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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jennifer Steil & Ava Homa
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Jennifer Steil (Exile Music: A Novel) & Ava Homa (Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Exile Music and/or Daughters of Smoke and Fire and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nExile Music by Jennifer Steil \nAs a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s\, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic\, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer\, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall\, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler’s rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family’s identity\, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor\, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds\, where they can escape the growing tensions around them. \nBut in 1938\, Orly’s peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first\, and soon Orly\, her father\, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz\, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows\, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood\, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains\, Orly’s mother grows even more distant\, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass\, the war ends\, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home\, or is the pull of her past in Europe—and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese—too strong to ignore? \n\nJennifer Steil is an award-winning novelist and memoirist who lives in many countries. She left the United States in 2006 to take a job as editor of a newspaper in Sana’a\, Yemen\, where she lived for four years. Her first book\, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky\, was inspired by her Yemeni reporters. She began writing her first novel\, The Ambassador’s Wife\, after she was kidnapped when pregnant with her daughter. That experience became the first scene of the novel. She and her infant daughter were evacuated from Yemen after her husband Tim Torlot\, a British diplomat\, was attacked by a suicide bomber. They lived in Amman\, Jordan\, until his posting ended and he could join them in London. In 2012\, they moved to La Paz\, Bolivia. Early in her time there\, Steil met Jewish Bolivians whose families had fled the Nazis in Europe during World War II. Their stories inspired her third book\, Exile Music\, just released by Viking. She now lives in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. \n  \n  \n\nDaughters of Fire and Smoke by Ava Homa \nSet in Iran\, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage\, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother Chia\, influenced by their father’s past torture\, imprisonment\, and his deep-seated desire for justice\, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts\, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online\, she finds herself in grave danger as well. \nDaughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family\, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. \n  \n  \nAva Homa is a writer\, journalist\, and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her collection of short stories\, Echoes from the Other Land\, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Prize\, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship. Daughters of Smoke and Fire is her debut novel which has received much acclaim. For more information please visit at www.AvaHoma.com \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #62 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 5th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If 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 on the FB event; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Virtual Get Lit #62\nTime: Jul 21\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85418275879 \nMeeting ID: 854 1827 5879\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85418275879# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,85418275879# 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 (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 854 1827 5879\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcQv42kspd \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookseller Happy Hour GENRE EDITION
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop booksellers as we share our favorite Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, Mystery\, and Graphic novels. Grab the beverage of your choice and come spend an hour with us on Crowdcast to find your next great read. This free event will be online hosted with the Crowdcast platform.\n\nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event is now open: click here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookseller-happy-hour-genre-edition/
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Jackpot' Livestream
DESCRIPTION:Our next Livestream’ed Bawdy will happen on Zoom on Saturday\, July 18th at 7 PM PST/9 PM CST/10 PM EST. \nTickets are available in Tiered Pricing (starting at $10 for Pandemic Pricing\, all the way up to our Exhibitionist Panel – where you’re a part of the show\, and join our performers on the screen!) The Best Deal? Become a member of Bawdy’s Patreon (at the Sexy Sidekick – $10/month level and higher) and you’ll get FREE tickets to our Livestreams – plus the Replays\, too. Please get your tickets right away to make sure you can be part of each night of one-of-a-kind stories\, weird antics\, and open-minded community. \nThe Butt Plug Club means you get one of our limited Panelist spots\, plus: \n• a Bawdy Buttplug \n• a black velvet Buttplug drawstring cozy \n• portable ampoules & packets of Uberlube \n• a Bawdy button • our brand new Bawdy sticker \n• a Bawdy Buttplug \n• a hand-signed note (with #BPC instructions) from Dixie \n• #DressUpForUs \nBut DO IT NOW because the deadline for exhibitionist tickets and the Butt Plug Club is this SUNDAY JULY 12th.  \nNot a member of Bawdy’s Patreon yet? Become a member NOW and in addition to ad-free podcast episodes and our new behind-the-scenes story coaching series\, you’ll get free tickets and free replays for Bawdy’s Livestreams!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-jackpot-livestream/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Judith Martin\, aka "Miss Manners" (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \n  \nJudith Martin’s Minding Miss Manners in an Era of Fake Etiquette\, is a modern guide to modern manners in which Miss Manners guides you through these turbulent times with her timeless wisdom and archly acid wit. \nAlso known as Miss Manners\, Judith has made tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of etiquette which have not escaped official notice. During a White House ceremony In November\, 2005\, she was awarded the nation’s highest honor in the humanities\, the National Humanities Medal\, in recognition of her contributions to society as America’s foremost etiquette columnist and author. \nJudith’s “Miss Manners” newspaper column—distributed thrice-weekly by the Universal UClick and carried in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad—has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. Since 1996\, she has been writing an additional “Miss Manners” column for the Microsoft Network\, and she is a contributor to the Financial Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-judith-martin-aka-miss-manners-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Roselle Lim
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 18th at 2pm | FREE Zoom Event\nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley Book Club.\n—\nTo follow our June book club discussion\, Roselle Lim\, author of “Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune” will join us for an online discussion of her book! Bring your questions and recipes to share! \nAbout the book:\nLush and visual\, chock-full of delicious recipes\, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food\, heritage\, and finding family in the most unexpected places.\nAt the news of her mother’s death\, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago\, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading\, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant.\nThe neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately\, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance\, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along. \nAbout the Author:\nRoselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse\, Asian neighbourhood.\nShe found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism\, she devoured books about mythology\, which shaped the fantasies in her novels.\nAn artist by nature\, she considers writing as “painting with words.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-with-roselle-lim/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Leila Slimani and Lisa Taddeo
