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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-12/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, October 15\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel\, THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87385059906. \n(Order your copy of THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP at https://bit.ly/GGPLostFound\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/LostFoundAB.) \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nI really loved THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP by Susan Wiggs! \nIt resonated with me on several levels! \n1. Natalie inherits the book store after her mother dies unexpectedly. I inherited GGP fifteen years ago when my friend Debi Echlin died unexpectedly. \n2. She moved down from Sonoma and so did I. \n3. And like Natalie\, I discovered the book store was everything I never knew I wanted and\, or\, fundamentally needed. \n4. She discovered the book store really belonged to the community\, she was lucky enough to get to be it’s steward-I’ve learned the same lesson! \n5. She also discovers in order to have an awesome book store you need to surround yourself with the best staff\, which I can say I’m lucky to have the BEST staff! \nThrow in financial challenges\, a few good men\, a long lost book and a store full of hand sellers and you have the perfect summer read! \n— Kathleen \n  \nJuly 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“This is an absolutely splendid novel that spoke volumes to me. You have a girl who experiences a tragedy that leads to a better life\, despite issues and hardship along the way\, and a guy right in front of her who is perfect for her though she assumes he is not. I highlighted so many passages in this book to savor and remember. This is a perfect story for bookstore lovers and lovers of books.”\n— Patty Reed\, Ferguson Books & More\, Grand Forks\, ND \nDescription\n\n“A wonderful exploration of the past and the future and\, most importantly\, of what it means to be present in the here and now.  Full of the love of words\, the love of family\, and the love of falling in love\, The Lost and Found Bookshop is a big-hearted gem of a novel that will satisfy and entertain readers from all walks of life.  Lovely!”—Garth Stein\, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing In The Rain \nIn this thought-provoking\, wise and emotionally rich novel\, New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs explores the meaning of happiness\, trust\, and faith in oneself as she asks  the question\, “If you had to start over\, what would you do and who would you be?”  \nThere is a book for everything . . .  \nSomewhere in the vast Library of the Universe\, as Natalie thought of it\, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about. \nIn the wake of a shocking tragedy\, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew\, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father. \nBut the gruff\, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it’s best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it\, she plans to close the bookstore and sell the derelict but valuable building on historic Perdita Street\, which is in need of constant fixing. There’s only one problem–Grandpa Andrew owns the building and refuses to sell. Natalie adores her grandfather; she’ll do whatever it takes to make his final years happy. Besides\, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. \nAfter she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop\, Natalie carries out her grandfather’s request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher to do the necessary and ongoing repairs. His young daughter\, Dorothy\, also becomes a regular at the store\, and she and Natalie begin reading together while Peach works. \nTo Natalie’s surprise\, her sorrow begins to dissipate as her life becomes an unexpected journey of new connections\, discoveries and revelations\, from unearthing artifacts hidden in the bookshop’s walls\, to discovering the truth about her family\, her future\, and her own heart. \n  \nAbout the Author\n\nSusan Wiggs’s life is all about family\, friends…and fiction. She lives at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound\, and in good weather\, she commutes to her writers’ group in a 21-foot motorboat. She’s been featured in the national media\, including NPR\, PRI\, and USA Today\, has given programs for the US Embassies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo\, and is a popular speaker locally\, nationally\, internationally\, and on the high seas. \nFrom the very start\, her writings have illuminated the everyday dramas of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her books celebrate the power of love\, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. Today\, she is an international best-selling\, award-winning author\, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries and languages. According to Publishers Weekly\, Wiggs writes with “refreshingly honest emotion\,” and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is “one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book.” Booklist characterizes her books as “real and true and unforgettable.” \nHer novels have appeared in the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List\, and have captured readers’ hearts around the globe with translations into more than 20 languages and 30 countries. She is a three-time winner of the RITA Award\,. Her recent novel\, The Apple Orchard\, is currently being made into a film\, and The Lakeshore Chronicles has been optioned for adaptation into a series. \nThe author is a former teacher\, a Harvard graduate\, an avid hiker\, an amateur photographer\, a good skier and terrible golfer\, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. She lives on an island in Puget Sound\, where she divides her time between sleeping and waking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-wiggs-discussing-the-lost-and-found-bookshop-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities
DESCRIPTION:Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). \nVisit our Crowdcast channel to register for this event. \nAbout The Book of Unconformities\nWhen Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other\, he reached for rocks\, stones\, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored\, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. \nA moving\, profound\, and affirming meditation\, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles\, Icelandic lava\, mica from a Nazi concentration camp\, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard\, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape\, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. \nAs Raffles follows these fundamental objects\, unearthing the events they’ve engendered\, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious\, indifferent\, and willful as time itself. \n“A spellbinding time travelogue . . . Raffles’s dense\, associative\, essayistic style mirrors geological transformation\, compressing and folding chronologies like strata in metamorphic rock . . . Mesmerizing.” —Harpers Magazine \nAbout Hugh Raffles\nHugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science\, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays\, Granta\, Orion\, and The New York Times\, and he is the recipientof the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hugh-raffles-in-conversation-with-stephen-sparks-about-the-book-of-unconformities/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco’s Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his initial book in 2014 of Haight Ashbury and his 2017 award winning book on the The Mission. His approach in each case has been to develop an in-depth understanding of each neighborhood through close collaboration with leading non-profits\, community organizations\, artists and local businesses. In this book he collaborates with freelance writer Kathy Chin Leong\, who has conducted over 100 interviews in the course of writing the text\, captions and sidebar stories that provide context to the images. Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong will be in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres\, author and journalist.  \nAll revenue from book sales will be donated to collaborating non-profit organizations.  \nDick Evans is a San Francisco–based photographer with an interest in documenting the colorful and rapidly changing neighborhoods of the city. Born into a ranching family in Eugene\, Oregon\, he graduated as an engineer from Oregon State University and subsequently obtained a master’s in management from Stanford. He has spent his fifty-year career in the global metals sector\, living in five countries and multiple locations in Africa\, Europe\, and North America. It was during these travels that he developed an appreciation for the diversity and richness of different cultures—both global and local—and an interest in documentary photography. \nKathy Chin Leong is an award-winning journalist with articles published in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, National Geographic Books\, Sunset Magazine\, and many other newspapers and magazines.  As a second-generation ABC (American-born Chinese)\, she grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset district\, and spent nearly every weekend in Chinatown visiting her grandmother and helping her mother shop for groceries.  While she has travelled the globe to Lebanon\, France\, Thailand\, and Canada\, rediscovering her Chinatown roots through collaboration on this book has been a journey of a lifetime.  Kathy lives in Sunnyvale\, California with her devoted husband Frank Leong Jr. and is the proud mother of two grown children\, Gwendolyn and Aaron. \nBen Fong-Torres began contributing to Rolling Stone in spring 1968\, just months after it began. In over a decade there\, he became senior editor and wrote more than 30 cover stories. He was portrayed in Almost Famous. Ben also is a broadcaster\, from KSAN in the ‘70s to Moonalice Radio today and has won 5 Emmys for co-anchoring the Chinese New Year Parade on KTVU. He is the author of a dozen books\, including his best-selling memoir\, The Rice Room.  \nConnect \nSan Francisco’s Chinatown the book – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook   \nHeyday Books – Website | Twitter | Instagram \nKathy Chin Leong – Instagram | Facebook  \nBen Fong-Torres – Website  \nZoom Reservation  \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-franciscos-chinatown-dick-evans-and-kathy-chin-leong-in-conversation-with-ben-fong-torres/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Memoir of Childhood: Memoir Workshop with Tommy Mouton
DESCRIPTION:We understand the sheer power of our respective childhood and adolescent memories. But how can we harness this power to propel a narrative as well as capture a reader’s attention? \nIn this four-week extensive workshop\, we will delve into the basic psychology of memories and their stages\, memory and imagination\, image and feeling\, “emotional truth versus factual truth\,” character and voice\, form and meaning—in an attempt to begin drafting (and/or revising) a memoir that is steeped in childhood/adolescent memories as its creative foundation. \nWhether your childhood/adolescent memories are heartbreaking or ironically humorous\, whether you are a seasoned writer or a novice\, this workshop’s weekly writing exercises\, formal and informal workshops\, and readings (Bell Hooks\, Annie Dillard\, Natasha Trethewey\, Jeannette Walls\, Jesmyn Ward\, among others) will leave you inspired and invigorated. \nSo\, come and write (and share) your childhood/adolescent memories with us\, their joys\, failures\, and mysteries. \n  \nDates: 4 Thursdays\, October 15 – November 5 \nTime: 6 – 8 pm  \nInstructor: Tommy Mouton \n​Ages: Adult  \n​Genre: Nonfiction  \n​Price: $245 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-memoir-of-childhood-memoir-workshop-with-tommy-mouton/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:How Much of These Hills Is Gold \nBY C PAM ZHANG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question worth putting to West Coast literature. To grow up in California in the 1980s was to encounter this period in history books as one of heroism and hucksterism\, as if 300\,000 people coming to a state in search of gold over five years—that would be 120 million in today’s population—wasn’t more than a rush. These were not tourists. Many became permanent residents who dug in\, created camps\, and drove Indigenous people from their land. The ’49ers permanently altered the state’s landscape and—with more than half of them coming from outside the United States—its demographics. Nearly 30\,000 arrived from China\, bringing with them history and culture and food and family. They were often met by “frontier justice\,” as it was euphemistically called. What couldn’t be done by outright force was eventually upheld by law\, with legislation directly aimed at Chinese migrants to make prospecting prohibitively expensive or shut down immigration for them all together. \nAt last there is a novel that looks right into this history and imagines it from within. It might be a stretch to call it California’s Beloved\, but C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold moves with the same rough magic and has a similar relationship to history as Toni Morrison’s haunted and beautiful book. Only here history\, too\, becomes a ghost. We never hear the word “California” in this novel\, and it’s nearly 100 pages before the word “gold” is seen. Still\, by tilting this period through a refractive lens\, Zhang has powerfully evoked the precarious existence many of its residents lived and allows us to inhabit the bodies of two girls: Lucy\, 12\, and Sam\, who is 11. They’ve lost their mother\, Ma\, already\, and their father\, Ba\, soon follows. Broke\, hungry\, and aware that their situation is not safe\, the sisters saddle up a stolen horse and carry their father’s body on the run. Their behavior quickly begins to map onto the skittery emigration pattern their father charted when he brought them to these hills with dreams of gold\, land\, a farm\, good living. That was before drink and miner brutality and grief waylaid him. Sam has a lot of her father in her; she learns to sneak out and prospect at a young age and is ready for a fight. She wants to take chances. Lucy is cautious\, eager to find official paths\, to seek approval—even from a dubious East Coast teacher writing a book about people like her family. Lucy hasn’t forgone risk; she simply takes different ones. \nZhang takes a chance herself here\, wading into the well-trod territory of the western\, but she’s a writer of immense poise. Having grown up and lived in 13 cities\, she wrote the first draft of this novel in Bangkok\, far away from the golden hills where the book unfolds. Clearly her mind’s eye is lucid\, though. She writes lean but sensual prose that vividly conjures the stench and muck and wonder of traveling across a landscape that has been brutally used. The moon hangs high on cold nights. In Zhang’s universe\, buffalo might still be alive somewhere\, and tigers roam those hills. Each day\, the girls find something new\, a dying if still hardy prospector needing help one day\, a dried-up salt lake where they can preserve their father on another. Zhang creates an epic tale in a small space; her story reaches back and back and then yokes forward the lives Ma and Ba lived before\, the incredible journeys they underwent so they could have the privilege of living on the precarious edge of a nearly fictional enterprise. What is gold anyway? Movingly\, we hear in flashback how the girls’ father ordered and told the world for his daughters\, in fables that move like water. As the sisters come of age in the shadow of this inheritance\, the past as evanescent as California rain\, Zhang allows us to appreciate how hard it is for them not to be driven one way or the other. Do they move toward great gambles\, and\, if it’s required\, violence\, or toward finding ways to know and contain official history\, so that they might write it themselves? Taking a risk\, as Colson Whitehead did in The Underground Railroad\, to imagine history as even stranger than we allow\, C Pam Zhang has proved it’s possible to do both. \n—John Freeman \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s (the latest issue of which is devoted to California)\, the author of several books\, including The Park\, and the host of Alta’s new California Book Club. He last wrote for Alta about establishing a new California curriculum.  \nSign up to hear Freeman discuss How Much of These Hills Is Gold with C Pam Zhang at the kickoff event for Alta’s California Book Club\, on Thursday\, October 15\, at 5 p.m. Pacific time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface\, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please join us! \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free virtual event\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We have an early start time of 5pm PST. \n\nMost days\, Masha Maximow was sure she’d chosen the winning side. \nIn her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm\, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents\, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic\, and the pay was obscene. \nJust for fun\, and to piss off her masters\, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection\, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. \nWhen her targets were strangers in faraway police states\, it was easy to compartmentalize\, to ignore the collateral damage of murder\, rape\, and torture. But when it hits close to home\, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family — including boy wonder Marcus Yallow\, her old crush and archrival\, and his entourage of naïve idealists — Masha realizes she has to choose. \nAnd whatever choice she makes\, someone is going to get hurt. \n\n \nCory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian\, Locus\, and many other publications. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller\, as is its sequel\, Homeland. His novella collection Radicalized was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada\, he lives with his family in Los Angeles. \nPlease note: \n>  This is a free\, all-ages event but RSVP is required.\n>  To have Attack Surface shipped to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-cory-doctorow-attack-surface/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Steph Kent & Logan Smalley (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Steph Kent and Logan Smalley’s book\, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book\, is a revival of the yellow-pages directory you remember\, but instead of contact information\, it is filled with messages collected from book lovers all over the United States about the books that have changed their lives. \nSteph is a writer\, multimedia producer\, and former host of the literary radio show on Anchor. She is currently Special Projects Director on the Webby Award–winning Masters of Scale podcast\, and led The Wall Street Journal team in product management for their mobile-first news app. As a freelance producer\, she works with startups and companies making the world a better place\, including Singularity University\, National Geographic\, The Emerson Collective\, and XPRIZE\, among others. Steph writes a weekly newsletter on creativity and is a competitive boxer. \nLogan is the founding director of TED’s youth and education initiative\, TED-Ed—an award-winning website\, content format\, and program offering that serves millions of teachers and students every day. Prior to working for TED\, Logan was selected as a TED Fellow for his roles as director\, editor\, and composer of the nonprofit\, feature-length film\, Darius Goes West. Logan began his career as a special education teacher in his hometown of Athens\, GA\, and he currently lives and works in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-steph-kent-logan-smalley-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing from Your Life\, with Meghan Ward (via Wet Ink)\, Oct. 15
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAYS\, OCT. 15 — NOV. 19  | Everyone has a story to tell. Tell yours in 2020 with Writing From Your Life\, an asynchronous six-week workshop that will teach you the nuts and bolts of writing personal essay and memoir. You’ll read passages from the masters\, do weekly craft exercises\, and submit longer pieces of your work to be critiqued by the whole class. Don’t miss this opportunity to turn your life stories into completed drafts of literature. (Writing will be critiqued on the Wet Ink platform with an optional Zoom workshop every Thursday.) \nAsynchronous learning materials for this class will be available online (via the Wet Ink platform). Scheduled class sessions will take place via Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom details \nMeghan Ward is the author of the memoir Runway: Confessions of a Not-so-Supermodel. She is a freelance writer\, book editor\, social media consultant\, and founder of Writerland.com\, a blog about writing\, editing\, and publishing. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus\, San Francisco Magazine\, 7×7\, Mutha\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style\, and Wake Up and Smell the Shit: Hilarious Travel Disasters. Follow her on Twitter @meghancward\, on Facebook @meghanwardauthor\, and on Instagram at meghancward. \nContact: meghanward@gmail.com  \nNumber of sessions: 6 \nDates: Thursdays\, October 15\, 22\, 29; November 5\, 12\, 19 \nTime: Asynchronous; Wet Ink modules go live at 7:00am Pacific time
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-from-your-life-with-meghan-ward-via-wet-ink-oct-15/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing: At The Intersections with Taneasha White
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing: At The Intersections focuses on the identities we hold and how they contribute to making up who we are. Sometimes we don’t have the opportunity to embrace them fully or we’re given limitations on who we can be because of how we show up in the world. For a safe(r) space to simply explore your creative nonfiction or memoir writing through prompts by diverse writers and dedicated writing time\, tap into this virtual session.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-at-the-intersections-with-taneasha-white/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum's Fall Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems – live on Zoom!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forums-fall-reading-series/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002027
