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SUMMARY:Poetry for Life with Katharine Harer
DESCRIPTION:“Poetry is a life companion\,” says instructor Katharine Harer. “People come and go\, pets die\, places change\, but poetry doesn’t go away because it’s already inside you. It keeps you company through life’s ups and downs and\, above all\, it connects you to yourself\, guiding you through the maze of your thoughts and feelings.” \nIn this half-day class\, we will read and discuss poems by writers such as Mary Oliver\, Frank O’Hara\, Lucille Clifton and Li-Young Lee. We’ll talk about what “works” for us in the poems\, and Katharine will identify some of the elements of craft poets use to help both the reader\, and the poet\, create connection. We’ll do several in-class writing activities\, starting with freeing-up exercises and moving on to poetry writing prompts that will help you discover new ways to express what’s going on inside and outside of you. \nWhen the class ends\, you’ll take away some helpful tools and strategies for continuing to write poetry on your own as well as new drafts of poems that got their start in our class. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-for-life-with-katharine-harer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chinatown Pretty Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Los Angeles\, Chicago\, New York City\, and Vancouver. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown’s most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram\, Chinatown Pretty\, since 2014. \nRSVP to receive the Zoom link to participate in the live Q&A! The event will also be streamed via YouTube Live. \nThis event is presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) in partnership with Eastwind Books of Berkeley.\n— \nAbout the Authors:\nValerie Luu is a writer and one-half of the Vietnamese pop-up restaurant Rice Paper Scissors. She lives in San Francisco. \nAndria Lo is a freelance photographer whose work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle\, the New York Times\, and Wired. She lives in Berkeley. \nAbout the host:\nJanie Chen was born and raised in Oakland where she spent most of her Sunday afternoons at Chinatown strolling through the markets and eating dim sum with her grandparents. She currently studies ethnic studies and sociology at UC Berkeley. \n—\nFollow the authors at @chinatownpretty (IG) and www.chinatownpretty.com. \nCheck out the book’s cool trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHNfV5RNDo \nPre-order your copy from Eastwind Books of Berkeley today!1
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinatown-pretty-book-talk/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Pico Iyer (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Pico Iyer’s A Beginner’s Guide to Japan draws on his years of experience—his travels\, conversations\, readings\, and reflections—to craft a playful and profound book of surprising\, brief\, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. His Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells is a moving elegy on the passage of time and the passing of loved ones\, including Pico’s Japanese father-in-law. \nPico is a British-born essayist and novelist\, often known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, and The Global Soul. An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, and other publications. He has travelled widely\, from North Korea to Easter Island\, and from Paraguay to Ethiopia\, while writing thirteen works of non-fiction and two novels. Since 1992 Pico has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur\, California\, and most of the rest in suburban Japan. \nMichael Shapiro writes about travel\, food\, entertainment\, art\, and environmental issues for magazines and newspapers. A former staff reporter and editor at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area\, he’s the author of The Creative Spark\, a collection of interviews with many of the world’s most creative people\, as well as A Sense of Place featuring conversations with leading travel writers. His stories appear in National Geographic Traveler\, The Washington Post\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-pico-iyer-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T170000
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SUMMARY:PREMIERE Watch Party & Community Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival\, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of the new animated film\, a talk with the auteur\, and a community conversation afterwards. Guests will receive an email with all the links the morning of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/premiere-watch-party-community-conversation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kelliane Parker\nSusan Dambroff\nKeith M. Gaboury\nDaniel Ari\nElaine de Coligny\nPhyllis  Houseman\nnoemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossus-home-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201018T160000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Lan Cao (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Lan Cao’s dual first-person memoir\, Family in Six Tones—co-authored with her American daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao—explores their complicated relationship\, culture clash\, and how they have grown both as individuals and as a family. \nLan is a Vietnamese American writer who left Saigon for the U.S. as a refugee in 1975. She is the author of two other novels\, Monkey Bridge and The Lotus and the Storm. Both novels tell the stories of Vietnamese refugees in America\, set against the Vietnam War and its traumatic aftermath for those who are left with its haunting legacy. In both novels\, the war is told from a Vietnamese American perspective. \nLan is also a professor of law and has taught at Brooklyn Law School\, Michigan Law School\, Duke Law School\, and William & Mary Law School. She is currently working at Chapman Law School in Orange\, CA. She has written numerous articles on public international law\, international trade\, and rule of law development. Her book Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. \nIsabel Allende—novelist\, feminist\, and philanthropist—is one of the most widely-read authors in the world\, having sold more than 74 million books. Born in Peru and raised in Chile\, she won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her hugely popular first novel\, The House of the Spirits. In addition to her work as a writer\, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-lan-cao-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Mentorship with Brian Tierney
