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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Kawai Strong Washburn
DESCRIPTION:Join Angie Coiro as she interviews the critically acclaimed debut novelist who stunned everyone from former President Obama to Marlon James and Tommy Orange with his extraordinary novel\, Sharks in the Time of Saviors.\nThis groundbreaking book folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into the modern-day struggles of a single working family. A young child\, Naiona\, falls suddenly from a boat on a rare vacation. After the incident\, the 7 year-old boy seems to develop unusual powers that follow him into adulthood and add challenges to already complex relationships between his siblings\, who are flung as far as California and Portland. With a heady\, golden overlay of belief\, myth and magic\, plus a challenging backdrop of financial strife and Hawaiian politics\, this is fundamentally a human story—in which individuals struggle to develop identity and connection against the weight of challenging surroundings\, economic realities\, and the slightly supernatural. \n“Old myths clash with new realities\, love is in a ride or die with grief\, faith rubs hard against magic\, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut.”—MARLON JAMES\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“So good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent.”—TOMMY ORANGE\, author of There There \n\nGet to know one of the most exciting new novelists working today for a very special This Is Now conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn. \n\n\n\n\nKAWAI STRONG WASHBURN was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘I. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Formerly a Bay Area writer and frequent visitor to Kepler’s\, he now lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. ** \nPhoto of Kawai Strong Washburn by Crystal Lieppa.
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: The Rise and Fall of Angkor
DESCRIPTION:Explore the quintessential “lost city” of Angkor Wat with us during this very special interactive seminar led by Charles Higham\, archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand.\nHow did the mighty civilization of Angkor in Cambodia come to be\, and why did it collapse? This seminar will explore the impact of climate change on the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire. \nThere are two fundamentals to life in Southeast Asia: the arrival of monsoon rains and the importance of securing a predictable rice harvest. New research has shown that a period of weakened monsoon led to an agricultural crisis in the late prehistoric period (about 200AD). Motivated by decreased rice yields\, this ingenious ancient society developed systems of reservoirs and irrigation to counter the lower rainfall. However\, the unintended consequence of these technological advancements was a steep rise in social inequality and the rise to power of the God-Kings of the Kingdom of Angkor. During their peak\, they built the epic complex known as Angkor Wat\, unrivaled in its scale and grandeur. But\, after six centuries of prosperity\, a second climatic change brought catastrophe and the system collapsed. \nCharles Higham is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand. He is an archaeologist with a particular interest in the origins of Southeast Asian civilizations. His excavations in Thailand and Cambodia have greatly increased our understanding of how the great Kingdom of Angkor began\, how God-Kings were revered\, and with a climatic deterioration\, how it came to an end. \nTuesday\, April 27\, 6pm\nCAMBODIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF ANGKOR WITH CHARLES HIGHAM \nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Yung Pueblo / Clarity & Connection
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Yung Pueblo again\, for the launch of his second collection of poetry and short prose\, Clarity & Connection. Some of you might remember when we hosted for Inward\, his first book—it was quite the treat\, and we hope you can join us for another special evening with the author. \nPlease note: \n\nThis is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a copy of the book.\nWe’re happy to say we have *signed copies* while supplies last. Yung Pueblo will be signing bookplates and sending them to us to put in all of your books.\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 signed copies of Clarity & Connection here (and signed copies of Inward here) – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.\n\nAbout the book\nFrom the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. \nIn Clarity & Connection\, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare\, poetic style\, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. \nTo be read on its own or as a complement to Inward\, Yung Pueblo’s second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation\, building self-awareness\, and deepening their connection with others. \nAbout the author\nDiego Perez was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a child. He grew up in Boston and attended Wesleyan University. During a silent Vipassana meditation course in 2012\, he saw that real healing and liberation were possible. He became more committed to his meditation practice while living in New York City. The results he witnessed rsthand moved him to describe his experiences in writing. The penname Yung Pueblo means “young people” and is meant to convey that humanity is entering an era of remarkable growth and healing\, when many will expand their self-awareness and release old burdens. Diego’s online presence as Yung Pueblo\, as well as his books\, Inward and Clarity & Connection\, are meant to serve those undertaking their own journey of personal transformation. Today\, Diego resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife\, where they live quietly and meditate daily. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed\, all-ages event. Each ticket includes a signed copy of Clarity & Connection (while supplies last) – 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.