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wedneday\, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey\, with Juli Delgado Lopera. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83728777787\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83728777787#  or +13462487799\,\,83728777787#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 837 2877 7787\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdhZtIyzOz \nPraise for The Wild Kindness \nAn exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. —KIRKUS \nBett Williams is a renegade…this book is a useful tool. —THE ROGUE LITERARY SOCIETY \nThe Wild Kindness is absolutely electric. It’s not only the subject matter\, which is mystical and fascinating. Bett William’s voice is untamed and inspired\, full of gonzo humor\, ambitious daring and high-vibrating heart. The personal\, the political\, the spiritual and the unknown come together into a mesmerizing read that is full-on literary fireworks. —MICHELLE TEA\, author of Valencia\, Black Wave\, Astro Baby\, and more \nOn the surface\, a book about mycology. Immediately beneath this\, a safe trip facilitated by a guide who places herself between heaven and earth\, between the fight for love and the fight itself; wholly engaged by both magic and the material plane. —KRISTIN HERSH\, singer-songwriter \nBett’s writing has brains\, charisma\, beauty and wit. —DENNIS COOPER\, author of the George Miles cycle \nAbout The Wild Kindness \nA funny\, lyrically brilliant memoir of learning to grow psychedelic mushrooms and discovering the vast power of mycelium wisdom and medicine. \nThe Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is the lyrical\, unforgettable memoir of Bett Williams’s relationship with psilocybin mushrooms\, otherwise known as magic mushrooms. In pursuit of self-healing\, she begins experimenting with mushrooms in solitary ceremonies by the fire. Word soon gets out about her New Mexican desert mushroom farm\, though\, and people arrive in droves. Not long after\, the police read her her Miranda Rights\, her relationships fall out of whack\, and her dog Rosie just might be CIA. \nOn a quest to find help through the psychedelic community\, Bett is led to Cleveland to meet Kai Wingo\, an African American leader within a high-dose psilocybin community\, and to Huautla de Jiménez\, home of well-known\, well-respected curandera María Sabina. Back home\, Bett begins a solid ritual practice with the help of her partner and friends\, bearing in mind the medicine’s indigenous roots and power to transform one’s life. \nAmidst the mainstream flood of New Age practices and products\, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey is a dreamlike reminder that psilocybin mushrooms are a medicine of the people\, not to be neatly packaged\, marketed\, or appropriated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bett-williams-and-juli-delgado-lopera/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop II with Hollie Hardy
DESCRIPTION:You already know how to write a poem\, but you want to reinvigorate and nourish your writing practice. If you’re looking for feedback\, community\, a reason to write more\, a way to break through blocks\, and find fresh ideas and inspiration\, if you are looking to take your poetry to the next level\, write and revise new work\, give and receive feedback\, and get your work published\, this is the class for you! \nIn this six-week workshop poets will read\, write\, and explore the craft of poetry through poetic forms such as Ars Poetica\, Epistle\, Ekphrasis\, Persona\, and Cento\, and experiment with generative revision strategies in a relaxed\, supportive online environment. \nWednesdays: October 14\, 2020 – November 18\, 2020\, 6-9pm 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-workshop-ii-with-hollie-hardy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole\, The Campus Color Line
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book\, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom\, the remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equality. The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders’ actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon.This is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“A stunning and ambitious origins story.”—Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author \nSome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation\, equal educational and employment opportunities\, housing discrimination\, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists\, as well as politicians\, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century\, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation’s college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range of colleges and universities across the United States\, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity. \nFocusing on the period between 1948 and 1968\, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents\, during a time of violence and unrest\, strategically\, yet often silently\, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. With courage and hope\, as well as malice and cruelty\, college presidents positioned themselves—sometimes precariously—amid conflicting interests and demands. Black college presidents challenged racist policies as their students demonstrated in the streets against segregation\, while presidents of major universities lobbied for urban renewal programs that displaced Black communities near campus. Some presidents amended campus speech practices to accommodate white supremacist speakers\, even as other academic leaders developed the nation’s first affirmative action programs in higher education. \nEddie R. Cole\, Ph.D.\, is associate professor of higher education and organizational change at UCLA\, and the author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eddie-r-cole-the-campus-color-line/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Elizabeth Lesser (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Lesser’s newest book Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers\, the Human Story Changes reveals how humanity has outgrown its origin tales and hero myths\, and empowers women to trust their instincts\, find their voice\, and tell new guiding stories. \nElizabeth is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute\, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck\, New York. Elizabeth’s first book\, The Seeker’s Guide\, chronicles her years at Omega and distills lessons learned into a potent guide for growth and healing. Her New York Times bestselling book\, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow\, has sold more than 300\,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Her Marrow: Love\, Loss and What Matters Most is a memoir about Elizabeth and her younger sister\, Maggie\, and the process they went through when Elizabeth was the donor for Maggie’s bone marrow transplant. \nToday\, besides writing and her work at Omega Institute\, she lends her time to social and environmental causes\, and is an avid walker\, cook\, gardener\, friend\, mother\, grandmother\, and homebody. She and her husband live in New York’s Hudson River Valley. \nIsabel Allende—novelist\, feminist\, and philanthropist—is one of the most widely-read authors in the world\, having sold more than 74 million books. In addition to her work as a writer\, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. In 1996\, following the death of her daughter Paula\, she established a charitable foundation in her honor\, which has awarded grants to more than 100 nonprofits worldwide\, delivering life-changing care to hundreds of thousands of women and girls. More than 8 million have watched her TED Talks on leading a passionate life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-elizabeth-lesser-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T120000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
