BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T230947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T230947Z UID:55693-1585854000-1585861200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche\, In the Lateness of the World at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome celebrated poet Carolyn Forché for a reading and signing of In the Lateness of the World—her new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force. \nOver four decades\, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies\, inquiries\, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. \nHer first new collection in seventeen years\, In the Lateness of the World\, is a tenebrous book of crossings\, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past\, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché envisions a place where “you could see everything at once … every moment you have lived or place you have been.” The world here seems to be steadily vanishing\, but in the moments before the uncertain end\, an illumination arrives and “there is nothing that cannot be seen.” In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today. \nCarolyn Forché is an American poet\, translator\, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes. Her memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True\, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013\, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017\, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband\, photographer Harry Mattison. URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-in-the-lateness-of-the-world-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/forche-lateness-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200331T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200331T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200204T032703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T032703Z UID:55512-1585683000-1585686600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Alka Joshi: The Henna Artist w/ Anita Amirrezvani DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event with Alka Joshi\, your favorite new novelist\, in conversation with Anita Amirrezvani. We know you’ll love Alka’s debut\, The Henna Artist\, as much as we do. Beautiful and compellingly readable\, The Henna Artist evokes post-Raj 1950s Jaipur while completely enmeshing you in the conflicts that drive the protagonist Lakshmi Shastri. Against all odds\, and after fleeing an arranged marriage as a fifteen-year-old to an abusive older man\, Lakshmi carves out a living for herself as a henna artist\, friend\, and confidante to wealthy\, upper-caste women. But in an exciting twist\, all she’s built threatens to unravel. \nMore than just a romantic work of historical fiction\, The Henna Artist is based off Alka’s late mother’s life\, only this story serves as a reimagining of what life might have been like if Alka’s mother hadn’t been in an arranged marriage at 18\, with three children by 21. Instead\, the novel recreates her life as if she had been able to pursue the independence and education that she never enjoyed in real life. The independence and education that Alka’s mother advocated for her. \nAlka will be joined by Anita Amirrezvani\, author of the novels The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nTickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Alka Joshi by Garry Bailey. . URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi-the-henna-artist-w-anita-amirrezvani/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-41.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200331T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200331T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T230235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T230235Z UID:55690-1585681200-1585688400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) for a celebration of her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most–both personally and politically–whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-my-shouting-shattered-whispering-voice-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/vecchione-shouting-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200326T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T225929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T225929Z UID:55683-1585249200-1585256400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Daniel Kirsch\, Sold My Soul for a Student Loan at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the “American Dream\,” this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education—and our democracy. \nAmerican higher education boasts one of the most impressive legacies in the world\, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt. As this book shows\, increasing educational indebtedness undermines the real value of higher education in our democracy. To help readers understand this dilemma\, the book examines how student debt became commonplace and what the long-term effects of such an ongoing reality might be. Sold My Soul for a Student Loan examines this vitally important issue from an unprecedented diversity of perspectives\, focusing on the fact that student debt is hindering the ability of millions of people to enter the job market\, the housing market\, the consumer economy\, and the political process. \nAmong other topics\, the book covers the history of consumer debt in the United States\, the history of federal policy toward higher education\, and political action in response to the issue of student debt. Perhaps most importantly\, it explores the new relationship debtor-citizens have to the government as a result of debt\, and how that impacts democracy for a new generation. \nDaniel T. Kirsch\, PhD\, is an author who earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and now teachers at California State University\, Sacramento. \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. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 24th. URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-kirsch-sold-my-soul-for-a-student-loan-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kirsch-sold-my-soul-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200326T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200126T201448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T201448Z UID:55163-1585249200-1585254600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Naomi Shihab Nye DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 26\, 2020 the Center for Literary Arts will present poet Naomi Shihab Nye at the Student Union Theatre at 7PM. The reading will be followed by an on-stage interview with Persis Karim\, professor in the Department of Comparative & World Literature at San Francisco State University\, plus an audience Q&A\, book sale and signing. \nTickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students. \nNaomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than 30 volumes. Her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East\, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls\, Red Suitcase\, Words under the Words\, Fuel\, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). She is also the author of Mint Snowball (paragraphs); Never in a Hurry and I’ll Ask You Three Times\, Are You Okay?\, Tales of Driving and Being Driven (essays); Habibi and Going\, Going (novels for young readers); Baby Radar\, Sitti’s Secrets\, and Famous (picture books)\, and There Is No Long Distance Now (a collection of very short stories). Other works include several prizewinning poetry anthologies for young readers\, including Time You Let Me In\, This Same Sky\, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East\, What Have You Lost?