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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about her new book\, On Freedom\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 9\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning poet\, critic\, and author Maggie Nelson joins us to discuss her latest book\, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press). Conversation partner TBD. \n“[Maggie Nelson] traces the limits of liberty and the call to care in this expansive and sharp-eyed study. . . . Nelson turns each thought until it is finely honed and avoids binaries and bromides. While the literary theorizing is rich\, this account soars in its ability to find nuance in considering questions of enormous importance. . . . Once again\, Nelson proves herself a masterful thinker and an unparalleled prose stylist.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout On Freedom\nAn expansive\, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day \nSo often deployed as a jingoistic\, even menacing rallying cry\, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation\, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy\, justice\, and well-being\, or is freedom’s long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate\, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art\, sex\, drugs\, and climate. \nDrawing on a vast range of material\, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life\, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think\, experience\, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing “practices of freedom” by which we negotiate our interrelation with—indeed\, our inseparability from—others\, with all the care and constraint that entails\, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion. \nFor Nelson\, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture—from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation\, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of freedom\, a means of forging fortitude\, courage\, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating\, essential book for challenging times. \nAbout Maggie Nelson\nMaggie Nelson is a poet\, critic\, and award-winning author of The Argonauts\, Bluets\, The Art of Cruelty\, Jane: A Murder and The Red Parts. She lives in Los Angeles\, California.
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Tinder Live! with Lane Moore at Rickshaw Stop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 9 at 8pm PT when author and comedian Lane Moore brings her hilarious Tinder Live! show to San Francisco’s beloved Rickshaw Stop!\nBook sales provided by Green Apple Books \n$20 standing adv / $25 limited seated adv (SOLD OUT) / $30 doors\nThis is an All Ages show\nAll attendees must be fully vaccinated and be able to show proof (card\, phone\, or QR code). Let’s keep everyone safe and sound during this return to live shows!* \nAbout Tinder Live!\nTinder Live has been named one of the best comedy shows in NYC for good reason. Produced and hosted by NYC based comedian\, Lane Moore (The Onion\, Brooklyn Magazine’s “50 Funniest People In Brooklyn\,” former Cosmopolitan Magazine sex & relationships editor\, and author of #1 bestseller\, How To Be Alone: If You Want To And Even If You Don’t\, praised as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, NPR\, Fast Company\, Marie Claire\, and many others)\, Tinder Live is a totally improvised\, anything-can-happen interactive comedy showstopper with helpful and oftentimes ridiculous Tinder tips\, tricks\, real-time swiping\, and messaging (and sometimes even real-time phone calls with Tinder matches)! You’ll relate to Moore’s live-swiping and laugh at her reactions and find inspiration in her ridiculous\, random emoji-filled messages (and sometimes even phone calls!) to would-be suitors. It’s also a great show to attend with a date\, Tinder or otherwise. \nBut don’t expect cheap shots…this show has a huge heart. In between laughs\, Lane reminds us how challenging it can be to find a match in the digital age. Even if you’ve never been on an online dating site\, you will love this show. \n“Tinder LIVE! is truly addictive entertainment…[it’s] ingenious. Moore transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation. Ms. Moore\, a cagey and humane performer\, has developed an instinct for turning the raw materials of sexually charged chat with ordinary strangers into honed and generous jokes. “TinderLive” has a comic momentum and energy that is unusual. The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form\, not to mention a flirt par excellence.” –The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-tinder-live-with-lane-moore-at-rickshaw-stop/
LOCATION:Rickshaw Stop\, 155 Fell St.\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #75
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
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Erin Gordon with Michael Krasny - Peeps
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSat.\, September 11\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Corte Madera Store \nIn conversation with Michael Krasny \nBUY THE BOOK\n\nThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera location\n\nA coming-of-middle-age novel\, Peeps tells the story of Meg\, a 51-year-old podcaster who has spent her life afraid of “what ifs.” After an unexpected divorce\, Meg might finally have the chance to obtain what she calls a Big Life\, but isn’t sure she can pull it off. After her mother’s death\, Meg gathers the courage to seek answers from her uncle about her disinterested and cruel mother. To get to him\, she moves out of her Santa Monica home and drives across the country in a new RV she nicknames Irv.\nAlong her journey\, Meg conducts interviews for her podcast called Peeps\, in which she asks everyday people the same seven questions to “peep” into their lives and uncover shared humanity. Meg’s narrative is peppered with lively transcripts of her interviews with the ordinary yet fascinating people she meets. The podcast enables Meg to process the complicated grief and relief related to her mother’s death\, her divorce\, and her only child leaving home for college. \nPeeps is evocative of The Wizard of Oz and Wild; like Dorothy and Cheryl—and many middle-aged women—Meg seeks to find her place in the world. Discerning readers will enjoy spotting the subtle references and symbols from both iconic stories. \nThe author of smart and moving book club fiction\, Erin Gordon is a former lawyer and legal affairs journalist. A Bay Area native with degrees from both UC Berkeley and Stanford\, Gordon’s novels explore themes of friendship\, parenthood and self-discovery. \nMichael Krasny is the former host of the award winning KQED Forum\, a program discussing news and public affairs\, current events\, culture\, health\, business and technology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erin-gordon-with-michael-krasny-peeps/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon presents Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Tonya M. Foster\, Mia P. Manansala and Zoe FitzGerald Carter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Fall event\, featuring readings by Anna North\, Vince Granata\, Tonya M. Foster and Mia P. Manansala\, with music by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \n\nAbout the authors \nAnna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels\, America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark\, which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2016. She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel\, BuzzFeed\, Salon\, and the New York Times\, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. Order her books: Outlawed and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. \nVince Granata received his BA in history from Yale University and his MFA in creative writing from American University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts\, the I-Park Foundation\, and the Ucross Foundation\, and residencies from PLAYA and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and Fourth Genre\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2018. Order his book: Everything is Fine. \nTonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine\, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry\, prose\, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo\, Tripwire\, boundary2\, MiPOESIAS\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, the Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. Tonya is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford and the Mellon Foundations\, from NYFA; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell colony. Her next collections are a cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos::Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Presse 2021)\, and Monkey Talk\, a cross-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthestics\, and surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Order her book\, A Swarm of Bees in High Court \nMia P. Manansala (MAH-nahn-sah-lah) (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books\, baking\, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora\, queerness\, and her millennial love for pop culture. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award\, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award\, the 2017 William F. Deeck – Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers\, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She’s also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor. A lover of all things geeky\, Mia spends her days procrastibaking\, playing JRPGs and dating sims\, reading cozy mysteries\, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho\, Max Power\, and Bayley Banks (bonus points if you get all the references). Her debut novel\, Arsenic and Adobo\, came out May 4\, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series. Order her book\, Arsenic and Adobo. \nZoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon and Vogue. Imperfect Endings won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s literary contest\, was excerpted in O magazine and chosen as a finalist for the National MS Society’s Books for a Better Life Awards in the “Inspirational Memoir” category. It was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Zoe is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, where she teaches memoir. She has also taught (and run) writing workshops from Hawaii to Vermont\, and currently teaches memoir and songwriting at Left Margin Lit in Berkeley\, CA. In the last couple of years\, she’s been focusing on her career as a musician. Her first CD\, Waiting for the Earthquake came out in 2017 and can be found on all the streaming platforms. Her new album\, Waterlines\, was released in 2021. Order her book\, Imperfect Endings. \n\nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-presents-anna-north-vince-granata-tonya-m-foster-mia-p-manansala-and-zoe-fitzgerald-carter/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Susan Nguyen\, Felicia Zamora\, Mai Der Vang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, September 13th at 6pm PT when Susan Nguyen is joined by Mai Der Vang and Felicia Zamora for a reading celebrating her debut collection\, Dear Diaspora\, on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_QylrXyjITH2FjW2LW5ZmHg \nPraise for Dear Diaspora \n“Dear Diaspora is a capacious and wholly felt account of a speaker’s contending with place and memory. Susan Nguyen’s gorgeous book maps out the longing of a particular Vietnamese immigrant experience—in its main character\, the adolescent Suzi—and also captures\, through its documentary research\, a collection of voices of Vietnam War refugees in the aftermath. Against a backdrop of love and desire is the search to knit together a place of belonging and origin\, rooted both in the sensual world and in the realm of the imagination. Dear Diaspora is a heartbreaking and breathtaking debut.”—Cathy Linh Che\, author of Split \n“Susan Nguyen\, in Dear Diaspora\, asks: ‘At the center of your calamity\, what grows?’ Nguyen’s gorgeously rendered poems answer that question with language and imagination. There’s devastation in this book—an absent father figure\, displacement of the speaker\, a fragmented Vietnamese diaspora\, but out of this devastation emerges beauty. The speaker in this book collects broken things such as cicada wings that become whole in her rich internal world. Nguyen’s talent is palpable from the first line\, and what a gift this book is. In her poem ‘Grief as a Question\,’ Nguyen writes: ‘no one told me grief could be so ordinary.’ But out of grief and woundedness emerges a voice that is anything but ordinary.”—Victoria Chang\, author of Obit \n“‘Last night I had the American dream\,’ Nguyen writes\, puncturing the dream bubble in which ‘America’ exists as the only and inevitable state of success and belonging. In this collection\, diaspora\, specifically Vietnamese diaspora\, is verdant and lush—suffused with green light\, mustard greens\, grass and trees—blooming through the drought of American love for Nguyen’s speakers. The poems in Dear Diaspora offer us a lexicon we’ve needed to imagine how we might arrive at and receive one another better in land and language\, in memory and touch.”—Natalie Diaz\, author of Postcolonial Love Poem \nAbout Dear Diaspora \nDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history\, memory\, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town\, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape\, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass\, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric\, documentary\, and epistolary poems\, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father’s disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu’s freckles. \nWinner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry\, Dear Diaspora scrutinizes our turning away from the trauma of our past and our complicity in its erasure. Suzi\, caught between enjoying a rundown American adolescence and living with the inheritances of war\, attempts to unravel her own inherited grief as she explores the multiplicities of identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora. In its deliberate interweaving of voices\, Dear Diaspora explores Suzi’s journey while bringing to light other incarnations of the refugee experience. \nAbout Susan Nguyen \nSusan Nguyen hails from Virginia but currently lives and writes in the desert. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University\, where she won the Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Prize and fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. In 2018\, PBS NewsHour named her one of “three women poets to watch.” Her work appears in diagram\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. Her debut collection\, Dear Diaspora\, won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Visit her at www.susanpoet.com. \nAbout Felicia Zamora \nFelicia Zamora is a poet\, educator\, and editor currently living in OH. She is the author of six books of poetry including: I Always Carry My Bones\, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize released from the University of Iowa Press in April 2021\, Quotient forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2021\, Body of Render\, winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press (2020)\, Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions\, 2018)\, & in Open\, Marvel (Parlor Press\, 2018)\, and Of Form & Gather\, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press). She’s received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo\, Ragdale Foundation\, PLAYA\, Moth Magazine\, and Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard\, authored two chapbooks\, won the 2019 Wabash Prize for Poetry and the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize\, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins\, CO. Her poems and essays are found or forthcoming in AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review online\, Georgia Review\, Guernica\, Literary Hub\, Missouri Review Poem-of-the-Week\, Orion\, POETRY\, Poetry Daily\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, The Nation\, and others. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and is the associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review. \nAbout Mai Der Vang \nMai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press\, 2021)\, and Afterland (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, she served as a Visiting Writer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry\, Tin House\, the American Poetry Review\, among other journals and anthologies. Her essays have been published in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, espnW\, and elsewhere. Mai Der also co-edited How Do I Begin: A Hmong American Literary Anthology with the Hmong American Writers’ Circle. A Kundiman fellow\, Mai Der has completed residencies at Civitella Ranieri and Hedgebrook. Born and raised in Fresno\, California\, she earned degrees from the University of California\, Berkeley and Columbia University. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-susan-nguyen-felicia-zamora-mai-der-vang/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Mary Roach with Zach Weinersmith / Launch for Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are thrilled to host the virtual launch for the inimitable Mary Roach and her new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. She’ll be in conversation with Zach Weinersmith\, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and author of the NYT bestselling popular science book\, Soonish. \nPlease note: \n\nThis is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes admission to the event\, a **signed** hardcover copy of the book and complimentary postage anywhere in the US.\nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers.\nIf you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us: events@booksmith.com.\nYou can order additional copies of Fuzz here; Mary’s other books here.\nOrder copies of Soonish here.\n\n\nAbout the book\nJoin “America’s funniest science writer” (Peter Carlson\, Washington Post)\, Mary Roach\, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. \nWhat’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago\, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days\, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers\, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict\, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. \nRoach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators\, human-elephant conflict specialists\, bear managers\, and “danger tree” faller blasters. Intrepid as ever\, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass\, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait\, learns how to install a vulture effigy\, and gets mugged by a macaque. \nCombining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows\, langur impersonators\, and trespassing squirrels\, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to “problem” wildlife\, she finds\, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating\, witty\, and humane\, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. \nAbout the authors\nMary Roach is the author of six best-selling works of nonfiction\, including Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal\, and\, most recently\, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Her writing has appeared in Outside\, National Geographic\, and the New York Times Magazine\, among other publications. \nZach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic SMBC\, the creator of the nerd comedy show BAHFest\, and the co-author of the New York Times bestselling popular science book\, Soonish. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed\, all-ages event. Each ticket includes a copy of Fuzz – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-mary-roach-with-zach-weinersmith-launch-for-fuzz-when-nature-breaks-the-law/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Radical Friendship
DESCRIPTION:The divides we experience within us and between us are not only a threat to our physical and emotional health-they are also the weapons and the outcomes of structural oppression. Meditation teacher and author Kate Johnson believes that through wise relationships it is possible to transform the barriers created by societal injustice. Drawing on her experiences as a leading meditation teacher and personal stories of growing up multiracial in a racist world\, Kate brings a fresh take on time-honored wisdom to help us connect more authentically with ourselves\, with our friends and family\, and within our communities. \nIn Kate’s latest book\, Radical Friendship\, she illuminates seven strategies to help us embody our deepest values in our relationships. Kate shares meditation and reflection practices to help everyone cultivate vibrant\, harmonious\, revolutionary friendships. Grounded in the Buddha’s teachings on spiritual friendship\, Kate offers us a path of depth and hope and shows us the importance of working toward collective wellbeing\, one relationship at a time. \nJoin licensed psychologist and CIIS faculty Elizabeth Markle for a conversation with Kate as they lead us on a journey to becoming better friends by offering ways to show up for each other’s liberation at every stage of a relationship. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-kate-september-15-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-radical-friendship/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Martin Ford / Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are thrilled to host Martin Ford for his new book Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything. More to be announced – save the date and join us! \nPlease note: \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but registration is required.\nYou can order copies of Rule of the Robots here; Martin’s other books here.\nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers.\nIf you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us: events@booksmith.com.\n\nAbout the book\nImagine it’s 2030. You call a bank to discuss your loan application\, but you don’t get to talk to a person. The bank’s AI has spoken: you are denied. At home\, feeling stressed\, you take pills both invented and prescribed by AI to keep your blood pressure in check. You stream a video starring “actors” generated by machine. And before you turn in\, you wonder if collaboration between Big Tech and China means you should choose a new AI provider for your home. \nAs Martin Ford shows in Rule of the Robots\, AI will soon flow through our lives like electricity does today\, remaking every sphere of human activity. Yet even as Ford maps out AI’s disquieting future\, he shows how we can prepare for it\, advocating for policies such as universal basic income and educational reform. It’s crucial that we take his words to heart. \nAbout the author\nMartin Ford is a futurist and the author of New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots\, a prescient look at AI and work. It won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. His TED Talk on the impact of artificial intelligence on society has been viewed over 3 million times. Author photo by Xiaoxiao Zhao. \nPlease note: \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but registration is required.\nYou can order copies of Rule of the Robots here; Martin’s other books here.\nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers.\nIf you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us: events@booksmith.com.\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-martin-ford-rule-of-the-robots-how-artificial-intelligence-will-transform-everything/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210916T190000
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SUMMARY:Meg Lowman
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 16\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding Scale ($0 -$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Lowman discusses The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux). \n“The Arbornaut is about a shy girl who loved to play outdoors and became a scientist who educated the world about the abundant life in the treetops. I loved it.”