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SUMMARY:David Mitchell in conversation with Michael Chabon - Utopia Avenue (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage presents David Mitchell in conversation with Michael Chabon\, hosted by Tom Barbash\nThursday\, July 16\, 2020 • 7:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm PDT • Virtual Event via Extended Session\nTicket: $40 (includes signed copy of Utopia Avenue) – Be among the first 100 people to register and get a special invitation to a “virtual signing line”—meet one-on-one with David\, via Zoom—immediately following the conversation! \nUtopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967\, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway\, blues bassist Dean Moss\, and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet\, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho\, a TV debut on Top of the Pops\, the cusp of chart success\, glory in Amsterdam\, prison in Rome\, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel\, Laurel Canyon\, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68. \nDavid Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of voices in the head\, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music\, madness\, and idealism. Can we really change the world\, or does the world change us? \nDavid Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten\, number9dream\, Cloud Atlas\, Black Swan Green\, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet\, The Bone Clocks\, and Slade House. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize\, in 2018 he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. \nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps & Legends\, Gentlemen of the Road\, Telegraph Avenue\, Moonglow\, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. \nTom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance\, which was was awarded the California Book Award\, and the short story collection Stay Up With Me\, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book\, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal\, was a New York Times bestseller.
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SUMMARY:Vegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen's "Scenes of Life at the Capital"
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Wave Books present \nVegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital  \n   \nwith David Brazil\, Anselm Berrigan\, Andrew Schelling\, Hoa Nguyen\, Marie Buck\, Norman Fischer\, Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)\, Will Alexander\, Aisha Sasha John \nIn celebration of the new edition of Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen\, edited by David Brazil\, Wave Books and City Lights have invited poets from across North America to read his book-length poem in its entirety. This event will include a recording of Whalen reading from the book as well as a presentation of Whalen’s artwork\, unavailable in earlier editions. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations in the near future \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here) \n———– \nWritten from 1969 to 1971\, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen’s “Scenes of Life at the Capital” is a lasting testament to the ambition\, range\, powers\, and devotion of this crucially important American voice. Positioned among the Buddhist temples of Kyoto\, Whalen looks across the ocean to address the new frontiers\, political problems\, and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s—so much of which still resonates today. In this new edition—with a deep and enlightening afterword by David Brazil—Whalen’s poem is further cemented as a fundamental work in American literary history. \nPhilip Whalen (1923–2002) was a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movements. One of the readers at the historic Six Gallery reading\, he was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. A longtime practicing Buddhist\, he was eventually ordained as a Zen monk and practiced at Zen Centers in New Mexico and San Francisco until his passing in 2002. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, pastor and translator. His third book of poetry\, Holy Ghost (City Lights\, 2017)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He is the editor of Wave Books’s edition of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital. With Kevin Killian\, he co-edited The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater\, 1945-1985. With Chika Okoye\, he was the founding curator of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Black Life series\, focusing on cultural production in the African diaspora. He has presented his work at Cambridge University\, Johns Hopkins\, and San Francisco State University\, among other venues. He lives in New Orleans. \nAnselm Berrigan once asked a barber\, when he was six\, to cut all his hair off so he could look like Philip Whalen. He is a poet and a high functioning bum\, as well as a janitor of dreams at various schools. Books include Something for Everybody (Wave)\, Come In Alone (Wave)\, and Wobble Factory (Absolute Slab Editions/free pdf). \nAndrew Schelling cut his teeth on poetry in the Bay Area of the 1980s. He lives in Colorado\, teaches at Naropa University\, and has published twenty-odd books. Recent titles: Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo and Pacific Coast Culture\, and with Anne Waldman Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha. \nPoet Hoa Nguyen‘s books include Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and Violet Energy Ingots. Her forthcoming book\, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure\, will be published in 2021 by Wave books. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the US\, Hoa has lived in Canada since 2011. \nMarie Buck is the author of Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya\, 2015)\, Goodnight\, Marie\, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof\, 2017)\, and Unsolved Mysteries (Roof\, forthcoming 2020). She lives in Brooklyn and is the managing and web literary editor at Social Text. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, author\, and Zen Buddhist teacher and priest. The author of seventeen books of poetry and six books of prose on Zen and religion\, his most recent publication is Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language\, and Religion \, a long-awaited collection of his essays about experimenta \nPhil Elverum\, 1978-present:  born and raised in Anacortes\, Washington\, maker of experimental songs and recordings that explore an internal world\, the experience of a person rooted in a particular place (island Pacific NW)\, part of a lineage of countercultural fringe-workers that goes back beyond memory. \nWill Alexander is a poet\, novelist\, playwright\, essayist\, aphorist\, visual artist\, pianist. He is approaching 40 published titles in the aforementioned genres. A City Lights author he is also poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nAisha Sasha John is a choreographer and poet. Her chapbook TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED will be published by UDP in 2021. Her most recent book\, I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017)\, was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize. \n 
