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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #50
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# 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 (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Spring event\, featuring readings by Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \nAbout the authors \nRoberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins)\, a  New York Times “Editor’s Choice” that the paper’s Book Review hailed as a “powerful” nonfiction book and a “groundbreaking memoir.”  Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator\, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, California. As a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, he helped build a movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves in the United States and out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center\, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence\, terrorism\, the drug war and the refugee crisis—from Mexico\, Venezuela\, El Salvador\, Dominican Republic\, Haiti\, France and the United States\, among other countries. Order Unforgetting by Roberto Lovato. \nMatt Bell’s next novel\, Appleseed\, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done\, a guide to novel writing\, rewriting\, and revision\, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. His novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Book of the Year Honor Recipient\, and was selected as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, among other honors. Both In the House and Scrapper were selected by the Library of Michigan as Michigan Notable Books. Order books by Matt Bell. \nElizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York\, grew up in the Midwest\, and lives in Rome. She is the author of two short story collections eightball and Natural Disasters\, and the bestselling memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Best Travel Writing\, TIME\, El Pais\, Words Without Borders\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. Order books by Elizabeth Geoghegan. \nPaulo K Tiról is a composer\, lyricist and bookwriter of musical theatre from Manila\, Philippines. He was in the 2019-’20 class of Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows\, and an artist-in-residence at Access Theater with director Noam Shapiro. His projects include music and lyrics for On This Side of the World (NAMT Festival 2020\, Prospect Theater Co.’s IGNITE series\, workshop production at Access Theater\, all dir. Noam Shapiro); book\, music and lyrics for Called (DGF Fellows showcase\, dir. May Adrales); and orchestrations for Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s Felix Starro. His work has been presented at Joe’s Pub\, Barrington Stage\, Prospect Theater Co.’s Musical Theater Lab\, and more. Alongside his work in musical theatre\, Paulo is also a composer of liturgical music\, with work published by Oregon Catholic Press (OCP)\, and church music director working in New York City and Jersey City. Training: Ateneo de Manila University\, Berklee College of Music\, NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (full tuition scholarship)\, BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. He lives in Jersey City\, NJ with his husband Jeremy. More at www.paulophonic.com. \n  \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
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SUMMARY:Word Week 2021 "Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan & Michelle Gallen Read Contemporary Irish Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Irish authors Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan\, and Michelle Gallen read from new work Saturday\, March 13\, 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom. Colm gives us a preview of his upcoming 2021 novel THE MAGICIAN\, based on the life of Thomas Mann\, from Los Angeles. Michelle reads from her rollicking debut novel set in Northern Ireland BIG GIRL\, SMALL TOWN from Dublin (7 p.m. Irish time). Paula shares poetry from her just-published retrospective work AS IF BY MAGIC from Greece\, where it will be 9 p.m.\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom. Get the Zoom link by rsvping Going on this event page or by emailing wordweeknoevalley@gmail.com. In response\, you will receive the Zoom information. Audience limit: 100 people.\n\nBuy books from Folio Books at www.foliosf.com/word-week-2021.
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Momtaza Mehri and Zoé Samudzi\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, alex cruse \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \nFor our third program in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\, we are delighted to welcome two of the more outstanding young Black writers and intellectuals at work in the US and UK. Momtaza Mehri\, in London\, and Zoé Samudzi\, here in the Bay Area\, will each read from their work\, engage in conversation with one another and with emcee alex cruse\, and respond to questions from the audience. We welcome this rare opportunity to bring these two Afro-diasporan writers and thinkers together across continents. \n\n“…A poet is drenched in a singularity\, sodden with its viscous specificity. A poem speaks for itself exactly when it declares it speaks for others. The Black poet is an isotope of both hope & despair. The Black poet is both a reluctant & enthusiastic interlocutor of what is known as the Black condition\, which conditions & structures the World that invented it. The Black poem asks you where it hurts & demands no particular answer. The Black poet knows this is a question one can spend a life trying to answer….”\n—Momtaza Mehri\, “Harlem Is Hijaz Is Havana Is Harar\, Or: The Whole Point of the Black Arts Movement Is That They Were Moving”\n“We [Afro-]diasporans joke often about the genre of poetry and prose born out of a longing for a motherland animated only by hungry verses. There’s a cowardice to this: nostalgic memory\, a narrativized nostalgia for memories and experiences and beauty that never belonged to you\, is easy. But situating oneself in the wake and afterlife of those traumas and beautiful/beautified struggles is far harder still.”\n—Zoé Samudzi on Momtaza Mehri\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, Summer 2020\n\nMomtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta\, Artforum\, The Guardian\, BOMB\, and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London. Her latest pamphlet\, Doing the Most with the Least\, was published in 2019 by Goldsmiths Press. More here. \n\n“As Black as Resistance [by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson] is an urgently needed book…a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state\, levels of inequality\, environmental degradation\, and resurgent fascism\, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and mus and do make.”