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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Natalie Jenner Discusses THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY with Author Bianca Marais
DESCRIPTION:A Great Good Place for Books presents Natalie Jenner\, author of one of the year’s buzziest books\, The Jane Austen Society\, in conversation with author\, Bianca Marais. \nJoin us for this virtual event on Saturday the 20th of June at 3pm. (PDT) $40 gets you ‘The Jane Austen Society’ as well as a Zoom link to watch the live interview with a Q&A afterwards. A $10 donation gets you a ticket to the event and an opportunity to support A Great Good Place for Books Visit www.ggpbooks.com to buy your ticket or donate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-fundraiser-for-ggp-author-natalie-jenner-discusses-the-jane-austen-society-with-author-bianca-marais/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200620T190000
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SUMMARY:Raphael Bob-Waksberg in conversation
DESCRIPTION:A free special online event (registration required) with Raphael Bob-Waksberg\, the creator of “BoJack Horseman\,” discussing his first book “Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory” with Kevin Hunsanger. \nWritten with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman\, Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s stories will make you laugh\, weep\, and shiver in uncomfortably delicious recognition. Equally at home with the surreal and the painfully relatable (and both at once)\, Bob-Waksberg delivers a killer combination of humor\, romance\, whimsy\, cultural commentary\, and crushing emotional vulnerability. \nThis FREE event requires an advance ticket registration – please follow the link above to register\, or click here: https://bit.ly/3cQMJU5
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Craig Childs Travels in Ice Age America
DESCRIPTION:Craig Childs is a writer\, wanderer and contributing editor at High Country News\, commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition\, and teaches writing at University of Alaska and the Mountainview MFA at Southern New Hampshire University. His books include Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (02019)\, Apocalyptic Planet (02013) and House of Rain (02008). \n\nCraig Childs’s Homepage\nMore about Craig Childs\n\n\n\nTune in at 4:30pm PT on 6/22/20 to watch the public live stream of this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter or Long Now Live. \nCraig Childs is a writer\, wanderer and contributing editor at High Country News\, commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition\, and teaches writing at University of Alaska and the Mountainview MFA at Southern New Hampshire University. His books include Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (02019)\, Apocalyptic Planet (02013) and House of Rain (0200
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Nina Renata Aron & Julian Tepper
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Nina Renata Aron (Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women\, Addiction\, and Love) & Julian Tepper (Between the Records). \nYou can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the date and join us! \nThis event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls and/or Between the Records and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nGood Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women\, Addiction\, and Love by Nina Renata Aron \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, Jezebel\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nBetween the Records by Julian Tepper \nJules and Adam Newman’s complex\, often hostile\, relationship has long fueled their music careers as they followed in their father’s footsteps. After the release of their debut record\, and while struggling to write tracks for the followup\, the brothers begin to clash. Jules\, the younger brother\, feels cast aside and ignored by Adam\, who has long been accustomed to having things his own way. From the studio to the stage and across the countless miles in between\, Julian Tepper’s third novel is a moody and heady work of autofiction based on his days in the Natural History\, which he and his brother formed in 2001. Between the Records examines brothers\, fathers\, rock and roll\, and the personal demons therein — both musical and familial. \n  \n  \n  \nJulian Tepper is the author of three novels\, Between the Records\, Ark and Balls\, and the essay\, ‘In Which Phillip Roth Gave Me Life Advice.‘ His work has appeared in The Paris Review\, Playboy\, The Daily Beast\, The Huffington Post\, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-nina-renata-aron-julian-tepper/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:City Lights Authors on the Road: Funeral Diva - Pamela Sneed
DESCRIPTION:Artists and activists reflect on organizing for gay liberation amidst the AIDS pandemic. \nArtists and activists including Pamela Sneed and Bill T. Jones speak with moderator Kia LaBeija about their reflections on the various stances of their respective generations\, the rise of identity politics\, and the day-to-day realities of creativity and activism within that environment. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nPamela Sneed is a poet\, professor\, and performer\, and the author of Sweet Dreams\, Kong\, and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery\, and the forthcoming book Funeral Diva\, published by City Lights this October. She has performed at the Whitney Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Poetry Project\, New York University\, Pratt University\, Smack Mellon Gallery\, The High Line\, Performa\, Performance Space\, Joe’s Pub\, The Public Theater\, BRIC\, and more. She is a member of the online faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute where she teaches Human Rights and Writing Art. \nBill T. Jones is a multi-talented artist\, choreographer\, dancer\, theater director and writer\, and Associate Artist for the 2020 Holland Festival. Mr. Jones has received major honors including the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award\, 2013 National Medal of Arts to a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He has won multiple Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and was named “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure” in 2000 by the Dance Heritage Coalition. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director\, Co-Founder and Choreographer of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company\, founded in 1982 with his late partner Arnie Zane\, and has created over 140 works for his company. He is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts\, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing\, presenting\, and educating.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-authors-on-the-road-funeral-diva-pamela-sneed/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: jessica Care moore / We Want Our Bodies Back