\n—Temple Grandin\, author of Animals Make Us Human\, Animals in Translation\, and Thinking in Pictures \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Arbonaut\nNicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic\, the biologist\, botanist\, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “CanopyMeg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world’s treetops\, along her journey as a tree scientist\, and into climate action \nWelcome to the eighth continent! \nAs a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia\, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn’t monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt\, gathered hundreds of feet of rope\, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went\, into the trees. \nForty years later\, Lowman remains one of the world’s foremost arbornauts\, known as the “real-life Lorax.” She planned one of the first treetop walkways and helps create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. \nWith a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as it is practical in its optimism\, The Arbornaut chronicles Lowman’s irresistible story. From climbing solo hundreds of feet into the air in Australia’s rainforests to measuring tree growth in the northeastern United States\, from searching the redwoods of the Pacific coast for new life to studying leaf eaters in Scotland’s Highlands\, from conducting a BioBlitz in Malaysia to conservation planning in India and collaborating with priests to save Ethiopia’s last forests\, Lowman launches us into the life and work of a field scientist\, ecologist\, and conservationist. She offers hope\, specific plans\, and recommendations for action; despite devastation across the world\, through trees\, we can still make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. \nA blend of memoir and fieldwork account\, The Arbornaut gives us the chance to live among scientists and travel the world—even in a hot-air balloon! It is the engrossing\, uplifting story of a nerdy tree climber—the only girl at the science fair—who becomes a giant inspiration\, a groundbreaking\, ground-defying field biologist\, and a hero for trees everywhere. \nAbout Meg Lowman\nMeg Lowman\, PhD\, aka “CanopyMeg\,” is an American biologist\, educator\, ecologist\, writer\, editor\, and public speaker. She is the executive director of the TREE Foundation and a professor at the National University of Singapore\, Arizona State University\, and Universiti Sains Malaysia. Nicknamed the “real-life Lorax” by National Geographic and “Einstein of the treetops” by The Wall Street Journal\, Lowman pioneered the science of canopy ecology. Her motto is “no child left indoors.” She travels extensively for research\, outreach\, and speaking engagements for audiences large and small.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-lowman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Last Thing He Told Me: A Discussion With Author Laura Dave
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, September 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME with author Laura Dave. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84095518061 and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nYou can order a print copy of THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME at https://bit.ly/ggpLastThing\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/LastThingAB. \nDescription\n\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nSELECTION OF THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB\nA HIGHLY ANTICIPATED\, BEST BOOK OF SUMMER SELECTED BY * VOGUE * USA TODAY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * CNN * TOWN & COUNTRY * PARADE * BUSTLE * AND MORE! \nA “gripping” (Entertainment Weekly) mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. \nBefore Owen Michaels disappears\, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear\, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter\, Bailey. Bailey\, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey\, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. \nAs Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered\, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss\, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced\, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. \nHannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past\, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated. \nWith its breakneck pacing\, dizzying plot twists\, and evocative family drama\, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery\, certain to shock you with its final\, heartbreaking turn. \nAbout the Author\n\nLaura Dave is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last Thing He Told Me\, as well as The First Husband\, The Divorce Party\, Eight Hundred Grapes\, and Hello\, Sunshine. She resides in Los Angeles with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-last-thing-he-told-me-a-discussion-with-author-laura-dave/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #39
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.\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\nThis month’s features: TBA\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly… OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\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-39/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T190000
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CREATED:20210804T230647Z
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SUMMARY:Grant Faulkner and Melanie Abrams
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRANT FAULKNER DISCUSSES HIS BOOK ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE WITH MELANIE ABRAMS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyfaQ2hGRuifzatEVoJfeg \nPraise for All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\n“Somewhere between sinister and gleeful the characters in Grant Faulkner’s story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide blow open pleasure—guilty pleasure\, unapologetic pleasure\, accidental pleasure\, repressed pleasure. Really\, at the heart of all identity is the reach for pleasure\, and then what actually comes\, all those moments of slippage where we do the wrong thing\, take a ridiculous risk\, double down on failure\, land in a forsaken place\, slip the mainstream of things enough to change and become. These characters exude beauty from their flaws. These stories are lit.”–Lidia Yuknavitch \n“Full of bad behavior and a ferocious desire for escape\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide is a catalog of longing. Faulkner’s arresting characters broadcast their worst decisions from grimy motel rooms\, greasy kitchens\, and sprawling American highways\, each of them hellbent on the promise of something better.”–Kimberly King Parsons \n“All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delivers on the promise of Grant Faulkner’s daring debut with a follow-up collection of stories that excavates possibility\, salvation\, and the deceptive comforts one finds in so many pleasures.”–Adam Johnson \nAbout All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\nWith raw\, lyrical ferocity\, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise—tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories\, Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers\, addicts\, and lost souls who have trusted too much in wayward love\, the perilous balm of substances\, or the unchecked hungers of others\, but who are determined to find salvation in their odd definitions of transcendence. \nTaking us from hot Arizona highways to cold Iowa hotel rooms\, from the freedoms of the backwoods of New Mexico to the damnations of slick New York City law firms\, Faulkner creates a shard-sharp mosaic of desire that careens off the page—honest\, cutting\, and wise. \nAbout Grant Faulkner\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published the short story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide\, and he’s also the author of Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories.  His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, LitHub\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer\, and his book\, The Art of Brevity\, is forthcoming in 2022. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing. \nAbout Melanie Abrams\nMelanie Abrams is the author of the novels Playing and Meadowlark and the forthcoming The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life through the Science and Magic of Cannabis. She is a developmental editor and photographer and teaches writing at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-faulkner-and-melanie-abrams/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #76
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-76/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 17\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nColson Whitehead is the author of ten works of fiction and nonfiction\, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, for Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad\, which also won the National Book Award. His new novel\, Harlem Shuffle\, is a gloriously entertaining novel of heists\, shakedowns\, and rip-offs set in Harlem in 1960s. \nA limited number of tickets include a copy of Harlem Shuffle. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T140000
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SUMMARY:Alix Ohlin - We Want What We Want
