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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #8
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nAll forms of support matter. One of those forms is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If you can swing it in these tough times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #8\nTime: May 8\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81969682054 \nMeeting ID: 819 6968 2054\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81969682054# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81969682054# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 819 6968 2054\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kCvvm6Chi
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SUMMARY:*Virtual* Reading feat. Garrett Caples and Ava Koohbor
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 8th from 6:30-7:10 pm PST \nfor our first ever virtual reading featuring  \nGarrett Caples and Ava Koohbor!  \n  \n***** \n  \nauthor bios & photos below. \nZoom link to be emailed to participants & posted on the day of event. \nPlease RSVP for the reading here to have the link emailed to you.  \nwe hope you and your loved ones are safe & well\,  \nand we look forward to sharing this new experience with you!  \nGarrett Caples is a poet living in San Francisco. His most recent book of poems is the bilingual Noches Apátridas: Poesía escogida\, 1999-2019 (Unstated Nights: Selected Poems\, 1999-2019) (Juan Malasuerte\, 2019). He’s an editor at City Lights Books\, where he curates the Spotlight Poetry Series. \nAva Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker\, poet and visual artist. Her poems have appeared in various publications. Her chapbooks include Triangle Squared (Bootstrap Press) and Sinusoidal Forms (Lew Gallery). Death Under Construction is her first full collection of poetry in English by Ugly Duckling Presse. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. \n 
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Julia Flynn Siler
DESCRIPTION:During the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \nAlia Volz is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nJulia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her most recent book\,  The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Knopf\, May 2019)\, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure. Her first book\, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty\, was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist\, Siler is a longtime contributor and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on the BBC\, CNBC\, and CNN. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two sons.
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SUMMARY:Coming Back with guest Cheryl Strayed
DESCRIPTION:Join a live recording of Shelby Forsythia’s podcast Coming Back – with special guest Cheryl Strayed.\n\n\nJoin a live recording of Shelby Forsythia’s podcast Coming Back – with special guest Cheryl Strayed. \nIn this hour-long live Coming Back podcast segment Shelby will host Cheryl through 40 minutes of conversation and 20 minutes of Q&A/advice. \nCheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild\, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough\, and the novel Torch. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Strayed’s books have been translated into nearly forty languages around the world and have been adapted for both the screen and the stage. \nStrayed is the host of the New York Times podcast\, Sugar Calling. Her former podcast was Dear Sugars\, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond. Her essays have been published in The Best American Essays\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post Magazine\, Vogue\, Salon\, The Sun\, Tin House\, The New York Times Book Review\, and elsewhere. Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \nAbout the host: Shelby Forsythia is the author of Permission to Grieve and podcast host of Coming Back: Conversations on Life After Loss. After the unexpected death of her mother in 2013\, she became a “student of grief” and set out on a lifetime mission to explore the oft-misunderstood human experience of loss. Through her book\, weekly podcasts\, and one-on-one grief guidance\, she helps grieving people find direction\, get support\, and cultivate radical self-compassion after devastating loss. \nShelby is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®\, Reiki Level II Practitioner\, and Intuitive Grief Guide. Her work has been featured on Huffington Post\, Bustle\, and The Oprah Magazine. She currently lives in Chicago. \nAll Motherless Mother’s Day events are by donation and ALL funds generated will go directly to each individual event’s host (no cut from Reimagine or Alica Forneret). You will receive a link to donate in a follow up email!
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SUMMARY:Sacred and Profane: Debut Novelist Chelsea Bieker on Godshot
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Brooke Warner\nProgram will air Sunday May 10th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nWe’re thrilled to welcome debut novelist Chelsea Bieker in conversation with Brooke Warner\, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress. Bieker’s explosive literary debut Godshot (Catapult/March 2020)\, praised by bestseller Kristen Arnett as “a beautiful blow to the heart\,” is a hymn to the salvation found in hard-won personal rebirth. Stricken with drought\, the once-verdant community of Peaches\, California clings to a cult leader for salvation\, and 14-year-old Lacey\, abandoned by her mother\, is left to reap a revelatory\, fraught harvest of her own. Godshot has won Bieker rapturous comparisons to Margaret Atwood\, Emma Cline\, and Janet Fitch; but the beauty of her “absolute masterpiece” (T. Kira Madden) lies in Lacey’s incomparable voice: the voice of a brokenhearted believer\, by turns darkly funny and achingly tender\, who you’ll miss after turning the last page. Go deep with Bieker and Brooke Warner\, as they plumb the depths of one unforgettable girl’s miraculous journey to fertile ground. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChelsea Bieker\, Godshot\nBrooke Warner\, Write on Sisters! \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
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SUMMARY:On Lighthouses: Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Eula Biss
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\nJoin Pilsen Community Books and Two Lines Press for an event with Jazmina Barrera and Eula Biss in celebration of Barrera’s new book On Lighthouses\, out this May from Two Lines Press! \n***Register on Eventbrite for a link to the livestream sent to you the day of the event.*** \n“After spending sufficient time inside a lighthouse\, who wouldn’t begin to hear a song in the sound of the machinery\, a voice in the wind or the waves?” \nFar from home\, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her\, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses—those structures whose message is “first and foremost\, that human beings are here.” \nStarting with Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather\, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline\, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf\, Edgar Allan Poe\, Ingmar Bergman\, and many others. \nIn trying to “collect” lighthouses by obsessively describing them\, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing\, collecting\, and how\, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history\, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone—from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one—concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless\, guiding light. \n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nJazmina Barrera\n\n\nJazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media\, such as Nexos\, Este País\, Dossier\, Vice\, El Malpensante\, Letras Libres and Tierra Adentro. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University\, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She was a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nEula Biss\n\n\nEula Biss is the author of three books: On Immunity: An Inoculation\, a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction; Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays\, winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award for criticism\, and a collection of poetry\, The Balloonists. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, an NEA Literature Fellowship\, and a Jaffe Writers’ Award. She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer\, Gulf Coast\, Denver Quarterly\, Third Coast\, and Harper’s. Eula Biss and John Bresland are the Chicago-based band STET Everything.
