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Launch for Nancy Jooyoun Kim with Ingrid Rojas Contreras / The Last Story of Mina Lee
2020-08-11 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Nancy Jooyoun Kim to launch her debut novel The Last Story of Mina Lee. She’ll be in conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree).
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Margot Lee’s mother, Mina, isn’t returning her calls. It’s a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the tenuous and invisible strings that held together her single mother’s life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother.
Interwoven with Margot’s present-day search is Mina’s story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While she’s barely earning a living by stocking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing Mina ever expects is to fall in love. But that love story sets in motion a series of events that have consequences for years to come, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nancy Jooyoun Kim is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Washington, Seattle. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, NPR/PRI’s Selected Shorts, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, The Offing, and elsewhere. The Last Story of Mina Lee is her first novel.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018) a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, The Believer, and elsewhere. A new work of non-fiction, a family memoir about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds, is coming from Doubleday in 2022.

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.

Bernard-Henri Levy in conversation with Adam Gopnik
2020-08-11 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and Yale University Press celebrate the release of Bernard-Henri Levy’s new book:

The Virus in the Age of Madness
published by Yale University Press
This 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.
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World-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic—and what they tell us about ourselves.
With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world.
Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, Lévy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid, incisive, and always original, Lévy takes a bird’s-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future.
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher, activist, filmmaker, and the author of over thirty books. He is widely regarded as one of the West’s most important public intellectuals. His books include Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, In the Footsteps of Tocqueville, The Spirit of Judaism, among others.
Adam Gopnik is an award-winning writer and essayist. Since 1986 he has served as a staff writer for The New Yorker, contributing nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism. He is the author of the books Paris to the Moon, Through the Children’s Gate, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, among others.

Virtual Event: Shruti Swamy and Meng Jin
2020-08-11 17:00 - 19:00 | CA
Join us on Tuesday, August 11 at 5pm PDT when Shruti Swamy discusses her story collection A House is a Body with Meng Jin on Zoom.

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Praise for A House is A Body
“Swamy’s A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed. There is nothing, no emotion, no tiny morsel of memory, no touch, that this book does not take seriously. Yet, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I’ve ever had in a short story collection.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
“I’ve been reading Shruti Swamy’s stories for a long time and so for me to have them here together is cause for great celebration. These stories are written with such rare patience and a restraint that they are at times, almost unbearably tense. That’s a story writer. Not a book to read in a hurry. Take your time, as Swamy did. No need for hyperbole, either. The beauty and timeless grace of these stories will always speak for themselves.”
—Peter Orner, author of Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
“The winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Shruti Swamy will publish her first short-story collection this summer, and you won’t want to miss out on reading it. The 12 stories in A House Is a Body move between India and the U.S., focusing on women’s interior lives and the ways in which their identities differ from the perceptions and presumptions of those around them.”
—Bustle, “The Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020”
About A House is a Body
Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In “Earthly Pleasures,” a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India’s biggest celebrities, and desire and ego are laid bare. In “A Simple Composition,” a husband’s professional crisis leads to his wife’s discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy. And in the title story, an exhausted mother watches, hypnotized by fear, as a California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured, provocative and probing, these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India, they reveal small but intense moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world.
A House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction, from a writer at the start of a stellar career.
About Shruti Swami
The winner of two O. Henry Awards, Shruti Swamy’s work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In 2012, she was Vassar College’s 50th W.K. Rose Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Hedgebrook. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in San Francisco.
About Meng Jin
Meng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.

Well-RED Virtual
2020-08-11 19:00 | CA
Reading Series
Tuesday, August 11, 7pm on Zoom
featuring Safia Elhillo and MK Chavez
open mic preceeds the featured readers
online on Zoom
registration link to come
presented with Works/San José
Typically featured at Works/San José art and performance center, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp!
First 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password.
Each open mic participant has 5 minutes.
bios to come.

VIRTUAL EVENT: Jana Marcus, Line of Blood
2020-08-11 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s was discovered in her grandmother’s secret drawer, award-winning photographer and local author Jana Marcus began what became a decades-long quest to uncover her family’s hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold case. Join us on the Crowdcast platform as she discusses the investigation, the shocking secrets of her father’s family, and her new book, Line of Blood: Uncovering a Secret Legacy of Mobsters, Money, and Murder, with journalist Wallace Baine.
Register for this free Crowdcast event soon!