DESCRIPTION:This remote poetry “class” offers a unique opportunity for personal and intimate poetry instruction. Students will work with Brian Tierney one-on-one\, via written correspondence over nine weeks\, during which students will compile and send one “packet” every three weeks.\n \nEach “packet” will consist of: 1) 3-5 poems for in-depth written feedback from Brian; 2) a small critical engagement with select reading assignments in poetry (which Brian will provide) and which will foster close-reading skills and inform creative practice; and 3) a small “letter” to be addressed to Brian\, in which students can discuss their writing and creative life\, and pose any relevant questions. Brian will review and respond to these packets in writing\, for a total of three packet responses over nine weeks. \nThis mentorship opportunity is ideal for poets who are craving critical feedback that workshops can provide\, but looking for a more comprehensive and focused engagement\, where the specific concerns of one’s writing practice and poems can be addressed individually. \nIntermediate writers and above recommended. \nOctober 19 – December 18\, All day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-mentorship-with-brian-tierney/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nExciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift\, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell for her new book Stranger Faces. This nonfiction essay in five parts covers pieces of culture as broad ranging as Joseph Merrick (the “elephant man”) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. With Stranger Faces\, Serpell ask a key question: why do our actions towards one another hinge so much on a quick evaluation of looks? Serpell believes we assign too much meaning to a key physical feature—the face. \nPart of the Undelivered Lectures series from Oakland’s Transit Books\, this essay is equal parts savvy pop culture and college lecture hall-style\, highly-researched thought experiment. The resulting book is a joy for deep thinkers. At its core is a question not only of philosophy\, but of our shared humanity. \nThe face underlies our ideas about personhood. People relate to one another emotionally based on a specific kind of face; a theoretical “ideal” face\, easy to recognize and categorize. In conversation with Carmen Maria Machado\, Serpell unpacks the problem of this “ideal” in society. She turns our eyes toward faces which thwart quick recognition—disabled faces\, racially ambiguous faces\, digital faces\, the faces of the dead—and imagines a new ethics by relating to these faces differently. The resulting conversation is an unusual look at the picture frame through which we see the world\, and through which the world interprets us. \nA winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing\, NAMWALI SERPELL is a Zambian writer and Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her debut novel\, The Old Drift\, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. \nCARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the celebrated short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She is a recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Lamda Literary Award\, and the Shirley Jackson Award. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/namwali-serpell-with-carmen-maria-machado/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201019T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rebecca Roanhorse in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders / Black Sun
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She’ll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  We’re happy to offer signed bookplates for the first 50 preorders! If you’d like a copy of Black Sun\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy\, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies\, political intrigue\, and forbidden magic. \nA god will return\nWhen the earth and sky converge\nUnder the black sun \nIn the holy city of Tova\, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal\, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse\, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. \nMeanwhile\, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship\, Xiala\, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless\, the passenger\, Serapio\, is a young man\, blind\, scarred\, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows\, when a man is described as harmless\, he usually ends up being a villain. \nCrafted with unforgettable characters\, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade. \n\n \nRebecca Roanhorse is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning\, Storm of Locusts\, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn\, and Race to the Sun. She has won the Nebula\, Hugo\, and Locus Awards for her fiction\, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (formerly Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her forthcoming book\, Black Sun\, is out in October. She lives in New Mexico with her family. \n \nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel\, City in the Middle of the Night. Her debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story\, “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney’s\, Lightspeed\, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon\, the Wall Street Journal\, Mother Jones\, and many other outlets. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have a copy of Black Sun sent to your door\, order here or add the book to your cart when you register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rebecca-roanhorse-in-conversation-with-charlie-jane-anders-black-sun/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nRegister for this Crowdcast event here! \nAn Onion in My Pocket is a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods\, peeling off layer by layer like an onion\, recounting her own personal\, culinary\, and gardening experiences\, and her adventures with family and friends.  It’s a most timely book and a joy to read.” —Lidia Bastianich \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Taylor\, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading\, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon\,” a story about a man who discovers that his new wife is a bigot. They will discuss their editing process\, and how to write anti-racist stories with racist characters without being morally didactic. Q&A to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-white-fragility-an-editorial-discussion/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T170000