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSat.\, September 18\, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Live • Online \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE\nSUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER\n\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\nA collection of glittering\, surprising\, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives from Alix Ohlin\, award-winning author of Dual Citizens. \nIn the mordantly funny “Money\, Geography\, Youth\,” Vanessa arrives home from a gap year volunteering in Ghana to find that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. Unable to reconcile the girl she went to dances with in the eighth grade and the woman in her father’s bed\, Vanessa turns to a different old friendship for her own\, unique diversion. \nIn the subversive “The Brooks Brothers Guru\,” Amanda drives to upstate New York to rescue her gawky cousin from a cult\, only to discover clean-cut\, well-dressed men living in a beautiful home\, discussing the classics\, and drinking sophisticated cocktails\, moving her to wonder what freedoms she might willingly trade away for a life of such elegant comfort. \nAnd in “The Universal Particular\,” Tamar welcomes her husband’s young stepcousin into their home\, imagining they are saving this young woman from Somalia by way of Stockholm\, only to find their cool suburban life of potlucks and air-conditioning knocked askew in ways they cannot quite understand. \nPopulated with imperfect families\, burned potential\, and inescapable old flames\, the thirteen stories in We Want What We Want are\, each one\, diamond-sharp—sparkling with pain\, humor\, and beauty. \nAlix Ohlin is the author of six books\, including the novel Dual Citizens\, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Best American Short Stories\, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver\, where she is the Director of the UBC School of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alix-ohlin-we-want-what-we-want/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Second Edition of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory by James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of the second edition of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory by James Cagney!\nLineup of readers and musician to be announced soon.\nPreorders will go live soon.\nAbout the book: The poems in Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory interrogate identity\, family\, loneliness\, and the expectations of masculinity. Using dreams\, blues\, and a chorus of voices\, this collection of poems examines the complexities of intimacy for an adopted person trying to find balance between two families—one rattled by age and illness; the other\, holding space for a son that doesn’t exist. Second edition includes a foreword by Aya De Leon\, introduction by James Cagney\, and a reading guide at the back.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Book Release: Second Edition of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory by James Cagney\nTime: Sep 18\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89838470310…\nMeeting ID: 898 3847 0310\nPasscode: 327050\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,89838470310#\,\,\,\,*327050# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,89838470310#\,\,\,\,*327050# US (Tacoma)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 898 3847 0310\nPasscode: 327050\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcjRRr6z75
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-second-edition-of-black-steel-magnolias-in-the-hour-of-chaos-theory-by-james-cagney/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin - Hollywood Eden
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage Presents \nSun.\, Sept. 19\, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Corte Madera Store \nBUY THE BOOK\nThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera location\nFrom the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas\, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. \nFrom surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas\, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959—a class that included Jan & Dean\, Nancy Sinatra\, and future members of the Beach Boys—who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who created the idea of modern California for the rest of the world. From the Beach Boys’ “California Girls” to the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’\,” they crafted an image of the West Coast as the promised land—a sun-dappled vision of an idyllic life in the sand and surf. \nBut their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later\, as\, one by one\, each met their destinies head-on. Compelling\, evocative\, and ultimately tragic\, Hollywood Eden travels far beyond the music into the desires of the human heart and the price of living out a dream. A rock ‘n’ roll opera loaded with violence\, deceit\, intrigue\, low comedy\, and high drama\, it tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads\, crashed cars\, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-hollywood-eden/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rich and Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Discuss George Stewart’s pioneering eco-novel\, Storm\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, September 20\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Rich and Chris Jennings discuss George Stewart’s pioneering and prescient eco-novel\, Storm (NYRB Classics). \nOriginally published in 1941\, Stewart’s novel was praised by the likes of Wallace Stegner\, who wrote of Storm: “Weather is here for the first time given the importance in fiction that it has in fact. . . . It is impossible to forget\, anywhere in the novel\, the impending weight of that mighty movement of the air. . . . Stewart with admirable ingenuity and sure craftsmanship has let us look for a moment at the mortar that holds a civilization together. A good many of his readers will never again . . . note a cloud without remembering at least momentarily that the air\, not the earth\, is our mortal home.” \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Storm\nA thrilling\, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. \nWith Storm\, first published in 1941\, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco\, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map\, a developing storm\, he suspects\, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists\, linemen\, snowplow operators\, a general\, a couple of decamping lovebirds\, and an unlucky owl\, and the storm\, surging and ebbing\, will bring long-needed rain\, flooded roads\, deep snows\, accidents\, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world. \nAbout George Stewart and the event participants\nGeorge R. Stewart (1895–1980) was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. He received his PhD in English literature from Columbia in 1922 and joined the English faculty at the University of California\, Berkeley\, in 1924. He was a sociologist\, toponymist\, and founding member of the American Name Society\, and the author of more than twenty books\, including the highly successful novel Earth Abides and several works of American history. In addition to Storm\, NYRB Classics publishes his study of American place names\, Names on the Land. \nNathaniel Rich is the author of Second Nature; Losing Earth\, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Award and a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists; and the novels King Zeno\, Odds Against Tomorrow\, and The Mayor’s Tongue. \nChris Jennings grew up in New York City. He graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. He is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. He lives in Northern California with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-rich-and-chris-jennings/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