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SUMMARY:THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82405221338. \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpBadMuslimDiscount or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/BadMuslimDiscountAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\nA charming novel of Muslim immigrants to the United States trying to find their way. Romance\, humor\, and tragedy and a Bay Area setting kept me listening in a long binge. The audiobook performance is very well done.— Mike \nFebruary 2021 Indie Next List \n\n“I loved The Bad Muslim Discount so much I read the acknowledgements just so it wouldn’t end — and they were great\, too! This is an insightful and funny novel about faith\, family\, and being a Muslim American today. Masood offers us a sharp perspective\, a seamless style\, and unforgettable characters\, leaving the reader enriched for the experience.”\n— Claire Benedict\, Bear Pond Books\, Montpelier\, VT \nDescription\n\n“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic\, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East lingers in individual lives\, the way gossip travels in a close-knit immigrant community.” The New York Times Book Review \nFollowing two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016\, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive\, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. \nIt is 1995\, and Anvar Faris is a restless\, rebellious\, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi\, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again\, his family decides\, not quite unanimously\, to start life over in California. Ironically\, Anvar’s deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America\, while his fun-loving father can’t find anyone he relates to. For his part\, Anvar fully commits to being a bad Muslim. \nAt the same time\, thousands of miles away\, Safwa\, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken\, conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. When Anvar and Safwa’s worlds collide as two remarkable\, strong-willed adults\, their contradictory\, intertwined fates will rock their community\, and families\, to their core. \nThe Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent\, poignant\, and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight\, warmth\, and an irreverent sense of humor\, Syed M. Masood examines universal questions of identity\, faith (or lack thereof)\, and belonging through the lens of Muslim Americans. \nAbout the Author\n\nSYED M. MASOOD grew up in Karachi\, Pakistan. A first-generation immigrant twice over\, he has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities. He currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, where he is a practicing attorney. \nPraise For…\n\n“Masood offers sharp observations on religion\, violence\, and politics\, and his clever choice to place the characters’ disparate experiences in parallel challenges Islamophobic stereotypes.” The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bad-muslim-discount-by-syed-m-masood-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Brian Fies\, A Fire Story
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies will share A Fire Story\, his firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017—revised and expanded\, and now in paperback. Fies’s harrowing and uplifting tale of loss\, survival\, and the power of community will no doubt resonate with locals\, having experienced our own fire story last August.  \nRegister for this free virtual event here! \nEarly morning on Monday\, October 9\, 2017\, wildfires burned through Northern California\, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition\, 6\,200 homes and 8\,900 structures were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest\, unflinching depiction of his personal experiences\, including losing his house and every possession he and his wife had that didn’t fit into the back of their car. In the days that followed\, as the fires continued to burn through the area\, Brian hastily pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online–it immediately went viral. He has now expanded his original webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors and others in his community. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed\, families broken\, and a community determined to rebuild. The updated and expanded Fire Story is an affordably priced paperback of 192 pages\, including 32 pages of all-new material\, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding\, wrestling with insurance\, wrangling with contractors\, the management of sometimes volatile emotions\, and the threats of yet another wildfire. \n“A Fire Story is a victim’s testimony as well as a journalistic endeavor.” — Los Angeles Times \n“Sometimes incorporating photographs and often communicating emotion with color\, he affectingly relates the grief\, rage\, and powerlessness of losing one’s home and possessions; each time he remembers another thing he’s lost–home videos he’d been meaning to digitize\, for instance–the pain feels brand-new again. Inviting\, empathy-driven\, and ultimately hopeful in the face of hardship.” — Booklist\, Starred Review \nAUTHOR:\nBrian Fies is a writer and cartoonist of the award-winning graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? Although he lost his home\, he and his wife are rebuilding in Santa Rosa\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-brian-fies-a-fire-story/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil\, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User explores our dependence on Google as the Internet’s Library. But is it? \nA generation ago\, when people had a question they would ask a librarian to look up the answer. Today\, when users have a question\, they Google it.In her 2020 book Lurking: How a Person Became a User\, author Joanne McNeil examines our reliance on large\, corporate platforms–in particular Google– to ingest and archive everything. While early internet services provided a sense of freedom and identity\, we now trust search engines and social media to preserve our blogs\, books\, videos\, and social media forever. But McNeil writes: \nGoogle could replicate information on its own terms\, and with no further commitment to maintaining data\, any information erased or last could be interpreted as something the world itself was missing. \nIn this thought-provoking event\, Why Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?\, Joanne McNeil is joined by technologist/ artist\, Darius Kazemi\, as they examine how in the 1990’s and early aughts\, people became users\, and users put their trust in a corporation to do the job of a library. \nWhat happens to library values such as privacy\, preservation and enduring access to knowledge in the era of surveillance capitalism? Is Google the “internet’s library\,” and if not\, where should we turn for collections of knowledge at scale? \nPresented by Library Futures & the Internet Archive\, this discussion invites you to explore whether we’ve traded convenience for the protections that libraries have always offered: privacy\, preservation\, and equitable access to knowledge. And if so\, where do we go from here? \nBuy your copy of Lurking from us! The first 50 people to purchase McNeil’s book will receive an autographed copy & be invited to stay after the event to chat with the author. \nAbout the book: \n“A long-overdue people’s history of the internet. Joanne McNeil retells our last three decades online from the perspective of those who actually made it worthwhile—us.” – Claire L. Evans\, author of Broad Band \nOne of Esquire’s Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020\, and a OneZero Best Tech Book of 2020. Named one of the 100 Notable books of 2020 by the End of the World Review. \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nAbout our speakers: \nJoanne McNeil