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SUMMARY:Eric Goodman: Cuppy and Stew
DESCRIPTION:Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. \nPraise for Cuppy and Stew \n“CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural\, poignant\, and riveting from the first page to the last. An easy read in the best sense of that phrase\, and a major work of fiction.”—Ron Hansen \n“Eric Goodman’s CUPPY AND STEW: THE BOMBING OF FLIGHT 629\, A LOVE STORY reads like a fairy tale—until some pretty remarkable darkness sets in\, as the title tells us it will. Part novel\, part memoir (the author writes in the voice of his wife)\, part journalistic inquiry\, the dark forests of this tale lead down to the far more treacherous and psychological underworld of the hero’s journey—and a gritty\, hard-earned climb back to the light. A most compelling read.”—Sands Hall \n“The grim tragedy of the first US terrorist bombing in 1955 that killed the narrator’s parents hovers over this powerful story. Readers are given the complicated love story of the two who die on United Flight 629 and the moving struggle of the daughters who are orphaned by the tragedy: ‘It was me and my sissy against the world.’ CUPPY AND STEW brilliantly blends the known and the imagined and will stand as a model for new possibilities in historical fiction.”—Jim Heynen \nAbout Cuppy and Stew \nIn November\, 1955\, a young man in Denver\, Colorado\, hid twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a crude timer in his mother’s suitcase. In what the FBI would term the first example of American air piracy\, United Flight 629 blew up twelve minutes after taking off\, killing everyone aboard. Part historical novel\, part memoir\, CUPPY AND STEW tells one family’s story before and after the bomb went off. Narrated by a young girl whose parents died on Flight 629\, CUPPY AND STEW evokes the not-so-innocent 1950s\, and the struggles of Cuppy and Stew’s daughters to survive their parents’ deaths. Prize-winning novelist Eric Goodman’s sixth novel is not only his most moving but also his most personal. His wife’s parents perished on United 629.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-goodman-cuppy-and-stew/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zeyn Joukhadar - The Thirty Names of Night
DESCRIPTION:Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother\, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker\, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment\, avoiding his neighborhood masjid\, his estranged sister\, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. \nOne night\, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z\, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before\, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact\, Laila Z’s past is intimately tied to his mother’s—and his grandmother’s—in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising\, Laila Z’s story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn’t and has never been alone\, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir\, an Arabic name meaning rare. \nAs unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies\, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother’s ghost\, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community\, his own family\, and within himself\, and discovers the family that was there all along. \nFeaturing Zeyn Joukhadar’s signature “magical and heart-wrenching” (The Christian Science Monitor) storytelling\, The Thirty Names of Night is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are. \nZeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars. He is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and of American Mensa. Joukhadar’s writing has appeared in Salon\, The Paris Review\, The Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. The Map of Salt and Stars was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature and a 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist in Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. He has been an artist in residence at the Montalvo Arts Center\, the Fes Medina Project\, Beit al-Atlas\, and the Arab American National Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zeyn-joukhadar-the-thirty-names-of-night/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi \ncelebrating Ali Araghi’s new novel \nThe Immortals of Tehran \npublished by Melville House \n——— \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——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at these links : \n(To be posted) \n———– \n\nAs a child living in his family’s apple orchard\, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather’s every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father’s death\, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy’s own fated role in the story. \nAhmad grows up to suspect that something must be interfering with his family\, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine\, loss\, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him\, each turn of Ahmad’s life is a surprise: from street brawler\, to father of two unusually gifted daughters; from radical poet\, to politician with a target on his back. These lives\, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his\, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution. \nExploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism\, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love\, family\, and poetry—set against the indifferent\, relentless march of time. \nAli Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator. He earned his MA in Ancient Cultures and Languages at the University of Tehran and has translated Samuel Beckett into Persian. After completing his MFA from the University of Notre Dame\, he is currently working on his PhD in Comparative Literature\, International Writers Track\, at Washington University. He