\n—Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\n\nZoé Samudzi is a writer\, photographer\, and a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, Open Space\, and Verso\, among others. With William C. Anderson\, Samudzi is coauthor of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (foreword by Mariame Kaba\, AK Press\, 2018). More here. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nMomtaza Mehri\, Granta Podcast\, Ep. 94\, October 7\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri\, “Poets Should Ride the Bus: On Diane di Prima (1934–2020)\,” at Verso Books\, November 3\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri at Open Space\, 2018 \n“Blackness As a State of Matter: A Conversation with Zoé Samudzi\,” by Will Furtado\, at Contemporary And\, C&’s Top Articles of 2019 \nZoé Samudzi at Open Space\, 2018–2019 \nVideo: \nView earlier events in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3fVkVa5mS2iU5P5jmed6TQ
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SUMMARY:Joanell Serra - (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: front-line responders and recovering patients; going out to work\, staying home to work\, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location\, age\, race\, and health\, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength\, ingenuity and love—for others and for self—to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country’s response. \nJoanell Serra lives with her human and canine family in Sonoma\, California. Her debut novel\, The Vines We Planted\, was inspired by the complex community and gorgeous scenery in the California Winery. Joanell also writes poetry\, creative non-fiction\,  and plays. Her short plays have been produced and her work has been published  in numerous literary magazines. The other hats she wears include licensed Marriage and Family Therapist\, Impact Coach\, retreat leader and non-profit consultant.  She conducts workshops on writing and personal transformation around the country and abroad.  More information and recent publications can be found at joanellserraauthor.com. \n“I’m a proponent of sharing our truth. These womens’ stories are raw and real. They make me want to cry\, or laugh\, or call them up and say this sh** happened to me too! We’ve got this. These women really are the heroines of the pandemic: nurses\, doctors\, teachers\, badass moms\, women having a mental health crisis\, healers\, grandmas… I love this.”\n—Jennifer Pastiloff\, best-selling author of On Being Human \n“The homefront has always been inhabited by women\, including anyone who identifies with and enters the space of “woman” – caretakers and home keepers and compassionate community builders. This collection reminds us how the heart warriors never give up or in\, which is the only reason we have a chance. Where are the purple heart medals for these legions of women. Secular Blessings on every one of their stories\, every single body.”\n—Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge: Stories
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay V
DESCRIPTION:Four beautiful poets: Two from Wales (John Goodby and Fiona Cameron) and two from the SF Bay Area (Nathasha Dennerstein and Terry Lucas) will share the Zoom stage\, hosted by poets Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky. This is the fifth in a series that began during the pandemic\, with the intention of bringing different voices together.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
DESCRIPTION:A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. \nKlara and the Sun\, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature\, tells the story of Klara\, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities\, who\, from her place in the store\, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse\, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. \nKlara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator\, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? \nIn its award citation in 2017\, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro’s books as “novels of great emotional force” and said he has “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” \nKazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki\, Japan\, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world\, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages\, and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go\, both made into acclaimed films\, have each sold more than 2 million copies. He was given a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. \nPico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist\, often known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, and The Global Soul\, and is most recently the author of A Beginner’s Guide to Japan. An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, and other publications. He has travelled widely\, from North Korea to Easter Island\, and from Paraguay to Ethiopia\, while writing thirteen works of non-fiction and two novels. Since 1992 Pico has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur\, California\, and most of the rest in suburban Japan.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Julia Turshen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Julia Turshen’s Simply Julia: 110 Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food is her first collection of recipes featuring a healthier take on the simple\, satisfying comfort food for which she’s known. \nJulia has always been cooking. As a kid\, she skipped the Easy-Bake Oven and went straight to the real thing. Throughout her life\, cooking has remained a constant\, and as fans of her popular books know\, Julia’s approach to food is about so much more than putting dinner on the table—it is about love\, community\, connection\, and nourishment of the body and soul. \nIn Simply Julia\, readers will find 110 foolproof recipes for more nutritious takes on the simple\, comforting meals Julia cooks most often. With practical chapters such as weeknight go-tos\, make-ahead mains\, vegan one-pot meals\, chicken recipes\, easy baked goods\, and more\, Simply Julia provides endlessly satisfying options comprised of accessible and affordable ingredients. Think dishes like Stewed Chicken with Sour Cream + Chive Dumplings\, Hasselback Carrots with Smoked Paprika\, and Lemon Ricotta Cupcakes—the kind of flavorful yet unfussy food everyone wants to make at home. \nIn addition to her tried-and-true recipes\, readers will find Julia’s signature elements—her “Seven Lists” (Seven Things I Learned From Being a Private Chef that Make Home Cooking Easier; Seven Ways to Use Leftover Buttermilk; Seven Ways to Use Leftover Egg Whites or Egg Yolks)\, menu suggestions\, and helpful adaptations for dietary needs\, along with personal essays and photos and gorgeous food photography. \nJulia is the bestselling cookbook author of Small Victories\, named a Best Cookbook by the New York Times and NPR; Feed the Resistance\, Eater’s Book of the Year\, 2017; and Now & Again\, named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon. She hosts the IACP-nominated podcast “Keep Calm and Cook On” and has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Vogue\, Bon Appétit\, Food & Wine\, and Saveur. She is the founder of Equity At The Table\, an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food. Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and pets. \nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Save Me the Plums\, Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me with Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, and For You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!; and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Times and served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-julia-turshen-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Demystifying Publishing
DESCRIPTION:You know you want to publish a book—but you’re not sure how to take the first step\, or even what the first step is. (“Write the manuscript\,” obviously\, right? Well\, no\, not always!) Agent DongWon Song (Howard Morhaim)\, nonfiction editor Rakia Clark (HMH)\, fiction editor Angeline Rodriguez (Orbit)\, and marketing director Meghan Deans (Ecco) open up the black box of publishing and walk you through the steps between “good idea” and “physical book you can sign.” Learn what to expect\, what will be expected of you\, what to watch out for\, and how to prepare yourself to navigate the publishing world. Moderated by Jess Zimmerman. Q&A to follow.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Michaeleen Doucleff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 15 at 6pm PT when Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff joins us to discuss her book\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy\, Helpful Little Humans\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88078828927 \nPraise for Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\n“Parents: You don’t have to go to kid birthday parties anymore! Or awkwardly straddle playground equipment! Or create chore charts! In her funny\, honest\, and practical book\, Michaeleen Doucleff collects ancient wisdom that can restore sanity to parenting.”\n—Amanda Ripley\, New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World and High Conflict \n“THIS IS THE PARENTING BOOK I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! Frustrated by the challenges of being a new parent\, investigative journalist Michaeleen Doucleff straps her kid on her back and travels thousands of miles to learn why and how indigenous cultures seem to raise kids to be far more skilled\, confident\, and content than the kids back at home. Armed with respect and curiosity\, Doucleff realizes that incessant communication with her child while attempting to control every small thing leads her child to feel anxiety and act out. And that giving a child autonomy while building a loving connection yields highly skilled kids who cooperate\, regulate their emotions\, and pitch in without waiting to be asked. Smart\, humbling\, and revealing\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent should force a re-set of modern American parenting and return a healthier and happier childhood to both parents and children.”\n—Julie Lythcott-Haims\, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult and Real American \n“Michaeleen Doucleff’s Hunt\, Gather\, Parent breathes a gust of fresh air onto the parenting bookshelf. She gives us a whole new way of looking at raising kids\, and it is so beautifully intuitive even as it runs counter to everything we have been taught as Western parents. I loved all the families she introduces us to\, the landscapes she brings to life\, and her honesty about her relationships with her own daughter. It really does take a village to raise a child\, and it is pure joy to follow Michaeleen and Rosy from village to village seeing how it can be done. I can’t wait to talk to other parents about this book.”\n—Angela C. Santomero\, creator\, head writer\, and executive producer of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Blue’s Clues\, and author of Radical Kindness and Preschool Clues \nAbout Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\nThe oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy\, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? \nWhen Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother\, she examines the studies behind modern parenting guidance and finds the evidence frustratingly limited and the conclusions often ineffective. Curious to learn about more effective parenting approaches\, she visits a Maya village in the Yucatán Peninsula. There she encounters moms and dads who parent in a totally different way than we do—and raise extraordinarily kind\, generous\, and helpful children without yelling\, nagging\, or issuing timeouts. What else\, Doucleff wonders\, are Western parents missing out on? \nIn Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities: Maya families in Mexico\, Inuit families above the Arctic Circle\, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. She sees that these cultures don’t have the same problems with children that Western parents do. Most strikingly\, parents build a relationship with young children that is vastly different from the one many Western parents develop—it’s built on cooperation instead of control\, trust instead of fear\, and personalized needs instead of standardized development milestones. \nMaya parents are masters at raising cooperative children. Without resorting to bribes\, threats\, or chore charts\, Maya parents rear loyal helpers by including kids in household tasks from the time they can walk. Inuit parents have developed a remarkably effective approach for teaching children emotional intelligence. When kids cry\, hit\, or act out\, Inuit parents respond with a calm\, gentle demeanor that teaches children how to settle themselves down and think before acting. Hadzabe parents are world experts on raising confident\, self-driven kids with a simple tool that protects children from stress and anxiety\, so common now among American kids.