DESCRIPTION:The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang‘s new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. \n** Please note ** \n\n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  We’re happy to announce we have *signed copies* for the first 50 orders. If you’d like a copy of Subprime Attention Crisis\, you can purchase one here or below. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Questions? Write events@booksmith.com. \nAbout this event \nAdvertising is the seemingly unstoppable financial engine that has powered the meteoric growth of the modern web. What if it’s more fragile than it looks? \nIn his new book\, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet\, researcher Tim Hwang makes the case that the core advertising model driving Google\, Facebook\, and many of the most powerful companies on the internet is — at its heart — a multibillion dollar financial bubble. Drawing parallels to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis\, Hwang shines a spotlight on the lack of transparency\, flawed incentives\, and outright fraud that keep this machine running. \nJoin us for a virtual book talk with the author and New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill. Hill writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Her work has appeared in Forbes Magazine\, The New Yorker\, and The Washington Post. Their discussion will tackle: \n\nWhy data-driven\, online advertising may be much\, much less effective than it looks\nThe long-term impact of the covid-19 recession on the media and online ads\nWhether or not the giants of Big Tech are already “too big to fail”\n\nThis discussion will also focus on the future\, and how we might be able to transition to a better\, more financially robust internet. Joining the discussion will be Desigan Chinniah\, who co-leads Grant for the Web—a $100 million fund launched in 2019 to spur open standards and pilot new sustainable business models for the internet. \nAbout the book\nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars\, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work\, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized\, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up\, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched\, convincing\, and alarming\, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet\, and its precarious future. \n“Using apt analogies and accessible terminology\, Hwang makes a persuasive case that the internet bubble is bound to burst. This wake-up call rings loud and clear.” – Publishers Weekly \n“In this well-grounded\, heretical attack on the fictions that uphold the online advertising ecosystem\, Subprime Attention Crisis destroys the illusion that programmatic ads are effective and financially sound. One can only hope that this book will be used to pop the bubble that benefits so few.” – danah boyd\, founder of Data & Society\, and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. Subprime Attention Crisis is his first book. \nModerator Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter based in New York for the New York Times. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives\, particularly when it comes to our privacy. Hill worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer and editor at Fusion\, Forbes Magazine\, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. In 2018\, she gave a TED talk—”What your smart devices know (and share) about you”—in which she described what happened when she transformed her apartment into a smart home and monitored the data being sent out of it. \nPanelist Desigan Chinniah (aka-“Dees”) is a creative technologist\, certified firestarter\, sneakerhead and champion tea-drinker. After check-ins at various dot-coms (Mozilla Firefox\, eBay\, PayPal\, BBC\, Skype\, Ask Jeeves) over the last two decades\, he today has a portfolio of advisory roles with global early-stage technology startups. He recently co-created Grant for the Web\, a $100M fund supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons\, to catalyse alternative business models on the web using open protocols and web standards. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-tim-hwang-subprime-attention-crisis-advertising-and-the-time-bomb-at-the-heart-of-the-internet/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season’s great new culinary and cocktail titles. We are passionate about cookbooks and can’t wait to share our new favorites with you! \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-happy-hour-cookbooks-cocktails/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T180000
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SUMMARY:Joe Cottonwood
DESCRIPTION:Currently\, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London\, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry is Random Saints. Previous poetry books are Son of a Poet and Foggy Dog. In addition he is the author of nine popular novels and the award-winning memoir 99 Jobs: Blood Sweat and Houses. He lives in La Honda\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-cottonwood/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation about their new books. \n** Please note: this is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. ** \n\nAbout Miracle Country \nKendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows\, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada\, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. \nKendra’s parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful\, if harsh\, landscape\, prone to wildfires\, blizzards\, and gale-force winds. Above all\, they were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. After Kendra’s mother died of a rare autoimmune disease when Kendra was just sixteen\, however\, her once beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile\, as climate change\, drought\, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart\, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles\, and then Minneapolis\, land of tall trees\, full lakes\, water everywhere you look. \nBut after years of avoiding her troubled hometown\, she realized that she needed to come to terms with its past and present and had to go back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return\, emptiness and bounty\, the realities of a harsh and changing climate\, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed\, Terry Tempest Williams\, and Rebecca Solnit\, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer. \n \nKendra Atleework is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays\, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in Bishop\, California. \nTo have Miracle Country sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nAbout Home Baked \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. \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. \n \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Salon\, Guernica\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. Author photo by Dennis Hearne. \nTo have Home Baked sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-kendra-atleework-miracle-country-and-alia-volz-home-baked/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rick Riordan
DESCRIPTION:GREAT NEWS! Join us to hear Rick Riordan chat about The Tower of Nero\, the fifth and final installment in #1 New York Times bestselling Trials of Apollo series. We couldn’t be more excited. \nAt last\, the breathtaking\, action-packed finale of the Trials of Apollo series is here! Will the Greek god Apollo\, cast down to earth in the pathetic moral form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos\, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester’s demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls\, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead\, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester’s final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero\, back in New York. Will Meg have a last showdown with her father? Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch nemesis\, Python? Who will be on hand at Camp Half-Blood to assist? These questions and more will be answered in this book that all demigods are eagerly awaiting. \nRick Riordan\, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly\, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians\, The Heroes of Olympus\, and the Trials of Apollo\, the Kane Chronicles\, and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two #1 New York Times best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney-Hyperion\, Rick Riordan Presents\, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies.. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. Rick’s presentations are always the best. and sell out early. AND Rick will be chatting with a special guest (to be revealed later!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rick-riordan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Intro to Fiction: Laying the Foundation with Junse Kim