was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation’s Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam\, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow\, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. \nDarius Kazemi is an internet artist under the moniker Tiny Subversions. His best known works are the Random Shopper (a program that bought him random stuff from Amazon each month) and Content\, Forever (a tool to generate rambling thinkpieces of arbitrary length). He has a small army of Twitter and Tumblr bots that he builds because they make him laugh. He founded NaNoGenMo\, where participants spend a month writing algorithms to generate 50\,000 word novels\, and Bot Summit\, a yearly gathering of people who make art bots. He cofounded Feel Train\, a creative technology cooperative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82328254294\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82328254294#  or +12532158782\,\,82328254294#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSz0Pf0cW \nAbout We Are the Land \n“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews \nRewriting the history of California as Indigenous. \nBefore there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAbout the Authors \nWilliam J. Bauer\, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. \nDamon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College\, in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-damon-b-akins-and-william-j-bauer-jr-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Literary Partners: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Dustin Parsons
DESCRIPTION:This reading series\, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together\, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who work together\, live together\, or a combination of both—to chat\, read favorites from their own and each others’ work\, and tell us what collaboration offers their creative practice. \n\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic\, Lucky Fish\, At The Drive-In Volcano\, and Miracle Fruit\, and the chapbook Lace & Pyrite\, a collaboration of garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her most recent book is the award-winning\, illustrated collection of nature essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, & Other Astonishments. \n\n\n\nDustin Parsons is the author of Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood\, with Diagrams\, and he has previously served as the non-fiction editor of The Mid-American Review. Awards for his writing include an Ohio Arts Grant and a New York Fine Arts grant in creative non-fiction\, the American Literary Review Prize in fiction\, the fiction prize from The Laurel Review and a “notable” in the Best American Essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-partners-aimee-nezhukumatathil-dustin-parsons/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers \nTo close out National Poetry Month\, Litquake is thrilled to welcome former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to our Seismic Salon\, where he will discuss poetry\, his work\, and career. Herrera also served as California State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014. His many published collections include the recent Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems\, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse\, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate\, Calling The Doves\, Jabberwalking\, and Upside Down Boy\, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. \nBuy Juan Felipe Herrera’s books at City Lights. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits\nThursday\, April 29\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nRachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America's Forgotten History
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nAVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event\nCentral America’s Forgotten History: Revolution\, Violence\, and the Roots of Migration \nAviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. \nAt the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty\, corruption\, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History\, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects of Central America’s historical inequality and oppression\, a direct result of colonial and neo-colonial development policies and the cultures of violence and forgetting needed to implement them. \nChomsky expertly recounts Central Americans’ valiant struggles for social and economic justice to restore these vivid and gripping events to popular consciousness. She traces the roots of displacement and migration in Central America to the Spanish conquest and brings us to the present day\, where she concludes that the more immediate roots of migration from the three Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador\, Guatemala\, and Honduras) lie in the wars and in the US interventions of the 1980s and the peace accords of the 1990s. \nChomsky also examines how and why histories and memories are suppressed\, and the impact of losing historical memory. \nAviva Chomsky is the author of several books\, including Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!\,”  Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over thirty years. \nMickey Huff is the current Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history-tickets-137895929437
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Mira Sethi and Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION:IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY SF\nJOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN MIRA SETHI IS JOINED BY SHRUTI SWAMY TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION\, ARE YOU ENJOYING?\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88167438648\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88167438648#  or +12532158782\,\,88167438648#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdghMJMl4C\n \nPraise for Are You Enjoying?\n“Fresh\, intelligent\, and bold: Mira Sethi’s stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan.”—Mohsin Hamid\, author of Exit West \n“A powerful book with a light touch\, marking the arrival of an assured storyteller…Sethi is operating in a rich tradition of South Asian storytelling\, but also\, with the distinct and vibrant perspective she offers\, making it her own.”—Vogue \n“Biting and incisive stories…especially striking for their portrayal of hidden homosexuality.”—Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Are You Enjoying?\nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home—including the bedroom—these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mira-sethi-and-shruti-swamy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Freighter Press\, a celebration: with Mahogany L. Browne\, Christopher Malec\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and readings from the final book by the late Q.R. Hand Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Tonya M. Foster \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages: Mahogany L. Browne and Q.R. Hand Jr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-freighter-press-a-celebration-with-mahogany-l-browne-christopher-malec-josiah-luis-alderete-tongo-eisen-martin-and-readings-from-the-final-book-by-the-late-q-r-hand-jr/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José \nonline on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! \nor join be phone +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 831 7139 8605 Passcode: 674247 \nImani Cezanne is a Black writer\, performer and tamale connoisseur living in Oakland\, CA. In March she became the 2020 Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion for the second time and in July of the same year she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship finalist. As a two time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Imani has forthcoming work in Nimrod\, Fugue\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Crab Creek Review\, and