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:“One of the difficulties of being alive today\, is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” In her new essay collection Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. The “woman card” is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history—a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. Petri’s essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger\, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Alexandra will be in conversation with TV comedy writer Megan Amram. 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\n\nModerators \n\n \nMegan Amram\nMegan Amram is a writer and producer for many television series including Silicon Valley\, Parks and Recreation\, and The Simpsons. She was also the star\, creator\, writer\, and director of the web series An Emmy for Megan. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, Vulture… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlexandra Petri
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 16\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Jane Ormerod \nonline on Zoom\nticket link to come \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in numerous publications\, including From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream\, Maintenant\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, POSTstranger\, The Pedestal\, Sensitive Skin\, The Nervous Breakdown\, and Paris Lit Up. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA\, an independent press focusing on unpredictable and innovative poetry and prose. www.greatweatherformedia.com \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nAugust: Caroline Goodwin\nSeptember: Peter Carroll
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for July Westhale with Katie Tandy / Via Negativa: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual launch for July Westhale and her new collection of poems Via Negativa. Reading with her is former cofounding editor of Ravishly and The Establishment\, Katie Tandy. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you can join here. \nWe also plan to stream the event live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it 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\n“Via Negativa\,” often used to talk about the divine: a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not\, is a book about the more difficult\, but truer\, ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half grappling with divinity and the many manifestations of gender/the self \, and half an ars poetica\, Via Negativa is a gorgeous holy dunking\, a submersion into a rich field of lyricism and emotion\, a mikva that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright. Diving into verbal lostness\, the hatred of poetry\, mythology\, and the epistemology of identity\, this book challenges the tripartite notion of holiness and its relationship to poetic duty. \n“July Westhale is a shapeshifting poet of desire and violence\, grief and forgiveness\, trauma and loss transformed by resilience. After her gorgeous debut Trailer Trash explored the intricacies of class and gender\, Via Negativa deftly weaves the sensual with the spiritual\, reckoning with a religious inheritance and a powerful faith in pleasure\, engaging in bold lyric conversation with the divine. These deliciously subversive poems range from California fires to church pews with equal parts grace and swagger\, always charged with eroticism\, rooted in the body\, showing us again and again “the wildness of ourselves.” Via Negativa left me breathless.” – Diana Whitney \n\nJuly Westhale is a poet\, translator\, and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of Via Negativa\, Trailer Trash (winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award)\,  The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press)\, Quantifiable Data (Alley Cat Books)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her essays\, poems\, fiction\, and translations are published in numerous journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. \nWhen July isn’t writing\, she’s teaching and working as an editor for PULP Magazine\, a publication devoted to sexuality and reproductive rights. She is also a community educator\, working with all ages of students in all types of settings — in after school programs\, community colleges\, libraries\, living rooms\, bookstores\, fields\, etc. Her work focuses on dismantling the inaccessibility of creative writing and bringing it into a contemporary focus as a necessary way for marginalized communities to archive their experiences. \nShe is currently at work translating Patagonian poet\, Rolando Cárdenas (1933-1990)\, with the hopes that her project will bring English-speaking audiences the work of writers censored and/or disappeared as a result of the 1973 coup d’état in Santiago. \nJuly has received support and funding from the California Humanities Council\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Alley Cat Books\, Poets & Writers\, Writing by Writers\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and the Lambda Literary Foundation. \n \n  \nKatie Tandy is a journalist\, playwright\, and co-founding editor of PULP\, an online arts and culture publication centering sex/uality and reproductive rights. She is working on a forthcoming memoir braiding together stories from her childhood with human physiology. When she’s not writing\, she’s singing with the Oakland rock band The Shattucks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Via Negativa sent to your door\, send an email to events@booksmith.com. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Jessica Francis Kane\, author of Rules for Visiting | GGP Online Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 16\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Jessica Francis Kane\, discussing her novel\, RULES FOR VISITING. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85462042800. \n(Order your copy of RULES FOR VISITING in paperback at https://bit.ly/GGPRules\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/RulesAB.) \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER! \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: O Magazine * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY: “The Today Show” * “Good Morning America” * Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living \nAn INDIE NEXT LIST Pick \n“[A] spirit-warming saga . . . a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great-great-great-granddaughter.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine \nDry\, witty\, and unapologetic\, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people\, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job\, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. \nSmart\, funny\, and full of compassion\, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age\, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels\, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. \nWith simplicity and honesty\, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book\, with its beautiful contemplation of travel\, trees\, family\, and friendship\, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times. \nAbout the Author\n\nJessica Francis Kane is the author of This Close\, The Report\, and Bending Heaven. This Close was longlisted for The Story Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize\, and The Report was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications\, including Virginia Quarterly Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Missouri Review\, The Yale Review\, A Public Space\, and Granta. \nPraise For…\n\n“When 40-year-old gardener May receives a surprise windfall of one month of vacation from the university where she works\, she decides to visit four old friends\, each one from different periods of her life. Through this initially simple and irresistible starting point\, Jessica Francis Kane investigates the most universal mysteries of all.”