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SUMMARY:Intro to Flash Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you are invited to try your hand at flash fiction! \nFlash fiction and poetry share a few things in common: a short condensed form\, high intensity\, and a focus on brevity and language. Whether you are a poet\, fiction writer\, or anyone simply interested in giving it a go\, please join us for a fun and productive writing session. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• An orientation and definition: What is flash fiction? \n• The four basic building blocks of all fiction (both short and long fiction) \n• How to think critically about flash fiction \n• 1-3 first drafts of your own flash pieces! \n• Tools to generate further writing ideas of your own \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nBefore the start of the workshop\, you will receive 4 sample flash fiction pieces chosen by the instructor\, written in 4 different styles. The goal is to read them to find out what we like in our own writing and to discover our own voices. In addition\, thinking objectively about these stories will help us fine-tune our ability to think critically about our own stories and to revise and edit our own stories. \nIn the workshop\, you will receive options for 3 writing prompts to generate your own flash fiction pieces\, including time to write. At the end\, we will have time for students to share what they have written. What is read out loud will not get critiqued\, but students and instructor can give brief positive feedback\, and highlights to encourage each other. \nNOTE from the instructor: If we do not have time in the class to read all of the student’s first drafts\, and the students wish to have their work read\, I will make myself available via email to respond to work they created in the class. \n  \nAbout the Teacher:\nJosé Enrique Medina (aka Henry) writes poems\, flash fiction and short stories. He started writing in this genre 33 years ago even before it was called flash fiction. He loves flash pieces because they are mini-journeys that can take readers on a full gondola ride in the space of just a page or less. His flash fiction has appeared in Best Microfiction 2019 Anthology\, The Los Angeles Review\, Tahoma Literary Review\, The Burnside Review\, and many other publications. He earned his BA in English from Cornell University\, has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations\, is a Voices of Our Nation fellow\, and enjoys raising chickens.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/intro-to-flash-fiction/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry\, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete\, poets and writers who loved Pete will read their favorite poems. We’ll start with Good Times editor Steve Palopoli reading “Shopper’s Corner\,” Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz David Sullivan will read “I Wish I Was Billy Collins\,” Wellstone Books Publisher Steve Kettmann will read “Middle Age\,” novelist and Soho Press publisher Bronwen Hruska will read “The Woman of My Dreams\,” and Wallace Baine\, local author and man of letters\, will read … whatever he wants. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nMcLaughlin’s posthumous book\, I Wish I Was Billy Collins\, is part standup comedy\, part painfully revealing self-exploration—a tender\, heartbreaking\, hilarious book of poems about the male condition in the 21st Century. \nThese are poems to read and reread and then to read aloud to friends. Even nonplussed strangers will smile knowingly after being ushered into Pete McLaughlin’s world\, laughing at his manic\, self-deprecating take on the grim horror of waking up to find yourself a divorced middle-aged dude living by yourself with a cat\, one given to fits of projectile vomiting. \nThe poems range from a riff on the yearning of an “Angry Prius” who just wants to get out in the fast lane\, one time\, and drive all-out “mercilessly tailgating all comers\, / even senior citizens\,” to the revelations of “Middle Age\,” about being picked up by a woman in her sixties who “plays teasing\, exploratory footsie beneath the tablecloth/her unblinking green-light eyes/locked mercilessly onto mine/she winks knowingly\, her big toe somehow in my pocket now. \nPete McLaughlin grew up in San Francisco and was a standout runner in high school and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut\, before earning his teaching credential. He was an elementary school teacher and a high school coach for years before moving to Santa Cruz\, California\, where he often played his trumpet alone on the bluffs looking out at the pounding Pacific.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poems-to-make-you-laugh-cry/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh - Continuing the Journey with Dante's Purgatorio (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio\, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. \nDante and Virgil begin their climb of the immense Mountain of Purgatory in the middle of the unpopulated waters of the Southern Hemisphere. Before reaching Purgatory proper\, they travel through Ante Purgatory and then up through the seven terraces\, each one reflecting one of the seven deadly sins. Their goal is the Earthly Paradise at the top of the mountain and along the way they will meet the many saved souls who are happily purifying themselves for their ascent to Paradise.  Purgatory is “where the soul of man is cleansed\,/ made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (dove l’umano spirito si purga/e di salire al ciel diventa degno” Canto I\, 5-6.) \nWendy Walsh has a PhD in Italian Literature from UC Berkeley. She has been teaching Italian language and literature since 1979.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-class-wendy-walsh-continuing-the-journey-with-dantes-purgatorio-via-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T190000