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger | GGP Online Book Club
2020-08-11 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
Please join us on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Leif Enger’s novel, VIRGIL WANDER.
The Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85844599184.
You can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPVW, or in audiobook from Libro.fm, GGP’s audiobook partner, at https://bit.ly/GGPVWAB.
Staff Reviews

I LOVE THIS BOOK!
The characters are so delightful and fully realized I wanted to drop down into Greenstone and meet Virgil, Rune, Nadine, and Bjorn at the Wise Old or the Agate for breakfast!
— Samantha

October 2018 Indie Next List

“From the fated flight of Virgil Wander’s Pontiac into the frigid waters of Lake Superior to an encounter with Rune, an enigmatic kite enthusiast searching for word of a long-lost son, and other interactions with the citizens of Greenstone, Minnesota, Leif Enger’s new novel is a most welcome, albeit quirky, story of words and people lost and found. Lovers of Peace Like a River, rejoice! Enger is back with another enchanting and enriching tale of community and revival, with his ever-deft touch of magic and grace. A perfect remedy for those whose hearts ache from our present reality, Virgil Wanderis a treasure to be shared with all readers.”
— Mark Nichols, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
Description

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures of kite-flying, movies, fishing, baseball, necking in parked cars and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked upper Midwest by an award-winning master storyteller.

Geri Spieler & Rick Kaplowitz - San Francisco Values (Virtual Event)
2020-08-11 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
As Americans are one step from deciding who will be our next president, Geri Spieler and Rick Kaplowitz, the authors of San Francisco Values: Common Ground for Getting America Back on Track shed light on major issues today and how San Francisco’s value system can help us vote for the right candidate. Tracing the evolution of the country by using their city’s progressive culture as a baseline, the authors’ research uncovers real laws and undisputed facts, as well as dispel the vitriolic conservative view of San Francisco as “un-American.” Spieler and Kaplowitz reveal how the Bay Area is family-friendly, equality-based, and patriotic—values in common with cities and towns across the USA. Viewed from national, regional, and San Franciscan perspectives, San Francisco Values includes insights on racial inequities, health care, homelessness, and immigration.
Spieler, an investigative journalist, and Kaplowitz, a former college dean with a degree from Harvard, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pilipinx Essential Workers: Colonization, Delano, and Beyond
2020-08-12 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
Eastwind Books and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online panel conversation with authors Enrique de la Cruz, Patty Enrado, Tony Robles, and Juanita Tamayo Lott moderated by MT Vallarta
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Panelists:
Dr. Enrique de la Cruz received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Mathematical Logic) from UCLA. His most recent publication is the Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons, which is a collection of political cartoons from 1898-1907, the period of the Philippine-American War, and which he co-authored with Abe Ignacio, Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen Toribio.
Patty Enrado’s debut novel, A Village in the Fields, was shortlisted for the Seventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Fiction, in 2016. The historical novel about Filipinos and the American farm labor movement was published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
Tony Robles, “The People’s Poet” was born in San Francisco and is the nephew of Filipino-American poet, historian and social justice activist Al Robles. He was a shortlist nominee for poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission individual literary artist grant in 2018.
A child of the Manong/Manang Generation, Juanita Tamayo Lott is a trailblazer in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her latest book is Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir.
Moderator: MT Vallarta is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Eastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers, artists, poets and community workers.

Joshua Bennett in conversation with Tongo Eisen Martin, Jesse McCarthy, and Simone White
2020-08-12 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
discussing Joshua Bennett’s new book
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
published by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
This 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.
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A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.
Throughout U.S. history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure—the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, and the shark—in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden. The plantation, the wilderness, the kitchenette overrun with pests, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people—all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find black and animal life in fraught proximity.
Joshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene.

Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and MIT and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books, 2017) and someone’s dead already (Boostrap Press, 2015) and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine and New York Times Magazine. Heaven Is All Goobyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He’s from San Francisco.

