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SUMMARY:Catamaran Literary Reader 2018 Summer Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 1\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nContributors to the Summer Issue of Catamaran Literary Reader will join us for a live reading in celebration of the issue launch. This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating. Seats are generally set up one hour prior to the event’s start time. \nReaders featured at this issue launch event will include Justin Allen\, Kathleen de Azevedo\, Farnaz Fatemi\, Sara Michas-Martin\, Andrew Schelling\, Paul Skenazy\, Andrea Donderi\, Richard Huffman\, and Apala Egan. \nCatamaran was founded in 2012 in the Tannery Arts Center Studios in Santa Cruz\, California. Their mission is to capture the vibrant creative spirit in fiction\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction and to publish the best writing they can find in a narrative\, together with fine art. The magazine is full size on high quality paper for your reading pleasure\, and it is a full color experience\, like walking into an art gallery. They seek to present diverse national and international voices around the themes of the natural world and the environment\, the arts and artistic spirit\, and the personal journey and freedom. \nFor more on Catamaran Literary Reader visit their website or Facebook page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catamaran-literary-reader-2018-summer-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:The Castro Adobe in the Twentieth Century: From Earthquake to Earthquake with Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks as they present this beautifully illustrated and documented history of Castro Adobe in the 20th Century: From Earthquake to Earthquake\, by Suzanne Paizis. Of the seven adobes found in the Pajaro Valley\, Santa Cruz\, only the two-story Joaquin Castro Adobe remains. This book tells the history of the Castro Adobe\, a rare\, two-story adobe home that was built during 1848-1850. The Adobe was built during the Rancho era and is one of the few surviving buildings from that time. The Castro Adobe is slated to become the next State Park in California\, hopefully within the next few years! This event is part of the Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks Castro Adobe Project. Read more on their website. \nFriends of Santa Cruz State Parks (Friends) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit sustaining the legacy of our state parks and beaches. Through an innovative partnership with California State Parks\, and by leveraging local community support\, Friends funds educational programs\, visitor services and capital projects. \nFounded in 1976\, Friends is passionately dedicated to the preservation of our spectacular natural environment and rich cultural history. Friends also operates six ParkStores\, offering nature- and history-themed merchandise for sale to benefit local parks and beaches. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at 1520 Pacific Ave. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-castro-adobe-in-the-twentieth-century-from-earthquake-to-earthquake-with-friends-of-the-santa-cruz-state-parks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:David Zeltser\, The Universe Ate My Homework
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome back David Zeltser with his new book The Universe Ate My Homework. Abby hates doing homework. In fact\, she’ll do just about anything to get out of it. So when she discovers an amazing scientific recipe for creating a parallel universe where she’ll never have to do homework again\, she’s ready to jump right in. There’s just one small wrinkle—–she might not be able to find a way back. Inspired by mind-bending modern physics\, David Zeltser and illustrator Ayesha L. Rubio spin the tale of a hilarious girl in a truly out-of-this-world adventure. \nDavid Zeltser is the author of the hilarious novels Lug: Dawn of the Ice Age and Lug: Blast from the North\, as well as acclaimed picture books Ninja Baby and Stinker. When he was a kid\, David was always asking questions about the universe. He went on to study physics at Harvard and was fortunate to co-author a paper with the world-renowned physicist Howard Georgi. In Santa Cruz\, David and his friend Julia Chiapella cofounded a free after-school writing center for kids called the Word Lab\, as well as the Chamber of Heart and Mystery at the Museum of Art and History. David lives in Santa Cruz with his wife\, daughter and a dog who will gladly eat your homework. Come visit his parallel universe at www.davidzeltser.com. \n“Even readers who don’t share Abby’s aversion to homework will be sucked in.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Don’t try this at home\, just bring it home. The Universe Ate My Homework is totally safe (and delightful) to read.” —Robert Krulwich\, NPR science journalist and co-host of Radiolab \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating is usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-zeltser-the-universe-ate-my-homework/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Las Elegidas – Jorge Volpi\nTrata de personas\, violencia\, prostitución y muerte; y\, entreverado con todo esto\, el amor. El Chino y Salvina salen de Tenancingo\, para cruzar la frontera y caer en las garras de El Gringo. Una vez del otro lado\, a los hombres los pone a trabajar en los plantíos de fresa y a las mujeres las prostituye. Salvina es una de sus favoritas. \nCada tanto se acuesta con ella y le da permiso de pasar las noches con El Chino\, quien resulta bueno para los negocios\, así que le va soltando las riendas\, lo vuelve parte de su gente al igual que a Luciano\, el primo del Chino\, hasta que se ganan su confianza y lo asesinan. Pero El Chino y Luciano no son mejores que El Gringo\, se quedan con sus negocios y con los mojados que siguen llegando del otro lado de la frontera. Abrirán un centro nocturno y traficarán mujeres\, con la misma crueldad con la que a ellos los usaron. Esta es una novela escrita en forma poética llena de traiciones\, venganza y honor en la que los personajes sortearán toda clase de vicisitudes que reflejan la realidad de nuestro tiempo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-book-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Chas Smith\, Cocaine + Surfing