—Isaac Fitzgerald\, Today \n“This beautiful novel tackles loneliness in the digital age and the lost art of visiting. Introvert May Attaway is granted some unexpected time off as a university gardener and is inspired to reconnect with four once-close friends. May chooses to bypass her friends’ perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them IRL. Gives a whole new meaning to Instagram vs. reality.”—Good Morning America \n“This spirit-warming saga\, an antidote to the uncivil\, is a novel to be read again and again\, whenever one needs a reminder to seize the day…Treat yourself to Jessica Francis Kane’s novel Rules for Visiting\, an elixir in book form about a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great great-great-granddaughter.”—O Magazine \n“Crackles with wit”—The New York Times\n \n“Full of witticisms and broader life lessons\, Rules for Visiting will stay with readers.”—Elizabeth Sile\, Real Simple \n“Kane’s understated meditation on loneliness in the digital age [is] just the right kind of narrative\, an antidote for our distracted days.”—Hillary Kelly\, Vulture \n“A witty\, sometimes melancholy and altogether lovely meditation on love\, loss\, friendship—and botany.”—Wall Street Journal  \n“Fun\, hilarious\, and extremely touching… its coming out right around Mother’s Day is no coincidence… I loved May as a character…  she doesn’t need me to like her\, though. She has her plants\, her father\, some new or revitalized friendships\, and her own sharp and witty mind to keep her company. She is no Grendel — only a deeply alive human.”—Ilana Masad\, NPR \n“At 40\, May Attaway\, the protagonist\, finds herself alone and feeling profoundly disconnected from her life and from herself. When she receives an unexpected gift of time off\, she seizes the opportunity to visit four old friends. May is smart\, funny and more than a little prickly. Readers will love her and find her story both moving and reassuring.”—Michael Barnard\, San Francisco Chronicle  \n“Quietly powerful”—The Chicago Tribune  \n“Impeccably written and surprisingly moving…May’s journey is lovely and deeply affecting.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“Kane’s delightful tale celebrates friendship\, family\, love\, joy in the ordinary\, finding peace\, and connecting with those around us. Highly recommended for fans of humorous\, touching stories about friendship and self-discovery.”—Library Journal\, starred review \n“In the age of Facebook\, the true nature of friendship can seem muddled . . . [May] voices the doubts and dreams of any woman who has questioned what it means to be a true friend. Rich in subtexts and lush imagery\, Kane’s novel is a sure bet for lively book discussions.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Engagingly cleareyed prose about a winningly eccentric heroine in love with trees and literature.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s precise and moving Rules For Visiting is an altogether new sort of friendship novel\, one about friendships stretched to their limits over time and space\, the sort of friendships so many of us count as our closest. Kane’s gift for describing beauty and loneliness\, the real stuff of life\, is unparalleled.”—Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers\n \n“An engaging and compassionate portrait of how a root-bound\, constricted life can begin to bloom. Drawing inspiration from mythic sources\, Kane explores the power of friendship and of our connection to the natural world. Her descriptions of plants are transporting.”—Madeline Miller\, author of Circe\n \n“There’s a wonderful richness here in every sentence—a lyric and ambling directness that immediately feels like visiting with an old friend\, and applied to an ordinariness that soon becomes sublime with topics that go anywhere and then always back to the cure this narrator is in search of: a remedy for her hesitation with life\, that feels like a much larger disappointment\, almost global. The novel\, you soon realize\, is perhaps the remedy she searches for\, and you almost wish you could give it to her. But take this home with you\, as this\, this is for us.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s novel will win your heart: Single\, melancholy\, resourceful\, May Attaway\, the 40 year old protagonist of Rules for Visiting\, sets out on travels to rekindle her oldest friendships\, and thereby to find herself. Wry\, witty\, ultimately uplifting\, this gem of a novel celebrates the gifts in our ordinary lives.”—Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“In one motion Rules for Visiting can break your heart and lift your spirits up to the sky. Funny\, warm\, thoughtful\, there’s a little Olive Kitteridge in this gem of a novel. I did not want this book to end. It is the perfect gift for friends or people you just have to visit (everyone I know is getting this!)”—Julie Klam\, author of The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous\, the Infamous\, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them  \n“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship\, family\, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.”—Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“Jessica Francis Kane has written a vivid\, elegant and masterfully constructed novel about friendship and neighbors and our own personal odysseys. This is a deeply smart book\, one I had difficulty putting down. There is real wisdom in these pages.”—Stuart Nadler\, author of The Inseparables
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Trixie & Katya!
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are so excited to host a virtual event with RuPaul’s Drag Race legends and stars of UNHhhh Trixie and Katya for their new book\, Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood! \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a ticketed virtual event. \n>  Each ticket includes admission for one person and 1 copy of Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood. No exceptions. \n>  Tickets must be purchased no later than end of day Wednesday\, July 15. If you have any questions\, please write events@booksmith.com. \n\nDrag superstars Trixie Mattel and Katya have long captivated fans with their stunning looks\, onscreen chemistry\, and signature wit. In Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood\, the pair channel that energy into an old-school etiquette guide for ladies. \nIn essays\, conversations\, and how-to sections peppered with hilarious\, gorgeous photos\, Trixie and Katya will advise readers on beauty and fashion and tackle other vital components of a happy home\, such as money\, self-love\, and friendship; sharing advice and personal stories in high-concept fashion. \nInformative\, humorous\, and heartwarming\, Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood is the book that their fans have been waiting for. \n\nTrixie Mattel is a drag performer\, singer-songwriter\, and comedian. She is thinner and richer than Katya. \nKatya Zamolodchikova is a drag performer\, actor\, and comedian. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her wonderful husband\, Gerald\, and their four beautiful daughters\, Linda\, Terry\, Leslie\, and Gwen. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nPlease note: \n\nThis is a virtual\, all-ages event with mature themes.\nThe runtime of the show is subject to Trixie and Katya’s preference.\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final.\nTrixie and Katya will be answering audience questions\, but you must submit your questions in advance! Please write to events@booksmith.com and add the subject QUESTION FOR TRIXIE & KATYA!