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SUMMARY:Tiffany Shlain with Arianna Huffington - 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time\, Creativity\, and Connection (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Winner of The Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award • People’s New Book Worth Reading • Entrepreneur’s 12 Productivity and Time-Management Books to Read \n“I’m won over to a day with people\, not screens….I tried Shlain’s idea. I highly recommend it.” —The New York Times \n“Tiffany Shlain is a modern-day prophet\, brilliant and incredibly funny in equal measure…24/6 is timeless and timely wisdom.” — Angela Duckworth\, #1 New York Times bestselling author \nThis eye-opening and “joy to read” (Rosabeth Moss Kanter\, bestselling author of Confidence) book demonstrates how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain\, body\, and soul. \nDo you wish you had more time to do what you love\, think deeply\, and focus on the people and things that matter most?  By giving up screens one day a week for over a decade\, Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and her family have gained more time\, productivity\, connection\, and presence. \nShlain takes us on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey through time and technology\, introducing a strategy for flourishing in our 24/7 world. Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat\, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With humor and wisdom\, Shlain shares her story\, offering the accessible lessons she has learned and providing a blueprint for how to do it yourself. \n“Bolstered with fascinating and germane facts about neuroscience\, philosophy\, psychology\, and the history of the concept of a day of rest” (Publishers Weekly) 24/6 makes the case for incorporating this weekly reset into our 24/7 lives\, issuing a call to rebalance  ourselves and our society. \nHonored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century\,” Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards. Tiffany’s films and work have received over eighty awards and distinctions including being selected for the Albert Einstein Foundation’s Genius: 100 Visions of the Future. NPR named her UC Berkeley address as one of its best commencement speeches and her films have premiered at top festivals including Sundance. She lectures worldwide on the relationship between technology and humanity. Find out more at TiffanyShlain.com and follow @TiffanyShlain. \nArianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global\, the founder of The Huffington Post\, and the author of fifteen books\, including\, most recently\, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016\, she launched Thrive Global\, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tiffany-shlain-with-arianna-huffington-24-6-giving-up-screens-one-day-a-week-to-get-more-time-creativity-and-connection-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T180000
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SUMMARY:Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:celebrating their new book \nSpirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nFrom two bestselling\, prizewinning\, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a rich\, illustrated\, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nGary Kamiya’s Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco was a #1 bestseller and an award winner. Now he joins forces with celebrated\, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before\, Kamiya’s captivating narratives accompany Madonna’s masterful pen-and-ink drawings\, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. \nPaul Madonna’s atmospheric images will awe: be amazed by his astonishing wide-angle drawing for a jaw-dropping new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world.” And Kamiya’s engaging prose\, accompanying each image\, offers fascinating vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville\,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. \nHandsome and irresistible–much like the city it chronicles–Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed\, personal\, loving\, informed portrait of a beloved city. \nGary Kamiya is a writer\, journalist\, and historian. He is the author of the bestselling book Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco and the history column “Portals of the Past” (soon to be a podcast) which appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He was a co-founder and longtime executive editor of the groundbreaking web site Salon.com\, and the former executive editor of San Francisco Magazine. He also offers unique walking tours by appointment and is available as a speaker about all things San Francisco. Visit: https://www.garykamiya.com \n\nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series “All Over Coffee” and the author of four books\, All Over Coffee\, Everything is its own reward\, On to the Next Dream\, and Close Enough for the Angels. Paul’s work is about pairing elements: text and images; concept and craft; thought and beauty. Paul’s drawings and stories have appeared in numerous international books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. He is the Comics Editor for TheRumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine (1993-94)\, for which he proudly received no money. \nVisit: www.paulmadonna.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-kamiya-with-paul-madonna/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David Livingstone Smith & David P. Barash / On Inhumanity
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He’ll be in conversation with David P. Barash\, author of the just-out Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order On Inhumanity here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nThe Rwandan genocide\, the Holocaust\, the lynching of African Americans\, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again-that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche-deeper than prejudice itself-leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization\, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. This book looks at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity\, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it\, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result. \n“This brilliant and powerful book is a philosophically sophisticated and prophetically courageous treatment of dehumanization\, especially in regard to race. It is timely and needful in our monstrous times! Don’t miss it!” – Cornel West\, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy\, Harvard University\, author of Black Prophetic Fire \n“This book is firm but gentle\, wise but accessible. Its reflections on our worst habits of politics are phrased in such a way that they allow us to see what better habits might be.” – Timothy Snyder\, Richard C. Levin Professor of History\, Yale University\, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century \n“On Inhumanity profoundly interrogates the processes that lead ordinary people to engage in horrific acts of violence against others. Tracing common themes across the Holocaust\, lynching\, and genocides\, Smith identifies dehumanization—seeing human beings as subhuman creatures—as the central feature of these mass atrocities\, as well as of everyday forms of racial oppression. Most compelling is that Smith refuses to conclude that dehumanization is our inevitable destiny and instead charts a course for resisting it. On Inhumanity brilliantly provides a chilling warning of repeating the past and a hopeful call to create a more humane future.” – Dorothy Roberts\, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights\, University of Pennsylvania\, author of Fatal Invention: How Science\, Politics\, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. \nYou can order On Inhumanity here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nDavid