won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and has published stories and translations in Prairie Schooner\, The Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Asymptote\, and Hayden’s Ferry Review\, among others. He lives in St. Louis. \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran\, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled\, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans and in 2017 her second titled A Good Country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-araghi-in-conversation-with-laleh-khadivi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hanif Abdurraqib with Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \n\n\nHanif Abdurraqib is a poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio. He is the author of the poetry collections The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster\, the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\, Go Ahead In The Rain\, an homage to A Tribe Called Quest\, and the forthcoming They Don’t Dance No Mo. His poetry has been published in Muzzle\, Vinyl\, PEN American\, and various other journals and his essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER\, Pitchfork\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Adburraqib is a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel with poet/essayist Eve L. Ewing. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Marcus Jackson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hanif-abdurraqib-with-jeff-chang/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 2\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel\, DEAR EDWARD. \nThis book is one of Kathleen’s recent favorites. Samantha of GGP said this about DEAR EDWARD: “I’m a little reluctant to reveal the details of the events that propels this extraordinary novel forward. A plane crash leaving only one young survivor seems repellently gloomy and yet Napolitano has given us one of the most hopeful stories I’ve ever read!” \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84683199803. \nYou can order a hardcover of DEAR EDWARD at bit.ly/EdwardHC\, or an audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/EdwardAB.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dear-edward-by-ann-napolitano-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System
DESCRIPTION:So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit\, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to imagine the top tourist destinations in our solar system that our great-grandchildren will be visiting. \nUsing spectacular images from space probes and the world’s largest telescopes\, we will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations” among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4\,000-mile lava channel on Venus\, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount Everest)\, the awesome Verona Cliffs on the moon Miranda (which are the tallest “lover’s leap” in the solar system)\, the recently discovered salt-water steam geysers on Saturn’s intriguing moon Enceladus (nicknamed “Cold Faithful.”). We’ll finish with the latest images of the eerie vistas on Pluto. \nAndrew Fraknoi retired in 2017 as the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College\, and now teaches non-credit astronomy courses for older adults at The Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco and the OLLI program at SF State.  Fraknoi has appeared regularly on local and national radio\, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language\, and was the California Professor of the Year in 2007. He is the lead author on a college astronomy textbook and a children’s book When the Sun Goes Dark. He also writes science fiction and has published three stories in the last few years. The International Astronomical Union has named Asteroid 4859 Asteroid Fraknoi to honor his contributions to the public understanding of science. \nThis is the perfect get-away from our current problems\, rooted in real science with a hopeful view of the future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-fraknoi-visit-the-top-tourist-sights-of-the-solar-system/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:America’s Most Unusual Marriage:  Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein
DESCRIPTION:Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant Rose Pastor Stokes spent her first twelve years in America in a sweatshop\, only to skyrocket to the upper class when she married an heir to a massive mining and real estate fortune. It’s a classic Cinderella story: that is\, if Cinderella converted her prince to socialism\, became an antiwar and labor activist\, caused a scandal by promoting birth control access\, and was dubbed “one of the most dangerous influences of the country” by a sitting President. \nThis tale of a volatile\, bright-burning Gilded Age marriage could only exist in the America of Jay Gatsby\, bootleggers\, and the Lost Generation: an era of glamour and privation\, of big dreams and bigger inequities. An era\, as Hochschild reveals\, with far more parallels to our own than anything in the Brothers Grimm. Only Hochshild could do justice\, in words and images\, to a crusader who was far ahead of her own time\, but strikingly relevant to ours. Hochschild will be joined by Monika Bauerlein\, CEO and award-winning editor of Mother Jones.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/americas-most-unusual-marriage-adam-hochschild-on-rebel-cinderella-in-conversation-with-monika-bauerlein/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sasha Abramsky - Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World's First Female Sports Superstar