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, July 18 at 12pm PDT when Leila Slimani discusses her new book\, Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World\, with Lisa Taddeo on Zoom. \nZoom Login Info \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82087204644 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82087204644#  or +12532158782\,\,82087204644#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 820 8720 4644\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kAbKeHefP\n \nPraise for Sex and Lies \n“Vivid\, at times unbearable testimonies . . . In an act of rare humility and generosity\, Slimani offers [these women] what they’ve been deprived of: a space to tell their stories\, to exist.” —San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“I salute Leila Slimani for writing this important\, honest and brave book. . . . As a writer from a Turkish background\, I am moved by Slimani’s words. The women she talks to could just as well have been Lebanese\, Syrian\, Jordanian\, Palestinian\, Iranian\, Turkish.” ­—Elif Shafak\, New Statesman \n“Like Adèle did before it\, this slim book of impassioned pleas\, and of human impulses that resonate\, is one step to more women breaking free.” —Evening Standard \n\nAbout Sex and Lies \n“As revealing as Lisa Taddeo’s bestseller Three Women\, but it has a more urgent political mission.” —Evening Standard \nA fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women’s intimate lives\, by the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and Adèle \n“All those in positions of authority–politicians\, parents\, teachers–maintain the same line: ‘Do what you like\, but do it in private.‘ “ \nLeila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle\, about a woman addicted to sex\, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco\, adultery\, abortion\, homosexuality\, prostitution\, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law\, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid\, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani’s passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-leila-slimani-and-lisa-taddeo/
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SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime Showcase (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual showcase featuring eleven Sisters in Crime authors! Each author will read for five minutes\, followed by a few questions from the moderator\, Robin Stuart. Don’t miss this unique chance to hear from a broad collective of authors writing in the mystery and thriller genres! \nAuthors Include: \nMysti Berry\nMysti Berry is a proud member of multiple Sisters in Crime (SinC) chapters. She is a lifetime National SinC member and is publishing the second volume of voting justice stories in Low Down Dirty Vote (July 2020) featuring stories by Northern California authors. Her short story “Brewery Gulch” is featured in the SoWest: Lady Killers anthology. \nM. M. Chouinard\nM.M. Chouinard’s first fiction story was published in her local paper when she was eight\, and she fell in love with Agatha Christie novels not long after. While pursuing a Ph.D in psychology and helping to found the first U.S. research university of the new millenium\, the stories kept rattling around inside her skull\, demanding to come out. For sanity’s sake\, she released them. Her latest thriller is Her Daughter’s Cry. \nLinda Howe Steiger\nLinda Howe Steiger is an Oakland-based teacher and author of the Morgan Kendall series\, the latest of which is Terroir. \nSusan Kuchinskas\nSusan Kuchinskas is a journalist writing about technology and business and the author of three previous books: Chimera Catalyst\, the first book in the Finder series. Going Mobile: A Guide to Real-time Mobile Applications That Work\, and The Chemistry of Connection: How the Oxytocin Response Can Help You Find Trust\, Intimacy and Love. Her latest is the second in the Finder series\, Singularity Syndrome. \nDeb McCaskey\nDeb McCaskey is a former newspaper editor and author of stories featuring the people and movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age\, spotlighting America’s Kid Sister\, Frankie Franklin. Deb lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their independent-minded rescue dog\, Mrs. Hudson. Her latest mystery in the Frankie Franklin series is Stardusted. \nAnn Parker\nAnn Parker is a science writer by day and fiction writer at night. Her award-winning Silver Rush mystery series features Inez Stannert\, a woman with a mysterious past\, a complicated present\, and an uncertain future\, the latest of which is Mortal Music. \nPriscilla Royal\nPriscilla Royal writes the Prioress Eleanor/Brother Thomas thirteenth century English mystery series. The Twice-Hanged Man is her fifteenth book. She can be found at plays\, ruled by cats\, and reading biographies of other crazy writers or fiction of greater and lesser violence. \nCindy Sample\nCindy Sample is the author of a national bestselling mystery series featuring single soccer mom\, Laurel McKay\, set in the California Gold Country\, the latest of which is Dying for a Double. Cindy is a five-time finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery and a two-time finalist for the Silver Falchion award for best traditional mystery. \nJoseph Schneider\nJoseph Schneider lives with his wife and two children in California. His professional affiliations include The Magic Castle and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. One Day You’ll Burn is his debut novel. \nKelli Stanley\nKelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning bestselling author of the Miranda Corbie literary noir series set in 1940 San Francisco\, including City of Dragons\, City of Secrets\, City of Ghosts\, and City of Sharks. Her other works include historical mysteries set in Roman Britain and numerous short stories and essays. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist\, her proudest achievements have been her inclusion as a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in Publisher’s Weekly\, and her founding of Nasty Woman Press on November 9th\, 2016. Her next novel is set in 1985 in Humboldt County\, California. She is featured in the anthology Shattering Glass\, the first in a series of remarkable anthologies published by a most unique publisher: Nasty Woman Press\, a non-profit\, 501(c)(4) founded to help fund other non-profits threatened by the rise of autocracy and the ongoing war against civil and human rights. A scintillating mixture of top-flight fiction from bestselling authors in multiple genres\, fascinating articles\, and thought-provoking essays\, conversations\, and interviews\, Shattering Glass takes as its broad theme the empowerment of women\, with all profits from the book donated to Planned Parenthood. \nCJ Verburg\nCJ Verburg is an award-winning playwright and theater director\, editor of two international literature collections\, and the author of two crime-fiction series. Her friendship with artist Edward Gorey inspired her multimedia memoir Edward Gorey On Stage\, her award-winning play Spin\, or Twilight of the Bohemians\, and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels\, starting with Croaked and Zapped. Coming soon: Scalped\, or The Toastrack Enigma. CJ’s Cory Goodwin mystery novels star the international-journalist daughter of NY detective Archie Goodwin and include the world’s first multimedia mystery\, the Paris rock-&-roll adventure Another Number for the Road. Coming up in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #30 is CJ’s first Holmes and Watson story\, “Scandal at the Savoy: The Monocle Murder.” She also has stories in two recent anthologies: “Birdbrain” in Sisters in Crime NorCal’s Fault Lines\, and “Peccata Mundy” in Seascape: Best New England Crime Stories of 2019\, released November 2019.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Trixie & Katya!
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are so excited to host a virtual event with RuPaul’s Drag Race legends and stars of UNHhhh Trixie and Katya for their new book\, Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood! \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a ticketed virtual event. \n>  Each ticket includes admission for one person and 1 copy of Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood. No exceptions. \n>  Tickets must be purchased no later than end of day Wednesday\, July 15. If you have any questions\, please write events@booksmith.com. \n\nDrag superstars Trixie Mattel and Katya have long captivated fans with their stunning looks\, onscreen chemistry\, and signature wit. In Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood\, the pair channel that energy into an old-school etiquette guide for ladies. \nIn essays\, conversations\, and how-to sections peppered with hilarious\, gorgeous photos\, Trixie and Katya will advise readers on beauty and fashion and tackle other vital components of a happy home\, such as money\, self-love\, and friendship; sharing advice and personal stories in high-concept fashion. \nInformative\, humorous\, and heartwarming\, Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood is the book that their fans have been waiting for. \n\nTrixie Mattel is a drag performer\, singer-songwriter\, and comedian. She is thinner and richer than Katya. \nKatya Zamolodchikova is a drag performer\, actor\, and comedian. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her wonderful husband\, Gerald\, and their four beautiful daughters\, Linda\, Terry\, Leslie\, and Gwen. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nPlease note: \n\nThis is a virtual\, all-ages event with mature themes.\nThe runtime of the show is subject to Trixie and Katya’s preference.\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final.\nTrixie and Katya will be answering audience questions\, but you must submit your questions in advance! Please write to events@booksmith.com and add the subject QUESTION FOR TRIXIE & KATYA!