DESCRIPTION:“We writers too often need others to tell us that our writing is good\,” says instructor Junse Kim. “And this is where it all goes horribly wrong. We become impatient for praise\, obsessed with completing a story before learning the basic skills we need to write it. It’s the equivalent of\, say\, an aspiring carpenter who has committed to building a beautiful house\, yet doesn’t know how to hammer in a nail or saw a piece of wood.” \nIn this remote class\, you’ll develop concrete skills and narrative techniques through fun writing exercises designed to help you master your craft. At the end of five weeks\, you’ll have a better grip on how to use these techniques (for developing character\, setting\, and plot) as tools for building your story. The class will also analyze other narrative genres\, from movie scenes to comic books\, to analyze storytelling skills you can apply to your fiction writing. \n*The live video conference portion of the class will last for 1.5 hours\, from 7:00pm-8:30pm. The final hour of class will occur outside of the videoconference. Junse will ask you to do writing exercises that specifically relate to his lessons from the video-conferencing session. You can email those exercises to him\, and then he will offer an evaluation. \nOctober 12 – November 09\n7-8:30pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/intro-to-fiction-laying-the-foundation-with-junse-kim/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it affects on our lives. \n \nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Hwang\, Ben Tarnoff\, Xiaowei Wang\, and Moira Weigel \nMore than three years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights Booksellers. Now\, the crew at LOGIC return in an exciting new collaboration. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley\, for all their utopian imaginings\, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy\, truth\, privacy\, and safety\, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress\, have shown as much. \nTogether\, publisher Farrar\, Straus and Giroux and tech magazine Logic present an alternate story\, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation\, across borders and socioeconomic divisions\, from history through the future\, beyond platitudes and PR hype\, and past doom and gloom. This collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds\, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. City Lights is pleased to be partnering with the cultural hub Gray Area in presenting this extraordinary event. \nEvents are Free\, but registration is required. Click the links on each event listing to register. \nJoin us for three days of sessions \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nVoices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do–and How They Do It \nBen Tarnoff and Moira Weigel in conversation with Anna Wiener \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Voices from the Valley\, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry\, conducting unfiltered\, in-depth\, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels\, including a data scientist\, a start-up founder\, a cook who serves their lunch\, and a PR wizard. In the process\, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large\, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating\, revealing\, and at times lurid\, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. \nMoira Weigel is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, among other publications\, and she is a cofounder of Logic magazine. She received a fellowship to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2016 and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nBen Tarnoff is the author of the books A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Jacobin\, and Lapham’s Quarterly\, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nMonday\, October 12\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nSubprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet \nTim Hwang in conversation with Allison Arlieff \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Subprime Attention Crisis\, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process\, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing\, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. \nTim Hwang is a writer and researcher. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative\, and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other publications. He lives in New York City. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nBlockchain Chicken Farm \nwith Xiaowei Wang in conversation with An Xiao Mina     \n(Click Here) to make reservations (link to be posted soon) \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nIn Blockchain Chicken Farm\, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward\, conservative\, and intolerant. Instead\, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. \nXiaowei Wang is a technologist\, a filmmaker\, an artist\, and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine\, their work encompasses community-based and public art projects\, data visualization\, technology\, ecology\, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the Index Design Awards and featured by The New York Times\, the BBC\, CNN\, VICE\, and elsewhere. They are working toward a PhD at UC Berkeley\, where they are a part of the National Science Foundation’s Environment and Society: Data Science for the 21st Century Research Traineeship. \n  \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2020\, 7:30 p.m. PST\nWhat Tech Calls Thinking\nwith Adrian Daub (interlocutor tba) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \n \n(PURCHASE BOOK HERE) Link to be posted \nAdrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often\, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of “disruption\,” Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly original\, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand\, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur\, and American traditions from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve and imagination\, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual refutation of Silicon Valley’s ethos\, pulling back the curtain on the self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself. \nAdrian Daub is a professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University\, and the director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of literature\, music\, and philosophy in the nineteenth century\, and he is the author of several books published by academic presses. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, n+1\, Longreads\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nWednesday\, October 14\, 2020\, 6:00 p.m. PST\nLOGIC PANEL DISCUSSION\nwith Adrian Daub\, Tim Huang\, Xiaowei Wang\, Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel. (Host TBA) \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nIn this closing panel\, the LOGIC crew revisit some of the ideas of the last couple of days and explore possibilities of reimagining our relationships to technology. \n  \nGray Area is a cultural hub located to San Francisco’s Mission District. Their mission is to apply art and technology to create social and civic impact through education\, incubation and public events. They use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. They test and scale projects with high impact potential\, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists\, and inspire our community by promoting meaningful new work. They apply the promise and inspiration of digital art to a broader social context. Their programs are transforming cities into creative outlets\, applying technology to solve problems\, and shaping how art is created and consumed in the digital era. Visit them at: grayarea.org \n  \nTo learn more about LOGIC MAGAZINE visit: https://logicmag.io/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-books-festival/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:More with Less: Short Story Workshop with Hannah Michell
