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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Mike Katz & Crispin Kott / Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host the virtual launch for Mike Katz and Crispin Kott and their new book Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area. We’ll have a special video introduction by Joel Gion\, percussionist with the Brian Jonestown Massacre who wrote the foreword to the book. Stay tuned for more information\, but please save the date and join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order **signed** copies of Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area here. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nSan Francisco’s rich and unique cultural history since its time as a gold rush frontier town has long made it a bastion of forward thinking and freedom of expression. It makes perfect sense\, then\, that both it and the surrounding Bay Area should prove to be a crucible for some of the most enduring and influential music of the rock and roll era. \nFrom the heady days of Haight-Ashbury in the ’60s to today\, San Francisco and the Bay Area have provided a distinctive soundtrack to the American experience that has often been confrontational\, controversial\, enlightening\, and always entertaining. \nPerhaps best known for the ’60s psychedelic scene which included the Grateful Dead\, Jefferson Airplane\, Creedence Clearwater Revival\, Santana\, the Steve Miller Band\, Sly & the Family Stone\, and Janis Joplin\, the Bay Area’s rock and roll history twists and turns like Lombard Street itself. The first wave San Francisco punks wrought the Avengers and Dead Kennedys; punk later gripped the East Bay\, giving us Green Day and Rancid. From the folk and blues eras through the chart-topping sounds of Journey and Huey Lewis & the News. The rock equivalent of Manifest Destiny carried wave upon wave of young musicians in search of fame\, fortune and the great lost chord to Golden Gate City. San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have collectively produced countless key figures in rock and roll\, from musicians to journalists to entrepreneurs. The modern concept of the vast outdoor rock festival took root in and around San Francisco. \nThe Bay Area is also where music history happened to artists from almost everywhere else: San Francisco is where the Beatles played their final concert and the Sex Pistols fell apart; where the Clash recorded much of their second album; where a drug-addled Keith Moon passed out during a concert by the Who only to be replaced behind the drum kit by an eager fan. \nRock and roll is baked into the Bay Area’s culture and story to this day. A guide to the places that shaped the local scene and world-famous sound\, the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area will take you to where music makers lived\, rocked\, performed\, recorded\, met\, broke up\, and much\, much more. \nAbout the authors\nMike Katz was born in Atlanta\, came of age in New Orleans\, and eventually made his home in New York City. He is a rock historian\, voracious reader\, veteran bookseller\, photographer\, and father to a much smarter daughter\, Alison. He currently lives in Monterey\, CA. \nCrispin Kott was born in Chicago\, raised in New York\, and has called everywhere from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Atlanta home. An avid music enthusiast and failed drummer\, he’s written for numerous print and online publications\, and has shared with his son Ian and daughter Marguerite a love of reading\, writing\, and record collecting. As a longtime Brooklyn resident and recent returnee to the Bay Area\, Crispin has been able to indulge in his love of Rock & Roll of the past\, present\, and future. \nMike Katz and Crispin Kott also co-authored Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City (Globe Pequot\, June 2018) and Little Book of Rock and Roll Wisdom (Lyons Press\, October 2018). \nJoel Gion is a percussionist with the Brian Jonestown Massacre. In addition to writing the foreword to the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area\, Gion is creating personal non-fiction on Patreon. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-mike-katz-crispin-kott-rock-and-roll-explorer-guide-to-san-francisco-and-the-bay-area/
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SUMMARY:The GUNCLE Book Launch with Author Steven Rowley
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online book launch of THE GUNCLE with author Steven Rowley. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85438602842. \nOrder your copy of  THE GUNCLE at https://bit.ly/ggpGuncle\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/GuncleAB. \nDescription\n\nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. \nPatrick\, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP\, for short)\, has always loved his niece\, Maisie\, and nephew\, Grant. That is\, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits\, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children\, no matter how adorable\, Patrick is\, honestly\, overwhelmed. \nSo when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own\, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules” ready to go\, Patrick has no idea what to expect\, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love\, a somewhat-stalled acting career\, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting–even if temporary–isn’t solved with treats and jokes\, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility\, and the realization that\, sometimes\, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human. \nWith the humor and heart we’ve come to expect from bestselling author Steven Rowley\, The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love\, patience\, and family in even the most trying of times. \nAbout the Author\n\nSteven Rowley is the author of The Editor and the national bestseller Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He lives in Palm Springs\, California. \nPraise For…\n\nOne of O\, The Oprah Magazine‘s “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021”  \n“A laugh-out-loud heartwarmer.” –O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“Heartwarming\, hilarious…Rowley finds humor and poignancy in the snappy narrative….Readers will find this delightful and illuminating.” –Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-guncle-book-launch-with-author-steven-rowley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T180000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #60
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-60/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T150000
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SUMMARY:Joel Harrison with Henry Kaiser and Nels Cline