Jesse McCarthy is assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature, postwar or post-45 literary history, and Black Studies. His dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. He is also interested in modernism, film, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton he founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. His writing on culture, politics, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic and n+1. I also serve as an editor at The Point.
assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. My research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature, postwar or post-45 literary history, and Black Studies. My dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. I am also interested in modernism, film, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton I founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. My writing on culture, politics, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic and n+1. I also serve as an editor at The Point.
Simone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, and House Envy of All the World and of the poetry chapbooks Unrest and, with Kim Thomas, Dolly. Her writing has appeared in publications including Arttforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, the Chicago Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Critical Praise for Being Property Once Myself

“This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’… An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought.“—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Bennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats, cocks, mules, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing, thinking, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety.“—Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog
“Being Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention, and as much about animals as it is about people, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute, collectively, black literary culture.”—Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
“A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide.”—Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

SHAUN KING presents MAKE CHANGE: HOW TO FIGHT INJUSTICE, ​DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION, AND OWN OUR FUTURE
2020-08-12 19:00 | CA
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As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. In Make Change, King offers an inspiring look at the moments that have shaped his life and considers the ways social movements can grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. He shares stories from his efforts leading the Raise the Age campaign and his work fighting police brutality, while providing a roadmap for how to stay sane, safe, and motivated even in the worst of political climates. By turns infuriating, inspiring, and educational, Make Change will resonate with those who believe that America can — and must — do better.
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Shaun King was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most important people in the world online. He covers civil rights issues for the Intercept and is writer-in-residence at the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard Law School. Previously, King served as a pastor, teacher, and full time motivational speaker in Atlanta’s juvenile justice system. In 2019, King launched the media platform The North Star, which has hundreds of thousands of members and subscribers. His podcast The Breakdown has remained one of the most popular news and politics category on Apple with over 100k subscribers. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.
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VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All
2020-08-12 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
Join us as we celebrate Mr. Know-It-All, the newest essay collection from legendary New York Times bestselling author John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years. John Waters will be in conversation with Steve Palopoli, editor of Santa Cruz’s alt-weekly the Good Times, during this ticketed virtual event on Crowdcast.
Tickets available via Eventbrite—click here to purchase!
No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby,andA Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.”
Studded with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from the author’s personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’ most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book—another instant Waters classic.
“That John Waters is a national treasure is a surety. Period. Thank you and good night . . . [Mr. Know-It-All] shows a vulnerability and an honesty and an almost frantic desire to impart to us, before he can no longer, his manic mantras, his obsessive treatises and his biting and blisteringly honest bons mots that are actually really enlightening life lessons.” —Alan Cumming, The New York Times Book Review
John Waters’ books Role Models (2010) and Carsick (2014) were national bestsellers, and his spoken-word shows This Filthy World and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the world. Indecent Exposure, a retrospective exhibition of Waters’ acclaimed artwork, was recently shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He is at work on a novel.

Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg, author of THE FIXED STARS
2020-08-13 12:00 - 13:30 | The Ruby, 23rd and bryant street, san francisco, 94110
Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of!
This is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring!
About The Fixed Stars
At age 36, while serving on a jury, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.
Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she, she wondered, if something at her very core could change so radically?
THE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love.
THE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit, and learning instead who we really are.
About the Author
Molly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books, A Homemade Life and Delancey, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post, the Guardian, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex.

