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SUMMARY:Elemental: Earth Stories A celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press
DESCRIPTION:Center for the Art of Translation presents Jessica Cohen\, Allison Charette\, and Brian Bergstrom in conversation about the latest installment in the Calico Series\, Elemental: Earth Stories. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Elemental: Earth Stories\nA family’s heirloom stones unearth a story spanning war\, illness\, and radioactivity. A pipeline installed to protect a town from flooding results in a howling that disturbs the town’s inhabitants. A political prisoner embarks on an epic flight toward freedom\, literally blown like a kite in the wind. \nA whirlwind of fantastic new writing from Japan\, Iran\, Norway\, Germany\, Madagascar\, Iraq\, Poland\, and Israel\, this collection of fiction and reportage maps the intimate\, ongoing relationship between human civilization and the natural world. Do we set the limits on our existence? Or is it wind\, water\, fire\, and earth that define–even control–us? Borrowing from eco-literature and mythology\, Elemental unflinchingly takes up the earth. \n“Stone\, earth\, water\, ice\, wind\, and burning heat. The stories here dig deep and unexpectedly into life’s fundamentals—the elements and the passions—bringing into English\, many for the first time\, writers of stature from across the globe. A celebration of both storytelling and translation\, Elemental is essential\, a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds.” —Hugh Raffles\, author of The Book of Unconformities \nAbout the Calico Series\nThe Calico Series\, published biannually by Two Lines Press\, captures vanguard works of translated literature in stylish\, collectible editions. Each Calico is a vibrant snapshot that explores one aspect of our present moment\, offering the voices of previously inaccessible\, highly innovative writers from around the world today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elemental-earth-stories-a-celebration-of-the-latest-installment-of-the-calico-series-from-two-lines-press/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio\nThu Mar 11th 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nLitquake is thrilled to welcome Lysley Tenorio to our Seismic Salon series! Of his recent novel The Son of Good Fortune (paperback due April 13)\, Refinery 29 writes: “Tenorio’s brilliant\, witty novel about the love of a mother and son\, the immigrant experience in America\, and the surreality of our current reality\, is bold\, ambitious\, and unforgettable.” He is also author of the story collection Monstress\, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, the Edmund White Award\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares. Born in the Philippines\, he lives in San Francisco\, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s. Prep your favorite cocktail and ask the very entertaining Lysley about how he manages to move between short and long fiction. \nBuy Lysley Tenorio’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-lysley-tenorio/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poets and scholars\, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening” series. Their works are profound explorations of the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics and of the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance
URL:https://litseen.com/event/social-listening-4-nathaniel-mackey-fred-moten/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Elizabeth Wetmore - Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-passage-presents-elizabeth-wetmore-valentine/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection\, Sarahland\, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85188314830\n\nPraise for Sarahland\n“A bold collection that explores how we might break free from or reimagine ourselves and our places in the universe.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n“Reading SARAHLAND is pure pleasure – what a voice! What a constant flow of funny and vulnerable and distinct awarenesses! Sam Cohen’s writing is joyously itself and places its own keen\, insightful gaze on the ways we relate to ourselves and to others.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\n“I’m deeply struck by the emotional wisdom\, the cultural smarts\, the literary vulnerability and serious skills happening in SARAHLAND. Rarely do I feel so seen by a book. I gobbled this work up with feverish excitement and gratitude\, and weeks later feel like I am carrying these stories around in my head and in my heart.”—Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir\n\n“Cohen handles her sentences\, her Sarah’s\, both gently and confidently. The result: a debut of equal parts ugly and beauty\, a debut full of heartbreakingly real characters.” —Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of Pizza Girl\nAbout Sarahland\n\n“Queer\, dirty\, insightful\, and so funny” (Andrea Lawlor)\, this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.\n\nNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29\n\nIn Sarahland\, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us\, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories\, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it\, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story\, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure—and a new set of problems—by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses\, Cohen explodes this search for self\, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving “Sarah” gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman\, an aging lesbian literally growing roots\, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end\, “Sarah” will continue.