DESCRIPTION:Launch event featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer\, John Hausdoerffer\, Gavin van Horn\, and others\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, September 21\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to celebrate the release of the 5-volume set\, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Chelsea Green) with editors and contributors Gavin Van Horn\, John Hausdoerffer\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, and more. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations\nFrom The Center for Humans and Nature\, a collection in five volumes: essays\, interviews\, poetry\, and stories of solidarity that highlight the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings \nWe live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans–and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe\, this community of life is our kin–and\, for many cultures around the world\, being human is based upon this extended sense of kinship. \nKinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. More than 70 contributors–including Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Richard Powers\, David Abram\, J. Drew Lanham\, and Sharon Blackie–invite readers into cosmologies\, narratives\, and everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our response and responsibility. These diverse voices render a wide range of possibilities for becoming better kin. \nContents: \nPlanet What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections\, and of our profound longing for kinship?\nPlace To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth’s bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based beings\, systems\, and communities that mutually shape one another?\nPartners How do relations between and among different species foster a sense of responsibility and belonging in us?\nPersons Which experiences expand our understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human beings?\nPractice What are the practical\, everyday\, and lifelong ways we become kin? \nFrom the recognition of nonhumans as persons to the care of our kinfolk through language and action\, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a guide and companion into the ways we can deepen our care and respect for the family of plants\, rivers\, mountains\, animals\, and others who live with us in this exuberant\, life-generating\, planetary tangle of relations. \nProceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the nonprofit\, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature\, which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The Center brings together philosophers\, ecologists\, artists\, political scientists\, anthropologists\, poets and economists\, among others\, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community of life. \nAbout the participants\nGavin Van Horn is the Creative Director and Executive Editor for the Center for Humans and Nature. His writing is tangled up in the ongoing conversation between humans\, our nonhuman kin\, and the animate landscape. He is the co-editor (with John Hausdoerffer) of Wildness: Relations of People and Place\, and (with Dave Aftandilian) City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness\, and the author of The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds. If he’s not up a tree or in a kayak\, you can find Gavin slow-walking the footpaths\, beaches\, and forests of the Chicagoland area. \nDr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother\, botanist\, writer and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse\, New York and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a student of the plant nations. Her writings include Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. As a writer and a scientist\, her interests include not only restoration of ecological communities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York\, tending gardens domestic and wild. \nJohn Hausdoerffer is author of Catlin’s Lament: Indians\, Manifest Destiny\, and the Ethics of Nature as well as co-author and co-editor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place and What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? John is the Dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University and co-founder of Coldharbour Institute\, the Center for Mountain Transitions\, and the Resilience Studies Consortium. John serves as a Fellow and Senior Scholar for the Center for Humans and Nature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kinship-belonging-in-a-world-of-relations/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #76
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.\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\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\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\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-76/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T180000
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SUMMARY:Remember Who You Are with Friends of Pedro Gomez
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE BOOK REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE: WHAT PEDRO GOMEZ SHOWED US ABOUT BASEBALL AND LIFE IN-PERSON AT 9TH AVE \nFEATURING ROBIN CARR\, BRAD MANGIN\, BRIAN MURPHY\, MICHAEL ZAGARIS\, AND EDITOR STEVE KETTMANN \nMasks Requried for In-Person Attendance\nJoin us virtually by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MTufp2aVSZOfDE3ZYCYkww \nAbout Remember Who You Are\nPedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7\, 2021\, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58\, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons. \nPedro\, a proud Cuban American\, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual\, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had existed between U.S.-born players and the Latin Americans now so important to the game’s vitality and future growth. He was also a family man who loved to talk about his three children\, Sierra\, Dante and Rio\, a Boston Red Sox prospect. Pedro was universally known as a smiling presence who brought out the best in people. His humanity and generosity of spirit shaped countless lives\, including one of his ESPN bosses\, Rob King\, who was so moved by Pedro’s advice to him—“Remember who you are”—that he printed up the words and posted them on the wall of his office in Bristol. King is one of a diverse collection of contributors whose personal essays turn Pedro’s shocking death into an occasion to reflect on the deeper truths of life we too often overlook. Part The Pride of Havana and part Tuesdays With Morrie\, part The Tender Bar and part Ball Four\, this is the rare essay collection that reads like a novel\, full of achingly honest emotion and painful insights\, a book about friendship\, a book about standing for something\, a book about joy and love. \nFormer New York Times writer Jack Curry writes about Pedro’s passion for live music\, and former Sports Illustrated writer Tim Kurkjian brings alive spring-training basketball games with executives like Sandy Anderson and Billy Beane and Pedro right in the mix. Detroit manager AJ Hinch and formers Texas manager Ron Washington both reveal that in their darkest hours Pedro gave them some of the best advice of their lives. \nHall of Famers Dennis Eckersley\, Tony La Russa\, Peter Gammons\, Ross Newhan\, Tracy Ringolsby and Dan Shaughnessy are among the contributors. So are likely future Hall of Famers Max Scherzer and Dusty Baker. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Washington Post war correspondent Steve Fainaru\, award-winning writers from Howard Bryant and Mike Barnicle to Tim Keown\, Ken Rosenthal and Dave Sheinin also contribute. Rounding out the mix are current and former ESPN stars including Rachel Nichols\, Shelley M. Smith\, Peter Gammons\, Bob Ley and Keith Olbermann. \nThis is a book to rekindle in any lapsed fan a love of going to the ballpark\, but it’s also a wakeup call that transcends sports. To any journalist\, worn down by the demands of a punishing job\, to anyone anywhere\, pummeled by pandemic times and the dark mood of the country in recent years\, these essays will light a spark to seize every opportunity to make a difference\, in your work and in the lives of people who matter to you.\nPraise for Remember Who You Are\n“Pedro Gomez was as kind as he was talented. I can think of no one else in the industry who would have inspired this many heartfelt essays by this diverse a group of writers\, ballplayers\, coaches\, and front office executives. Everyone loved and respected him. And while he left this earth way too soon\, his legacy will live on through his children and in the pages of this book.” —Molly Knight\, Author\, The Best Team Money Can Buy \n“The words in this collection share a common source—while they were crafted with the head\, they originated from the heart. The Gomez Rules are the Commandments for those who cover the game. All who have lived the baseball life should have followed all at some point. They should be etched in tablet.”—Broadcaster Ted Robinson \n“Reading Remember Who You Are took me on a journey from the day I met Pedro\, a smiling young scribe who was my new coworker\, who grew into a legend. These tributes not only reveal a man who was beloved by virtually all who knew him\, but also paint a vivid picture of our sports media tribe—the laughs\, the camaraderie\, the adventure\, the challenges. At the center of so much of it\, smiling and including all of us\, was Pedro. We will miss him so.” —Ann Killion\, Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/remember-who-you-are-with-friends-of-pedro-gomez/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jewell Parker Rhodes\, Paradise on Fire