DESCRIPTION:Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth centuries. Dod was the third woman to win the Ladies’ Championships at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. She did so for the first time in 1887\, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. She remains today the youngest person ever to have won a singles trophy in what would come to be known as the big-four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. \nDod won Wimbledon five times\, grew bored with competitive tennis\, and moved on to myriad other sports. She became the world’s leading female ice skater and tobogganist\, perfecting her talents in St. Moritz\, Switzerland; befriended Elizabeth Main\, the most skilled female mountaineer of the age\, and joined her in summiting many of Switzerland’s and Norway’s most difficult mountains; became an endurance bicyclist; played hockey for England; won the British ladies’ golf championship in 1904; and finally\, in 1908\, took the Olympic silver medal in archery in the London Olympics. \nIn her time\, she had a huge following\, with fans coming out by the thousands to cheer her on. She was feted by the media\, and repeatedly profiled by the top sports journals of the day. Had Dod lived in a different age\, this fame would have followed her throughout her life. But Dod’s years of glory occurred just before the rise of cinema\, radio\, and other electronic media. By the outset of World War I\, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. \nLittle Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life\, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote\, were restricted in owning property\, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate. True\, the monarch was a queen\, Victoria; but Victoria’s reign was hardly a bastion of feminist progress. Women of Lottie Dod’s class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod turned that equation on its head; she never married and never had children\, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. \nDod was one of the pioneers who paved the way for the likes of Billie Jean King\, Serena Williams\, and the top female athletes of today. She accepted no limits\, no glass ceilings\, believed she could compete with the top men in whatever sport she set her sights on\, and always refused to compromise. \nSasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared over the past twenty-five years in major newspapers and magazines in the United States and United Kingdom. These include the Nation\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker online\, Rolling Stone\, Mother Jones\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the Independent\, the Observer\, and the New Statesman. He has written widely about poverty and inequality; hunger; mass incarceration; the treatment of immigrants\, refugees\, and asylum seekers; along with book reviews\, cultural essays\, and travel writing. Little Wonder is Abramsky’s ninth book. He teaches writing part-time at the University of California\, Davis\, and lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasha-abramsky-little-wonder-the-fabulous-story-of-lottie-dod-the-worlds-first-female-sports-superstar/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors\, Jon Sack\, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) \ncelebrating his new graphic novel \nWindows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \n———–– \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) for reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nThe book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase WINDOWS ON THE WORLD here< \n————- \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners. \nJacqueline Danell Obradors is an actor and has appeared in numerous feature film that include Six Days\, Seven Nights (1998)\,  Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo (1999)\, Tortilla Soup (2001)\, A Man Apart(2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She has also appeared on the television crime drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005.) \nJay Walsh play Vocals\, Guitars\, and Piano for the musical combo DOUGLAS FIR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves
DESCRIPTION:Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference\, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race\, gender\, sexuality\, migration\, culture and religion\, will share work that honors their 13-year-old selves — and the surprise\, disbelief\, pride\, love\, and even derision those 13-year-old selves might have for the grown and poetry folx they have become. Participants will each open their readings by addressing themselves as their younger selves might experience them now. An unforgettable evening of vulnerable intimacy\, physical distancing\, and social connection. With Hari Alluri\, Nico Amador\, Faisal Mohyuddin\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, and Seema Reza. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nNico Amador\nNico Amador is a poet\, community organizer and facilitator based in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry\, Vol 3\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, Hypertext Review\, Poets Reading the News\, Poet Lore\, Bedfellows… Read More →\n\n \nCynthia Dewi Oka\nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in ESPNW\, Hyperallergic\, Guernica\, Scoundrel Time\, Academy of American Poets\, American Poetry… Read More →\n\n \nSeema Reza\nSeema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and online in McSweeney’s\, The Feminist Wire\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Offing\, Full Grown People\, and The Nervous Breakdown\, among others. She has performed… Read More →\n\n \nFaisal Mohyuddin\nFaisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. His other awards include the Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley… Read More →\n\n \nHari Alluri\nHari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya)\, Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers)\, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press\, 2016). Winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color\, his current projects are supported by grants from… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ode-to-our-13-year-old-selves/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Melanie Abrams & Andrew Altschul