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff and Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Tuesday May 12th at 5:00pm PDT for Anne Raeff discussing her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nZoom Login \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86713675612 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86713675612#  or +12532158782\,\,86713675612#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 867 1367 5612\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbB2mGR0oN \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
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SUMMARY:Daniel Denvir in conversation with John Washington
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new titles from Verso Books \nAll-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It \nand \nThe Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond \nboth published by Verso Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———- \n>Click here to purchase The Dispossessed< \nClick here to purchase All American Nativism< \n  \nWhat has been said about the work of Dan Denvir and John Washington: \nPraise for All-American Nativism \n\n“As Daniel Denvir’s exceptional book shows\, the history of US immigration politics is central to understanding how our many crises have converged in this moment. It’s precisely the kind of analysis our movements need to pry open the fissures of the current order\, and join in common struggle for a better world.” \n– Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough \n\n\n\n“This is the book we need\, a searing work of scholarship that explains how we entered the current hellscape of American politics and what we have to do to get out. The roots of white nativism are deep\, as Denvir’s book makes clear\, but like all roots can be pulled up and killed. All-American Nativism will help us do so.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“In this timely book\, Daniel Denvir tackles an important question: what is old and what is new in Trump’s nativism? Denvir helps us understand both the historical roots and the more recent routes by which ‘build the wall’ came to be the central rallying cry of racial-nationalism. A must-read for anyone who wants to know how we got here.” \n– Mae Ngai\, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America \n\n\n“All American Nativism excavates the history of anti-immigrant politics in the United States and reveals a difficult truth: Donald Trump is the symptom\, and not the cause\, of a bipartisan consensus underlying the current war on immigrants. In this sense\, Denvir’s book is an invaluable tool for organizers and activists who subscribe to what Paulo Freire meant by praxis\, where reflection and action are required to bring about transformative change.” \n– Pablo Alvarado\, National Day Laborer Organizing Network \n\n\n“All-American Nativism powerfully explores the deep roots of nativism in national life as well as how Trump’s agenda is itself the culmination of the policies and the logic pursued for decades by both major parties. In the process\, Daniel Denvir masterfully demonstrates the relationship between today’s debates over immigration and ongoing struggles against neoliberal austerity\, mass incarceration\, and the violence of the security state. In this way\, the book not only offers a diagnosis of the present\, but also a stirring vision of solidarity and change. This is an essential and profound work\, providing critical insights about the American experience and where to go from here.” \n– Aziz Rana\, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom \n\n\n“Traces the development of anti-immigrant sentiment.” \n– Cora Currier\, The Intercept \nWhat has been said about The Dispossessed \n\n“In an era of massive and unprecedented human migration\, John Washington documents in his poignant book how the poverty and violence powerful nations inflict on poor countries is a major reason so many flee their lives and families. Offering expansive historical analysis of how ancient religions\, cultures\, and societies understood the imperative of welcoming the outsider\, particularly those seeking safety from harm or death\, and contrasting it with our current world order\, Washington has written one of the most important books of our time on one of the most dire systematic injustices on our planet. I read this book in one sitting because I simply couldn’t put it down.” \n– Jeremy Scahill\, author of Dirty Wars \n\n\n\n“The Dispossessed is one of the most beautiful and wrenching books I’ve read in a long time. We are becoming a stateless world\, as the combined effects of climate change\, war\, and struggles of resources push people from their land and their homes. John Washington’s book offers no easy answers\, but in its empathy\, it is a guide for how we confront the crisis with decency.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“John Washington delivers an absorbing\, harrowing\, and deeply moving reportage that renders the most thorough and critical assessment of the US asylum system that I have ever read.” \n– Todd Miller\, author of Empire of Borders \n\n\n“John Washington is a rarity in the world of Central American migration. He doesn’t parachute into tragedy. He travels with humility and seeks to understand\, not to reaffirm his hypotheses. This is a book from someone who has been understanding for a long time. I’ve been covering migration in Central America\, Mexico\, and the United States for thirteen years\, and I can say with complete conviction: Read this book.” \n– Óscar Martinez\, author of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-denvir-in-conversation-with-john-washington/
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SUMMARY:Parenting in a Time of Crisis: Christine Carter\, Sarah Jaquette Ray and Madeline Levine
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dacher Keltner\nProgram will air Tuesday May 12th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nParents all over the world are facing a dilemma: what do we tell children about threatening truths\, from COVID-19 to climate change? How do we balance their need to be informed and prepared with their equally important right to experience the carefree joy of youth and dream of the future? These questions are more urgent than ever at a time when our kids’ routines\, schedules\, and ideas of normalcy have been completely upended—and when parents are struggling to answer their children’s questions in a way that doesn’t undermine kids’ baseline of stability and structure. \nAuthor\, speaker\, and coach Christine Carter\, Ph.D. draws on her own parenting experiences\, as well as the latest scientific research in psychology\, sociology\, and neuroscience\, to give advice for living\, working\, and parenting with greater joy and meaning. In her recent book\, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World\, New York Times bestselling author and psychologist Madeline Levine seems