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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Jane Goodall & Peter Wohlleben
DESCRIPTION:Join the renowned Dr. Jane Goodall and New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben for an uplifting conversation on the natural world. \nDetails and ticket information here!\nBookshop Santa Cruz joins Books & Books and bookstores across the country for this exclusive conversation and book launch of Wohlleben’s The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature. \nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees returns to his and his readers’ favorite subject—trees—in this powerful\, timely new book. \nDrawing on new scientific discoveries\, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature\, exploring the language of the forest\, the consciousness of plants\, and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna. Wohlleben shares how to see\, feel\, smell\, hear\, and even taste your journey into the woods. \nAbove all\, he reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are a part of nature\, and where conservation is not just about saving trees—it’s about saving ourselves\, too. \nMultiple Ticketing Options: \n\nBundled with book; signed bookplates will go to the first 50 registrants. Choose in-store pickup or have it shipped to you\nGeneral entry (without a book) is also available for $5.\nOnce you make your purchase\, we will send you a link and unique password to access the event\n\nAbout the Event: \nPeter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally-friendly woodland in Germany\, where he is working toward the return of primeval forests. He is the author of numerous books about the natural world including the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees\, The Inner Lives of Animals\, and The Secret Wisdom of Nature\, which together make up his bestselling “The Mysteries of Nature” Series. He has also written numerous books for children including Can You Hear the Trees Talking? and Peter and the Tree Children. \nDr. Jane Goodall\, DBE\, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in July 1960 in what is now Tanzania. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals. \nIn 1977\, Dr. Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute\, which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The Institute is widely recognized for innovative\, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa\, and Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots\, the global environmental and humanitarian youth program. \nDr. Goodall founded Roots & Shoots with a group of Tanzanian students in 1991.Today\, Roots & Shoots is active in more than 60 countries and since its inception has greatly impacted participants of all ages in over 100 countries. All of whom take action to make the world a better place for people\, animals and the environment. \nModerator Donna Seaman is Editor for Adult Books for Booklist. She is also a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum\, and a recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award and the Louis Shores Award for excellence in book reviewing. Her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books\, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Julia Alvarez\, Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies\, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón about Alvarez’s most recent novel\, Afterlife\, now available in paperback. This event is cosponsored by Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be ordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nIn Alvarez’s first adult novel in almost fifteen years\, Antonia Vega\, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife\, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband\, Sam\, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears\, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant\, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack—but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. \nAfterlife is a compact\, nimble\, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust\, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families\, including—maybe especially—members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost? \n“A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is\, and always has been\, in a class of her own.” —Elizabeth Acevedo\, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X \nJulia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels\, three books of nonfiction\, three collections of poetry\, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and\, until her retirement in 2016\, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition\, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute\, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature\, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine\, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters\, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies\, with over one million copies in print\, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program\, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. \nSylvanna M. Falcón is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, Director of the Research Center for the Americas\, and founder/director of the Human Rights Investigations Lab at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activists inside the United Nations\, [University of Washington Press\, 2016; winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Award] and the co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship [Rutgers University Press\, 2021] and New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights [Routledge\, 2011]. She is a former UN consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. \nFounded in 1992\, the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz is the first in the UC system to advance a broad program of interdisciplinary research that brings together Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American Studies.
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SUMMARY:CWC Speaker Series Panel: Race as Context: BIPOC California Writers
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to offer a unique opportunity for members to join in this timely discussion. Panelists are California BIPOC writers from many vantage points including: \nA Millenial with his first complete manuscript. \nAuthors with years of experience helping others in their craft. \nA recent award-winning MFA graduate newly arrived to California. \nA mid-career writer publishing fiction prose for the first time. \nAnd\, San Francisco’s 7th Poet Laureate\, whose work and life have shone like a high beacon illuminating the country from here in the Bay. \nPlease come enjoy an illuminating conversation between Alex Sato\, Gabriel Campbell\, Jhon Valdes Klinger\, and Kim Shuck\, moderated by member Ellen McBarnette. This diverse and talented group of writers and poets will share their perspectives on race as context\, and inspire discussion and exploration for others. \nEllen McBarnette is a CWC Berkeley member and active in the Afrosurrealist Writers Workshop of Oakland and the Women’s National Book Association SF Branch. Learn more about Ellen at about.me/ellenmcbarnette. \nJhon Valdes Klinger is an Afro-Latinx writer born in Colombia and raised in New York. He holds an MFA from The New School. His work has been published in the 12 Street Journal\, Ipstori App\, Monsters of the Bronx\, and Acentos Review. \nKim Shuck served as the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco. Shuck is author of seven books\, editor or assistant editor of a handful of anthologies\, and appears in a few dozen anthologies edited by other people. Learn more about Kim at KimShuck.com. \nGabriel Campbell graduated with a minor in Creative Writing. He has completed his first novel\, Love\, Legends\, and Legacies\, Book One of The Keita Daze and is seeking representation. He lives in Oakland. \nAlex Sato’s short stories and novels are often placed in Northern California where he’s lived for his entire life. His preferred genres are horror\, fantasy and sci fi. Learn more about Alex at QuantumKatana.com. \n$10 General Admission\, $5 For Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Meaning and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival.\n\nA presentation of readings by a diverse\, intergenerational\, cross-section of writers\, who include visual artists\, educators\, activists and professionals from the AAPI community\, who will share their stories and poems\, ranging from immigration stories and family memoir to gender and racial oppression\, anti-Asian hate and police violence\, written during the course of a writing workshop conducted by poet-playwright\, Genny Lim. The online APICC workshops have met every week\, throughout the pandemic. These memoir pieces were written in response to weekly writing prompts provided by Genny Lim. All levels and ages\, from emerging to advanced writers\, were welcomed and encouraged to explore and develop their individual voices and craft in a safe and communal atmosphere that allowed for constructive critique\, dialogue\, mutual support and growth.\n\n::READERS::\nLeila Beltran\nSharleen Boummer\nVickie Ya Rong Chang\nCarole Chinn Morales\nSusan Hayase\nSusan Kitazawa\nMei Lam\nMirah Lucas\nGrace Morizawa\nShizue Shikuma\nLeon Sun\nCasimiro Tolentino\nLeslie Yee-Murata\n\nABOUT GENNY LIM\nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Lim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S.\, Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award and an anthology of Senior Asian American memoirs\, Window: Glimpses of Our Storied Past. She has worked with past Jazz legends\, such as Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Eddie Marshall and long-time collaborators\, Jon Jang\, John Santos\, Francis Wong and Del Sol String Quartet.\n\nABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF ASIAN AMERICA FESTIVAL\nThis year’s 24th annual United States of Asian American Festival (USAAF) presents over 20 different programs reflecting the artistic accomplishments and cultural diversity of San Francisco’s Pacific Islander and Asian American communities. USAAF showcases artists representing a diverse range of ethnic and cultural groups and aims to heighten the visibility of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) artists working in all disciplines – theater\, music\, dance\, film\, literature\, visual arts\, and more! Our goal is to nurture and empower these groups to be self-sufficient while providing the support they need to grow.\nThis year’s theme\, Forging Our Futures – SoMa & Chinatow n\, explores how we are fostering recovery\, resilience and regeneration in our communities\, what place-making and community building looks like\, past\, present and future and how we’re imagining and manifesting empowered future for ourselves and our communities.\n\nUSAAF 2021 is funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission \, San Francisco Grants for the Arts \, California Arts Council \, Fleishhacker Foundation \, Zellerbach Family Foundation \, startsmall and National Endowment for the Arts .
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure: East Coast Memorial & Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Please join The Poetry Project and City Lights as we celebrate and remember Michael McClure\, poet and beloved friend. \nFeaturing readings and remembrances from: Ammiel Alcalay\, David Brazil\, Garrett Caples\, Francesco Clemente\, David Henderson\, Bob Holman\, Mary Norbert Korte\, Filip Marinovich\, Amy Evans McClure\, Jackson Meazle\, Uche Nduka\, Lee Ranaldo\, Ed Sanders\, Declan Spring\, Amber Tamblyn\, and Jeffrey Yang \nEvent is free but requires registration. \n(Register Here) \nMichael McClure (1932-2020) was an award-winning American poet\, playwright\, songwriter\, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man\, he was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem “Howl.” A key figure of the Beat Generation\, McClure is immortalized as Pat McLear in Jack Kerouac’s novels The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He also participated in the 60s counterculture alongside musicians like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. He taught for many years at California College of the Arts and lived with his wife\, Amy\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nThis event follows a series of celebrations for Michael McClure’s life and work. Here is the registration link for the launch of Michael McClure’s final book on May 8 with Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles; and here is the registration link with West Coast celebrants and friends in tribute to McClure on May 9. \nPlease note you must be logged in to your Eventbrite account to access the event’s zoom link. We will begin letting people into the reading from Eventbrite a few minutes before the start of the event. Please also note that if you are not logged into Eventbrite\, you will receive a notification reading “You don’t have access to this event” when you click on the event link. This is an automatically generated notification indicating that you need to login\, using the email address with which you registered for the event. You can do so using the button located directly below the notification. If you have any questions\, have trouble accessing your Eventbrite account\, or have trouble accessing Zoom after the event’s listed start time\, please contact Poetry Project staff directly at info@poetryproject.org \nThe Poetry Project is committed to making our event programming inclusive and accessible for individuals with different experiences\, and are continuously working to improve and expand upon accessibility measures. Our online broadcasts feature live transcription and are presented on broadcasts compatible with most screen readers. If you have a question about either of these resources\, or an accessibility measure we haven’t described\, please contact us at rm@poetryproject.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure-memorial-tribute/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen: de la Perrière/Hong/Hume
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday May 18th\, the Lone Glen series will feature writers Donna de la Perrière\, Anna Maria Hong\, and Christine Hume. Join us on zoom to hear their forms reverberate from two coasts. This 31st Lone Glen will “open doors” at 5:30 pm PST and get going by 5:40. Bring your sense of humor\, and a friend!\n\nLone Glen is a quarterly reading and performance series dedicated to fostering all writing and art genres within a spirit of collaborative\, down-to-earth\, and inclusive creative community. Launched in December 2011 in an apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco\, Lone Glen was later an Oakland basement operation for several years before taking root at the Temescal Art Center in Oakland and The Bindery in San Francisco. We are hosting several virtual events in 2021.\nAbout the writers:\nDonna de la Perrière is the author of five collections of poetry: three books — Works of Love & Terror (2019)\, Saint Erasure (2010)\, and True Crime (2009)\, all from Talisman House — as well as two chapbooks\, Night Calendar (Omerta\, 2018) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange Collection\, 2013). Her work has appeared in journals such as Brooklyn Rail\, Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, and Volt\, as well as anthologies such as No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (2009) and Bay Poetics (2006). The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry Award and a 2016 Creative Work Grant from Intersection for the Arts\, she founded and curated the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series (2004 – 2019) in San Francisco. She teaches at San Francisco State University\, and lives in Oakland with poet Joseph Lease and cats Whitman and Dickinson. Read more at www.donnadelaperriere.net.