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. This event features Melanie Abrams (Meadowlark) & Andrew Altschul (The Gringa). \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 Meadowlark and/or The Gringa 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\nMeadowlark by Melanie Abrams \nAfter growing up in an austere spiritual compound\, two teenagers\, Simrin and Arjun\, escape and go their separate ways. Years later\, Simrin receives an email from Arjun. As they reconnect\, Simrin learns that he has become the charismatic leader of Meadowlark\, a commune in the Nevada desert that allows children to discover their “gifts.” \nIn spite of their fractured relationship\, Simrin\, a photojournalist\, agrees to visit Meadowlark to document its story. She arrives at the commune with her five-year-old daughter in tow and soon realizes there is something disturbing about Arjun’s beliefs concerning children and their unusual abilities. When she discovers that the commune is in the midst of a criminal investigation\, her unease grows deeper still. \nAs tensions with police heighten\, Arjun’s wife begins to make plans of her own\, fearing the exposure the investigation might bring for her and her children. Both mothers find themselves caught in a desperate situation\, and as the conflict escalates\, everyone involved must make painful–and potentially tragic–choices that could change their worlds forever. \nGripping and beautifully crafted\, Meadowlark explores the power and danger of being extraordinary and what it means to see and be seen. \nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark. Melanie teaches writing at UC Berkeley and is a photographer and developmental editor. She is married to the writer Vikram Chandra\, and they live with their children in Oakland\, CA. \n\n  \nThe Gringa by Andrew Altschul \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \nAndrew Altschul is the author of three novels—The Gringa\, Deux Ex Machina\, and Lady Lazarus. His work has appeared in anthologies including Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Best New American Voices\, and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford\, he has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center\, the Ucross Foundation\, and the Fundacíon Valparaíso. The former director of the Center for Literary Arts in San José\, Altschul currently directs the Creative Writing program at Colorado State University\, in Fort Collins. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-melanie-abrams-andrew-altschul/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners
DESCRIPTION:Jean Rhys said that “reading makes immigrants of us all\,” that “it takes us away from home\, but more important\, it finds homes for us everywhere.” Now more than ever\, it’s vital—and heartening—to read\, and read widely. We’ll read thrilling\, mind-blowing\, intriguing\, heartbreaking\, comic\, strange\, and/or provocative books by women of color—and\, each month\, we’ll gather to talk about what we’ve read! When possible\, we’ll also have the writer join us. \nLocal author and friend of The Ruby\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, will be joining us for the discussion. \nPLEASE NOTE: Thanks to Counterpoint\, we have FIFTEEN copies of THE REVISIONERS available for the first fifteen people who sign up for book club! You will be notified if you are one of the lucky fifteen! \nAbout THE REVISIONERS \n“Sexton takes on [Toni Morrison’s artful invocation of the ghost] in her new novel The Revisioners. . . She writes with such a clear sense of place and time that each of these intermingled stories feels essential and dramatic in its own way.” —Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \n“A powerful tale of racial tensions across generations.” —People \nIn 1924\, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child\, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor\, a white woman named Charlotte\, seeks her company\, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan\, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine’s family. \nNearly one hundred years later\, Josephine’s descendant\, Ava\, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother\, Martha\, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays Ava to be her companion. But Martha’s behavior soon becomes erratic\, then threatening\, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine’s converge. \nThe Revisioners explores the depths of women’s relationships—powerful women and marginalized women\, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between mothers and their children\, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core\, The Revisioners ponders generational legacies\, the endurance of hope\, and the undying promise of freedom. \nABOUT MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON\nMARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON\, born and raised in New Orleans\, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award\, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize\, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/authors-of-color-book-club-the-revisioners/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T190000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Escape Online