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SUMMARY:Jessica Francis Kane\, author of Rules for Visiting | GGP Online Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 16\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Jessica Francis Kane\, discussing her novel\, RULES FOR VISITING. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85462042800. \n(Order your copy of RULES FOR VISITING in paperback at https://bit.ly/GGPRules\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/RulesAB.) \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER! \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: O Magazine * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY: “The Today Show” * “Good Morning America” * Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living \nAn INDIE NEXT LIST Pick \n“[A] spirit-warming saga . . . a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great-great-great-granddaughter.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine \nDry\, witty\, and unapologetic\, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people\, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job\, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. \nSmart\, funny\, and full of compassion\, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age\, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels\, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. \nWith simplicity and honesty\, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book\, with its beautiful contemplation of travel\, trees\, family\, and friendship\, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times. \nAbout the Author\n\nJessica Francis Kane is the author of This Close\, The Report\, and Bending Heaven. This Close was longlisted for The Story Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize\, and The Report was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications\, including Virginia Quarterly Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Missouri Review\, The Yale Review\, A Public Space\, and Granta. \nPraise For…\n\n“When 40-year-old gardener May receives a surprise windfall of one month of vacation from the university where she works\, she decides to visit four old friends\, each one from different periods of her life. Through this initially simple and irresistible starting point\, Jessica Francis Kane investigates the most universal mysteries of all.”—Isaac Fitzgerald\, Today \n“This beautiful novel tackles loneliness in the digital age and the lost art of visiting. Introvert May Attaway is granted some unexpected time off as a university gardener and is inspired to reconnect with four once-close friends. May chooses to bypass her friends’ perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them IRL. Gives a whole new meaning to Instagram vs. reality.”—Good Morning America \n“This spirit-warming saga\, an antidote to the uncivil\, is a novel to be read again and again\, whenever one needs a reminder to seize the day…Treat yourself to Jessica Francis Kane’s novel Rules for Visiting\, an elixir in book form about a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great great-great-granddaughter.”—O Magazine \n“Crackles with wit”—The New York Times\n \n“Full of witticisms and broader life lessons\, Rules for Visiting will stay with readers.”—Elizabeth Sile\, Real Simple \n“Kane’s understated meditation on loneliness in the digital age [is] just the right kind of narrative\, an antidote for our distracted days.”—Hillary Kelly\, Vulture \n“A witty\, sometimes melancholy and altogether lovely meditation on love\, loss\, friendship—and botany.”—Wall Street Journal  \n“Fun\, hilarious\, and extremely touching… its coming out right around Mother’s Day is no coincidence… I loved May as a character…  she doesn’t need me to like her\, though. She has her plants\, her father\, some new or revitalized friendships\, and her own sharp and witty mind to keep her company. She is no Grendel — only a deeply alive human.”—Ilana Masad\, NPR \n“At 40\, May Attaway\, the protagonist\, finds herself alone and feeling profoundly disconnected from her life and from herself. When she receives an unexpected gift of time off\, she seizes the opportunity to visit four old friends. May is smart\, funny and more than a little prickly. Readers will love her and find her story both moving and reassuring.”—Michael Barnard\, San Francisco Chronicle  \n“Quietly powerful”—The Chicago Tribune  \n“Impeccably written and surprisingly moving…May’s journey is lovely and deeply affecting.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“Kane’s delightful tale celebrates friendship\, family\, love\, joy in the ordinary\, finding peace\, and connecting with those around us. Highly recommended for fans of humorous\, touching stories about friendship and self-discovery.”—Library Journal\, starred review \n“In the age of Facebook\, the true nature of friendship can seem muddled . . . [May] voices the doubts and dreams of any woman who has questioned what it means to be a true friend. Rich in subtexts and lush imagery\, Kane’s novel is a sure bet for lively book discussions.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Engagingly cleareyed prose about a winningly eccentric heroine in love with trees and literature.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s precise and moving Rules For Visiting is an altogether new sort of friendship novel\, one about friendships stretched to their limits over time and space\, the sort of friendships so many of us count as our closest. Kane’s gift for describing beauty and loneliness\, the real stuff of life\, is unparalleled.”—Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers\n \n“An engaging and compassionate portrait of how a root-bound\, constricted life can begin to bloom. Drawing inspiration from mythic sources\, Kane explores the power of friendship and of our connection to the natural world. Her descriptions of plants are transporting.”—Madeline Miller\, author of Circe\n \n“There’s a wonderful richness here in every sentence—a lyric and ambling directness that immediately feels like visiting with an old friend\, and applied to an ordinariness that soon becomes sublime with topics that go anywhere and then always back to the cure this narrator is in search of: a remedy for her hesitation with life\, that feels like a much larger disappointment\, almost global. The novel\, you soon realize\, is perhaps the remedy she searches for\, and you almost wish you could give it to her. But take this home with you\, as this\, this is for us.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s novel will win your heart: Single\, melancholy\, resourceful\, May Attaway\, the 40 year old protagonist of Rules for Visiting\, sets out on travels to rekindle her oldest friendships\, and thereby to find herself. Wry\, witty\, ultimately uplifting\, this gem of a novel celebrates the gifts in our ordinary lives.”—Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“In one motion Rules for Visiting can break your heart and lift your spirits up to the sky. Funny\, warm\, thoughtful\, there’s a little Olive Kitteridge in this gem of a novel. I did not want this book to end. It is the perfect gift for friends or people you just have to visit (everyone I know is getting this!)”—Julie Klam\, author of The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous\, the Infamous\, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them  \n“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship\, family\, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.”—Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“Jessica Francis Kane has written a vivid\, elegant and masterfully constructed novel about friendship and neighbors and our own personal odysseys. This is a deeply smart book\, one I had difficulty putting down. There is real wisdom in these pages.”—Stuart Nadler\, author of The Inseparables
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for July Westhale with Katie Tandy / Via Negativa: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual launch for July Westhale and her new collection of poems Via Negativa. Reading with her is former cofounding editor of Ravishly and The Establishment\, Katie Tandy. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you can join here. \nWe also plan to stream the event live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\n“Via Negativa\,” often used to talk about the divine: a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not\, is a book about the more difficult\, but truer\, ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half grappling with divinity and the many manifestations of gender/the self \, and half an ars poetica\, Via Negativa is a gorgeous holy dunking\, a submersion into a rich field of lyricism and emotion\, a mikva that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright. Diving into verbal lostness\, the hatred of poetry\, mythology\, and the epistemology of identity\, this book challenges the tripartite notion of holiness and its relationship to poetic duty. \n“July Westhale is a shapeshifting poet of desire and violence\, grief and forgiveness\, trauma and loss transformed by resilience. After her gorgeous debut Trailer Trash explored the intricacies of class and gender\, Via Negativa deftly weaves the sensual with the spiritual\, reckoning with a religious inheritance and a powerful faith in pleasure\, engaging in bold lyric conversation with the divine. These deliciously subversive poems range from California fires to church pews with equal parts grace and swagger\, always charged with eroticism\, rooted in the body\, showing us again and again “the wildness of ourselves.” Via Negativa left me breathless.” – Diana Whitney \n\nJuly Westhale is a poet\, translator\, and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of Via Negativa\, Trailer Trash (winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award)\,  The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press)\, Quantifiable Data (Alley Cat Books)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her essays\, poems\, fiction\, and translations are published in numerous journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. \nWhen July isn’t writing\, she’s teaching and working as an editor for PULP Magazine\, a publication devoted to sexuality and reproductive rights. She is also a community educator\, working with all ages of students in all types of settings — in after school programs\, community colleges\, libraries\, living rooms\, bookstores\, fields\, etc. Her work focuses on dismantling the inaccessibility of creative writing and bringing it into a contemporary focus as a necessary way for marginalized communities to archive their experiences. \nShe is currently at work translating Patagonian poet\, Rolando Cárdenas (1933-1990)\, with the hopes that her project will bring English-speaking audiences the work of writers censored and/or disappeared as a result of the 1973 coup d’état in Santiago. \nJuly has received support and funding from the California Humanities Council\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Alley Cat Books\, Poets & Writers\, Writing by Writers\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and the Lambda Literary Foundation. \n \n  \nKatie Tandy is a journalist\, playwright\, and co-founding editor of PULP\, an online arts and culture publication centering sex/uality and reproductive rights. She is working on a forthcoming memoir braiding together stories from her childhood with human physiology. When she’s not writing\, she’s singing with the Oakland rock band The Shattucks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Via Negativa sent to your door\, send an email to events@booksmith.com. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 16\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Jane Ormerod \nonline on Zoom\nticket link to come \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in numerous publications\, including From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream\, Maintenant\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, POSTstranger\, The Pedestal\, Sensitive Skin\, The Nervous Breakdown\, and Paris Lit Up. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA\, an independent press focusing on unpredictable and innovative poetry and prose. www.greatweatherformedia.com \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nAugust: Caroline Goodwin\nSeptember: Peter Carroll
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:“One of the difficulties of being alive today\, is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” In her new essay collection Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. The “woman card” is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history—a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. Petri’s essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger\, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Alexandra will be in conversation with TV comedy writer Megan Amram. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nMegan Amram\nMegan Amram is a writer and producer for many television series including Silicon Valley\, Parks and Recreation\, and The Simpsons. She was also the star\, creator\, writer\, and director of the web series An Emmy for Megan. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, Vulture… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlexandra Petri
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SUMMARY:Vegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen's "Scenes of Life at the Capital"
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Wave Books present \nVegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital  \n   \nwith David Brazil\, Anselm Berrigan\, Andrew Schelling\, Hoa Nguyen\, Marie Buck\, Norman Fischer\, Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)\, Will Alexander\, Aisha Sasha John \nIn celebration of the new edition of Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen\, edited by David Brazil\, Wave Books and City Lights have invited poets from across North America to read his book-length poem in its entirety. This event will include a recording of Whalen reading from the book as well as a presentation of Whalen’s artwork\, unavailable in earlier editions. \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———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations in the near future \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here) \n———– \nWritten from 1969 to 1971\, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen’s “Scenes of Life at the Capital” is a lasting testament to the ambition\, range\, powers\, and devotion of this crucially important American voice. Positioned among the Buddhist temples of Kyoto\, Whalen looks across the ocean to address the new frontiers\, political problems\, and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s—so much of which still resonates today. In this new edition—with a deep and enlightening afterword by David Brazil—Whalen’s poem is further cemented as a fundamental work in American literary history. \nPhilip Whalen (1923–2002) was a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movements. One of the readers at the historic Six Gallery reading\, he was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. A longtime practicing Buddhist\, he was eventually ordained as a Zen monk and practiced at Zen Centers in New Mexico and San Francisco until his passing in 2002. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, pastor and translator. His third book of poetry\, Holy Ghost (City Lights\, 2017)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He is the editor of Wave Books’s edition of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital. With Kevin Killian\, he co-edited The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater\, 1945-1985. With Chika Okoye\, he was the founding curator of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Black Life series\, focusing on cultural production in the African diaspora. He has presented his work at Cambridge University\, Johns Hopkins\, and San Francisco State University\, among other venues. He lives in New Orleans. \nAnselm Berrigan once asked a barber\, when he was six\, to cut all his hair off so he could look like Philip Whalen. He is a poet and a high functioning bum\, as well as a janitor of dreams at various schools. Books include Something for Everybody (Wave)\, Come In Alone (Wave)\, and Wobble Factory (Absolute Slab Editions/free pdf). \nAndrew Schelling cut his teeth on poetry in the Bay Area of the 1980s. He lives in Colorado\, teaches at Naropa University\, and has published twenty-odd books. Recent titles: Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo and Pacific Coast Culture\, and with Anne Waldman Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha. \nPoet Hoa Nguyen‘s books include Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and Violet Energy Ingots. Her forthcoming book\, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure\, will be published in 2021 by Wave books. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the US\, Hoa has lived in Canada since 2011. \nMarie Buck is the author of Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya\, 2015)\, Goodnight\, Marie\, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof\, 2017)\, and Unsolved Mysteries (Roof\, forthcoming 2020). She lives in Brooklyn and is the managing and web literary editor at Social Text. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, author\, and Zen Buddhist teacher and priest. The author of seventeen books of poetry and six books of prose on Zen and religion\, his most recent publication is Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language\, and Religion \, a long-awaited collection of his essays about experimenta \nPhil Elverum\, 1978-present:  born and raised in Anacortes\, Washington\, maker of experimental songs and recordings that explore an internal world\, the experience of a person rooted in a particular place (island Pacific NW)\, part of a lineage of countercultural fringe-workers that goes back beyond memory. \nWill Alexander is a poet\, novelist\, playwright\, essayist\, aphorist\, visual artist\, pianist. He is approaching 40 published titles in the aforementioned genres. A City Lights author he is also poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nAisha Sasha John is a choreographer and poet. Her chapbook TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED will be published by UDP in 2021. Her most recent book\, I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017)\, was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize. \n 
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SUMMARY:David Mitchell in conversation with Michael Chabon - Utopia Avenue (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Book Passage presents David Mitchell in conversation with Michael Chabon\, hosted by Tom Barbash\nThursday\, July 16\, 2020 • 7:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm PDT • Virtual Event via Extended Session\nTicket: $40 (includes signed copy of Utopia Avenue) – Be among the first 100 people to register and get a special invitation to a “virtual signing line”—meet one-on-one with David\, via Zoom—immediately following the conversation! \nUtopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967\, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway\, blues bassist Dean Moss\, and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet\, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho\, a TV debut on Top of the Pops\, the cusp of chart success\, glory in Amsterdam\, prison in Rome\, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel\, Laurel Canyon\, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68. \nDavid Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of voices in the head\, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music\, madness\, and idealism. Can we really change the world\, or does the world change us? \nDavid Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten\, number9dream\, Cloud Atlas\, Black Swan Green\, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet\, The Bone Clocks\, and Slade House. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize\, in 2018 he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. \nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps & Legends\, Gentlemen of the Road\, Telegraph Avenue\, Moonglow\, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. \nTom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance\, which was was awarded the California Book Award\, and the short story collection Stay Up With Me\, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book\, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal\, was a New York Times bestseller.
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition: July Words!