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SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime Showcase (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual showcase featuring eleven Sisters in Crime authors! Each author will read for five minutes\, followed by a few questions from the moderator\, Robin Stuart. Don’t miss this unique chance to hear from a broad collective of authors writing in the mystery and thriller genres! \nAuthors Include: \nMysti Berry\nMysti Berry is a proud member of multiple Sisters in Crime (SinC) chapters. She is a lifetime National SinC member and is publishing the second volume of voting justice stories in Low Down Dirty Vote (July 2020) featuring stories by Northern California authors. Her short story “Brewery Gulch” is featured in the SoWest: Lady Killers anthology. \nM. M. Chouinard\nM.M. Chouinard’s first fiction story was published in her local paper when she was eight\, and she fell in love with Agatha Christie novels not long after. While pursuing a Ph.D in psychology and helping to found the first U.S. research university of the new millenium\, the stories kept rattling around inside her skull\, demanding to come out. For sanity’s sake\, she released them. Her latest thriller is Her Daughter’s Cry. \nLinda Howe Steiger\nLinda Howe Steiger is an Oakland-based teacher and author of the Morgan Kendall series\, the latest of which is Terroir. \nSusan Kuchinskas\nSusan Kuchinskas is a journalist writing about technology and business and the author of three previous books: Chimera Catalyst\, the first book in the Finder series. Going Mobile: A Guide to Real-time Mobile Applications That Work\, and The Chemistry of Connection: How the Oxytocin Response Can Help You Find Trust\, Intimacy and Love. Her latest is the second in the Finder series\, Singularity Syndrome. \nDeb McCaskey\nDeb McCaskey is a former newspaper editor and author of stories featuring the people and movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age\, spotlighting America’s Kid Sister\, Frankie Franklin. Deb lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their independent-minded rescue dog\, Mrs. Hudson. Her latest mystery in the Frankie Franklin series is Stardusted. \nAnn Parker\nAnn Parker is a science writer by day and fiction writer at night. Her award-winning Silver Rush mystery series features Inez Stannert\, a woman with a mysterious past\, a complicated present\, and an uncertain future\, the latest of which is Mortal Music. \nPriscilla Royal\nPriscilla Royal writes the Prioress Eleanor/Brother Thomas thirteenth century English mystery series. The Twice-Hanged Man is her fifteenth book. She can be found at plays\, ruled by cats\, and reading biographies of other crazy writers or fiction of greater and lesser violence. \nCindy Sample\nCindy Sample is the author of a national bestselling mystery series featuring single soccer mom\, Laurel McKay\, set in the California Gold Country\, the latest of which is Dying for a Double. Cindy is a five-time finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery and a two-time finalist for the Silver Falchion award for best traditional mystery. \nJoseph Schneider\nJoseph Schneider lives with his wife and two children in California. His professional affiliations include The Magic Castle and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. One Day You’ll Burn is his debut novel. \nKelli Stanley\nKelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning bestselling author of the Miranda Corbie literary noir series set in 1940 San Francisco\, including City of Dragons\, City of Secrets\, City of Ghosts\, and City of Sharks. Her other works include historical mysteries set in Roman Britain and numerous short stories and essays. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\, her proudest achievements have been her inclusion as a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in Publisher’s Weekly\, and her founding of Nasty Woman Press on November 9th\, 2016. Her next novel is set in 1985 in Humboldt County\, California. She is featured in the anthology Shattering Glass\, the first in a series of remarkable anthologies published by a most unique publisher: Nasty Woman Press\, a non-profit\, 501(c)(4) founded to help fund other non-profits threatened by the rise of autocracy and the ongoing war against civil and human rights. A scintillating mixture of top-flight fiction from bestselling authors in multiple genres\, fascinating articles\, and thought-provoking essays\, conversations\, and interviews\, Shattering Glass takes as its broad theme the empowerment of women\, with all profits from the book donated to Planned Parenthood. \nCJ Verburg\nCJ Verburg is an award-winning playwright and theater director\, editor of two international literature collections\, and the author of two crime-fiction series. Her friendship with artist Edward Gorey inspired her multimedia memoir Edward Gorey On Stage\, her award-winning play Spin\, or Twilight of the Bohemians\, and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels\, starting with Croaked and Zapped. Coming soon: Scalped\, or The Toastrack Enigma. CJ’s Cory Goodwin mystery novels star the international-journalist daughter of NY detective Archie Goodwin and include the world’s first multimedia mystery\, the Paris rock-&-roll adventure Another Number for the Road. Coming up in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #30 is CJ’s first Holmes and Watson story\, “Scandal at the Savoy: The Monocle Murder.” She also has stories in two recent anthologies: “Birdbrain” in Sisters in Crime NorCal’s Fault Lines\, and “Peccata Mundy” in Seascape: Best New England Crime Stories of 2019\, released November 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sisters-in-crime-showcase-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Leila Slimani and Lisa Taddeo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, July 18 at 12pm PDT when Leila Slimani discusses her new book\, Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World\, with Lisa Taddeo on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82087204644 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82087204644#  or +12532158782\,\,82087204644#\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 +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 820 8720 4644\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kAbKeHefP\n \nPraise for Sex and Lies \n“Vivid\, at times unbearable testimonies . . . In an act of rare humility and generosity\, Slimani offers [these women] what they’ve been deprived of: a space to tell their stories\, to exist.” —San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“I salute Leila Slimani for writing this important\, honest and brave book. . . . As a writer from a Turkish background\, I am moved by Slimani’s words. The women she talks to could just as well have been Lebanese\, Syrian\, Jordanian\, Palestinian\, Iranian\, Turkish.” ­—Elif Shafak\, New Statesman \n“Like Adèle did before it\, this slim book of impassioned pleas\, and of human impulses that resonate\, is one step to more women breaking free.” —Evening Standard \n\nAbout Sex and Lies \n“As revealing as Lisa Taddeo’s bestseller Three Women\, but it has a more urgent political mission.” —Evening Standard \nA fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women’s intimate lives\, by the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and Adèle \n“All those in positions of authority–politicians\, parents\, teachers–maintain the same line: ‘Do what you like\, but do it in private.‘ “ \nLeila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle\, about a woman addicted to sex\, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco\, adultery\, abortion\, homosexuality\, prostitution\, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law\, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid\, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani’s passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-leila-slimani-and-lisa-taddeo/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Roselle Lim