to have anticipated the needs and struggles of families during this crisis. Environmental pioneer Sarah Jaquette Ray’s A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is an essential toolkit for the climate generation—and the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time: one that\, as we’re learning\, worsens pandemics. We couldn’t ask for a better trio of guides to empower us with the knowledge and insight to parent well in these trying times. Moderated by Dacher Keltner\, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Carter\, The New Adolescence \nMadeline Levine\, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World\nSarah Jaquette Ray\, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\nDacher Keltner\, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/parenting-in-a-time-of-crisis-christine-carter-sarah-jaquette-ray-and-madeline-levine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T193000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200422T222335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T222335Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Francesca Bell and Len Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Francesca Bell and Len Anderson. \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-francesca-bell-and-len-anderson-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T120000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200514T002617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T002726Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit\, Lidia Yuknavitch\, & Jaime Cortez For Green Arcade Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. Writer\, historian\, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism\, western and indigenous history\, popular power\, social change and insurrection\, wandering and walking\, hope and disaster. Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and a critical book on war and narrative\, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Jaime Cortez is a Northern California writer and visual artist. His book of short stories\, entitled “Gordo\,” will be published by Grove Atlantic Press in 2021. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Green Arcade Books. Shop online now! \n\nMay 22 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-lidia-yuknavitch-jaime-cortez-for-green-arcade-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T130000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200427T194059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T194059Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Fundraiser: Mary Roach and Emily Anthes!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 13\, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM \nLocation: \nAnywhere! \nWebsite \n\n\n\n\nCharlie Jane Anders\, hugo award-winning author and friend of Moe’s\, is organizing a series of virtual readings to benefit local bookstores\, and this one will benefit Moe’s!\nTo attend\, go to this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-roach-and-emily-anthes-in-conversation-tickets-103527950888 and buy a ticket.\nTickets are pay-what-you want and all proceeds will go to Moe’s!\nThis event is part of a series\, and you can see the rest here: https://welovebookstores.org/upcoming-events/\nFrom the event listing:\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. Fridays will feature readings for kids\, and we’re incredibly lucky and thrilled to feature Alex Gino and Mike Jung\, raising funds for the Multicultural Children’s Bookstore in Richmond\, CA. \nThe authors\nMary Roach is the author of six New York Times bestsellers\, including GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War; STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; and PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. STIFF has been published in 29 languages\, and her second book\, SPOOK\, was a New York Times Notable Book. Mary has written for National Geographic\, Wired\, Discover\, New Scientist\, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy\, among others. She has served on the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary\, and her 2009 TED talk made the organization’s Twenty Most-Watched List. She was guest editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing\, a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize for Science Books\, and a winner of American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award\, in a category for which\, let’s be honest\, she was the sole entrant. \nEmily Anthes is a science journalist and author. Her new book\, The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior\, Health\, and Happiness\, will be published in June. She is also the author of Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts\, which was longlisted for the PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Emily’s work has also appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, Nature\, Slate\, Businessweek\, and elsewhere. Her magazine features have won several awards\, including the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Award. \nThe beneficiary\nSince its inception back in the heyday of the Beatnik era\, Moe’s Books has managed to become more than just a great bookstore–it has achieved the rarified status of a beloved landmark institution as well. Situated just four blocks from the University of California campus\, Moe’s has managed to mirror the often turbulent and triumphant times that have come to epitomize all that is exciting and unique about Berkeley. \nFounded in 1959 by Moe Moskowitz and his wife\, Barbara\, the original site of the store was a small shop on Shattuck just north of University Avenue. He moved the store up to Telegraph Avenue in the 1960s\, right in the middle of the Free Speech Movement and the famous anti-war demonstrations that put Berkeley on the political map. Moe’s has hundreds of thousands of titles in its ever-changing stock. \nHow does it work?\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-fundraiser-mary-roach-and-emily-anthes/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T200000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