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host jessica Care moore for her new book of poems\, We Want Our Bodies Back. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note the early start time of 5:30pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nOver the past two decades\, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet\, performer\, publisher\, activist\, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice\, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving\, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power\, and express the pain\, sadness\, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate\, Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny\, criminalization\, hatred\, stereotypes\, sexual assault\, objectification\, patriarchy\, and death threats. \nWe Want Our Bodies Back is an exploration — and defiant stance against — these many attacks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-jessica-care-moore-we-want-our-bodies-back/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200623T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Literary Page Turners
DESCRIPTION:Page turners are usually associated with genre or popular fiction rather than literary fiction. In this discussion\, Melanie Abrams\, Laura Mazer\, and Kate Milliken will talk about what readers\, agents\, and editors are looking for when it comes to plot. We’ll talk about marketability\, but also how to write a beautifully crafted narrative while still making readers turn pages. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org! \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nMelanie Abrams\nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley and is a photographer and developmental editor.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nKate Milliken\nKate Milliken is author of the short story collection If I’d Known You Were Coming and the novel Kept Animals. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, anthologized in the California Prose Directory\, New Writing from the Golden State\, and received runner-up for the Rick… Read More →\n\n\n  \n  \n \nLaura Mazer\nLaura Mazer is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates\, Inc. Before becoming an agent\, she was the executive editor of Seal Press\, a boutique imprint of the Hachette Book Group\, and the managing editor of Counterpoint and executive editor of its imprint Soft Skull Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-literary-page-turners/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200623T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes debut novelist C Pam Zhang for an online event about her new book\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Zhang will be in conversation with fellow debut novelist Kawai Strong Washburn (Sharks in the Time of Saviors). In Zhang’s electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The books may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \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 re-imagined 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. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” —Emma Donoghue\, author of Room \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. \nKawai Strong 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. Today\, he lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. Sharks in the Time of Saviors is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T120000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot And Ed Yong For East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Rebecca Skloot and Ed Yong. \nRebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy Nominated HBO film. Her award winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O\, The Oprah Magazine\, and many other publications. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father\, Floyd Skloot\, co-edited The Best American Science Writing 2011. \nEd Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic\, and is based in Washington DC. His work appears several times a week on The Atlantic’s website\, and has also featured in National Geographic\, the New Yorker\, Wired\, Nature\, New Scientist\, Scientific American\, and many more. He has won a variety of awards\, including the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016 and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010 for his old blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. \nThis event is hosted by Annalee Newitz. \nAll proceeds benefit East Bay Booksellers. Shop online now! \n\nJune 24 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.l
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot-and-ed-yong-for-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200624T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Donovan Hohn\, Jordan Kisner and Jaswinder Bolina
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday June 24th at 5:00pm PDT for Donovan Hohn discussing his new essay collection The Inner Coast with Jordan Kisner. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87428031265 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87428031265#  or +13462487799\,\,87428031265#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 874 2803 1265\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdMMNCXVK5 \nPraise for The Inner Coast \nDonovan Hohn’s prose is as immaculate and quotable as that of any writer of his generation. And while you always sense his outrage about ecological calamity\, and never doubt his moral engagement\, his advocacy never feels hectoring. There’s no writer living or dead I would rather read on the reliably distressing topic of environmentalism than Donovan Hohn.— Tom Bissell \nI’ve seldom encountered a writer with a better understanding of both the literary and the journalistic ways and means of telling a true story. Donovan Hohn thinks clearly; he writes with eloquence and force.— Lewis H. Lapham \nDonovan Hohn has a diviner’s capacity to tap into the source and the flow of a story\, whether the ‘story’ is narrative or argumentative. His attention to the appearances of things—the false; the true—tunes the reader’s alert-addled animal brain to the meaningful\, and the terrible. As the Earth begins to resist us\, to remind us that how we’re living will be our undoing\, Hohn’s work is that sad\, happy thing\, glinting in the sand: evidence of what a human mind could do\, and what a human heart could yield.— Wyatt Mason \nAbout The Inner Coast \nPrize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck. \nWriting in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez\, Donovan Hohn is an “adventurous\, inquisitive\, and brightly illuminating writer” (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago\, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects ten of his best\, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s\, which feature his physical\, historical\, and emotional journeys through the American landscape. \nBy turns meditative and comic\, adventurous and metaphysical\, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools\, the dance between ecology and engineering\, the lost art of ice canoeing\, and Americans’ complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau. The Inner Coast marks the return of one of our finest young writers and a stylish exploration of what Guy Davenport called “the geography of the imagination.