Livingstone Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford\, Maine. He has written or edited nine books\, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean\, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press\, 2011)\, which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. His work has been translated into seven languages. David is an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers\, but also by historians\, legal scholars\, psychologists\, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries\, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media\, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit\, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence. \nDavid P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. He’s written more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles on human and animal behavior\, and has written\, co-authored and edited 39 books\, most recently Threats: intimidation and its discontents\, which was just published on Oct. 1 by Oxford University Press. \nYou can order Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-berkeley-arts-letters-presents-david-livingstone-smith-david-p-barash-on-inhumanity/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Witch In Time by Constance Sayers | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 20\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Constance Sayer’s new novel\, A WITCH IN TIME. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86098354351. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at http://bit.ly/ggpWitchInTime\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/WitchInTimeAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nThe PERFECT diversion for the times we’re living in! \n— Kathleen \n  \nDescription\n\nA witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes\, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist\, in this haunting debut novel. \n  \nHelen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris\, an actress in 1930’s Hollywood\, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles — only she doesn’t know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he’s watched over her for centuries\, bound to her from the beginning. \n  \nAt first\, Helen doesn’t believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman’s. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short. \n  \nCaught in a curse\, Helen will be forced to relive the same tragic events that ruined her previous lives. But with each rebirth\, she’s developed uncanny powers. And as the most powerful version of herself\, Helen must find a way to break the curse before her time runs out. \n  \nA Witch in Time is a bewitching tale of passion\, reincarnation and magic perfect for fans of A Secret History of Witches and Outlander. \nAbout the Author\n\nConstance Sayers received her MA in English from George Mason University and her BA in writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a media executive at Atlantic Media. She has been twice named to Folio’s list of “Top 100 Media People in America” and was included in their list of “Top Women in Media.” She is the co-founder of the Thoughtful Dog literary magazine and lives in Kensington\, Maryland. \n  \nPraise For…\n\n“A captivating tapestry of a tale\, A Witch in Time weaves together the supernatural\, historical fiction\, and a humorous present day heroine\, while traveling the macabre brambles of a dark curse-through lifetimes-with a compass to the heart.”—Gwendolyn Womack\, bestselling author of The Fortune Teller & The Time Collector\n“Fresh and original… a narrative rich in historical detail\, brightened by flashes of humor\, and filled with colorful characters and fascinating settings. A most rewarding read!” \n—Louisa Morgan\, author of A Secret History of Witches
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-witch-in-time-by-constance-sayers-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T213000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-65-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T203000
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SUMMARY:Writers Who Want to Get Noticed: Online Literary Profiles\, with Lyzette Wanzer (via Zoom)\, Oct. 21
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAYS\, OCT. 21 — DEC. 2  | One of the biggest challenges writers face is getting their work the recognition it deserves. You’ve been sending your work out—stories\, articles\, poems\, plays—and you know it’s good work\, but no one’s biting. You’ve applied for grants\, travel scholarships\, and writers’ conference funding\, to no avail. You’d love to be invited to present work at Litquake or another high-profile reading series\, or to read at a conference. You’d like to publish in literary journals that pay writers\, and you’d like to start winning some writing contests. What’s the missing link? It could well be your online literary presence. \n\nDo you have separate social media accounts reserved and used exclusively for your life as a writer?\nDoes your online presence offer evidence that you take your writing seriously\, and view yourself as a literary professional\, whether established or up-and-coming?\nWhen publishers\, funders\, fellowship committees\, and grant panels view your profiles\, will they think your presentation is polished? Will they feel your page shows signs of an upward trajectory in your literary accomplishments?\n\nIn this workshop\, learn why curating your online presence is so crucial\, and get down to the work of fashioning new—or redesigning current—profiles in a supportive hands-on environment. This workshop will focus on LinkedIn\, Twitter\, Facebook\, Shuffle\, and Pinterest. \nThis class will meet on Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom details. \nLyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over 25 literary journals and books\, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie)\, The Naked Truth\, Essay Daily\, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission and Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient\, Lyzette serves as Judge for the Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category. She is currently helming an essay anthology entitled Trauma\, Tresses\, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narrative. \nContact: AuthorLyzetteWanzer@LyzetteWanzerMFA.com \nNumber of sessions: 6 \nDates: Wednesdays\, October 21\, 28; November 4\, 11\, 18 (no class November 25); December 2 \nTime: 5:30 – 8:00pm Pacific Time \nCourse fee: $330
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-who-want-to-get-noticed-online-literary-profiles-with-lyzette-wanzer-via-zoom-oct-21/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T133000