POETRY magazine. While all are welcome to enjoy her work\, Imani writes for Black people\, Black readers and is committed to the liberation of all oppressed people. \nImani is a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s 2020 Writer’s Corp Teaching Artist in Residence Grant\, a $40\,000 award granted every year for three years to create spoken word poetry programming for the youth of San Francisco. Throughout her teaching career\, Imani has taught Creative Writing and Spoken Word in over 40 middle and high schools across the country\, using both a short and long-term residency models. Each lesson is designed to fit the needs of the students\, the length of the residency and meet intended learning outcomes. Imani has also coached poetry slam teams at San Francisco State University\, Mills College\, American University and Georgetown University. She is currently a Teaching Artist with YouthSpeaks\, SFJAZZ\, The Museum of African Diaspora and Performing Arts Workshop. This event will be moderated by Tshaka Campbell. \nTshaka Campbell is a husband and father as well as accomplished artist and performer. His appears in print and national commercials and he conducts lectures and facilitates workshops in creative writing and poetry. He was voted one of the 25 people to know in San Francisco\, holds two Grand Slam titles and was a finalist for the 2020 Santa Clara Poet Laureate honor. Tshaka is an author of “STUFF – I will write more “\, “MUTED WHISPERS” and “TUNNEL VISION as well as collaborated on a number of musical projects in the House\, Jazz and Blues genres. His literary work has appeared in journals and reviews such as 2 Bridges Review\, Tribe Magazine and others. He currently resides in San Jose and continues to ask the world to “Listen Different.” \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imani-cezanne-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tshaka-campbell/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver\, Growing Weed in the Garden
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver will discuss her book Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis. Silver will be in conversation with Darryl Wong\, Farm Site and Research Lands Manager at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS).  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nFrom peonies to pot—Johanna Silver\, former Sunset garden editor\, will share her journey into cannabis. Spoiler—she’s not a stoner. The presentation will include a brief history of the plant\, one of (if not THE) oldest plants under human cultivation\, including how regional climates impacted the plant’s evolution. She’ll paint a picture of the current state of genetics of the plant—unrivaled in anything else in horticulture\, as it’s not yet gone through modern breeding practices. Myths and misinformation when it comes to cultivation\, coming from 100-ish years of prohibition\, will be discussed and corrected. It should be noted that Johanna’s approach is outdoor-only and garden-scale. She grows for a love of the plant\, not with a goal of maximizing yield. The techniques she most adheres to are those that are easiest\, simplest\, and most tried-and-true in the garden. \nJohanna Silver is a James Beard Award-winning author who writes mostly about plants and people. Her two books\, The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden (Timber Press\, 2017) and Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss\, Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation (Abrams\, 2020) are available everywhere books are sold. Johanna is a contributing editor at Better Homes & Gardens\, and her work has been featured in Martha Stewart Living\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and Eating Well. Previously\, Johanna spent ten years at Sunset Magazine\, beginning with a shovel in her hands and culminating as head of the garden department. She lives and gardens in Berkeley\, CA\, where she grows fruits\, veggies\, and entirely too many cut flowers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-johanna-silver-growing-weed-in-the-garden/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford in conversation with Trevor Paglen
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of Kate Crawford’s new book \nATLAS of AI:Power\, Politics\, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence \npublished by Yale University Press \nThe Atlas of AI explores the hidden costs of artificial intelligence\, from natural resources and labor to privacy\, equality\, and freedom. \n————- \nThis is a virtual event hosted by Gray Area/San Francisco in conjunction with City Lights and Yale University Press. The event is free\, but registration is required. Will will be posting a link to a registration portal shortly. Keep your eyes on this spot for the link. \n————- \nHow is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial\, gender\, and economic inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research\, award-winning science\, and technology\, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure\, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services\, to the data AI collects from us. \nRather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms\, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity\, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world. \nKate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor at USC Annenberg\, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research\, and the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. \nTrevor Paglen is an artist and geographer who explores and documents invisible infrastructures\, ranging from secret corporate and government sites to networks known through technologies of non-human\, machine vision. Paglen’s work spans through image-making\, sculpture\, investigative journalism\, writing\, engineering and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession\, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum\, Van Abbe Museum\, Frankfurter Kunstverein\, and Protocinema Istanbul\, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Tate Modern and numerous other venues.\n  \nAdvance praise for Atlas of AI \n“Eloquent\, clear and profound—this volume is a classic for our times. It draws our attention away from the bright shiny objects of the new colonialism through elucidating the social\, material and political dimensions of Artificial Intelligence.”—Geoffrey C. Bowker\, University of California\, Irvine \n\n“An insightful excursion into the processes\, implications and ethics of data creation and manipulation in the 21st century. Ranging across terrains as diverse as mineral mines\, server farms\, distribution warehouses\, and AI startups\, Crawford shows vividly how our systems have grown to be ‘dangerous when they fail and harmful when they work.’”—Joseph Turow\, author of The Voice Catchers\n\n\n“A must read. Moving from lithium mines to data extraction\, from labor exploitation to government surveillance\, Atlas of AI eloquently reveals how intelligence is ‘made.’ It displaces anemic calls for ‘ethics’ with probing investigations into the environmental degradation\, capital accumulation\, and labor conditions that AI makes possible.”—Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, SFU’s Canada 150 Chair in New Media \n  \n\n\n“Showing Artificial Intelligence as a technological achievement and cultural promise that spans politics\, labor\, land\, and data\, Crawford draws a unique and actionable map for seeing and challenging AI’s power.”—Mike Ananny\, University of Southern California \n  \n\n\n“Kate Crawford looks at Artificial Intelligence with a humanist’s eye and an artist’s sense of what really matters. If you think AI is all about big data and machine learning\, this marvelous book will remind you: it’s about the natural world\, and politics\, and history\, and sometimes\, even beauty too.”