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SUMMARY:Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano / Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano for their new book Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy. \nPlease join us: we’ll be streaming on our Facebook page! \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\nThere is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise\, California. On November 8\, 2018\, the community of 27\,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire\, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. The catastrophe seared the American imagination\, taking the front page of every major national newspaper and top billing on the news networks. It displaced tens of thousands of people\, yielding a refugee crisis that continues to unfold. \nFire in Paradise is a dramatic and moving narrative of the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents\, firefighters and police\, and scientific experts. Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano are California-based journalists who have reported on Paradise since the day the fire began. Together they reveal the heroics of the first responders\, the miraculous escapes of those who got out of Paradise\, and the horrors experienced by those who were trapped. Their accounts are intimate and unforgettable\, including the local who left her home on foot as fire approached while her 82-year-old father stayed to battle it; the firefighter who drove into the heart of the inferno in his bulldozer; the police officer who switched on his body camera to record what he thought would be his final moments as the flames closed in; and the mother who\, less than 12 hours after giving birth in the local hospital\, thought she would die in the chaotic evacuation with her baby in her lap. Gee and Anguiano also explain the science of wildfires\, write powerfully about the role of the power company PG&E in the blaze\, and describe the poignant efforts to raise Paradise from the ruins. \nThis is the story of a town at the forefront of a devastating global shift—of a remarkable landscape sucked ever drier of moisture and becoming inhospitable even to trees\, now dying in their tens of millions and turning to kindling. It is also the story of a lost community\, one that epitomized a provincial\, affordable kind of Californian existence that is increasingly unattainable. It is\, finally\, a story of a new kind of fire behavior that firefighters have never witnessed before and barely know how to handle. What happened in Paradise was unprecedented in America. Yet according to climate scientists and fire experts\, it will surely happen again. \n\nAlastair Gee is an award-winning editor and reporter at the Guardian who has also written for The New Yorker online\, the New York Times\, and the Economist. Gee lives in New York City. \nDani Anguiano writes for the Guardian and was a reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record. Anguiano lives in the San Francisco Bay area. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alastair-gee-and-dani-anguiano-fire-in-paradise-an-american-tragedy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200501T212259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T212259Z
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SUMMARY:Katherine Silver in conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Silver in conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas \nCarlos Onetti meets Julio Ramón Ribeyro in an evening of discussion between a master translator and an award winning novelist \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \n>Purchase A Dream Come True here< \n>Purchase The Word of the Speechless : Selected Stories here< \n>Purchase The Revelutionaries Try Again here< \n——– \ncelebrating the release of \nA Dream Come True: the Complete Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti \nTranslated by Katharine Silver \npublished by Archipelago Press \n& \nThe Word of the Speechless : Selected Stories \nby Julio Ramón Ribeyro\, edited and translated from the Spanish by Katharine Silver\, with an introduction by Alejandro Zambra \npublished by New York Review Books \n \nAbout Juan Carlos Onetti: \nJuan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo\, Uruguay\, but began writing in Buenos Aires in the late 1930s. Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa described Onetti as “one of the great modern writers\, not only in Latin America.” He published short stories in La Nación and in the magazine Sur\, founded by Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges. He then proceeded to write novels centered around the imaginary town of Santa María\, which he described through a complex\, poetic\, and existentialist prose in “Los Astilleros\,” “Juntacadáveres\,” and “La vida breve”. He was exiled to Spain in 1976\, where he worked as a writer for El País and several Latin American newspapers. His lyrical stories and compact novels awarded him the Cervantes Prize in 1980 and the Rodó Prize in 1991. \n \nAbout Julio Ramón Ribeyro: \n\n\n\n\nThe Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor\, Ribeyro said about his stories\, “in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression— the marginalized\, the forgotten\, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they’ve been denied\, and I’ve allowed them to modulate their own longings\, outbursts\, and distress.” This is work of deep humanity\, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro’s alone. The Word of the Speechless\, edited and translated by Katherine Silver\, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable voice of Latin American fiction. \n\n\n\n\nKatherine Silver has translated more than thirty books\, mostly of literature from the Americas. Her most recent and forthcoming translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff\, Julio Ramón Ribeyro\, Julio Cortázar\, Daniel Sada\, Horacio Castellanos Moya\, César Aira\, and Pedro Lemebel. She has received numerous awards and prizes\, including three National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships.\nShe was recently translator-in-residence at the University of Iowa\, and is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. \nYou can read an interview with Katherine Silver in The Believer \nMauro Javier Cardenas grew up in Guayaquil\, Ecuador\, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. He’s the author of  The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press). In 2016 he received a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and in 2017 the Hay Festival included him in Bogota 39\, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists. His interviews and essays on/with László Krasznahorkai\, Antonio Lobo Antunes\, Javier Marias\, Horacio Castellanos Moya\, Juan Villoro\, and Tatiana Huezo have appeared in Music & Literature\, San Francisco Chronicle\, BOMB\, ZYZZYVA\, and The Quarterly Conversation. \nVisit: www.maurojaviercardenas.com \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-silver-in-conversation-with-mauro-javier-cardenas/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T183000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200514T015444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T015444Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta Zoom Reading
DESCRIPTION:Folks! Join us Thursday evening for a Zoom open mic! Find the link below! \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcOivqDsuGN3874bFQ-7kFD56Uvs4cPG4?fbclid=IwAR0ccdL5H4kZSVW4zZZOpl8-4Qah1LVvcxqQ_NSQkiZ6jp68i4ITR16nEsQ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-zoom-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200430T201925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T201925Z