\nNot only does Doucleff live with families and observe their techniques firsthand\, she also applies them with her own daughter\, with striking results. She learns to discipline without yelling. She talks to psychologists\, neuroscientists\, anthropologists\, and sociologists and explains how these strategies can impact children’s mental health and development. Filled with practical takeaways that parents can implement immediately\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent helps us rethink the ways we relate to our children\, and reveals a universal parenting paradigm adapted for American families. \nAbout the Author\nMichaeleen Doucleff is a correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk. In 2015\, she was part of the team that earned a George Foster Peabody award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Prior to joining NPR\, Doucleff was an editor at the journal Cell\, where she wrote about the science behind pop culture. She has a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a master’s degree in viticulture and enology from the University of California\, Davis. She lives with her husband\, daughter\, and German shepherd\, Mango\, in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-michaeleen-doucleff/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T190000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco has been\, and continues to be\, a popular setting for novels. Three authors who located recent novels in our City by the Bay will tell you why Monday\, March 15\, 7pm Pacific time.\n\n\n\n\nRoselle Lim Author\n(NATALIE TAN’S BOOK OF LUCK AND FORTUNE\, set in Chinatown)\, Katherine Seligman (AT THE EDGE OF THE HAIGHT)\, and Hilary Zaid (PAPER IS WHITE\, Dot.com-era San Francisco) will read from their books and discuss the use of setting in writing fiction. \n\n\nAlgonquin Books\n\n\n\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom. Get the link by rsvping on the event page https://bit.ly/3us9V51 or by emailing oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at https://www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-series/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085803
CREATED:20210204T190713Z
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SUMMARY:Donna Leon
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nGuests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this thrilling conversation. Please note the 12 pm PDT start time. Reserve your spot early! \n*** \nDonna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti is one of the most likable\, captivating characters in mystery: incisive\, principled\, and dogged yet cultured\, this hard-driving detective has a uniquely soft edge\, and his fierce protectiveness of Venice and its people have long made Brunetti a reader favorite. The protagonist of Leon’s iconic Venice-based mystery series has been almost as loved as Leon for decades. \nOn March 16th\, Kepler’s Literary Foundation is thrilled to present the 30th book in Brunetti’s saga\, Transient Desires. Leon herself will join us for an exciting in-conversation webinar to share the new novel\, talk shop about the mystery genre\, the Venice she loves\, and more. Whether you’re a new reader or have followed every installment of Brunetti’s mysteries\, it’s time to celebrate— because this novel has all of the hallmarks that make Leon’s mysteries unputdownable. \nWhen two young American women return with brutal injuries after joyriding in the Laguna with local young men\, hawk-eyed Brunetti questions why their escorts vanish so quickly after bringing the injured women to the hospital. Following that thread\, Brunetti uncovers what a gut-wrenching\, complex case that leads to technically brilliant and ruthlessly organized criminals operating underground in the beautiful\, storied city. As pursuit of justice takes Brunetti further afield\, he must rely on new colleagues whose truthfulness and motivations are not always clear. Absorbing and richly atmospheric\, with a keen insight into human failing plus all of Leon’s finesse for finely plotted twists\, the 30th Brunetti mystery will be an absolute delight for diehard fans and new readers alike. \nJoin us for an engrossing escape to Venice with Donna Leon online with Kepler’s this March. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-leon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085803
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SUMMARY:Sky Nelson-Isaacs - Leap to Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:An investigation into the physics of light and our journey toward healing\, connection\, and wholeness. \nThe reductionism and materialism of our modern world make it easy to imagine everything can be cleanly broken down into smaller and smaller parts. Yet the straightforward example of light in a hologram\, which can’t be reduced to its parts\, points to an underlying interconnected reality—a wholeness. Physicist Sky Nelson-Isaacs uses numerous familiar examples—rainbows\, music\, photography—to illustrate a fundamental wholeness found in nature. \nJust as light is filtered as it passes through a filmstrip\, Nelson-Isaacs points out that our human experience is filtered through thoughts and feelings. This view provides an explanation as to why\, in our daily lived reality\, we can feel so broken and not-whole. Nelson-Isaacs weaves together cutting-edge ideas into the nature of space and time and original research\, with a compelling message of urgency. The filters we use to make choices everyday hide important information from us\, leading us away from experiences of flow. Through synchronicities\, we are led to life lessons tailored to our readiness for change. Nelson-Isaacs reconsiders the view of time itself\, suggesting that we live not just in this moment but on a timeline of history\, part of a wave moving from our past into our future. Every choice we make shifts what is available to us. Can we learn to rethink our lives and reality to remove our filters and realize the wholeness that we have inherent in ourselves and in our world? Yes\, says Nelson-Isaacs—and once we do that\, we can use the multiverse of possibilities to make choices that help us heal and grow into a greater sense of ourselves. \nSky Nelson-Isaacs is a theoretical physicist\, speaker\, author\, and musician. He has a masters degree in physics from San Francisco State University\, with a thesis in String Theory\, and a BS in physics from UC Berkeley. Nelson-Isaacs has dedicated his life to finding his own sense of purpose\, beginning as a student of the Yogic master Sri Swami Satchidananda when he was less than five years old. Discovering an early fascination with holograms and some of the most fundamental questions in physics\, he has sought for over two decades to establish a connection between synchronicity\, physics\, and real life using research and original ideas. An educator with nine years of classroom experience\, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sky-nelson-isaacs-leap-to-wholeness/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