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Solidarity: From Third World Liberation Front to Black Lives Matter
2020-08-13 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
Eastwind Books of Berkeley and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online conversation with authors Juanita Tamayo Lott, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Harvey Dong moderated by Janie Chen.
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Panelists:
Juanita Tamayo Lott grew up in the Fillmore/Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco in the 1950s. She was part of the historic 1968 SF State BSU/TWLF strike and served on the planning committee for the School of Ethnic Studies in 1969. Coming full circle, she served on the planning committees for the respective 50th anniversary commemorations in 2018 and 2019. In graduate school at the University of Chicago, she studied survey research, human ecology, demography, statistics and sociology. Her Washington, D.C. career was as a manager and senior demographer/statistician in the federal statistical system, including the U.S. Census Bureau. Juanita directed the first Office of Asian American Affairs in the federal government in the 1970s. In 2007 she co-founded Filipino American Studies at the University of Maryland. The Juanita Tamayo Lott Collection resides in The Library of Congress.
Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir by Juanita Tamayo Lott
Dr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes where she lives on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. In January of 1968 she was the first Native American student enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley. While attending UC Berkeley, Dr. War Jack participated as the first Native American component of the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide effort in establishing Native American Studies, African American Studies, Chicano Studies and Asian Studies. In 1969, Dr. War Jack and students united together to take over Alcatraz Island, which ended the Indian Termination policies.
Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight For Survival and Life by Dr. LaNada War Jack
Harvey Dong is a second-generation Chinese American who was active in TWLF-UC Berkeley strike for Ethnic Studies and the struggle to save the International Hotel (1969-1977). In 2002, he received his PhD in Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley. He is currently a lecturer in Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley and teaches Asian American history, Chinese American history and Asian American Contemporary Issues. In 2016, he received the American Cultures Ronald Takaki Teaching Award and in 2018, the Chancellor’s Public Scholar Faculty Fellowship. He is currently a humanities advisor for the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s project series on social justice, and is involved in the operations of Eastwind Books of Berkeley, promoting Asian American authors.
Power of the People Won’t Stop: Legacy of the TWLF at UC Berkeley by Harvey Dong
Moderator: Janie Chen was born and raised in Oakland, Janie is a rising senior at UC Berkeley studying sociology and ethnic studies. She works at Eastwind Books of Berkeley, where she became the co-editor of Power of the People Won’t Stop. Her current research looks into the cultural nuances of family reunification for formerly incarcerated Asian American and Pacific Islanders.
Eastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers, artists, poets and community workers.

VIRTUAL: Diane Cook in conversation with Rahawa Haile / The New Wilderness
2020-08-13 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Man V. Nature author Diane Cook for her anticipated debut novel, The New Wilderness. She’ll be in conversation with Rahawa Haile. Please join us!
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Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City—an over-populated, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives—is destroying her lungs. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore, because there is nowhere else to go. But across the country lies the Wilderness State, the last swath of open, protected land left. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. People are forbidden. Until now.
Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, this new community wanders through the grand country, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. As the group slowly learns to live and survive on the unpredictable and often dangerous land, its members battle for power and control and betray and save each other. The farther they roam, the closer they come to their animal soul.
To her dismay, Bea discovers that, in fleeing to the Wilderness State to save Agnes, she is losing her in a different way. Agnes is growing wilder and closer to the land, while Bea cannot shake her urban past. As she and Agnes grow further apart, the bonds between mother and daughter are tested in surprising and heartbreaking ways.
Yet just as these modern nomads come to think of the Wilderness State as home, its future is threatened when the Government discovers a new use for the land. Now the migrants must choose to stay and fight for their place in the wilderness, their home, or trust the Rangers and their promises of a better tomorrow elsewhere.

Diane Cook is the author of the story collection Man V. Nature, which was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, Believer Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, Tin House, Granta, and were anthologized in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She received a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her debut novel The New Wilderness is available August 11, 2020. Author photo by Katherine Rondina.

Rahawa Haile is the author of the forthcoming In Open Country, a book about her Appalachian Trail trek in 2016. She lives and writes in Oakland.

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VIRTUAL EVENT: Karen Tei Yamashita, Sansei and Sensibility
2020-08-13 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.
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This is a free event. The book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!
“An elegantly written, wryly affectionate mashup of Jane Austen and the Japanese immigrant experience. . . . Yamashita’s reimagining of Austen is sympathetic and funny—and as on target as the movie Clueless.” —Kirkus, starred review
“Karen Tei Yamashita contends with the Western canon in this astute, pitch-perfect, and wryly funny short story collection. . . . A genuine pleasure to read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“This hilarious new collection of stories and essays will make you chuckle, though underneath the humor is deft critique. Marie Kondo’s tidying up is juxtaposed with a tour of World War II internment camps. Sexist techno-orientalism and the meaning of Godzilla are reexamined. Local treasure, UCSC professor emerita, and acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has written a book about the Japanese American experience both entertaining and vital in this era of anti-immigration politics.” —Jason, Bookshop Santa Cruz bookseller
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

[Virtual Ruby] Molly Wizenberg, author of THE FIXED STARS
2020-08-13 19:30 | CA
[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Guests of Rubies are welcome to join; please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom.]
Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri.
We encourage you to purchase THE FIXED STARS from a local bookstore! Pre-order here from Green Apple Books and received a signed book plate: https://www.greenapplebooks.com/pre-order-new-titles-0
About The Fixed Stars
At age 36, while serving on a jury, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.
Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she, she wondered, if something at her very core could change so radically?
THE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love.
THE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit, and learning instead who we really are.
About the Author
Molly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books, A Homemade Life and Delancey, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post, the Guardian, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex.