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SUMMARY:Courts\, COVID-19 & Voter Suppression
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lala Wu\nProgram will air Thursday May 14th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nWe’ve all seen the images from the recent in-person election in Wisconsin: people lined up wearing masks\, some holding signs saying “THIS IS RIDICULOUS\,” as they risked deadly COVID-19 illness and violated a shelter-in-place order simply to exercise the right to vote. Perhaps the most disturbing part of this scenario was the fact that it wouldn’t have happened without a last-minute ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that rolled back an absentee ballot extension period that had been put in place expressly to mitigate contagion potential from in-person voting. With less than six months to go until the 2020 Presidential election\, and with the COVID-19 pandemic expected to remain in full force\, can we expect a repeat of the debacle in Wisconsin—this time\, on a national scale? In the aftermath of 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder verdict that shattered the Voting Rights Act\, how much can we rely on our courts as the last line of defense in our right to vote? \nThree nationally recognized experts will lead us through the role of the courts in ensuring voters’ access to vital options like absentee ballots and early voting\, and show us how everyday citizens can act now to shape the judiciary in the short and long term. Featuring legal scholar Richard Hasen\, whose Election Meltdown was deemed “required reading for legislators and voters” by Kirkus in a starred review; Constitutional scholar Alan Hirsch\, whose A Short History of Presidential Election Crises was praised as “lucid\, balanced\, and deeply informed” by Elizabeth Kolbert; and renowned civil rights leader Abdi Soltani\, executive director of the ACLU of Northern California. Moderated by Lala Wu\, whose Sister District Project enlists 40\,000 women nationwide in the fight to win crucial state legislative elections. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, the Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Mal Warwick Donor Digital\, and Guy and Jeanine Saperstein. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Hasen\, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks\, Distrust\, and the Threat to American Democracy\nAlan Hirsch\, A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One) \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courts-covid-19-voter-suppression/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T120000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200430T232342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T232342Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Messner Reads For Hicklebees
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. Fridays will feature readings for kids\, including this one with award-winning author\, Kate Messner. \nAll proceeds benefit Hicklebees. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nMay 15 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-messner-reads-for-hicklebees/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200514T014611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T014611Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #9
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal of $150. \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSign Up Here: \nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #9\nTime: May 15\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81341873943 \nMeeting ID: 813 4187 3943\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81341873943# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,81341873943# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 813 4187 3943\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/km6KvRCaQ\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-9/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200516T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200516T183000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200513T162113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200513T162113Z
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SUMMARY:Shelter in Sunset Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:In but a moment’s time\, our lives have become hyperlocalized. Sheltering in place\, we become intensely aware of where we are\, and with whom. Bringing together poets in the neighborhood is one way to reimagine place\, belonging\, and how we make these. The map of poetry often allows us to lose restrictions of time and space. In another way\, place seeps through all that we do—all that we are. \nHere\, then. Presenting the Shelter in Sunset Reading Series\, edition one\, all the way from the Sunset District in Yelamu (San Francisco). \nFEATURING: \nArt Beck\nMonica Mody\nPireeni Sundaralingam\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nSarah Heady \nOrganizer & host Monica Mody \nPlease RSVP using the form below. You will be sent the details of the video conference 90 minutes before the reading. \nRSVP form: https://forms.gle/n7w5A5TF5NTEW4qE8 \n(This event will not be recorded.) \n_____________________________ \nBios coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shelter-in-sunset-reading-series/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200517T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200517T130000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200515T173345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T173345Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event!- Writing the Complexity of the Asian American Experience
DESCRIPTION:In Discussion: Immigrants\, Refugees\, and Second Gen: Writing the Complexity of the Asian American Experience (Livestream) with Traci Chee\, Lori Lee\, Deeba Zargarpur\, I.W. Gregorio \nMay 17\, 2020 at 2PM ET / 11AM PT on Facebook Live! Follow Books Inc. on Facebook to gurantee you get a notification when we go live! \nJoin authors as they talk about the complexity of writing the Asian American experience from immigrants to refugees to Second Gen and beyond! \nAagain\, you can watch the panel live on Books Inc.’s Facebook Page or on the Asian Author Alliance website. \nFind more information about this panel and other upcoming virtual events celebrating Asian & Pacific Islander American Book Month here: https://asianauthoralliance.com/asian-pacific-islander-american-book-month/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-writing-the-complexity-of-the-asian-american-experience/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200517T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200517T160000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200515T172411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T172411Z
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SUMMARY:Extinct Animals of the Ice Age!