\n\nIn each Sarah’s refusal to adhere to a single narrative\, she potentially builds a better home for us all\, a place to live that demands no fixity of self\, no plague of consumerism\, no bodily compromise\, a place called Sarahland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sam-cohen-and-andrea-lawlor-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nIn a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating\,” author\, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence with awe-inspiring implications. Get ready for a dynamic and exciting conversation about the brain with Kepler’s. \nIn a century rife with neuroscientific and biological advances\, researchers have made little progress one very big question: how do the simple cells of the brain create complex consciousness and intelligence? \nHawkins\, cofounder of the neuroscience research company Numenta\, dares to answer with A Thousand Brains. In a compulsively readable book accessible even to the casual science reader\, he lays forth a simple and yet mold-breaking theory: that intelligence arises from the interaction of maplike reference structures in the brain\, which build hundreds of thousands of interconnected models of everything a person knows. These maplike reference frames can tell you how to achieve goals\, how to get from one place to another\, who you are and how you’re connected to the world. \nFor the past fifteen years\, Hawkins and his Silicon Valley based research team have studied the neocortex\, the part of the brain we associate with everything responsible for intelligence. Now with his “thousand brains” theory of the structure that runs the show\, Hawkins proposes answers to some of neurosciences most stubborn questions—questions about the very nature of consciousness. \nOn March 10th\, join us for an online conversation between Jeff Hawkins and award-winning science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy as they share with us A Thousand Brains. Starting with basic information on how the brain works for anyone to understand\, they’ll discuss a Jeff’s new theory and explore what it could mean not only for advancements in science like machine intelligence\, but also its broader implications for all of us as people. This will be a smart\, fun night celebrating a key moment in our understanding of the human brain: don’t miss it! \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. \nRegistration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-hawkins-with-anil-ananthaswamy/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new book \nModel Citizen: a memoir \npublished by MCD/FSG \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe intimate\, gorgeous\, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer\, father\, alcoholic\, addict. \nAfter years of hard-won sobriety\, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter\, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five—his third\, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl\, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart\, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? \nTold in stunning\, surreal\, time-hopping vignettes\, Model Citizen is a raw\, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life\, throwing the wild joys\, tragedies\, embarrassments\, and adventures of his past into bold relief. His story is heartbreakingly real and yet unreal\, which he captures in vivid\, uncanny imagery\, waking hallucinations that imagine hearts as hot air balloons\, drug cravings as wry Nazi doctors\, secrets as emaciated second selves. \nAnd yet Mohr’s memoir pulses with humanity and humor\, capturing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the dark pit of his past\, learning to love and be loved\, while never letting go of those experiences that shaped him and broke him. A darkly beautiful\, funny\, incisive confession\, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience\, drawing the universal and human out of every moment. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of the memoir “Sirens” (2017)\, as well as five novels including “Damascus”\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times.  His novel “All This Life” won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial. \nLidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and a critical book on war and narrative\, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. The Misfit’s Manifesto\, a book based on her recent TED Talk\, was publishe by TED Books. Her new collection of fiction\, Verge\, was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. Her writing has appeared widely in publications that include Guernica Magazine\, Ms.\, The Iowa Review\, Zyzzyva\, Another Chicago Magazine\, The Sun\, Exquisite Corpse\, TANK\, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights)\, Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil)\, Forms at War (FC2)\, Feminaissance (Les Figues Press)\, and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY)\, as well as online at The Rumpus. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-mohr-in-conversation-with-lidia-yuknavitch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 9 for the launch of Rebecca Handler’s debut novel\, Edie Richter is Not Alone on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84332843511\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84332843511#  or +13462487799\,\,84332843511#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 843 3284 3511\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdvjc80K3q \nPraise for Edie Richter is Not Alone \n“Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting\, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page\, Rebecca Handler’s novel is that rare thing: a perfect book.”\n—Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less  \n“Rebecca Handler’s debut novel Edie Richter Is Not Alone features a witty protagonist in the midst of an emotional and physical journey to Western Australia. Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore—it made me laugh with recognition and tear up with empathy. Reading this book will make you feel the way all good literature does: it will make you feel less alone.”\n—Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty  \nAbout Edie Richter is Not Alone \nFunny\, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth\, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move\, Edie and her husband were content\, if socially awkward―given her disinclination for small talk.\nIn Perth\, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world\, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways\, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life\, and rather than escaping her past\, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she’s done. Everybody\, from the wildlife to her new neighbors\, is keen to engage\, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying\, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking\, and impossible to stop. Something\, in the end\, has to give.\nWritten in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist’s observations and idiosyncrasies\, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler’s debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman’s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rebecca-handler/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:“What it Means to Love America”: Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:Limited copies of What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel with signed bookplate available with your ticket purchase!