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the book launch for \nGuitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players \nfrom Terra Nova Press \nHear the secrets of master musicians\, revealed in conversation. \n \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on a platform to announced shortly. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. We will proovide you with more details in the next few days. This event is not being held on Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nGuitar Talk offers interviews with fourteen of the most creative guitarists of our time. The book celebrates the enormous range of approaches and sounds that exist in the modern guitar. The instrument can howl\, scrape\, scratch\, scream\, sing\, pluck\, and soothe. What stands out in this book is not so much the instrument itself\, rather the wonderful and idiosyncratic personalities of these bold souls\, their sometimes wild\, often zigzagging\, and ultimately profound journeys toward beauty\, meaning\, and excellence in their work. \nWe find out that jazz icon Bill Frisell won a high school band contest playing R&B tunes\, beating out future members of Earth Wind and Fire. We learn which of Nels Cline’s compositions he wishes to have played at his funeral. Michael Gregory Jackson recounts painful episodes of racism as he stretched between the chasm of avant jazz\, rock\, and R&B in the 1980s. Many more revelations\, amusements\, and philosophies abound from maestros like Ralph Towner\, Pat Metheny\, Ben Monder\, Nguyen Le\, Fred Frith\, and Mary Halvorson. \n\n\nJoel Harrison has been awarded grants by the Guggenheim Foundation\, Chamber Music America\, Meet the Composer\, New Music USA\, Jerome Foundation\, NYSCA\, Doris Duke\, and Flagler Cary Trust. He has appeared on the “Rising Star” Downbeat Magazine poll for many years. His twenty albums as a leader showcase his prowess as a shapeshifting composer\, including works for orchestra\, big band\, string quartet\, solo cello\, and percussion\, small group jazz\, and voice. Harrison is the founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit\, a yearly festival devoted to new and unusual guitar music. \nHenry Kaiser is a guitarist\, ethnomusicologist\, and composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music\, Kaiser is an influential figure on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. In 1977\, together with Rova Saxaphone Quartet’s Larry Ochs and Greg Goodman\, Kaiser founded Metalanguage Records. He has travelled around the world recording roots music and collaborating with such artists as the Malagasy Musicians. His other musical collaborators have included Fred Firth\, John French\, Richard Thompson\, David Lindley\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Nels Cline\, Mike Keneally\, Steve Smith\, John Medesky\, Elliot Sharp\, and many others. Kaiser has appeared on more than 300 albums and scored dozens of TV shows and films\, including Werner Herzogs Encounters at the End of World . He has been nominated for both Grammy and Academy Awards for his work. \nNels Cline is a guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz\, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex Cline\, a percussionist. He has worked with musicians in punk and alternative rock such as Mike Watt and Thurston Moore. He recently released his 3rd Blue Note album titled  Share the Wealth\, a double album. His long-running project The Nels Cline Singers feature saxophonist and punk-jazz iconoclast Skerik\, keyboardist Brian Marsella\, bassist Trevor Dunn\, longtime collaborator and drummer Scott Amendola\, and Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista. His recording and performing career — spanning jazz\, rock\, punk and experimental — is well into its fourth decade\, with over 200 recordings\, including at least 30 for which he is leader.  Cline has received many honors for his work including Rolling Stone anointing him as both one of 20 “new guitar gods” and one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. \n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-harrison-with-henry-kaiser-and-nels-cline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210531T080000
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SUMMARY:AUTHORS ON THE STREET: a live\, in-person outdoor reading!
DESCRIPTION:An in-person\, outdoor celebration of books and community. Let’s gather and hear some fresh voices!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event \n\n\nWe’ve enjoyed all the Zoom events (and Crowdcast events and FB live events) during the past year or so — but we also miss gathering in person to hear authors read their work! So we’ve partnered with the wonderful folks at the Inner Sunset Flea to have an hour of spoken word\, featuring some of our favorite local wordsmiths! \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. Featuring: \n\nShruti Swamy (A House Is a Body)\nAnnalee Newitz (Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age)\nMike Chen (We Could Be Heroes)\nChaney Kwak (The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From a Sinking Ship)\nJosiah Luis Alderete (Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos)\n\nBRING YOUR OWN BOBA. This event is totally free and RSVP is not required (but please RSVP so you know that you’re coming!) And please buy some books from the lovely folks at Green Apple…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/authors-on-the-street-a-live-in-person-outdoor-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T113000
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SUMMARY:Maggie O'Farrell with Daniel Mason
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nTHIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this thrilling conversation. Please note the 11:30 am PDT start time. Reserve your spot early! \n*** \nMaggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet is one of the most exciting novels of the decade—described as “inspired\,” “magnificent and searing\,” a “tour de force” by literary reviewers and gracing nearly all the “Best of 2020” lists in publishing\, it is a book that has already earned its place as a modern classic. A dazzling work of historical fiction\, this tale takes on one of the most iconic figures in history\, William Shakespeare\, and one of the most challenging moments in any lifetime: the loss of a child. \nHamnet\, a retelling of the plague story out of which Shakespeare experts believe the Bard’s most famous play grew\, is a richly realized novel set in the lifetime of the playwright during the the Black Plague\, yet he is by far the most central figure. Hamnet opens on the boy son of Shakespeare running for help after his sister’s sudden onset of sickness\, a sickness to which Hamnet himself will eventually succumb. Though we know the broad strokes of this story\, O’Farrell crafts the world with such affecting detail that readers are transported bodily to Elizabethan England. The novel also creates a vivid portrait of a powerful woman and fiercely loving mother in the form of Anne Hathaway\, a figure history has often brushed aside. O’Farrell writing has both beauty and a sense of deep human understanding sure to captivate… and Kepler’s is absolutely thrilled to welcome the author herself in celebration of the book’s paperback release. \n\n\n\n\nIn conversation with O’Farrell is none other than beloved local favorite and critically acclaimed novelist Daniel Mason (A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\, The Winter Soldier). Together\, these two titans of literature and historical fiction discuss one the book that has everyone talking. Don’t miss the behind-the-scenes story of your next favorite read; join us to dive deep with Hamnet. \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/maggie-ofarrell-with-daniel-mason/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tahereh Mafi with Ransom Riggs