—Fred Turner\, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties\n\n\n“In this eloquent and revelatory survey\, Crawford limns the dire stakes of unbridled technological expansion. Methodologically original and keenly intelligent Atlas of AI is an indispensable map of the present that boldly calls readers to chart a more just and sustainable future.”—Alondra Nelson\, President of the Social Science Research Council \n\n\n“From the extraction of labor\, latex\, and lithium to the politics of proxies and Palantir\, Atlas of AI is a rigorous interrogation of the power relations that reproduce AI\, and a necessary mapping of its very limits. This is an essential book.”—Simone Browne\, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness \n  \n\n\n“By brilliantly tracing the history\, mythology\, ethics and politics of artificial intelligence\, Atlas of AI reminds us that the stories we tell about AI are just as vital as the mathematical models that comprise these systems.”—Ruha Benjamin\,\nauthor of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code\n\n\n“Whether you’re a devoted researcher\, an AI practitioner\, or a general reader concerned about the growing power of data\, this is an eye-opening tour of the planetary resources\, laboring bodies\, and relations of power that travel under the sign of AI\, lending the empire of data its unsustainable life.”—Lucy Suchman\, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations \n\n\n“Artificial Intelligence seems to haunt the world like a ghost in our machines. But as Kate Crawford shows in her vivid\, unnerving book\, this amalgam of algorithms\, data\, hardware is anything but immaterial. Atlas of AI is an outstanding contribution: the ghost of AI made visible.”—Peter Galison\, author of Einstein’s Clocks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-crawford-in-conversation-with-trevor-paglen/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel’s full-length collection of poetry\, Low Rent Prophet.\nReadings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, James Tracy\, and of course\, Dani Gabriel. Emcee and musician to be announced soon!\nPreorder your copy here: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/lowrentprophet\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel\nTime: Apr 30\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81683548873…\nMeeting ID: 816 8354 8873\nPasscode: 201235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81683548873#\,\,\,\,*201235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,81683548873#\,\,\,\,*201235# 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 DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 816 8354 8873\nPasscode: 201235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc06ffs49o
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-low-rent-prophet-by-dani-gabriel/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts & Tim Xonnelly
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response\, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. \nCurated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response)\, the third event in the series features Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts and Tim Xonnelly responding to the mural Affordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible by Art Hazelwood/SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). \n\n\nAffordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible (2016) by the SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) represents people working together against the structures of oppression to become a powerful force of nurturance\, peace\, and justice. The mural speaks to WRAP’s critical work to expose and eliminate the root causes of homelessness and poverty\, empower communities to demand protection of civil and human rights\, and advocate for restoring federal funding for affordable housing. The mural will travel to Los Angeles’ Skid Row later in 2021. \n\n\nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n– ABOUT THE PROJECT – \nWall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley. However\, due to the pandemic the poets will instead be filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley. Kotian will be creating videos for each series that will be presented as part of live online events (of which this is the first). All the events are free and open to the public. \nThe poets are creating new poems in response to the murals\, and will be reading those and other selected works at the events. The specific dates for each event will be announced in the month prior to the event. \nWall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. \n– ABOUT THE AUTHORS – \nCeleste Chan is a writer and filmmaker\, schooled by Do-It-Yourself culture and immigrant parents from Malaysia and the Bronx. She launched her creative work in San Francisco in 2004. She founded and directed Queer Rebels (a queer and trans people of color arts project)\, created and curated experimental films\, joined Foglifter Literary Journal as an editor and board member\, and toured with legendary feminist road show\, Sister Spit. Her writing can be found in Ada\, AWAY\, Citron Review\, cream city review’s genrequeer folio\, Feminist Wire\, Gertrude\, Hyphen blog\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. \nMK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal\,. Chavez is co-curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and poetry editor at Rivet Literary Journal. She is the recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award of an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. \nPaul Corman-Roberts‘ 2nd full length collection of Bone Moon Palace will be released by Nomadic Press in the Fall of 2020. Previous collections include his full length debut The Abomunauts Are Coming To Piss On Your Lawn (Howling Dog Press\, 2006) and the chapbook collections NeoCom(muter) (Tainted Coffee Press\, 2009) 19th Street Station (Full of Crow Chap Series\, 2011)\, Notes From An Orgy (Paper Press\, 2014) and We Shoot Typewriters (Nomadic Press\, 2015.) His poem “Sausalito” won the Out of Our Magazine poetry contest in 2010 and his short story “The Deathbed Confession of Christopher Walken” placed 2nd in subTerrain Magazine’s national fiction contest in Canada. A three-time Pushcart and Best of Web nominee\, he currently teaches workshops for the Older Writer’s Lab in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library as well as the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. He sometimes fills in as drummer for the U.S. Ghostal Service. \nTim Xonnelly was an LA poet in the late 1980s; co-facilitator of the Beyond Baroque Poetry Workshop\, curator of the poetry series at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro\, frequently published in Shattersheet and The Moment. Since 1991 he’s lived and worked in Downtown Berkeley. He taught disabled adults in a community-based program through ARC. Since 2000\, he’s worked as a para-educator in the Berkeley Unified School District\, specializing with students severely affected by autism. He served as the president of the Classified Union 2006-2008. His chapbooks include Velcro Heart (1989)\, A Season in Bed (1998)\, and I skip the long ones too (2004). His poems are featured in the anthologies Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (2015) and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel (2018). Recent poetry publications include The Racket Quarantine Journal\, Berkeley Times\, The Oakland Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Naked Bulb. \n \n– OTHER PARTICIPATING AUTHORS + EVENTS –  \nJanuary 29\, 2021: Karla Brundage\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Tureeda Mikell\, and Kim Shuck responding to the mural We Want Respect\, Freedom\, Land\, Housing\, Justice\, Peace\, Bread by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / Remix by CUBA\, D8\, MACE \nJune 25\, 2021: Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim\, and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO) \n– ABOUT THE CURATORS –  \nMegan Wilson is a visual artist\, writer\, and activist based in San Francisco. Wilson has been a core organizer of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) since 2001. In 2018 she co-directed and co-organized (with Christopher Statton and Nano Warsono) CAMP’s second international exchange and residency project\, Bangkit /Arise between artists from Yogyakarta\, Indonesia and San Francisco/Bay Area in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The second phase of the project will take place 2021-22. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in October 2020. \nYou can read more about CAMP and Wall + Response here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-wall-response-celeste-chan-mk-chavez-paul-corman-roberts-tim-xonnelly/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:From Mazie Hirono\, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate\, the intimate and inspiring story of how a girl born in rural Japan went on to become “a hero on the left” (The Washington Post)—and of the mother whose courageous choices made her journey possible \nMazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress\, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family’s rice farm in rural Japan\, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States\, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as “Keiko” did not speak English when she entered school in Hawaii\, she would go on to hold state and national office\, winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. \nThis intimate and inspiring memoir traces her remarkable life from her upbringing in Hawaii\, where the family first lived in a single room in a Honolulu boarding house while her mother worked two jobs to keep them afloat; to her emergence as a highly effective legislator whose determination to help the most vulnerable was grounded in her own experiences of economic insecurity\, lack of healthcare access\, and family separation. Finally\, it chronicles her evolution from dogged yet soft-spoken public servant into the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today. \nFor the vast majority of Mazie Hirono’s five decades in public service\, even as she fought for the causes she believed in\, she strove to remain polite and reserved. Steeped in the non-confrontational cultures of Japan and Hawaii\, and aware of the expectation that women in politics should never show an excess of emotion\, she had schooled herself to bite her tongue\, even as her male colleagues continually underestimated her. After the 2016 election\, however\, it was clear that she could moderate herself no longer. In the face of an autocratic administration\, Hirono was called to at last give voice to the fire that had always been inside her. \nThe moving and galvanizing account of a woman coming into her own power over the course of a lifetime in public service\, and of the mother who encouraged her immigrant daughter’s dreams\, Heart of Fire is the story of a uniquely American journey\, written by one of those fighting hardest to ensure that a story like hers is still possible. \nSenator Mazie K. Hirono is a graduate of the University of Hawaii\, Manoa and the Georgetown University Law Center. She has served in the Hawaii House of Representatives (1981-1994)\, as Hawaii’s lieutenant governor (1994-2002)\, and in the U.S. House of Representatives (2006-2013). She became Hawaii’s first female senator in 2013\, winning reelection in 2018. Hirono serves on the Committee on the Judiciary\, the Committee on Armed Services\, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-senator-mazie-k-hirono-online-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
DESCRIPTION:This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our wounds and reimagine the world. —Van Jones \nThe Festival’s opening event\, free to all\, is a clarion call to heal America and our own hearts. The United States\, lauded in its national anthem as “the land of the free and the home of the brave\,” continues to be plagued by endless gun violence\, police murders of unarmed Black people\, threats to democracy\, and hatred of “the other”… with an alarming increase in targeted anti-Asian attacks in the past year\, too. Ever since her Sikh family friend was shot after 9/11\, attorney and activist Valarie Kaur\, the daughter of Sikh farmers in Central California\, has achieved crucial policy change on multiple fronts\, including hate crimes\, racial profiling\, immigration detention\, and solitary confinement. Now she targets hatred itself. Her TED Talk on that topic has garnered more than three million views. \nYou can see Valarie live\, and ask your questions\, as she’s interviewed by Mother Jones race and justice reporter Jamilah King about Kaur’s book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love\, that expands on that blockbuster TED talk. The book has been praised by visionaries across the progressive spectrum\, from Eve Ensler to Reza Aslan. The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander called it “inspirational\, radical…  a reliable moral compass.” What is this “revolutionary love”? It’s far “more than a rush of feeling\,” Kaur says. “Love is fierce labor.” Discover just what this kind of love is and how you too can “be the change you want to see\,” as Gandhi\, and now this powerful woman\, call us to do. \nYou can submit questions when you register\, and we’ll also take questions live during the event. \nRegister Here\n\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-no-stranger-a-radical-vision-for-mending-our-world/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, May 2nd at 1pm PT for an afternoon with Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi in celebration of Ishiguro’s new novel\, Klara and the Sun. \nIn partnerhsip with Bay Area Book Festival\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nFor questions regarding tickets\, please contact ticketing@baybookfest.org \nAbout the Event\nWhen bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017\, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection in the world.” Now here’s your chance to ask this “poet of the unspoken” (New York Times) your questions about his vision\, writing life\, and his first novel since winning the Nobel. Reserve your spot now and get your copy of that novel\, Klara and the Sun (complete with a signed bookplate for the first 250 ticket-holders) as soon as it drops in March\, with plenty of time to drink it in before our live event. \nFrom Remains of the Day (“an almost perfect book\,” said The New Yorker’s James Wood) to Never Let Me Go (deemed “a page-turner and a heartbreaker” by Entertainment Weekly)\, Ishiguro’s equal fluency with wildly imaginative surrealism and the delicate bonds of relationships has changed the literary world’s perception of what a novel can do. Klara and The Sun is no exception. Grounded in a futuristic milieu\, this “dazzling genre-bending work” (Publishers Weekly) sheds powerful beams of light on everything from environmental destruction to the secret sorrows of childhood\, through the adventures of “Artificial Friend” Klara\, a solar-powered humanlike robot designed to be a child’s companion. Ishiguro’s partner for this conversation is rising literary star Yaa Gyasi\, a PEN/Hemingway award winner for Homegoing\, whose newest novel\, 2020’s Transcendent Kingdom\, was called “a book of blazing brilliance” by The Washington Post. \nThese renowned authors come from two very different generations\, backgrounds\, and literary styles\, but they share an uncanny ability to lay bare the secrets of the human heart. And we can’t wait to share their unforgettable presence with you in this much-anticipated headlining event. \nDetails\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed copies are limited to the first 250 buyers of that ticket type and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 2. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazuo-ishiguro-and-yaa-gyasi/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
