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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Better Ancestors: Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Amanda Muñiz\, Isabelle Khoo-Miller\, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents the second Better Ancestors\, featuring readings and performance by Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Amanda Muñiz\, Isabelle Khoo-Miller\, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin! This show curated by the artists who performed at the first Better Ancestors (pictured top left\, clockwise L-R): Josiah Luis Alderete\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Greer Nakadegawa-Lee\, Nia McAllister and Brontez Purnell—find out more about them and watch their performances here\, then join us on April 5! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS (pictured above\, clockwise from top right)\nKai Sugioka-Stone is a Japanese-American poet\,  mindfulness-based meditator\, musician\, actor\, photographer\, and upcoming filmmaker. His writing focuses on liminal identity\, and growing up in the era of California Wildfires\, the Trump presidency\, and COVID. He featured at San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck’s event Sudden Return of The Fire Thieves. His work was featured in the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day Project. He was published in The Berkeley Times’ Poetry Edition Vol. 10\, No. 16\, as well as Quiet Lightning’s zine sPARKLE & bLINK #104. He read at Tea Root’s Recovery A.C.T. and gave an online writing workshop reflecting on Japense-American identity with Nikkei Rising. He is part of Lauren Ito’s upcoming exhibit\, Political Inheritcance. Photo by Kristen Murakoshi. \nAmanda Muñiz is a Mexican writer born in Puebla and raised in Oakland\, California. She majored in English Literature from San Francisco State University. Her work has been published by Pochino press and more recently in the Translating Migration poetry anthology project. Amanda has been a featured reader in various shows in the Bay Area including the electrifying ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? the hilarious ¿Donde Esta mi Comedy?\, BEASTCrawl\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitQuake’s legendary LitCrawl\, as well as the Carnival of Poetry organized by Writers of Singapore. The immigrant experience has inspired most of her writing\, which she considers a reflection and a testament of her family’s resilience as well as a never-ending letter of love and gratitude to her parents. Photo courtesy of the author. \nIsabelle Khoo-Miller is a child of earth\, like all of us. They are alive and in abundant love. They create in many mediums\, including imagination. They are from the ocean and have roots and familia in Coastal Miwok and Ohlone land\, the Bay Area. Photo courtesy of the author. \nArlene Biala (she/her) is a Pinay poet born in San Francisco and raised in the South Bay. She has been participating in poetry performances and workshops for over 30 years and was the 2016-2017 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. She is the author of several collections of poetry: bone\, continental drift and her beckoning hands\, which won the 2015 American Book Award. Her latest book\, one inch punch\, was published in January 2019. Photo courtesy of the author. \nMelissa Merin has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and\, a consistently retiring punker. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is also a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish” though\, many zines and blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa has the distinction of being one of a few Black cis-women of her generation to not love Beyonce or Oprah. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nOne of Quiet Lightning’s efforts to diversify and move toward racial equity\, Better Ancestors is a new quarterly showcase of writers of color. Developed in partnership with Michael Warr\, the series features 5 authors reading or performing whatever they choose. Each author selects one performer for the following show\, so the series – and community – is self-generating. All authors are paid and published in an end of the year anthology. \nWhy Better Ancestors? As one of our initiatives to diversify from a board that has historically been mostly white\, this showcase aims to provide a long-term\, forward-thinking goal. As a society\, we are suffering the consequences of pervasive systemic injustice against people of color\, queer and trans people\, the poor\, disabled\, and otherwise disadvantaged. But we are all ancestors of the future. If the planet is to remain inhabitable; if the function of humanity is not to sort and oppress our descendants based on their skin color\, accent\, or material property\, we must be better ancestors. This begins by listening to one another\, and by giving each other space to be heard. \n\nABOUT MICHAEL WARR (pictured above\, right)\nMichael Warr’s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. In 2020\, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nABOUT QUIET LIGHTNING\nNow in its 11th year\, Quiet Lightning is a literary movement to create and foster community around the written and spoken word. QL aims to democratize public space by offering performances\, curation opportunities\, and programming with no barriers to entry\, providing a launchpad for new and emerging artists\, a reliable platform for professional writers\, and an inclusive\, accessible gathering place for the public. QL is committed to care-taking and progressing the rich threads of literary culture that exist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of the 100 “people\, organizations\, and movements who are shaping the future of culture”\, Quiet Lightning’s flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a blind selection process and different curators for each show. The shows\, which are free to attend\, are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people\, and all participating artists are paid. QL has now produced 137 shows featuring 1\,673 readings by 879 local authors in 91 venues\, ranging from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks\, and has published 115 books and produced two films\, all selected by 74 different curators. In 2019\, Quiet Lightning pioneered an application process for limited-term board-membership\, called Disruptors\, to regularly bring new ideas and energy into the organization. QL maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nMAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION OR SUPPORT US ON PATREON\nEvery tax deductible donation helps Quiet Lightning invest in a sustainable\, ethical arts ecosystem\, with the goal of building that culture into the fabric of our lives. You can donate by Venmo or PayPal or pledge a recurring donation by becoming one of our supporters on Patreon\, which comes with a few additional perks and helps us expand on the work that we do.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/better-ancestors-kai-sugioka-stone-amanda-muniz-isabelle-khoo-miller-arlene-biala-and-melissa-merin/
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lahey with Mary Laura Philpott - The Addiction Inoculation (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:In this supportive\, life-saving resource\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure helps parents and educators understand the roots of substance abuse and identify who is most at risk for addiction\, and offers practical steps for prevention. \nJessica Lahey was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse. Despite her desire to thwart her genetic legacy\, she became an alcoholic and didn’t find her way out until her early forties. Jessica has worked as a teacher in substance abuse programs for teens\, and was determined to inoculate her two adolescent sons against their most dangerous inheritance. All children\, regardless of their genetics\, are at some risk for substance abuse. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse\, teen drug addiction is the nation’s largest preventable and costly health problem. Despite the existence of proven preventive strategies\, nine out of ten adults with substance use disorder report they began drinking and taking drugs before age eighteen. \nThe Addiction Inoculation is a comprehensive resource parents and educators can use to prevent substance abuse in children. Based on research in child welfare\, psychology\, substance abuse\, and developmental neuroscience\, this essential guide provides evidence-based strategies and practical tools adults need to understand\, support\, and educate resilient\, addiction-resistant children. The guidelines are age-appropriate and actionable—from navigating a child’s risk for addiction\, to interpreting signs of early abuse\, to advice for broaching difficult conversations with children. \nThe Addiction Inoculation is an empathetic\, accessible resource for anyone who plays a vital role in children’s lives—parents\, teachers\, coaches\, or pediatricians—to help them raise kids who will grow up healthy\, happy\, and addiction-free. \nJessica Lahey writes about education\, parenting\, and child welfare for The Washington Post\, the New York Times\, and The Atlantic and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book\, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She is a member of the Amazon Studios Thought Leader Board and wrote the curriculum for Amazon Kids’ The Stinky and Dirty Show. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons. \nMary Laura Philpott is the author of I Miss You When I Blink\, the nationally bestselling memoir-in-essays. Her writing has been featured frequently by The New York Times and also appears in such outlets as The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Paris Review Daily\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nDo you remember the first real challenge you faced as an adult? When you looked around and realized\, “This problem is completely on me to solve\, and there’s no one around who will point the way. What will I do to handle it?” \nIn a memoir and guidebook for young adults who are starting out and working their way up\, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims of How to Raise An Adult offers a roadmap to early adulthood called Your Turn: How to Be An Adult. This book is for the emerging early adult ages 18-35. From your earliest “Oh wow\, how am I going to handle this?” adulting moment and onward\, this smart\, funny and frank author offers solidarity to her younger self and to any person just beginning to build a future. Turns out\, crafting a confident adulthood is not an easy\, one-time task\, and it takes a long time to stick the landing. \n\n\n\n\nJulie offers guideposts for the new adulthood. No longer are a marriage and a lifelong job the “be all end all” of your adult years. Crafting a life for yourself today looks a lot more complex. Real estate prices and a pandemic may have you living with parents—but within that scope\, you can still craft a mature independence. Your career path may include several jobs\, instead of a single five-decade career with pension—and yet there is still a way to build continuity in your work. With respect for how the world has changed\, Lythcott-Haims offers something that any modern early adult will appreciate: good guidance\, respect\, and advice that doesn’t assume a one-size-fits-all approach to adulthood. This is the nitty gritty support we all wish we had. \n\n\n\n\nThe former Stanford dean shares all this and more in a webinar interview and hour-long conversation with Adam Smiley Poswolsky\, millennial workplace expert and author of The Quarter Life Breakthrough and the forthcoming Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Join two experts—one who has been there\, and one still in the thick of crafting modern adulthood—as they discuss what it takes to build a powerful life for yourself in 2021. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-with-adam-smiley-poswolsky/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nDo you remember the first real challenge you faced as an adult? When you looked around and realized\, “This problem is completely on me to solve\, and there’s no one around who will point the way. What will I do to handle it?” \nIn a memoir and guidebook for young adults who are starting out and working their way up\, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims of How to Raise An Adult offers a roadmap to early adulthood called Your Turn: How to Be An Adult. This book is for the emerging early adult ages 18-35. From your earliest “Oh wow\, how am I going to handle this?” adulting moment and onward\, this smart\, funny and frank author offers solidarity to her younger self and to any person just beginning to build a future. Turns out\, crafting a confident adulthood is not an easy\, one-time task\, and it takes a long time to stick the landing. \n\n\n\n\nJulie offers guideposts for the new adulthood. No longer are a marriage and a lifelong job the “be all end all” of your adult years. Crafting a life for yourself today looks a lot more complex. Real estate prices and a pandemic may have you living with parents—but within that scope\, you can still craft a mature independence. Your career path may include several jobs\, instead of a single five-decade career with pension—and yet there is still a way to build continuity in your work. With respect for how the world has changed\, Lythcott-Haims offers something that any modern early adult will appreciate: good guidance\, respect\, and advice that doesn’t assume a one-size-fits-all approach to adulthood. This is the nitty gritty support we all wish we had. \n\n\n\n\nThe former Stanford dean shares all this and more in a webinar interview and hour-long conversation with Adam Smiley Poswolsky\, millennial workplace expert and author of The Quarter Life Breakthrough and the forthcoming Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Join two experts—one who has been there\, and one still in the thick of crafting modern adulthood—as they discuss what it takes to build a powerful life for yourself in 2021. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-with-adam-smiley-poswolsky-2/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Hoa Nguyen with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:Hoa Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection \nA Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure \npublished by Wave Books \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———– \nA poetic meditation on historical\, personal\, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” with verse biography on the poet’s mother\, Diệp Anh Nguyễn\, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered\, plaintive\, and provocative\, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. By turns lyrical and unsettling\, Hoa Nguyen’s poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time\, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry\, including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave\, forthcoming 2021)\, As Long As Trees Last\, Red Juice\, and Violet Energy Ingots\, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry\, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry\, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions\, including Princeton University\, Bard College\, Poet’s House\, and the Banff Centre’s Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination\, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour\, Granta\, The Walrus\, New York Times\, and Poetry\, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States\, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011. \nGarrett Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (2010)\, Retrievals (2014)\, and Power Ballads (2016). He is an editor at City Lights Books\, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. Caples was also a contributing writer to theSan Francisco Bay Guardian and has coedited the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013)\, Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore\, and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He makes his home in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hoa-nguyen-with-garrett-caples/
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SUMMARY:Bettye Kearse - The Other Madisons (Book Discussion & Film Screening)