\nAnna Maria Hong is the author of three recent books: Age of Glass\, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition\, the novella H & G (Sidebrow Books)\, winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize\, and Fablesque\, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize. A former Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, she has poetry and fiction published and forthcoming in publications including The Nation\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, Shenandoah\, Plume\, Ecotone\, Smartish Pace\, The Hopkins Review\, Poetry\, Poetry Daily\, Best New Poets\, and The Best American Poetry. She is an Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College. https://www.annamariahong.net/\nChristine Hume is the author of an experimental memoir in the form of three interlinked essays\, Saturation Project (Solid Objects\, 2021)\, as well as three books of poetry and six chapbooks. She recently edited a special issue of the American Book Review on Girlhood (April 2020) and finished a new manuscript on two despised subjects in America\, sex offenders and women’s bodies. She is professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. https://christinehume.com/
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger\nTuesday\, May 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n\n\nWith compelling\, universal fluency\, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays the practical and emotional adversities of her diverse characters in elegant and direct prose. Whether describing hardships of a lonely Indian wife adapting to life in the United States or illuminating the secret pain of a young couple as they discuss their betrayals during a series of electrical blackouts\, Lahiri’s bittersweet stories are deeply compassionate\, while avoiding sentimentality. Also an accomplished translator\, Lahiri’s forthcoming novel\, Whereabouts\, is her first full-length self-translation. The book follows a woman wavering between stasis and movement\, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties\, as she wanders parks\, bridges\, piazzas\, streets\, stores\, coffee bars\, and the sidewalks around her house. Lahiri will also publish her first collection of poems in Italian\, Il quaderno di Nerina\, in 2021. Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies\, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. She is the director of Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing. \nMonica Seger is a professor and scholar\, whose research and teaching addresses twentieth and twenty-first century Italian literature\, film and media; the environmental humanities; and gender studies. She serves as the Program Director for Italian Studies at William & Mary University\, and is affiliate faculty in the programs of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies; Film and Media Studies; and Environmental Science and Policy. Seger is the author of Landscapes in Between: Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film\, and is currently working on a new monograph considering narrative expressions of toxic embodiment in contemporary Italy. \n\n\n 
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kevin McIlovy and Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 18 at 6pm PT when Kevin McIlvoy discusses his latest novel\, One Kind Favor\, with Peter Orner on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88148839841\n\nAbout One Kind Favor\nBased loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014\, ONE KIND FAVOR explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in the small fictional community of Cord\, North Carolina\, the ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker\, the groundbreaking literary icon\, engages Lincoln in a love triangle and brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of ONE KIND FAVOR\, Kevin McIlvoy’s sixth novel\, echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will\, at last\, have their way.\n\nAbout Kevin McIlvoy\nKevin McIlvoy is the author of seven previous books: five novels\, a book of short stories\, and a book of prose poetry. He is a retired Regents Professor of Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s\, Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, Missouri Review\, and other literary magazines. He lives in Asheville\, North Carolina.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kevin-mcilovy-and-peter-orner/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Norman Fischer / When You Greet Me I Bow
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Norman Fischer‘s new book\, When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. More to be announced soon\, but won’t you save the date and join us? \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order When You Greet Me I Bow here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\n“Looking backwards at a life lived\, walking forward into more life to live built on all that\, trying not to be too much influenced by what’s already been said and done\, not to be held to a point of view or an identity previously expressed\, trying to be surprised and undone and maybe even dismayed by what lies ahead.” – Norman Fischer \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, and translator whose writings\, teachings\, and commitment to interfaith dialogue have supported and inspired Buddhist\, Jewish\, and other spiritual practitioners for decades. When You Greet Me I Bow spans the entirety of Norman Fischer’s career and is the first collection of his writings on Buddhist philosophy and practice. Broken into four sections—the joy and catastrophe of relationship; thinking\, writing\, and emptiness; cultural encounters; and social engagement—this book allows us to see the fascinating development of the mind and interests of a gifted writer and profoundly committed practitioner. \nAbout the author\nNorman Fischer is a Zen teacher\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. A beloved figure in the Buddhist world\, he is also well-known for his efforts at interreligious dialogue. His numerous books include The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path\, What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-norman-fischer-when-you-greet-me-i-bow/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #72
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:\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
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: John Green\, The Anthropocene Reviewed