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to invite you to join us to celebrate the launch of Tahereh Mafi’s highly anticipated new novel An Emotion of Great Delight\, a searing own-voices story about a Muslim teen’s struggle in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Shadi\, along with her friends and the members of her Muslim community\, are subjected to discrimination and other cruelties\, while she struggles with tragedy within her own family. \nWe discovered the joys of Tahereh Mafi’s writing with the bestselling highly acclaimed Shatter Me series\, that gained her a legion of fans. We followed her through the incredible Furthermore\, and Whichwood\, obsessed over the National Book Award-longlisted A Very Large Expanse of Sea\, and couldn’t be more excited to hear Tahereh tell us more about Shadi and An Emotion of Great Delight. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a story of a child of immigrants forging a blurry identity\, discussing love and loneliness\, about navigating the hyphen of dual identity\, and reclaiming your right to joy—even when you’re trapped in the amber of sorrow. \nBooklist\, in a starred review\, called it “A bluntly powerful read that shouldn’t be missed.”. and The New York Review of Books said\, “Mafi seamlessly works in questions of identity\, race and Islamophobia [and] taps into the fierceness and passion of first love.” \nAnd who better to ask all the questions we want to know than Ransom Riggs\, author of the amazing Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series\, and Tahereh’s husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tahereh-mafi-with-ransom-riggs/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Jeff Katzman\, M.D. and Dan O'Connor / Ensemble! Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host the virtual launch for Jeff Katzman\, M.D. and Dan O’Connor and their new book Ensemble! Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nI know what you’re thinking: Hold on…improv? Like getting on a stage in front of an audience? What if that’s not my thing? \nDon’t worry: this isn’t a book about becoming an improv theater expert\, and it’s not really a book about performing. It’s a book about loneliness–about our feelings of disconnection and isolation\, ones that we may have been experiencing since long before the pandemic. More importantly\, it’s a book about becoming unlonely–by borrowing from the collaborative and creative tools of improv. \nAuthors of Life Unscripted Jeff Katzman\, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico\, and Dan O’Connor\, multifaceted actor\, writer\, and director\, have created a process they call Ensembling that helps us build an ensemble of relationships in our lives and more deeply enjoy the groups we already belong to. This is a process of becoming a little vulnerable with each other\, and of embracing the moment in which we find ourselves. Drawing on concepts from narrative improvisational theatre and depth psychology\, the authors present us with the skills we need to connect with each other more actively and meaningfully. To ensemble or not to ensemble–that is not a question. With the rise of loneliness and isolation in an increasingly virtually connected society\, we must find ways to come together. We must ensemble! \n\nAbout the authors\nJeff Katzman is a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico\, serves as vice chair and director of an international program on psychological resilience training\, and maintains a private practice. He previously directed Behavioral Health Care services at the New Mexico VA Health Care System and programs for veterans with PTSD in Los Angeles. He holds multiple leadership roles in the American Academy of Dynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and is a board member of the Mentalizing Initiative in Los Angeles. Katzman has applied improvisational theatre with interdisciplinary hospital teams\, psychiatric trainees\, psychotherapists\, and patients. \nDan O’Connor is a multifaceted actor\, improviser\, writer\, and director working in television and stage around the world. He graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has trained with the American Conservatory Theater and Keith Johnstone since 1986. O’Connor is the founder and producing artistic director of Impro Theatre\, and co-founded BATS Improv in San Francisco and LA Theatresports. For 30 years\, he has trained writers\, actors\, and directors in narrative storytelling\, and has taught corporate clients to use improvisation as a tool for adaptation and change. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-jeff-katzman-m-d-and-dan-oconnor-ensemble-using-the-power-of-improv-and-play-to-forge-connections-in-a-lonely-world/
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SUMMARY:Alice Waters and Michael Pollan (Ticketed)
DESCRIPTION:Point Reyes Books in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz and Book Passage presents Alice Waters in conversation with Michael Pollan on the occasion of the release of We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto \nTickets are $34 and include a signed copy of We are What We Eat. \nBuy Tickets Here \nAbout We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto \nIt was fifty years ago this summer when Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse\, the Berkeley restaurant that would make “farm to table” a household phrase and alter the course of American dining. But back in the summer of 1971\, Alice’s intentions were simple and unassuming: her goal was to feed people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients\, to the dishes made by hand\, and to the welcoming hospitality that infused the small space—human qualities that were disappearing from a country increasingly seduced by takeout\, frozen dinners\, and prepackaged ingredients. Alice came to see that the phenomenon of fast food culture\, which prioritized cheapness\, availability\, and speed\, was not only ruining our health\, but also dehumanizing the ways we live and relate to one another. \nWe Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto is Alice’s impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats. Reflecting on her decades of experience as a chef and activist\, she urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture\, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. \nOver years of working with regional farmers\, she and her partners learned how geography and seasonal fluctuations affect the ingredients on the menu\, as well as about the dangers of pesticides\, the plight of fieldworkers\, and the social\, economic\, and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. \nIn We Are What We Eat\, Alice unpacks how so many of the serious problems we face in the world today—from illness\, to social unrest\, to economic disparity\, and environmental degradation—are all\, at their core\, connected to food. Fortunately\, there is an antidote. Waters argues that by eating in a “slow food way\,” each of us—like the community around her restaurant—can be empowered to prioritize and nurture a different kind of culture\, one that champions values such as biodiversity\, seasonality\, stewardship\, and pleasure in work. \nThis is a declaration of action against fast food values\, and a working theory about what we can do to change the course. As she makes clear\, every decision we make about what we put in our mouths affects not only our bodies but also the world at large—our families\, our communities\, and our environment. We have the power to choose what we eat\, and we have the potential for individual and global transformation—simply by shifting our relationship to food. \nAll it takes is a taste. \n“This beautiful book speaks to the values we need to embrace at this moment in human history: Stewardship\, diversity\, interconnectedness\, simplicity\, balance. Reading it has inspired me to do things differently. It will inspire you as well.”