\nInformation and “the news” have become contested territories\, with more people than ever\, especially the young\, feeling that they just can’t trust what they read\, hear and watch. That’s a dangerous situation in the current moment of cultural and political reckoning when Americans need to work together. Times like these are when we’re especially grateful for broadcast journalist Dan Rather. \nDan Rather is the voice America trusts (as well as one of the most surprising Twitter stars of the Trump era). He has been our measured guide and witness to the most significant events of the past four decades\, from the assassination of JFK to the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War. Having covered every President since Eisenhower\, for the past four years he’s been a touchstone of decency and common sense during the most consequential time in recent political history. Now\, as our sorely tested democracy paves a new path forward\, Rather offers a stunning vision for true patriotism\, a “tonic for disaffected millennials and conservative grandpas alike” (People). With a brand-new graphic novel edition of the New York Times bestseller What Unites Us\, his “almost unbearably poignant” (BookPage) essay collection on what it means to be an American\, he reaches beyond generational and ideological divides\, giving us hope and courage. \nIn this live\, virtual conversation between Dan and Priya Clemens\, host of KQED Newsroom\, you’ll have the chance to ask one of our most revered living legends your questions about this extraordinary moment we find ourselves in\, and where we go from here. At the dawn of a new administration\, as hope begins to creep back in\, there’s no better time—and no better person—to guide us. \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. \nThis event makes a great gift! You can download a lovely card to forward to your recipient—we’ll take care of the rest\, including shipping books!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-it-means-to-love-america-dan-rather-on-what-unites-us-the-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were Infinite and celebrate a week early for Anna-Marie McLemore’s new book The Mirror Season.  \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Loy Gilbert is the author of the William C. Morris Debut Award finalist Conviction and Stonewall Honor Book Picture Us in the Light. When We Were Infinite is a powerful\, achingly romantic drama about the secrets we keep\, from each other and from ourselves. \nAll Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends—Grace Nakamura\, Brandon Lin\, Sunny Chen\, and Jason Tsou—to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark\, these friends are all she has—even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides\, she’s certain she’ll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him\, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence in Jason’s home\, and the whole group is shaken. Beth and her friends make a pact to do whatever it takes to protect Jason\, no matter the sacrifice. But when even their fierce loyalty isn’t enough to stop Jason from making a life-altering choice\, Beth must decide how far she’s willing to go for him—and how much of herself she’s willing to give up. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist The Weight of Feathers\, Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, Wild Beauty \, Blanca & Roja\, and Dark and Deepest Red. The Mirror Season is “An unforgettable story of trauma and healing\, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care.” ―Karen M. McManus\, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying \nWhen two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party\, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería\, his secret forest of otherworldly trees\, and the swallows returning to their hometown. \nThis is sure to be a fantastic and thought provoking conversation. \nA post-event temporary access recording of the webinar will be shared with all guests who register. Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelly-loy-gilbert-and-anna-marie-mclemore/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler & Caroline Paul
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 9 at 6pm PT for the launch of Rebecca Handler’s debut novel\, Edie Richter is Not Alone\, with Caroline Paul on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84332843511\n\nPraise for Edie Richter is Not Alone\n\n“Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting\, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page\, Rebecca Handler’s novel is that rare thing: a perfect book.”\n—Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less\n\n“Rebecca Handler’s debut novel Edie Richter Is Not Alone features a witty protagonist in the midst of an emotional and physical journey to Western Australia. Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore—it made me laugh with recognition and tear up with empathy. Reading this book will make you feel the way all good literature does: it will make you feel less alone.”\n—Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty\n\nAbout Edie Richter is Not Alone\n\nFunny\, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth\, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move\, Edie and her husband were content\, if socially awkward―given her disinclination for small talk.\nIn Perth\, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world\, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways\, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life\, and rather than escaping her past\, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she’s done. Everybody\, from the wildlife to her new neighbors\, is keen to engage\, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying\, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking\, and impossible to stop. Something\, in the end\, has to give.\nWritten in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist’s observations and idiosyncrasies\, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler’s debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman’s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rebecca-handler-caroline-paul/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event: Life After Death