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to present three accomplished writers whose scintillating writing challenges social and psychological structures: Virgie Tovar\, Lysette Wanzer & Carlo Matos. Pour yourself a drink and join us in the ether! \nVirgie Tovar is author of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (New Harbinger 2020) and You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press 2018). She is the host of the podcast\, Rebel Eaters Club (Transmitter Media NYC). She holds a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size\, race and gender. Virgie is a contributor for Forbes.com where she covers the plus-size market and weight discrimination at work. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She has been named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine\, and received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, BBC\, MTV\, Al Jazeera and NPR. \nLyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over twenty-five literary journals and books\, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie)\, The Naked Truth\, Essay Daily\, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission and Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient\, Lyzette serves as Judge for the Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category. She is currently helming an essay anthology entitled TRAUMA\, TRESSES\, & TRUTH: UNTANGLING OUR HAIR THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE. \nCarlo Matos has published ten books\, most recently The Quitters (Tortoise Books). His work has appeared in such journals as Hobart\, DMQ Review\, and PANK\, among many others. Carlo has received grants and fellowships from Disquiet\, CantoMundo\, the Illinois Arts Council\, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. He lives in Chicago\, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago\, and is a former MMA fighter and kickboxer. He blogs at carlomatos.blogspot.com. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition\nTime: Jul 15\, 2020 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/3655500410?pwd=bnFRaXZyTm1ab2VFcFd5VnVEUmtsdz09 \nMeeting ID: 365 550 0410\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,3655500410#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,196914# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,3655500410#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,196914# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 365 550 0410\nPassword: 196914
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SUMMARY:John Nichols in conversation with Robert Scheer
DESCRIPTION:discussing the state of the Dis-Union. Celebrating the release of John Nichol’s new book \nThe Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist\, Anti-Racist Politics \nfrom Verso Books \nTwo of the nation’s most seasoned political commentators access the condition of the US body politic. At a moment when the political stakes in the US are running high and the fight to save democracy is on\, John Nichols and Robert Scheer explore the hazards and opportunities that await us come the Presidential election in November. \n———– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———– \n(Click Here) to make reservations\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here in the near future) \n———– \nabout The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party \n\nFighting fascism at home and abroad begins with the consolidation of a progressive politics \n\n\nSeventy-five years ago\, Henry Wallace\, then the vice president of the United States\, mounted a campaign about the “Danger of American Fascism.” As fighting in the European and Japanese theatres drew to a close\, Wallace warned that the country might win the war and lose the peace; that the fascist threat the United States. was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic variant\, growing rapidly in power: wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace predicted that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded in the postwar era\, American fascists would use fear mongering\, xenophobia\, and racism to regain economic and political power. He championed a progressive postwar world—an alternative to the rising triumphalist “American Century” notion in which the United States rejected colonialism and imperialism. \nWallace’s political vision—as well as his nomination to remain vice president—was sidelined by Democratic big city bosses and southern segregationists. In the decades to come\, other progressives would mount similar campaigns: George McGovern and Jesse Jackson most prominently. As John Nichols chronicles in this book\, they ultimately failed—a warning to would-be reformers today—but their efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party and strategic lessons for the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. \nJohn Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine\, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times\, and the associate editor of Madison\, Wisconsin’s Capital Times. He’s the author of several books\, including The Death and Life of American Journalism\, The Genius of Impeachment and The “S” Word. \nRobert Scheer is editor-in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. For many years\, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated political analysis radio program Left\, Right & Center on National Public Radio (NPR)\, produced at public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. He is the author of numerous books that include They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy\, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street\, as well as others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-nichols-in-conversation-with-robert-scheer/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Rishi Reddi / Passage West
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Rishi Reddi (Karma and Other Stories) for her debut novel\, Passage West. Please join us! \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy a gift certificate\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\n1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border\, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak’s offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm. Ram is unmoored; fleeing violence in Oregon\, he desperately longs to return to his wife and newborn son in Punjab—but he is duty bound to make his fortune first. \nIn the Valley\, American settlement is still new and the rules are ever shifting. Alongside Karak; Jivan and his wife\, Kishen; and Amarjeet\, a U.S. soldier\, Ram struggles to farm in the unforgiving desert. When he meets an alluring woman who has fought in Mexico’s revolution\, he strives to stay true to his wife. The Valley is full of settlers hailing from other cities and different continents. The stakes are high and times are desperate—just one bad harvest or stolen crop could destabilize a family. And as anti- immigrant sentiment rises among white residents\, the tensions of life in the west finally boil over. \nIn her ambitious debut novel\, Rishi Reddi\, award-winning author of Karma and Other Stories\, explores an enduring question: Who is welcome in America? Richly imagined and beautifully rendered\, Passage West offers a moving portrait of one man’s search for home. \n\nRishi Reddi is the author of the story collection Karma and Other Stories\, which received the 2008 L.L. Winship /PEN New England Award for Fiction. Her work appears in Best American Short Stories 2005\, has been broadcast on National Public Radio\, and was selected as an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is also a recipient of fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony\, Breadloaf\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and the U.S. Department of State. She was born in Hyderabad\, India\, and grew up in Great Britain and the United States. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Northeastern University School of Law and lives in Cambridge\, MA. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Passage West sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-rishi-reddi-passage-west/
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SUMMARY:All Adults Here by Emma Straub | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 14\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Emma Straub’s new novel\, ALL ADULTS HERE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81214951613. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPAdultsHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AdultsAB. \nMay 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“A single sudden and shocking occurrence jolts Astrid Strick — widow\, mother\, and small-town stalwart — into reassessing her life\, especially her failings with her three grown children. Even as she tries to find a path toward redemption\, it’s clear her offspring are nursing different hurts. Straub’s lovely and charming comic novel explores the messy and dissonant truths that underpin the illusions we maintain about those closest to us. No one is at fault\, and everyone is to blame. Even adults have to grow up. Utterly charming and completely engrossing.”\n— Anmiryam Budner\, Main Point Books\, Wayne\, PA \nDescription\n\nAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!\n“In a time when all we want is hope\, it’s a beautiful book to reach for.” -Jenna Bush Hager \n“Literary sunshine.”—New York Times \n“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“Brimming with kindness\, forgiveness\, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.” —Ann Patchett\n \n“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox \nA warm\, funny\, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family–as the kids become parents\, grandchildren become teenagers\, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. \nWhen Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town\, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly\, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three\, now-grown children. But to what consequence? \nAstrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused\, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide\, so many years later\, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. \nIn All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s unique alchemy of wisdom\, humor\, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings\, aging parents\, high school boyfriends\, middle school mean girls\, the lifelong effects of birth order\, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood\, whether we like them to or not. \nAbout the Author\n\nEmma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of three other novels The Vacationers\, Modern Lovers\, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures\, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. She and her husband own Books Are Magic\, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn\, New York. \nPraise For…\n\nPraise for All Adults Here: \n“Emma Straub is a perfect novelist for summer reading.