\, and Transfer. Her collection of poems for young adults entitled Honeybee won the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category. Her novel for children\, The Turtle of Oman\, was chosen both a Best Book of 2014 by The Horn Book and a 2015 Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association. The Turtle of Oman was also awarded the 2015 Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature. Her most recent book is Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners. Her new book of poems is entitled The Tiny Journalist (BOA Editions Ltd.\, April 2019). \nPersis Karim is the Neda Nobari Endowed Chair and Director for the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies and a professor in the Department of Comparative & World Literature at San Francisco State University. Prior to 2017\, she was a professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San José State University for 18 years. Her poetry has been published in a number of publications including Reed Magazine\, Callaloo\, Caesura\, The New York Times\, The Raven’s Perch and others. She is also the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature. Her manuscript\, Accidental Architecture\, was a finalist for the 2019 Catamaran Poetry Prize. URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-shihab-nye/ LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Naomi-Shihab-Nye-credit-Ha-Lam_BW-e1579568062755.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200324T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200324T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T225627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T225627Z UID:55676-1585076400-1585083600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Zach Norris\, We Keep Us Safe at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:ookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris\, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, for a discussion and signing of his new book\, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities—a groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination\, othering\, and punishment. \nAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart\, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear\, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe\, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of Us vs. Them. By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another\, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic\, smart investments–meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being\, like healthcare and housing\, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins. \nWe Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized\, so they can participate fully in life\, in society\, and in the fabric of our democracy. \nZach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him @ZachWNorris. \n“Bright\, talented\, compassionate\, strategic\, and committed . . . Norris’s insights and story will be an enormously important contribution in the effort to advance human rights in this country.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“In We Keep Us Safe\, Norris masterfully captures our deep yearning for connection and compassion as we navigate the complex issue of accountability and reminds us of our humanity and that we have a choice to do things differently. Even more encouraging\, Norris invites us to tap into our resourcefulness and to rely on one another to challenge the failed experiment of the current punitive carceral state and reimagine safety and accountability together. We deserve to live in our full dignity and power and Norris\, through this book\, shows us how.” —Patrisse Cullors\, author of When They Call You a Terrorist \n“Zach Norris [is] among the most promising leaders and thinkers of our time\, wrestling with pressing questions at the intersection of racial and economic justice from a human rights perspective. . . . We Keep Us Safe powerfully demonstrates that safety\, freedom\, and justice come from relationships\, resources\, and real accountability–not more punishment\, police\, and prisons.” —Michelle Alexander \n“In his excellent new book\, Zach Norris writes with insight\, inspiring stories\, and a vision that includes everyone–just what we need to move from fear to caring\, and from a system of punishment to one of transformative justice. We Keep Us Safe identifies the roots of our fear\, insecurity and vulnerability\, offers a way forward together\, and provides practical\, workable strategies for public policy change. Reading this book will alter the way you understand safety\, security\, and justice. We so need the caring\, fierceness\, and insight Norris brings us in these challenging times.” —Paul Kivel\, educator\, activist\, and author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zach-norris-safe-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T160000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200221T002404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T002404Z UID:55966-1584277200-1584288000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poets @ Play DESCRIPTION:Admission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org \nThe Markham House and map: URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-4/ LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-67.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T225114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T225114Z UID:55671-1583868600-1583874000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Doren Robbins and Jory Post at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature local poets Doren Robbins and Jory Post. \nDoren Robbins is a contemporary American poet\, prose poet\, fiction writer\, essayist\, mixed media artist\, and educator. As a cultural activist\, he has organized and developed projects for Amnesty International\, the Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund\, the Romero Relief Fund\, and poetsagainstthewar.org. His latest book is an in-depth critical study titled\, Apocalypse Contemporary: A Sequence-By-Sequence Overview On Sharon Doubiago’s Naked to the Earth (2019). \nJory Post has been an educator and writer for 40 years as well as making handmade books and journals with his wife\, Karen\, as JoKa Press. He participates in a playwriting group\, a fiction writing group\, and a poetry workshop with Santa Cruz County poet laureate\, Danusha Laméris. He is the cofounder and editor of phren-z\, an online literary magazine\, serving Santa Cruz County writers for 8 years. His latest book of poetry is titled The Extra Year\, poems written after a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2018. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw. URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-doren-robbins-and-jory-post-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/poetry-santa-cruz-750-copy_2_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200221T002152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T002152Z UID:55963-1583866800-1583866800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Well-RED DESCRIPTION:features: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo \nopen mic follows \n  \ndoors open 6:30pm\n$3 donation at the door\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. \nUpcoming in Well-RED:\nApr. 14: Poetry Month Open Mic\nMay 12: Mimi Ahern & Roger Abe of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society with Mary Lou Taylor\nJune 9: Andrena Zawinski & tba URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-3/ LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-66.