-Jane Fonda\, author of What Can I Do? \n“Alice Waters is my favorite chef\, and We Are What We Eat is a beautiful\, important book. It’s full of passion\, anger at the way things are\, and hope for a kinder\, fairer\, more humane\, and vastly more enjoyable future. This book is the culmination of a life’s work\, a great life\, and is a must read.”-Eric Schlosser\, author of Fast Food Nation \nAbout Alice Waters \nAlice Waters is the executive chef\, founder\, and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. As the vice president of Slow Food International\, founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, and the winner of numerous awards\, including three James Beard Awards and the National Humanities Medal\, she has helped bring food awareness to people all over the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-waters-and-michael-pollan-ticketed/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T200000
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Alice Waters\, We Are What We Eat
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Legendary chef and food activist Alice Waters will be in conversation with bestselling author Michael Pollan about her new book\, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto—an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nPlease note: We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto will publish on June 1st\, 2021\, the date of the event. Books will not be available for pickup/shipping prior to publication date. \nGet tickets to this special event here. \nIn We Are What We Eat\, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture\, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971\, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. \nCustomers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients\, to the dishes made by hand\, and to the welcoming hospitality that infused the small space–human qualities that were disappearing from a country increasingly seduced by takeout\, frozen dinners\, and prepackaged ingredients. Waters came to see that the phenomenon of fast food culture\, which prioritized cheapness\, availability\, and speed\, was not only ruining our health\, but also dehumanizing the ways we live and relate to one another. \nOver years of working with regional farmers\, Waters and her partners learned how geography and seasonal fluctuations affect the ingredients on the menu\, as well as about the dangers of pesticides\, the plight of fieldworkers\, and the social\, economic\, and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. So many of the serious problems we face in the world today–from illness\, to social unrest\, to economic disparity\, and environmental degradation–are all\, at their core\, connected to food. Fortunately\, there is an antidote. Waters argues that by eating in a “slow food way\,” each of us–like the community around her restaurant–can be empowered to prioritize and nurture a different kind of culture\, one that champions values such as biodiversity\, seasonality\, stewardship\, and pleasure in work. \nThis is a declaration of action against fast food values\, and a working theory about what we can do to change the course. As Waters makes clear\, every decision we make about what we put in our mouths affects not only our bodies but also the world at large–our families\, our communities\, and our environment. We have the power to choose what we eat\, and we have the potential for individual and global transformation–simply by shifting our relationship to food. All it takes is a taste. \n“In this warm\, passionate and very personal book Alice Waters lays out a stunningly convincing case for changing the way we eat. No jargon\, no big words\, just Alice walking about all the things that matter most to her. I’m going to give this book to everyone I love.” — Ruth Reichl\, author of Save Me the Plums \nAlice Waters is the executive chef\, founder\, and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. As the vice president of Slow Food International\, founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, and the winner of numerous awards\, including three James Beard Awards and the National Humanities Medal\, she has helped bring food awareness to people all over the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-alice-waters-we-are-what-we-eat/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell in conversation with Alvin Orloff
DESCRIPTION:Brontez Purnell and Alvin Orloff discuss 100 Boyfriends\, SFPL’s On The Same Page selection for June 2021. Transgressive\, foulmouthed and brutally funny\, 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. Publisher’s Weekly writes\, “Purnell brilliantly immerses the reader in Black\, queer desire with humor\, self-awareness and just the right amount of vulgarity.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-in-conversation-with-alvin-orloff/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
CREATED:20210424T173439Z
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SUMMARY:GOOD EGGS by Rebecca Hardiman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 1\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of GOOD EGGS by Rebecca Hardiman. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87633376119. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpGoodEggs or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/GoodEggsAB. \nMarch 2021 Indie Next List\n\n“Filled with warmth and hilarity\, this book reads like a mix of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye and a Maeve Binchy novel. The Irish setting is especially welcome on this side of the pond\, and of the three plotlines following different generations\, the absolute best paints 83-year-old pistol of a grandma Millie as a delightfully quirky and determined soul. A charming\, offbeat novel — perfect to savor as we emerge from this particular winter.”\n— Deb Wayman\, Fair Isle Books\, Washington Island\, WI \nDescription\n\n“A joyous\, exuberantly fun-filled novel of second chances. An absolute delight from start to finish!” —Sarah Haywood\, New York Times bestselling author \n“Bracing\, hilarious\, warm\, this novel is as wayward and mad as the human heart.” —Judy Blundell\, New York Times bestselling author \nA hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture\, becoming the calamitous force that will either undo or remake this family—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go\, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over. \nWhen Kevin Gogarty’s irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother\, Millie\, is caught shoplifting yet again\, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin\, recently unemployed\, is already at his wits’ end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work\, leaving him solo with his sulky\, misbehaved teenaged daughter\, Aideen\, whose troubles escalate when she befriends the campus rebel at her new boarding school. \nInto the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia\, Millie’s upbeat home aide\, who appears at first to be their saving grace—until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet. \nWith charm\, humor\, and pathos to spare\, Good Eggs is a delightful study in self-determination; the notion that it’s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family\, despite its maddening flaws\, can offer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/good-eggs-by-rebecca-hardiman-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