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-donovan-hohn-and-jordan-kisner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T193000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Alexandra Petri in conversation with Alexis Coe / Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri for her second book\, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays. She’ll be in conversation with Alexis Coe (You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nPlease note: Our start time is 5:30pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nIn Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n\nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. Author photo by Lisa M. Allen. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlexis Coe is an award-winning historian and author of the narrative history book Alice + Freda Forever (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe is a consulting producer on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s forthcoming George Washington series on the History Channel\, and has frequently appeared on CNN. She’s the cohost of Audible’s “Presidents Are People\, Too!” and the host of “No Man’s Land.” Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, Time\, and many others. She holds a graduate degree in American history\, and was a Research Curator at the New York Public Library. Author photo by Sylvia Rosokoff. \n  \n\nPlease note: \n>  This event is all ages.\n>  Facebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-alexandra-petri-in-conversation-with-alexis-coe-nothing-is-wrong-and-here-is-why/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
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SUMMARY:John Freeman with DA Powell
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman celebrates his new collection of poetry \nThe Park \npublished by Copper Canyon Press \nhe will be joined by DA Powell reading from his own new work. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n——— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase the book here in the near future)\n———– \nIn The Park\, his second book of poetry\, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish\, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained\, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it—a park is both natural and constructed\, exclusionary and open\, unfeeling and burdened with sentimentality. Pulling from both history and his own meditations in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris\, the seasons pass through famous parks\, personal parks\, parks beneath parks\, and other spaces with fabricated outer limits. Throughout\, Freeman wonders at how a park\, being both curated and public\, can be a nexus for a manifestation of great wealth inequality. How have we created these false boundaries for ourselves—with regard to physical space\, but also in our minds and societies\, in our personal relationships? Freeman plucks out difference in small daily dramas of people and animals only to dissolve it. Interspersed with meditations on love\, beauty\, and connection\, The Park is a pacific and unflinching mirror cast upon a space defined by its transience. \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s\, a literary biannual of new writing\, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing (forthcoming)\, as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality\, including Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation\, and Tales of Two Planets (forthcoming)\, which features storytellers from around the globe on the climate crisis. Maps\, his debut collection of poems\, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. He is the former editor of Granta and is a Writer in Residence at New York University. \nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and Repast: Tea\,Lunch\, and Cocktails. Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco. \nVisit http://dapowell.blogspot.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-freeman-with-da-powell/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
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SUMMARY:A Pretty Little Wilderness: Be About It Press Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:We’re going to gather to celebrate the release of Cassandra Dallett’s new book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness\, out on Be About It Press June 2020! \nJoining us we will have other Be About It Press authors\, Jesse Prado\, Violet Gehringer\, Amy Saul-Zerby\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-pretty-little-wilderness-be-about-it-press-book-release-party/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \n“The real in Nduka’s work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric.”—Joyelle McSweeney\, Boston Review \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \n\nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uche-nduka-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Zach Norris\, We Keep Us Safe
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris\, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, for an online event to discuss his new book\, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities—a groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination\, othering\, and punishment. Norris will appear online with special guest Marlena Henderson\, who is also featured in the book. They will share stories from We Keep Us Safe and discuss a framework to help understand and transform the policies and practices that perpetuate intergenerational trauma and community suffering. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\n \nAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart\, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear\, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe\, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of Us vs. Them. By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another\, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic\, smart investments—meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being\, like healthcare and housing\, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins. \nWe Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized\, so they can participate fully in life\, in society\, and in the fabric of our democracy. \n“Bright\, talented\, compassionate\, strategic\, and committed . . . Norris’s insights and story will be an enormously important contribution in the effort to advance human rights in this country.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \nZach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him @ZachWNorris. \nMarlena Henderson grew up in Santa Cruz County. Her family is directly and tragically impacted by the criminal justice system. Her parents were beloved contributors to the Santa Cruz community with their involvement in the American Cancer Society\, Cabrillo College\, NAMI\, the Santa Cruz Symphony\, and more. They tried for decades to access resources designed to intervene and rehabilitate their son but those efforts failed and the consequences were tragic. Marlena notes\, “When my brother first became involved in the system\, he was not capable of causing the kind of harm that has led me to fear for my life today. Now he is capable. The costs of that failure are too high for families like mine.” She is now an advocate for Criminal Justice reform and Mental Health reform. As a victim and a survivor of the mass incarceration movement she brings a unique perspective to many of the systems failures and opportunities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200625T210000