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes surf journalist Chas Smith for a discussion and signing of his latest book\, Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Love Affair. Cocaine + Surfing peels the curtains back on a hopped up\, sometimes sexy sometimes deadly relationship and uses cocaine as the vehicle to expose and explain the utterly absurd surf industry to outsiders. It also explores where dreams go when they die. \nIt is likely not terribly surprising that surfers like to party. The 1960-70s image\, bolstered by Tom Wolfe and Big Wednesday\, was one of mild outlaws. Tanned boys who refused to grow up\, spending their days drinking beer and smoking joints on the beach in between mindless hours in the water. As the surf brands accidentally morphed into a multimillion\, then multibillion dollar industry beginning in the 1980s\, however\, the derelict portrait began to harm business. In order to achieve wild year-on-year growth that came to be expected surf trunks\, t-shirts and sunglasses had to be sold en mass through Midwestern mall stores. Moms in Des Moines did not want corn-fed junior to be a delinquent. And so the external surf image of the 1980s\, 90s into the present became Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton. Health\, vitality\, bravery\, clean-living\, positive and pure with heavy doses of puritanism. \nInternally\, though\, surfing had moved on from booze and weed to its heart’s true home\, its soul’s twin flame. Cocaine’s rise in American popular culture as the choice of rich\, white elites was matched\, then quadrupled\, within surf culture. The parties got wilder\, the nights stretched longer\, the stories became more ridiculously unbelievable. And there has been no stopping\, no dip in passion. \nThe surfer and his lover are entwined in gorgeously dysfunctional embrace. A forbidden love like Romeo and his Juliet and few\, if any\, outside the insular surf world knew or know about this particular rhapsody. A byzantine ethic keeps interlopers far away. Bad behavior is also kept very well-hidden\, even from insiders\, but evidence of psychosis rears its head from time to time. Overdoses\, bar fights\, surf contests and murders and cover-ups. \nChas Smith the author of Welcome to Paradise\, Now Go to Hell (It Books\, November 2013)\, which was optioned for television by Fox 21 (Homeland and Sons of Anarchy) with producers at Television 360 (Game of Thrones) and a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction. Chas began his writing career as a foreign correspondent\, penning pieces for Vice\, Paper\, and Blackbook\, amongst others\, from Yemen\, Lebanon\, Syria\, Somalia\, Azerbaijan and Colombia which led to a brief career as a war correspondent for Current TV. After being kidnapped by Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war he transitioned to surf journalism where he was a featured writer at the brash Stab before becoming Editor at Large at Surfing Magazine. There he developed a reputation as the most controversial voices in the space. \nMatt Warshaw\, author of the Encyclopedia of Surfing\, calls him\, “Bright and hyper-ironic.” William Finnegan\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days\, says that Chas\, “…calls it like he sees it and in surfing that’s not usually the case.” \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chas-smith-cocaine-surfing/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series:
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming Readings
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Katharine Dion\, The Dependents
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Katharine Dion\, in conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie\, for her new book\, The Dependents—a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. Receive a collectible button\, designed by Bookshop\, to commemorate this event.  \nAfter the sudden death of his wife\, Maida\, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly\, friends since college days\, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared\, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile\, his daughter\, Dary\, challenges not only his happy version of the past but also his view of Maida. As a long-standing rift between them deepens\, Gene starts to understand how unknown his daughter is to him–and how enigmatic his wife was as well. And a lingering suspicion seizes his mind that could upend everything he thought he knew. \nKatharine Dion’s assured debut moves seamlessly between Gene’s present-day journey and the long history of a marriage and friendship. Rich and wonderfully alive\, The Dependents is the most moving kind of drama\, an intimate glance into the expanse of family life and the way we must all eventually bridge the chasm between what we want to believe and what we know to be true. \n“The Dependents is a big book\, one that grapples with important questions through generations…Dion’s intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence.” —Kate Walbert\, National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women \nKatharine Dion was born in Oakland\, California. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow and the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in Berkeley\, California. The Dependents is her first novel. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave.\, Santa Cruz\, CA. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-dion-the-dependents/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180811T170000
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg\nOur world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world\, racism\, poverty\, war\, inequality\, hunger. While politicians\, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done\, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering\, darkness and division\, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now. \nJohan Norberg is a lecturer\, documentary filmmaker and internationally acclaimed author. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. A frequent commentator in Swedish and international media\, he has a weekly column in Sweden’s biggest daily\, Metro.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180812T190000