CREATED:20210217T025327Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Shuggie Bain Pat Holt's monthly book discussion group
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nSpring dates: \nMarch 3: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu \nApril 7: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi  Dangarembga \nMay 5: Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble \nJune 2: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart \nJuly 7: Real Life by Brandon Taylor \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-shuggie-bain-pat-holts-monthly-book-discussion-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
CREATED:20210424T235706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T235706Z
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Ever After: Emiko Jean with Gloria Chao
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Eastwind Books\nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for Tokyo Ever After\, the latest from Emiko Jean. The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in this irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! Emiko will read from and discuss her work with Gloria Chao. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be livecasted on Facebook Live.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tokyo-ever-after-emiko-jean-with-gloria-chao/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
CREATED:20210528T153948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210528T153948Z
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SUMMARY:Emiko Jean: Tokyo Ever After
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nCo-presented by Eastwind Books \nThe Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After\, a “refreshing\, spot-on” (Booklist\, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. In conversation with Gloria Chao\, the critically acclaimed author of American Panda\, Our Wayward Fate\, and Rent a Boyfriend. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emiko-jean-tokyo-ever-after/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
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SUMMARY:JoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch:What We Don't Talk About: Sex\, Authority
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom event: \nJoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch \nWhat We Don’t Talk About: Sex\, Authority and the Mess of Life \nWhat if we took sex out of the box marked “special\,” the contents of which are either the worst or best thing a person can experience\, and considered it within the complexity of human life in general? In this extraordinary book – in defiance of the long-standing media obsessions that turn every sexual topic into a morality tale of monsters and victims\, shame and virtue-journalist JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that in this searing indictment of modern sexual politics. \nFrom the criminalization of HIV to the frenzy over “pedophile priests\,” from unexamined assumptions about the murder of Matthew Shepard to the accusations made against Woody Allen\, from Brett Kavanaugh to Abu Ghraib\, Wypijewski takes some of the most famous stories of recent decades and turns them inside out. The result is a searing indictment of modern sexual politics. She exposes the myriad ways moral panic and a punitive culture are intertwined\, considering along the way the nature of pleasure\, censorship\, self-deception\, memory and much more. What emerges is a picture of a culture in which crude morality plays acted out in the media have contributed to an imprisoning embrace of the repressive power of the state. Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too\, Wypijewski insists\, and so must sexual politics\, if it is to make any sense at all. \nJoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. From 1982 to 2000\, she was an editor at the Nation magazine. She has written for the Nation\, Harper’s\,  CounterPunch\, the New York Times Magazine\, the Guardian\, and other publications. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, as well as a devoted mother and grandmother. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joann-wypijewski-kris-welchwhat-we-dont-talk-about-sex-authority/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
CREATED:20210516T221602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210516T221602Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 3rd at 6pm PT when Grace Perry is joined by Greg Mania to discuss her book\, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\n\nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay\n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You?\n\n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes\n\n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago\n\nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman\n\n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\n\n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell.\n\nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
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SUMMARY:Show Us Your Spines QTPOC Resident's Reading (May/June)
DESCRIPTION:Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work with the SF Public Library Archives.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. Despite the pandemic\, RADAR is determined to make space for creatives\, so the residency lives on in the virtual world with the assistance of our Program Manager and SUYS co-conspirator\, Mason J. \nFor a month\, QTBIPOC writers work 1-on-1 with digital archives and QTBIPOC community members around a queer theme of their choice; writing/producing/directing pieces to be shared the following month at the Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work within the archives. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ \nJune 3rd\, 2021 \nvia TWITCH TV (twitch.tv/studsf) \n6:00pm – FREE \nFeaturing… \nNefertiti Asanti \nAshton Young \nSydney Latimer aka Divinewords \nJon Wai-Keung Lowe \n  \nLearn more about RADAR Productions and Show Us Your Spines at https://www.radarproductions.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-us-your-spines-qtpoc-residents-reading-may-june/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Stacy D. Flood / The Salt Fields: A Novella
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with Stacy D. Flood for his novella The Salt Fields. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nOn the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north\, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife\, the ghost of his drowned daughter\, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car\, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South—people seeking a new life\, whose motives\, declared or otherwise\, will change Minister’s life with devastating consequences. \n“Beautifully written and memorable.” \n– Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master \nAbout the author\nOriginally from Buffalo\, and currently living in Seattle\, Stacy D. Flood’s work has been published and performed nationally as well as in the Puget Sound Area. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, he has also been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon\, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts. In addition\, he is the recipient of the Gregory Capasso Award in Fiction from the University at Buffalo\, along with a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Author photo by Jennifer Richard Photography. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-stacy-d-flood-the-salt-fields-a-novella/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T044509