DESCRIPTION:In The Other Madisons\, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and\, according to oral tradition\, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy\, race\, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.  \n \nFor thousands of years\, West African griots (men) and griottes (women) have recited the stories of their people. Without this tradition Bettye Kearse would not have known that she is a descendant of President James Madison and his slave\, and half-sister\, Coreen. In 1990\, Bettye became the eighth-generation griotte for her family. Their credo—“Always remember—you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president”—was intended to be a source of pride\, but for her\, it echoed with abuses of slavery\, including rape and incest. \nConfronting those abuses\, Bettye embarked on a journey of discovery—of her ancestors\, the nation\, and herself. She learned that wherever African slaves walked\, recorded history silenced their voices and buried their footsteps: beside a slave-holding fortress in Ghana; below a federal building in New York City; and under a brick walkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. When Bettye tried to confirm the information her ancestors had passed down\, she encountered obstacles at every turn. \nPart personal quest\, part testimony\, part historical correction\, The Other Madisons is the saga of an extraordinary American family told by a griotte in search of the whole story.\nAbout the Author \nBettye Kearse is a writer and retired pediatrician. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Herald\, TIME Magazine\, River Teeth\, Zora\, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, among other places. The Other Madisons received the International Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Book Award for Nonfiction\, Autobiography. Her research for The Other Madisons was covered in the Washington Post. She lives in New Mexico. \nEduardo Montes-Bradley creates films with a transcendent documentary style. He has been awarded multiple distinctions for his photography of the descendants of the enslaved community. His biographical portrayal of Civil Rights activist Julian Bond was presented at the Royal Academy in London. \n  \nBettye Kearse photo by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
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SUMMARY:Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, with Konda Mason
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy. She’ll be in conversation with Konda Mason. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order We Are Each Other’s Harvest here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn this impressive anthology\, Natalie Baszile brings together essays\, poems\, photographs\, quotes\, conversations\, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s\, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45\,000. Baszile explores this crisis\, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words\, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The “Returning Generation”—young farmers\, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors\, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice\, food sovereignty\, and reparations. \nThese farmers are joined by other influential voices\, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel\, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford\, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty\, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives\, adding richness and texture\, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams\, and Baszile’s personal collection. \nAs Baszile reveals\, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family\, the way our national identity is bound up with the land\, the pull of memory\, the healing power of food\, and race relations. She reminds us that the land\, well-earned and fiercely protected\, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended\, tilled\, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color\, celebrating their perseverance and resilience\, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening\, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil. \nAbout the authors\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. \nKonda Mason is a social entrepreneur\, finance activist\, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice\, Inc\, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to Black farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class exploring conversations at the intersection of Land\, Race\, Money & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder and VP of Potlikker Capital\, a next economy loan fund specially designed to deploy integrated capital to Black American farmers. \nKonda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland)\, an award winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of RUNWAY\, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs\, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland\, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap\, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. \nAlong with her partner\, actor Woody Harrleson\, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and was responsible for negotiating the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area. Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute and has an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business. She teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the U.S.A. \nKonda sits on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis\, TN\, On Being with Krista Tippett\, One Generation with Paul Hawken\, Lion’s Roar Magazine\, and is a Trustee at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-natalie-baszile-we-are-each-others-harvest-celebrating-african-american-farmers-land-and-legacy-with-konda-mason/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, APRIL 6 AT 6PM PT WHEN SANJENA SATHIAN JOINS US FOR THE LAUNCH OF HER NOVEL\, GOLD DIGGERS\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83436765824\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83436765824#  or +12532158782\,\,83436765824#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kch8N18RIF \nPraise for Gold Diggers \n“In a perfect alchemical blend of familiar and un-\, Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story\, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire\, and creates a world that’s both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it’s hard to believe it’s Sanjena Sathian’s debut\, this is a dizzyingly original\, fiercely funny\, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers—and dangers—of borrowed ambition.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n“A refreshing tweak of the assimilation novel…Sathian artfully and convincingly conjures [this] world…Sathian has a knack for page-turner prose\, but the story has plenty of heft. A winningly revamped King Midas tale.” —Kirkus \n“Dazzling…the sharp characterizations bring humor and contemplation in equal measure\, touching on the pressures Neil and Anita face to produce a legacy that honors their parents’ sacrifices. Sathian’s bildungsroman isn’t one to miss.” —Publishers Weekly \nAbout Gold Diggers \nA brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talent. \nSpanning two continents\, two coasts\, and four epochs\, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative\, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose\, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family\, of a diaspora\, and of the American meritocracy. This blockbuster novel both entertains and levels a critique of what Americans of color must do to make their way. \nA floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs\, Neil Narayan is authentic\, funny\, and smart. He just doesn’t share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents’ expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success\, but mostly\, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac\, Anita Dayal. \nBut Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali have been brewing an ancient alchemical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the jewelry’s original owner. Anjali’s own mother in Bombay didn’t waste the precious potion on her daughter\, favoring her sons instead. Anita\, on the other hand\, just needs a little boost to get into Harvard. But when Neil—who needs a whole lot more—joins in the plot\, events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. \nTen years later\, Neil is an oft-stoned Berkeley history grad student studying the California gold rush. His high school cohort has migrated to Silicon Valley\, where he reunites with Anita and resurrects their old habit of gold theft—only now\, the stakes are higher. Anita’s mother is in trouble\, and only gold can save her. Anita and Neil must pull off one last heist. \nGold Diggers is a fine-grained\, profoundly intelligent\, and bitingly funny investigation in to questions of identity and coming of age—that tears down American shibboleths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sanjena-sathian/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, with Konda Mason