DESCRIPTION:When bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017\, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection in the world.” Now here’s your chance to ask this “poet of the unspoken” (New York Times) your questions about his vision\, writing life\, and his first novel since winning the Nobel. Reserve your spot now and get your copy of that novel\, Klara and the Sun (complete with a signed bookplate for the first 250 ticket-holders) as soon as it drops in March\, with plenty of time to drink it in before our live event. \nFrom Remains of the Day (“an almost perfect book\,” said The New Yorker‘s James Wood) to Never Let Me Go (deemed “a page-turner and a heartbreaker” by Entertainment Weekly)\, Ishiguro’s equal fluency with wildly imaginative surrealism and the delicate bonds of relationships has changed the literary world’s perception of what a novel can do. Klara and The Sun is no exception. Grounded in a futuristic milieu\, this “dazzling genre-bending work” (Publishers Weekly) sheds powerful beams of light on everything from environmental destruction to the secret sorrows of childhood\, through the adventures of “Artificial Friend” Klara\, a solar-powered humanlike robot designed to be a child’s companion. Ishiguro’s partner for this conversation is rising literary star Yaa Gyasi\, a PEN/Hemingway award winner for Homegoing\, whose newest novel\, 2020’s Transcendent Kingdom\, was called “a book of blazing brilliance” by The Washington Post. \nThese renowned authors come from two very different generations\, backgrounds\, and literary styles\, but they share an uncanny ability to lay bare the secrets of the human heart. And we can’t wait to share their unforgettable presence with you in this much-anticipated headlining event. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed copies are limited to the first 250 buyers of that ticket type and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 2. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-and-illusion-kazuo-ishiguro-on-klara-and-the-sun/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Astra Taylor with Robert Reich
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, May 2\, 2021\n1:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021\, 05/04/2021\, 05/05/2021\nDONATE \n \n\n\nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include What is Democracy? (2018)\, Zizek! (2005)\, and An Examined Life (2008). Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her new book\, Remake the World: Essays\, Reflections\, Rebellions\, tackles the rising popularity of socialism\, the problem of automation\, the politics of listening\, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world\, the future of the university\, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe\, and more. Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day\, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens. \nRobert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, he has written fifteen books\, including The System\, Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Saving Capitalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/astra-taylor-with-robert-reich/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon - May 2021
DESCRIPTION:Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays\, Bukowski in a Sundress\, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships\, Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay\, and her poetry has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. She lives in Oakland\, CA. https://www.kimaddonizio.com\nChanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields (LSU Press). Her recent poems appear in Gettysburg Review\, Poetry\, and the Southern Review. She has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the MacDowell Colony\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, among others\, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Chanda is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.\nNeha Chaudhary-Kamdar is a former Stegner Fellow in Fiction and has an MFA from Boston University\, where she received the William A. Holodnak Prize for her work. She was born and raised in Hyderabad\, India\, and often writes about the lives of Indian women. Her work has been published in Salamander Magazine and in the Anthology of New Indian Writers. She lives in Oakland\, CA\, and is working on her first novel.\nJim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook\, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press\, 2019) and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His recent poems have appeared in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review\, Pleiades\, and Boston Review. Originally from Cookeville\, Tennessee\, he holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Oakland\, California.\n——-\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021\nTime: May 2\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://usfca.zoom.us/j/85144902927…\nMeeting ID: 851 4490 2927\nPasscode: 088938
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-may-2021/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:When Everything Falls Apart\, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China\, Tolstoy\, and the Power of Art\, with Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:Orville Schell\, Adam Hochschild\, Yiyun Li\nIn a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home\, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano\, eyes closed\, playing “Jesu\, Joy of Man’s Desiring\,” as Red Guards storm his home. They’re there to arrest him as a bourgeois traitor\, but what they don’t know is that the legacy of Li’s music\, and the loyalty of his young son\, Little Li\, is not easily snuffed out.  A journalist and renowned expert on China\, Schell has penned his first novel\, drawing not only on his deep knowledge of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution but on his conviction that art and love can outlive brutality. \nJoining him is MacArthur “genius” and award-winning writer Yiyun Li\, who came of age during the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown\, emigrated to the U.S. at 23 as a young scientist\, and eventually took the literary world by storm with her fiction\, memoir and essays. Li regularly turned to reading Tolstoy for solace during tough times in her own life\, so in the early days of the pandemic she collaborated with A Public Space—the literary magazine\, publisher\, and academy—to lead a free virtual book club where thousands of people\, isolated under shelter-in-place\, read War and Peace together over three months. The project\, which garnered worldwide attention\, now has been made into a book\, Tolstoy Together\, a guided experience for past and new readers. \nThis “Writer to Writer” conversation—moderated by award-winning journalist\, historian\, and author Adam Hochschild\, a lifelong friend of Orville’s and a Russian-speaking Tolstoy fan—will explore how art truly can light a lamp in the dark. \nGet your Ticket\n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-everything-falls-apart-how-does-the-heart-survive-orville-schell-and-yiyun-li-on-china-tolstoy-and-the-power-of-art-with-adam-hochschild/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing\, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: \nSIDE A \nRohan DaCosta \nNaomi Rosenthal \nCarol Dorf \nSiamak Vossoughi \nLauren Ito \nMichael Warr \nDawn Angelicca Barcelona \nEmily Dezurick-Badran \nSIDE B \nCarol Dorf \nSally Love Saunders \nSiok-Hian Tay-Kelley \nCharles Kruger \nAlexander Laurence \nNick Plett \nGenie Cartier \nSara Biel \nPaolo Bicchieri \nSara Biel \nCarolyn Wilsey \nAndrew Paul Nelson \nChun Yu \nLauren Parker \nMary Gayle Thomas \nLeah Mueller \nAll selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 110\, featuring cover art by Stuart Robertson! \nPlease note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content)\, but RSVP is required. \nIf you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are two easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation of any amount: \nPaypal or Venmo \nOr consider supporting us on Patreon! \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nIf you’d like to purchase the book you can do that here for $10 + shipping\, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue. \nA note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book\, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds\, donations or not\, go toward local artists and independent businesses. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nKevin Dublin is a writer of poetry\, prose\, scripts\, and code originally from the small town of Smithfield\, NC. His words have recently appeared in The Racket\, Cincinnati Review\, North Carolina Literary Review\, Sparkle + Blink\, and he is author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego (Finishing Line Press\, 2017). Kevin holds an MFA from San Diego State\, leads workshops all over the bay area\, including Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, and enjoys making video adaptations of poetry and developing web apps for writers. \nAntony Fangary is a Coptic-American Poet\, Educator\, and Artist living in San Francisco. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Oakland Review\, New American Writing\, Interim\, Welter\, and elsewhere. His chapbook\, HARAM\, was published by Etched Press in 2019. Antony was Honorable Mention of the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize\, Finalist for the 2019 Wabash Prize\, Runner-up for the 2020 Test Site Poetry Series\, and holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. \nCan’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text\, like all of our previous readings! Find them\, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more\, @ Litseen. \nNot on our mailing list yet? Sign up for email updates of upcoming Quiet Lightning events and calls for submissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-literary-mixtape-curated-by-kevin-dublin-antony-fangary/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Allison Cobb discusses her new book\, Plastic: An Autobiography
DESCRIPTION:Allison Cobb in conversation about her book\, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). \n“Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history\, biology\, poetry\, and chemistry\, gathering centripetal force through attention to such particulars as a shard of plastic from WWII found lodged in the belly of an albatross sixty years later. This is a fierce and brilliant work that perhaps could only have been written by a poet who grew up in the shadow of Los Alamos\, aware that the most destructive of human inventions can seem salvific until it is almost too late. Let this book be a call to awareness and action.”–Carolyn Forché\, author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance \n  \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Plastic: An Autobiography\nIn Plastic: An Autobiography\, Cobb’s obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture\, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos\, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste\, climate change\, nuclear technologies\, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives―from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama―the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet. \nAbout Allison Cobb\nAllison Cobb (pronouns she/her) is the author of After We All Died\, Plastic: an autobiography\, Born2\, and Green-Wood. Cobb’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Denver Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, and many other journals. She was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and National Poetry Series; has been a resident artist at Djerassi and Playa; and received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission\, the Regional Arts and Culture Council\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Cobb works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where she co-hosts The Switch reading\, art\, and performance series and performs in the collaboration Suspended Moment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allison-cobb-discusses-her-new-book-plastic-an-autobiography-facebook-twitter-pinterest/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner
DESCRIPTION:aunch party for the new book \nSeeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America \npublished by University of Chicago Press \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nAcclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world. \nIt’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders\, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley\, one segregated by race\, class\, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation\, and while its billionaires live in compounds\, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences\, its service workers live in their cars. \nWith arresting photography and intimate stories\, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses\, we see portraits of struggle—families displaced by an impossible real estate market\, workers striving for a living wage\, and communities harmed by environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America—as so many of its boosters claim—then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future. \nMary Beth Meehan is a photographer known for her large-scale\, community-based portraiture centered around questions of representation\, visibility\, and social equity in the United States. She lives in New England\, where she has lectured at Brown University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \nFred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of the books The Democratic Surround and From Counterculture to Cyberculture both published by the University of Chicago Press. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-beth-meehan-with-fred-turner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Arisa White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Arisa White’s new poetry collection\, WHO’S YOUR DADDY\, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3. MK and Vickie read from their newest collections\, DEAR ANIMAL\, and PALM FROND WITH ITS THROAT CUT\, respectively.\nJoin us from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time on Zoom. Get the link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-arisa-white-friends/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Interior Chinatown\, Tinseltown\, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling\, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
DESCRIPTION:When Trevor Noah of The Daily Show asked Charles Yu why he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel\, the devastating “parable for outcasts” (Kirkus) Interior Chinatown\, in the form of a screenplay\, Yu deadpanned\, “I work in Hollywood\, so I already had the software.” A veteran of several TV series (including HBO’S Westworld)\, Yu honed his hilarious\, convention-defying masterwork with an insider’s insight and an outlier’s genius. Yu found an oasis in the writer’s room of fellow novelist Jim Gavin’s (Middle Men) AMC cult-favorite series Lodge 49\, an underdog’s hymn that channels Thomas Pynchon\, counts Patton Oswalt and Tom Hanks as diehard fans\, and “makes as good an argument for the existence of a kind of shabby everyday magic as you’ll find anywhere” (NPR). \nBelly up to the bar and raise a drink with these two friends and fellow-travelers as they toast to creating worlds for page and screen\, making the ordinary extraordinary\, and finding strength—and hilarity—in difference and struggle. \nGet your Ticket\n  \n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/interior-chinatown-tinseltown-and-other-worlds-imagined-charles-yu-on-showbiz-and-storytelling-with-lodge-49s-jim-gavin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,Virtual
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