CREATED:20210424T174956Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JUNE 3 AT 6PM PT WHEN GRACE PERRY IS JOINED BY GREG MANIA TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, THE 2000S MADE ME GAY: ESSAYS ON POP CULTURE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86068674144#  or +12532158782\,\,86068674144#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNFW2AmAb \nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay \n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You? \n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress \n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes \n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago \nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman \n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL \n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress \nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell. \nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:New Directions @ 85: The Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates the 85th anniversary of this trailblazing publishing house \n \nwith Forrest Gander as MC and special guests Barbara Epler\, Declan Spring\, and other surprise guests \nNew Directions was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin\, then a Harvard University sophomore\, via advice from Ezra Pound to “do something useful” after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing\, each titled New Directions in Poetry and Prose (until 1966’s NDPP 19). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas\, Marianne Moore\, Wallace Stevens\, Thomas Merton\, Denise Levertov\, James Agee\, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions publisheg program includes writing of all genres\, representing not only American writing\, but also a considerable amount of literature in translation from modernist authors around the world. Among some of the writers they have published are Nobel Prize Winners Andre Gide\, Pablo Neruda\, Boris Pasternak\, Octavio Paz\, Pulizer Prize Winners Hilton Als\, George Oppen\, Gary Snyder\, Williams Carlos Williams\, National Book Award Winners\, Yoko Tawada\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Man Booker Prize Winner Lazlo Kraznahokai as well as many others. \nThe current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and introducing to the US contemporary international writers; publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose; and reissuing New Directions’ classic titles in new editions. \nDrawing from the tradition of the early anthologies and series\, New Directions launched the Pearl series\, which presents short works by New Directions writers in slim\, minimalist volumes designed by Rodrigo Corral. \nJoin us for a celebration of this quintessential American Press. \n  \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n (CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n  \n \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-directions-85-the-anniversary-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Stacy D. Flood / The Salt Fields: A Novella
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with Stacy D. Flood for his novella The Salt Fields. He’ll be in conversation with Ship of Fates author Caitlin Chung. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the book here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nOn the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north\, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife\, the ghost of his drowned daughter\, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car\, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South—people seeking a new life\, whose motives\, declared or otherwise\, will change Minister’s life with devastating consequences. \n“Beautifully written and memorable.” \n– Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master \nAbout the authors\nOriginally from Buffalo\, and currently living in Seattle\, Stacy D. Flood’s work has been published and performed nationally as well as in the Puget Sound Area. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, he has also been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon\, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts. In addition\, he is the recipient of the Gregory Capasso Award in Fiction from the University at Buffalo\, along with a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Author photo by Jennifer Richard Photography. \nCaitlin Chung has lived in the Bay Area her whole life. She is a teacher\, an expert eavesdropper\, a fan of infomercials\, and is known to be a supporter of superstitions. She has on many occasions been justly accused of being a Luddite. She lives in Oakland with her husband and their cat. Ship of Fates is her first book. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-stacy-d-flood-the-salt-fields-a-novella-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Susan Bernofsky and Kate Zambreno
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation presents renowned translator Susan Bernofsky in this celebration of her long-awaited biography of the modernist writer Robert Walser\, Clairvoyant of the Small (Yale UP). Susan will be joined in conversation by Kate Zambreno. \n“Robert Walser is the perfect pathetic poet: pithy\, awkward\, drinks too much\, sibling rivalrous\, ambitious\, broke\, and mentally ill. Was he proto queer or trans\, this red headed writer who next to Gertrude Stein might be the most influential writer of our moment? Riveting and heart-breaking\, this biography kept me drunk for days.”—Eileen Myles \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser\nThe great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society\, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital\, Bern\, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials\, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest—social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished\, marginalized\, and forgotten—prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him “a clairvoyant of the small.” His revolutionary use of short prose forms had an enormous influence on Franz Kafka\, Walter Benjamin\, Robert Musil\, and many others. \nHe was long believed an outsider by conviction\, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this immaculately researched and beautifully written biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history\, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work\, bearing witness to his “extreme artistic delight.” \nAbout Susan Bernofsky and Kate Zambreno\nSusan Bernofsky is associate professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts and director of the literary translation program at Columbia’s MFA Writing Program. She has translated over twenty books. \nKate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books including Screen Tests\, Heroines\, and Green Girl. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at  Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-bernofsky-renowned-translator-discusses-her-anticipated-biography-of-robert-walser/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T210000