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy 5-year anniversary celebration
DESCRIPTION:Literary Speakeasy if five years old! So let’s have a virtual celebration and raise money for LYRIC\, a great charity located in the heart of the Castro. This month’s performers include Chelsea Davis\, Dazié Grego-Sykes\, MJ Jones\, Amanda Muñiz\, Dena Rod\, and Preeti Vangani. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel. Let’s raise a glass from the comfort of our homes and celebrate Literary Speakeasy\, LYRIC\, and the best Bay Area literary talent! \nLYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement\, career trainings\, health promotion\, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth\, their families\, and allies of all races\, classes\, genders\, and abilities. \nPerformer bios:\nChelsea Davis is a writer from San Francisco. She has published essays in Literary Hub\, Electric Literature\, and The Racket\, and her monthly newsletter\, Shrieks and Howls\, looks at the surprising overlaps between the comedy and horror genres\, two films at a time. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in sPARKLE + bLINK and Vastarien\, and she is currently at work on a poem cycle about classic horror cinema. More of her writing can be found at chelseamdavis.net. \nDazié Grego-Sykes is an Oakland based performance artist and activist. He is a graduate of The Experimental Performance Institute at New College of California and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from The California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently\, he is touring two solo plays AM I A MAN and NIGGA-ROO while promoting his spoken-word album titled MAKE ME BLACK. This evening Dazié is reading from his collection of poetry and prose BLACK FAGGOTRY which was published by Nomadic Press in early 2020. \nMJ Jones is a poet & parent living in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Rigorous Mag\, & Borderlands Texas Poetry Review. They are an Assistant Poetry Editor at Foglifter Press. MJ has received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, SF Writers Grotto\, VONA\, & Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently the Community Engagement Graduate Fellow in the MFA program at Mills College. \nAmanda Muñiz is a Mexican writer born in Puebla and raised in Oakland\, California. She majored in English Literature from San Francisco State. Her work has been published by Pochino press\, and she 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\, and LitQuake’s legendary LitCrawl. 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. \nDena Rod is a writer\, editor\, and poet based in the Bay Area. Through creative nonfiction essays and poetry\, Dena works to illuminate their diasporic experiences of Iranian heritage and queer identity\, combating negative stereotypes of their intersecting identities in the mainstream media. You can learn more about their work at https://www.denarod.com \nPreeti Vangani is a poet & personal essayist. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions)\, winner of RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in BOAAT\, Juked\, Gulf Coast\, Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the Poetry Editor for Glass Journal and teaches poetry with Youth Speaks in the Bay Area. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco. \nJames J. Siegel is the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. He is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and “The God of San Francisco\,” set for release this October from Sibling Rivalry Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-5-year-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200626T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200626T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Farnaz Fatemi\, Ingrid Browning & Lisa Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with Farnaz Fatemi\, Ingrid Browning\, and Lisa Ortiz\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post.  \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Email any questions to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-farnaz-fatemi-ingrid-browning-lisa-ortiz/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
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SUMMARY:Redress: Book Talk with Author John Tateishi
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 27 at 3pm\nRSVP with Eventbrite to access the Zoom link. \nAuthor John Tateishi discusses his book\, Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations\, in conversation with Patricia Wakida\, editor of Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. \nBooks are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose ship to home or pick up in store at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave. Berkeley\, CA 94704. \n—\nAbout the Book:\nThis is the true story of the Japanese American Citizens League’s fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100\,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi\, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years\, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community: for many\, the shame of “camp” was so deep that they could not even speak of it; money was a taboo subject; the question of the value of liberty was insulting.\nBesides internal discord\, the American public was largely unaware that there had been concentration camps on US soil\, and Tateishi knew that concessions from Congress would only come with mass education about the government’s civil rights violations. Beyond the backroom politicking and verbal fisticuffs that make this book a swashbuckling read\, Redress is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens; how to restore honor; and what duty it has to protect such harms from happening again. This book has powerful implications as the idea of reparations shapes our national conversation. \nAbout the Speakers:\nJohn Tateishi\, born in Los Angeles\, was incarcerated from ages three to six at Manzanar\, one of America’s ten World War II concentration camps. He studied English Lit at UC Berkeley and attended UC Davis for graduate studies. He played important roles in leading the campaign for Japanese American redress\, and as the JACL director\, used the lessons of the campaign to help ensure that the rights of this nation’s Arab and Muslim communities were protected after 9/11. \nPatricia Miye Wakida is a fourth generation Japanese American artist\, writer\, and community historian. For the past fifteen years\, she has worked with numerous cultural institutions such as the Japanese American National Museum\, Discover Nikkei\, the Oakland Museum of California\, and the Densho Encyclopedia project. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Library\, UCB\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, Asian Pacific American Student Development\, UCB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/redress-book-talk-with-author-john-tateishi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T190000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Summer" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos of this moment in time\, or go back in history or memory to a time when summer felt different\, or imagine a new kind of summer for the future. Travel or stay home\, either way\, we’ll be right here. Put on a summer hat and join us for a summer open mic. Online. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJUNE FEATURES: Tess Taylor and Alia Volz \nSaturday\, June 27\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on June 20. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. To sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature again and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 956 8283 0985\nPassword: 474874 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/95682830985?pwd=Vk5MWHhPK3N4Mzk2Skp4Q2NOcDRnQT09 \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 \nSNS misses its home at Nick’s Lounge and hopes to return soon. Meanwhile\, please support Nick’s Lounge on GoFundMe: \nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nicks-lounge-karaoke-support-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nTess Taylor is the author of the chapbook The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, The Forage House\, which was a finalist for the Believer poetry prize\, and Work & Days\, which was named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by The New York Times. Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed her as “the poet for our moment.” In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition at the MoMA\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press. She is a poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, The Threepenny Review\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-summer-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T140000
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SUMMARY:Gina Rae La Cerva: Author discusses her book\, Feasting Wild\, with David George Haskell
DESCRIPTION:Gina Rae La Cerva discusses her new book\, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Greystone Books) with David George Haskell. \nThis event will be broadcast on our Crowdcast channel. To register\, visit this page. \nAbout Feasting Wild\nTwo centuries ago\, nearly half the North American diet was foraged\, hunted\, or caught in the wild. Today\, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries\, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile\, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. \nIn Feasting Wild\, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods. Throughout her travels\, La Cerva reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces\, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods –including biodiversity\, Indigenous and women’s knowledge\, a vital connection to nature\, and delicious flavors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, La Cerva investigates the violent “bush meat” trade\, tracking elicit delicacies from the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the dinner tables of Europe. In a Danish cemetery\, she forages for wild onions with the esteemed staff of Noma. In Sweden–after saying goodbye to a man known only as The Hunter–La Cerva smuggles freshly-caught game meat home to New York in her suitcase\, for a feast of “heartbreak moose.” \nThoughtful\, ambitious\, and wide-ranging\, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today\, and introduces an exciting new voice in food journalism. \n“A memorable\, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.”–Elizabeth Kolbert\, New York Times-bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction \nAbout the participants\nGina Rae La Cerva is a geographer\, environmental anthropologist\, and award-winning writer who has traveled extensively to research a variety of environmental and food-related topics. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow\, La Cerva holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. \nDavid Haskell’s work integrates scientific\, literary\, and contemplative studies of the natural world. He is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award\, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies\, the National Outdoor Book Award\, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-rae-la-cerva-author-discusses-her-book-feasting-wild-with-david-george-haskell/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
CREATED:20200608T203224Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nJune’s book club selection is Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim. The book contains unique recipes. Try them and share with Eastwind’s Instagram @eastwindbooks. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Sunday\, June 28 at 2pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Eastwind Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month. \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~ \nAbout the book: \nLush and visual\, chock-full of delicious recipes\, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food\, heritage\, and finding family in the most unexpected places. \nAt the news of her mother’s death\, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago\, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading\, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant. \nThe neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately\, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance\, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along \nAbout the Author: \nRoselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse\, Asian neighbourhood. \nShe found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism\, she devoured books about mythology\, which shaped the fantasies in her novels. \nAn artist by nature\, she considers writing as “painting with words.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-natalie-tans-book-of-luck-and-fortune/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's Post-Pride Parade Phenom!
