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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-virtual-bookfest/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. her writing as appear in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery\, Becoming a Good Creature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book\, Becoming a Good Creature. Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir\, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s beautiful\, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead\, pass it on. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nSchool is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature\, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship\, compassion\, and how to be a better creature in the world. \nSy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs\, others with four\, or even eight! Some have had fur\, feathers\, or hooves. But they’ve all had one thing in common: a lesson to share. \nThe animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways\, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas\, dogs\, octopuses\, tigers\, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect. \nSY MONTGOMERY In addition to researching films\, articles\, and over twenty books\, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal\, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science\, three honorary degrees\, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock\, New Hampshire\, with her husband\, Howard Mansfield\, and their border collie\, Thurber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sy-montgomery-becoming-a-good-creature-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T163000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Hollis with Brit Barron - Didn't See That Coming (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:I want you to know that what’s been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock\, a five year old showing you the spot where his front tooth used to be\, a home-cooked meal\, when your love kisses that exact spot on your neck\, a grandmother’s handwriting\, a job well done\, the kindness of strangers\, the human spirit\, an Appaloosa horse\, the ritual of your faith\, laughing until you pee your pants a little\, holiday dessert tables\, first birthday parties\, a perfect cup of coffee. What’s good will always be good\, and one of the most awful\, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship\, we’ll never truly appreciate the goodness. \nFear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things. Now\, she takes you to the other side. Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 ​New York Times bestsellers ​Girl\, Wash Your​ ​Face​ and ​Girl\, Stop Apologizing​\, attend her RISE conferences\, and follow her on social media know\, she also wants to see you transform. When it comes to the “hard seasons” of life—the death of a loved one\,  divorce\, loss of a job—transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when\, as ​Didn’t See That Coming​ reveals\, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. \nBut\, as Rachel writes\, it is up to you how you come through your pain—you can come through changed for the better\, having learned and grown\, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you.  With her signature humor\, heartfelt honesty and true-life stories\, Rachel shares how to embrace the difficult moments in life for the learning experiences they are\, and that a life well-lived is one of purpose and focused on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings\, inspirational\, aspirational\, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful. \nRachel Hollis laid the foundation for her lifestyle brand and media company with the same unfiltered honesty and staunch inclusivity that made her a two-time #1 New York Times bestselling author. Hollis connects with a highly engaged and growing global audience of women who treasure her transparency and optimism. She is one of the most sought-after motivational speakers\, plays host to one of today’s top business podcasts\, and is a proud mama of four who uses her platform to empower and embolden women around the world. Rachel calls Texas home; more specifically the Hill Country just outside of Austin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-hollis-with-brit-barron-didnt-see-that-coming-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83537126052#  or +12532158782\,\,83537126052#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kWpuBjfHD \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SFPL Live - Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate this local author\, educator\, poet\, activist and Mission District native. Bac Sierra’s new book Pura Neta\, the long awaited sequel to Barrio Bushido is due out in mid September Pochino Press. Benjamin Bac Sierra will be interviewed by  Luis Rodriguez\, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca and most recently From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice.  \nBenjamin Bac Sierra  was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps\, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War\, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley\, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law. Currently\, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.  \nLuis Rodriguez is a former Los Angeles Poet Laureate. He has 16 books\, is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center & Bookstore. Rodriguez has two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction\, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing (Touchstone\, 2012)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, and a mandatory read\,  Always Running: La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books\, 1993)\, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His latest book\, From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer\, explores race\, culture\, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.  \nConnect with Ben Bac Sierra: Website \nConnect with Luis Rodrigues: Website | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/PuraNeta9-30-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live:  https://youtu.be/gzha5aCxQhY \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-live-benjamin-bac-sierra-in-convo-with-luis-rodriguez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Caitlin Doughty / Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Caitlin Doughty for the paperback release of her New York Times bestseller Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?! More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a signed copy of the book. Tickets can be purchased in advance here. Advance tickets are highly recommended\, as tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nEvery day\, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? \nIn Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?\, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual\, hilarious\, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice\, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to\, and inside\, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body\, whether you can preserve your best friend’s skull as a keepsake\, and what happens when you die on a plane. \nBeautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz\, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art\, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it. \n\nCaitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician. She lives in Los Angeles\, California\, where she owns and runs a funeral home. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes a signed copy of the paperback edition of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve alredy gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out. \n>  This is an all-ages event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-caitlin-doughty-will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reverend Al Sharpton - Rise Up (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A rousing call to action for today’s turbulent political moment\, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Sharpton’s unique experience as a politician\, television and radio host\, and civil rights leader. \nWhen the young Alfred Charles Sharpton told his mother he wanted to be a preacher\, little did he know that his journey would also lead him to prominence as a politician\, founder of the National Action Network\, civil rights activist\, and television and radio talk show host. His enduring ability and willingness to take on the political power structure makes him the preeminent voice for the modern era\, a time unprecedented in its challenges. \nIn Rise Up\, Reverend Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration\, the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP\, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism\, including Shirley Chisholm\, Hillary Clinton\, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, and more. \nBeginning with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson and closing with Rev. Sharpton’s moving eulogy for George Floyd\, Rise Up offers timeless lessons for anyone who’s stood at the crossroads of their personal or political life\, weighing their choices of how to proceed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reverend-al-sharpton-rise-up-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoetrope Magazine Fall Issue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates the award winning literary periodical’s fall issue. Editor Michael Ray and Managing Editor Manjula Martin are joined by several contributors in an afternoon of readings and celebration. \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(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase the journal (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\nFounded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997\, Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly print magazine of short fiction\, one-act plays\, and essays on film. Among the most celebrated literary periodicals in the world\, it has won every major story award\, including four National Magazine Awards for Fiction\, along with a number of design commendations. The magazine’s contributors comprise the most promising and significant writers of our era: Mary Gaitskill\, Colum McCann\, Rachel Cusk\, Jim Shepard\, Elena Ferrante\, Daniel Alarcón\, Karen Russell\, Yiyun Li\, Jonathan Lethem\, Wes Anderson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Mamet\, Ha Jin\, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Margaret Atwood\, Pedro Almodóvar\, Ethan Coen\, Yoko Ogawa\, Charles D’Ambrosio\, Neil Jordan\, Haruki Murakami\, and many more. \nZoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine—the editors invite a different artist to design each edition in its entirety. Past guest designers include David Lynch\, Zaha Hadid\, William Eggleston\, Agnès Varda\, Kara Walker\, David Bowie\, Ed Ruscha\, Iggy Pop\, Guillermo del Toro\, Abbas Kiarostami\, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte\, PJ Harvey\, Elizabeth Peyton\, Gus Van Sant\, Tom Waits\, Laurie Anderson\, Julian Schnabel\, Mary Ellen Mark\, David Byrne\, Helmut Newton\, Lou Reed\, and John Baldessari\, among others. \nThe magazine is published quarterly in March\, June\, September\, and December and printed in California by Community Printers\, Inc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoetrope-magazine-fall-issue-celebration/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T200000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mendelsohn Acclaimed writer discusses his new book\, Three Rings\, with local Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Mendelsohn is joined in conversation by Chris Jennings to discuss his latest book\, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile\, Narrative\, and Fate (University of Virginia Press). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Register here. \nAbout Three Rings\nIn this genre-defying book\, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. \nCombining memoir\, biography\, history\, and literary criticism\, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own–works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach\, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature\, Mimesis\, in Istanbul… Francois Fenelon\, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey\, The Adventures of Telemachus–a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years–resulted in his banishment… and the German novelist W. G. Sebald\, self-exiled to England\, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement\, nostalgia\, and separation from home. \nIntertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggles to write two of his own books–a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father–that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion\, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders\, languages\, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history\, art and life. \nAbout the authors\nDaniel Mendelsohn is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, where he is Editor-at-Large. His books include the memoirs An Odyssey: A Father\, a Son\, and an Epic and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million as well as three collections of essays and criticism\, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones. He teaches literature at Bard College. \nChris Jennings is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. He graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. He lives in Northern California with his family and dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mendelsohn-acclaimed-writer-discusses-his-new-book-three-rings-with-local-chris-jennings/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Yamile Saied Méndez