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SUMMARY:Jessamyn Stanley\, Every Body Yoga
DESCRIPTION:This event will be a part of Bookshop Santa Cruz’s Women’s Voices effort in August. You can read more about the program here. \nBookshop is delighted to welcome Yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley\, who will discuss and sign copies of her book\, Every Body Yoga\, in which she shares her path to becoming a yogi and embracing looking different from the lean practitioners typically shown in the media. This mix of memoir and guide is suffused with Stanley’s enthusiasm and honesty. Part one reveals her early encounters with yoga\, along with the discouragement that stemmed from being a “fat girl”; it goes back to her childhood eating habits and family life\, and also includes an honest\, vulnerable FAQ (“What if I’m the fattest person in the class and everyone stares at me?”). Part two includes Stanley’s witty nutshell history of modern yoga and breaks down the different styles and recommends useful clothing\, mats\, and props. Part three is devoted to the “ABCs of Asana\,” or yoga postures\, and also recommends asking “How do I feel?” rather than “How do I look?” In part four\, Stanley teaches readers to do yoga on their own by sharing stories of her own triumphs. In part five\, Stanley reminds readers that everyone struggles while doing yoga\, including her. This touching work is a must for those new to yoga\, no matter their age or body type. – Publisher’s Weekly \nHere are “directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home\, all photographed in full color. It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty. Most of all\, it’s a book that changes the paradigm\, showing us that yoga isn’t about how one looks\, but how one feels\, with yoga sequences like ‘I Want to Energize My Spirit\,’ ‘I Need to Release Fear\,’ ‘I Want to Love Myself'” \nAs an internationally recognized yoga teacher and Instagram star\, Jessamyn Stanley conducts yoga workshops across the country\, teaching students of all shapes\, sizes\, and colors how to make yoga a permanent part of their lives. A rising media favorite\, Jessamyn has been profiled and featured by a wide range of international and national news outlets\, including Good Morning America\, New York\, Glamour\, Shape\, Al Jazeera English\, the Huffington Post\, The Daily Mail\, The Sunday Times Style\, and People\, among others. She won a 2016 Shortie Award (honoring excellence in social media) in the Healthy Living Category. She lives in Durham\, North Carolina. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating is usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessamyn-stanley-every-body-yoga/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180813T150000
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Sapiens by Yuval Harari\nOne hundred thousand years ago\, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods\, nations\, and human rights; to trust money\, books\, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy\, timetables\, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? \nIn Sapiens\, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history\, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical–and sometimes devastating–breakthroughs of the cognitive\, agricultural\, and scientific revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology\, anthropology\, paleontology\, and economics\, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text\, Harari explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies\, the animals and plants around us\, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors? And what\, if anything\, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? \nBold\, wide-ranging\, and provocative\, Sapiens integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts\, our actions\, our heritage…and our future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Paula Saunders\, The Distance Home
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel\, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. \nIn the years after World War II\, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions–the ruggedness and the promise–of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines\, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon\, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where\, for most\, there are limited options. \nRené shares a home\, a family\, and a passion for dance with her older brother\, Leon. Yet for all they have in common\, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to René\, a born spitfire\, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class\, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile\, René excels at everything she touches\, basking in the delighted gaze of their father\, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. \nAs the years pass\, René and Leon’s parents fight with increasing frequency–and ferocity. Their father–a cattle broker–spends more time on the road\, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as René and Leon grow up\, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat–a word of praise\, a grandmother’s outstretched hand\, the seductive attention of a stranger–as René works to save herself\, crossing the border into a larger\, more hopeful world\, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. \nTender\, searing\, and unforgettable\, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades–a tale of haves and have-nots\, of how our ideas of winning and losing\, success and failure\, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It’s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author’s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize\, in turn\, with everyone involved. \nPaula Saunders grew up in Rapid City\, South Dakota. She is a graduate of the Syracuse University creative writing program\, and was awarded a postgraduate Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the State University of New York at Albany\, under then-Schweitzer chair Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband. They have two grown daughters. \n“Paula Saunders has given us a riveting family saga for the ages. The Distance Home is fresh\, with a seductive Midwestern innocence\, though the book’s outwardly ideal clan holds dark secrets that kept me turning pages into the wee hours. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years–destined to become a classic.” –Mary Karr \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the start time of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paula-saunders-the-distance-home/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180814T120000