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SUMMARY:Yotam Ottolenghi - Ottolenghi Flavor (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times bestselling author of Plenty teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ innovative\, super-delicious\, plant-based recipes. \nLevel up your vegetables. In this groundbreaking cookbook\, Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage offer a next-level approach to vegetables that breaks down the fundamentals of cooking into three key elements: process\, pairing\, and produce. For process\, Yotam and Ixta show how easy techniques such as charring and infusing can change the way you think about cooking. Discover how to unlock new depths of flavor by pairing vegetables with sweetness\, fat\, acidity\, or chile heat\, and learn to identify the produce that has the innate ability to make dishes shine. \nWith main courses\, sides\, desserts\, and a whole pantry of “flavor bombs” (homemade condiments)\, there’s something for any meal\, any night of the week\, including surefire hits such as Stuffed Eggplant in Curry and Coconut Dal\, Spicy Mushroom Lasagne\, and Romano Pepper Schnitzels. Chock-full of low-effort\, high-impact dishes that pack a punch and standout meals for the relaxed cook\, Ottolenghi Flavor is a revolutionary approach to vegetable cooking. \nYotam Ottolenghi is a seven-time New York Times best-selling cookbook author who contributes to the New York Times Food section and has a weekly column in The Guardian. His previous book\, Ottolenghi Simple\, was selected as a best book of the year by NPR and the New York Times; Jerusalem\, written with Sami Tamimi\, was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals and named Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. He lives in London\, where he co-owns an eponymous group of restaurants and the fine-dining destinations Nopi and Rovi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yotam-ottolenghi-ottolenghi-flavor-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T000100
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SUMMARY:Beast Generation Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012\, we\, Beast Generation writers\, lived a never-ending literary feast. We gathered in the Mission\, at the street corners (16th and Mission)\, in a former voodoo and black magic temple Viracocha\, Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, in the bars like Amnesia and Make Out Room or Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley. They read poetry and prose\, played music and acted at festivals and happenings like Bay Area Generations\, Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop\, Saturday Night Special\, Quiet Lightning\, Get Lit\, Tourette’s Without Regrets\, Poetry Flash\, Donde Esta Mi Gente\, Perfectly Queer\, The Naked Bulb\, Skinless\, Swill\, Word Performances\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitCrawl\, Literary Death Match\, and organizations like Nomadic Press\, Poetry Flash\, Small Press Distribution\, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, Kundiman\, Kearney St Workshop\, Manic D Press\, Be About It Press\, Milvia Street\, Liminal Space\, Foglifter Journal\, the SF Creative Writing Institute\, the East Bay Review\, Full of Crow\, Pandemonium Press. And with many MANY of these writers taking to the road to read with poets in Seattle\, Portland\, Cleveland\, Kansas City\, Pittsburg\, Albuquerque New York\, Paris\, Mexico City\, Rabat and others. It was a loud and fun family\, with a sense of purpose and belonging. \nThe Beast Crawl was born in 2012 in Oakland CA to establish an annual gathering of this tribe in one region at one time in the East Bay (pig latin for “Beast”) to celebrate the merging of homegrown literary talent with the other kindred Beasts across the world. With this event\, the East Bay emerged as a hotbed of raw\, diverse literary talent with venues such as the Awaken Cafe\, Bench & Bar\, Chapter 510\, the Dept. of Make Believe\, the Creative Growth Center\, Classic Cars West\, Era Art Bar\, Econojam Records\, Feelmore 510\, The Legionairre\, Telegraph Beer Garden\, Farley’s East\, EM Wolfman Books\, The Golden Bull\, Laurel Books\, The Layover Lounge\, The New Parkway\, Oaklandish\, Kingston 11\, Spice Monkey\, The Starline Social Club\, Sweet Bar\, The Octopus Literary Salon\, Radio Bar\, and Woods Brewing Company hosting new up and coming authors. \nBy 2020\, with many of the venues closed or out of business\, festivals and readings canceled by the pandemic\, depression\, fires and smoke\, the Beasts might have lost a platform but not their voice. We will join forces again on October 24\, 2020\, and speak up online. Join us for a whole day marathon on a YouTube channel of one of San Francisco’s oldest indie bookstores\, Globus Books. The city will live up to its tradition: LitCrawl and Bay Area Poetry festival will be bringing more voices to you that very day. Let’s read like it is 2012! \nWith a week before the historic election\, our country\, state and city face a political\, economic and environmental crisis. The arts\, literature and poetry are here to do what they always do: offer humanity. Our land is on fire\, the plague is near and tyrants are at large but our spirits soar and are invincible. Long live Poetry! \nThis event will be live streaming on the Globus Books YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos. It is free for all. The recording of this show will be serialized and featured on the same channel later. Join us! \nReading: \nYoussef Alaoui\nLynn Alexander\nKyrsten Bean\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nSteven Black\nPam Benjamin\nKwan Booth\nMya Byrne\nWolfgang Carstens\nMK Chavez\nMissy Church\nJoe Clifford\nSharon Coleman\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nSean Craven\nCassandra Dallett\nRohan DaCosta\nJenee Darden\nNatasha Derenstein\nFred Dodsworth\nMG Dufresne\nAndy Dugas`\nJoe Donohoe\nTony DuShane\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLee Foust\nJK Fowler\nBill Gainer\nCassandra Rockwood-Rice Ganem\nCharlie Getter\nSteve Goldberg\nSteven Gray\nDazie Grego-Sykes\nJason Hardung\nHollie Hardy\nNicole Henares\nNazelah Jamison\nMaisha Johnson\nNick Johnson\nJuba Kalamka\nVernon Keeve III\nYume Kim\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nCharles Kruger\nAllsion Landa\nJoel Landmine\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nRIchard Loranger\nMichelle Lyn\nBrandon Loberg\nJoe Loya\nSean Manzano\nColleen McKee\nKR Morrison\nAmanda Muniz\nGinger Murray\nAlexandra Naughton\nJason Neese\nZephir O’Meara\nDawn Oberg\nPatty Orozco-Cronin\nSarah Page\nJohn Alfred Panzer\nLauren Dissident Parker\nIndiana Pehlivanova\nRob Pierce\nTom Pitts\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez\nRoger Porter\nHK Rainey\nSimon Rogghe\nKim Shuck\nCybele Zufolo Siegel\nJon Siegel\nTodd Siegel\nRyan Snellman\nJan Steckel\nSB Stokes\nJohn Swain\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nAndrew Thomas\nLauren Traetto\nKeeley Ann Tulloh\nRene Vaz\nAlia Volz\nSandra Wassile\nJason Whitacre\nArisa White\nMaw Shein Win\nZarina Zabrisky\nJames Zealous \nBios coming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-generation-uprising/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
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SUMMARY:Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition!