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Jessica Lee and Bathsheba Demuth Celebrate the publication of Two Trees Make a Forest
2020-08-14 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
Jessica J. Lee is joined in conversation by Bathsheba Demuth to celebrate the publication of her book, Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family’s Past Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts (Catapult).
“This is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places, and the means of their bridging.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland
“Two Trees Make a Forest is glorious and extraordinary—in its language, in its setting, in its story. Jessica J. Lee has a brilliant eye for nature, an ear for languages, and a sensitivity to the poetry of the human heart. In these pages, she performs a subtle miracle: she retrieves lost strands of family, landscape, and history and weaves them together to create a surprising and soulful whole.” —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
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About Two Trees Make a Forest
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.
Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
About the authors
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning: A Year in the Water, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.
Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. Her first book, the prize-winning Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton), was named a best book of 2019 by Nature, NPR, Barnes and Noble, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal, and is out in paperback in August 2020. An environmental historian, Demuth specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon. For over two years, she mushed huskies, hunted caribou, fished for salmon, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Demuth is starting work on her second book, a biography of the Yukon River watershed from colonization to climate change. In the archive or on a dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, places, and other-than-human species intersect. Her writing on these subjects has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker.

Zoom Forward! Jessica Breheny, Richard Huffman & Helene Simkin Jara
2020-08-14 17:00 - 19:00 | CA
VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Jessica Breheny, Richard Huffman, and Helene Simkin Jara, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post. 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.
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.

R.O. Kwon, Rachel Khong And Cathy Park Hong For Point Reyes Books
2020-08-15 12:00 | CA
Fundraising Goal: $2000
It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Rachel Khong, R.O. Kwon and Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Evan Karp.
R.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, is published by Riverhead (US) and Virago/Little Brown (UK), and it is being translated into seven languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications, The Incendiaries received the Housatonic Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book and Los Angeles Times First Book Prize. Kwon’s next novel, as well as an essay collection, are forthcoming.
Rachel Khong’s debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, she also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district.
Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by W.W. Norton. Her third book of poems, Engine Empire, was published in Spring 2012 by W.W. Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
This event is hosted by Evan Karp, organizer of the Quiet Lightning reading series and events coordinator at Booksmith.
All proceeds benefit Point Reyes Books. Shop online now!

June 3 at 12 PM
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Online Fundraiser for GGP: Authors Byron Lane (A STAR IS BORED) & Steven Rowley (THE EDITOR) in Discussion with Author Bianca Marais
2020-08-15 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
A Great Good Place for Books welcomes authors Byron Lane (A STAR IS BORED) & Steven Rowley (THE EDITOR) in a discussion with author Bianca Marais on Saturday the 15th of August at 4 PM PDT.
Please choose the level that works for you, and thank you so much for your support of GGP!
$55 — hardcover copy of A STAR IS BORED + paperback copy of THE EDITOR + Zoom link to view the live discussion;
$40 — hardcover copy of A STAR IS BORED + Zoom link to view the live discussion;
$25 — paperback copy of THE EDITOR + Zoom link to view the live discussion;
$10 — Zoom link to view the live discussion.

Conversations with Authors - Christine Montross, M.D. (Virtual Event)
2020-08-16 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Sunday, August 16th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Christine Montross, M.D.
in conversation with Susannah Calahan

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.