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 18th at 2pm | FREE Zoom Event\nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley Book Club.\n—\nTo follow our June book club discussion\, Roselle Lim\, author of “Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune” will join us for an online discussion of her book! Bring your questions and recipes to share! \nAbout the book:\nLush and visual\, chock-full of delicious recipes\, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food\, heritage\, and finding family in the most unexpected places.\nAt the news of her mother’s death\, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago\, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading\, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant.\nThe neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately\, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance\, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along. \nAbout the Author:\nRoselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse\, Asian neighbourhood.\nShe found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism\, she devoured books about mythology\, which shaped the fantasies in her novels.\nAn artist by nature\, she considers writing as “painting with words.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-with-roselle-lim/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Judith Martin\, aka "Miss Manners" (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \n  \nJudith Martin’s Minding Miss Manners in an Era of Fake Etiquette\, is a modern guide to modern manners in which Miss Manners guides you through these turbulent times with her timeless wisdom and archly acid wit. \nAlso known as Miss Manners\, Judith has made tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of etiquette which have not escaped official notice. During a White House ceremony In November\, 2005\, she was awarded the nation’s highest honor in the humanities\, the National Humanities Medal\, in recognition of her contributions to society as America’s foremost etiquette columnist and author. \nJudith’s “Miss Manners” newspaper column—distributed thrice-weekly by the Universal UClick and carried in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad—has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. Since 1996\, she has been writing an additional “Miss Manners” column for the Microsoft Network\, and she is a contributor to the Financial Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-judith-martin-aka-miss-manners-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200712T225104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200712T225104Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Jackpot' Livestream
DESCRIPTION:Our next Livestream’ed Bawdy will happen on Zoom on Saturday\, July 18th at 7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST. \nTickets are available in Tiered Pricing (starting at $10 for Pandemic Pricing\, all the way up to our Exhibitionist Panel – where you’re a part of the show\, and join our performers on the screen!) The Best Deal? Become a member of Bawdy’s Patreon (at the Sexy Sidekick – $10/month level and higher) and you’ll get FREE tickets to our Livestreams – plus the Replays\, too. Please get your tickets right away to make sure you can be part of each night of one-of-a-kind stories\, weird antics\, and open-minded community. \nThe Butt Plug Club means you get one of our limited Panelist spots\, plus: \n• a Bawdy Buttplug \n• a black velvet Buttplug drawstring cozy \n• portable ampoules & packets of Uberlube \n• a Bawdy button • our brand new Bawdy sticker \n• a Bawdy Buttplug \n• a hand-signed note (with #BPC instructions) from Dixie \n• #DressUpForUs \nBut DO IT NOW because the deadline for exhibitionist tickets and the Butt Plug Club is this SUNDAY JULY 12th.  \nNot a member of Bawdy’s Patreon yet? Become a member NOW and in addition to ad-free podcast episodes and our new behind-the-scenes story coaching series\, you’ll get free tickets and free replays for Bawdy’s Livestreams!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-jackpot-livestream/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200706T175850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T175850Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookseller Happy Hour GENRE EDITION
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop booksellers as we share our favorite Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, Mystery\, and Graphic novels. Grab the beverage of your choice and come spend an hour with us on Crowdcast to find your next great read. This free event will be online hosted with the Crowdcast platform.\n\nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event is now open: click here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookseller-happy-hour-genre-edition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200712T222641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200712T222812Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #62 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 5th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option on the FB event; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Virtual Get Lit #62\nTime: Jul 21\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85418275879 \nMeeting ID: 854 1827 5879\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85418275879# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,85418275879# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 854 1827 5879\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcQv42kspd \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-62-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jennifer Steil & Ava Homa
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 Jennifer Steil (Exile Music: A Novel) & Ava Homa (Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This 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 Exile Music and/or Daughters of Smoke and Fire 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\nExile Music by Jennifer Steil \nAs a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s\, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic\, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer\, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall\, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler’s rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family’s identity\, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor\, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds\, where they can escape the growing tensions around them. \nBut in 1938\, Orly’s peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first\, and soon Orly\, her father\, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz\, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows\, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood\, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains\, Orly’s mother grows even more distant\, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass\, the war ends\, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home\, or is the pull of her past in Europe—and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese—too strong to ignore? \n\nJennifer Steil is an award-winning novelist and memoirist who lives in many countries. She left the United States in 2006 to take a job as editor of a newspaper in Sana’a\, Yemen\, where she lived for four years. Her first book\, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky\, was inspired by her Yemeni reporters. She began writing her first novel\, The Ambassador’s Wife\, after she was kidnapped when pregnant with her daughter. That experience became the first scene of the novel. She and her infant daughter were evacuated from Yemen after her husband Tim Torlot\, a British diplomat\, was attacked by a suicide bomber. They lived in Amman\, Jordan\, until his posting ended and he could join them in London. In 2012\, they moved to La Paz\, Bolivia. Early in her time there\, Steil met Jewish Bolivians whose families had fled the Nazis in Europe during World War II. Their stories inspired her third book\, Exile Music\, just released by Viking. She now lives in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. \n  \n  \n\nDaughters of Fire and Smoke by Ava Homa \nSet in Iran\, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage\, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother Chia\, influenced by their father’s past torture\, imprisonment\, and his deep-seated desire for justice\, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts\, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online\, she finds herself in grave danger as well. \nDaughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family\, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. \n  \n  \nAva Homa is a writer\, journalist\, and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her collection of short stories\, Echoes from the Other Land\, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Prize\, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship. Daughters of Smoke and Fire is her debut novel which has received much acclaim. For more information please visit at www.AvaHoma.com \n  \n  \n  \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-jennifer-steil-ava-homa/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zach St. George Discusses his new book\, The Journeys of Trees