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone’s favorite construction crew is back in this brand-new addition to the Goodnight\, Goodnight series. Kids will be delighted to hear the author reader here story and to meet the illustrator of this awesome book\, where the crew CRASH-BANG-BOOMS through the demolition process. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sherri-duskey-rinker-ag-ford-construction-site-mission-demolition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T142657
CREATED:20201007T220352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T220352Z
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SUMMARY:SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr\, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
DESCRIPTION:The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. \nMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November\, 1930\, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco\, Detroit and New York. Still\, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. \nOnly twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera\, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place\, one filled with magnificent beauty\, horrific poverty\, racial tension\, anti-Semitism\, ethnic diversity\, bland Midwestern food and a thriving music scene\, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear\, cracks in her marriage widened and tragedy struck\, twice while she was living in Detroit. \nFrida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia\, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail\, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo. \nCelia Stahr is a professor at the University of San Francisco\, where she specializes in modern American and contemporary art with an emphasis on feminist art and gender studies\, as well as African and multicultural art. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Iowa and lives in the Bay Area. \nConnect with Celia Stahr – Website | Instagram | Blog \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-virtual-library-celia-stahr-frida-in-america-the-creative-awakening-of-a-great-artist/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T200000
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books Night @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating three awesome new books! \n     \nThird Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White’s Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three excellent new titles: IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS by Robert Gordon\, CAR MA by Alison Mosshart\, and Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas. \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns! \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights and Third Man on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nabout It Came From Memphis \nVienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history\, It Came From Memphis dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies\, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs\, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis\, Aretha\, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton\, Jim Dickinson\, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos\, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit. The Memphis aesthetic is to invert expectations: artists encounter imperfection with a joyous enthusiasm\, embracing mistakes and doing it all wrong by forging their own paths to get it exactly right\, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. A storyteller’s storyteller\, Robert Gordon puts you in the shotgun seat\, riding with the old coots and the young rebels as they pass a bottle and a blunt. Memphis changed the world\, this book might change you. The paragraph that begins updated and revised should be all bold. \nRobert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker\, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book\, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies\, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal\, William Buckley\, and the demise of civil discourse in America. He’s not the rockabilly singer\, he’s not author of Deep Blues\, and he’s not the university in Scotland. He lives in Memphis. \nVisit: TheRobertGordon.com \n  \nabout CAR MA \nCAR MA is artist and musician Alison Mosshart’s first printed collection of paintings\, photographs\, short stories\, and poetry. It is a book about cars\, rock n’ roll\, and love. It’s a book about America\, performance\, and life on the road. It’s a book about fender bender portraiture\, story tellin’ tire tracks\, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood. Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America’s highways- the last great roller coasters. Shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes. Mosshart ruminates that automobiles- with their doors and mirrors and windows\, engines and wheels and radios- portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit\, our inward reflections and outward visions\, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn’t. Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out … over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good and with the volume up that fucking loud. \nAlison Mosshart is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills\, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated rock n’ roll band\, The Dead Weather. Mosshart is also a visual artist\, working in paints\, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida\, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions: “Fire Power” at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC\, 2015\, “Fire Power Los Angeles” at Maxfield in Los Angeles\, 2017\, “Tonight Only” in Muscle Shoals\, Alabama\, 2016\, “Side Effects” at Panteon in Mexico City\, 2018\, and “Los Trachas” at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles\, 2018. \nVisit: Alison Mosshart on Facebook \n  \nabout Nine Bar Blues \nSheree Renée Thomas is a two-headed woman\, one crown\, earthbound\, rooted in the Mississippi Delta and the New Weird South\, the other spinning far off into space. And if music is the embedded memory of a culture\, then her remarkable fiction collection is its excavated soul. Individually\, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture\, but their shared song is the story of the blues. Thomas’s writing haunts and mesmerizes you. Her imagination takes you down through it like the best traditional blues song\, then opens you up again\, delivering you into that mysterious\, transcendental space that is the ninth bar. \nHaunting and evocative\, Nine Bar Blues carries the soul’s songbook\, from the dark laughter of strange sisters forced to make a perilous journey into a land their mothers have never known\, to the fortified funk of extraterrestrial mixtapes. \nSheree Renée Thomas imagines stories that are sonic rituals\, works that cultivate and affirm the magical and the mystical in everyday living. Nine Bar Blues explores the multitudinous forms of music and the people who make it and appreciate it—the body’s music\, the spirit’s music\, and what moves a soul forward in the crossroads journey of life. Her stories travel from haunted West African and Middle Eastern forests to the mysterious back roads in the Mississippi Delta\, from the ancestral realms of the afterlife to the alien sounds beyond. And throughout the journey\, Nine Bar Blues heralds the arrival of a unique writer whose voice carries the hope and the past-future-present of a people. \nVisit: Sheree Renée Thomas’ Website