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author John Green and special guest Sarah Green will discuss John’s new collection of personal essays\, Anthropocene Reviewed\, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. \nPurchase tickets for this event here.\nTicketing: $30–$70 \n\nAll tickets include a signed hardcover copy of THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED; choose store pickup or have it shipped to you.\n\n\nYou will receive an emailed invitation to this Zoom event before the event begins\, including emailed reminders both the day before and an hour before the event.\n\nEach ticket includes a $1 charitable donation to a cause John is very passionate about: maternal health in Sierra Leon. Read more about Partners in Health HERE \nOn The Anthropocene Reviewed: \nThe Anthropocene is the current geological age\, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast\, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu—on a five-star scale. John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection that includes both beloved essays and all-new pieces exclusive to the book. \nJohn Green is the award-winning\, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska\, The Fault in Our Stars\, and Turtles All the Way Down. His books have received many accolades\, including a Printz Medal\, a Printz Honor\, and an Edgar Award. John has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also the writer and host of the critically acclaimed podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother\, Hank\, John has co-created many online video projects\, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. He lives with his family in Indianapolis\, Indiana. You can visit John online at johngreenbooks.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-john-green-the-anthropocene-reviewed/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner / The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner for The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The First Ten Years here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn 2009\, 22-year-old Joseph Fink\, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast\, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could snag free tickets to their shows. \nMeg Bashwiner\, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright\, was living with her parents in New Jersey\, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company. \nJoseph and Meg’s stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. They quickly became friends. Within a year\, they were a couple. Within five years they were touring the world\, performing on some of the world’s greatest and not so great stages. \nIn this candid\, soul-baring memoir\, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten years together\, each telling their story as they remember it\, without having consulted the other. We hear both sides of their first kiss\, first breakup\, first getting back together\, the death of a father\, marriage\, international fame\, world tours\, mental illness\, and discussions about having children. Sometimes\, they recall things differently—neither agrees on who paid for the morning after pill on their first date. Sometimes they remember the exact same details in the same way—but still have their own narrative on just what those details mean. \nPoignant\, funny\, and real\, alternately told in Joseph and Meg’s remarkably different\, yet equally compelling voices\, The First Ten Years is the story of two individuals finding their way in the world and becoming “adults” as they learn to become a couple. \n\nAbout the authors\nJoseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts and is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead\, and co-author of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale\, It Devours!\, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home\, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void\, Partially Stars\, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe\, The Buying of Lot 37\, and Who’s a Good Boy.  \nMeg Bashwiner is a writer\, performer\, tour manager\, podcaster and producer. She is the emcee for the international touring live show of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. She is an alumni member of the acclaimed New York theater company The New York Neo-Futurists. They live in the Hudson Valley and Los Angeles. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-joseph-fink-and-meg-bashwiner-the-first-ten-years-two-sides-of-the-same-love-story/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aminatta Forna
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Window Seat: Notes From a Life In Motion \npublished by Grove Press \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness\, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical\, our relationship with the natural world\, and the stories that we tell ourselves. \n“These essays\, ranging across continents and time\, so broad in their themes and so deep in their perceptions\, are essential reading\, combining Aminatta Forna’s great gifts as a storyteller and her razor-sharp analytical skills.”—Salman Rushdie \n\nAminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices\, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize Literature Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Now\, she returns with The Window Seat\, an elegantly rendered\, thought-provoking collection of new and previously published essays. In this wide-ranging collection\, Forna writes intimately about displacement\, trauma and memory\, love\, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. \n\n\nIn “Obama and the Renaissance Generation\,” she documents how\, despite the narrative of Obama’s exceptionalism\, his father\, like her own\, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In “The Last Vet\,” time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh\, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone\, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown\, becomes a meditation on what a society’s treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In “Crossroads\,” she examines race in America from an African perspective\, and in “Power Walking” she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman’s body. \n\n\nThe Window Seat is\, in the words of acclaimed author Chinelo Okparanta\, “a journey . . . These essay are altogether a sharp\, elegant meditation . . . on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.” \nAminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones\, The Memory of Love\, and The Hired Man\, as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water. Forna’s books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, and Vogue. She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University. \nVisit: https://www.aminattaforna.com/ \n\nPraise for The Window Seat \n“Novelist Forna (Happiness) explores notions of place\, identity\, and movement in this bracing collection . . . Forna is a razor sharp prose stylist . . . and her attention to detail moves the collection forward . . . Full of careful observations\, Forna’s meditations hit the mark.”—Publishers Weekly \n“The Window Seat is gutsy\, funny\, risky and wise\, full of dazzling late night insight\, in-the-middle-of-everything epiphanies\, moments of sheer honesty blooming into gut truths\, in a clear-eyed voice that makes you listen in wonder.”—Marlon James\, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize \n“If you had to take the middle seat and sit next to anyone with the window seat\, Aminatta Forna would be the perfect stranger to talk to. Wise\, witty\, sensitive\, and sophisticated—about travel\, politics\, globalization\, writing\, and the nuances of the human heart and soul—Forna has lived a life of which many of us would be envious. Her essays illuminate that life but ours as well\, making us understand the many ways we are connected\, even if we only see each other from a distance.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Committed \n“The essays in this magnificent collection are exhilarating and expansive meditations on traveling—and living—in places so consequential and historically significant that they cannot be measured simply by distance. Who are we far from home? What becomes of those who return\, and what do we owe to those who stay behind? These are just a few of the questions that Forna raises in this sharply rendered\, personal collection. But she doesn’t stop there: by the end\, this book invites a reckoning with our rightful place on this earth. Generous in spirit and breathtakingly intelligent\, The Window Seat reminds us why Forna is one of our best writers working today.”