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: \n  \nSister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event \nLife After Death \nby the bestselling author of “The Coldest Winter Ever” \n…………………………………………………………………………………………… \nTuesday\, March 9\, 2021\, 5:30 PM \n  \nTwenty years ago\, Sister Souljah’s debut novel\, “The Coldest Winter Ever\,” became a bestselling cultural phenomenon. Readers fell in love with the unforgettable Winter Santiago\, daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family\, who captivated her lovers\, friends\, and enemies with her sexy street smarts. For two decades\, readers have begged for answers about what happened to Winter. Now\, at last\, all is revealed in Sister Souljah’s brilliant sequel\, filled with her trademark passion\, danger\, temptation\, and raw adventure. \n  \n“The # 1 author of the Hip-Hop generation!” – Sean “P. Diddy” Combs \n  \n“Sister Souljah spreads messages that are clear\, concise\, and true to the game.” – THE SOURCE \n  \nSister Souljah is best known for her work as a political activist and educator of underclass urban youth. \n  \nSabrina Jacobs is the producer and host of KPFA’s popular show “A Rude Awakening.” In addition she is a frequent host and interviewer on KPFA’S Zoom webinar series with contemporary authors. \n  \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/sister-souljah-and-sabrina-jacobs-life-after-death-tickets-135779284495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sister-souljah-and-sabrina-jacobs-a-zoom-event-life-after-death/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Library Presents: Know Your Name with Tahtahme Xero\, Poet and Healer
DESCRIPTION:Tahtahme Xero will talk about her book Apricity (Nomadic Press\, 2020)\, and discuss her work as a healer\, poet and author. \nApricity follows the journey of a teenage transracial adoptee as she navigates addressing years of sexual abuse from her adoptive father\, her family’s recovery and falling in love for the first time. \nXero says this of Apricity\, “I hope the book I needed is a book found by people who need it as well. I hope you will pass it on to whoever else needs it. I hope it inspires you even just a little and in this way we can try to support each other\, heal\, teach the true tragedy of childhood sexual abuse and help stop it from continuing.” \nTahtahme Xero is a Sacred Woman\, Womb Worker and Rootworker. She and her husband have been together for over 13 years\, and have twin toddlers together. They all live in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-library-presents-know-your-name-with-tahtahme-xero-poet-and-healer/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin\, race\, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.\n\nLalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.\n\nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.\nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She the author of four novels\, including ‘The Moor’s Account’\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and ‘The Other Americans’\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cla-presents-laila-lalami/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer\nCo-presented with Impact Justice \nMonday\, March 8\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/21/2021\, 03/23/2021\, 03/24/2021\nTICKETS \n  \n\n\nThis event is a presented in partnership with Impact Justice \nReuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist\, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race\, democracy\, and the social life of the city. His book\, Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\, shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate\, and how parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished\, unstable\, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society. Miller has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey\, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago\, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s Southside. \nTerah Lawyer has been an advocate for incarcerated people for more than a decade as a peer health educator\, a certified drug and alcohol counselor\, a youth diversion specialist\, and now as program manager for the Homecoming Project\, an innovative re-entry housing program at Impact Justice. Ms. Lawyer is herself a formerly incarcerated person\, and that experience informs her commitment to improving the justice system. \nImpact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform. Impact Justice was founded in 2015 on an idea: to create an organization that would imagine\, innovate\, and accept absolutely nothing about the status quo of our current justice system. We know the problems: too many people locked up\, including far too many people of color; families broken up and broken by our justice system; and a culture that too often treats people based on fear\, oppression\, and bias. For us to build the future we need\, we must build the world we want today. Info at https://impactjustice.org/ \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reuben-jonathan-miller-in-conversation-with-terah-lawyer/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Irvin D. Yalom with Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nHow can we understand life\, joy and love during the moment when they culminate in death and grief? \nInternationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from loss and anxiety. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife and lifelong partner\, the late esteemed historian and feminist author Marilyn D. Yalom\, was diagnosed with cancer. Together\, they chose to write about their shared experience during her final months\, creating an unparalleled gift that Kirkus calls “A profound love story with lessons for how to live and how to die.” \n\n\n\n\nTheir memoir A Matter of Death and Life provides insight into grief from a remarkable couple who spent a life of close devotion from their teenage years onward. It catalogues the most intimate and daunting challenges two loved ones can undergo while trying to care for one another: Marilyn\, to die a good death\, and Irv to live on without her. During a year wracked with complex grief\, their shared story is a beautiful work of writing that offers much needed guidance. \nThrough alternating stories of their last months together and Irv’s first months alone\, A Matter of Death and Life rings with a depth of support\, solace\, and meaning around the process of grief… and also offers a warm\, resonant tribute to life well-lived. \nIn an interview with Lori Gottlieb\, Dr. Irvin Yalom visits with Kepler’s Literary Foundation online on March 8th to share A Matter of Death and Life. These two warm\, witty writers will discuss what is a grippingly poignant account of not only grief\, but the experience of love that gives it meaning. \n  \nIRVIN D. YALOM\, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University\, is the author of internationally bestselling books including Love’s Executioner\, The Gift of Therapy\, Becoming Myself\, and When Nietzsche Wept. His impact in the field of psychiatry is profound\, with one training text alone over 700\,000 copies sold; but it is his lifelong passion for literature and fiction\, paired with the deep human understanding of his psychiatric work\, that makes Yalom’s writing distinctly beloved at Kepler’s. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLORI GOTTLIEB is psychotherapist and author of the bestselling Kepler’s Favorite Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, now being adapted for television. In addition to clinical practice\, she writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” column and is the co-host of the eponymous iHeart Radio podcast produced by Katie Couric. A member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change and one of the most-watched TED presenters of 2020\, Lori’s expertise has made her a sought-after guest on media like The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, CBS This Morning\, CNN\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \nMARILYN YALOM (1932-2019) wrote many celebrated cultural histories and feminist works\, including Blood Sisters\, History of the Wife\, The Birth of the Chess Queen and (together with her son) The American Resting Place. This year marks the release of her posthumously published Innocent Witness: Childhood Memories of World War II. A professor of French at Stanford University and senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research\, she received her PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins and had a profound impact through both her academic contributions and teaching. Marilyn and Irv were married for sixty-five years. \n\n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction - Deborah Miranda\, Theresa Warburton\, Elissa Washuta
DESCRIPTION:Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013)\, recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award; and four poetry collections: Altar for Broken Things (2020)\, Raised by Humans (2015)\, The Zen of La Llorona (2005)\, and Indian Cartography (1999). She is co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature\, and her work has appeared in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: An Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. \nTheresa Warburton is the author of Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Literatures in Contemporary Anarchist Movements (forthcoming\, Northwestern University Press). With Elissa Washuta\, she is co-editor of Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University where she is also affiliate faculty in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Canadian-American Studies. She lives on Lummi\, Nooksack\, and Coast Salish Territories in Bellingham\, WA. \nElissa Washuta is the author of the nonfiction collections My Body Is a Book of Rules (2014)\, Starvation Mode (2018)\, and White Magic (forthcoming\, Tin House Books). With Theresa Warburton\, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient\, a Creative Capital awardee\, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-reading-series-shapes-of-native-nonfiction-deborah-miranda-theresa-warburton-elissa-washuta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Canton Discusses his new book\, The Oak Papers
DESCRIPTION:James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book\, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). \n“A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature\, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.”—Peter Wohlleben\, author of The Hidden Life of Trees \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Oak Papers\nJoining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk\, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. \nThrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship\, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex\, England. While considering the direction of his own life\, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries\, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. \nIn this beautiful\, transportive book\, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological\, spiritual\, literary\, and historical contexts\, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation\, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. \nCanton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak\, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats\, to fuel our fires\, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose\, then\, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? \nTaking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau\, Leo Tolstoy\, Katherine Basford’s Green Man\, Thomas Hardy\, William Shakespeare\, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces\, from human development to climate change\, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious\, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us\, if only we slow down enough to listen. \nAbout James Canton\nDr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape\, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS\, Caught by the River\, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex\, England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-canton-discusses-his-new-book-the-oak-papers/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\n\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\n\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\n\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-zoom-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-16/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book\, Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Simard\, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems\, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book\, Finding the Mother Tree (Knopf). \n“Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories\, connecting us to one another. Her vivid manuscript carries the stories of trees\, fungi\, soil and bears—and of a human being listening in on the conversation . . . I have great admiration for her science and her storytelling alike. These are stories that the world needs to hear.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer \nThis event is co-sponsored by Emergence Magazine and will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON. \nAbout Finding the Mother Tree\nSuzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson\, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. \nNow\, in her first book\, Simard brings us into her world\, the intimate world of the trees\, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths–that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp\, but are a complicated\, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social\, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. \nSimard writes–in inspiring\, illuminating\, and accessible ways–how trees\, living side by side for hundreds of years\, have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses\, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication\, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence\, traits that are the essence of civil societies–and at the