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“You’ll never want to say goodbye to the Strick family of All Adults Here\, Emma Straub’s charming fourth novel.” —O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“To describe Emma Straub’s novel All Adults Here without using the word ‘charming’ is like trying to describe an accordion without using your hands. But winsome and big-hearted do fine to characterize Ms. Straub’s loosely knit\, multigenerational fourth novel …Tight\, flinty Astrid…seems like close kin to Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“A master analyst of romantic relationships\, Straub trains her eye on family dynamics and small-town life in this witty and wise tale.” —People Magazine \n“Delivers a Dose of Normal Life\, Right When We Need It. . .  Straub cements her status as a master of the domestic ensemble drama.”—TIME \n“Emma Straub’s warm-hearted fourth novel confirms her reign as a patron saint of delayed adolescence.”—NPR \n“‘Literary sunshine’ is a good way to think of Straub’s work. Her writing and tone are consistently bright and straightforward; her approach to character is warm and generous . . . The main pleasures of All Adults Here ome from Straub’s wry comic instincts (a pair of hyperaggressive twin toddlers are hilariously appalling) and her gimlet eye for cultural observation  . . . Her wit extends out from the individual characters into a larger commentary on the difficulties of becoming an adult\, making this an especially rich addition to the author’s body of work.”  —The New York Times \n“A beach read with teeth.” —The New Republic \n“Undeniably pleasing . . . a kind of thinking-person’s beach read that’s maybe all the better for arriving in these strange\, landlocked times.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“It’s a credit to Straub’s gifts of wit and observation that she’s made such a loving book so alive. Reading All Adults Here\, you feel like maybe your life isn’t so small\, that its minor joys and pitfalls are worthy of literature. If only Straub could be the one to document it.”—USA Today \n“Deliciously funny and infectiously warm … It’s an ideal read for anyone trapped at home with their family while self-isolating. Read it while hiding in your bedroom from the people who are driving you crazy\, but who you’d go crazy without.” The Philadelphia Inquirer \n“There’s no drama like family drama as Emma Straub (Modern Lovers\, Other People We Married) proves in this touching\, humorous\, and eye-opening new novel.” —Town and Country  \n“Triumphant.” —The Daily Beast \n“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox \n“A warm\, smart novel that feels both very ‘now\,’ but also timeless in its survey of a family trying to become one again.”—Salon \n“Fresh and funny. . .  ripe with the kind of juicy gossip perfect for swapping with a favorite sibling via late-night\, hushed phone calls. . . .”—The Washington Post \n“There’s refuge to be found in stories of everyday people going about their lives. . . . Emma Straub has become adept at finding amusement in the mundane\, and her newest\, All Adults Here\, might just be her best yet.” —O\, The Oprah Magazine \n“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly \n“Straub’s best book yet . . .excellent book-group fodder.”—The Washington Post \n“Emma Straub’s writing is witty\, informal and deceptively simple\, drawing readers in as if they’re having a conversation with a close friend.”  —BookPage \n“All Adults Here is a master class on the small-scale American drama. . . this warm\, optimistic novel argues that one should keep trying\, regardless. All Adults Here affirms the value of community and family\, no matter the strife that may rise up within them.” —Vogue \n“The perfect book to read during quarantine if your family is driving you crazy . . . a layered love story that examines\, and ultimately celebrates\, the modern\, multigenerational family dynamic.”—Parade \n“This new novel from New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lover is at its core about family in all its loving\, messy glory… It’s a page-turner that will make you think about what binds families together and drives them apart.” —Good Morning America \n“All Adults Here is a novel about how we try and fail at every age and yet somehow survive. It is brimming with kindness\, forgiveness\, humor and love and yet (magically) is also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.”—Ann Patchett\, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth \n“A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book.” —Elizabeth Strout\, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Olive\, Again \n“Emma Straub’s All Adults Here will make you question your entire childhood\, and how much your parents influenced it as you learn one mother’s perspective of what went right and what went wrong with her own family.”—Marie Claire \n“No one writes family drama like Straub\, and in her new novel All Adults Here\, she brings the Strick family to life with her unique wit and wisdom. . . .  It’s a heartfelt\, grounded story about family dynamics\, forgiveness\, and the unavoidable effects we have on those we love.”—Buzzfeed
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Melissa Valentine / The Names of All the Flowers\, with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host the launch for Melissa Valentine and her debut\, The Names of All the Flowers. She’ll be in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven is All Goodbyes). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you are welcome to join via Zoom. \nWe will also be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n*Please note* Buy your copy of The Names of All the Flowers from us to be entered into a raffle for a free signed copy of Thea Matthew’s Unearth [The Flowers]! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nMelissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland\, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence\, a bullying incident and later a violent attack in school leave him searching for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places; he develops a hard front and falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth birthday\, the family is torn apart when he is murdered as a result of gun violence. \nThe Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost\, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence\, grief\, and trauma\, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.” \n\n“In this poignant\, painful\, and gorgeous memoir\, Melissa Valentine bravely explores what faces black boys and men\, through the eyes of a black woman\, sister\, daughter\, and member of a family whose lives are altered forever\, time and time again. The Names of All the Flowers encourages us to be brave too; brave enough to imagine a world that loves black people\, in all of our complexities.” – Alicia Garza\, cofounder\, Black Lives Matter \n“You will think about this book for a very long time.” – Catherine McKinley\, author of The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts \n“Valentine’s words on grief and trauma will stick with me for life: ‘We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.’ This is a book I know I’ll return to time and time again.” – Tyler Ford\, founding editor\, them \n“Sharp and incredibly courageous\, The Names of All the Flowers is an act of profound love\, profound service. Valentine gives herself the task of speaking the words of all of our grief\, all of our trauma\, and she does so with unexpected beauty and honesty. I could not resist this book. In the end\, it broke me.” – Carvell Wallace\, writer\, New York Times Magazine \n\nMelissa Valentine is a writer from Oakland\, CA. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in creative writing from Mills College. She has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and her work has appeared in Jezebel\, Guernica\, Apogee Journal\, and others. Her writing has received honorable mention from Glimmer Train and the Ardella Mills Non-fiction Award. She currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\n  \n  \n  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have The Names of All the Flowers sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-melissa-valentine-the-names-of-all-the-flowers-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 14\, 7pm on Zoom\nfeaturing Jeanine U-C and Indigo Moor \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nJeanine U-C won last July’s Anarchy Poetry Slam. Two of her poems were published in last year’s Caesura\, “Ash Wednesday February 14\, 2018” in the paperback version and “Punks” in the online version. Jeanine published two chapbooks: “Allowed Aloud” in 2018\, “Let Go of Detachment” in 2019. Another chapbook is forthcoming. Its title; “Too Pretty to Be Porn.” It’s taken her whole life to get to be this age. \nPoet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor‘s fourth book of poetry Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, took second place in the University of Nebraska Press’ Backwater Prize and will be published spring 2021. His second book\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first and third books\, Tap-Root and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers\, were both part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. In addition to poetry\, Indigo has produced award-winning plays\, short fiction\, and essays. His stage-turned-screenplay Live! at the Excelsior was optioned as a full-length film. He is a former teacher at the Stonecoast MFA Program and a Cave Canem fellow. Indigo sits on the advisory board for both the Modesto Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Sacramento Poetry Center. A 10-year veteran of the US Navy and a twice-decorated Gulf War Veteran\, Indigo divides his time between writing\, teaching\, and Integrated Circuit Layout Engineering for computer companies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-4/
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SUMMARY:LItquake on Lockdown: A Family Divided