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-night-city-lights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican’s new collection\, Central Air. Join us! \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nMike Puican and Michael Warr will share poems centered on cities they’ve called home. The poets met in Chicago\, a place that served as a living incubator for their writing over a period of 20 years. Puican has a new book of poems\, Central Air\, that focuses on the spiritual as well as the corporal intensities of Chicago. Warr grew up in San Francisco and spent his twenties in Chicago and Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia. \nThese gifted artists will present poems of place that contrast and compare life in these two great cities. \n\nAbout Central Air \nSet in the urban Chicago landscape\, Central Air explores the human challenge of living with strong desires\, limited knowledge\, and no saving direction. The voices in this mix of elegies and soft litanies negotiate lives within the strangeness and unpredictability of each moment. In every case\, language is a swift prayer\, ode\, and lyric. Chicago is an intensely experienced\, blue-collar homeplace where injustice is a given. The poems are stern\, compressed\, and unsentimental. But they are also empathic to human shortcomings and doubts\, scored in unobtrusive consistency in both voice and language. \nPuican’s focus on the city\, its people and underbellied spaces\, pays homage in the tradition of the great Chicago masters: Carl Sandburg\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Campbell McGrath. This contemporary Chicago son finds his own place with lyrical integrity. \n\nMike Puican has published poems in Poetry\, Bloomsbury Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, and New England Review\, among others. His work has also been featured on WBEZ\, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Puican was a member of the 1996 Chicago Slam Team and holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College. As a longtime board member of the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago\, he has been deeply involved in supporting and promoting other Chicago writers. He also leads poetry workshops at St. Leonard’s House for formerly incarcerated men and at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. \nMichael Warr‘s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, and We Are All The Black Boy. He is the recipient of the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award and is a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other honors include a Creative Work Fund Award\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-lunch-poems-san-francisco-and-chicago/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
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SUMMARY:Swords Out: A Dungeons & Dragons Murder Mystery
DESCRIPTION:John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van\, Universal Harvester\, the Mountain Goats)\, Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown)\, Daniel Lavery (Something That May Shock and Discredit You\, The Merry Spinster\, Slate’s Dear Prudence\, the Toast)\, Amber Sparks (And I Do Not Forgive You\, The Unfinished World)\, and R. Eric Thomas (Here for It\, Elle magazine) join Dungeon Master Matt Lubchansky to play a classic tabletop role-playing game with a literary twist. If you’ve never played D&D before\, don’t worry—most of our players haven’t either.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swords-out-a-dungeons-dragons-murder-mystery/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T142657
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SUMMARY:Publish Your Opinion\, with Laird Harrison (via Zoom)\, Oct. 22
DESCRIPTION:HURSDAYS\, OCT. 22 — 29 |Your opinion matters. You have taken the time to research an issue and think it through. Now how can you get the word out to the people who need to hear it? Newspapers\, magazines\, and websites are looking for well-reasoned essays. But their criteria are very different from the ones your college English professor used. In this three-hour course\, you will learn the basics of writing an essay or op-ed for publication. You will write your own opinion piece\, then submit it for critique by the instructor and peers so you can polish it for publication.\n \nThis class will meet on Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom details. \nLaird Harrison has published opinion pieces in Salon\, The Nation\, and the San Francisco Chronicle among other publications. His journalism has appeared in Time\, Reuters and Smithsonian. He has taught writing at San Francisco State University\, U.C. Berkeley Extension and Mediabistro. He is the author of the novel Fallen Lake. \n  \nNumber of sessions: 2 \nContact: lairdharrison@gmail.com \nDates: Thursdays\, October 22\, 29 \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time \nCourse fee: $85
URL:https://litseen.com/event/publish-your-opinion-with-laird-harrison-via-zoom-oct-22/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T210000
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SUMMARY:Leslie K. Barry - Newark Minutemen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In between World Wars\, during the Great Depression\, American democracy was threatened by a shadow Nazi party\, complete with a self-proclaimed American Hitler and a 1939 Nuremberg-like rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Join Marin author Leslie K. Barry for a discussion of her family’s incredible true story—and the inspiration for her new novel\, Newark Minutemen—that of a Jewish boxer in 1930s New Jersey who was recruited by the Jewish mob and the FBI to go undercover against the rising German-American Nazi party\, falling in love with the enemy’s daughter along the way.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-k-barry-newark-minutemen-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T170000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Berkeley Poetry Festival is a City of Berkeley sponsored celebration of the city’s poets. We honor a local poet with a Lifelong Achievement award for service in the community and writing. Organized by Sharon Coleman and MK Chavez . \nBerkeley Poetry Festival is so honored to announce that Michael Warr is the Lifetime Achievement Awardee for our 18th annual festival. We will be celebrating Michael and many more poets October 23-25 online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T130000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía\, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. \nAlejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love\, Nine Stories\, City Lights Books (winner of the American Book Award). In non-fiction he has published The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California\, University of Texas Press. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Currently he is a professor in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. In 2013 City Lights Books published his new book Stray Poems. His short story\, The Other Barrio\, was recently released as a full length feature\, filmed in the street of the Mission District. He was the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino to hold the position. \nConnect with Alejandro Murguía – Website \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl\, and co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published\, her work appears in Other Musics\, Latinas: Struggles & Protests\, Maestrapeace\, Huizache\, and Pilgrimage.  A four-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grantee\, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. \nConnect with Leticia Hernández-Linares – Website | Twitter \nJosé Héctor Cadena is a poet\, scholar and collage artist who grew up along the San Ysidro/Tijuana borderlands. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at The University of Kansas. His work has appeared in Raices y Mas: An Anthology of Young Border Voices\, Cipactli\, Transfer Magazine\, Pacific Review\, La Bloga\, Red Light Lit and San Diego Poetry Annual. \nZoom Reservation \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-native-tongues-tres-poetas-de-califas/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T190000
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SUMMARY:Funeral Diva