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SUMMARY:Mount Madonna School Speaker Series with Maria Dahvana Headley: Rethinking Traditional Gender in Classic Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Mount Madonna School (MMS) public speaker series based on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) began in February and the season concludes June 3 with Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf: A New Translation\, a feminist reworking of one of the oldest surviving texts. Join Maria Dahvana Headley as she and the audience explore the boundaries of gender and tradition. \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO THIS SPECIAL EVENT \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf: A New Translation is a feminist reworking of one of the oldest surviving texts. Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. \nThe Mere Wife follows the basic narrative arc of the original Beowulf but at the same time revises the epic into a women-centered story set in modern suburbia. \nRethinking and rewriting perspectives that have come to be accepted as truth\, her novels empower the female and question the patriarchal stereotypes. \nJoin Headley and the MMS high school Values class students as they explore the boundaries of gender and tradition. \n\nMaria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books\, most recently BEOWULF: A NEW TRANSLATION (MCD x FSG). THE MERE WIFE (MCD x FSG)\, a contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, was named by the Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018. She’s written for both teenagers (MAGONIA and AERIE\, HarperCollins) and adults\, in a variety of genres and forms. Headley’s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula\, Shirley Jackson\, Tiptree\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and has been anthologized in many year’s bests; a collection is under contract to FSG. Her essays on gender\, chronic illness\, politics\, propaganda\, and mythology have been published and covered in The New York Times\, The Daily Beast\, Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard\, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by The MacDowell Colony\, Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, and the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab\, among other organizations. She’s taught writing in the master’s program at Sarah Lawrence\, and delivered masterclasses and writing lectures at Dartmouth\, Northwestern\, Wesleyan Nebraska\, and Newman University\, among others. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch\, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father’s wolf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mount-madonna-school-speaker-series-with-maria-dahvana-headley-rethinking-traditional-gender-in-classic-literature/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Richard Flanagan with Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n“Despair is always rational\, but hope is human.” — Richard Flanagan on his new novel \nRichard Flanagan is one of our greatest living writers. He’s also a joy to encounter in person: he’s warm\, witty\, accessible\, and wise. We’re thrilled to bring Richard to you\, live from his home in Tasmania\, to celebrate the publication of his astonishing new novel\, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. \nThe Guardian called the novel a “magical realist tale of ecological anguish … [that is] also playful… at its heart\, hopeful.” It is about our vanishing world — about species and ecosystems being lost (he wrote this book as fires raged across Australia)\, about losses of love and connection with each other in our rushed\, social-media obsessed world — and\, finally\, about the possibility of finding our way back. \nSet in Tasmania\, the central story unfolds as Anna\, a hyper-competent professional and the main character\, and her two siblings refuse to allow the death of their aged\, suffering mother\, who is ready to die. At the same time\, as fires darken the skies and other horror stories fill the news feeds that Anna compulsively checks on her phone\, she begins to have her body parts vanish. Only some people can see what is missing. The novel’s use of stunning\, fractured language embodies both the pace of modern life and our stuttering fears\, our inabilities to slow down and stop consuming\, stop escaping\, stop avoiding the beauty before our eyes — the beauty of the natural world and the genuine love and empathy that is available to us\, if only we let ourselves see it. This book will stun you with the horror of losses we’ve caused and\, as we finally allow ourselves to feel the depths of this grief\, with real hope for the restoration of both natural and human worlds. \nFlanagan will be in conversation with internationally renowned poet Jane Hirshfield\, whose most recent collection\, Ledger\, is a pivotal book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning. Ledger’s opening lines\, invoking human responsibility and willing denial\, intersect in uncanny ways with Flanagan’s novel: “Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.” The poetry collection\, Hirshfield says\, “was written in grief and into my bewilderment at our human inaction” at environmental devastation\, which The Living Sea of Waking Dreams explores in prose. She writes\, “Some breakage can barely be named\, hardly be spoken\,” but these two writers do speak it — wholly\, beautifully\, profoundly. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-richard-flanagan-with-jane-hirshfield/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: M. Leona Godin & Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, June 4 at 6pm PT when M. Leona Godin joins us to discuss her book\, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness\, with Maggie Nelson on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89741184404\n\nPraise for There Plant Eyes\n“There Plant Eyes is so graceful\, so wise\, so effortlessly erudite\, I learned something new and took pleasure in every page. All hail its originality\, its humanity\, and its ‘philosophical obsession with diversity in all its complicated and messy glory.’” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts\n\n“This sighted disabled person learned so much from There Plant Eyes! The book took me on a cultural journey that showed how blindness is beautiful\, complex\, and brilliant.” —Alice Wong\, editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century\n\n“Godin moves effortlessly from erudite explorations of the construction of ‘blindness’ to incisive and often funny examinations of technology that helps—or does not help—the blind individual to personal stories of her own life. I was only a few pages in before I realized that what I thought about being blind was either wrong or woefully insufficient. The reader will be lost in admiration for Godin’s gifts as a writer and cultural critic.” —Riva Lehrer\, author of Golem Girl: A Memoir\n\nAbout There Plant Eyes\nA probing\, witty\, and deeply insightful history of blindness—in Western culture and literature\, and in the author’s own experience—that ranges from Homer and Milton to Louis Braille\, Helen Keller\, and Stevie Wonder\n\nM. Leona Godin begins her fascinating\, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how “blindness” has\, for millennia\, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how\, in metaphorical terms\, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness\, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations that they possess “superpowers.”\n\nGodin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates an analysis of blindness in art and literature (from King Lear to Star Wars) and culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane\, embossed printing\, digital technology) and a recounting of her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. Altogether\, Godin gives us a revelation of the centrality of blindness and vision to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-m-leona-godin-maggie-nelson/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #61