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CREATED:20210301T030017Z
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SUMMARY:One City One Book: Chanel Miller
DESCRIPTION:One City One Book: Chanel Miller\nTue Mar 16th 6:00pm – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nLitquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection\, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event\, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art\, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. \nClick here to register and buy books. \nUniversally acclaimed and rapturously reviewed\, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking New York Times bestselling memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe\, but as Chanel Miller the writer\, the artist\, the survivor\, the fighter” (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators\, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable\, and\, ultimately\, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book\, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, People\, and NPR\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian-American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. Her contribution to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ special issue #WeToo: A Reader details her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member\, and the healing process she went through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-city-one-book-chanel-miller/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
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SUMMARY:Chanel Miller in conversation with journalist Robynn Takayama
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library is honored to announce its 16th Annual One City One Book selection\, Chanel Miller’s\, Know My Name. \nChanel Miller will join Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the CA court system.  Zoom doors will open at 5:50. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, NPR and the Washington Post\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. \nTakayama has contributed to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ #WeToo Reader. In it\, she shares her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member and the healing process she went through. \nFor Spanish or Cantonese\, please register. Closed captioning will be available in English. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/16/author-chanel-miller-conversation-journalist-robynn-takayama sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chanel-miller-in-conversation-with-journalist-robynn-takayama/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T200000
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SUMMARY:Kim Addonizio & Friends
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new collection \nNow We’re Getting Somewhere: Poems \npublished by W.W. Norton \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world. \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. \nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. \nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-addonizio-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Naima Coster / What's Mine and Yours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host Naima Coster for her novel What’s Mine and Yours. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order What’s Mine and Yours here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students\, Gee and Noelle\, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years. \nOn one side of the integration debate is Jade\, Gee’s steely\, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss\, she is determined to give her son the tools he’ll need to survive in America as a sensitive\, anxious\, young Black man. On the other side is Noelle’s headstrong mother\, Lacey May\, a white woman who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn’t protect herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father\, Robbie. \nWhen Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students\, their paths collide\, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted\, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come. \nAs love is built and lost\, and the past never too far behind\, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive\, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years\, from the foothills of North Carolina\, to Atlanta\, Los Angeles\, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together. \n\nAbout the author\nNaima Coster is the author of Halsey Street\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Kweli\, the Paris Review Daily\, Catapult\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University\, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade\, in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-naima-coster-whats-mine-and-yours/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston and Jeneé Darden
DESCRIPTION:When LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth. Joining LaRayia is another powerhouse woman\, award-winning journalist and author\, Jeneé Darden. In addition to her essays and poetry\, Jeneé is the host of the weekly arts segment Sights and Sounds\, and covers East Oakland for KALW. If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed bookplate copies are limited and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-larayia-gaston-and-jenee-darden/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T210000
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and novelist Kazim Ali discusses his new book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Northern Light\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a queer\, Muslim man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational? \nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused. \nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to. \nAbout Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz\nKazim Ali was 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. \nNatalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem and When My Brother Was an Aztec\, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a USA fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kazim-ali/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robbie Arnott\, The Rain Heron