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop welcomes award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes for an online event celebrating her new book\, Paradise on Fire\, a powerful coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race\, class\, and climate change. Rhodes will be in-conversation with Samira Ahmed\, author of the new middle grade novel Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here. \nParadise on Fire will be published on September 14th and Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds will be published on September 21st. Both books are available for preorder below. \nAddy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents\, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now\, years later\, Addy’s grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness program. There\, Addy joins five other Black city kids—each with their own troubles—to spend a summer out west. \nDeep in the forest the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping\, hiking\, rock climbing\, and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important\, they learn to depend upon each other for companionship and survival. \nBut then comes a devastating forest fire… \nAddy is face-to-face with her destiny and haunting past. Developing her courage and resiliency against the raging fire\, it’s up to Addy to lead her friends to safety. Not all are saved. But remembering her origins and grandmother’s teachings\, she’s able to use street smarts\, wilderness skills\, and her spiritual intuition to survive. \nJewell Parker Rhodes is the author of Ninth Ward\, winner of a Coretta Scott King Honor; Sugar\, winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award; and the New York Times-bestselling Ghost Boys; as well as Bayou Magic; Towers Falling; Black Brother\, Black Brother; and Paradise on Fire. She has written many award-novels for adults\, including\, Magic City\, a novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Jewell is the Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Arizona State University. \nSamira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling author of Love\, Hate\, & Other Filters and Internment. She was born in Bombay\, India\, and has lived in New York\, Chicago\, and Kauai\, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. She currently resides in the Midwest. Find her online at samiraahmed.com and on Twitter and Instagram @sam_aye_ahm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jewell-parker-rhodes-paradise-on-fire/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210923T180000
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SUMMARY:Katie Crouch and Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN KATIE CROUCH DISCUSSES HER LATEST NOVEL\, THE EMBASSY WIFE\, WITH RACHEL LEVIN AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o3CKo2AqQ1GQEyWEmWdivA \nPraise for Embassy Wife\n“One of the novel’s greatest strengths is the omniscient third-person narration that oscillates focus between main and minor characters. The structure helps heighten the tension between characters\, the past and the present\, and Namibians and Americans. In addition to sketching complex characters with rich backstories\, Crouch excels at moving the plot forward while not missing any opportunity to observe the human condition. With wit and tenderness\, the novel explores the complicated nature of race\, power\, marriage\, colonization\, diplomacy\, and community. A sharp\, funny\, page-turning romp.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Crouch’s…knowledge of expat life adds realism to this observant\, funny satire. Unpredictable twists lead to an ending where everyone may not get what they want\, but they get what they need. Suggest this one to fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maria Semple.” – Booklist  \n“Katie Crouch is an incredible writer – deft\, fearless\, super-smart and compassionate – and EMBASSYWIFE is one of the funniest\, sharpest\, most insightful novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s also a flat-out page-turner: I read it in a single\, feverish sitting; then again\, a second time\, trying to figure out how she pulled off such an intricately constructed narrative that manages to read so effortlessly. A tremendous novel by a writer who surprises and moves us with each new book. I can’t recommend this novel highly enough.”—Molly Antopol\, author of The UnAmericans \n“Keenly observed and expertly crafted\, Katie Crouch’s EMBASSY WIFE is a wickedly irresistible novel.”—Natalie Baszile\, author of Queen Sugar \nAbout Embassy Wife\nAmanda Evans is a trailing spouse: she has just arrived in Namibia\, mere weeks after giving up her lucrative Silicon Valley job\, as her husband\, Mark\, has accepted a Fulbright. Their marriage\, which seemed solid in the safety of home\, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari\, and when their daughter becomes involved an international conflict\, lines are drawn in the sand. \nMeanwhile\, Persephone Wilder is the wife of an American diplomat already stationed in Namibia. She takes her job as an Embassy Wife seriously\, and employs an intricate set of rules to navigate such problems as: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin\, how not to look drunk at embassy functions\, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. However\, she suspects her husband may not actually the ambassador’s general counsel\, but in fact\, a secret agent in the CIA. Despite Persephone’s personal issues\, she is ever the embassy wife\, and graciously takes the new trailing spouse\, Amanda under her wing. \nBut once Amanda\, Mark and their daughter settle into the sub-Saharan desert\, it becomes clear that Mark\, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier\, had other reasons for returning to African soil. Mark\, it seems\, has unfinished business from twenty years prior\, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. \nPropulsive and provocative\, subversive\, smart and funny\, EMBASSY WIFE compellingly explores the limits of human resiliency and loyalty\, asking: How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruptness can Persephone purposefully ignore? \nAnd what\, exactly\, does it mean to be an American abroad when you don’t like your country anymore? \nAbout Katie Crouch\nKatie Crouch is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girls in Trucks. She is also the author of Men and Dogs\, Abroad and the YA series The Magnolia League. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Slate\, and Salon. A MacDowell Fellow\, she teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-crouch-and-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers
DESCRIPTION:Discusses his new novel\, Bewilderment\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 23\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Diesel\, a Bookstore and Vroman’s Bookstore\, we present Richard Powers\, who will discuss Bewilderment (W.W. Norton)\, his highly anticipated follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning The Overstory. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON \nAbout Bewilderment\nLonglisted for the 2021 Booker Prize \nA heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. \nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by New York Magazine\, Chicago Tribune\, BookPage\, Literary Hub\, The Millions\, New Statesman\, and Times of London \nThe astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old\, Robin\, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm\, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled\, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control\, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… \nWith its soaring descriptions of the natural world\, its tantalizing vision of life beyond\, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love\, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful\, imperiled planet? \nAbout Richard Powers\nRichard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book\, The Overstory\, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210923T190000