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-61/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: M. Leona Godin and Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:OIN US ON FRIDAY\, JUNE 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN M. LEONA GODIN JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER BOOK\, THERE PLANT EYES: A PERSONAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF BLINDNESS\, WITH MAGGIE NELSON ON ZOOM!\nPraise for There Plant Eyes\n“There Plant Eyes is so graceful\, so wise\, so effortlessly erudite\, I learned something new and took pleasure in every page. All hail its originality\, its humanity\, and its ‘philosophical obsession with diversity in all its complicated and messy glory.’” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n“This sighted disabled person learned so much from There Plant Eyes! The book took me on a cultural journey that showed how blindness isbeautiful\, complex\, and brilliant.” —Alice Wong\, editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century \n“Godin moves effortlessly from erudite explorations of the construction of ‘blindness’ to incisive and often funny examinations of technology that helps—or does not help—the blind individual to personal stories of her own life. I was only a few pages in before I realized that what I thought about being blind was either wrong or woefully insufficient. The reader will be lost in admiration for Godin’s gifts as a writer and cultural critic.” —Riva Lehrer\, author of Golem Girl: A Memoir \nAbout There Plant Eyes\nA probing\, witty\, and deeply insightful history of blindness—in Western culture and literature\, and in the author’s own experience—that ranges from Homer and Milton to Louis Braille\, Helen Keller\, and Stevie Wonder \nM. Leona Godin begins her fascinating\, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how “blindness” has\, for millennia\, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how\, in metaphorical terms\, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness\, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations that they possess “superpowers.” \nGodin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates an analysis of blindness in art and literature (from King Lear to Star Wars) and culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane\, embossed printing\, digital technology) and a recounting of her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. Altogether\, Godin gives us a revelation of the centrality of blindness and vision to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world. \nThe digital audiobook version of There Plant Eyes is available here from our partner Libro.fm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-m-leona-godin-and-maggie-nelson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T213000
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series - Opposites Attract Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Words out Loud: Open Mic – Opposites Attract (Love and Hate) \nJoin us for a Topical Open Mic \nThree minutes per reader\, subject to adjustment based on number of registrants.  Read one \npoem on love\, one on hate\, and one of your choice if time remains. \n  \nWhen: Friday\, June 4\, 2021 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)  \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdOqvrTsuEtAzzYFhNMOVmLVpotUIsN4e \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining \nthe meeting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-opposites-attract-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210605T140000
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SUMMARY:Dara McAnulty: Award-winning 16-year old author launches Diary of a Young Naturalist in the US
DESCRIPTION:Dara McAnulty\, winner of several major awards\, joins us to launch his extraordinary Diary of a Young Naturalist (Milkweed Editions) in the U.S. \n“Dara’s is an extraordinary voice and vision: brave\, poetic\, ethical\, lyrical\, strong enough to have made him heard and admired from a young age.” — Robert Macfarlane\, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon \nAbout Diary of a Young Naturalist\nFrom sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty\, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement\, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it. \nDiary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara’s Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring–when “the sparrows dig the moss from the guttering and the air is as puffed out as the robin’s chest”–these diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are vivid\, evocative\, and moving. \nAs well as Dara’s intense connection to the natural world\, Diary of a Young Naturalist captures his perspective as a teenager juggling exams\, friendships\, and a life of campaigning. We see his close-knit family\, the disruptions of moving and changing schools\, and the complexities of living with autism. “In writing this book\,” writes Dara\, “I have experienced challenges but also felt incredible joy\, wonder\, curiosity and excitement. In sharing this journey my hope is that people of all generations will not only understand autism a little more but also appreciate a child’s eye view on our delicate and changing biosphere.” \nWinner of the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing and already sold into more than a dozen territories\, Diary of a Young Naturalist is a triumphant debut from an important new voice. \nAbout Dara McAnulty\nDara McAnulty lives with his mum\, dad\, brother Lorcan\, sister Bláthnaid\, and rescue greyhound Rosie in County Down\, Northern Ireland. Dara’s love for nature\, his activism\, and his honesty about autism have earned him a huge social media following from across the world\, and many accolades. In 2017\, he was awarded BBC Springwatch “Unsprung Hero” and Birdwatch magazine “Local Hero”; in 2018\, he was awarded “Animal Hero” of the year by the Daily Mirror and became ambassador for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the iWill campaign; and in 2019\, he became a Young Ambassador for the Jane Goodall Institute and became the youngest-ever recipient of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Medal for conservation.
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