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott will discuss The Rain Heron\, his gripping new novel of myth\, environment\, adventure\, and an unlikely friendship.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d’état. High on the forested slopes\, she survives by hunting\, farming\, trading\, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit\, led by a young female soldier\, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical\, dangerous\, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story\, yet the soldier will not be deterred\, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. \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“Superb descriptions of nature and weather\, of human emotion and animal instinct\, by Australian novelist Arnott evoke a landscape that is both startlingly immediate and mysteriously otherworldly: the perfect setting for a tense narrative of eco-disaster and fragile endurance. At once an urgent thriller and an elegiac fable\, this mesmerizing tale is as lyrical as it is suspenseful.” ―Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robbie-arnott-the-rain-heron/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 16 AT 7PM PT WHEN LARAYIA GASTON DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, LOVE WITHOUT REASON: THE LOST ART OF GIVING A F*CK.\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL\nAS A PART OF THEIR WOMEN LIT #UNBOUND SERIES\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nFor questions regarding tickets\, please contact ticketing@baybookfest.org \nAbout the Event \nWhen LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth.  If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nDetails \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. All copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-larayia-gaston/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:DEACON KING KONG by James McBride | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of DEACON KING KONG by James McBride. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81138425681 \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpDeacon or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/DeaconAB \nOne of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” \nOprah’s Book Club Pick \nNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine \nA Washington Post Notable Novel \nFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water\, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. \nIn September 1969\, a fumbling\, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn\, pulls a .38 from his pocket\, and\, in front of everybody\, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. \nThe reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong\, James McBride’s funny\, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong\, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim\, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it\, the white neighbors\, the local cops assigned to investigate\, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon\, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters\, and Sportcoat himself. \nAs the story deepens\, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge\, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden\, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear\, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. \nBringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity\, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit\, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deacon-king-kong-by-james-mcbride-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #70
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 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.\n\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\n\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\n\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\n\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-70/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T133000
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: Denise Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:In Speculative Los Angeles\, bestselling author and Alta contributor Denise Hamilton reimagines her hometown in dramatically disparate ways by commissioning 13 stories from some of the city’s most prophetic and diverse voices (and adding her own). She joins Alta Live and Alta editor at large Mary Melton for a deep dive into speculative fiction in the City of Angels. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nEdgar Award finalist Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the anthology Los Angeles Noir (which includes the Edgar Award–winning short story “The Golden Gopher” by Susan Straight) and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former Los Angeles Times journalist\, a Fulbright Scholar\, a noir and sci-fi/fantasy geek\, and a proud L.A. native. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nAs an incubator of the future\, Los Angeles has mesmerized writers from Aldous Huxley to Octavia E. Butler. With its natural disasters\, Hollywood artifice\, staggering wealth and poverty\, and urban sprawl\, the city is\, arguably\, already so weird\, surreal\, irrational\, and mythic that any fiction emerging from it should be considered speculative. That’s the approach bestselling author Denise Hamilton took as she assembled 14 stories (including one of her own) and did exactly that in Speculative Los Angeles. \nIn these pages\, you’ll encounter 21st-century changelings\, dirigibles plying the suburban skies\, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia\, beachfront property in currently landlocked Century City\, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy\, psychic death cults\, robot nursemaids\, and an alternate L.A. where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization. Speculative Los Angeles features new stories from Charles Yu\, Aimee Bender\, Lisa Morton\, Alex Espinoza\, Ben H. Winters\, Denise Hamilton\, Lynell George\, Stephen Blackmoore\, Francesca Lia Block\, Duane Swierczynski\, Luis J. Rodriguez\, A.G. Lombardo\, Kathleen Kaufman\, and S. Qiouyi Lu. •
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-denise-hamilton/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T160000
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SUMMARY:Submission Roulette