DESCRIPTION:Millions of families are separated today\, by circumstances of the current pandemic\, by draconian immigration policies\, and by war. Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure\, frighten\, and terrorize. Through the lens of fiction\, we can understand the impact of such wounds\, and strengthen our shared belief in family and community connection. Authors Donna Hemans\, Aimee Liu\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Kristen Millares Young discuss their Spring 2020 novels\, and explore the paths of families torn apart. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKristen Millares Young\nThe current Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House\, Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction. Her prize-winning investigations\, essays and book reviews appear in the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere. She was the researcher for The New York Times team… Read More →\n\n \nDonna Hemans\nDonna Hemans is the author of Tea by the Sea and a previous novel\, River Woman. Her short fiction has appeared in Caribbean Writer\, Crab Orchard Review\, Witness\, and Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad. She is an editor at Pree\, a Caribbean online… Read More →\n\n \nAimee Liu\nAimee Liu is the author of Glorious Boy and the previous novels Flash House\, Cloud Mountain\, and Face. Her nonfiction includes Gaining and Solitaire. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies\, magazines\, and literary journals. She teaches in Goddard… Read More →\n\n \nEllen Meeropol\nEllen Meeropol is the author of Her Sister’s Tattoo\, and the previous novels Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Recent essay publications include Ms Magazine\, Lilith\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. She is a founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and leads… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-a-family-divided/
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SUMMARY:Scott Dominic Carpenter in conversation with Don George - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris\, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors\, police denunciations\, surly demonstrators\, cooking disasters\, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese. It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted\, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure. \nIn French Like Moi\, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday\, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all\, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern). \nMinnesota-born and Midwest-bred\, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018)\, recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant\, and semi-finalist for the Many Voices Project Prize\, he has published work in a wide variety of venues\, including The Rumpus\, Silk Road\, Catapult\, South Dakota Review\, and various anthologies. He lives 45 miles from Minneapolis in Northfield\, Minnesota\, and Paris. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing\, and the editor of twelve anthologies. In his 40-year career he has served as travel editor for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle\, founder and editor of Salon.com’s Wanderlust travel site\, global travel editor for Lonely Planet\, and editor at large for National Geographic Travel. He is also the co-chair of Book Passage’s Travel Writers & Photographers Conference\, now in its 29th year. \nLarry Habegger is a travel writer\, editor\, journalist\, and teacher who has been covering the world since the 1970s. As a freelance writer for more than 30 years and syndicated columnist since 1985\, Habegger’s work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines\, including the Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Travel & Leisure\, and Outside. In 1993\, he cofounded the award-winning Travelers’ Tales books with James and Tim O’Reilly\, and is currently executive editor. His latest book in the Travelers’ Tales series is The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 11.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scott-dominic-carpenter-in-conversation-with-don-george-french-like-moi-a-midwesterner-in-paris-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Black Girls Have Something to Say: Lisa Moore Ramee\, Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, Alicia Williams
DESCRIPTION:Black girls have something to say and we are proud to be hosting this panel of incredibly talented middle-grade authors to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated new novel\, Something to Say. \n\n \n\nLisa Moore Ramee is one of our favorite authors. We launched and evangelized for her debut novel A Good Kind of Trouble\, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book\, and are so excited to launch Something to Say\, an unforgettable story about finding your voice—and finding your people. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven-year-old Jenae doesn’t have any friends—and she’s just fine with that. She’s so good at being invisible in school\, it’s almost like she has a superpower\, like her idol\, Astrid Dane. At home\, Jenae has plenty of company\, like her no-nonsense mama; her older brother\, Malcolm\, who is home from college after a basketball injury; and her beloved grandpa\, Gee. Then a new student shows up at school—a boy named Aubrey—and Jenae can’t figure out why he keeps popping up everywhere she goes. The more she tries to push him away\, the more he seems determined to be her friend. Despite herself\, Jenae starts getting used to having him around. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the proposed name change for their school\, Jenae knows this new friendship has an expiration date. Aubrey is desperate to win and earn a coveted spot on the debate team. But Jenae would do almost anything to avoid speaking up in front of an audience—including risking the first real friendship she’s ever had. \nLisa will be in conversation with Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, and Alicia Williams \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariama J Lockington is the author of For Black Girls Like Me\, a lyrical coming-of-age story about family\, sisterhood\, music\, race\, and identity that draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanae Marks is the author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington\, a captivating mystery full of heart\, as one courageous girl questions assumptions\, searches for the truth\, and does what she believes is right—even in the face of great opposition. \nAlicia Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again\,  which received a Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors\, was a William C. Morris Award finalist\, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Genesis Begins Again is a deeply sensitive and powerful novel that tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. \nDon’t miss this chance to hear what these four extraordinary authors have to say
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-girls-have-something-to-say-lisa-moore-ramee-mariama-j-lockington-janae-marks-alicia-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: A.H. Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday July 14th for A.H. Kim discussing her new novel A Good Family with Vanessa Hua on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81092364570 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81092364570#  or +12532158782\,\,81092364570#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 810 9236 4570\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kjMDC3vEC \nPraise for A Good Family \n“A story of money\, family\, who you can trust\, and the extremes to which one will go for blood. I couldn’t put it down.” –Lisa Ling\, host of CNN’s This Is Life \nAbout A Good Family \nBeth is the darling of God Halsa\, a pharmaceutical giant\, and she’s got the outrageous salary and lifestyle to prove it. Until she lands in white-collar women’s prison\, thanks to a high-profile whistleblower suit. \nSam\, Beth’s husband\, used to be the town’s most eligible bachelor\, and he’s never had to do anything for himself. Until his wife goes to jail\, and he’s left to raise two daughters on his own. \nLise\, the au pair\, is the whistleblower. But is she? Everyone knows she’s not clever enough to have done it alone. \nHannah\, Sam’s sister\, is devoted to her family. There’s nothing she wouldn’t do for them. \nEva\, Beth’s sister\, is the smart one. (Read: not the pretty one.) Her life seems perfect on the surface\, but sibling rivalry runs deep. \nMartin\, Beth’s brother\, is the firstborn\, the former golden boy turned inside-the Beltway businessman. But what is he hiding? \nSomeone knows something. Someone betrayed Beth. \nThis is the story of the Min-Lindstroms. This is the story of the all-American family as it implodes under the weight of secrets\, lies and the unchecked desire for wealth and power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-a-h-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T183000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Silva in conversation with Jamie Gangel - The Order (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Daniel Silva\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Order in conversation with CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel! \nFor the first time ever\, the book tour is happening at Daniel’s house and you are invited via Crowdcast to join him live! The event will include a peek behind the scenes at where Daniel works —  where he keeps all those yellow legal pads and just how he sharpens his secret stash of pencils. Best of all\, Daniel will be ready and waiting to answer your questions about The Order. And you never know\, Gabriel and Chiara may just make a surprise visit in his kitchen. \nTo join us\, please purchase a ticket above. Once you make your purchase you will receive the confirmation for your purchase which will include a link and password to register for this special event on Crowdcast. \nDaniel is disappointed he is not able to see you all in person this year\, but with Covid19 the most important thing is for everyone to stay safe. The silver lining is he thrilled to “meet” readers who live in places he doesn’t usually get to visit. \nDaniel Silva is the award-winning\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy\, The Mark of the Assassin\, The Marching Season\, The Kill Artist\, The English Assassin\, The Confessor\, A Death in Vienna\, Prince of Fire\, The Messenger\, The Secret Servant\, Moscow Rules\, The Defector\, The Rembrandt Affair\, Portrait of a Spy\, The Fallen Angel\, The English Girl\, The Heist\, The English Spy\, The Black Widow\, House of Spies\, and The Other Woman.  