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SUMMARY:Middle Grade Writers' Craft Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend\nThe Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a middle grade (8-12 year old) audience from a writing craft perspective. \nWe are middle grade writers ourselves\, and our goal is to study the techniques used by other writers to improve our writing. For an overview of our past book selections and discussion topics\, see our blog at http://www.mglunchbreak.com. \nWe welcome both new and experienced writers with an interest in a craft-focused book discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/middle-grade-writers-craft-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:features: Joyce E. Young and David Denny\nopen mic follows \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nBios to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180814T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180814T213000
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SUMMARY:SF in SF Presents: An Evening with George R.R. Martin in conversation with John Picacio
DESCRIPTION:SF in SF presents an evening with George R.R. Martin\, creator of Game of Thrones\, in conversation with Hugo Award-winning artist John Picacio at the landmark Fox Theatre in Redwood City on August 14\, 2018. Join friends\, colleagues\, and co-conspirators Martin and Picacio as they delve into a discussion on literature\, art\, and life in this intimate and historic theater setting\, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \nGeorge R.R. Martin\, John Picacio\nBorderlands Books will be on-site selling books. Please note: A limited number of signed books will be available for purchase at this event\, but Mr. Martin will not be available to sign copies of attendees’ books. \nTicket proceeds from this SF in SF fundraiser go to support the non-profit Locus SF Foundation\, parent to Locus Magazine\, the long-standing journal of record for the science fiction and fantasy fields. Launched in 1968 as a ‘zine for science fiction fans\, Locus has evolved over the past 50 years into the industry’s institution of record\, covering science fiction and fantasy publishing. The 30-time Hugo Award-winning magazine and website publishes interviews with established and up-and-coming authors; reviews of the latest novels and short fiction; news about the publishing industry and conventions; as well as international coverage\, book listings\, and more. \nLocus Magazine is a Bay Area 501(c)(3) non-profit run by the Locus SF Foundation\, which also administers the Locus Awards\, maintains an extensive collection of SF and fantasy works\, and conducts quarterly writers’ workshops. To subscribe\, visit locusmag.com/subscribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-presents-an-evening-with-george-r-r-martin-in-conversation-with-john-picacio/
LOCATION:Fox Theatre\, Redweood City\, 2215 Broadway\, Redwood City\, CA\, 94063\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Clifford Mae Henderson\, Perfect Little Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to present award-winning author Clifford Mae Henderson for a book discussion and signing of her new novel set in Santa Cruz during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake\, Perfect Little Worlds. \nLucy can’t hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago\, her sister did the unthinkable. \nPortland\, Oregon\, 1989: Lucy Mustin\, living somewhat happily\, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she\, a lesbian\, can’t legally marry\, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz to help her autistic sister\, Alice\, care for their Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother. She knew the call was coming sooner or later. She’d just hoped it would be later. Mother issues. The possibility that resolution might be lost to dementia is a heartbreak she doesn’t feel like feeling. \nSanta Cruz\, California\, one week later: a trip to the family bakery ups the ante tenfold when the Loma Prieta/World Series Earthquake\, racking up a whopping 7.1 on the Richter scale\, traps the sisters below ground. There\, Alice reminds Lucy of a promise made to their mother many years ago\, a promise she plans to keep. \nClifford Mae Henderson\, also writing under the name Clifford Henderson\, was named after her grandmother Clifford who once wore a nightgown to a formal event because she liked it better than any of the dresses she could find. Clifford Mae has attempted to follow in her renegade grandmother’s footsteps\, spending as much time as possible trying to shake things up. Her novels have each garnered awards\, including a Foreword Review Book of the Year Award\, an Independent Publisher Book Award\, and a Golden Crown Literary Award. When not writing\, Clifford Mae and her life partner of over a quarter century run the Fun Institute\, an improv school in Northern California where they teach the art of collective pretending. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clifford-mae-henderson-perfect-little-worlds/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Gretchen McNeil with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Discover the true horror of social media in #murdertrending by critically-acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil Think Scream Queens meets The Hunger Games\, in which seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera is wrongfully convicted and sent to a prison island where  convicts are hunted down and their deaths are streamed on social media for “spikes.” With its morbid\, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and twisty\, gasp-inducing mystery\, this novel has already been optioned for development by television studio ABC Signature. \nWelcome to the near future\, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society’s most infamous convicted felons\, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0.  