Dr. Christine Montross’ important new work, Waiting for an Echo, reveals the psychological toll of incarceration and examines how we disproportionately punish people of color, people who are poor, and people who are mentally ill.
A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, Christine is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a practicing inpatient psychiatrist and performs forensic psychiatric examinations. She completed medical school and residency training at Brown University, where she received the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry and the Martin B. Keller Outstanding Brown Psychiatry Resident Award.
Her first book, Body of Work, was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and one of The Washington Post’s best nonfiction books of 2007. Her second book, Falling Into the Fire, was named a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For. She has also written for many national publications including The New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Washington Post Book World, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has been named a 2017-2018 Faculty Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, a 2010 MacColl Johnson Fellow in Poetry, and the winner of the 2009 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Emerging Indiana Authors Award. She has also had several poems published in literary journals, and her manuscript Embouchure was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
2020-08-16 20:00 | CA
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A monthly Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in Nomadic Press’ Zoom account. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by el Pocho Poeta Josiahluis Alderete.
This month’s features are Susana Praver-Perez and Alan Chazaro
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Susana Praver-Perez
By day she works as a Physician Assistant and Associate Medical Director at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland, California. By night she reads at poetry events across the Western hemisphere from San Francisco to San Juan. By nature, she’s a storyteller, relating that which she bears witness through her poetic lens. Susana studied poetry at Naropa Institute, UC Berkeley’s Poetry for the People and Berkeley City College from which she holds a Certificate in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in multiple publications and anthologies including The Acentos Review, La Respuesta, Poets Reading the News, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, Civil Liberties Untied, and Art Against Hate among others. Her first book of poetry, “Hurricane, Love Affairs and Other Disasters” is in the works.
Alan Chazaro
Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and the forthcoming Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and a Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco’s MFA program. He is currently a creative writing adjunct professor in the Bay Area, and writes basketball stories as a founding editor at HeadFake.

VIRTUAL: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
2020-08-17 11:00 - 13:00 | CA
Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This third event in the series features Aya Gruber discussing her book The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration.
This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.

Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women’s protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities.
Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tend to make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil poor women of color in a criminal justice system that is historically hostile to them. This carceral approach exacerbates social inequalities by diverting more power and resources toward a fundamentally flawed criminal justice system, further harming victims, perpetrators, and communities alike.
In order to reverse this troubling course, Gruber contends that we must abandon the conventional feminist wisdom, fight violence against women without reinforcing the American prison state, and use criminalization as a technique of last—not first—resort.

Aya Gruber is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. A former public defender, she is a frequent commentator on criminal justice issues. She has appeared on ABC, NBC, and PBS, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Denver Post, and Associated Press.

UC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith

8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies
8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration
8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.
To have The Feminist War on Crime sent to your door, order here.

Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
2020-08-17 20:00 | Nomadic Press, 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, 94601, United States
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.
This month’s features are TBA.
Donations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space.
The 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early
Free 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).

Virtual Event: Bridget Quinn and Carol Edgarian
2020-08-18 17:00 - 19:00 | CA
Join us on Tuesday, August 18 at 5pm PDT when Bridget Quinn discusses her new book She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next with Carol Edgarian
on the 100th Anniversary of the Ninetheenth Amendment

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About She Votes
She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.
From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.
This deluxe book also honors the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment with illustrations by 100 women artists.
• A colorful, intersectional account of the struggle for women’s rights in the United States
• Features heart-pounding scenes and keenly observed portraits
• Includes dynamic women from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Audre Lorde
She Votes is a refreshing and illuminating book for feminists of all kinds.
Each artist brings a unique perspective; together, they embody the multiplicity of women in the United States.
• From the pen of rockstar author and historian Bridget Quinn, this book tells the story of women’s suffrage.
• Perfect gift for feminists of all ages and genders who want to learn more about the 19th amendment and the journey to equal representation
• A visually gorgeous book that will be at home on the shelf or on the coffee table
• Add it to the shelf with books like Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik; Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl; and Why I March: Images from The Women’s March Around the World by Abrams Books.