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200309T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T224758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T224758Z UID:55668-1583780400-1583787600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Christopher Kerr\, Death Is but a Dream at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Hospice of Santa Cruz County\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, presents Dr. Christopher Kerr who will discuss and sign copies of his new book\, Death Is but a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End—the first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. \nChristopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who\, in the face of death\, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as “more real than real\,” these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships\, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life’s meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. \nDrawing on interviews with over 1\,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data\, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients’ stories point to death as not solely about the end of life\, but as the final chapter of humanity’s transcendence. Kerr’s book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved\, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. \nBeautifully written\, with astonishing real-life characters and stories\, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is but a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine’s and humanity’s greatest mystery. \nChristopher Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo\, New York. Born and raised in Toronto\, Canada\, Chris earned his MD as well as a PhD in Neurobiology. Outside of direct patient care\, Chris’ focus is in the area of patient advocacy. His passion is palliative care and a belief that such care should be throughout the continuum of illness. Under Dr. Kerr’s medical leadership\, Hospice Buffalo now serves 1\,000 patients a day\, half of whom receive services prior to hospice. \nDr. Kerr’s background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside\, specifically patient’s dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored\, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning\, as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated. To date\, the research team at Hospice Buffalo has published multiple studies on this topic and documented over 1\,500 end-of-life events\, many of which are videotaped. This work was the subject of his TEDx Buffalo Talk which has been viewed over 2 million times. It has been the subject of reports on The BBC\, in The New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Scientific American Mind\, Huffington Post\, and Psychology Today. It will also be featured in an upcoming Netflix production and a documentary film to be released in 2020. It has also gathered international attention and Dr. Kerr’s work will also be published in a book (Death Is But A Dream) by Penguin Random House to be released in February\, 2020. \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. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 7th. URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-kerr-death-is-but-a-dream-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kerr-death-dream-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200126T201609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T201609Z UID:55168-1582830000-1582835400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Jamel Brinkley DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts is excited to welcome author of A Lucky Man and finalist for the National Book Award\, Jamel Brinkley in conversation with SJSU’s new fiction professor\, Keenan Norris on Thursday\, February 27\, 2020 in MLK Library Room 225/229 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public. \nA debut that Entertainment Weekly saw “creating waves within the literary sphere\,” A Lucky Man explores the charged\, complex ties between men whose mistakes threaten their relationships with friends\, lovers\, and family members. The stories in this glittering collection reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them\, especially in a world shaped by race\, gender\, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. \nJamel Brinkley was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn\, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in California. \nKeenan Norris’s novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award for first books set in California. He is the editor of the critical volume Street Lit. His chapbook By the Lemon Tree was published in 2018 and his novella Luster will be published later this year. His short fiction appears in several literary journals\, as well as the anthologies Oakland Noir and Inlandia: A Journey Through the Literature of Southern California’s Inland Empire. He also serves as guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center with a focus on improving the Center’s archive of California scholarship. \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. URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamel-brinkley/ LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Jamel-Brinkley.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T223455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T223455Z UID:55662-1582830000-1582830000@litseen.com SUMMARY:FREE OFFSITE EVENT: Amitav Ghosh\, "Unmuting the Brutes" DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series\, featuring Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization.'” Amitav Ghosh will speak at the UC Santa Cruz Music Recital Hall Thursday\, February 27th at 7:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public with registration. Please register here. Books by Amitav Ghosh will be available for sale at this event\, provided by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe idea of the ‘human’ dates back to the founding of modernity\, now hurtling towards collapse. As this process intensifies it may bring about a fundamental reconsideration of modern ideas regarding which entities possess such attributes as agency\, speech\, and reason. If so what kinds of narratives and knowledge traditions can we turn to for guidance about what might lie ahead? \nAmitav Ghosh is an award-winning writer\, who was born in Calcutta and grew up in India\, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction\, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)\, a collection of essays\, and ten novels. In 2018 he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor\, the Jnanpith Award. His most recent publication is Gun Island\, a novel. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. The Maitra lecture series\, established in 2001\, seeks to enrich the intellectual life of UC Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz community. \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-4 URL:https://litseen.com/event/free-offsite-event-amitav-ghosh-unmuting-the-brutes/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sawyer-Beyond-Ghosh-1.15-1600x900-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T223148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T223148Z UID:55659-1582657200-1582664400@litseen.com SUMMARY:JoAnne Silver Jones\, Headstrong at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes JoAnne Silver Jones for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Headstrong. After a sudden assault by a stranger left Jones with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, fractured hands\, and PTSD\, she learned—with the help of a community that gave her the foundations of hope—to live with TBI in a society bursting with violence. \nShe didn’t see the hammer. For a fraction of a second JoAnne Jones saw a young black face\, framed by a black hoodie\, and then she descended into a place where she felt and saw nothing. Jones survived this sudden assault by a stranger\, but it left her with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, fractured hands\, and PTSD. Headstrong tells the story of how she learned to live with the daily challenges of TBI. It brings the reader into a life traumatized by violence and set in the context of a society full of violence and vocal\, visible white supremacists. Woven throughout Jones’s account are the