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy. She’ll be in conversation with Konda Mason. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order We Are Each Other’s Harvest here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn this impressive anthology\, Natalie Baszile brings together essays\, poems\, photographs\, quotes\, conversations\, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s\, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45\,000. Baszile explores this crisis\, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words\, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The “Returning Generation”—young farmers\, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors\, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice\, food sovereignty\, and reparations. \nThese farmers are joined by other influential voices\, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel\, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford\, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty\, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives\, adding richness and texture\, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams\, and Baszile’s personal collection. \nAs Baszile reveals\, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family\, the way our national identity is bound up with the land\, the pull of memory\, the healing power of food\, and race relations. She reminds us that the land\, well-earned and fiercely protected\, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended\, tilled\, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color\, celebrating their perseverance and resilience\, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening\, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil. \nAbout the authors\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. \nKonda Mason is a social entrepreneur\, finance activist\, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice\, Inc\, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to Black farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class exploring conversations at the intersection of Land\, Race\, Money & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder and VP of Potlikker Capital\, a next economy loan fund specially designed to deploy integrated capital to Black American farmers. \nKonda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland)\, an award winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of RUNWAY\, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs\, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland\, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap\, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. \nAlong with her partner\, actor Woody Harrleson\, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and was responsible for negotiating the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area. Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute and has an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business. She teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the U.S.A. \nKonda sits on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis\, TN\, On Being with Krista Tippett\, One Generation with Paul Hawken\, Lion’s Roar Magazine\, and is a Trustee at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-natalie-baszile-we-are-each-others-harvest-celebrating-african-american-farmers-land-and-legacy-with-konda-mason/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Launch of Girl Warriors With Author Rachel Sarah
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 6\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of GIRL WARRIORS: HOW 25 ACTIVISTS ARE SAVING THE EARTH with author Rachel Sarah. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83371714301. \n(Preorder your copy of  GIRL WARRIORS at http://bit.ly/ggpGirlWarriors.) \nDescription\n\n“It gives me true hope to read about the phenomenal young women of Girl Warriors. Their fierce commitment to the future of our precious planet is as inspiring as it is vital.” —Kate Schatz\, New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide  \nInterviews with 25 young eco-activists present a hopeful picture of the future of environmentalism  \nGirl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth tells the stories of 25 climate leaders under age 25. They’ve led hundreds of thousands of people in climate strikes\, founded non-profits\, given TED talks\, and sued their governments. \nThese fearless girls and young women from all over the world are standing up to demand change when no one else is.  \nAbout the Author\n\nRachel Sarah is a writer and journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has been published in places like the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Parents\, and Common Sense Media. She has appeared on The Today Show\, CNN\, ABC\, and CBS news. She has spoken to audiences at the JCC\, UC Berkeley\, and the Commonwealth Club. Rachel is one of the founding editors of Literary Mama and has worked to support other women writers. She shifted the focus of her writing to the climate during the devastating California wildfires of 2018. She’s also the mother of two incredible daughters who are twelve years apart. Visit her online at RachelSarah.com. \nPraise For…\n\n“A powerful collection of hopeful\, diverse\, and fearless voices that ignites readers to dream loud\, think big\, take action\, and make change.” —Mae Respicio\, award-winning author of The House That Lou Built  \n  \n“This collection spotlighting the fierce and fearless leadership of 25 junior climate activists will inspire humans of all ages to rise up for a better world.” —Rebecca Woolf\, author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ok-launch-of-girl-warriors-with-author-rachel-sarah/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T170000
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-brontez-purnell-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T180000
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CREATED:20210314T212046Z
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents the Panel: Creating Our Own 'Table'
DESCRIPTION:Many marginalized writers celebrate the moment that they receive “a seat at the table\,” and this is quite often their goal. Yet\, others of us believe that having a seat at the table is another way of waiting to be included or invited to attend\, thereby still centering whiteness. This panel will focus on writers of color who are creating their own tables\, including Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Tara Betts\, and Neelanjana Banerjee. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin was recently named San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate and is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is launching Black Freighter Press\, a platform for building movement culture and supporting Black literary arts\, with a specific focus on incarcerated poets\, Bay Area poets of color\, and Black women. \nTara Betts is the author of the poetry collections Break the Habit\, Arc & Hue\, and the forthcoming Refuse to Disappear. Aside from coediting several anthologies\, Tara is Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and the Lit Editor at Newcity. She is currently working on establishing The Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago’s South Side as a space for arts education\, community space\, and cultural programming. \nNeelanjana Banerjee’s writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, PANK Magazine\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today and many other places. She is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press\, an independent press dedicated to Asian Pacific American and Asian Diasporic literature. She teaches writing and literature classes at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles\, and is at work on a novel. \nThis event is the second installment of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aunt-lute-and-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Greg Grandin & Edwards-Tiekert: Empire's Workshop