He is best known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Silva’s books are critically acclaimed bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 30 languages. He resides in Florida with his wife\, television journalist Jamie Gangel\, and their twins\, Lily and Nicholas. For more information visi danielsilvabooks.com. \nTuesday\, July 14\, 2020 • 7:30 pm EDT / 4:30 pm PDT • Virtual Event via Crowdcast • Ticket: $32 (includes copy of The Order)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-silva-in-conversation-with-jamie-gangel-the-order-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl with Kate Hudson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJoin Kate Hudson in conversation with Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rad Women book series. \nThe three women will discuss Kate and Miriam’s newest book\, Rad American History A-Z\, an illustrated history book that explores centuries of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural moments and movements in American history. They’ll touch on multiple topics including the importance of reading and learning about our nations’ lesser-known histories\, engaging in honest conversation with their children about current events\, and broadening our minds to create a just and sustainable future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-with-kate-hudson-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Greg Palast\, Noam Chomsky & Amy Goodman - How Trump Stole 2020 (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Noam Chomsky • Moderated by Amy Goodman\nTuesday\, July 14\, 2020 • 7:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm PDT • Virtual Event via Zoom • Ticket: $20 (includes copy of How Trump Stole 2020) \nHas Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about\, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known\, it is now recognized as one of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. \nThe scope is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone—the testing ground—Republican voting officials quietly removed half a million voters from the voter rolls—including Martin Luther King’s ninety-two-year-old cousin Christine Jordan. How Trump Stole 2020 is the story of the racially poisonous schemes to steal the 2020 election\, the political operatives behind the trickery—and the hard right billionaires funding it all\, written by the investigative reporter who has been covering this story from the outset. \nGreg Palast regularly contributes original reporting to the BBC\, The Guardian\, Democracy Now!\, The Young Turks\, and other progressive media. He has been featured recently on among others MSNBC’s Joy Reid show and in Salon\, and in the New York Times and Washington Post for successfully suing the state of Georgia with Stacey Abrams to release voter rolls after she lost a congressional seat to Brian Kemp who was at the time also the overseer of the voter rolls. Palast’s two-decade hunt of elections chicanery are detailed in his books\, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy\, Armed Madhouse\, and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits–all New York Times bestsellers. In 2000\, his investigation for the BBC and the Guardian uncovered how the Bush family purged thousands of Black men from Florida voter rolls\, falsely labeling them felons\, the scheme that won Bush the White House. In 2016\, Palast predicted Trump’s “surprise” election months earlier in a Rolling Stone exposé detailing exactly how Trump’s operatives\, in control of voting offices in key states\, would bend the election results. Palast lives in Los Angeles\, CA. \nPolitical philosopher\, activist\, and linguist Noam Chomsky is beloved around the world for the strength of his personal commitment to the truth as he sees it and for the brilliance of his ideas. Born in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania\, on December 7\, 1928\, he studied linguistics\, mathematics\, and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD there in 1955. Chomsky has taught at MIT for fifty years and is currently Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His linguistics work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field\, and his political writings have made important contributions for decades. In 2001\, he published 9-11\, which became his first international bestseller and was arguably the single most influential post–9-11 book. Chomsky is the author of many other best-selling political works\, including Profit Over People\, Media Control\, Hegemony or Survival\, Failed States\, Hopes and Prospects\, Masters of Mankind\, What Kind of Creatures Are We?\, Who Rules the World?\, and Requiem for the American Dream. \nAmy Goodman is a multiple New York Times bestselling author\, and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now!\, a daily\, independent news program airing on more than 800 television and radio stations. TIME Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of thePodcasts\,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award\, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are oftenexcluded by the mainstream media.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greg-palast-noam-chomsky-amy-goodman-how-trump-stole-2020-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jessica Pearce Rotondi & Lauren Francis-Sharma
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Jessica Pearce Rotondi (What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers) & Lauren Francis-Sharma (Book of the Little Ax). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy What We Inherit and/or Book of the Little Ax and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nWhat We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers by Jessica Pearce Rotondi \nIn the wake of her mother’s death\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters\, declassified CIA reports\, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack\, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the rules of engagement forever. \nIn 1943\, 19-year-old Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing in action for months\, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and a march across the Alps before returning home. \nEd’s eldest son and namesake\, Edwin “Jack\,” follows his father into the Air Force. But on the night of March 29\, 1972\, Jack’s plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed’s past comes roaring into the present. \nIn 2009\, Ed’s granddaughter\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi\, is grieving her mother’s death when she stumbles across declassified CIA documents\, letters\, and maps that reveal her family’s decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is Rotondi’s story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather’s 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his son. \nAn excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national scale\, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father’s refusal to be silenced and a daughter’s quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen alive\, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has haunted her family for generations―and the destructive impact of a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war. \nJessica Pearce Rotondi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The History Channel\, Reader’s Digest\, Vogue\, Salon\, Atlas Obscura\, The Huffington Post\, and Refinery29. Previously\, she was a senior editor at The Huffington Post and a staff member at the PEN American Center\, the world’s oldest literary human rights organization. Her first job in New York City was at St. Martin’s Press\, where she had a “room of her own” in the Flatiron Building to fill with books. She grew up in New England and is a graduate of Brown University. What We Inherit is her first book. Connect with Jessica on Twitter and Instagram @JessicaRotondi or visit JessicaPearceRotondi.com. \n\n  \n  \n  \nBook of the Little Ax by Lauren Francis-Sharma \nIn 1796 Trinidad\, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright\, competitive\, and opinionated\, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house\, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she\, alone\, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule\, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners―Rosa’s family among them―will be allowed to keep their assets\, their land\, and ultimately\, their freedom. \nBy 1830\, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn\, Montana with her children and her husband\, Edward Rose\, a Crow chief. Her son Victor is of the age where he must seek his vision and become a man. But his path forward is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept from him. So Rosa must take him to where his story began and\, in turn\, retrace her own roots\, acknowledging along the way\, the painful events that forced her from the middle of an ocean to the rugged terrain of a far-away land. \n  \nLauren Francis-Sharma is the author of Book of the Little Axe and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry\, her first novel\, which was awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Lauren is a contributor to Marita Golden’s anthology\, Us Against Alzheimer’s\, and her more recent work can be found at ElectricLit.com\, Barrelhouse.com and The Lily. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a MacDowell Fellow and the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-jessica-pearce-rotondi-lauren-francis-sharma/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Heather Lende in conversation with Sedge Thomson / Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Heather Lende for her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics. She’ll be in conversation with Sedge Thomson. \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nThe writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls “part Annie Dillard\, part Anne Lamott” now brings us her quirky and compassionate account of holding local office. \nHeather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines\, Alaska\, cost less than $1\,000\, she won! But tiny\, breathtakingly beautiful Haines—a place accessible from the nearest city\, Juneau\, only by boat or plane—isn’t the sleepy town that it appears to be: from a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears from rifling through garbage on Main Street to the recall campaign that targeted three assembly members\, including Lende\, we witness the nitty-gritty of passing legislation\, the lofty ideals of our republic\, and how the polarizing national politics of our era play out in one small town. \nWith an entertaining cast of offbeat but relatable characters\, Of Bears and Ballots is an inspirational tale about what living in a community really means\, and what we owe one another. \n\nHeather Lende has contributed essays and commentary to NPR\, the New York Times\, and National Geographic Traveler\, among other newspapers and magazines\, and is a former contributing editor at Woman’s Day. A columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News\, she is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines and the recipient of the Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award from the Alaska Press Club. Her previous bestselling books are Find the Good\, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs\, and If You Lived Here\, I’d Know Your Name. Lende was voted Citizen of the Year\, Haines Chamber of Commerce\, in 2004. Her website is heatherlende.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Of Bears and Ballots sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-heather-lende-in-conversation-with-sedge-thomson-of-bears-and-ballots-an-alaskan-adventure-in-small-town-politics/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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