DESCRIPTION:SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading\, but I’m crossing my fingers we’ll be back at Nick’s Lounge this summer. See below for how to donate to Nick’s and how to sign up in advance to read at SNS on ZOOM. \nIn honor of our confinement\, our captive imaginations\, and our imminent release into the virus-infested world\, the theme for May is ESCAPE. \nShare your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nMAY FEATURED PERFORMERS: Vida Felsenfeld and José Luis Gutiérrez \nSaturday\, May 30\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on May 23. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. To sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nTo prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature again and only letting in people we can verify. This worked great last month thanks to help from Abe Becker and Liz Cahill \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 984-6555-3687\nPassword: 127085 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android:\nhttps://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/98465553687?pwd=Q05DNCtoTkZrMmkxRXZEZVJ4bTdwQT09 \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 \nSUPPORT Nick’s Lounge on GoFundMe:\nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nicks-lounge-karaoke-support-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nJosé Luis Gutiérrez is the author of two poetry collections\, “A World Less Away” and recently\, “The Motel Entropy & Other Sorrows.” He was born in Miami in 1975\, and grew up in Panama. He now lives in the Bay Area\, where he works as an interpreter in the medical and legal sectors. He’s also a screenwriter and filmmaker. When he isn’t working he can be found playing guitar\, swimming\, hiking\, writing poems or enjoying a good cigar. Buy books on his website at joseluisgutierrez.net. \nVida Felsenfeld was born and raised in Oakland\, by her mother with 11 other siblings. She attended Catholic school and graduated from college at age 40. It was then\, that she discovered she was an artist and embarked upon becoming a flamenco dancer and poet. \nHer poems have been published in Rag Zine\, an Art and Literary Zine\, Berkeley Times Fifth Annual Poetry Edition\, Penumbra Art & Literary Annual\, and Milvia Street Art & Literary Journals. She’s been a featured reader at various Bay Area literary events\, including poetry reading at Eves at The Beat Museum\, the Berkeley Annual Poetry Festival\, Alameda Island Poets\, Lyrics and Dirges\, Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery and the Milvia Street Annual Poetry Book celebration. She has performed her Rock the Dot Project: Poetry/Flamenco dance pieces at Broad Statements: Perspectives on Womxnhood\, the Berkeley Annual Poetry Festival\, La Misión Flamenca and the Melissa Cruz Student showcases\, Deadication I and II. She continues to dance and teach flamenco to children. Most recently she submitted her first poetry manuscript for publication.s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-escape-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T163000
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SUMMARY:Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic & Other Earthly Ills
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket\, you can access the registration link. More ticketing info below. \nPurchase tickets on Eventbrite: tiny.cc/pandemicpoetry \nJoin award-winning poets Nellie Wong\, Genny Lim\, Kim Shuck\, Maw Shein Win\, and Alice Rogoff reading a selection of their works. These five Bay Area poets will share their lifelong experience of current events past and present through verse. \nNellie Wong\, Oakland Chinatown born\, has published four books\, featured in the documentary film “Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian-American Poets” and has a building at Oakland High School named after her. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jaz Poet Laureate emeritus. An author of 5 poetry collections and her play Paper Angels was broadcast on PBS television in the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the co-winner of the American Book Award. \nKim Shuck is a bead artist\, educator\, and writer. She is the current 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco and the solo author of seven books. In 2019 she received a National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. \nAlice Rogoff is the author of four poetry books including the winner of a Blue Light Book Award. She is one of the editors of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, a member of the Labor Fest writers’ group\, and is an activist for many causes. \nMaw Shein Win’s poetry books include “Score and Bone” and “Invisible Gifts: Poems”. Her second full-length poetry collection “Storage Unit for the Spirit House” will be published in Fall 2020. \nThis event is a benefit and fundraiser for the Freedom Socialist Newspaper Fund Drive. \nYou can choose one of four levels of donation for your ticket (fees not incl.): \nTier 1 – $6\nTier 2 – $10\nTier 3 – $20\nTier 4 – $30 \nSponsored and hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area \nFor info: bayareafsp@socialism.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-the-time-of-the-pandemic-other-earthly-ills/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T150000
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SUMMARY:Eastwind (virtual) Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! This month\, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang’s debut novel\, How Much of These Hills is Gold. \nWe will be holding discussions on our Facebook group throughout the month. Our Live Book Club Zoom Discussion is on Saturday\, May 30th at 2pm. Register to receive the meeting link!\nRSVP here: https://howmuchofthesehills.eventbrite.com \nBook Club members can use coupon code GOLD10 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com\nBuy the Book: http://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2062/How_Much_of_These_Hills_Is_Gold_%28Hardcover%29.html \nJoin our Facebook group: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~\nAbout the book:\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. Ba 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 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. \nAbout the author:\nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastwind-virtual-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T200000