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nGreg Grandin & Brian Edwards-Tiekert Zoom Event\nEmpire’s Workshop: Latin America\, the U.S.\, and the Rise of the New Imperialism \n“Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present.” -Naomi Klein\, author of No Logo \n“Greg Grandin knows the history of modern Guatemala better than anybody else in the world outside of that country-and therefore understands the nature of U.S. attitudes and action toward Latin America at their most disturbing. This grants him keen insight into the manic ferocity behind U.S. imperialism across the globe today\, which he describes in fine\, rich\, vivid\, bitter detail. Grandin also shrewdly observes that the outrages possible in little U.S. neo-colonies are not so easy to accomplish on a grand scale… -John Womack\, author of Zapata \nThe British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush administration’s aggressive foreign policy. But America’s imperial identity was actually shaped much closer to  home. In a brilliant excavation of long-obscured history\, Empire’s Workshop shows how Latin America has functioned as a proving ground for American strategies and tactics overseas. Historian Greg Grandin follows the United States’ imperial operations from Jefferson’s aspirations for an “empire of liberty” in Cuba and Spanish Florida to Bush’s policies\, where many of the administration’s leading lights first embraced the deployment of military power to advance free market economics and enlisted the evangelical movement in support of their ventures. \nGreg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia\, Empire’s Workshop\, The Last Colonial Massacre\, and the award-winning The Blood of Guatemala. \nBrian Edwards-Tiekert is the founder and co-host of UpFront\, the morning drive-time public affairs program on KPFA Radio. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/greg-grandin-brian-edwards-tiekert-latin-america-us-new-imperialism-tickets-138075257813
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greg-grandin-edwards-tiekert-empires-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Imbolo Mbue with Kawai Strong Washburn
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nOn April 7th\, one of the most exciting literary writers of today presents her latest novel with Kepler’s! In conversation with Kawai Washburn Strong\, bestselling novelist Imbolo Mbue shares How Beautiful We Were\, a David and Goliath story in which a small African village stands in defiance of an American oil company. Don’t miss this webinar conversation between two phenomenal authors. \nMbue’s new book has been 17 years in the writing—and though the author says that though she didn’t write through that whole time\, she felt persistently haunted by the story. You will be\, too. How Beautiful We Were offers an unforgettable narrative drawn from revolutionary movements\, the global politics of oil\, Mbue’s own life\, and so much more. This is a stunning sophomore novel by the extraordinary literary voice who brought us Behold the Dreamers. \nHow Beautiful We Were has earned the singing praise of readers ranging from reviewers at Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly to titanic figures like Oprah\, Tracy K. Smith and Sigrid Nunez. If you’re already a Mbue reader\, you will love How Beautiful We Were\, and for new fans this writer offers inspiring themes that are prefect for our times. Mbue has said of her books\, \n“[T]he two novels don’t bear too many obvious similarities but they’re in fact quite similar—they both have a lot to do with dreams\, and how hopes are dashed\, how relationships are tested by the worlds in which characters live\, how love is sustained\, how passion is renewed\, how people are able to dig in and find the will to keep going on\, believing that someday their lives will get better.” \nDig in with Kepler’s\, Imbolo Mbue and Kawai Strong Washburn on Wednesday\, April 7th. This author just keeps getting better. \n\nIMBOLO MBUE is the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers\, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. The novel has been translated into eleven languages\, adapted into an opera and a stage play\, and optioned for a miniseries. A native of Limbe\, Cameroon\, and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Universities\, Imbolo Mbue lives in New York City. \n\n\n\n\nKAWAI STRONG WASHBURN is the author behind the critically acclaimed debut Sharks in the Time of Saviors. Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘I. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Formerly a Bay Area writer and frequent visitor to Kepler’s\, he now lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. ** \nPhoto of Imbolo Mbue by Kiriko Sano. Photo of Kawai Strong Washburn by Crystal Lieppa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imbolo-mbue-with-kawai-strong-washburn/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gene Stone & Kathy Freston - 72 Reasons to Be Vegan (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that if you adopt a vegan diet you can enjoy better sex? Save money? Have glowing skin? You can ward off Alzheimer’s\, Type 2 diabetes\, rheumatoid arthritis\, and other metabolic diseases. You can eat delicious burgers. Help save the planet. Join the cool kids\, like Gandhi\, Tolstoy\, Leonardo—and Kyrie Irving\, Kat Von D\, and Joaquin Phoenix. Oh\, and did we mention have better sex? (It’s about blood flow.) \nThose are just some of the 72 reasons we should all be vegan\, as compiled and persuasively argued by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston\, two of the leading voices in the ever-growing movement to eat a plant-based diet. While plenty of books tell you how to go vegan\, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is the book that tells you why. And it does so in a way that emphasizes not what you’d be giving up\, but what you’d be gaining. The tone is upbeat\, passionate\, and direct\, and the facts are plentiful and annotated. \nWhether because of environment\, health\, or compassion for animals\, more and more people are dipping their toes into Meatless Mondays\, eating vegan before 6:00 p.m.\, choosing Impossible Burgers\, or helping books like Thug Kitchen\, Forks Over Knives\, and Skinny Bitch become national bestsellers—making 72 Reasons to Be Vegan the ideal next book for every food-conscious reader and the perfect gift vegans can give to their friends and family. \nGene Stone is a former Peace Corps volunteer\, journalist\, and book\, magazine\, and newspaper editor\, and is a New York Times bestselling author. He has written\, co-written\, or ghostwritten more than 45 books on a wide variety of subjects\, but for the last decade he has concentrated on plant-based diets and their relationship to health\, animal protection\, and the environment. Among these books are Forks Over Knives\, How Not to Die\, Animalkind\, The Engine 2 Diet\, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life\, Rescue Dogs\, Mercy for Animals\, and Eat for the Planet. Find more at genestone.com. \nKathy Freston is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple health and wellness books\, notably The Lean\, Quantum Wellness\, and Clean Protein. Her advocacy for a more healthy\, sustainable\, and just food system is inspired by her concern for human health as well as animal and environmental welfare. Kathy appears frequently on national TV\, including Ellen\, Dr. Oz\, Good Morning America\, The Talk\, Extra\, and Oprah\, and her work has been featured in Vanity Fair\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Self\, W\, Fitness\, and The Huffington Post. Kathy enjoys hiking and biking\, will travel almost anywhere for a good plant-based meal\, and is obsessed with her adopted mutt\, Trixie. Find more at kathyfreston.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gene-stone-kathy-freston-72-reasons-to-be-vegan-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Dana Spiotta
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Litquake and Scribner Books present \nRachel Kushner in conversation with Dana Spiotta \n     \ncelebrating the launch of Rachel Kushner’s \nThe Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 \npublished by Scribner \nFrom a writer celebrated for her “chops\, ambition\, and killer instinct” (John Powers\, Fresh Air)\, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. \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———- \nThis is a ticketed event that will require registration. Details to be announced soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to register. Link coming soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nRachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (Michael Lindgren\, The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd\, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political\, artistic\, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction. \nIn nineteen razor-sharp essays\, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism\, memoir\, cultural criticism\, and writing about art and literature\, including pieces on Jeff Koons\, Denis Johnson\, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp\, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula\, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories\, her love of classic cars\, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown\, San Francisco. The closing\, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia\, doom\, and writing. \nThese pieces\, new and old\, are electric\, phosphorescently vivid\, and wry\, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail\, imagination\, and gallows humor\,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly\, and\, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive\, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.” \nRachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award. She grew up in San Francisco and lives in Los Angeles. \nDana Spiotta is is the author of four novels: Innocents and Others\, (2016)\, which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was shortlisted for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia (2011)\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document (2006)\, which was a National Book Award Finalist in fiction and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Lightning Field (2001). Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow\, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow\, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. \nAdvance praise for THE HARD CROWD \n“The Hard Crowd is wild\, wide-ranging\, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.”\n—Taylor Antrim\, Vogue \n“[Kushner] seems to work with a muse and a nail gun\, so surprisingly yet forcefully do her sentences pin reality to the page.”\n—Kathryn Schulz\, New York Magazine \n“Kushner can really write. Her prose has poise and wariness and moral graininess that put you in mind of Robert Stone of Joan Didion.”\n—Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \n“Rachel Kushner is astounding.”\n—Anne Tyler\, The Guardian \n“Kushner is brilliant.”\n—Griel Marcus \n“She’s going to be the one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we’ll be needing in hard times to come.”\n—George Saunders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-dana-spiotta/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Morgan Jerkins\, Caul Baby
DESCRIPTION:HarperCollins presents New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins for a reading and discussion of her new novel\, Caul Baby. Following the critical and popular success of her first two books of nonfiction\, Jerkins returns with her electrifying fiction debut\, Caul Baby\, a family saga filled with secrets\, betrayal\, intrigue\, and magic. \nTickets for this virtual event will be on sale soon. \n“In this fiction debut\, a woman desperate for a baby after a series of failed pregnancies turns to the powerful Melancons of Harlem\, whose celebrated healing powers lie in their possession of a caul. But they refuse to give her a piece while secretly whisking away a niece’s baby born with a caul and thus sure to extend their power. From the author of the New York Times best-selling Wandering in Strange Lands.” — Library Journal \nMorgan Jerkins is the author of Wandering in Strange Lands and the New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing and a Senior Editor at ZORA. A visiting professor at Columbia University and a Forbes 30 under 30 Leader in Media\, Jerkins’s short form work has been featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, ELLE\, Esquire\, and The Guardian\, among many others. She is based in Harlem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-morgan-jerkins-caul-baby/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: C Pam Zhang / How Much of These Hills Is Gold (paperback launch)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for C Pam Zhang and the paperback edition of her debut novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order *signed* copies of How Much of These Hills Is Gold here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \nAbout the author\nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words\, and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. Author photo by by Gioia Zloczower. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold-paperback-launch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - This Mournable Body
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nSpring dates: \nMarch 3: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu \nApril 7: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi  Dangarembga \nMay 5: Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble \nJune 2: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart \nJuly 7: Real Life by Brandon Taylor \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-this-mournable-body/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die Presents: GRIEF & HEALING w/Writing & Music
DESCRIPTION:a YG2D Workshop \nThis 4-session communal workshop offers a chance to creatively express ourselves & engage with our own [& collective] grief & healing through writing & music. It’s a chance to connect to community\, remember we’re not alone\, and tap into our innate wisdom to creatively face our unique experiences of being mortal. \nFOUR SESSIONS! \nWHEN: Wednesdays\, April 7th-April 28th\nTIME: 7-8:45p\nLOCATION: ZOOM\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $80-250 \nWe offer the workshop on a sliding scale\, but ask about further financial support if you need it to attend!\n***Two (2) full scholarships are available for BIPOC*** \nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \nFOR MORE DETAILS EMAIL: ned@yg2d.com\nEVENT ON FACEBOOK
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-grief-healing-w-writing-music/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Secrets and the Search for Self: Alka Joshi on The Henna Artist
DESCRIPTION:At 62\, debut novelist Alka Joshi shattered literary glass ceilings with The Henna Artist\, the “eloquent and moving” (Publishers Weekly) story of a 17-year-old girl who\, after fleeing a dark past\, finds herself a highly coveted henna artist (and secret confessor) to the wealthy upper-caste women of 1950s Jaipur.  A New York Times bestseller and instant book-club favorite\, this tale lifts the veil on a rarefied\, fascinating world\, fraught with more intrigue and whisper campaigns than the court of Versailles\, with a heroine whose shrewdness and vulnerability are poignantly relatable.  Said actress and bibliophile Reese Witherspoon\, who chose it for her book club\, The Henna Artist “captivated me from the first chapter to the final page.” \nWomen Lit is presenting this exciting first-time novelist and her hypnotic debut with the Sausalito Woman’s Club and Sausalito Books by the Bay for an exclusive\, members-only opportunity. If you’re not yet a Women Lit member\, sign up below and don’t miss your chance to ask Joshi about crafting a remarkable world\, the surprise of taking the book world by storm with her first novel\, and making compulsively readable literary magic. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. All copies will be shipped by Sausalito Books by the Bay starting April 6. Signed bookplate copies are limited and we can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-lit-unbound-presents-secrets-and-the-search-for-self-alka-joshi-on-the-henna-artist/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host the launch event for Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (Flatiron Books)\, a sweeping\, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice\, a mother motivated by her own past\, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Gabriela will read from and discuss her work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nFrom 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers\, from Cuba to Mexico\, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political\, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of a collection of extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers\, the legacy of the memories they carry\, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them\, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled\, honest\, human roots. \nIn present-day Miami\, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen\, a Cuban immigrant\, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen\, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement\, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding\, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. \nGabriela Garcia is author of the novel Of Women and Salt (March 30\, 2021). Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Tin House\, Zyzzyva\, Iowa Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Black Warrior Review\, and elsewhere. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award\, a Steinbeck Fellowship\, and residencies and fellowships from Breadloaf\, Sarabande Books\, Lighthouse Works\, the Keller Estate\, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She has an MFA in fiction from Purdue University\, where she also taught creative writing. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico\, Gabriela was raised in Miami and currently lives in the Bay Area. In her past life she worked in music\, magazines\, technology\, and feminist and immigrant rights organizing. Follow her at www.gabrielagarciawriter.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriela-garcia-of-women-and-salt/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Gabriela Garcia