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SUMMARY:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 5 @ 7 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpMyYear or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/MyYearAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA darkly comic look at what happens when a young woman attempts to drug herself into a year-long hibernation. Extreme? Indeed. It also speaks to the myriad ways we can all choose to numb out and disconnect from life. \n— Samantha \n  \nWinter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List\n\n“Ottessa Moshfegh\, more than any other writer I can think of\, is great at capturing the feelings of despondency and malaise that come with living when and how we do. There are plenty of negative words to describe the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation—she’s detached and depressed\, she’s cruel and unfeeling—but Moshfegh writes her with such care and specificity I felt like I could live in her head forever.”\n— Theo Henderson\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \nDescription\n\nEntertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018 \n“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy\, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”\n— Entertainment Weekly  \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nNamed a Best Book of the Year by:\nThe Washington Post\, Time\, NPR\, Amazon\,Vice\, Bustle\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Kirkus Reviews\, Entertainment Weekly\, The AV Club\, & Audible \nAbout the Author\n\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Times bestseller. \nPraise For…\n\nNamed a best book of the year by The Washington Post\, Time\, The New York Times\, Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, GQ\, The Huffington Post\, Vice\, NPR\, LitHub\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly \nA New York Times bestseller \n“I don’t think I’m ever going to get over Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” —Parul Sehgal\, The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation-by-ottessa-moshfegh-ggp-online-book-club-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpMyYear or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/MyYearAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA darkly comic look at what happens when a young woman attempts to drug herself into a year-long hibernation. Extreme? Indeed. It also speaks to the myriad ways we can all choose to numb out and disconnect from life. \n— Samantha \n  \nWinter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List\n\n“Ottessa Moshfegh\, more than any other writer I can think of\, is great at capturing the feelings of despondency and malaise that come with living when and how we do. There are plenty of negative words to describe the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation—she’s detached and depressed\, she’s cruel and unfeeling—but Moshfegh writes her with such care and specificity I felt like I could live in her head forever.”\n— Theo Henderson\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \nDescription\n\nEntertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018 \n“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy\, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”\n— Entertainment Weekly  \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nNamed a Best Book of the Year by:\nThe Washington Post\, Time\, NPR\, Amazon\,Vice\, Bustle\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Kirkus Reviews\, Entertainment Weekly\, The AV Club\, & Audible \nAbout the Author\n\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Times bestseller. \nPraise For…\n\nNamed a best book of the year by The Washington Post\, Time\, The New York Times\, Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, GQ\, The Huffington Post\, Vice\, NPR\, LitHub\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly \nA New York Times bestseller \n“I don’t think I’m ever going to get over Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” —Parul Sehgal\, The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation-by-ottessa-moshfegh-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Alex Davies (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Alex Davies’ Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car tells the dramatic\, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google\, Uber\, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. \nAlex is a senior editor at Business Insider where he oversees the transportation coverage. He was formerly an editor at WIRED\, where he launched the transportation section in 2016. Along with autonomous vehicles\, he has covered everything from designing bike lanes to electric aviation to the quest to rebuild American infrastructure. He has written features about how General Motors beat Tesla in the race to build the affordable\, long-range electric car\, the nascent flying car industry\, and X\, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory.” A New Yorker by birth\, Mr. Davies has lived in California’s Bay Area since 2014. \nAarian Marshall is a staff writer at WIRED covering the business of moving people and things. Before WIRED\, Marshall wrote for The Atlantic’s CityLab\, GOOD\, and Agri-Pulse\, an agriculture trade publication. She’s based in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-alex-davies-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER \nWhether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program\, join our booksellers for a lively online discussion about each of the awesome titles in the program. Read three of the eight recommended books by February 28th and earn rewards from Bookshop\, Birichino Winery\, and Pacific Cookie Company! Read more about the Winter Reading Program here. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-winter-reading-program-mixer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER \nWhether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program\, join our booksellers for a lively online discussion about each of the awesome titles in the program. Read three of the eight recommended books by February 28th and earn rewards from Bookshop\, Birichino Winery\, and Pacific Cookie Company! Read more about the Winter Reading Program here. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-winter-reading-program-mixer-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210108T193000
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SUMMARY:Words Out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Imogen Arate and John Blair read from their poetry. Plus open mic and literary trivia quiz. \nImogen Arate is an award-winning Asian-American poet and writer and the Executive Producer and Host of the weekly poetry podcast Poets and Muses (https://poetsandmuses.com/). She has written in four languages and published in two. Her work was most recently featured in ChArt Journal 2020\, The New Verse News and the literary journal\, Dyst. \nJohn Blair has published six books\, most recently Playful Song Called Beautiful (University of Iowa Press\, 2016) as well as poems & stories in The Colorado Review\, Poetry\, The Sewanee Review\, The Antioch Review\, New Letters\, and elsewhere. His seventh book\, The Art of Forgetting\, is forthcoming this December from Measure Press. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Texas State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series/
LOCATION:MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T120000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89568964677\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89568964677#  or +13462487799\,\,89568964677#\nWebinar ID: 895 6896 4677\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kex7DqWe5z \nAbout Uplift and Empower \nDid you know that over 700 million people live on less than $2 a day? \nNearly 10% of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time.Eradicating extreme poverty may seem like a simple issue\, but in reality\, it’s very complex. \nIn Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation you’ll learn about: \n\nThe history and context of poverty and how the Industrial Revolution shaped modern social structures\nMajor challenges caused by poverty and what it means to live within the poverty mindset\nInnovative solutions to addressing poverty\, such as new methods for job creation and community engagement\nAnd so much more…\n\nThis book is an exploration into one of the most pressing issues of our time. It’s for anyone interested in becoming part of the solution\, and everyone that’s ready to Uplift and Empower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-danielle-hawa-tarigha/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry & Short Stories Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize)\, Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories)\, and Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts and Storage Unit for the Spirit House). \nAbout the authors and their books: \nBrian Komei Dempster is a professor of rhetoric and language and a faculty member in Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of San Francisco (USF)\, where he also serves as Director of Administration for the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies. editor of both From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America’s Concentration Camps and Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. Topaz\, his debut book of poetry\, received the 15 Bytes 2014 Book Award in Poetry. \nHis book Seize spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and ailing child — a child whose many medical problems create an obstacle course of moral and emotional dilemmas. How does a father come to terms with the large and unknowable mysteries of a child who cannot communicate in a “normative” way? How does a parent — especially one who is dependent on language — guide a child without the use of speech? And how does one become the parent of another when their own uncertainties\, their own wounds — intergenerationally from war\, from strained race relations\, from constantly being denied a place to belong — are still healing? \nCaroline Kim was born in Busan\, Korea but moved to America at an early age. She has lived on the East Coast\, Midwest\, and Texas but now makes her home in Northern California with her family. Her collection of stories\, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\, won the 2020 Pitt Drue Heinz Literature Prize. You can find her on Twitter at @carolinewriting. \nExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora\, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America\, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War\, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter\, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot\, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try\, fail\, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor\, insight\, and curiosity\, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture\, communication\, travel\, and family. Ultimately\, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place–or people–that will feel like home. \nMaw Shein Win is a writer\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018) and her forthcoming second full-length collection of poetry will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. You can find her on Twitter @mawsheinwin. \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, almost all of whom were once humans who died violently\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nYou can purchase the speakers’ works here: \nSeize: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2708/Seize.html \nThe Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2703/The_Prince_of_Mournful_Thoughts_and_Other_Stories_%28_Pitt_Drue_Heinz_Lit_Prize_%29.html \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2189/Storage_Unit_for_the_Spirit_House.html \nInvisible Gifts: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2019/Invisible_Gifts.html \n15% off all purchases with discount code HOLIDAY15! \nChoose to ship your orders (free shipping for orders $30+) to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-short-stories-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore--virtually
DESCRIPTION:Discussing Mason’s most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California Book Award for fiction. This event is hosted by Ashby Village. To register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83908237472. For further information: info@ashbyvillage.org or call 510.204.9200. Donations to Ashby Village encouraged. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 10\, 2021 – 2:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThese stories–among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner–cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile’s depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere\, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro\, these are tales of ecstasy\, epiphany\, and what the New York Times Magazine called the “struggle for survival…hand to hand\, word to word.” \n“An enchanting cabinet of curiosities and wonders….Mason is one of our best historical novelists\, creating panoramas of rich detail\, propulsive plot\, and artful character development….In his first story collection\, he shows how quickly and completely he can immerse readers in a foreign place and time….Nine tales of human endurance\, accomplishment\, and epiphany told with style and brio.”– Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \nDaniel Mason is also the author of The Piano Tuner\, A Far Country\, and The Winter Soldier. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Zoetrope\, and Lapham’s Quarterly. A recipient of a fellowship from the NEA\, he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford. \nDiane Del Signore is Executive Director of the Simpso Literary Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mason-in-conversation-with-diane-del-signore-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series - Anna Karenina
DESCRIPTION:Anna Karenina\, by Leo Tolstoy\nWhat if the best way to end 2020 is to read “the greatest work of literature of all time”*??\nAnna Karenina may clock in at 817 pages but—Kimberly swears to you—these are 817 delightful\, engaging\, thought provoking\, historically rich pages. Tolstoy’s masterpiece is full of insanely great characters\, forbidden love\, military intrigue\, vodka\, agrarian reform and lovable wise dogs—all told with much humor and super-accessible intelligence. \nHonestly\, who among us does not want to escape for a couple of months to snowy\, romantic Imperial Russia of the 1870s? \nIf you’re worried you might get bogged down\, never fear! Tom Stoppard’s film adaptation is a thing of beauty. Read some then dig in to the movie and come to Kimberly’s two lectures knowing exactly what’s up. \nPlease join the gang in tackling this literary challenge—the longest novel in the seminars yet. You will be so glad you did. \n*Debatable. But according to a poll of eminent writers by The Guardian. \nJoin Kimberly Ford\, for this two-part seminar series on Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina. We will be hosting this two-part series on the following dates: \nMonday\, January 11 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nMonday\, February 1 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nA copy of Anna Karenina is included in the price of this seminar series and will be shipped to you or can be picked up at Kepler’s. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for this series. The book should be read prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-intensive-literary-seminar-series-anna-karenina/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. \nWhere Do We Go From Chaos? \nAs Jon Meacham writes in a back-cover blurb\, “many of America’s most thoughtful voices offer their views of the next chapter of our national life\,” in Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump\, published this month by Santa-Cruz-based Wellstone Books. Join Stephen Mack Jones\, Mark Ulriksen\, Angela Wright Shannon\, and Steve Kettmann to hear brief excerpts from the essays and wide-ranging discussion. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast! \nHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist STEPHEN MACK JONES is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers August Snow and Lives Laid Away\, which was short-listed for the CWA-UK “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.” \nArtist and illustrator MARK ULRIKSEN has been a regular New Yorker magazine cover artist for over 25 years. He’s covered The Masters and British Open for Golf Digest\, painted murals for the Chicago Bears and written and illustrated the book Dogs Rule Nonchalantly. His past work for Wellstone Books includes the covers of Kiss the Sky by Dusty Baker\, Shop Around by Bruce Jenkins and Holy Toledo by Ken Korach. \nANGELA WRIGHT SHANNON is a freelance writer\, editor and actor. She was formerly a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer\, managing editor for The Winston-Salem Chronicle weekly newspaper\, and a regular panelist on “North Carolina This Week” on North Carolina Public Television. \nSTEVE KETTMANN is the co-founder\, with Sarah Ringler\, of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (www.wellstoneredwoods.org)\, a Soquel writers retreat center\, and publisher of Wellstone Books. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle\, he conceived and edited Game Time\, a collection of New Yorker baseball writing by Roger Angell; authored One Day at Fenway and Baseball Maverick; and has co-authored more than 12 books\, including six New York Times bestsellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-now-what/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. \nWhere Do We Go From Chaos? \nAs Jon Meacham writes in a back-cover blurb\, “many of America’s most thoughtful voices offer their views of the next chapter of our national life\,” in Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump\, published this month by Santa-Cruz-based Wellstone Books. Join Stephen Mack Jones\, Mark Ulriksen\, Angela Wright Shannon\, and Steve Kettmann to hear brief excerpts from the essays and wide-ranging discussion. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast! \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist STEPHEN MACK JONES is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers August Snow and Lives Laid Away\, which was short-listed for the CWA-UK “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.” \nArtist and illustrator MARK ULRIKSEN has been a regular New Yorker magazine cover artist for over 25 years. He’s covered The Masters and British Open for Golf Digest\, painted murals for the Chicago Bears and written and illustrated the book Dogs Rule Nonchalantly. His past work for Wellstone Books includes the covers of Kiss the Sky by Dusty Baker\, Shop Around by Bruce Jenkins and Holy Toledo by Ken Korach. \nANGELA WRIGHT SHANNON is a freelance writer\, editor and actor. She was formerly a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer\, managing editor for The Winston-Salem Chronicle weekly newspaper\, and a regular panelist on “North Carolina This Week” on North Carolina Public Television. \nSTEVE KETTMANN is the co-founder\, with Sarah Ringler\, of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (www.wellstoneredwoods.org)\, a Soquel writers retreat center\, and publisher of Wellstone Books. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle\, he conceived and edited Game Time\, a collection of New Yorker baseball writing by Roger Angell; authored One Day at Fenway and Baseball Maverick; and has co-authored more than 12 books\, including six New York Times bestsellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-now-what-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Gretchen Rubin‘s most recent release\, Outer Order\, Inner Calm is a lovely\, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and\, by extension\, our lives. \nGretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make our lives happier\, healthier\, more productive\, and more creative. But for most of us\, a rigid\, one-size-fits-all solution doesn’t work. When we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits\, we can find inner calm. \nWith a sense of fun\, and a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people\, Rubin suggests dozens of manageable tips and tricks for creating a more serene\, orderly environment\, including: \n\nNever label anything “miscellaneous”\nAsk yourself\, “Do I need more than one?”