DESCRIPTION:The short story accomplishes a feat that feels impossible–it gives us deep insight into characters and emotional resonance in the space of only a few pages. In this course\, we will closely read a range of contemporary short stories\, from micro to longer pieces\, to consider how authors work within the constraints of the form to drive plot forward while also managing the backstory of the characters. \n\n\nWe will seek inspiration for our own writing by examining newspaper headlines\, fairy tales\, and myth\, and apply lessons learned from exemplar short stories. We will workshop our own drafts in progress\, offering feedback and support. Every student will come away with a new story draft and the tools to hone it. \nDates: 4 Mondays\, October 12 – November 2 \nTime: 6 – 8 pm  \n​Instructor: Hannah Michell \n​Ages: Adult  \n​Genre: Fiction  \n​Price: $245 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/more-with-less-short-story-workshop-with-hannah-michell/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Michael J. Sandel with Pete Buttigieg (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Michael J. Sandel’s new book\, The Tyranny of Merit\, offers an alternative way of thinking about success—a view more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs\, more conducive to an ethic of humility and solidarity\, and more affirming of the dignity of work. \nMichael teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His writings―on justice\, ethics\, democracy\, and markets―have been translated into 27 languages. His course “Justice” is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world\, including in China\, where Sandel was named the “most influential foreign figure of the year.” His books relate enduring themes of political philosophy to the most vexing moral and civic questions of our time. They include What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets; Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?;  The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering; Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics; Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy; and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. \nPete Buttigieg served two terms as mayor of South Bend\, Indiana\, and was a Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 2020. A graduate of Harvard University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford\, He served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve\, taking a leave of absence from the mayor’s office for a deployment to Afghanistan in 2014. In April 2019 he announced his candidacy for president and in February 2020 won the Iowa Caucuses\, becoming the first openly gay person to ever win a presidential primary or caucus. He is the author of Trust\, an urgent call to foster an “American way of trust” at this painfully polarized juncture in our nation’s history\, as well as the memoir\, The Shortest Way Home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-michael-j-sandel-with-pete-buttigieg-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline’s new collection\, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857330918\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87857330918# or +12532158782\,\,87857330918#\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 +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 878 5733 0918\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdm7c20lW2 \nPraise for The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\n“The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories is an extraordinary collection\, and the title story alone is an astonishing feat. . . . The collection takes us in stories across the Korean diaspora\, from ancient Korea to the Korean War to Korean Americans living in America in the recent past\, the present\, and even the future. [Caroline Kim] has a devastating sense of dramatic timing\, a keen ear for dialogue\, and experiments constantly\, with structure\, minimalism\, science fiction\, historical fiction\, returning always with insight\, intelligence\, and an expansive sense of their characters’ humanity\, which in turn points us to our own. These characters will live in my head a long time.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, The Queen of the Night\, and Edinburgh\n“Caroline Kim’s captivating story collection gathers an entrancing variety of voices spread across time and place. These diverse viewpoints reveal cohesive threads that address clashes of culture\, of generations\, of relationships\, of history\, carrying us from 18th-century Korea to the Korean War and our own contemporary then future world\, and strikingly reflects us all in riveting microcosms of story. Deeply moving and affecting\, these stories and their heartfelt characters will linger long after the last page is turned.” –Eugenia Kim\, author of The Kinship of Secrets and The Calligrapher’s Daughter. \nAbout the Book\nWinner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize\nExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora\, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America\, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War\, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter\, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot\, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try\, fail\, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor\, insight\, and curiosity\, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture\, communication\, travel\, and family. Ultimately\, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place—or people—that will feel like home. \nAbout the Author\nCaroline Kim was born in South Korea. She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Award and an MA in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She was nominated by Jellyfish Review for the 2019 Best of the Net. She is currently a graduate student in counseling at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, CA. Kim lives with her husband and three children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-caroline-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Catherine Grace Katz (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Grace Katz‘s first book\, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills\, Roosevelts\, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War\, draws on newly accessible sources to bring to light both the untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin seventy-five years ago\, and the fateful reverberations during the waning days of World War II. \nCatherine is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College\, University of Cambridge in 2014\, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices. After graduating\, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the bookstore in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. \nStacy Schiff is the author of Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin\, France\, and the Birth of America\, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; and The Witches: Suspicion\, Betrayal\, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem\, which has been hailed by the New York Times “an almost novelistic\, thriller-like narrative.” Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-catherine-grace-katz-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Kinktacular Evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs features: \n❤  Hosted by Award-winning Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best sex\, erotica\, dating\, & relationship podcast” – Mashable \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyMashable2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis month\, Bawdy Storytelling – the water-based lube for the silicone toy that is your mind –  celebrates our annual High Holiday\, The Folsom Street Fair! Featuring true stories from Human Ponies\, Leather Daddys\, Sex-Positive Icons and more. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert: \nhttps://fetlife.com/events/791886 \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n • No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com� \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at  http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at  www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nSubscribe to our YouTube Channel at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-choose-your-own-adventure/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tania Romanov in conversation with Don George - One Hundred Years of Exile (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. \nTania and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American\, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation leave Tania with deep resentment. Decades later\, his unexpected death exposes Tania’s open wounds and a host of unanswered questions about her father’s story and her Russian heritage. \nA serendipitous meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family\, followed by a baffling error that miraculously connects her with unknown relatives\, catapults Tania on a quest for answers in her father’s homeland. Tania’s story proves inseparable from Russia’s\, featuring Cossacks who fled revolution\, a family who survived Stalin\, and a family of royal exiles\, culminating in a meeting between princess and peasant. One Hundred Years of Exile is a moving story of how revisiting the past can bring not only forgiveness and redemption\, but something far more powerful as well. \nTania Romanov is an award-winning travel photographer and the author of three books: Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women; Never a Stranger\, a travel story collection; and One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia (2021). A Solas Award winner\, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian. Born in the former Yugoslavia\, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste\, Italy\, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools\, U.C. Berkeley\, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, eventually serving as CEO of three technology companies. When not on the road\, Tania splits her time between San Francisco and Sonoma County. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing and the editor of ten anthologies\, including A Moveable Feast\, The Kindness of Strangers\, Better Than Fiction\, and An Innocent Abroad. George is Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler\, where he writes feature articles and the monthly Trip Lit column. He is also Editor of BBC Travel‘s literary travel column\, Chance Encounters. \nAvailable in hardcover and paperback.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tania-romanov-in-conversation-with-don-george-one-hundred-years-of-exile-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River\, Drop Leaf\, 2016)’s Requisite is newly out from Platypus Press. Joining Tanya is Aricka Foreman\, whose first full-length book Salt Body Shimmer just came out with YesYes Books and features cover art by Lorna Simpson\, the same artist who did Requisite’s cover. We’re also thrilled to host Tanya’s fellow Platypus author Richard Georges and Bay Area poet-friends Elizabeth Robinson and Monica Mody! \nPLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE AT THIS LINK: \nhttps://ciis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcemhpz4jGtFiosb6rbc3rS8pKLI1MrZ- \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \n* \nARICKA FOREMAN is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit\, MI. Author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books)\, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Offing and spends her time in Chicago\, IL engaging poetry with photography & video. \nRICHARD GEORGES is a writer of essays\, fiction\, and three collections of poetry. His most recent book\, Epiphaneia (2019)\, won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature\, and his first book\, Make Us All Islands (2017)\, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book\, Giant (2018)\, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize. He is a recipient of a Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and has been listed or nominated for several other prizes\, including the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize\, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize\, and a Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing\, Richard works in higher education and lives in the British Virgin Islands. \nTANYA HOLTLAND is the author of Requisite\, a finalist for the Broken River Prize\, out now from Platypus Press\, and the chapbook Inner River from Drop Leaf Press. Her nonfiction and lyric essays appear in The Offing\, The Rupture\, OXALIS\, and elsewhere. A graduate of San Francisco State University’s English and Creative Writing MA program\, she was also an artist-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford where she authored the libretto Fated\, a collaboration with composer Daniela Candillari. A Los Angeles native of Dutch-Indonesian descent\, her work surrounds the intersections of memory\, ecology\, borders\, design\, and matriarchy. \nMONICA MODY is the author of Kala Pani (1913 Press) and two cross-genre chapbooks. Her poetry has also appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Poetry International\, Boston Review\, Indian Quarterly\, and Almost Island. Her awards include the Nicholas Sparks Postgraduate Writing Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame\, Naropa University’s Zora Neale Hurston Award\, and the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing. Mody has a PhD in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Notre Dame. She was born in Ranchi\, India and lives on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco). \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor\, from Free Verse Editions\, and Vivian Maier: 11 photographs in 20 poems\, a collaboration with Susanne Dyckman published by Dancing Girl Press. With Jennifer Phelps\, Robinson co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press. Robinson has new work recently published or forthcoming in Aurochs\, Caliban\, Denver Quarterly\, Fence\, Plume\,The Rumpus\, and Vestiges. Her creative nonfiction has recently been published in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time. \nDROP LEAF PRESS is run by six women in San Francisco and Oakland\, California. We seek joineries of the unexpected and the overlooked. We believe in flexibility and tactility. With each new voice\, each new book\, we create space: we add a leaf to the table\, room for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foreman-georges-holtland-mody-robinson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002027
CREATED:20200925T232806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T232806Z
UID:59872-1602349200-1602360000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Libra Party Online
DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance for this party:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN…\ncome celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we’ll have an open mic along with featured readers! please continue to check this space!\n\nIn June 2020\, Cassandra Dallett’s book A Pretty Little Wilderness was published by Be About It Press: https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little…/dp/0998601241\n\nIn January 2020\, Alexandra Naughton’s book a place a feeling something he said to you was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press: https://spookygirlfriendpress.tumblr.com/…/alexandra…\n\nthe event will happen on Zoom and also Facebook Live (for people who don’t want to go on zoom)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/libra-party-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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