DESCRIPTION:Science reporter Zach St. George joins us to discuss his new book\, The Journeys of Trees: A Story About Forests\, People\, and the Future (W.W. Norton). \nThis virtual event will be broadcast on our Crowdcast Channel. Register here. \nAbout The Journeys of Trees\nForests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts\, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction\, the whole forest begins to migrate\, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today\, however\, an array of obstacles—humans felling trees by the billions\, invasive pests transported through global trade—threaten to overwhelm these vital movements. Worst of all\, the climate is changing faster than ever before\, and forests are struggling to keep up. \nA deft blend of science reporting and travel writing\, The Journeys of Trees explores the evolving movements of forests by focusing on five trees: giant sequoia\, ash\, black spruce\, Florida torreya\, and Monterey pine. Journalist Zach St. George visits these trees in forests across continents\, finding sequoias losing their needles in California\, fossil records showing the paths of ancient forests in Alaska\, domesticated pines in New Zealand\, and tender new sprouts of blight-resistant American chestnuts in New Hampshire. Everywhere he goes\, St. George meets lively people on conservation’s front lines\, from an ecologist studying droughts to an evolutionary evangelist with plans to save a dying species. He treks through the woods with activists\, biologists\, and foresters\, each with their own role to play in the fight for the uncertain future of our environment. \nAn eye-opening investigation into forest migration past and present\, The Journeys of Trees examines how we can all help our trees\, and our planet\, survive and thrive. \nAbout Zach St. George\nZach St. George is a science reporter who has written for the Atlantic\, Scientific American\, and Outside\, among other publications. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in Baltimore\, Maryland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-st-george-discusses-his-new-book-the-journeys-of-trees/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kate Greene and Mary Roach
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 21 at 5pm PDT when Kate Greene discusses her new book Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space\, Exploration and Life on Earth with Mary Roach on Zoom \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83001791380 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83001791380#  or +12532158782\,\,83001791380#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 830 0179 1380\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb0jsKzm1b\n \nPraise for Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars \n“In her thoughtful\, well-written account of the mission\, Greene not only discusses what it was like to spend several months cooped up indoors with five strangers and limited resources but also reflects on what this and other space missions can teach us about ourselves and life on Earth.”–Physics Today \n“This stirring\, smart\, and truly original debut begins with questions and then progresses beyond facile answers\, into even less answerable questions. Along the way\, Greene charts a course that is propulsive\, discursive\, and pure pleasure to read\, whether it is exploring boredom\, guinea pigs\, pineapple\, grief\, or deep space. Like a conversation with your smartest\, most fun friend\, each essay travels an unexpected and exhilarating path\, more often between people than planets\, examining the distances between who we were and who we have become\, what we expected and what we have found in this life.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“A prescient look at humans alone\, separate from the world they once knew. Truly a book for our times.”–Sarah Stewart Johnson\, author of The Sirens of Mars\n \nAbout Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars \nWhen it comes to Mars\, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets\, the engines\, the fuel. But upon arrival\, what will it actually be like? \nIn 2013\, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is\, along with five fellow crew members\, she embarked on NASA’s first HI-SEAS mission\, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i. For four months she lived\, worked\, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome\, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters\, as well as the nature of boredom\, dreams\, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. \nIn Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars\, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanity’s broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life\, of the standard\, able-bodied astronaut and Greene’s brother’s disability\, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage\, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple\, of departure and return. \nBy asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe\, Greene has written a remarkable\, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now\, as a pre-Mars species\, poised on the edge\, readying for launch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kate-greene-and-mary-roach/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T200000
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nChallenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nBooks for this event may be purchased on : \nBOOKSHOP.ORG \nArguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account\, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change\, sweatshop labour\, police abuse\, and economic deprivation. \nIn Accountability Democracy\, Kaufman pairs each of these issues with an operation of power — the large scale influence of multinational corporations; the power of governments; the authority of financial markets; and the control inherent in systems of meaning — and using case studies like the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and the killing of Eric Garner\, forcefully demonstrates the difficulty in challenging this nexus of power. \nYet\, advancing a positive message\, Kaufman maintains that this network is not omnipotent and can be questioned if we develop ‘mechanisms of accountability’ which allow us to conceptualise the nature of these restrictions and the action required to resist them. Kaufman provides then\, a model for ethical living that allows us to investigate and appreciate our own connection to the powerful forces that control our world. \n\n\nCynthia Kaufman is the Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action at De Anza College\, USA\, where she also teaches Philosophy. She is the author of two books on social change Getting Past Capitalism: History\, Vision\, Hope (2012) and Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change (2003). She is a lifelong activist for social change and has worked on issues such as tenants’ rights\, police abuse\, union organizing\, international politics\, and most recently climate change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-kaufman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200706T195504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T195504Z
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SUMMARY:Gail Tsukiyama (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:Kepler’s is thrilled to announce an event with Gail Tsukiyama\, the acclaimed and bestselling author of 8 novels\, and a staff favorite who embodies the best of Bay Area literature. Born in San Francisco to a Chinese mother from Hong Kong and a Japanese father from Hawaii\, Tsukiyama’s talent has garnered an equally international reach and literary acclaim. She has spoken to large crowds at book festivals from Sydney to Hong Kong\, and was one of a few authors selected to speak at the first-ever Library of Congress National Book Festival. The Samurai’s Garden is a staple of college curriculums\, and Tsukiyama has won both an Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miller Literary Award. \nIn short\, this is one dynamically talented speaker you don’t want to miss. \nThe Color of Air\, Tsukiyama’s latest evocative historical novel\, portrays a family grappling with its past against the backdrop of Hawai’i’s sugar plantations. \nDr. Daniel Abe quietly returns home to Hawai’i after the traumatic loss of a patient\, boarding a ship to the Big Island right as the Mauna Loa begins to stir. On the island\, Daniel’s uncle and childhood friend await his arrival while internally contending with their own connections to the young man and his family. Each character holds secrets in a private world as the volcano comes to life. \nThese interweaving storylines alternate between a volcanic 1935 to a time decades prior— a rich\, vibrant\, bittersweet celebration of lifelong bonds the characters feel to one another and to their immigrant community. In the backdrop of Mauna Loa\, old secrets kept below the surface now threaten to blend inescapably with the present. Don’t miss Tsukiyama as she delves into this triumphant work of fiction. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. 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/gail-tsukiyama-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200706T203916Z
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts L. E. Modesitt\, Jr. for new book "Quantum Shadows"