Can Dee  prove she’s innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis dark\, unique\, and intelligent novel comments on the horrors of social media\, and draws upon the fascination with today’s trend of murder in entertainment\, such as Serial and Making a Murderer. \nGretchen McNeil is the author of I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl \, the Don’t Get Mad duology\, and the YA horror novels Possess\, 3:59\, Relic\, and Ten which was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was adapted as the Lifetime original movie Ten: Murder Island in 2017. \nGretchen will be chatting with Stephanie Kuehn\, author of the William C Morris Award winning Charm and Strange\, Complicit\, The Smaller Evil\, Delicate Monsters\, and When I Am Through With You. Booklist has praised her work as “Intelligent\, compulsively readable literary fiction with a dark twist.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gretchen-mcneil-with-stephanie-kuehn/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180819T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180819T153000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, August 19\, 1pm-3:30pm\nthis month: Jarvis Subia\nEdwin Markham House in History Park\n1650 Senter Road\, San José\, CA 95112\nAdmission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side. \nJarvis Subia\, San Jose’s 2018 Grand Slam Poetry Champ and a youth poetry workshop facilitator\, will be facilitating a poetry and personal story writing workshop. This will include elements such a check in\, word pallets\, poetry from current spoken word artists\, group discussion\, open sharing\, and writing prompts. The purpose of this 2 hour workshop would be to generate drafts of writing hopefully to be read on stage. This is a continuation of the workshop Jarvis began last month. If you attended that one\, you can benefit from the new material. I you missed that one\, you will not be at a disadvantage.. \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-2/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180820T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180820T200000
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SUMMARY:Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen\nEmily Benedict has come to Mullaby\, North Carolina\, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew\, she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby\, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. \nAnd a neighbor\, Julia Winterson\, bakes hope in the form of cakes\, not only wishing to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also dreaming of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits\, the unexpected fits right in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Dr. Dan Siegel
DESCRIPTION:NB: This event will be held at the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center at 555 Middlefield Rd.\, Atherton\, CA. \nDr. Dan Siegel’s work has been nothing short of game-changing. \nHis books\, like Mindsight\, Parenting from the Inside Out\, and The Whole-Brain Child\, offer unprecedented insight into the complexity of our children’s minds. Shedding the unapproachable jargon of dense neuroscience\, Siegel illustrates\, in clear and illuminating prose\, the logic of how we think and why we develop certain patterns of intuition over others. For decades\, his work has made our minds and the minds of our children accessible to us as they have never been before. \nNow\, he turns his attention to mindfulness. Introducing\, “The Wheel of Awareness”\, Siegel presents a potentially life-changing tool to support anyone\, at any level of meditation\, in cultivating more focus\, presence\, and peace in their day-to-day life. Endorsed by everyone from Deepak Chopra to Goldie Hawn and from Arianna Huffington to Sharon Salzberg\, Siegel’s most recent work promises to reshape the way we come to meditation. \nOne of the most engaging speaker’s on any subject\, join Siegel as he presents his new book: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-dan-siegel/
LOCATION:Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center\, 555 Middlefield Rd\, Atherton\, 94027\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180822T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T103600
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nAt Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing \n402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz \nEvent #4 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nHave you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 40 seconds (and we’ll have a timer). Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our hosts at SCMB are offering a $1-price on a single pint of any of their flagship beers for all event attendees who bring a book to swap. Thanks SCMB! \nThis event is free and open for anyone 21+ to attend. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book you are willing to give away to participate in this event.* \n\nAbout the series… \nBookshop’s popular summer event series returns! Books & Brews combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Five book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses (and one distillery!) this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. \nBONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store (or print one here). Get it stamped at three or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing\, 402 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180826T170000
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SUMMARY:Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence with Dr. Dan Siegel