DESCRIPTION:The Tar Pits Cantos Author Greg Harmon reads for the kids & their parents\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us online at\nBird & Beckett this\nSunday afternoon\,\nfor a reading by\nthe proprietor’s eldest son’s\nchildhood baseball coach \nGreg Harmon\nnow a distinguished and acclaimed writer for youngsters\nand author of\n\nThe Tar Pits Cantos\na poetic reimagining\nof a long gone world swallowed up\nin the glorious Los Angeles muck\nplus the thirteen poems of\nHenry’s Bestiary\n\nall inspired by the author’s outings\nwith his grandson Henry\nand Frank Sinatra\nto the fabled La Brea tar pits\nclick here to view/listen to the live stream on Sunday\, 5/17 at 2pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/extinct-animals-of-the-ice-age/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T093000
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SUMMARY:Global Green New Deal: “Into the Portal\, Leave No One Behind”
DESCRIPTION:We need to move from crisis to justice with a global green new deal for people and the planet. \nOn May 19\, join Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein at 4:00 PM GMT+1/ 11:00 AM EDT/ 8:30 PM IST\, moderated by Asad Rehman\, to hear how we can begin this global transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/global-green-new-deal-into-the-portal-leave-no-one-behind/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T130000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200515T175051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T175051Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Clare Beams & Rachel Vorona Cote
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. The first event features Clare Beams (The Illness Lesson) & Rachel Vorona Cote (Too Much). \nYou can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the date and join us! \nThis event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\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. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy The Illness Lesson and/or Too Much and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nThe Illness Lesson by Clare Beams \n“Brilliant\, suspenseful… A masterpiece.” – Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of City of Girls \nAt their newly founded school\, Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all\, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated\, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in 19th century New England. \nWhen a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town\, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But it’s not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: Rashes\, seizures\, headaches\, verbal tics\, night wanderings. One by one\, they sicken. Fearing ruin for the school\, Samuel overrules Caroline’s pleas to inform the girls’ parents and turns instead to a noted physician\, a man whose sinister ministrations — based on a shocking historic treatment — horrify Caroline. As the men around her continue to dictate\, disastrously\, all terms of the girls’ experience\, Caroline’s body too begins to betray her. To save herself and her young charges\, she will have to defy every rule that has governed her life\, her mind\, her body\, and her world. \nClare Beams’s extraordinary debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson\, Karen Russell and Aimee Bender\, and established Beams as a writer who “creates magical-realist pieces that often calculate the high cost of being a woman” (The Rumpus). Precisely observed\, hauntingly atmospheric\, as fiercely defiant as it is triumphant\, The Illness Lesson is a spellbinding piece of storytelling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-clare-beams-rachel-vorona-cote/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T140000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200515T220912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T220912Z
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SUMMARY:A virtual conversation with Amy Goodman\, Noam Chomsky & Stan Cox!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights & Democracy Now! \nThis event is free & will be broadcast on Crowdcast. Sign up here to attend! \nAmy Goodman in discussion with Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox about the prospects for the Green New Deal\, how the pandemic does–and does not—affect the struggle for climatic and economic justice\, among other relevant topics. \nAmy Goodman is a broadcast journalist\, syndicated columnist\, investigative reporter\, and the host Democracy Now!  She joins us from New York City. Stan Cox is the author of the new book The Green New Deal and Beyond just published by City Lights\, and joins us from Salina\, Kansas. Noam Chomsky\, author of the foreword to The Green New Deal and Beyond\, is a scholar\, academic\, and author of numerous books including Because We Say So with City Lights. He joins us from Tucson\, Arizona. \nWE THANK OUR CO-SPONSORS: Alternative Radio\,The Climate Mobilization\, CODEPINK\, Counterpunch\, The Gund Institute\, Haymarket Books\, The Institute for Social Ecology\, Post-Carbon Institute\, Post Growth Institute\,  Project Censored\, Research and Degrowth\, Truthout 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-virtual-conversation-with-amy-goodman-noam-chomsky-stan-cox/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T171500
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
CREATED:20200518T002010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T002010Z
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SUMMARY:See Black Women
DESCRIPTION:‘See Black Women’ is presented as part of the Art+Action Coalition’s COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign\, which aims to inspire and galvanize Census participation by all communities. This two-part conversation held in collaboration with Art+Action Coalition Partners YBCA and Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)\, will take place LIVE on Tuesday\, May 19 and Tuesday\, May 26 from 4-5:15pm (PST) on YBCA and MoAD’s Facebook pages. \nTo insist upon being seen and heard is an act of resistance. Telling one’s story\, recording a community’s legacy\, and creating visual representations of one’s ancestry are methods of resisting erasure. During these two conversations\, the participants seek to answer questions including: How do we cite and honor our existence? How do we ensure our labor is acknowledged and our stories are heard for us to receive our fair share—both in civic and artistic arenas? \nThe first talk includes Erica Deeman / @erica_deeman\, Lava Thomas/ @lavathomas \, Angela Hennessy /@thehouseofhennessy and Sage Stargate. \nThe second on 5/26 with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo /@bluekaza\, Tahirah Rasheed\, Asya Abdrahman/ @asyaabdrahman\, & Sam Vernon / @samevernon \nBoth panels are curated and moderated by Ashara Ekundayo @blublakwomyn under her #ArtistAsFirstResponder platform \nFor more information about the See Black Women panel conversation visit: https://ybca.org/event/2020-see-black-women/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-black-women/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
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SUMMARY:Alissa Carpenter with Jen Oleniczak Brown - How to Listen and Be Heard (Zoom Livestream)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 19\, 5:00pm • Free Zoom Livestream Event • Presented with Shack 15\nModerated by Jen Oleniczak Brown \nToo often\, people avoid difficult conversations; but these discussions often need to happen to bring people together so we can all succeed. \nThere’s no denying that our workplaces are more diverse than ever. Age\, race\, gender—there are so many different perspectives and experiences being brought to the table. And the best employees and leaders know that harnessing the power of these differences will build stronger teams\, ideas\, and organizations. But how do we do this? If we all think\, feel\, and act so differently\, how do we get anything done? \nThe first step is recognizing that these differences exist. And that they’re here to stay. We need to respect and embrace our varied viewpoints\, and then we can start to communicate across (not against) them. \nHow to Listen and How to Be Heard shows you how to bridge the conversation gap and use your unique voice to start powerful conversations. This book is about learning how to communicate with\, through\, and alongside what makes us different. It’s about open dialogue and practical tools that get everyone on the same page—or at least in the same room. It’s not about quick fixes or the absence of conflict; it’s about working toward authentic communication in the workplace—for managers\, employees\, and colleagues from all fields. It’s about remembering that we’re all here to work together. \nAlissa Carpenter is a multigenerational workplace expert and owner of Everything’s Not Ok and That’s OK\, where she provides training\, consulting\, and speaking services to organizations all over the world. Carpenter has delivered a TEDx talk on authentic workplace communication\, and has been featured in media outlets including Forbes\, ABC\, FOX\, and CNN Money. \nJen Oleniczak Brown is the Founder of The Engaging Educator (EE)\, a women-owned and operated company dedicated to helping people find their unapologetic\, authentic\, and best voice/communication style through improv-based education. Her work has been featured in Fast Company\, Forbes\, Bustle\, and Moneyish. She is also the author of Improv(E): Using Improv to Find Your Voice\, Style\, and Self.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alissa-carpenter-with-jen-oleniczak-brown-how-to-listen-and-be-heard-zoom-livestream/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
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SUMMARY:Cara Black with Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Peter Maravelis \nTwo masters of crime fiction discussing the writing of fiction that takes place in World War Two Europe. They explore topics that closely parallel many of the issues of the day as well as discussing the challenge and complexities of placing one’s writing in a dynamic historic period. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nBooks for this event may be purchased at BOOKSHOP.ORG at the following links : \n>To purchase Three Hours in Paris click here< \n>To purchase The American Agent: A Masie Dobbs Novel click here< \n———— \nCara Black’s most recent book is \nThree Hours in Paris \nPublished by Soho Press \nCara Black\, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel\, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity—and drive—to take on Hitler himself. Cara Black is also the author of the bestselling Aimee Leduc Series. The most recent release being Murder in Bel-Air published by Soho Books. \nVisit: www.carablack.com \n— \nJacqueline Winspear’s essay “Writing about War” will be published in the new anthology \nPrivate Investigations: Mystery Writers On The Secrets\, Riddles and Wonders In Their Lives \npublished by Seal Press \nJacqueline Winspear is the author of the Masie Dobb’s Series\, following the exploits of the renowned psychologist and investigator Masie Dobbs through her exploits in WW2 London. The most recent novel in the series is The American Agent (number 15) published by Harper Collins. Additional books in the series include: To Die But Once; In This Grave Hour; Journey to Munich and many others. \nVisit: www.jacquelinewinspear.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-with-jacqueline-winspear/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