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets\, fiction writers\, essayists\, comedians and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T190000
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CREATED:20200516T223552Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen\, John Moir
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen\, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-11-with-jon-franzen-john-moir/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T120000
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SUMMARY:Gennifer Choldenko\, Avi And Aimee Lucido For Towne Center 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. Fridays will feature readings for kids\, and we’re incredibly lucky and thrilled to feature Gennifer Choldenko\, Avi\, and Aimee Lucid to support the wonderful Towne Center Books. \nAll proceeds benefit Towne Center Books. Buy a gift card now! \n\nMay 29 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/gennifer-choldenko-avi-and-aimee-lucido-for-towne-center-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Clement: Robert Steven Goldstein
DESCRIPTION:Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel\, Enemy Queen. \nAbout Enemy Queen \nA woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass middle-aged men\, but what she demands in return soon becomes untenable. A short time later she goes missing\, prompting the county sheriff to open a murder investigation. \nWhen Stanley Berman\, a Jewish New York attorney\, is appointed Chief Counsel at a North Carolina University\, he opts to share a house with his good friend\, Thomas McClellan\, a professor in the school’s English Department. The men spend their evenings drinking wine\, playing chess\, and lamenting their ineptitude with women. Then the Professor\, a Southern good old boy\, former high school football lineman\, and avid hunter\, hatches a scheme to bring a young woman into the house\, insisting that as a creative writing teacher\, such women find him alluringly subversive and artistic. The Counselor is dubious but persuaded nonetheless—much to his detriment. \nThe articulate but bumbling Counselor and Professor find themselves outwitted at every turn by Victoria\, a young woman who is clever\, inscrutable\, and superb at finishing what she starts. She initiates passionate sexual encounters with the men\, but as time goes on\, what she demands in return becomes untenable. When she goes missing\, John Watson\, the county sheriff—and the Professor’s lifelong friend—feels compelled to open a murder investigation. \nFull of wicked humor\, artful eroticism\, scintillating dialogue\, and a bit of intrigue\, Enemy Queen is an exhilarating romp set in a North Carolina college town. \nAbout the Author \nRobert Steven Goldstein retired from his job as a healthcare information executive at age fifty-six and has been writing novels ever since. His first novel\, The Swami Deheftner\, about the problems that ensue when ancient magic and mysticism manifest in the twenty-first century\, has developed a small cult following in India. Cat’s Whisker\, his second novel\, will be published soon; an excerpt from it\, entitled “An Old Dog\,” was featured in the fall 2018 edition of Leaping Clear\, a literary journal. Enemy Queen is his third novel. Robert Steven Goldstein has practiced yoga\, meditation\, and vegetarianism for over fifty years. Born and raised in Brooklyn\, he now lives in San Francisco with his wife of thirty years and two rambunctious dogs
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clement-robert-steven-goldstein/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book\, HOME BAKED: MY MOM\, MARIJUANA\, AND THE STONING OF SAN FRANCISCO. Our discussion will be webcast on GGP’s Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \n  \n(Order your copy in paper at bit.ly/GGPHomeBaked\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at bit.ly/LibroHomeBaked.) \n  \nDescription \nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \n  \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \n  \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. \n  \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n  \nAbout the Author \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. \n  \nPraise For… \nOne of She Reads’ “Most Anticipated Memoirs of 2020” \nOne of Alma’s “Favorite Books for Spring 2020” \n  \n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” \n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n  \n“In Home Baked\, Alia Volz manages not only to write about her parents with clear-eyed compassion and empathy\, she also gives us a rich history of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. As I read\, her family and the city came alive for me: every person and street were vivid\, complicated\, tragic\, and beautiful. I loved this engrossing\, informative\, funny\, and heartbreaking book. Volz is a true talent.” \n—Edan Lepucki\, bestselling author of Woman No. 17\, California\, and others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-alia-volz-reading-from-home-baked-my-mom-marijuana-and-the-stoning-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto the natural world in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/round-weather-reading-series-forrest-gander-robert-hass-brenda-hillman/
LOCATION:Round Weather\, 951 Aileen St.\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T161247
CREATED:20200521T173449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T173449Z
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SUMMARY:Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda
DESCRIPTION:During the Shelter in Place\, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets\, writers\, and translators\, and the local presses who publish them. \nOur second event features Deborah A. Miranda\, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir\, published by Heyday. Deborah’s reading will be streamed on Facebook Live and Instagram Live on Thursday\, May 28 at 7PM. \nDeborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Her mixed-genre book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (Heyday 2013)\, received the 2015 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. She is also the author of four poetry collections: Indian Cartography\, The Zen of La Llorona\, Raised by Humans\, and the forthcoming Altar for Broken Things. She is coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. Deborah lives in Lexington\, Virginia with her wife Margo and a variety of rescue dogs. She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quarantine-storytime-deborah-a-miranda/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
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SUMMARY:One Person\, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
DESCRIPTION:Program will air Thursday May 28th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices on racial justice. In her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning bestseller White Rage\, she chronicled the history of systemic injustices that have impeded black progress in America\, from Reconstruction to the present day. In One Person\, No Vote\, longlisted for the National Book Award\, she zeros in on the fallout from the 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “impeccably researched\, deftly written” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) book offers a whip-smart\, riveting analysis of the disenfranchisement of voters of color\, with insights that have proven\, in the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections\, to be resoundingly prescient — and\, for the 2020 elections\, more urgent than ever. \nAnderson will be in conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee\, one of the most well-regarded\, outspoken\, and trailblazing members of the U.S. House of Representatives\, and currently the only African American woman in House Democratic leadership. This empowering and galvanizing conversation will enlighten us about how voter suppression has worked in the past and\, most importantly\, what we can do now to deny it a future. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson\, One Person\, No Vote \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-person-no-vote-carol-anderson-in-conversation-with-congresswoman-barbara-lee/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T200000
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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. \n——- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \n(Purchase AFROPESSIMISM here) \n——— \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nJustin Desmangles is chairman of the Before Columbus Foundation\, administrator of the American Book Award\, and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz\, now in its fifteenth year. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism‘s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n—Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n—Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii-in-conversation-with-justin-desmangles/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T193000
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SUMMARY:SUSAN CHOI
DESCRIPTION:“A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.”  — Joan Didion \nSusan Choi is the award-winning author of five novels. Her fifth novel\, Trust Exercise\, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction\, tells the story of a group of teenagers at a competitive arts school in1980s American suburbia. The boundaries of fiction and reality are pushed in a tale that is itself a trust exercise for readers. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, Choi teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-choi/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T161247
CREATED:20200516T222302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200516T222302Z
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SUMMARY:Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nJoin us for an event with Alka Joshi\, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging… but the exquisite story we’re about to share is guaranteed to sweep you away to another time and place. \nWe know you’ll love Alka’s debut\, The Henna Artist\, as much as we do. Beautiful and compellingly readable\, this novel effortlessly evokes post-Raj 1950s Jaipur\, all while completely enmeshing you in the conflicts and politics that drive the courageous protagonist Lakshmi Shastri. Against all odds\, and after fleeing an arranged marriage to an abusive older man\, the teenaged Lakshmi carves out a living for herself as a henna artist\, friend\, and confidante to wealthy\, upper-caste women within the grand Pink City. Then\, as a grown woman several years into this new life\, an exciting twist suddenly threatens to unravel all that Lakshmi has built. \nIn conversation with our own award-winning in house journalist\, Angie Coiro\, this is one literary conversation you do not want to miss. \nMore than just a romantic work of historical fiction\, The Henna Artist is based off Alka’s late mother’s life— but 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. \nCaptivating and smart\, this is the perfect read for your digital book group— a novel that will transport you completely each time it is opened. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T183000
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: I'VE GOT A SONG FOR THAT