—Maaza Mengiste\, author of The Shadow King \n“These brilliant essays\, reflections from a boundary-crossing life\, are urgently needed in America right now. Forna writes to us from a world where democracies are in the process of being made and unmade\, where “nation-building is no simple task\,” where lives are lost to civil war. With expert storytelling\, she provides a vivid context for our politics and culture. The Window Seat is a wise guidebook for how to be at home in the world.”—Eula Biss\, author of Having and Being Had \n“From the Shetlands to Sierra Leone\, from Teheran to Georgetown\, Aminatta Forna has been everywhere\, paid attention to everything and everyone. She is brilliant at thinking in narration and can thus tell superb stories about her life and experience. She contains multitudes\, and her essays are populated with those multitudes\, dense with unforgettable details and landscapes\, amazing people and animals\, astonishing histories. The Window Seat is dazzling.”—Aleksandar Hemon\, author of The Lazarus Project \n“The Window Seat is a journey. Imagine yourself on a scenic\, thought-provoking flight around the world—from the UK to New Zealand\, Sierra Leone to the USA—in this candid exploration of nostalgia for a lost past and the trappings of home. These essays are altogether a sharp\, elegant meditation on childhood\, adulthood\, race\, migration\, and itinerancy. Astutely balancing illuminating research with intimate personal anecdotes\, Forna expertly suffuses the book with her insights on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.”—Chinelo Okparanta\, author of Under the Udala Trees \n“Forna’s essays are simultaneously introspective and political\, big-hearted and hard-edged\, adventurous and wise. She can write about race and war and family and loss and everything in between\, and she has the words to match her extraordinary experience. This book enlarged my world.”—Juan Gabriel Vásquez\, author of Songs for the Flames \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aminatta-forna/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Yusef Salaam\, Better\, Not Bitter
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: Yusef Salaam\, one of the wrongfully incarcerated Central Park Five\, will discuss his powerful new book\, Better\, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice. This event is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch. \nSalaam’s memoir is an inspiring story that grew out of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice\, one that not only speaks to a moment in time or the rage-filled present\, but reflects a 400-year history of a nation’s inability to be held accountable for its sins. Yusef Salaam’s message is vital for our times\, a motivating resource for enacting change. Better\, Not Bitter has the power to soothe\, inspire and transform. It is a galvanizing call to action. \nTickets for this special event are available on Eventbrite! Click here! \nYusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison reform activist\, who\, at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997\, he left prison as an adult to a world he didn’t fully recognize or understand. In 2002\, the sentences for the Central Park Five were overturned\, and all Five were exonerated for the crime they didn’t commit. \nYusef now travels the world as an inspirational speaker\, speaking about the effects of incarceration and the devastating impact of disenfranchisement. He is an advocate and educator on issues of mass incarceration\, police brutality and misconduct\, press ethics and bias\, race and law\, and the disparities in the criminal justice system\, especially for men of color.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-yusef-salaam-better-not-bitter/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren - The Complete Stories
DESCRIPTION:Noah Warren\, winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize\, celebrates the release of his second book of poems\, The Collected Stories (Copper Canyon Press) with Armen Davoudian\, Randall Mann\, and Katie Peterson. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon \n  \nAbout The Collected Stories\nThe Complete Stories announces its desire and its lie in the title; this is a book of shatter and loss. In his second collection\, Noah Warren–previously selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets–unravels histories both personal and public\, picking apart their ugliness\, beauty\, and irreducible singularity. Clothed in broken forms\, these poems of grieving and tentative joy ask finally how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts\, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility. \nAbout Noah Warren\nNoah Warren was born in Canada and is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass (2016)\, chosen by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is pursuing a PhD in English at UC Berkeley. He lives in Oakland. His poems appear in The Paris Review\, Poetry\, ZYZZYVA\, PEN America\, New England Review\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, AGNI\, Poets.org\, The Sewanee Review\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noah-warren-the-complete-stories/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers\nThursday\, May 20\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThe news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big—scary big\, like a brushfire coming at you uphill. Authorities\, medical and political\, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests. Michael Lewis’s new riveting nonfiction thriller\, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story\, pits a rogue band of visionaries\, working under the radar\, against the weight and disinterest of officialdom. It is a race against time\, and the deadline is now…or yesterday. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker\, Moneyball\, The Blind Side\, The Big Short\, and The Undoing Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis-in-conversation-with-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Wells and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 20 at 6pm PT when Martha Wells is joined by Annalee Newitz to discuss Fugitive Telemetry\, the latest in The Murderbot Diaries\, on Zoom!\n\nSigned copies available!\nSpecial Murderbot Diary will be available for the first 20 copies sold!\nBe sure to write “diary!” in your order comment to receive yours.\nWhile supplies last.\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89627822577\n\nPraise for The Murderbot Diaries\n“I love Murderbot!” —Ann Leckie\n\n“The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I’ve enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!” —N. K. Jemisin\n\n“We are all a little bit Murderbot.”—NPR\n\nAbout Fugitive Telemetry\nThe New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back!\nHaving captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.\n\nNo\, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had\, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.\nWhen Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station\, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was)\, how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward\, at least)\, and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)\n\nYes\, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-wells-and-annalee-newitz-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ethel Rohan with Joy Lanzendorfer / In the Event of Contact