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 2nd at 6pm PDT\, when Yamile Saied Méndez dicusses her YA debut novel\, Furia\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82109506823 \nWebinar ID: 821 0950 6823 \nAbout Furia \nA powerful\, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina\, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. \nIn Rosario\, Argentina\, Camila Hassan lives a double life. \nAt home\, she is a careful daughter\, living within her mother’s narrow expectations\, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow\, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. \nOn the field\, she is La Furia\, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament\, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams\, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. \nBut the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left\, Diego has become an international star\, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now\, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated\, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her. \nFilled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina\, heart-soaring romance\, and breathless action on the pitch\, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own. \nAbout Yamile Saied Méndez \nYamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine American who loves meteor showers\, summer\, astrology\, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids\, two adorable dogs\, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient\, she’s a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Méndez is also part of Las Musas\, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx middle grade and young adult authors. Furia is her first novel for young adult readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-yamile-saied-mendez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201002T190000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #29
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-29-tickets-122775722491; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nNomadic Press is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #28\nTime: Oct 2\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83208913825 \nMeeting ID: 832 0891 3825\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83208913825# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83208913825# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 832 0891 3825\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kr39Am2nf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - P. J. O'Rourke (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:P. J. O’Rourke‘s latest work\, A Cry from the Far Middle\, asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch\, offering a new collection of essays about our nation’s propensity for anger and perplexity. \nP. J. has written twenty books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is also an H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute\, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me\, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. He lives in rural New England\, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get. \nMichael Krasny has been in broadcast journalism since 1983. He was with ABC in both radio and television and migrated to public broadcasting in 1993. He has been Professor of English at San Francisco State University and also taught at Stanford\, the University of San Francisco and the University of California\, as well as in the Fulbright International Institutes. A veteran interviewer for the nationally broadcast City Arts and Lectures\, he is the author of a number of books\, including Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life\, Spiritual Envy\, and Let There Be Laughter\, as well as the twenty-four lecture series Short Story Masterpieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-p-j-orourke-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Bobbie Ann Mason (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Bobbie Ann Mason‘s new release\, Dear Ann\, is a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first love. \nHer first short stories were published in The New Yorker\, during the 1980s renaissance of the short story\, when writers such as Raymond Carver\, Ann Beattie\, and Tobias Wolff came to prominence. Her first book of fiction\, Shiloh & Other Stories\, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the American Book Award\, the PEN/Faulkner Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received an Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The title story\, “Shiloh\,” about a disabled trucker whose wife is not used to having him at home\, has been widely anthologized in college textbooks. The couple’s trip to the Civil War battleground of Shiloh began for Mason a recurring preoccupation with the theme of war. \nHer first novel\, In Country\, is taught widely in classes and was made into a Norman Jewison film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. It is about a teenager whose father died in Vietnam before she was born\, and who is now coming of age\, desperate to know more about him. The Girl in the Blue Beret ventures into World War II and the ways it is remembered. Her memoir\, Clear Springs\, about an American farm family throughout the twentieth century\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her book of linked stories\, Nancy Culpepper\, is inspired by this family\, and she says that while the circumstances are different\, this is the work of fiction most closely identified with her own life and sensibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-bobbie-ann-mason-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T180000