Marquis Bey in conversation with Andrew Cutrone
2020-08-18 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
discussing
Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism
published by AK Press
This 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.
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In this bold and expansive treatise, Marquis Bey seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism—not, he says, by listing “all the Black people who are anarchists and the anarchists who are Black people,” but though a fluid and generative encounter between anarchism and Blackness.
Classical anarchism tended to avoid questions of race—specifically Blackness—as well as the intersections of race and gender. Skeptical of satisfying himself with the usual finger-pointing this lack invites, Bey addresses it head on, not by constructing a new cannon of Black anarchists but by outlining how anarchism and Blackness already share a certain subjective relationship to power, a way of understanding and inhabiting the world. Through the lens of a Black feminist and transgender theory that unsettles and subverts social hierarchies, he explores what we can learn by making the kinship of Blackness and anarchism explicit, including how anarchism itself is transformed by the encounter.
As Bey frames it, if the state is predicated on a racialized and gendered capitalism, its undoing can only be imagined and undertaken by a political theory that takes race and gender seriously, a theory of anarcho-Blackness.
Marquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Literature and English at Northwestern University.

Get Lit #63 (Music by: TBA)
2020-08-18 19:00 | CA
12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness.
We’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate 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.
Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! Even if you cannot make it, please help support the show from afar by donating.
Get beer. Get tacos. Get lit.
This month’s performers: TBA
Music by: TBA
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We are works in progress, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect, and we are always trying to be better.
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Alexandra Fuller, Travel Light, Move Fast
2020-08-18 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
Join us for an online event with bestselling author Alexandra Fuller who will discuss her new memoir Travel Light, Move Fast, a beautifully written and deeply loving portrait of her father. “[Fuller’s] family remains endlessly fascinating and delightful companions for long-time readers and new ones alike. . . A gorgeously written tribute to a life well lived and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable loss and grief.” —Booklist, starred review
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From the bestselling author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, a warm and candid memoir of grief, a deeply-felt tribute to her father, and a compulsively readable continuation of a brilliant series of books on her family. “[Fuller] sifted through a lifetime of memories in order to pen this celebration of the man whose profound influence helped shape her own worldview. [She]writes gracefully about embracing grief as an indelible part of the human experience. Another elegant memoir from a talented storyteller.”—Kirkus Reviews
Alexander Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming. She is the author of several memoirs, including Leaving Before the Rains Come, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.

Conversations with Authors - Darin Strauss (Virtual Event)
2020-08-19 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Wednesday, August 19th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Darin Strauss
in conversation with Kelly Corrigan

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.

Darin Strauss’ new novel, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story, mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to explore the conceit that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Hollywood’s Lucille Ball.
Darin is the acclaimed author of the memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, an Entertainment Weekly “Must List” selection, a Chicago Tribune Editor’s Pick, and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the renowned author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, and the international bestseller More Than It Hurts You. He is a compelling speaker whose experience includes universities, libraries, book festivals, and corporations. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, Darin is a clinical associate professor at NYU’s creative writing program.
Kelly Corrigan‘s Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say is a wonderfully personal, honest, and hilarious examination of the essential phrases that make love and connection possible. She has been called “the voice of her generation” by O: The Oprah Magazine and “the poet laureate of the ordinary” by HuffPost. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Middle Place, Lift, and Glitter and Glue. Kelly is the host of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan premiering on PBS October 5 and the host of a new podcast coming from PRX, also in October.

Virtual: Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Sara Campos
2020-08-19 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her new novel, The New Americans, with Sara Campos.
Select praise for Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them.”The New York Times
“Powerful…Marcom’s writing is intensely poetic.”Washington Post
“Lyrical…Marcom is so talented.”Chicago Tribune
“Dazzling and disquieting.”Los Angeles Times
“Marcom’s seamless, ethereal prose is suffused with raw emotion; there is heart-break on every page, but also hope.”San Francisco Chronicle
About The New American
In this timely and emotionally powerful novel, award-winning author Micheline A. Marcom recounts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan-American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.
Emilio believes he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to ensure it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver’s license—however, his mother discourages it. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented.
Emilio adjusts to his new normal. He attends UC Berkeley. He falls in love. All is going well…until Emilio gets into a car accident and—without a driver’s license or any documentation—the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE].
Emilio is deported to Guatemala. But he is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him across thousands of miles through remote towns, lush jungles, and eventually the Sonoran Desert of the US-Mexico border, meeting thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends.
Inspired in part by interviews with Central American refugees, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline A. Marcom weaves a heart-pounding and heartbreaking tale of adventure. The New American is an important and well-timed novel that asks us what we have in common—across cultures, experiences, and borders—and what makes us not only American, but altogether human.