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the launch for Ethel Rohan and her new story collection In the Event of Contact. She’ll be joined in conversation by Joy Lanzendorfer (Right Back Where We Started From). \nThis event is free\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors’ books below – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nIn the Event of Contact by Ethel Rohan \nRight Back Where We Started From by Joy Lanzendorfer \nAbout the book\nIn the Event of Contact chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection\, or its lack. Among them\, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic\, redemptive act\, if he can only remember how; and an aspirational\, angst-ridden mother captains the skies. \nAmidst backgrounds of trespass and absence\, the indelible characters of In the Event of Contact seek renewed belief in themselves\, recovery\, and humanity. \nAbout the authors\nEthel Rohan is the author of In the Event of Contact\, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize. Her debut novel The Weight of Him (St. Martin’s Press and Atlantic Books\, 2017) was an Amazon\, Bustle\, KOBO\, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book\, and was shortlisted for the Reading Women Award. She is also the author of the story collections Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone\, the former longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has appeared widely\, including The New York Times\, World Literature Today\, The Washington Post\, PEN America\, Tin House\, Guernica\, and more. Raised in Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco where she is a member of the Writers Grotto. \nJoy Lanzendorfer’s work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, NPR\, Smithsonian\, Poetry Foundation\, and many others. Her writing was included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and was notable in The Best American Essays 2019 and 2020. Grants and residencies include the Discovered Awards for Emerging Literary Artists\, Wildacres Residency Program\, and the Speculative Literature Foundation. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-ethel-rohan-with-joy-lanzendorfer-in-the-event-of-contact/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes...
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nan Online Open Mic\n& Community Listening Space\nw/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team! \nThursday\, May 20th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: https://bit.ly/3dwQpO2 \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nOpen mic sign-ups will be ON THE ZOOM CALL!\nIf you want to share [& remember you don’t have to share!]\, once you’re on the Zoom call\, look for posted instructions for signing up. REMEMBER: The open mic list fills up quickly\, so sign up as soon as you can.\nREGISTRATION is for attendance\, not for an open mic spot. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/chelseacoleman1184 or via chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-24/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T220000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #35
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# 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+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-35/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 21 at 6pm PT when Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his latest book\, Son of the Storm\, with Rebecca Roanhorse on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\n\nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass\n\n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn\n\n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter\n\n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings\n\nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.\n\nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy.\n\nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #59
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\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:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\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.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman 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\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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-59/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:Alice Sparkly Kat on Postcolonial Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Astrologer and author Alice Sparkly Kat is ushering in a new wave of astrology that is intersectional\, inclusive\, and geared towards queer and POC communities. In their cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language\, Alice uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets\, sun\, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history\, redefine the body in the world\, and assert our politics of the personal. \nAlice believes that too often\, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism\, used as a force of oppression\, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. Dedicated to unmasking the political power of astrology\, Alice shows how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. \nJoin educator\, creator\, and astrologer Kirah Tabourn for a conversation with Alice Sparkly Kat on their work and their latest book\, Postcolonial Astrology. Kirah and Alice share insights into ways we can use astrology to challenge our own practices\, interrogate our truths\, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/kat-sparkly-alice-may-21-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-sparkly-kat-on-postcolonial-astrology/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, MAY 21 AT 6PM PT WHEN SUYI DAVIES OKUNGBOWA DISCUSSES HIS LATEST BOOK\, SON OF THE STORM\, WITH REBECCA ROANHORSE ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89187601455#  or +13462487799\,\,89187601455#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kddeXIFxNY \nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass \n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn \n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter \nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa. \n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings \nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy. \nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T200000
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks 25th Anniversary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Youth Speaks invites you to join us in celebrating 25 years of supporting and challenging young people to develop and amplify their voices as creators of societal change. Come for a night of youth poetry\, some special guests\, and learn more about our home for the next 25 years and beyond. The fundraiser will be emceed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph with special guests Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs with a special musical guest. \nTICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-25th-anniversary-fundraiser/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T130000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 22 at 12pm PT when Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders discuss their latest books\, Sorrowland and Victories Greater Than Death!\n\nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow.\nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation.\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be available to stream on Facebook Live.\n\nAbout Sorrowland\nSorrowland is a triumphant\, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.\n\nVern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There\, she gives birth to twins\, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest\, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go\, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of\, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family\, Vern has to face the past\, and more troublingly\, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here\, monsters aren’t just individuals\, but entire nations. It is a searing\, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold\, unignorable voice in American fiction.