DESCRIPTION:IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LITQUAKE\nJOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 8 AT 5PM PT WHEN GABRIELA GARCIA DISCUSSES HER DEBUT NOVEL\, OF WOMEN AND SALT!\nA PART OF LITQUAKE’S EPICENTER SERIES\nPreorder the book here and receive a signed copy! \nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host the launch event for Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (Flatiron Books)\, a sweeping\, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice\, a mother motivated by her own past\, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Gabriela will read from and discuss her work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration required. Spots are limited. You can register for this event here. \nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nAbout Of Women and Salt\nFrom 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers\, from Cuba to Mexico\, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political\, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of a collection of extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers\, the legacy of the memories they carry\, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them\, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled\, honest\, human roots. \nIn present-day Miami\, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen\, a Cuban immigrant\, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen\, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement\, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding\, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. \nAbout Gabriela Garcia\nGabriela Garcia is author of the novel Of Women and Salt (March 30\, 2021). Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Tin House\, Zyzzyva\, Iowa Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Black Warrior Review\, and elsewhere. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award\, a Steinbeck Fellowship\, and residencies and fellowships from Breadloaf\, Sarabande Books\, Lighthouse Works\, the Keller Estate\, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She has an MFA in fiction from Purdue University\, where she also taught creative writing. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico\, Gabriela was raised in Miami and currently lives in the Bay Area. In her past life she worked in music\, magazines\, technology\, and feminist and immigrant rights organizing. Follow her at www.gabrielagarciawriter.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-gabriela-garcia/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck's Poetry Night\, One City One Book Edition
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER \nNatasha Dennerstein\, Molly Fisk\, Kelly Grace Thomas\, Kelliane Parker and Ramona “Mona” Webb lead a One City One Book inspired reading. \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Dennerstein has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. \nMolly Fisk edited California Fire & Water\, A Climate Crisis Anthology\, with a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. She’s the author of The More Difficult Beauty\, Listening to Winter\, and Houston\, We Have a Possum among other books and has won grants from the NEA\, the California Arts Council and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Fisk lives in the Sierra foothills\, where she teaches writing to cancer patients\, provides weekly commentary to community radio and works as a radical life coach. Connect –  Website | Patreon | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nKelly Grace Thomas is the winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle\, a 2018 finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award\, a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Next nominee. Boat Burned\, her first full-length collection\, was released by YesYes Books in January 2020. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Best New Poets 2019\, the Los Angeles Review\, Tinderbox\, Nashville Review\, Sixth Finch\, Muzzle\, DIAGRAM and more. They have received fellowships from Tin House\, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, Kenyon Review Young Writers’ and more. Connect – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nKelliane Parker is a Bay Area poet and co-host of My Word Open Mic. Parker has performed in the Bay Area\, and her work has been featured in local anthologies. Her work gives voice to survivors of sexual abuse and other violent trauma to heal and break the cycle. \nRamona “Mona” Webb is a scholar\, practitioner\, teaching performance artist and Afro-Creek queer activist. Mona formerly served as Artistic Director of Project ABLE and Lyrical Minded415\, which is an Art Based Learning for Equity seasonal course implemented in SFUSD’s Title I Neglected school sites. For 10 years Mona served as poetry Slammaster of San Francisco. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne City One Book\n\n\nEvents and workshops curated around SFPL’s One City One Book selection. One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is a citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time. For more information\, see sfpl.org/onecityonebook.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shucks-poetry-night-one-city-one-book-edition/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Todd Miller
DESCRIPTION:Todd Miller and guest TBD in conversation discussing \nBuild Bridges\, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders \nPublished by City Lights Books \nIn personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting\, the award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders. \nThe event is free to attend\, but you must register (HERE) \nPurchase book (HERE) \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation \nPraise for Build Bridges\, Not Walls: \n“In its soulfulness\, its profound moral imagination\, and its vision of radical solidarity\, Todd Miller’s work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.”—Ben Ehrenreich\, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \n“All of Todd Miller’s work is essential reading\, but Build Bridges\, Not Walls is his most compelling\, insightful book yet.”—Dean Spade\, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crises (And the Next) \n“Drawing on the work of abolitionist movement leaders\, this book points toward the radical opening of the imagination urgently needed to transform walls into bridges.”—A. Naomi Paik\, author of Bans\, Walls Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II \n“Todd Miller not only makes the case for tearing down the walls of Fortress America\, but also for the future of the planet and humanity. The stories of the humble people of the earth he documents ask us to also tear down the walls in our hearts and in our heads. What proliferates in the absence of these walls and in spite of them\, Miller writes\, is the natural state of things centered on kindness and compassion.”—Nick Estes\, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance \nTodd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years\, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson\, Arizona\, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca\, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, TomDispatch\, The Nation\, San Francisco Chronicle\, In These Times\, Guernica\, and Al Jazeera English\, among other places. Miller is the author of three books: Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso\, 2019)\, Storming the Wall: Climate Change\, Migration\, and Homeland Security (City Lights\, 2017)\, which was awarded the 2018 Izzy Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism\, and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights\, 2014). He’s a contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its column “Border Wars.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-miller/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Daniel B. Summerhill