DESCRIPTION:Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence with Dr. Dan Siegel\nSunday\, August 26th\, from 7:30 – 9:00\nAt 1440 Multiversity\n1440 Multiversity in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence with Dr. Dan Siegel\, an offsite and ticketed event at 1440 Multiversity. See more details and buy your tickets here. \n1440 Multiversity welcomes back renowned psychiatrist and mindfulness expert Dan Siegel\, MD\, for a discussion of his new book\, Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence\, followed by a book signing\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Brainstorm and Mindsight comes an in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation’s effectiveness. In Aware\, Dan Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness to focus attention and cultivate kind intention can help you: \n\nGrow a healthier brain\nReduce fear and anxiety\nManage stress\nFeel more energized and emotionally resilient in the face of everyday challenges.\n\nAware is a hands-on guide for experienced meditators and those new to the practice. \nDaniel Siegel\, MD\, is an award-winning educator\, renowned child psychiatrist\, and the internationally acclaimed author of Mindsight\, Brainstorm\, The Whole-Brain Child\, and more. He speaks internationally to teachers\, mental health and healthcare professionals\, business leaders\, and the general public. He is the executive director of the Mindsight Institute and a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. \nThis event is presented in partnership with 1440 Multiversity. Tickets do not include a book. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Your event ticket does include dinner at Kitchen Table. Kitchen Table open for dinner: 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aware-the-science-and-practice-of-presence-with-dr-dan-siegel/
LOCATION:1440 Multiversity\, 800 Bethany Dr\, Scotts Valley\, CA\, 95066\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180827T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180827T200000
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward\nThis gorgeous\, down-to-earth National Book Award Winner is not to be missed. It’s not enough to say that Salvage the Bones is the lush tale of a girl experiencing the heartache and devastation of Katrina because the novel touches on so much more. Heir to Toni Morrison in many ways\, Ward deftly and clearly communicates a reality that is heartbreaking and beautiful and inspirational and important\, particularly given today’s political and environmental climate. Please join us and learn how to read a little more deeply while enjoying this meaningful\, rich work. \nA copy of Salvage the Bones is included in the price of the Seminar and should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-salvage-the-bones-by-jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180829T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180829T143000
DTSTAMP:20260626T103600
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SUMMARY:Daytime Literary Seminar: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward\nThis gorgeous\, down-to-earth National Book Award Winner is not to be missed. It’s not enough to say that Salvage the Bones is the lush tale of a girl experiencing the heartache and devastation of Katrina because the novel touches on so much more. Heir to Toni Morrison in many ways\, Ward deftly and clearly communicates a reality that is heartbreaking and beautiful and inspirational and important\, particularly given today’s political and environmental climate. Please join us and learn how to read a little more deeply while enjoying this meaningful\, rich work. \nA copy of Salvage the Bones is included in the price of the Seminar and should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daytime-literary-seminar-salvage-the-bones-by-jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180830T210000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Locascio\, Open Me
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Lisa Locascio for a reading and signing of her evocative novel\, Open Me—the final event in our Debuts of Summer series.  \n  \nRoxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program—a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Søren\, a twenty-eight-year-old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Søren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss.  She is so enamored by her cohabitation and intense connection with Søren that at first\, she almost doesn’t notice that he does not give her a key to the apartment\, leaving her locked in each day while he works in the library on his African-American literature thesis. \nAs their relationship deepens\, Søren’s temperament darkens\, revealing his depression\, anxiety and prejudices.  Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a local outsider\, in many ways Søren’s polar opposite\, whom she learns is a Bosnian Muslim refugee from the Balkan War.  When she decides to sneak out to find him her experiences open in a way she could never have imagined. \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong. \n  \nLisa Locascio’s work has been published in The Believer\, Salon\, n+1\, Bookforum\, Tin House\, American Short Fiction\, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. She is co-publisher of Joyland and editor of 7x7LA. Lisa was born in Chicago and raised in River Forest\, Illinois\,  and received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature and MA in English Literature from the University of Southern California. She currently teaches creative writing at Wesleyan. Open Me is her first novel. \n  \n“Locascio’s story of a young American abroad is unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer \n“Through the care of her tremendous observations and the beauty of her prose\, Lisa Locascio writes a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity. This is a story of many important layers\, but one of the many reasons it remains distinct in my mind is because of its honesty about our complicated\, yearning physical selves. A remarkable\, fearless debut.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Color Master \n“Captivating and darkly clever\, Locascio’s debut melds self-discovery and self-abnegation with raw\, muscular grace.  By turns beguiling\, guileless\, and penetratingly felt\, this book seethes with eroticism\, both physical and emotional—you won’t dare to pry yourself away from it.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“A lush\, evocative novel you won’t be able to put down. Open Me is a masterful debut.” —T.C. Boyle\, author of The Harder They Come \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locascio-open-me/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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