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SUMMARY:Max Chafkin on Thiel's Pursuit of Power
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \n“Whether you admire him or fear him\, Peter Thiel’s influence has been undeniable. In this deeply reported and gripping biography\, Max Chafkin reveals the lessons behind Thiel’s rise. It offers essential insights for anyone who wants to understand what Silicon Valley’s global ascendance has wrought—and it’s a really great read.”—Charles Duhigg\, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better \nFew have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of the contemporary way of life\, from technologies we use daily to the delicate power dynamic between Silicon Valley\, Wall Street\, and Washington. Despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects\, no public figure is quite so mysterious. \nIn the first major biography of Peter Thiel\, Bloomberg reporter Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the tech giant’s life and worldview\, including his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents\, his years at Stanford as a conservative thought leader\, the founding of PayPal and Palantir\, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX\, and his relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg\, Elon Musk\, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian shows the extent to which Thiel has spread his values to corridors of power far beyond Silicon Valley\, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and strenuously backing far-right political candidates—notably Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. \nIn conversation with Emily Chang\, the Emmy-award winning business journalist and a Bloomberg anchor you may recognize from her cameo appearances on HBO’s Silicon Valley\, Chafkin shares the insights from this deeply reported biography. Tune in for the eye-opening view of a business leader whose rise\, like the rise of Silicon Valley\, has proven both thrilling and fraught with controversy. How well do you know the leaders of the digital age? \n*We encourage you to join with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-chafkin-on-thiels-pursuit-of-power/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T190000
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SUMMARY:Joanna Ho
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\nThis is an online event \nJoin us to celebrate the launch of Joanna Ho’s beautiful new picture book\, Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma\, a poignant picture book biography about the musician Yo-Yo Ma\, immigration\, and using music to build bridges \n\n\n\n\nJoanna Ho’s lyrical writing and Teresa Martinez’s vibrant art weave together to tell an inspiring story of Yo-Yo Ma\, who challenges conventions\, expectations\, and beliefs in order to build bridges to unite communities\, people\, and cultures. \nBefore Yo-Yo Ma became one of the most renowned and celebrated cellists\, he wanted to play the double bass. But it was too big for his four-year-old hands. Over time\, Ma honed his amazing talent\, and his music became a reflection of his own life between borders\, cultures\, disciplines\, and generations. \nSince then\, he has recorded over a hundred albums\, won nineteen Grammy Awards\, performed for eight American presidents\, and received the National Medal of the Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, just to name a few accomplishments. \nStaying true to himself\, Yo-Yo Ma performed at the US-Mexico border at the Rio Grande on April 13\, 2019\, as part of his multi-continent “Bach Project” tour to prove a point—through music\, we can build bridges rather than walls between different cultures. \nJoanna Ho is the author f the New York Times bestselling Eyes that Kiss in the Corners and  is passionate about anti-bias/anti-racism\, equity and inclusion in books and education. She has a Master’s in Educational Leadership from UC Berkeley and has worn many hats in education including: English teacher\, dean\, and a teacher professional development mastermind. She is currently the vice principal of a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Homemade chocolate chip cookies\, outdoor adventures\, and dance parties with her kids make Joanna’s eyes crinkle into crescent moons. \nJoin us and discover the pleasure of a timely and timeless story that honors immigrants and inspires action. “Everyone can benefit from Ho’s message of music bringing calm and peace to the world” Booklist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-ho/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Carolina de Robertis in Conversation\, The President and the Frog
DESCRIPTION:Carolina de Robertis discusses her latest book and the craft of writing and translating. Featuring a former Latin American president reminiscing on his remarkable life\, The President and the Frog is a timeless and timely exploration of power\, revolution and survival. Carolina de Robertis is of Uruguayan origins; her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received multiple honors. Join online for the discussion. \nThis event is a partnership with Berkeley Public Library and San Mateo County Libraries. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/09/28/author-carolina-de-robertis-conversation-president-and-frog sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-in-conversation-the-president-and-the-frog/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T153000
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Jamil Jan Kochai
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\nWednesday\, September 29\, 2021 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nThe novelist Thomas Berger once suggested that the sentence was “the cell beyond which the life of the book cannot be traced\, a novel being a structure of such cells.” Continuing this line of thought\, one might argue that a great novel is built upon great sentences. In this craft talk\, we will be thinking through the techniques and theories discussed in Brooks Landon’s Building Great Sentences in order to determine what elements make a great sentence\, and how particular sentences are fashioned by writers like Patrick Chamoiseau\, Sandra Cisneros\, and Annie Proulx.\n\n\nJamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking\, 2019)\, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. \n  \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-afternoon-craft-conversation-with-jamil-jan-kochai/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T190000
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SUMMARY:Readers from ZYZZYVA No. 121\, The Family Issue
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of ZYZZYVA No. 121—The Family Issue—with a night of readings featuring contributors from the issue. ZYZZYVA is the award-winning literary magazine founded in San Francisco in 1985. Since that time\, it has made a name for itself as one of the country’s premier journals and as a beloved fixture in the Bay Area’s literary community. The event will be hosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA’s managing editor. \nBethany Ball is the author of the novels What to Do About the Solomons (Grove Atlantic)\, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and\, most recently\, The Pessimists\, to be published by Grove Atlantic in October. \nAndrew Navarro lives in Southern California where he works as a history teacher. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kelp Journal\, Cutthroat\, A Journal of The Arts\, The ICE Colony\, Carve and ZYZZYVA. \nRobin Romm is the author of three books\, and\, most recently\, edited Double Bind: Women on Ambition (Liveright). Her story collection\, The Mother Garden\, was a finalist for the PEN USA prize. Her memoir\, The Mercy Papers\, was named a best book of the year by The New York Times\,The San Francisco Chronicle and Entertainment Weekly. \nMark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He is also the host and curator of the Stanford Storytelling Project podcast Off the Page\, which spotlights the work of Stanford writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readers-from-zyzzyva-no-121-the-family-issue/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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