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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Virtual Reading Series 04/20-04/24
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce that Red Light Lit is hosting our first ever virtual reading series! That’s right babes\, starting Monday (4/20) at 8 PM PST and every night through Friday we have an amazing line up of some of our favorite artists set to read on our LIVE Insta feed. So make sure you have those @redlightlit notifications turned on and tune in Monday- Friday nights for some heated words🔥🔥🔥 Monday: Loria Mendoza\, Tuesday: Kar Johnson\, Wednesday: Devin Copeland\, Thursday: Thea Matthews\, Friday: Allyson Darling. It’s about to get LIT
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Event: R.O. Kwon in conversation with C Pam Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Instagram Live Virtual Book Event event\nR.O. Kwon in conversation with C Pam Zhang author of How Much of These Hills is Gold\nThursday\, April 23rd at 5:00pm\non @greeenapplebooks Instagram Live \nPlease send your questions in advance for C Pam Zhang and R.O. Kwon via direct message to the @greenapplebooks social media (Facebook or Instagram) thank you! \nPraise for How Much of These Hills is Gold\nAvailable at Green Apple Books:\nhttps://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9780525537205 \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”—Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous\, broken\, soulful\, feral song of family and yearning\, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant\, fearless writer. This book is a wonder.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nAbout How Much of These Hills is Gold \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Sopan Deb with Kabir Akhtar / Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Sopan Deb for his new book Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me. He’ll be in conversation with Kabir Akhtar. \nPLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nApproaching his 30th birthday\, Sopan Deb had found comfort in his day job as a writer for the New York Times and a practicing comedian. But his stage material highlighting his South Asian culture only served to mask the insecurities borne from his family history. Sure\, Deb knew the facts: his parents\, both Indian\, separately immigrated to North America in the 1960s and 1970s. They were brought together in a volatile and ultimately doomed arranged marriage and raised a family in suburban New Jersey before his father returned to India alone. \nBut Deb had never learned who his parents were as individuals—their ages\, how many siblings they had\, what they were like as children\, what their favorite movies were. Theirs was an ostensibly nuclear family without any of the familial bonds. Coming of age in a mostly white suburban town\, Deb’s alienation led him to seek separation from his family and his culture\, longing for the tight-knit home environment of his white friends. His desire wasn’t rooted in racism or oppression; it was born of envy and desire—for white moms who made after-school snacks and asked his friends about the girls they liked and the teachers they didn’t. Deb yearned for the same. \nDeb’s experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign\, and subsequently as a stand up comedian\, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his father—the first step in a life-altering journey to bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared. Deb had to learn to connect with this man he recognized yet did not know—and eventually breach the silence separating him from his mother. As it beautifully and poignantly chronicles Deb’s odyssey\, Missed Translations raises questions essential to us all: Is it ever too late to pick up the pieces and offer forgiveness? How do we build bridges where there was nothing before—and what happens to us\, to our past and our future\, if we don’t? \n\nSopan Deb is a writer for The New York Times\, as well as a New York City-based stand up comedian. Before joining the Times\, Deb was one of a handful of reporters who covered Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from start to finish as a campaign embed for CBS News. He covered hundreds of rallies in more than 40 states for a year and a half and was named a “breakout media star” of the election by Politico. \nAt The New York Times\, Deb has interviewed high profile subjects such as Denzel Washington\, Stephen Colbert\, the cast of Arrested Development\, Kyrie Irving and Bill Murray. Deb’s work has previously appeared on NBC\, Al Jazeera America and The Boston Globe\, ranging from examining the trek of endangered manatees to following a class of blind filmmakers in Boston led by the former executive producer of Friends. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for a documentary he produced for the Boston Globe called “Larger Than Life\,” which told the story about the NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell’s complicated relationship with the city of Boston. \nKabir Akhtar\, ACE is an Emmy-winning director-editor whose work includes The Academy Awards\, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\, Arrested Development\, and Unsolved Mysteries. \nA three-time Emmy nominee\, Kabir won the award in 2016 for editing the pilot of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\, becoming the first person of color to win in the category. He worked on all 62 episodes of Crazy Ex\, rising from editor to director/producer as the series progressed. Kabir directed twelve episodes of television last year\, including the season finales of the critically acclaimed shows Grown-ish and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series\, the first Disney-branded series on Disney Plus. His new work premiering in 2020 includes episodes of Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix show\, Never Have I Ever. With a passion for musical projects\, Kabir has directed thirty music videos with a combined 13 million Youtube views\, as well as comedy segments of the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmy Awards. \nHe has edited ten pilots which were later picked up\, and has directed the pilot episodes of two series: 8th & Ocean for MTV\, and the relaunched edition of Unsolved Mysteries. Kabir has served as Co-Chair of the Asian-American Committee at the DGA\, and as a Peer Group Executive Committee member at the Television Academy. He has been a featured speaker at many industry events and festivals\, including SXSW. \nHe lives in New York City. Author photo by Amy Lombard. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-sopan-deb-with-kabir-akhtar-missed-translations-meeting-the-immigrant-parents-who-raised-me/
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