stories of how medical professionals\, friends\, family\, and strangers became a foundation strong enough to hold her during the worst of times\, and to give her the buoyancy to find a path toward hope. \n“Eloquently told\, Jones invites us into her harrowing journey from violence and brain injury to hope. With unflinching honesty\, she shows how her determination to heal\, led her to excavate the emotional legacy of her family and develop the emotional muscle to move beyond being a victim. If ever we needed a story of resilience against tough odds\, now is the time.” —Hilary Jacobs Hendel\, author of the award-winning book\, It’s Not Always Depression \n \nJoAnne Jones is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College in Massachusetts\, where she worked for twenty-five years. While at Springfield College\, Dr. Jones served as Associate Dean of the School of Human Services and Acting Dean of the School of Social Work. Before Springfield College\, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Calgary\, School of Social Welfare. Her teaching and research focused primarily on social justice issues. In addition to teaching\, she has consulted with public and private organizations in relation to diversity\, inclusiveness\, and excellence. She is a cofounder of the firm Diversityworks Consulting. \n URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-silver-jones-headstrong-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/headstrong-jones-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200216T010951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T010951Z UID:55850-1582225200-1582232400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations: Poets & Writers Salon | Foster City\, CA DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations: Poets & Writers Salon\nThursday\, February 20\, 2020\n7-9 pm\nat Penelope’s Coffee & Teas\, Foster City \nA literary salon featuring curated works of Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers. Powered by California Writers Club SF Peninsula Branch. \nWith fine Poets & Authors\, featuring:\nAudrey Kalman + Marianne Brems\nIda J. Lewenstein + Jeannine Gerkman\nSusan Frey + Maurine Killough\nMegan McDonald + Darlene Frank \n& Special Music Guest! \nBay Area Generations: – Poets & Writers Salon\n@ Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\nComfy cafe | Food available for purchase \nGet Tickets! http://bit.ly/BAG76tx\nMap: http://bit.ly/BAGPenelope \nDoors Open: 6:30 p.m. Show: 7 pm\nSuggested donation $10\, includes chapbook\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 400 hundred notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nSubmit to our next show! http://bit.ly/BAG77fbs \nWebsite: www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nHelp us keep presenting good literature readings.\nDonate here: www.paypal.me/BayAreaGenerations \n#reading #books #poetry #sflit #writers #openmic URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-poets-writers-salon-foster-city-ca/ LOCATION:Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\, 3 Plaza View Ln\, Ste N\, Foster City\, CA\, 94404\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bay-Area-Generations-Poets-Writers-Salon-Foster-City-CA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200126T012909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T012909Z UID:55107-1582225200-1582228800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen featuring Kaecey McCormick DESCRIPTION:Willow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nKaecey McCormick is an author\, artist\, and educator whose mission is to help people access creativity as a tool for effecting change in their lives. Named the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate for the City of Cupertino\, she enjoys helping the community celebrate poetry. Kaecey works as a writer and creativity coach\, and her writing appears in her book Pixelated Tears (Prolific Press) and numerous journals and anthologies. When not creating\, Kaecey enjoys time with her husband and four daughters.. URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-featuring-kaecey-mccormick/ LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Kaecey-McCormick-400.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200212T185107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T185107Z UID:55743-1581620400-1581627600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime DESCRIPTION:We are excited to have our Legal Advocacy Fundraiser\, Sisters in Crime. Featured this year will be four local authors: \nThe moderator Heather Haven has a varied background: ad copy\, comedy acts and play writing. Her novels include the SV based Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries\, Manhattan based Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries and documentary fiction “Murder Under the Big Top” based upon her mother’s experience. In September she released “Christmas Trifle\,” Book One of the Snow Lake Romantic Suspense Novels. \nCara Black writes the NY Times bestselling Aimee Leduc Investigations set in Paris.”Murder in Bel Air\,” the 19th and latest in the series\, puts her Parisian private investigator in a dangerous web of international spy craft\, postcolonial Franco-American politics and neighborhood secrets in Paris’s 12th arrondissement. \nLinda Howe-Steiger has been the Director of Technology Transfer at UC Berkeley’s Inst. of Transportation Studies\, a long time teacher\, researcher and writer on serious environmental and urban planning topics. Her mystery novels\, set in N. CA begins with “Fog\,” a cold case tale set in the fictional town of Quarry Canyon off Mt. Tam\, which introduces amateur sleuth Morgan Kendal and her PI partner and ex-cop Carson Jalesco. The second in this series\, “Terroir” recounts what happens when they are invited to a traditional family winery where the decision by the aging family patriarch has set in motion increasingly life threatening circumstances. \nAlec Peche has written 13 books\, 10 in the Jill Quint\, MD Forensic Pathologist series. Jill is a part-time pathologist\, PI and vintner who solves mysteries with a team of girlfriends with different professional skills. The stories are set across N. America and Europe. “Opus Murder” released Jan. is the story of a pianist murdered during a recital in Toronto. She has written 3 books in the Damian Green series about a modern day MacGyver computer genius teaming with a retired SJPD detective. \n  \n$15 donation. \nhttp://svcupt-ca.aauw.net/ lindarfreed@gmail.com 650-941-3218 URL:https://litseen.com/event/sisters-in-crime-2/ LOCATION:Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church\, 728 Fremont Avenue\, Sunnyvale\, 94087 CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cara-Black.