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SUMMARY:Barbara Kingsolver - How to Fly (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In this intimate collection\, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers\, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes\, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted\, emotionally rich\, and luminous. \nIn her second poetry collection\, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical\, the spiritual\, and the wild. She begins with “how to” poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful\, married\, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course\, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family\, and making peace (or not) with death\, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. \nClosing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders—birdsong and ghost-flowers\, ruthless ants\, clever shellfish\, coral reefs\, deadly deserts\, and thousand-year-old beech trees—all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. \nAltogether\, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It’s all terribly easy and\, as the title suggests\, not entirely possible. Or at least\, it is never quite finished. \nBarbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction\, including the novels\, Flight Behavior\, The Lacuna\, The Poisonwood Bible\, Animal Dreams\, and The Bean Trees\, as well as books of poetry\, essays\, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal\, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts\, as well as the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-kingsolver-how-to-fly-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201005T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir\, Here We Are\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81346922046\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81346922046#  or +12532158782\,\,81346922046#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 813 4692 2046\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/ktyp7X41Q \nPraise for Here We Are \n“Aarti Shahani’s book is destined to take its place among the finest memoirs written in recent decades—a heartbreaking\, hilarious and tender love letter to the millions of people who have made their way across lands and oceans to try and find a new life in America. This book will take you on a vivid\, almost cinematic journey that is both beautiful and unforgettable.”\n—Guy Raz\, co-creator of How I Built This\, Wow in the World and TED Radio Hour \nIncluded in Library Journal‘s list of Best Books 2019. \n“This timely\, bittersweet immigration story will resonate powerfully with readers.”\n—Publishers Weekly \n“As it chronicles immigrant tragedy and triumph\, this provocative book also reveals the dark underside of the American judicial system and the many pitfalls for people of color within a landscape of white privilege. A candid and moving memoir.”\n—Kirkus \n“A worthy addition to immigration discourse\, this book is a raw and engaging glimpse into the challenges immigrant families face that are either too traumatic or mundane to land on the news.”\n—BookPage \nAbout Here We Are \nHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream\, the justice system that took it away\, and the daughter who fought to get it back\, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aarti-namdev-shahani/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poised to Soar Helen Macdonald and Camille Dungy discuss Vesper Flights
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Helen Macdonald is joined in conversation by Camille T. Dungy to celebrate the publication of Vesper Flights (Grove). \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Bay Area Book Festival. \nAll ticket sales are being handled by the Book Festival. Please visit their eventbrite page to register. \n \n  \nAbout Vesper Flights\nAnimals don’t exist in order to teach us things\, but that is what they have always done\, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. \nIn Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays\, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. \nMeditating on notions of captivity and freedom\, immigration and flight\, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building\, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary\, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar\, swifts\, mushroom hunting\, migraines\, the strangeness of birds’ nests\, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. \nBy one of this century’s most important and insightful nature writers\, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation\, fascination\, time\, memory\, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. \nAbout the authors\nHelen Macdonald is a writer\, poet\, illustrator\, historian\, and naturalist who lives in Cambridge\, England. She is also the author of the poetry collection Shaler’s Fish\, and the bestselling memoir\, H is for Hawk. \nCamille T. Dungy is an award-winning poet and editor and professor of creative writing at Colorado State University. She lives with her husband and child in Fort Collins\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poised-to-soar-helen-macdonald-and-camille-dungy-discuss-vesper-flights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201006T180000
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SUMMARY:Mike Jung In Conversation with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich --VIRTUALLY!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation between Mike Jung and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich as they discuss Jung’s new novel\,The Boys in the Back Row. \nJung will debut his forthcoming music video opus of absurdity\, “Kitten Time\,” announce the winners of his pre-order giveaway\, and possibly even perform a live song. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will take place live on Crowdcast. Pre-registration required. Click here to save your spot! \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to purchase a signed copy of the book through our website and / or to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s virtual events. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot”. Thank you! \nBest friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park\, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol–a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course\, their final adventure together is more than just that–really\, it’s a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship\, and their honest love and support for one another. That’s exactly what we love so much about The Boys in the Back Row it’s an unabashed ode to male friendship\, because love between boys\, platonic or otherwise\, is something to celebrate. And of course\, because this is Mike Jung\, we’ll be celebrating it with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore! \nMike Jung is the author of  Geeks\, Girls\, and Secret Identities\, Unidentified Suburban Object\, and The Boys in the Back Row\, and contributed to the anthologies Dear Teen Me\, Break These Rules\, 59 Reasons to Write\, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy\, and The Hero Next Door. His books have been honored by the Bank Street College of Education\, Children’s Book Council Reading Beyond List\, Cooperative Children’s Book Center\, Georgia State Book Awards\, Iowa Children’s Choice Awards\, Kansas State Reading Circle\, National Parenting Publications Awards\, Parents Choice Foundation\, and Texas Bluebonnet Awards. He’s proud to be a founding member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks team\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with his family. Find Mike on Facebook\, Twitter\, or at www.mikejung.com. \nOlugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the author of many books including The Two Naomis and the forthcoming It Doesn’t Take a Genius. Her nonfiction includes Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins\, and Saving Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Fight for Our Future. She has contributed to a number of anthologies\, including We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and was the editor of We Need Diverse Books’ The Hero Next Door. She lives with her family in NYC. Find her on Instagram @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-jung-in-conversation-with-olugbemisola-rhuday-perkovich-virtually/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201006T173000