center of it all\, the Mother Trees: the mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \nSimard writes of her own life\, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia\, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them–embarking on a journey of discovery\, and struggle. And as she writes of her scientific quest\, she writes of her own journey–of love and loss\, of observation and change\, of risk and reward\, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology\, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world\, and\, in writing of her own life\, we come to see the true connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do\, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival. \nAbout Suzanne Simard\nDR. SUZANNE SIMARD was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is Professor of Forest Ecology in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-simard-pioneering-scientist-discusses-her-anticipated-book-finding-the-mother-tree/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210305T013953Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic & Black Freighter Press
DESCRIPTION:Black Freighter is honored to team up with our comrades at Nomadic Press for a joint reading celebrating resistance art.\nJOIN US as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alie Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand\, Jr.\, James Cagney\, Ayodele Nzinga\, and Tureeda Mikell\, it’ll be a great evening of fam and joy.\nEvent is free and all are welcome. Donations will be called for throughout the evening to support both Nomadic Press and Black Freighter Press. \nCelebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press\, RSVP Here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-black-freighter-press/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210301T053437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T053437Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alie Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand\, Jr.\, James Cagney\, Ayodele Nzinga\, and Tureeda Mikell\, it’ll be a great evening of fam and joy.\n\nEvent is free and all are welcome. Donations will be called for throughout the evening to support both Nomadic Press and Black Freighter Press.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press\nTime: Mar 6\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85424533623\nMeeting ID: 854 2453 3623\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85424533623# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,85424533623# 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+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 854 2453 3623\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcaoRx37Sx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-arrival-of-black-freighter-press/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210301T005830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T005830Z
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SUMMARY:Page Poets reading online event at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:COVID wouldn’t stop Ovid! Or any other poets worth their salt\, so please join us for an exciting online reading from The Page Poets Series and The Divers Collection this Saturday\, March 6 from 5pm – 6:15. \nFeatured poets are Katharine Harer\, Charlie Pendergast\, Stan Stone\, Garrett Caples\, Mary Julia Klimenko\, Tamsin Smith and Jason Morris. \nHere’s how the press describes their work: \nThe Page Poets Series was conceived by friends on a bright day in a dark corner of The Page bar on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. We publish important Northern California poets whose work excites us. \nThe Divers Collection expands our horizons. It is dedicated to the discovery and exploration of eclectic creative treasures\, which we wish to share. \nTo sign up for this Saturday’s reading click on this link: https://meet.google.com/vne-woki-ytq \nFor more info on their publications check their website: fmsbwpress.com \nYou will be able to order copies of some books from the evening’s poets from The Green Arcade by contacting us at: TheGreenArcade.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/page-poets-reading-online-event-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210105T190102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T190102Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jean Shinoda Bolen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book Like a Tree\, which grew out of her experience mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her neighborhood\, provides an insightful look into the fusion of ecological issues and global gender politics. \nThat moment of loss\, combined with Bolen’s practice of walking among tall trees\, led to her deep connection with trees and an understanding of their many complexities. From their anatomy and physiology\, to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols\, Bolen expertly explores the dynamics of ecological activism spiritual activism and sacred feminism. And\, she invites us to join the movement to save trees. While there is still much work to be done to address environmental problems\, there are many stories of individuals and organizations rising up to make a change and help save our planet. The words and stories that Bolen weaves throughout this book are both inspirational and down-to-earth\, calling us to realize what is happening to not only our trees\, but our people. By writing about both the work of organizations like Greenpeace and the UN Commission on the Status of Women\, Bolen highlights her passions and shares her unique vision for the world. \nJean Shinoda Bolen is a psychiatrist\, Jungian analyst\, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology\, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute\, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women\, the International Transpersonal Association\, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions and is in three acclaimed documentaries. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the author of 17 books of creative nonfiction including the classic in environmental literature Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; and most recently\, Erosion: Essays of Undoing\, just out in paperback. A member of the American Academy of Arts and letters\, she is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and lives in Castle Valley\, Utah with the writer Brooke Williams. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-jean-shinoda-bolen-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210114T010048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210114T010048Z
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SUMMARY:Poemscaping: Trim. Write. Repeat.