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="AAUW Sunnyvale-Cupertino":MAILTO:tomlinfreed@hotmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T222835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T222835Z UID:55656-1581620400-1581627600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Craig Vachon\, The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes Craig Vachon for a reading and signing of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley\, his entertaining tale of a befuddled but highly capable venture capitalist who is compelled to chart his own course on a global quest to save his new brain-computer interface tool from falling into some very\, very wrong hands. \nRalph Gibsen isn’t your typical spy. In fact\, he may not be a spy at all. He’s lumpy\, blundering and abysmal at chatting up the fairer sex. Yet\, he is attracting a significant amount of attention from the intelligence community. After all\, as a 30-year Silicon Valley mainstay\, he can phish your passwords\, bust firewalls\, and has developed software used by millions to circumvent government censorship. And now\, he thinks he has stumbled upon a cabal who is pushing to misuse his own technology for world domination. \nRalph helps create an educational Tool that maps a learner’s neurological processes and pinpoints the exact moment a student learns. But the Tool can also manipulate people’s beliefs. At least\, that what several influential people think. Soon\, Ralph finds himself the target of increasingly complex attacks on his businesses\, reputation\, freedom\, and life. \nRalph enlists an eclectic group of ‘frenemies’ to thwart this nefarious plot. McKenna may or may not still work for the CIA. Beautiful Eva may work for the Chinese government\, who wants the Tool for themselves. Even Ralph’s lovely wife Jen could be involved… Ralph simply isn’t equipped to figure it out. And the world is closing in. \n“Knucklehead is like being shot out of an Ethernet cable lined with exotic travel and baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.” —Peterson Conway \nAbout the author: The character of Ralph Gibsen\, the protagonist of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley\, isn’t based on the author G. Craig Vachon. URL:https://litseen.com/event/craig-vachon-the-knucklehead-of-silicon-valley/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/vachon-knucklehead-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200204T025518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T025744Z UID:55500-1581447600-1581454800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Evelyn Skye: Cloak of Night w/ Stacey Lee DESCRIPTION:You know Evelyn Skye from the wonderful New York Times bestselling The Crown’s Game\, The Crown’s Fate\, and Circle of Shadows. \nThe wait for her sequel is finally over! We are so very excited to invite you to the launch party of Cloak of Night\, the exciting end to this thrilling duology that is full of dangerous action\, heartbreaking romance\, and incredible magic. \nAfter the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts\, Sora\, Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick are truly alone in the fight to save their kingdom. Empress Aki is missing\, and everyone else who could help them is a prisoner to Prince Gin’s mind control. At least Sora understands what they’re up against. Or so she believes\, until she overhears Gin bargaining with the god of war for immortality and learns that ryuu magic may be a more insidious danger than she realized. Suddenly\, the stakes are higher and even more personal for Sora—not only must she stop a seemingly indestructible Prince Gin\, but she must also unravel the secrets of ryuu magic before it is too late for nearly everyone she loves. Sora Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick face dangerous obstacles at every turn\, but the greatest challenge may be discovering who they truly are and what\, if anything\, they are capable of. The fate of a kingdom rests in their hands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining Evelyn on stage is Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl\, Outrun the Moon\, Under a Painted Sky\, and The Secret of a Heart Note URL:https://litseen.com/event/evelyn-skye-cloak-of-night-w-stacey-lee/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-38.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200126T012734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T012734Z UID:55105-1581447600-1581453000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Well-RED: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney DESCRIPTION:Reading Series\nTuesday\, February 11\, 7:00pm\nfeatures: Tshaka Campbell and James Cagney\nopen mic follows \nPoetry cat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$3 donation at the door\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. \nUpcoming in Well-RED:\nFeb. 11: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney\nMar. 10: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo\nApr. 14: Poetry Month Open Mic\nMay 12: Mimi Ahern & Roger Abe of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society with Mary Lou Taylor\nJune 9: Andrena Zawinski & tba URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-tshaka-campbell-james-cagney/ LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/works.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T222418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T222418Z UID:55653-1581447600-1581447600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernadez Castillo\, Children of the Land at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. Castillo will be in conversation with Nathan Osorio at this event\, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A portion of the sales of Children of the Land will be donated to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s Immigration Program. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His poetry and translations have appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, The Grief Diaries\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere. His reviews and interviews featuring poets such as Juan Felipe Herrera and Rigoberto González have appeared in Columbia Journal\, UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute\, Publishers Weekly\, and Letras Latinas’ La Bloga. His chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship by Evie Shockley and was previously selected as a finalist for the 2016 Atlas Review Chapbook Contest. In 2019\, he was also selected as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \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. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 9th. URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernadez-castillo-children-of-the-land-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/49503286452_eb753ebc44.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200204T025140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T025140Z UID:55497-1581363000-1581366600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Niloufar Talebi: Self-Portrait In Bloom DESCRIPTION:Niloufar Talebi visits to share from her new hybrid and poetic memoir\, Self-Portrait In Bloom\, the literary accompaniment to her recent opera\, both inspired by the great Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou. This talented author will consider what it means to be an outsider\, insider\, woman in the #Metoo era\, an artist from a sanctioned country\, and a spectator of squashed uprisings in Iran—all while still cherishing a sense of humor. \nMemoirist Firoozeh Dumas calls Self-Portrait In Bloom “A brutally honest memoir of a life built by words\, destroyed by words\, rebuilt by words.” Tamim Ansary says that the writing is “not just poignant\, it’s wrenching.” Released in the 40th anniversary year of the Iranian revolution\, this book is part-memoir\, part-biography\, and a part-history of literature in Iran that delves deep into culture and personal history. Talebi pays powerful homage to Tehran\, the city of her childhood. In fragments of prose\, poetry\, and photographs\, her lyrical exploration reimagines the memoir form. \nHow do monumental changes in culture and place impact the creation of art and self? In an interview with Firoozeh Dumas\, Talebi translates these rich questions and histories into an even richer artistic present. \nDon’t miss this utterly unique book in its full bloom\, at Kepler’s on February 10th. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nTickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Niloufar Talebi by Devlin Shand Photography. URL:https://litseen.com/event/niloufar-talebi-self-portrait-in-bloom/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-37.