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SUMMARY:Sex\, Art and Power: Writer to Writer with Garth Greenwell and Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Keiko Lane\nProgram will air Tuesday May 19th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn our Writer to Writer series\, two writers who are fans of each other’s work come together for a conversation. Garth Greenwell’s most recent book\, Cleanness\, was described in Harpers as “an electrifying portrait of sex’s power to lacerate and liberate\, to make and unmake our deepest selves…The book’s sex scenes unfold like revelations\, effortlessly braiding inner drama with precisely choreographed intimacy.” And Greenwell\, writing in The New Yorker\, has called Lidia Yuknavitch’s sex scenes “remarkable among current American novelists\, not just for their explicitness but for the way she uses them to pursue questions of agency\, selfhood\, and the ethical implications of making art.” Come listen in as two of contemporary literature’s most incendiary writers talk about the relationships between queer bodies and sex\, language and literary citizenship\, and the moral and artistic complexities of desire and power. Moderated by Keiko Lane\, writer\, poet\, and former faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarth Greenwell\, Cleanness\nLidia Yuknavitch\, Verge \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sex-art-and-power-writer-to-writer-with-garth-greenwell-and-lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260611T215035
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SUMMARY:The Editor by Steven Rowley | A GGP Virtual Book Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Tuesday\, May 19 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen’s favorite books\, THE EDITOR by Steven Rowley. We expect Steven Rowley to join us! \n  \nZoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82390231644 \nWe’ll be playing excerpts of the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. You can get your audiobook here: bit.ly/LibroEditor \nIf you’d prefer paper\, here’s a link to our website where you can order a copy for shipment from our warehouse: bit.ly/GGPEditor \n“What happens when you write that novel and it finally finds a home at a publishing house? If it’s 1992 and your editor is Jackie O\, you are forced to look deeper and answer the questions you been avoiding your whole life — this is a must-read for any aspiring writer!”— Kathleen \nApril 2019 Indie Next List \n“Steven Rowley’s new novel is exactly the balm I needed in today’s climate. Focusing on a young writer who discovers that his editor is none other than Jackie Kennedy Onassis\, the book explores both romantic and familial relationships in a humorous and touching manner. Although the writing is wickedly barbed and the zingers fly at the speed of a 1940s rom-com\, The Editor is so much more. There is real heart in the writing as well as real love between the characters. It’s a true delight and the kind of book people who loved Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine or Less will truly enjoy. Just be prepared with a box of tissues and your favorite cocktail (Jackie would suggest daiquiris).” \n— William Carl\, Wellesley Books\, Wellesley\, MA \nDescription \nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break\, with a little help from the most famous woman in America. \nAfter years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City\, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie–or Mrs. Onassis\, as she’s known in the office–has fallen in love with James’s candidly autobiographical novel\, one that exposes his own dysfunctional family. But when the book’s forthcoming publication threatens to unravel already fragile relationships\, both within his family and with his partner\, James finds that he can’t bring himself to finish the manuscript. \nJackie and James develop an unexpected friendship\, and she pushes him to write an authentic ending\, encouraging him to head home to confront the truth about his relationship with his mother. Then a long-held family secret is revealed\, and he realizes his editor may have had a larger plan that goes beyond the page… \nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny\, poignant\, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever–both as a writer and a son. \nAbout the Author \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles. \nPraise For… \nOne of: \nNPR’s Favorite Books of 2019 \nEsquire’s “Best Books of 2019 (So Far)” \nSouthern Living’s “25 Beach Reads Perfect for Summer” \nPopSugar’s “Buzzy Books to Read This Spring” \nTown & Country’s “Must-Read Books of Spring 2019” \nCosmopolitan’s “13 Best Books Coming Out in April”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-editor-by-steven-rowley-a-ggp-virtual-book-chat-on-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T220000
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SUMMARY:Oakland Virtual Slam ft. Joyce Lee!
DESCRIPTION:GANG GANG. We might be stuck inside but that doesn’t mean we can’t come together and have a poetry slam! We’ll be hosting the slam on zoom and Bay Poets Unite will be live streaming our virtual slam on facebook\, youtube\, and twitter! We got a $50 prize for 1st place! \n📝Workshop starts at 7:15 PM on Zoom (Meeting ID: 868-4725-4912)\n🎙Virtual Slam starts at 8:15 PM on our facebook page! \nSign Up List for the Virtual Slam. Deadline is Mon 11:59pm (https://forms.gle/nmF9ZtqFWR23XnLY7) \nOur feature is the amazing Joyce Lee:\nJoyce Lee is an International storyteller and performance poet. Her performances of her own creative non-fiction writing constantly receive standing ovations and encores from her fans and personal heroes. \nJoyce Lee is an explorer of emotional and physical life. She travels the world and writes but is not a travel writer\, instead\, each place she wanders\, each country\, is allotted by her to introduce its own spirit. Joyce listens to that spirit and takes notes. Sometimes the note is a memory\, sometimes a story\, but every time a poetic gift to her audience. She currently resides in Bogota\, Colombia with plans to move to elsewhere in 2020 to complete her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-virtual-slam-ft-joyce-lee/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic":MAILTO:oakslambooking@gmail.com
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