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 28th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-post-pride-parade-phenom/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T093000
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SUMMARY:City Lights Authors on the Road: Whistleblower at the CIA - Melvin A. Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Melvin Goodman\, PhD\, Retired CIA and State Department Analyst\, Author \nThe whistleblower is essential to congressional oversight\, investigative journalism\, and the public’s awareness of important national and international security issues. Mel Goodman will address his own experiences as a whistleblower in testifying to the Senate intelligence committee in 1991 to block the confirmation of Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence. He will also discuss such whistleblowers as Edward Snowden\, Chelsea Manning\, the CIA whistleblower at the White House\, and the recent case of Dr. Rick Bright at the Department of Health and Human Services. The lack of protection for whistleblowers in the intelligence community will also be assessed. \nA Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the event. Cost is $5 \nQuestions? Contact Deborah Wilbur at dwilbur [ @] benderjccgw.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-authors-on-the-road-whistleblower-at-the-cia-melvin-a-goodman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T130000
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CREATED:20200529T191830Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Bonnie Tsui & Jennifer Steinhauer
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Bonnie Tsui (Why We Swim) & Jennifer Steinhauer (The Firsts). \nYou can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the date and join us! \nThis event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Why We Swim and/or The Firsts and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nWhy We Swim by Bonnie Tsui \nWe swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure\, for exercise\, for healing. But humans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now\, in the twenty-first century\, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n  \n  \nBonnie Tsui is the author of the new book Why We Swim. A journalist and longtime contributor to The New York Times\, she is also the author of American Chinatown\, the winner of the Asia/Pacific American Award for Literature and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. She lives\, swims\, and surfs in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Firsts: The Inside Story of The Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer \nIn the November 2018 midterms\, the greatest number of women in history were elected to Congress. It was a group diverse in background\, age\, professional experience\, and ideology. And from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad” to a group with national security backgrounds calling themselves “the Badasses\,” from the first two Native American women to the first two Muslim women\, all were swept into office on an enormous wave of grassroots support. \nHere\, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer chronicles these women’s first year in Congress\, following their shift from trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms\, offices\, visits back home with their constituents\, and conversations in the halls of the Capitol\, she probes the question: Will Washington\, with its hidebound traditions and overpriced housing and petty power struggles\, change the changemakers? Or will this Congress\, which looks a little more like today’s America\, truly be the start of something new? \nVivid and smart\, The Firsts delivers fresh details\, inside access\, historical perspective\, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring\, controversial\, talented\, and rebellious—do something surprising: make Congress essential again. \nJennifer Steinhauer has covered numerous high-profile beats in her twenty-five-year reporting career at the New York Times\, from City Hall bureau chief and Los Angeles bureau chief to Capitol Hill. She won the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline Reporting Award in 2006 for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina. She has written a novel about the television business\, and two cookbooks. \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-bonnie-tsui-jennifer-steinhauer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks\, is delighted to welcome bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius of Birds) for an online event celebrating her new book\, The Bird Way\, a radical investigation into the bird way of being\, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds—how they live and how they think. This virtual event will include a beautiful 30-minute presentation by Ackerman\, as well as a Q&A with the audience. \nRegistration for this Crowdcast event will begin soon. Sign up for our emails to be the first to know. \n If you’d like to make a donation\, you may do so here. \n“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring\, and lately\, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have\, for years\, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities\, abilities we once considered uniquely our own—deception\, manipulation\, cheating\, kidnapping\, infanticide\, but also\, ingenious communication between species\, cooperation\, collaboration\, altruism\, culture\, and play. In THE BIRD WAY\, Ackerman shows us extraordinary behaviors\, including birds that dance or drum\, that paint their creations or paint themselves\, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Genius of Birds\, which has been translated into twenty languages and the forthcoming The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and many other publications\, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a Bunting Fellowship\, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jennifer-ackerman-the-bird-way/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T210000