\nDon’t aim for minimalism\nRemember: If you can’t retrieve it\, you won’t use it\nStay current with a child’s interests\nBeware the urge to “procrasticlear”\n\nBy getting rid of things we don’t use\, don’t need\, or don’t love\, we free our minds (and our shelves) for what we truly value. \nGretchen is also the author of the bestselling books The Happiness Project\, Happier at Home\, Better than Before\, and The Four Tendencies. She’s also written a bestselling biography of Winston Churchill\, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill\, and one of John Kennedy\, Forty Ways to Look at JFK. She also hosts a popular\, award-winning podcast\, “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” and a blog\, where she writes about her daily adventures in happiness and habit-formation. She is also a regular columnist for O\, The Oprah Magazine and makes regular appearances on CBS This Morning. Before turning to writing\, Gretchen had a career in law. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School\, she clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-gretchen-rubin-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gina Apostol
DESCRIPTION:Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award–winning novel \nRevolution According to Raymundo Mata \npublished by Soho Press \n———- \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———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nRaymundo Mata is a nightblind bookworm and a revolutionary in the Philippine war against Spain in 1896. Told in the form of a memoir\, the novel traces Mata’s childhood\, his education in Manila\, his love affairs\, and his discovery of the books of the man who becomes the nation’s great hero José Rizal (Rizal\, in real life\, is executed by the Spaniards for writing two great novels that spark revolution—the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. At the time Rizal died\, he was working on a third novel\, Makamisa). \nRaymundo Mata’s autobiography\, however\, is de-centered by another story: that of the development of the book. In the foreword(s)\, afterword(s)\, and footnotes\, we see the translator Mimi C. Magsalin (a pseudonym)\, the rabid nationalist editor Estrella Espejo\, and the neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic Dr. Diwata Drake make multiple readings of the Mata manuscript. Inevitably\, clashes between these readings occur throughout the novel\, and in the end the reader is on a wild chase to answer enduring questions: Does the manuscript contain Makamisa or is it Makamisa? Are the journals an elaborate hoax? And who is the perpetrator of the textual crime? \nIn this story about the love of books\, the story of a nation emerges. But what is a nation? What The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata imagines is that through acts of reading\, a nation is born. \nGina Apostol’s third book\, Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels\, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria\, Italy\, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, Gettysburg Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban\, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-apostol/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is to keep the community united during the time apart through our online\, roundtable discussions. We will be hosting online roundtables every-other-week with different topics to engage with the CHSA community. \n\n\nHere is our upcoming schedule! Feel free to join all topics* of interest to you: \n\nJanuary 13th-Miss Chinatown. A discussion about memories of the Miss Chinatown pageant in preparation for the Chinese New Year celebration.\n\nInterested in joining? Click here to register! \nPlease note: this is an interactive event. We encourage everyone to check that their microphones and cameras are working so that they can engage in the discussion. Space is limited to encourage participation among attendees. \n*Topics and discussion dates are subject to change depending on current events and interest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-roundtable-miss-chinatown/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T190000
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Joanna Ho
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event \nJoin us to celebrate the launch of Joanna Ho’s beautiful new picture book\, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners\, a love letter to Asian eyes that features three generations of women who all have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea. \nThis is your chance to take a break from the day to day at home and the bustle of being virtually back at school. Grab your kids\, their friends who they miss playing with\, and their cousins who you couldn’t visit over the holidays and get together – virtually – for a story time all about self acceptance\, loving oneself\, having confidence\, and respecting one’s roots. \n A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers’. They have big\, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s\, her grandmother’s\, and her little sister’s. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea\, crinkle into crescent moons\, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life\, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self love and empowerment. \nJoanna Ho is passionate about equity in books and education. She has been an English teacher\, a dean\, and a teacher/professional development mastermind. She is currently the vice principal of a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n Join us and discover the pleasure of an inspiring and affirming new story that is a celebration of identity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-joanna-ho/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Robert Jones Jr. - The Prophets (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning\, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals\, but also to each other\, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge\, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation\, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel’s love\, which was once so simple\, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony. \nWith a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison\, Robert Jones\, Jr. fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike\, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them\, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning\, The Prophets masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance\, but is also shot through with hope\, beauty\, and truth\, portraying the enormous\, heroic power of love. \nRobert Jones\, Jr. was born and raised in New York City. He received his BFA in creative writing with honors and MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. He has written for numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, Essence\, OkayAfrica\, The Feminist Wire\, and The Grio. He is the creator of the social justice social media community Son of Baldwin. Jones was recently featured in T Magazine‘s cover story\, “Black Male Writers of Our Time.” The Prophets is his debut novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-jones-jr-the-prophets-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with David P. Barash for his new book Threats: Intimidation and Its Dicontents. He’ll be in conversation with David Livingstone Smith (On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It). \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Threats here. We’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nFrom hurricanes and avalanches to diseases and car crashes\, threats are everywhere. Beyond objective threats like these\, there are also subjective ones: situations in which individuals threaten each other or feel threatened by society. Animals\, too\, make substantial use of threats. Evolution manipulates threats like these in surprising ways\, leading us to question the ethics of honest versus dishonest communication. Rarely acknowledged–and yet crucially important–is the fact that humans\, animals\, and even plants don’t only employ threats\, they often respond with counter-threats that ultimately make things worse. By exploring the dynamic of threat and counter-threat\, this book expands on many fraught human situations\, including the fear of death\, of strangers\, and of “the other.” Each of these leads to unique challenges\, such as the specter of eternal damnation\, the murderous culture of guns and capital punishment\, and the emergence of right-wing nationalist populism. Most worrisome is the illusory security of deterrence\, the idea that we can use the threat of nuclear war to prevent nuclear war! \nThreats are so widespread that we often don’t realize how deeply they are ingrained in our minds or how profoundly and counter-productively they operate. Animals\, humans\, societies\, and even countries internalize threats\, behind which lie a myriad of intriguing questions: How do we know when to take a threat seriously? When do threats make things worse? Can they make things better? What can we do to use them wisely rather than destructively? In a comprehensive exploration into questions like these\, noted scientist David P. Barash explains some of the most important characteristics of life as we know it. \nDavid P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. He’s written more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles on human and animal behavior\, and has written\, co-authored and edited 39 books\, most recently Threats: intimidation and its discontents\, which was just published on Oct. 1 by Oxford University Press. \nDavid Livingstone Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford\, Maine. He has written or edited nine books\, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean\, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press\, 2011)\, which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. His work has been translated into seven languages. David is an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers\, but also by historians\, legal scholars\, psychologists\, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries\, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media\, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit\, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-david-p-barash-with-david-livingstone-smith-threats-intimidation-and-its-discontents/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Women Lit presents Ann Patchett
DESCRIPTION:We are partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival to present a virtual event with bestselling author (and bookstore owner) Ann Patchett. \nVisit the Book Festival’s site for ticket information. \nAbout Ann Patchett and The Dutch House\nAnn Patchett’s sweeping\, emotionally piercing novels hit that sweet spot where literary prestige meets blockbuster mainstream success (millions of copies sold).  With The Dutch House\, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, Patchett is at her peak. This “engrossing\, warmhearted book” (NPR)\, a family saga spanning five decades\, tells the story of a brother and sister whose deep bond and secret-filled past is haunted by the legacy of an ornate mansion\, the “Dutch house\,” that was the site of childhood\, and later\, of their exile. Patchett\, who also runs Parnassus Books\, an iconic indie bookstore in her native Nashville\, is known as a literary citizen who speaks her mind with refreshing and down-to-earth brilliance. \nJoin Ann Patchett and Women Lit in a live event where you’ll have the chance to engage with her in real time. Please submit your questions for Ann when you purchase your ticket\, and she will answer as many as she can. As The New York Times Book Review said\, “Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.” We expect no less from our special experience with this author who will make your day with her warmth and wisdom! \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a signed copy of The Dutch House after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here. \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-lit-presents-ann-patchett/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Madeleine Watts
DESCRIPTION:Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel\, The Inland Sea (Catapult). \n“Full of heart and disquiet\, astute and precise\, almost savage in its eloquence\, illuminated about what it feels like to love\, to be left\, to want more.” —Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Inland Sea\nDrifting after her final year in college\, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift\, she is dropped into hundreds of crises\, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. \nThe work becomes monotonous: answer\, transfer\, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life\, and she begins walking home with keys in hand\, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time\, she gets black-out drunk\, hooks up with strangers\, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. \nTwo centuries earlier\, her great-great-great-great-grandfather–the British explorer John Oxley–traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea\, but the myth was taken up by other men\, and over the years\, search parties walked out into the desert\, dying as they tried to find it. \nInterweaving a woman’s self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis\, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent\, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency. \nAbout Madeleine Watts\nMadeleine Watts grew up in Sydney\, Australia and currently lives in New York. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University\, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her novella\, Afraid of Waking It was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Believer\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Literary Hub. The Inland Sea is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/madeleine-watts/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Sofia Samatar