DESCRIPTION:First impressions count—and they never count more than when you’re trying to impress an editor who has 1\,500 submissions to read. Editors often say that they can tell within the first page whether a story will be worth accepting\, so how do you make your first page really shine? Eavesdrop on our evaluation process—and vie to get your story noticed—with Recommended Reading editors Halimah Marcus and Brandon Taylor. They’ll be reading opening pages submitted just for the occasion\, sharing their reactions and thought processes as they go. Submit your own first page anonymously to see if your story has what it takes to catch our editors’ eyes\, or simply tune in to see how other writers fare.  \n  \nSubmission instructions: You can find the link to submit in the chat\, on the right hand side of the event page. (Please note\, you will only see the chat if you are registered for the event.) If you are unable to find the submission portal or have questions about submitting\, email preety@electricliterature.com. Please submit one page of fiction\, double spaced\, in 12 pt\, Times New Roman font. Your submission should be the first page of a story or novel chapter that you would like to submit (to a literary magazine\, agent\, MFA program\, etc.). Do not include any identifying information on the document. You may submit only one entry. \n  \nWe will select and anonymize a dozen or so submissions to read and respond to during the salon. Prescreens will be conducted by other RR editors so Brandon and Halimah will read the work for the first time live on Crowdcast.  \n  \nSubmissions are optional. You are welcome to attend the salon without submitting. Please be advised that salon submissions will not be considered for publication\, and that not all submissions will be read during the salon. For information on how to submit your stories for publication in Electric Literature\, please visit our submissions page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/submission-roulette/
LOCATION:Crowdcast
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mahogany L. Browne\, Safia Elhillo in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the San Francisco Public Library in welcoming the San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, along with celebrated authors Mahogany L. Browne and Safia Elhillo to discuss and give readings from their latest works. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is the San Francisco Poet Laureate appointed by Mayor London N. Breed in January 2021. He is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His book\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”\, received a 2018 American Book Award\, the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Tune into his inaugural address on April 21. \nMahogany L. Browne is a writer\, organizer and educator. Executive Director of Bowery Poetry Club & Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC & Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College\, Browne has received fellowships from Agnes Gund\, Air Serenbe\, Cave Canem\, Poets House\, Mellon Research & Rauschenberg. She is the author of most recent works: “Chlorine Sky”\, “Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice”\, “Woke Baby” & “Black Girl Magic”. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, “Girls That Never Die” and the novel in verse “Home Is Not A Country” (Make Me A World/Random House\, 2021).?Sudanese by way of Washington\, DC\, she holds an MFA from The New School\, a Cave Canem Fellowship and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Elhillo is a Pushcart Prize nominee and noted in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/17/author-tongo-eisen-marten-mahogany-l-browne-and-safia-elhillo-conversation sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mahogany-l-browne-safia-elhillo-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading featuring Terrance Hayes and Simone White
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Arts Research Center in welcoming two of America’s most compelling poets\, Terrance Hayes and Simone White\, on Wednesday\, March 17\, 2021 at 4pm PST. This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses program\, generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation. Following their individual readings\, they will be in conversation with UC Berkeley professor and Poetry & the Senses board member Chiyuma Elliott. This event will be live streamed on ARC’s YouTube channel\, and live captioned. All of ARC’s programs are free and open to the public. \nDuring spring 2021\, ARC will celebrate poetry and explore the theme of emerge/ncy: voices to carry with us in times of crisis\, with group readings every month\, and short flash readings released online. This semester-long festival of poetry is generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and is part of ARC’s Poetry & the Senses initiative. \n\nTerrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead\, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music\, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic\, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series\, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection\, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award\, two Pushcart selections\, eight Best American Poetry selections\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Guggenheim Foundation. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Fence\, The Kenyon Review\, Jubilat\, and Harvard Review. He is a professor of English at New York University. \n\nSimone White is the author of or\, on being the other woman (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2021)\, Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018)\, Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem\, 2016)\, and House Envy of All the World (Factory School\, 2010)\, the poetry chapbook\, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2013)\, and the collaborative poem/painting chapbook\, Dolly (with Kim Thomas) (Q Ave\, 2008). Her poetry and prose have been featured in Artforum\, e-flux\, Harper’s Magazine\, BOMB Magazine\, Chicago Review\, The New York Times Book Review\, and Harriet: The Blog. Her honors include a 2021 Creative Capital Award\, a 2017 Whiting Award in Poetry\, Cave Canem Foundation fellowships\, and recognition as a New American Poet for the Poetry Society of America in 2013. A graduate of Wesleyan University\, she holds a JD from Harvard Law School\, an MFA from the New School\, and a PhD in English from CUNY Graduate Center. She is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in Brooklyn. \n\nChiyuma Elliott is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics\, visual