DESCRIPTION:A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era\, and its effects on life and art. \n“She is a writer for the future\, in that she defies genre.”—Hilton Als \n“Pamela Sneed’s Funeral Diva charts the ‘grieving patterns’ informing a life with unflinching honesty and clarity. This notable achievement\, traveling from youth to adulthood\, is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist’s life.”—Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen: An American Lyric \nIn this collection of personal essays and poetry\, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life\, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living\, the dying\, and the dead. Sneed’s poems not only converse with lovers past and present\, but also with her literary forebears—like James Baldwin\, Toni Morrison\, Audre Lorde—whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape. \nOffering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights\, Funeral Diva confronts today’s most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneed’s reflections on the two pandemics of her time\, AIDS and COVID-19\, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities. \n“Riveting\, personal\, open-hearted\, risky and wise. This is Pamela Sneed at the top of her gifts\, firmly grounding her history into our history\, enriching both\, acknowledging all the legacies and losses\, influences gold and ash.”—Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse \n“Pamela Sneed’s Funeral Diva is deft\, defiant\, and devastating. Nothing exists in her work without history\, without teaching me\, as she writes\, ‘the power of what words can do.’ Through her brilliant mind it’s evident that everything is truly connected. You just have to find the string.”—Tommy Pico\, author of Feed \n“Funeral Diva is urgent and necessary reading to live by. This is writing at its finest. Sneed poetically processes individuation\, life’s journey of becoming\, a visionary elegy that transforms trauma and abandonment to recognition and virtuosity. Here\, with perceptive awareness we are invited along the way with mysterious encounters\, beloved attachments\, and then the cruelties\, the sorrows\, and profane acts of injustices confronted and given Cassandra full due diligence. Sneed magnificently refuses to back down\, and gives courageous and compassionate requiem with imagination\, integrity and inspiration for humanity. Keep this book close to your heart and soul.”—Karen Finley\, author of Shock Treatment \n“Reminiscent of Audre Lorde’s Zami\, Pamela Sneed’s memoir is\, in itself\, a healing balm\, affirming in its truths and honesty. Sneed takes us by the hand and leads us while she meditates on her journey from being orphaned as a baby to coming of age as a black lesbian in the 1980’s\, sometimes cutting corners and jay walking into deeper memories of childhood hurts and adolescent desire—the result\, a syncopated rhythm with a brilliant mix of emotions and sensations and poetry to describe a period of being gay and black in the shimmering strangeness of a vibrant city on the cusp of the AIDS epidemic that claimed the lives of many. I cannot remember ever reading a book that illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on our community more poignantly than Funeral Diva.”—Nicole Dennis-Benn\, author of Patsy \n“Pamela Sneed takes enormous risks in this book. She tells the truth with fierce concentration and an abiding sense of purpose.”—Dorothy Allison\, author of Bastard Out of Carolina \n“In her latest collection\, Funeral Diva\, Pamela Sneed ‘articulates at a mathematical speed’ her journey as a Black lesbian poet coming to terms with a new name\, to her evolved consciousness as an activist in New York City in the rage and devastating loss of the HIV epidemic. Sneed delivers an immersive experience with a grief that is porous\, inexplicable\, urgent\, and untamed. In Sneed’s distinctive style of prophetic foreshadowing\, Funeral Diva is the tome for our awakening and for our survival.”—Erica Cardwell\, writer\, critic\, and educator \n“If you wonder what political agency feels like\, read this book. If you want to know what a broken heart feels like\, read this book. If you’re not sure how to express political agency in spite of a broken heart\, read this book.”—Avram Finkelstein\, author of After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images \n“What does death take? Something or someone unacceptably absent. And how does grief exact? The costs are incalculable. Silver linings are just damn insulting. Yet\, somehow Sneed qualifies loss in the perfect most appropriate forms. Not psalms\, not proverbs\, perhaps a hint of prophecy\, but mostly through righteous lamentations. In this book\, Sneed testifies with clarity\, urgency\, and conviction. These compositions are necessary to the very soul of art itself. The compositions are the spirit-work and mind-breath demanded by the much (and too often late) lamented—our lost loves who remain ever-present. Gratitude to the author. All of us should read and thank this poet repeatedly.”—Gregg Bordowitz\, author of General Idea: Imagevirus (The AIDS Project)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/funeral-diva/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T170000
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SUMMARY:Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the intersections of their new books \nReTargeting Iran \npublished by City Lights Books \n& \nOut of Mesopotamia \npublished by Akashic Books \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. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register \n————- \nPurchase ReTargeting Iran (CLICK HERE)  \nPurchase Out of Mesopotamia (CLICK HERE) \n————- \nAbout ReTargeting Iran\, edited by David Barsamian\, with Azadeh Moaveni and others \nThe United States and Iran seem to be permanently locked in a dangerous cycle of brinkmanship and violence. Both countries have staged cyber attacks and recently shot down one another’s aircraft. Why do both countries seem intent on escalation? Why did the U.S. abandon the nuclear deal (which\, according to the UN\, was working)? Where can Washington and Tehran find common ground? To address these questions and the political and historical forces at play\, David Barsamian presents the perspectives of Iran scholars Ervand Abrahamian\, Noam Chomsky\, Nader Hashemi\, Azadeh Moaveni\, and Trita Parsi. A follow-up to the previously published Targeting Iran\, this timely and urgent book continues to affirm the goodwill between Iranian and American people\, even as their respective governments clash on the international stage. \n  \nAbout Out of Mesopotamia: A Novel by Salar Abdoh \nSaleh\, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia\, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran’s most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There\, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war\, an existential battle\, a declaration of faith\, and\, for some\, a passing weekend affair. \nAfter weeks spent dodging RPGs\, witnessing acts of savagery and stupidity\, Saleh returns to civilian life in Tehran but finds it to be an unbearably dislocating experience. Pursued by his official handler from state security\, opportunistic colleagues\, and the woman who broke his heart\, Saleh has reason to again flee from everyday life. Surrounded by men whose willingness to achieve martyrdom both fascinates and appalls him\, Saleh struggles to make sense of himself and the turmoil in his midst. \nAn unprecedented glimpse into “endless war” from a Middle Eastern perspective\, Out of Mesopotamia follows in the tradition of the Western canon of martial writers—from Hemingway and Orwell to Tim O’Brien and Philip Caputo—but then subverts and expands upon the genre before completely blowing it apart. Drawing from his firsthand experience of being embedded with Shia militias on the ground in Iraq and Syria\, Abdoh gives agency to the voiceless while offering a meditation on war that is moving\, humane\, darkly funny\, and resonantly true.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/azadeh-moaveni-and-salar-abdoh/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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