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SUMMARY:Oona Out of Order | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 30\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Margarita Montimore’s new novel\, OONA OUT OF ORDER. \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89347970109. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at bit.ly/GGPOonaHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/OonaAB. \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK \n“With its countless epiphanies and surprises\, Oona proves difficult to put down.” —USA Today \n“By turns tragic and triumphant\, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful\, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read.” —The Guardian \nA remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment\, even if those moments are out of order. \nIt’s New Year’s Eve 1982\, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen\, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics\, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins\, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own\, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order… \nHopping through decades\, pop culture fads\, and much-needed stock tips\, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising\, magical\, and heart-wrenching\, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time\, the endurance of love\, and the power of family. \nAbout the Author\n\nMargarita Montimore is the author of Asleep from Day and Oona Out of Order\, a national bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College\, she worked for over a decade in publishing and social media before deciding to focus on the writing dream full-time. Born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn\, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oona-out-of-order-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T210000
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SUMMARY:Fire Thieves Honor the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:The 10th edition of the Fire Thieves makes it’s online debut during modified quarantine with featured performers Avotcja\, Thea Matthews\, Cassandra Dallett\, Christine No\, Loa Niumeitolu\, Zouhair Mussa\, and more performers TBA. \nThe Fire Thieves is an inter-sectional & inter-generational poetry series produced by San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck\, with a different venue every month with 2 established poets\, 2 mid-career poets and 2 younger poets. \nThis event made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Bird & Beckett Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fire-thieves-honor-the-sacred/
LOCATION:CA
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Fire Thieves":MAILTO:pabs67@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085442
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lane Moore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, July 6 at 6pm PDT when Lane Moore joins us to discuss her book How to Be Alone: If You Want To\, and Even if You Don’t on Instagram Live. \n\nPraise for How to Be Alone \n“Lane Moore is one of the most talented people I know and I’m so glad even more people will be able to read her words.”— Mara Wilson\, author of Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame \n“How to Be Alone feels like peeling back your best friend’s skull and jumping into her brain. Lane is so open and funny and honest; I never want to be alone if it means I can’t have her with me. What a gift.” — Samantha Irby\, New York Times bestselling author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“How to Be Alone is like a song that pops up on the radio and lifts your spirits . . . so special\, elegant\, and true. It’s spectacular and truly personal. This book is with me every day\, and it helps so much.”—  Caroline Kepnes\, author of You\, Hidden Bodies\, and Providence \n\nAbout How to Be Alone \nThe former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant\, funny\, and deeply moving first book. \nLane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page\, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles\, including being her own parent\, living in her car as a teenager\, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all\, she looked to movies\, TV\, and music as the family and support systems she never had. \nFrom spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth\, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor\, anxiety\, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift. \nHow to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved\, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life\, who tries to have genuine\, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all\, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words. \n\nAbout the Author \nLane Moore is an award-winning comedian\, writer\, actor\, and musician. The New York Times called her comedy show Tinder Live “ingenious.” Her comedy and her band\, It Was Romance\, have been praised everywhere from Pitchfork to Vogue\, and her writing has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to The Onion. She is the former sex and relationships editor at Cosmopolitan\, where she received a GLAAD Award for her groundbreaking work expanding the magazine’s queer coverage. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog-child\, Lights. You can follow Lane at @HelloLaneMoore on Instagram and Twitter or visit LaneMoore.org.
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