culture\, and intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Before joining the Berkeley faculty\, Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, and Assistant Professor of English\, Creative Writing\, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow\, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society\, the James Irvine Foundation\, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Elliott has published three books of poetry: At Most (2020)\, Vigil (2017)\, and California Winter League (2015) and her creative work has appeared in the African American Review\, Callaloo\, the Collagist\, the Notre Dame Review\, the PN Review\, and other journals. \n\nThis event is part of the Arts Research Center’s Poetry & the Senses program\, a two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) that explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. Funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation. \nImage credit: Simone White by Dana Scruggs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-featuring-terrance-hayes-and-simone-white/
LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nThe Color Purple by Alice Walker \nWow do you owe it to yourself to (re)read The Color Purple. The linguistic richness\, the twist on the epistolary structure\, the breadth of warm\, complex characters—all of this makes The Color Purple a must-(re)read. Dive in for Walker’s amazing use of dialect alone! \n Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, Walker’s 1982 novel has been one of the nation’s most “challenged” books\, often banned for violence and (excellent\, progressive) sexual content. While all the awards are exceedingly well deserved\, Kimberly mostly couldn’t believe just how smart\, absorbing and inspirational the book feels in 2020. \n Perhaps overshadowed by the works of Toni Morrison\, Maya Angelou and even the inimitable Zora Neale Hurston—whom Walker resurrected from literary oblivion—Walker’s masterpiece deserves more attention and our careful dissection. Join Kimberly for this delicious novel\, one that’s particularly important as we Americans examine longstanding thoughts about sex\, race and inequity. \n Book will be shipped directly to you so that you may read it prior to the seminar. You may also choose to pick the book up at Kepler’s in Menlo Park as another option.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-the-color-purple-by-alice-walker/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T191500
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics and Dirges returns with a fabulous reading focusing on literary translation. We have three translators who are also poets and writers to present their recent translations as well as speaking about how translating and their own creative writing inform each other.\n\nWe are on Zoom (link below) and FB Live (Lyrics & Dirges page)\n\nAnna Christine Rodas\nKaveh Bassiri\nZackary Sholem Berger\n\nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master’s Degree in Community Development and worked in this field both here in the Bay Area and internationally. Her academic research in Central American Literary Studies explores the social realities of war\, violence\, and trauma. Her poetry is an effort to bring the voices of these experiences to the page\, especially those of women. She views the female body as a colonized space and the written word as a practice to reclaim sovereignty.\n\nKaveh Bassiri is the author of two chapbooks: 99 Names of Exile (2019)\, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and Elementary English (2020)\, winner of Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. He is also the recipient of a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His translations have appeared in The Common\, Chicago Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, Two Lines\, The Los Angeles Review\, and The Massachusetts Review.\n\nZackary Sholem Berger (zackarysholemberger.com\, Twitter @DrZackaryBerger) is a poet and translator in English\, Yiddish\, and Hebrew. He writes frequently for the Yiddish Forward and other publications. His latest translation is Essential Prose of Avrom Sutzkever (White Goat Press\, 2020).\n\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94477442252\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,94477442252# or +12532158782\,94477442252#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 944 7744 2252\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/ab18rLmNGx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-in-translation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T193000
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SUMMARY:Launch for Jeff Chang & Dave "Davey D" Cook / Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook for the Young Adult Edition of their classic\, American Book Award-winning Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Young Adult Edition) here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nFrom award-winning author Jeff Chang\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is the story of hip-hop\, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever. \nHip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America\, giving new voice to the younger generation. It defines a generation’s worldview. Exploring hip hop’s beginnings up to the present day\, Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip hop generation has created. \nBased on original interviews with DJs\, b-boys\, rappers\, activists\, and gang members\, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip hop’s forebears\, founders\, mavericks\, and present day icons\, this book chronicles the epic events\, ideas and the music that marked the hip hop generation’s rise. \nAbout the authors\nJeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Village Voice\, Vibe\, The Nation\, URB\, Rap Pages\, Spin\, and Mother Jones. He is the author of several books\, including the American Book Award-winning Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. He was a founding editor of Colorlines Magazine\, senior editor at Russell Simmons’s 360hiphop.com\, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides\, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California. Author photo by Jeremy Keith Villaluz. \nDave ‘Davey D’ Cook is a nationally recognized journalist\, adjunct professor at San Francisco State\, Hip Hop historian\, political commentator\, syndicated talk show host\, radio programmer\, media justice and community activist. Author photo by BFRESH Photography. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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