselling memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Nonfiction Book Award. It was chosen as the inaugural pick for the San Francisco Chronicle’s citywide Total SF Book Club and was an SFPL “On the Same Page” selection. This unique San Francisco story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, Forum\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \n\nDoug Volz is a professional Visionary Realist oil painter\, living in Lake County\, California. At 67\, as a retired nurse\, he devotes his time to producing works of art that inspire and elevate\, assisting the viewer to leave behind the dark encumbrances of the physical\, and to focus instead on a personal spirituality\, and a Light which frees the Spirit and heals the Heart and Mind. \n\nMeridy Volz is a working fine artist and art activist. She resides in Desert Hot Springs\, CA\, where she runs her art program\, Art with Heart\, mentoring incarcerated and at-risk teens. Her award-winning artwork is figurative\, colorful\, and Expressionistic.\n\n\n\nReviews:\nWinner of the California Bookseller Association’s Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction\nFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\nOne of Entertainment Weekly’s “Books to Read in April”\nOne of Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020”\n\n“The subtitle\, ‘My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco’ tells you much of what you need to know in terms of content. But as a portrait of a heroics\, innovation\, grit\, and pot-baking in an epidemic (in this case\, the AIDS crisis)\, it’s also strikingly relevant. And beautifully written\, too.”\n—Entertainment Weekly\, “Books to Read in April”\n\n“A beautiful evocation of the Bay Area in the years before tech bros and big money changed the city…Like Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday\, this is a narrative about a time that is now gone: San Francisco as circus\, where pot was both ubiquitous and as illegal as heroin. Under Volz’s careful attention\, all of it—the era\, the place\, and her own parents—is rendered clear\, bright\, and beautiful.”\n—Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n“An earnest yet comic memoir by the daughter of the owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery\, purveyor of pot brownies and crusader for legalization.”\n—New York Times\, “New and Noteworthy Audiobooks”\n\n“A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible.”\n—Armistead Maupin\n\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\n“[A] nostalgic\, thoroughly entertaining new romp of a memoir…[An] intensely personal portrait of an unconventional childhood\, as well as a rigorously reported account of a kaleidoscopic time in San Francisco history\, an era of exuberant highs and pitch-black lows.”\n—San Francisco Chronicle\n\n“While a memoir\, Home Baked is also an intensively researched book on San Francisco and the burgeoning cannabis culture surrounding Sticky Fingers Brownies\, based on archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with LGBT activists\, cannabis advocates and\, of course\, Volz’s parents. Home Baked also provides a timely contrast with both modern San Francisco and the blossoming cannabis industry\, which can now offer safe and legal access to the drug\, although significant reforms to the war on drugs have not materialized.”\n—Newsweek\n\n“Ample\, skillfully researched\, and cleanly narrated\, Volz’s debut is really five books in one . . . Alia in tow\, Mer and her peers travel among San Francisco\, Humboldt County and Marin\, connecting an essentially agricultural project to an urban counterculture; they also weave together less and more responsible ways to raise a kid\, almost as Volz herself weaves together her archives of the post-hippie-era Bay Area with her own vivid memories.”\n—Literary Hub
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