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 27\, 2020\n6:30 PM 9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents: I’ve Got a Song for That\nwith Scott Ferreter\, The Singer and The Songwriter\, Chelsea Coleman & just 10 uniquely precious participants. \nI’ve Got A Song For That is You’re Going to Die‘s way of bringing songs right to the doorsteps of your heart. \nWe invite you to this intimate gathering with our most powerful songwriters in which songs are offered directly to your places of pain\, your longings\, & your aching humanity. In this unique space\, songs & stories are offered in service of an even deeper togetherness. This will be an intentionally small\, closed group in order to offer a safe & contained space that wouldn’t be possible in a larger gathering. \nIGASFT is an explicitly interactive offering\, which relies on everyone arriving with a willingness to share. While the space will be supportive & gentle\, the content might span the human experience—expect realness\, connection\, & feeling. \nDATE: Wednesday\, May 27th\nTIME: 6:30pm – 9pm\nLOCATION: Zoom\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $40 – $100 \nTO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\, PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL WITH THE SUBJECT LINE “I’ve Got a Song For That” TO thu@yg2d.com.\nYou’ll receive a confirmation email with payment instructions.\nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \n***Two (2) full scholarships are available with one (1) of those scholarships reserved specifically for QTBIPOC. For more information e-mail thu@yg2d.com*** \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-ive-got-a-song-for-that/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen\, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges\, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise. Author and professor Sarah Jaquette Ray releases her new book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (UC Press)\, an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology\, sociology\, social movements\, mindfulness\, and the environmental humanities\, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt\, resist burnout\, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nSarah Jaquette Ray\nSarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and is also the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-sarah-ray-and-a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T173000
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SUMMARY:Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed\, Nicole Mabry\, Peter Kline
DESCRIPTION:Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. \nWe are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday\, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed\, Nicole Mabry\, and Peter Kline. \nThis virtual reading will occur on Zoom at 7:30 PM. \nTHIS EVENT REQUIRES ADVANCE REGISTRATION. \nRegister for this meeting here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsf-qqqzsoHdAZ4S9KORubUVSsEY-U9rk1\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout the Readers: \nRaised in the great state of Kansas\, Farooq Ahmed is a graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program and of Brown University\, where he studied biochemistry. He is a Contributing Editor for Photonics magazine\, and his writing has appeared in the Financial Times\, Nature\, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His work has been lauded by the South Asian Journalists Association\, and he lives in Los Angeles. KANSASTAN is his debut novel. \nNicole Mabry grew up in Northern California but has lived in Queens for the past 17 years. She went to college at UCLA and Cal State Hayward\, graduating with degrees in Art History\, Photography and Digital Graphics. She currently works at NBCUniversal managing Photography Post Production for Bravo\, SYFY and USA Network. Her award-winning photography has graced the covers of books internationally and has been featured in shows throughout the city. After a successful 20-year career in photography\, she decided to take a left turn and go from telling a story with an image\, to telling a story with words. Nicole’s debut novel\, an apocalyptic women’s fiction thriller\, was inspired by a dream she had when a real life snow storm shut down all forms of public transportation in the city. PAST THIS POINT tells the story of one woman and her dog fighting to survive during a deadly virus outbreak that renders New York City a ghost town. \nA former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Merrill House and Clampitt House resident\, Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in Stanford University’s Master of Liberal Arts Program. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (SFASU Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, which was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in the fall of 2019. \nDixon Place Literary Programs are generously supported by the Axe Houghton Foundation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. \nWe’d be so grateful if you considered making a donation to keep the literary fires burning at Dixon Place. If you can\, please donate here: \nhttps://shop.vendini.com/dixonplace/product-details/donation/054d4ca95ace388c1932e38137522652
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guerrilla-lit-farooq-ahmed-nicole-mabry-peter-kline/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T161247
CREATED:20200518T000213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T000213Z
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday\, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest collection\, “Father’s Day\,” the role of poetry in a time of global crisis\, how he’s teaching college from his Oakland home\, and much more. REGISTER: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/alta-asks-live-matthew
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-asks-live-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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