DTSTAMP:20260411T062120
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Book Launch: A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of Ruby member Sunisa Manning’s debut novel\, A Good True Thai (Epigram Books\, September 2020)\, hailed by Kirstin Chen\, author of Bury What We Cannot Take\, as “an astounding debut from a talented new voice\,” and a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Sunisa will be in conversation with Ruby member Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods. The poet Monica Sok\, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, will read an invocation to open the event. \nBooks are available for purchase here through East Bay Booksellers. \nAbout the book: \nSet in the 1970s\, A Good True Thai is a historical epic that captures one of the most famous periods of political unrest and artistic openness in Thailand’s history. It follows the story of three young people –Det\, Lek and Chang – whose paths converge at a local university. Det is the descendant of royalty through his mother\, the granddaughter of a king. Influenced by Lek and Chang’s political fervour\, Det radicalises\, and the three of them venture into the Thai jungle to fight alongside the communists. As they are embroiled in the perils of political revolution\, they must learn to tame and reconcile their love for one another. A Good True Thai was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. \nAbout Sunisa: \nSunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus and other places. She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge\, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writers Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-tickets-119361010997
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ruby-book-launch-a-good-true-thai-by-sunisa-manning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present…\nThe Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr / A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with the authors of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area\, Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr. \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of A People’s Guide to San Francisco\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n\nA People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area\, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule\, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence\, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures\, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. \nThe book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley’s wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region\, like bankers’ wealth did in the past\, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area\, with its rich political legacies? \nWith over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from\, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers\, educators\, or longtime residents\, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands\, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay\, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers\, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region. \n\n \nRachel Brahinsky is Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco\, affiliated with Urban and Public Affairs\, Politics\, and Urban Studies. Her research is focused on race\, property\, and urban change. \n \nAlexander Tarr is Assistant Professor of Geography at Worcester State University. His research\, writing\, and cartography examine the development of cities\, food politics\, and digital culture. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rachel-brahinsky-and-alexander-tarr-a-peoples-guide-to-the-san-francisco-bay-area/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel\, HAMNET. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85002634130. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPHamnet\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/HamnetAB. \nAugust 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“I loved Hamnet in very much the same way I loved Lincoln in the Bardo. This novel explores the way the dead haunt the living—especially how the death of a child haunts their parents—and does it in the context of a fascinating historical figure and time. But we know so much about the Lincolns\, and so little about the Shakespeares. Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to construct a palpably real emotional life for all the members of the Shakespeare family—but especially for Shakespeare’s wife—is just magical. This is a powerful and haunting novel.”— Nina Barrett\, Bookends & Beginnings\, Evanston\, IL \nDescription\n\nEngland\, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land\, an ever-present threat\, infecting the healthy\, the sick\, the old and the young\, alike. The end of days is near\, but life always goes on. \nA young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary\, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer\, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast\, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband\, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. \nA luminous portrait of a marriage\, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss\, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten\, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time\, Hamnet is mesmerizing\, seductive\, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. \nAbout the Author\n\nBorn in Northern Ireland in 1972\, Maggie O’Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award); Instructions for a Heatwave; This Must Be the Place; and most recently\, I Am\, I Am\, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. \nPraise For…\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \n“Hamnet is an exploration of marriage and grief written into the silent opacities of a life that is at once extremely famous and profoundly obscure… In Hamnet\, Shakespeare’s marriage is complicated and troubled\, yet brimming with love and passion… This novel is at once about the transfiguration of life into art– it is O’Farrell’s extended speculation on how Hamnet’s death might have fueled the creation of one of his father’s greatest plays– and at the same time\, it is a master class in how she\, herself does it… O’Farrell has a melodic relationship to language.  