Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
onlineCity Arts & Lectures presents: Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits Thursday, April 29, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author...
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Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America’s Forgotten History
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents AVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration Aviva...
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Virtual Event: Mira Sethi and Shruti Swamy
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY SF JOIN US ON THURSDAY, APRIL 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN MIRA SETHI IS JOINED BY SHRUTI SWAMY TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT SHORT...
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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.
onlineRemote access event, free and open to the public Registration link pending With emcee, Tonya M. Foster Supported in part by the National Endowment for...
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Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell
online CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José online on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! or join be phone +1...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver, Growing Weed in the Garden
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...
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Kate Crawford in conversation with Trevor Paglen
celebrating the launch of Kate Crawford's new book ATLAS of AI:Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence published by Yale University Press The...
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Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel
online CA, United StatesJoin us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel's full-length collection of poetry, Low Rent Prophet. Readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, James Tracy, and...
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Conversations with Authors: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (Online Event)
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...
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See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
online CA, United StatesThis is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our...
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Virtual Event: Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi
onlineJoin 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...
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Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
onlineWhen bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our...
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Astra Taylor with Robert Reich
online CA, United StatesSunday, May 2, 2021 1:00pm Pacific Time KQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021, 05/04/2021, 05/05/2021 DONATE Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through...
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Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021
online CA, United StatesKim 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)....
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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
online CA, United StatesOrville Schell, Adam Hochschild, Yiyun Li In a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano, eyes closed, playing “Jesu,...
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Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
onlineQuiet 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: SIDE...
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Allison Cobb discusses her new book, Plastic: An Autobiography
Allison Cobb in conversation about her book, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). "Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history, biology, poetry, and chemistry, gathering centripetal force...
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Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner
aunch party for the new book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America published by University of Chicago Press ---------- This is a virtual...
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Odd Mondays Reading “Arisa White & Friends”
online CA, United StatesCelebrate 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....
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Interior Chinatown, Tinseltown, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
online CA, United StatesWhen 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...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again
FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, the wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi...
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Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
online CA, United StatesWatch & share this talk on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Long Now Live. What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For...
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Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber
Fans of Stacey Lee’s wonderful historical fiction rejoice! We are thrilled to announce we are launching Stacey Lee’s powerful and critically acclaimed new novel, Luck...
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Virtual Event: Ian Manuel with Messiah Ramkissoon
online CA, United StatesJoin us on Tuesday, May 4 at 6pm PT when we welcome Ian Manuel for the launch of his book, My Time Will Come: A...
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VIRTUAL: Jonny Sun / Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Jonny Sun again, for his new book Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations! We are also pleased to announce we have...
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Erica Hunt and Michael Palmer
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. reading from new works Jump The Clock by Erica...
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Virtual Event: Ian Manuel
JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MAY 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE WELCOME IAN MANUEL FOR THE LAUNCH OF HIS BOOK, MY TIME WILL COME: A MEMOIR OF CRIME,...
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Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
online CA, United StatesVendela Vida, Cherilyn Parsons, Carol Edgarian From the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover, San Francisco has always been a city in...
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Book Launch for YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with Author Jenny True
Please join us on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with author...