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic Night\, April 8 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail Address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nFOLLOW THE ZOOM LINK TO RECEIVE A LOGIN TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc–sqjMvGtGhX_EMTqCBCfQsJKvF_gJG \nOnce you register via Zoom\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Daniel B. Summerhill \nDaniel B. Summerhill is Assistant Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition Studies at California State University Monterey Bay. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Obsidian\, Button Poetry\, Rust and Moth\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, The Hellebore\, The Lilly Review and others. He has performed in over 30 states\, The UK and was invited by the U.S Embassy to guest lecture and perform in Durban\, South Africa. He holds an MFA from Solstice of Pine Manor College. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-daniel-b-summerhill/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David Talbot and Margaret Talbot
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of their new book \nBy The Light Of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution \npublished by Harper Collins \nNew York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century—brought to life through seven defining radical moments that offer vibrant parallels and lessons for today. \n———- \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———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \nThe political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was perhaps one of the most tumultuous in this country’s history\, shaped by the fight for civil rights\, women’s liberation\, Black power\, and the end to the Vietnam War. In many ways\, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first\, striving to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white\, non-male\, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation’s founders. \nBased on exclusive interviews\, original documents\, and archival research\, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the twentieth century radical movement: Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers; Heather Booth and the Jane Collective\, the first underground feminist abortion clinic; Vietnam War peace activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda; Cesar Chavez\, Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers; Craig Rodwell and the Gay Pride movement; Dennis Banks\, Madonna Thunder Hawk\, Russell Means and the warriors of Wounded Knee; and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s politics of stardom. Margaret and David Talbot reveal the epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements and across race\, class\, and gender divides. \nAmerica is still absorbing—and reacting against—the revolutionary forces of this tumultuous period. The change these leaders enacted demanded much of American society and the human imagination. By the Light of Burning Dreams is an immersive and compelling chronicle of seven lighting rods of change and the generation that engraved itself in American narrative—and set the stage for those today\, fighting to bend forward the arc of history. \nDavid Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment\, Terror\, and Deliverance in the City of Love. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon\, and was a senior editor at Mother Jones and the features editor at the San Francisco Examiner. He has written for The New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, Time\, The Guardian\, and other major publications. Talbot lives in San Francisco\, California. \nMargaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004. Previously\, she was a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and\, from 1995 to 1999\, an editor at The New Republic. Her stories\, covering legal issues\, social policy\, and popular culture\, have appeared\, in addition to in the Times Magazine and The New Republic\, in The Atlantic Monthly\, National Geographic\, and the Times Book Review. She was one of the founding editors of Lingua Franca and was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. In 1999\, she received a Whiting Writer’s Award. She is the author of “The Entertainer: Movies\, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century\,” about Lyle Talbot\, her father. \nAdvance Praise for By The Light Of Burning Dreams: \n\n“By the Light of Burning Dreams crackles with the radical energy of the 1960s and 70s. It’s a shot in the arm of bold idealism\, an indispensable companion for today’s revolutionaries that reminds us what can happen if we dare to believe in – and fight for – a better world.” \n\n-Jessica Bruder\, author of Nomadland\n\n\n\n“An intelligent and sympathetic reappraisal of the political upheavals of the ’60s and’ 70s…. An abundance of fresh material gives this book an intergenerational appeal…. Through sharp reporting and good storytelling\, the authors enliven a journalistic genre that in less skilled hands might have gone flat.” \n\n–Kirkus\n\n\n\n“In these linked portraits of activists and radicals at a watershed moment in history\, David and Margaret Talbot tell a profound story about idealism in action and the rousing\, inspiring\, often messy ways in which popular movements and charismatic individuals fight injustice and bring about revolutionary transformation. By turns sweeping and intimate\, and built on fresh interviews and original reporting\, By the Light of Burning Dreams feels like necessary reading in our own tumultuous moment: an urgent reminder that change can happen and a vivid illustration of how it does.” \n\n-Patrick Radden Keefe\, author of Say Nothing\n\n  \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-and-margaret-talbot/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell and Friends\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: film still from 100 Boyfriends Mixtape (2016)\, 14 min. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-brontez-purnell-and-friends-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Matthew Gavin Frank In conversation with Elena Passarello
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gavin Frank discusses his new book\, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons\, Obsession\, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa (Liveright)\, with Elena Passarello. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Flight of the Diamond Smugglers\n  \n“Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical\, utterly compelling\, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil \nFor nearly eighty years\, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned\, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately\, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling\, particularly\, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property\, affixing diamonds to their feet\, and sending them into the air. \nEntering Die Sperrgebiet (“The Forbidden Zone”) is like entering an eerie ghost town\, but Frank is surprised by the number of people willing—even eager—to talk with him. Soon he meets Msizi\, a young diamond digger\, and his pigeon\, Bartholomew\, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security\, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes. For this\, Msizi blames “Mr. Lester\,” an evil tall-tale figure of mythic proportions. \nFrom the mining towns of Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth\, through the “halfway” desert\, to Kleinzee’s shores littered with shipwrecks\, Frank investigates a long overlooked story. Weaving interviews with local diamond miners who raise pigeons in secret with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security\, environmental managers\, and vigilante pigeon hunters\, Frank reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in every mining town. \nInterwoven throughout this obsessive quest are epic legends in which pigeons and diamonds intersect\, such as that of Krishna’s famed diamond Koh-i-Noor\, the Mountain of Light\, and that of the Cherokee serpent Uktena. In these strange connections\, where truth forever tangles with the lore of centuries past\, Frank is able to contextualize the personal grief that sent him\, with his wife Louisa in the passenger seat\, on this enlightening journey across parched lands. \nBlending elements of reportage\, memoir\, and incantation\, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. With his sovereign prose and insatiable curiosity\, Matthew Gavin Frank “reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look” (Toby Muse). \nAbout the participants\nMatthew Gavin Frank is the author of The Mad Feast and Preparing the Ghost\, which was reviewed on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette\, Michigan. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-gavin-frank-in-conversation-with-elena-passarello/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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