DESCRIPTION:USA Today bestselling author L.E. Modesitt Jr. talks about his new standalone science fiction novel\, Quantum Shadows.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOrder your copy of Quantum Shadows now! \nL. E. Modesitt\, Jr. is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante\, the Ecolitan novels\, the Forever Hero Trilogy\, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer\, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot\, a legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman\, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City\, Utah. \nModesitt’s latest novel\, Quantum Shadows\, is a masterful blend of religion and myth in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world for a philosophical cross-genre tale. \nWelcome to Heaven\, a world where the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon – a god\, or a prophet of god. Corvyn\, also known as the Shadow of the Raven\, is an incredibly powerful air spirit. When an unknown force burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre in the shape of a trident\, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly wield that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another Fall of humankind\, and if he doesn’t stop it\, mankind will not rise from these ashes. \nWith overtones of some of the genre’s greatest writers\, such as Roger Zelanzy and Gene Wolfe\, Modesitt create a formidable and elegant world with intricate detail and powerful imagination that will appeal to lifelong fans and newcomers alike.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-books-hosts-l-e-modesitt-jr-for-new-book-quantum-shadows/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200721T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200706T180205Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop invites you to join us online for an event with acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) to celebrate her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most—both personally and politically—whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrice-vecchione-my-shouting-shattered-whispering-voice/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200712T223907Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Caitlin Myer and Wiving with Joe Loya
DESCRIPTION:At 36 years old\, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma\, and believes she is now living her happily ever after. In a single week\, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother\, and is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future. Myer’s electric debut memoir Wivingis the story of one woman’s “escape” from religion at age 20\, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large. The biblical characters Yael and Judith\, wives who became assassins\, become her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence. In conversation with author Joe Loya. Registration via Eventbrite required to access Zoom. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Zoom and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from Green Apple direct! \n\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n\n \nJoe Loya\nJoe Loya is an essayist\, screenwriter\, actor/director\, and author of the memoir\, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber. While consulting on the script for Edgar Wright’s film Baby Driver\, he was also cast as a bank guard who gets shot and killed by Jamie… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nCaitlin Myer\nCaitlin Myer is the daughter of a poet and a visual artist\, and grew up in a large\, chaotic Mormon family in Provo\, Utah. Her short stories\, poetry\, and essays have appeared in No Tokens\, Electric Literature\, The Butter\, Cultural Weekly\, and Joyland\, among others\, and she was a 2012… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-caitlin-myer-and-wiving-with-joe-loya-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200722T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200714T182220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T182319Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Litquake presents Caitlin Myer and Joe Loya
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple and Litquake present Caitlin Myer and Joe Loya discussing Caitlin’s new book Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving The Patriarchy. This event will be held on Crowdcast and Facebook Live. \nhttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/caitlin-myer-and-wiving/register  \nAt 36 years old\, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after. In a single week\, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother and is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future. Myer’s electric debut memoir Wiving is the story of one woman’s “escape” from religion at age 20\, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large. The biblical characters Yael and Judith\, wives who became assassins\, become her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence. In conversation with author Joe Loya. FREE\, $5 suggested donation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-litquake-presents-caitlin-myer-and-joe-loya/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Billy-Ray Belcourt and A History of My Brief Body
DESCRIPTION:Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard\, Alberta\, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there\, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him\, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it\, first loves and first loves lost\, sexual exploration and intimacy\, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory\, gender\, anger\, shame\, and ecstasy\, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty\, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own\, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts\, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening\, intensely emotional\, and excessively quotable\, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us. In conversation with writer and professor Greg Sarris. 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\n\nModerators \n\n \nGreg Sarris\nGreg Sarris received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University\, where he was awarded the Walter Gore Award for excellence in teaching. He has published several books\, including Grand Avenue (1994)\, an award-winning collection of short stories\, which he adapted… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nBilly-Ray Belcourt\nBilly-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections NDN Coping Mechanisms and This Wound Is a World\, which was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize\, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-billy-ray-belcourt-and-a-history-of-my-brief-body/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Billy-Ray Belcourt and A History of My Brief Body
DESCRIPTION:Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard\, Alberta\, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there\, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him\, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it\, first loves and first loves lost\, sexual exploration and intimacy\, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory\, gender\, anger\, shame\, and ecstasy\, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty\, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own\, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts\, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening\, intensely emotional\, and excessively quotable\, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us. In conversation with writer and professor Greg Sarris. Registration via Eventbrite required to access Zoom. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Zoom and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nGreg Sarris\nGreg Sarris received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University\, where he was awarded the Walter Gore Award for excellence in teaching. He has published several books\, including Grand Avenue (1994)\, an award-winning collection of short stories\, which he adapted… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nBilly-Ray Belcourt\nBilly-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections NDN Coping Mechanisms and This Wound Is a World\, which was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize\, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-billy-ray-belcourt-and-a-history-of-my-brief-body-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200723T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200706T181005Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jesse Wegman\, Let the People Pick the President