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 14TH FEATURED WRITER: SOFIA SAMATAR\nSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories\, the short story collection\, Tender\, and Monster Portraits\, a collaboration with her brother\, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors\, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature\, African literature\, and speculative fiction at James Madison University in Virginia. \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-sofia-samatar-2/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, Sofia Samatar
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 14TH FEATURED WRITER: SOFIA SAMATAR\nSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories\, the short story collection\, Tender\, and Monster Portraits\, a collaboration with her brother\, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors\, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature\, African literature\, and speculative fiction at James Madison University in Virginia. \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-sofia-samatar/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Mary Ziegler with Becca Andrews / Abortion and the Law in America: Roe V. Wade to the Present
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Mother Jones are very pleased to host a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present. She’ll be in conversation with Mother Jones reproductive rights reporter Becca Andrews. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of Abortion and the Law in America here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nWith the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade\, the landmark abortion decision\, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period\, Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply championing rights\, those on opposing sides battled about the policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it. This mostly unknown turn deepened polarization in ways many have missed. Never abandoning their constitutional demands\, pro-choice and pro-life advocates increasingly disagreed about the basic facts. Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants\, Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible for the escalation of the conflict. A gripping account of social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies\, this book delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms American law and politics to this day. \nMary Ziegler is the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law. Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Garrow has called her “the premier historian of abortion in the post-Roe era.” She teaches and writes on the legal history of reproduction and constitutional law\, family law\, and sexuality. Her latest book is Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present (Cambridge University Press 2020). Her first book\, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard\, 2015)\, was the winner of the 2014 Harvard University Press Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first manuscript in any discipline. She often serves as commentator in leading mass media outlets across the world\, including The Atlantic\, The BBC\, the Boston Globe\, CNN\, the Guardian\, MSNBC\, NBC\, The New York Times\, NPR\, PBS News Hour\, Politico\, the Wall Street Journal\, and The Washington Post. \nBecca Andrews is a reporter at Mother Jones. A Southerner\, she most often writes about the Southeast\, gender\, and culture. Before joining Mother Jones as an editorial fellow\, she wrote for newspapers in Tennessee. Her work has also appeared in Slate\, Marie Claire UK\, and USA Today. Her first book\, No Choice\, on the dwindling access to abortion in the United States\, is forthcoming from Hachette’s Public Affairs imprint. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-mary-ziegler-with-becca-andrews-abortion-and-the-law-in-america-roe-v-wade-to-the-present/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Rameshwar Das (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Born Richard Alpert\, Ram Dass was a prominent Harvard psychology professor who partnered with Timothy Leary in psychedelic research\, and later traveled to India and met his guru\, Neem Karoli Baba. Upon returning to the US with his new name\, which means “servant of God\,” Ram Dass became a pivotal influence on the culture with his groundbreaking book Be Here Now—a backpacker’s bible for a generation of spiritual seekers. In this new definitive memoir\, Being Ram Dass\, America’s best-known and beloved spiritual teacher\, Ram Dass\, shares his life story set against the backdrop of eight decades of cultural transformation. \nRameshwar Das\, coauthor of Being Ram Dass\, will join Marin local Dr. Larry Brilliant\, in conversation about the life and new memoir from spiritual teacher and cultural icon\, Ram Dass. Both Rameshwar Das and Dr. Brilliant were longtime friends of Ram Dass\, having known him for over 50 years. Just as Neem Karoli Baba foretold Ram Dass he would write a book (Be Here Now)\, he also foretold Brilliant would work for the World Health Organization’s India smallpox program\, to help eradicate this ancient plague (which he did). \nRameshwar Das is an writer\, photographer\, and coauthor of several Ram Dass books including Be Love Now\, Polishing the Mirror\, and Being Ram Dass. He lives in East Hampton\, Long Island. \nDr. Larry Brilliant is a physician and epidemiologist\, CEO of Pandefense Advisory\, and a CNN Medical Analyst. He also serves on the board of the Skoll Foundation\, as well as co-founded the Seva Foundation\, an NGO whose programs have given back sight to more than 5 million blind people in two dozen countries. Dr. Brilliant is the author of Sometimes Brilliant\, a memoir about working to eradicate smallpox. He lives in Marin County\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-rameshwar-das-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kevin Begos in Conversation with Dan Polsby\, Vintage Berkeley--virtually