\n\nRivers Solomon writes about life in the margins\, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award\, Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for a Lambda\, a Hurston/Wright\, an Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) and a Locus award. Solomon’s second book\, The Deep\, based on the Hugo-nominated song by Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping\, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and shortlisted for a Nebula\, Locus\, Hugo\, Ignyte\, Brooklyn Library Literary\, British Fantasy\, and World Fantasy award. Solomon’s short work appears in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review\, the New York Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, Guernica\, Best American Short Stories\, Tor.com\, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy\, and elsewhere. A refugee of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade\, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.\n\nAbout Victories Greater Than Death\nVictories Greater Than Death is a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders.\n\nOutsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy. “Just please\, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”\n\nTina never worries about being ‘ordinary’–she doesn’t have to\, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains\, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon\, and one day soon\, it’s going to activate\, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy\, after all\, is intergalactic–she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero\, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates\, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed–and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian\, but Tina….is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war\, badly–the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily\, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust\, and her best friend Rachel\, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy coming in April 2021\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future got 700\,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rivers-solomon-and-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Sadhguru with Kunal Nayyar / Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is very pleased to partner with the Isha Foundation to present a special afternoon with Sadhguru for his new book Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny. He will be in conversation with Kunal Nayyar. \nPlease note: \n> We have an early start time of 4pm PT.\n> Each ticket includes a copy of Karma\, either delivered to your door or held for pickup at our San Francisco store.\n> We are happy to ship anywhere in the world. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to write events@booksmith.com. \nIs karma the cause of human suffering?\nDoes collective karma exist?\nCan I break free from the karmic cycle? \nSadhguru and actor Kunal Nayyar will explore the most compelling questions surrounding karma: Where did it all begin? How is it related to human suffering? Can karma be collective? How can we break free from the karmic cycle? Join this insightful exchange that will unravel how karma is connected to some of the most vital areas of human inquiry: the meaning of life and above all\, how to live it at full throttle. \nAbout the authors: \n \nSadhguru is a yogi\, a mystic\, and the founder of the Isha Foundation\, an all-volunteer organization engaged in large-scale humanitarian and environmental projects. He is the founder of the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore\, India\, and the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences on the Cumberland Plateau in central Tennessee. \n \nKunal Nayyar is a British-Indian actor. He is known for portraying Rajesh Koothrappali on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019). Nayyar published a book about his career journey\, titled “Yes\, My Accent is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven’t Told You\,” in September 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-sadhguru-with-kunal-nayyar-karma-a-yogis-guide-to-crafting-your-destiny/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T180000
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SUMMARY:Sorrowland & Victories Greater Than Death: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon & Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Green Apple\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be available to stream on Facebook Live. \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sorrowland-victories-greater-than-death-a-conversation-with-rivers-solomon-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T151646
CREATED:20210516T221200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210516T221200Z
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SUMMARY:Learn WordPress: A Workshop with Karma Bennett
DESCRIPTION:At last month’s meeting we gave you tips on improving your website\, now we’ll teach the skills to do it\, in a hands-on workshop on WordPress. The workshop will be held over Zoom\, so you can beautify your website from the comfort of your own computer. \nWordPress is a way for you to run a website without having to know a single line of code. Just as you don’t have to know how to code to write an email in Gmail\, WordPress is an interface that you can use to create content for your website. \nWhat is WordPress? \nWordPress is open source\, so it is free forever. \nIt is incredibly popular. 37% of all websites on the Internet run on WordPress. \nWhy Writers Need This Workshop \nSave Money: WordPress is designed for noncoders to use\, so you shouldn’t have to hire a coder or web designer just to update promotions of your book on your website. Save money by taking this workshop. \nIncrease Engagement: You should have a blog or news area where you update your fans on you readings\, publications\, readings\, and ruminations. Taking this workshop will make blogging easier and make your posts more beautiful. And if you’re more familiar with what WordPress can do\, you’ll feel comfortable blogging more often. \nTest It Out: If you don’t use WordPress currently\, you can use this workshop to decide if it is right for your next web project. \nMake Editors Want To Hire You: If you get hired to write for someone else’s site\, there is a good chance it will be on WordPress. Having WordPress expertise is a marketable skill for writers. \nAbout Workshop Presenter\, Karma Bennett \nKarma Bennett is a marketing strategist and publishing pro who has been working with WordPress for over ten years… let’s dispense with the formalities\, shall we? I’m Karma! I’m writing this post on WordPress right now\, since I built this website for the CWC Berkeley\, where I am currently serving as president. \n$15 General Admission\, $10 For Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
URL:https://litseen.com/event/learn-wordpress-a-workshop-with-karma-bennett/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T151646
CREATED:20210410T212239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210410T212239Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman in conversation with Marc Stein