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you will learn a bold and effective strategy to revise your working poems! \nThis revision workshop helps poets create new horizons for their work by creating a no-pressure environment where trimming a poem leads to its rebirth. \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nIn this workshop\, participants will learn how to systematically revise a poem that they have been struggling with. They will do this by first pointing out and letting go of details they have become attached to so they can look at the piece with a fresh perspective. Then they will trim the poem to find what shines. Finally\, they will elaborate—turning that shiny poem even into something even more radiant. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• A comprehensive toolkit for revising poems \n • A fresh perspective on a poem you’ve been stuck on \n • Tangible suggestions on how you can revise your poem  \nWhat You’ll Need:\nA poem you have been working on that you are willing to play around with. \n*** \nAbout the Teacher:\nMatthew Feinstein is a poet\, educator and editor who holds a BA in English – Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach and is pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. He has served as a supplemental instructor in English at California State University\, Dominguez Hills. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys\, Rejection Letters\, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Plum Recruit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poemscaping-trim-write-repeat/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
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SUMMARY:Joyous Resilience: Book Talk & Meditation with author Anjuli Sherin
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for a book talk and guided meditation with author Anjuli Sherin\, hosted by Shivani Narang.\nWith so much information available on the most effective ways to build resilience—ranging from general tips for better mental health\, such as meditation\, exercise\, time in nature and online hygiene\, to the latest statistics and strategies that neuroscience can offer—what keeps people from implementing all this well-meaning advice? Or if you practice these techniques and still find yourself exhausted\, irritable\, unhappy\, anxious or dissatisfied\, do you ever wonder what is missing? \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT \nCopies of Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nAbout the Book:\nIn this warm and accessible guide\, Pakistani American therapist Anjuli Sherin provides a healing path to make thriving possible for everyone. Through compelling client stories and reflective exercises\, she offers a culturally informed\, body -centered model that shows us how cultivating self-nurturance\, healthy boundaries\, pleasure\, and a soulful connection to the natural world can give us the generative energy needed to heal individual and collective trauma and shape our world from an inner magic called joyous resilience. \nWith meditations\, tools and guides throughout the book\, readers will have ample opportunity to reflect on their own unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and develop their path to joyous resilience. \nAbout the Author:\nAnjuli Sherin\, LMFT\, is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery\, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has more than 15 years of practice working with immigrant\, South Asian\, Middle Eastern\, Muslim and LGBTQ+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sherin also trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology\, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler\, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service\, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyous-resilience-book-talk-meditation-with-author-anjuli-sherin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210217T023940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T023940Z
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Giardino on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-giardino-on-instagram-igtv/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210217T010050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T010050Z
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Dane Cervine and Margo Taft Stever reading from their poetry. Also includes open mic and literary trivia quiz. \nDane Cervine’s forthcoming book\, The World Is God’s Language\, will be published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2021. Recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag) and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). Dane is an award-winning poet and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in numerous respected literary magazines. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. See https://danecervine.typepad.com/. \nMargo Taft Stever’s most recent collections are Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press\, 2019) and Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press\, 2019). She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. As Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University\, she teaches a course on poetry and bioethics. She lives in Sleepy Hollow\, New York (www.margotaftstever.com).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-3/
LOCATION:virtual\, 9208 Chanute Drive\, Bethesda\, MD\, 20814\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T122632
CREATED:20210212T045313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T045313Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Maud's Line
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nSpring dates: \nMarch 3: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu \nApril 7: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi  Dangarembga \nMay 5: Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble \nJune 2: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart \nJuly 7: Real Life by Brandon Taylor \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-mauds-line/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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