DESCRIPTION:discussing Tasting the Past: One Man’s Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World’s Original Wines. \n“Takes readers along on a journey to find the historical origins of wine. [Begos’s] story unfolds in a manner similar to the growth of ancient grapevines; rooted in a strong central narrative\, side stories grow like tendrils\, wrapping around and supporting each other\, while clusters of vividly described wines emerge like ripe grapes.”–Science \nTo register and buy the book\, please write dan@vintageberkeley.com. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, January 14\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n“A vintner’s blend of science\, history\, travel\, and tantalizing drink recommendations.”–Amy Stewart\, author of The Drunken Bo1tanist  \nPull up a chair and pour yourself a glass of whatever Dan recommends\, and enjoy a lively conversation between these wine experts! \nIn search of a mysterious wine he once tasted in a hotel room minibar\, journalist Begos travels along the original wine routes–from the  Caucasus Mountains\, where wine grapes were first domesticated eight thousand years ago\, crossing the Mediterranean to Europe\, and then America–and unearths a whole world of forgotten grapes\, each with distinctive tastes and aromas. We meet the scientists who are decoding the DNA of wine grapes\, and the historians who are searching for ancient vineyards and the flavors cultivated there. Begos discovers wines that go far beyond the bottles of Chardonnay and Merlot found in most stores and restaurants\, and he offers suggestions for wines that are at once ancient and new. \nKevin Begos is a former MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow and a former AP correspondent whose stories and research have appeared in major newspapers and other publications\, including Scientific American\, Harper’s\, Salon\, the Christian Science Monitor\, the Guild of Sommeliers\, USA Today\, and the New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-begos-in-conversation-with-dan-polsby-vintage-berkeley-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt in Conversation--virtually
DESCRIPTION:discussing their new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush\, Water-Conscious Landscape. \nEvery Bay Area gardener needs this book written and photographed by the same team that produced Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climates (published by EBMUD in 2004 and an instant bestseller at Mrs. Dalloway’s when we first opened). \nWatch this space for registration details as they become available. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, January 14\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nGardening in an area defined by arid summers and soggy winters can be challenging. But gardens can thrive in such conditions\, and this definitive handbook shares the plants and practices that will help you succeed. Landscape architect Nora Harlow and award-winning photographer Saxon Holt explain how plants adapt to the climate and how topography and climate relate. A comprehensive plant directory provides details on each plant’s needs\, and stunning photography shows how smart design can help address seasonal issues. It’s everything you need to create a flourishing summer-dry garden. \nNora Harlow is a landscape architect and gardener with wide-ranging experience in the summer-dry climates of California. She was assistant editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine for many years and supervisor of water conservation for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland\, where she designed low-water landscapes for District facilities. \nSaxon Holt is a photojournalist who has spent more than 40 years exploring Kingdom Plantae and the fundamental importance of plants to the health of the planet. A lifelong gardener\, he abandoned commercial photography when he discovered garden publishers and could no longer stay in a studio. His work has been featured in diverse publications\, from Architectural Digest and Pacific Horticulture to Smithsonian and Money magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nora-harlow-and-saxon-holt-in-conversation-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: George Saunders and Tobias Wolff
DESCRIPTION:bout the Event \nPart hilarious prophet\, part tender interpreter of the human condition\, Booker Prize winner George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) has been called “the only writer who predicted 2020.” His tales\, which generally are “not like anything anyone has written before” (The Atlantic)\, mix razor-sharp absurdism with a huge heart. They’re routinely celebrated with headlines like “George Saunders has written the best book you’ll read this year” (that was the New York Times on Tenth of December in 2013) or “a luminous feat of generosity and humanism” (Colson Whitehead on Lincoln in the Bardo in 2016). Or\, as Khaled Hosseini put it\, “Saunders makes you feel like you’re reading fiction for the first time.” \nHow does he do it? In our once-in-a-lifetime live\, virtual event\, Saunders teams up with his dear friend and mentor\, Tobias Wolff (This Boy’s Life) — one of Barack Obama’s National Medal of the Arts honorees — to celebrate Saunders’ first book in four years\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing\, Reading\, and Life. They’ll discuss how to channel the craft of four Russian greats (Chekhov\, Turgenev\, Tolstoy\, and Gogol) to create lives — both on and off the page — imbued with the profound humanity these masters awaken in readers: a recognition of our fragile\, surreal\, frequently funny\, sometimes tragic\, always beautiful existence. Join these two literary legends (and their favorite literary ancestors) for an unforgettable Friday night as together we kick off a new year with warmth\, wit\, and wisdom. \nTickets include an exclusive signed copy of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain! Note\, this event will be a one-time-only\, live\, interactive virtual experience\, not to be re-aired\, and both space and signed books are limited. Get your tickets now!  \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-george-saunders-and-tobias-wolff/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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