There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world… We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glover’s workshop\, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed\, and we can see how the pale London sun “reaches down\, like ladders\, through the narrow gaps in buildings to illuminate the rain glazed street.”… As the book unfolds\, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief\, the most damaged marriage\, and most shattered heart might find some solace\, some healing.”\n–Geraldine Brooks\, the New York Times Book Review [COVER] \n“All too timely…inspired…[An] exceptional historical novel ”\n—The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books\npresent the Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation \nWagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music \nOne of today’s most influential and well-respected writers on classical and contemporary music\, Alex Ross shares insights from his new book\, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music\, exploring the controversial composer’s influence on the artistic\, intellectual\, and political life of both his time and ours. Ross’ first book\, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award; and his second book\, the collection Listen to This\, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. \nIn this live-streamed talk\, Ross is joined (virtually) by eminent composer\, author\, and longtime Cal Performances partner and friend John Adams\, who—with operas including Nixon in China\, The Death of Klinghoffer\, and Doctor Atomic to his credit—is no stranger to musical drama and its intersection with politics and history. Ross’ new book is the product of more than 10 years of research and reflection\, and examines the resonance of Wagner’s mythic storytelling on\, among many other things\, fantasy fiction by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis\, and films and television shows such as Star Wars\, The Matrix\, and Game of Thrones. He has been the music critic at the New Yorker for nearly 25 years and has received both MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. \nRead more and purchase tickets \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nLive-streaming online
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-ross-and-john-adams-in-conversation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus:Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Paul Corman Roberts\n CV\nDevorah major- special guest\nDeborah Fruchey\nHannah Ingebretsen\nHalim Madi\nPeggy Morrison\n Abe Becker\n Sheryl Bize-Boute\nLisa Lim
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossushome-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Katherine May On Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
DESCRIPTION:Katherine May joins us from the UK to discuss her new book\, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Riverhead Books). \n“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” — Elizabeth Gilbert \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Wintering\nSometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness\, the death of a loved one\, a break up\, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May\, her husband fell ill\, her son stopped attending school\, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time\, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. \nA moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature\, mythology\, and the natural world\, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation\, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath\, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. \nUltimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat\, joy in the hushed beauty of winter\, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical\, not linear. A secular mystic\, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. \nAbout Katherine May\nKatherine May is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The Times (London)\, Good Housekeeping\, and Cosmopolitan. She lives by the sea in Whitstable\, England and is an avid lover of the outdoors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-may-on-wintering-the-power-of-rest-and-retreat-in-difficult-times/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Call Me Zebra
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. \nFall dates: \nOctober 7: Call Me Zebra\, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi \nNovember 4: Weather\, Jenny Offill \nDecember 2: Nickel Boys\, Colson Whitehead \nJanuary 6: Disappearing Earth\, Julia Phillips \nFebruary 3: The Great Believers\, Rebecca Makkai \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-call-me-zebra/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali\, Gillian Conoley\, and Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new collection\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84685235176Or iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84685235176# or +12532158782\,\,84685235176#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 846 8523 5176\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc6CqHx1gM\n\nAbout The Voice of Sheila Chandra\nTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome\, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival\, but of persistence\, as this part research-based\, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.\n\nAbout the Author\nKazim Aliwas born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-gillian-conoley-and-brian-teare/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Fowzia Karimi
DESCRIPTION:Fowzia Karimi is a writer\, illustrator\, and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing Program. As Publishers Weeklydescribes\, her illuminated debut novel Above Us the Milky Way “renders a family’s wartime emigration through a polyphonic mix of voices and genres along with evocative color illustrations and photographs.” Karimi also illustratedThe Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors by A. Kendra Greene. She is the recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and lives in Texas.
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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