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a timely online event with Jesse Wegman who will be in conversation with Ryan Coonerty about his new book\, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.  \nTwo of the last five presidential elections have been won by the candidate who lost the popular vote\, calling the integrity of America’s entire electoral system into question. Political passions are already high\, and they will reach a boiling point as we enter the 2020 race. The message from the American people is clear: we need major reform\, and we need it now. In Let the People Pick the President\, New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman makes a powerful case for choosing presidents based on a national popular vote. In this compact\, deeply researched\, highly readable history of the Electoral College\, he describes its controversial origins\, profiles some of the more than 700 efforts to abolish or reform it over the years\, and explains why it is now essential for us to revamp this obsolete system and finally make every citizen’s vote matter. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis 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“Jesse Wegman is a shrewd analyst\, brilliant researcher and passionate writer\, and here he tackles an issue important to our system’s legitimacy.” —Nicholas Kristoff \n“People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one\, at least in recent years\, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in Let the People Pick the President.” —Josh Chafetz\, New York Times Book Review \nJesse Wegman has been a member of the New York Times editorial board since 2013\, writing editorials on the Supreme Court and legal affairs. He was previously a senior editor at the Daily Beast and Newsweek\, a legal news editor at Reuters\, and the managing editor of the New York Observer. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 2005. \nRyan Coonerty is a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors\, a two-time former Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz\, and a longtime lecturer in the Legal Studies program at UC Santa Cruz. He is the host of the podcast “An Honorable Profession.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jesse-wegman-let-the-people-pick-the-president/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200724T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200724T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T104139
CREATED:20200721T193431Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Wallace Baine & Steve Kettmann
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for a reading featuring Wallace Baine and Steve Kettmann. The Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you. \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post\, and presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-wallace-baine-steve-kettmann/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T150000
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CREATED:20200706T201101Z
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SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #2
DESCRIPTION:Struggling to process and confront anti-Black and anti-Asian racism within your social networks? Explore the healing power of creative writing! \nThe July 25th workshop focuses on “Stand Together – Creativity and Social Justice” \nEth-Noh-Tec storytellers Robert Kikuchi Yngojo and Nancy Wang\, poet Jennifer Hasegawa\, poet/KFPFA journalist Dennis J Bernstein\, poet/musician/KPFA & POO DJ Avotcja discuss how social justice informs their art. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What arts do you resonate with and why? What are your creative outlets? If I could\, this is the story I’d tell. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What are you thinking and feeling right now? How were you personally impacted by George Floyd’s murder and subsequent events. Have you personally experienced or witnessed anti-black or anti-Asian racism? What was your response? How would you respond differently today? How do you respond to stress? What are you doing for self-care? How to deal with parents and peer pressure? \nNOTE: The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and YouTube Live with a sliding scale fee of $5~$15 to help support our presenters\, organizers\, tech and labor costs. If you are interested in participating but are unable to afford the lowest ticketing tier\, please email programs@oacc.cc and we would be happy to work with you on making this event accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/healing-around-race-creative-writing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nIn light of recent events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement\, our July Book Club selection is Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal. \nNew to the Movement? Fear not! Whether you’ve had many conversations about Black Lives Matter or this will be your first one\, we welcome you all to join us as we learn and grow together. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday\, July 25 at 3pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \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:\nIn December 1981\, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed\, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. \nIn Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?\, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse\, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America\, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country’s black population. Applying a personal\, historical\, and political lens\, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around. \nAbout the author:\nMumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books\, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms\, which address prison life from a critical and spiritual perspective. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists (Philadelphia chapter). That year he was arrested for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982. In 2011\, after spending more than 28 years on death row\, his death sentence was vacated when the Supreme Court allowed to stand the decisions of four federal judges who had earlier declared his death sentence unconstitutional. He is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In spite of his three-decade-long imprisonment\, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. From prison he has written seven books and thousands of radio commentaries. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University\, Dominguez Hills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-have-black-lives-ever-mattered/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: (em)Power(ment)
DESCRIPTION:POWER. EMPOWER. EMPOWERMENT. Take your pick. This month SNS explores all kinds of power. From self-empowerment\, to empowering others\, to the powers that be\, to historical power. Personal\, political\, righteous\, economic\, systemic\, authoritarian\, power for good or ill. You can go big or small. The power to pick up the pen\, speak out\, make art\, make dinner\, change and grow\, the power to vote\, the power to choose. Choose what moves you. Share what empowers you. Or what has disempowered you. Write something new. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you. \nShare your 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. \nJULY FEATURES: Thea Matthews & Cassandra Dallett \nSATURDAY\, JULY 25\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on July 18. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. \nTo 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. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and 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. \nWe will be using the Waiting Room feature and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 969 9282 4045\nPassword: 838791 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96992824045?pwd=N215UTFaTUFaUUV5VUhadUc2Q1ZOUT09\nPassword: 838791 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,96992824045# \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, California\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black Indigenous Mexican poet\, black feminist\, educator\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. Her debut poetry collection Unearth [The Flowers] was published by Red Light Lit Press in 2020; and she has work published in Atlanta Review\, Foglifter Journal\, The Rumpus\, and others. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate for Poetry at New York University; and is the poetry editor for For Women Who Roar™. More info at www.theamatthews.com \nCassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in over a hundred anthologies and journals. \nCassandra reads often around the Bay Area\, hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six\, is a facilitator at MOWW\, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast\, (iTunes\, Spotify\, Soundcloud\, Stitcher\, YouTube) and co-hosts and co-curates the quarterly reading series MoonDrop Productions with Kelechi Ubozoh\, as well as her own monthly Oakland based reading series\, The Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft. \nAfter three self-published chapbooks Cassandra Dallett’s first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless(Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015\, she authored five chapbooks\, one of them\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award\, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection\, Collapse\, also on Nomadic Press\, also nominated for a CA Book Award. Her most recent book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness has just been released from Be About It Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-empowerment/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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