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman and Marc Stein discuss \nLet The Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York\, 1987-1993 \nby Sarah Schulman \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nTwenty years in the making\, Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \nOne of O\, the Oprah Magazine‘s 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021\, one of and Cosmopolitan‘s LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021\, one of The Observer‘s Spring Books You Don’t Want to Miss\, and one of Bloomberg‘s 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring \n“A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it\, the one we live in now.” –Alexander Chee \nIn just six years\, ACT UP\, New York\, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races\, genders\, sexualities\, and backgrounds\, changed the world. Armed with rancor\, desperation\, intelligence\, and creativity\, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable\, ingenious\, and multifaceted attack on the corporations\, institutions\, governments\, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington\, DC\, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry\, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda\, and battled—and beat—The New York Times\, the Catholic Church\, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism\, in its complex and intersectional power\, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. \nBased on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists\, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings\, conflicts\, achievements\, and ultimate fracture. Schulman\, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation\, explores the how and the why\, examining\, with her characteristic rigor and bite\, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever\, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. \nSarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans\, Rat Bohemia\, and Maggie Terry)\, nonfiction (including Stagestruck\, Conflict is Not Abuse\, and The Gentrification of the Mind)\, and theater (Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and more)\, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls\, Mommy Is Coming\, and United in Anger\, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Slate\, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island\, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities\, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival\, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker\, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment\, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. \nMarc Stein is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author of multiple books on queer topics\, including most recently The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press\, 2019). His next book\, Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism\, will be published by the University of California Press\, in 2022. \n  \nPraise for Let the Record Show: \n\n\n  \n\n\n“A masterful work twenty years in the making . . . Schulman holds a unique position to chronicle this critical history and connect it with our own chaotic moment.” —Lauren LeBlanc\, Observer \n“A significant boots-on-the-ground account . . . Readers are right there with activists\, hearing their stories from them but also others who knew them . . . Vital\, democratic truth-telling.” —Kirkus (starred review) \n“[A] fine-grained history . . . [Schulman’s] firsthand perspective and copious details provide a valuable testament to the courage and dedication of many unheralded activists.” —Publishers Weekly \n“People often speak of the authoritarian handbook\, and I always wonder\, what is the opposite? Maybe this book\, in fact. In so many ways. Sarah Schulman has written more than an authoritative history of ACT UP NY here– it is a masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it\, the one we live in now. I can’t think of a book like this–it is an almost entirely new model\, uniquely possible as the result of Schulman’s life’s work. As one of our only genuinely intellectual iconoclasts\, she returns to us with this story of a movement that changed the world at least once\, now a part of the work to change that world again. Any reader will be changed\, I think\, by the stories here–radicalized and renewed\, which to me is something better than just hope.” –Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Characteristically forthright\, Sarah Schulman gives us the most comprehensive history of the ACT UP movement in New York to date through a wide range of interviews\, a trenchant commentary\, and a sustained testament to collaborative action and its history. From this extraordinary history told with the multiple voices of participants\, Schulman makes clear that the history of HIV and AIDS in this country has been marred by popular narratives and bouts of grandstanding that largely failed to acknowledge the thousands of lives still lost annually from AIDS\, the schisms that opened up serious issues of power within the movement\, and the specific ways that people of color and poor people remained unserved by the scientific advances widely celebrated. This work also tells us why so many people become activists: to understand social and political forces that seem overwhelming\, to work with others to give order to their world\, and to find community in suffering\, anger\, analysis\, and action. This book lets us know that neither our sorrow nor our rage is finished\, and that the work of acknowledgement of all who struggled and suffered remains our task.” —Judith Butler \n“In the style of the late great Howard Zinn\, Sarah Schulmam has written an epic\, moving and important People’s History of the Act up Movement\, filled with powerful storytelling and invaluable lessons in the do’s and don’t of organizing. We owe a great deal to Schulman for the depth and years of her research\, for her commitment to telling a story that lifts and honors a group rather than highlighting only a few individuals\, and for her willingness to tell the whole truth with serious rigor and love.”–V (formerly Eve Ensler)\, author of The Vagina Monologues \n“Sarah Schulman’s remarkable book Let the Record Show offers a thorough and corrective retelling of the history of ACT-UP\, introducing a diverse cast of characters that has been largely erased from what passes as the official HIV/AIDS narrative. She brings extraordinary reporting\, finely calibrated detail and her own lived experience to a book that is at once a love letter to the movement that refused to back down as it forced an epidemic to its knees and a road map for a new generation of activists grappling with social change.” —Linda Villarosa\, contributing writer\, The New York Times Magazine \n“With heart\, anger and rigor\, Sarah Schulman shows us how AIDS has shaped our political world by letting the people of ACT UP tell us what they did in their own words. Let The Record Show is more than a single book; it’s an encyclopedia\, an oral history\, and a map. Indeed\, as the most marginalized people are again at risk during yet another viral pandemic\, Schulman (and the voices she foregrounds so lovingly) gives us an activist guide for communally creating a better world. It is a masterpiece—the book on AIDS history I wish had been available for me to read years ago.” –Steven Thrasher\, Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting\, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and author of The Viral Underclass \n“Sarah Schulman has achieved the near impossible in this riveting and powerful book. She writes with the knowledge and experience of a passionate insider as she lays out a detailed and deep history of ACT UP. Yet she has a sharp eye for the bigger picture\, offering a broad analysis\, bringing in diverse\, fascinating\, and illuminating perspectives. Not until this book has an author captured how ACT UP was grounded in both the feminist and civil rights movements\, nor how the group spawned new movements and inspired a new generation of queer activism while dramatically influencing the course of the AIDS epidemic and making a mark on American culture. The writing is crisp and compassionate. The stories are vivid — heroic\, painful\, breathtaking and joyous. Sarah Schulman has produced a definitive and monumental work.” —Michelangelo Signorile\, author of It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance\, Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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