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T170000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200204T030211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T030211Z UID:55503-1581174000-1581181200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K Arnold DESCRIPTION:Two much loved authors. Two fabulous critically-acclaimed new books. One exceptional afternoon. The Red Tour is coming to Kepler’s! \nMeet Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K. Arnold as they introduce their newest books Dark and Deepest Red\, a modern story of passion and betrayal paired with the forbidding magic of a fairy tale. And Red Hood\, a dark\, engrossing\, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDark and Deepest Red: Summer\, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets\, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread\, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family\, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later\, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet\, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil\, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows\, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes. \nRed Hood: Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old\, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming\, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees\, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it\, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past\, and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods—frightened\, but not alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of The Weight of Feathers\, a finalist for the 2016 William C. Morris Debut Award; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and was the winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award; Wild Beauty\, and Blanca & Roja . \nElana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels and children’s books\, including the Printz Honor winner Damsel and the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of. Elana teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-marie-mclemore-and-elana-k-arnold/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-39.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T153000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T074018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T074018Z UID:55558-1581170400-1581175800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Launch Reading for "Dear—" DESCRIPTION:A community reading of letters commemorating “Day of Remembrance” and launching “Dear—” a new book project and online letter archive compiled by Brynn Saito with portraits by Dave Lehl. Visit https://www.youaremissing.com/ for details. \nLetter readings by Nikiko Masumoto\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Marion Masada\, Janelle Saito\, Gregg Saito\, Samina Najmi\, and others! \n“Dear—” was created with the support of an Artists Initiative grant from Densho\, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today; the Santa Fe Arts Institute’s (SFAI) “Truth and Reconciliation” residency; and the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University\, Fresno. \nDeep gratitude to Gregg Saito\, Janelle Saito\, Leigh Saito\, Marion Masada\, Saburo Masada\, Nikiko Masumoto\, Valarie Kaur\, Brandon Shimoda\, Devoya Mayo\, Akiko Miyake-Stoner\, Naser Nekumanesh\, Tess Taylor\, Lee Herrick\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Samina Najmi\, and Amy Uyematsu for engaging in correspondence with me. \nThank you\, Dave Lehl\, for the photographic portraits of my family and community. URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-reading-for-dear/ LOCATION:United Japanese Christian Church\, 136 N Villa Ave.\, Clovis\, CA\, 93612\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dear-—.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200207T224031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T224031Z UID:55665-1581062400-1581094800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Steven Levy\, Facebook: The Inside Story at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:He has had unprecedented access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for three years. And now renowned tech writer Steven Levy delivers the definitive history of one of America’s most powerful and controversial companies: Facebook. \nIn his sophomore year of college\, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire\, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. \nToday\, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg’s first\, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant\, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world\, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users\, including those on its fully owned subsidiaries\, Instagram and WhatsApp. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts\, the handling of its users’ personal data\, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO\, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. \nBased on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company\, Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences. \nSteven Levy is Wired‘s editor at large. The Washington Post has called him “America’s premier technology journalist.” His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for Rolling Stone\, Harper’s Magazine\, Macworld\, The New York Times Magazine\, Esquire\, The New Yorker\, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology\, including for his book Hackers\, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for Crypto\, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair. URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-levy-facebook-the-inside-story-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/levy-facebook-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20191227T165130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T165130Z UID:54630-1581015600-1581022800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tommy Orange Reading & Conversation with Nick Taylor DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Tommy Orange\, author of There There on Thursday\, February 6\, 2020 at the Hammer Theatre’s Black Box Theatre at 7PM. The reading will be followed by an on-stage interview with professor\, Nick Taylor\, plus an audience Q&A\, book sale and signing. \nA national bestseller\, There There has won the PEN/Hemingway Award\, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, and the American Book Award. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable. The novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death\, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. \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. \nNick Taylor is the author of the historical novels Double Switch\, The Setup Man\, The Disagreement\, and Father Junípero’s Confessor. His work has earned a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship and the Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction. He has also received support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the William R. Kenan\, Jr.\, Fund for Historic Preservation. Currently Nick serves as Professor of English and Director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San José State University. URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-reading-conversation-with-nick-taylor/ LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Tommy-Orange-@-CLA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20200123T081009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T081009Z UID:55009-1580585400-1580589000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Clara Sherley-Appel DESCRIPTION:National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Shirley Jackson award\, author of the bestselling Her Body and Other Parties \, Carmen Maria Machado’s writing is peerless. Almost recklessly talented and in defiance of genre\, Machado won our hearts with her celebrated first collection of short stories\, in which she effortlessly blurred the lines between fantasy story and truth\, fairy-tale myth and horror. \nNow on tour for one of the most captivatingly powerful books we’ve seen in years \, Kepler’s is thrilled to announce a drop-in event with Carmen Maria Machado for her stunning and critically acclaimed new memoir\, In The Dream House. \nIn the Dream House offers a deftly woven exploration of a topic often blurred and hidden—and Machado is staggering in the telling of it. The author shares her experience of falling in love with a mercurial\, jealous\, charismatic and abusive woman. Using a kaleidoscopic and literary lens to explore the haunted house of this abusive relationship\, Machado shares her story in themed pieces that make it both easier to grasp and impossible to forget—fragments of love and fear made more powerful by the context she provides from literature\, personal history\, and broader queer representation. \nThe result is a masterwork of empathetic power\, beauty\, and personal reckoning. You live\, along with Machado\, In the Dream House. \nIn conversation with Clara Sherley-Appel of KSQD’s Story Behind the Story \, Machado visits Kepler’s on Saturday\, February 1st at 7:30pm to share and sign In The Dream House . Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of today’s most celebrated writers share from an unprecedented and deeply personal work. \n—–\nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability or comfort accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. Tickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Carmen Maria Machado by Art Streiber. URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-clara-sherley-appel/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Carmen-Maria-Machado-with-Clara-Sherley-Appel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20191124T213654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T213654Z UID:54138-1580410800-1580416200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Orin & Manjula Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden DESCRIPTION:Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin\, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, and writer/editor Manjula Martin\, Orin’s daughter\, for a discussion and signing of Fruit Trees for Every Garden—their substantial\, authoritative\, and beautiful full-color guide which covers everything you need to know about organically growing healthy\, bountiful fruit trees. \nFor more than forty years\, Orin Martin has taught thousands of apprentices\, students\, and home gardeners the art and craft of growing fruit trees organically. In Fruit Trees for Every Garden\, Orin shares—with hard-won wisdom and plenty of humor—his recommended fruit varieties and techniques for productive trees\, including apple\, pear\, peach\, plum\, apricot\, nectarine\, sweet cherry\, orange\, lemon\, fig\, and more. \nIf you crave crisp apples\, juicy peaches\, or varieties of fruit that can never be found in the store\, they are all within reach in your own backyard. Whether you have one tree or a hundred\, Orin gives you all the tools you need\, from tree selection and planting practices to seasonal feeding guidelines and in-depth pruning tutorials. Along the way\, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the core principles of organic gardening and soil stewardship: compost\, cultivation\, cover crops\, and increasing biodiversity for a healthier garden. This book is more than just a gardening manual; it’s designed to help you understand the why behind the how\, allowing you to apply these techniques to your own slice of paradise and make the best choices for your individual trees. \nFilled with informative illustrations\, full-color photography\, and evocative intaglio etchings by artist Stephanie Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden is a striking and practical guide that will enable you to enjoy the great pleasure and beauty of raising homegrown\, organic fruit for years to come. \nORIN MARTIN is manager of the three-acre Alan Chadwick Garden (home of 600 fruit trees) at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and manager of the orchard at UCSC’s Farm & Garden. Since 1977\, he has taught classes\, lectures\, and workshops to thousands of home gardeners\, apprentices\, students\, and budding farmers who have gone on to found and lead organic farms\, teaching gardens\, and food justice projects around the country and the world. MANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \nMANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \n“An excellent guide for those of us who are ‘addicted’ to the joys\, pleasures\, and sweat of growing tree fruit—a sweet blend of the skills and art required to grow the perfect peach (or apple\, citrus\, fig …)”\n—David Mas Masumoto\, organic fruit farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach\, Wisdom of the Last Farmer\, and Changing Season \n“Like the best teacher you’ve ever had\, Orin Martin knows how to light the fire. Yes\, this beautifully written and illustrated little book provides clear instructions for planting an orchard. It lovingly introduces you to more than a hundred varieties of fruit. But it is so much more. It’s about the power of observation\, talking to our neighbors\, and investing in our food\, families\, and Mother Earth.”\n—NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) \n“The opportunity to learn from one of the great organic farmers is an opportunity not to be missed! The UCSC Farm & Garden has always been a place of joy\, awe\, and wonder for me; this book captures the thought process and techniques that help us understand the unseen beneath our feet.”\n—Nell Newman\, founder of Newman’s Own Organics \n“Here you have all the practical tools to create your own orchard of any size—information on rootstocks\, pruning\, thinning\, and a thrilling array of varieties—but moreover\, you have Orin’s wise and gently wry voice to guide you through it.”\n—Alice Waters\, chef\, author\, food activist\, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant \n“In this book\, Orin Martin gives us his true mastery of trees. Here is a man who lived his life working in paradise\, took care of the land\, and planted an orchard. His gifts: the Chadwick Garden\, and this book to be shared by all.”\n—Karen Washington\, co-owner of Rise & Root Farm and cofounder of Black Urban Growers \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. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email them to info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 28th. URL:https://litseen.com/event/orin-manjula-martin-fruit-trees-for-every-garden/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/fruit-trees-martin-750-copy_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20191124T213511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T213511Z UID:54135-1580238000-1580243400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein\, Boys & Sex DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \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. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 26th. \n\nThe author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men\, once again offering “both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it” (Washington Post). \nPeggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground\, shattered taboos\, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls–steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity–which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex\, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken\, revealing how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. \nDrawing on comprehensive interviews with young men\, psychologists\, academics\, and experts in the field\, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word “hilarious” robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity\, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths\, hard lessons\, and important realities of young male sexuality in today’s world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men. \nPeggy Orenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, she has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter. \n“Expertly written…. [A] candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity.”– Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n \n“Peggy Orenstein has done something rare. She has listened to young men in ways that have allowed them to speak candidly about the fraught world of their sexuality\, and she has been true to the complexities of their experiences — their hopes but also the fears\, shame\, pressures and angers that cause them to violate others and corrode their capacity for care and love. What they say is scary and heartbreaking and vitally important for us all to hear. This is a bracing\, insightful\, humane\, engaging\, invaluable book. And it charts the course for real change.”–Richard Weissbourd\, Senior Lecturer and Faculty Director of Making Caring Common\, Harvard Graduate School of Education \n“As a psychotherapist who’s raising a boy\, I can’t think of a more important book for our times. Eye-opening and nuanced\, this compassionate exploration of boys’ sexual lives gives voice to their deepest struggles and should be mandatory reading for anyone who cares about the next generation–which is to say\, all of us.”–Lori Gottlieb\, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone \n“Peggy Orenstein dared to do what so many of us are afraid of: actually ask boys about sex and then listen to what they had to say. She has given boys the opportunity to speak honestly about their feelings around sexuality\, pornography\, gender\, consent and so much more. Their answers are illuminating\, often times surprising–and essential.”–Nick Kroll\, co-creator\, writer\, and star of Big Mouth \n\n“Forget what you thought you knew about boys and sex. Here\, at last\, is an honest book about the sexual lives of boys and young men; the good\, the bad\, the endlessly complicated and emotionally fraught. Peggy Orenstein has peeled back typical male bravado and exposed the raw hearts of boys struggling to navigate a confusing sexual landscape. Boys & Sex is a crucial contribution to the long overdue conversation about masculinity.”–Michael Ian Black\, author\, comedian\, and actor URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein-boys-sex/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Boys-Sex.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20191124T200709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T200709Z UID:54100-1579807800-1579813200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Roz Chast & Patricia Marx on Love DESCRIPTION:After last April’s sold-out show\, Roz Chast and Patricia Marx return to Kepler’s for You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. \nMuch beloved\, utterly genius contributors to The New Yorker for decades\, the inimitable cartoonist Roz Chast and wry humorist Patricia Marx have joined forces again! This time\, to solve every love and relationship problem that has ever existed. You’re welcome! \nEveryone’s heard the old\, standard advice for a healthy relationship… we wouldn’t dare bore you with those. Instead\, Chast and Marx will make you laugh\, remind you why your relationship is better than everyone else’s\, and solve all your problems with advice like the following: “If you must breathe\, don’t breathe so loudly” or “It is easier to stay inside and wait for the snow to melt than to fight about who should shovel.” \nJoin these two remarkable women for a laugh out loud evening and get your copy of You Can Only Yell At Me for One Thing at a Time personalized for a Valentine’s or Anniversary gift\, or for your own personal collection (“hands off\, Harry!”). \nROZ CHAST has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1978\, and is the only cartoonist we’ve heard of with multiple honorary doctorates\, in addition to several books and a boatload of awards under her belt. In 2012\, she was awarded the NYC Literary Honor in Humor. She has a knack for revealing the entire feeling of a situation in just one sentence\, as evidenced by her critically acclaimed 2014 memoir\, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? \nPATRICIA MARX was the first woman humorist ever elected to The Harvard Lampoon\, a writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats\, and a contributor of creative\, unusual ephemera to The New Yorker since 1989. She has authored multiple books\, taught at university\, given a TEDxTalk\, won some awards\, and only occasionally feared for her own wits. She was the recipient of the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. URL:https://litseen.com/event/roz-chast-patricia-marx-on-love/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_80050123_224845537920_1_original.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260622T211452 CREATED:20191124T213327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T213327Z UID:54132-1579546800-1579552200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Daniel Levitin\, Successful Aging DESCRIPTION:Neuroscientist and bestselling author Daniel Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) will join us to discuss his important new book\, Successful Aging. \nAuthor of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind\, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age\, why we should think about health span\, not life span\, and\, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence\, what you can do to make the most of your seventies\, eighties\, and nineties today no matter how old you are now. \nSuccessful Aging uses research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences to show that sixty-plus years is a unique developmental stage that\, like infancy or adolescence\, has its own demands and distinct advantages. Levitin looks at the science behind what we all can learn from those who age joyously\, as well as how to adapt our culture to take full advantage of older people’s wisdom and experience. Throughout his exploration of what aging really means\, Levitin reveals resilience strategies and practical\, cognitive enhancing tricks everyone should do as they age. \nSuccessful Aging inspires a powerful new approach to how readers think about our final decades\, and it will revolutionize the way we plan for old age as individuals\, family members\, and citizens within a society where the average life expectancy continues to rise. \nDaniel J. Levitin\, PhD\, is a neuroscientist\, cognitive psychologist\, and bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco\, and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music\, The World in Six Songs\, The Organized Mind\, and A Field Guide to Lies. He divides his time between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. \n“This is the book I need now. This is probably the book YOU need now. Levitin beautifully weaves hard science with more subtle\, subjective agents of change—compassion\, friendship\, the redemptive power of work—into a refreshing guide for those of us navigating the penultimate stage of life.” —Rosanne Cash\, Four-time Grammy winning singer and songwriter\, author of Composed \n“Predictions are perilous\, but here’s one I can make with certainty: Tomorrow you and I will be older than we are today. That’s why you\, I\, and everyone we know needs this remarkable book. With a scientist’s rigor and a storyteller’s flair\, Daniel Levitin offers a fresh approach to growing older. He debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove of practical\, evidence-based guidance for living longer and better. SUCCESSFUL AGING is an essential book for the rest of your life.” —Daniel H. Pink\, author of WHEN and DRIVE \n\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. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 18th. URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-levitin-successful-aging/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/levitin-aging-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR