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The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
2018-06-19 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | PianoFight, 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, 94102, United States
NEXT up: Tuesday June 19th, 2018
Our featured artist is: James Zealous (Ellis)

at PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy),
San Francisco, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART
Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.
Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.

Get Lit #37 (Music by TBD)
2018-06-19 19:00 - 22:00 | Ale Industries, 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, 94601, United States
Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. Hosted by Christine No with music by TBD.
Featured lineup of writers TBA
Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
Beer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome, though profanity will be present.
Get beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.

BOOKSMITH: Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible
2018-06-19 19:30 - 21:00 | The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, 94117, United States
Booksmith hosts Yrsa Daley-Ward for her remarkable new book The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir. Please join us!

From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir — part prose, part verse — about coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family
“You may not run away from the thing that you are
because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.”

This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened–“even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things.” It’s about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun, half frightening); and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars.

It’s also about the surreal magic of adolescence, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It’s about damage and pain, but also joy. Told with raw intensity and shocking honesty, The Terrible is a memoir of going under, losing yourself, and finding your voice.

Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. She splits her time between London and New York.

This event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required.

Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Books:

The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (Paperback)

By Yrsa Daley-Ward
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143132622
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Penguin Books – June 5th, 2018

Bone (Paperback)

By Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9780143132615
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books – September 26th, 2017

Chris Feliciano Arnold
2018-06-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his new book, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon.
About The Third Bank of the River
A sweeping look at the war over the Amazon―as activists,locals, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt cops and politicians
Following doctors and detectives, environmental activists and indigenous tribes, The Third Bank of the River traces the history of the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest. Grounded in rigorous firsthand reporting and in-depth research, Chris Feliciano Arnold reveals a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex, bloody, and often tragic.

During the 2014 world cup, an isolated Amazon tribe emerged from the rain forest on the misty border of Peru and Brazil, escaping massacre at the hands of loggers who wanted their land. A year later, in the jungle capital of Manaus, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflame a drug war that has blurred the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the world’s largest river. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral culture and territory to the lure and threat of the outside world, the question arises of how best to save isolated tribes: Keep them away from the modern world or make contact in an effort to save them from extinction? As Brazil looks to be a world leader in the twenty-first century, this magnificent and vast region is mired in chaos and violence that echoes the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first traveled its waters.

Katharine Dion
2018-06-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Launch celebration for her debut novel, The Dependents, a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage.
“A marvel of a novel. With great subtlety and tact, it evokes the love, devotion, and sadness that bind a grieving father to his troubled daughter. Its cumulative power comes from the depth of Dion’s entry into her characters and the vividness of her prose that brings them to life. The Dependents is one of the best debut novels I’ve read in years, and a very auspicious one.”–Adam Haslett

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 – 7:30pm

After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary, challenges not only his happy version of the past but also his view of Maida. As a long-standing rift between them deepens, Gene starts to understand how unknown his daughter is to him–and how enigmatic his wife was as well. And a lingering suspicion seizes his mind that could upend everything he thought he knew.
Katharine Dion’s assured debut moves seamlessly between Gene’s present-day journey and the long history of a marriage and friendship. Rich and wonderfully alive, The Dependents is the most moving kind of drama, an intimate glance into the expanse of family life and the way we must all eventually bridge the chasm between what we want to believe and what we know to be true.
Katharine Dion is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow and the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in Berkeley.

Event address:

2904 College Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94705

The Dependents (Hardcover)

By Katharine Dion
$26.00
ISBN: 9780316473873
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Little Brown and Company – June 19th, 2018

Yrsa Daley-Ward : Reading & Conversation
2018-06-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Mills College, Littlefield Concert Hall, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94613, United States
Yrsa Daley-Ward : Reading & Conversation

Wednesday, June 20, 6:00pm
Mills College: Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
Join Yrsa Daley-Ward in exploring the honest, humorous and vivid memories of her coming of age as an artist. Her prose and poetry takes us through a voyage that is brilliant and biting, raw and succulent, depicting the lush landscapes and textures of love, trauma, healing and metamorphosis.
Yrsa Daley-Ward will be discussing her new memoir, The Terrible, which explores the triumphant and tumultuous journey from girlhood to womanhood. A lyrical odyssey of the Diaspora as seen through the eyes and felt through the flesh and bone of a first generation Jamaican-Nigerian blooming in the United Kingdom.
Pegasus Books will be the onsite bookseller.
Select readings by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Q&A followed by book signing
Special musical guest ASTU
Tickets available here.

Event date:

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 – 6:00pm

Event address:

Mills College: Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd

Oakland,

The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (Paperback)

By Yrsa Daley-Ward
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143132622
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Penguin Books – June 5th, 2018

Novelist Moriel Rothman-Zecher
2018-06-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Sadness is a White Bird.
“Ultimately, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer, poet, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature, his work has been published in The New York Times, Haaretz, The Paris Review’s Daily, and elsewhere. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio with his wife, Kayla, and their dog, Silly Department. Read more at TheLefternWall.com and follow him on Twitter @Moriel_R

Ana Raquel Minian
2018-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
Ana Raquel Minian
Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco

discussing the subject of her new book
Undocumented Lives The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
from Harvard University Press

In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places, and yet neither country made them feel welcome.
Ana Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters, songs, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S., they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold.
Undocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States.
Ana Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

Related Links:

Read Ana Raquel Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States
Read Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is whythere are so many Dreamers
Read a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics
Watch Minian discuss DACA on Univision
At the Atlantic, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.
At Univision, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives
Watch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States

Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Sadness is a White Bird
2018-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Sadness is a White Bird.
“Ultimately, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian

Moriel Rothman-Zecher in conversation with Ayelet Waldman
2018-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Moe’s welcomes Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Sadness is a White Bird.
“Ultimately, “Sadness is a White Bird” is a nuanced examination of what it is like to be just one person at the front line of a century-old conflict. Rothman-Zecher delicately tells one deeply unique story without claiming to explain every individual’s experience or devaluing experiences unlike his own. Written in beautiful prose, with sentences that will leave you tearing up on the bus ride to work, Rothman-Zecher complicates our worldview and forces us to look internally, examining how we hold ourselves and our world morally accountable.” The Daily Californian
Ayelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation.
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer, poet, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature, his work has been published in The New York Times, Haaretz, The Paris Review’s Daily, and elsewhere. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio with his wife, Kayla, and their dog, Silly Department.

Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
2018-06-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, 94704, United States
Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

Wednesday, June 20, 7:30pm
This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown
Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
Lyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area.
Hosted and Curated by Mk Chavez, Sharon Coleman, and Lark Omura.
Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.

Event date:

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 – 7:30pm

Event address:

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave

Berkeley, CA

Shattuck Location

Jana Casale
2018-06-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Jana Casale discusses her new novel, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky.
Praise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
“Casale writes with both energy and humor. She is an exquisite storyteller. In creating Leda and her story, Casale magically weaves together the tiny moments in life, allowing them to gain momentum and build off each other, until they culminate into an extraordinary tale that has spunk and charm.” —Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
“As the perfect title suggests, the books we don’t read can shape us just as much as the ones we do. However, unlike our titular heroine and her copy of Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, I guarantee you’ll fly through this one. It’s a rare gem of a debut–funny, heartbreaking, and genuinely profound.”--Ed Park, author of Personal Days
“How do you account for a life? In Jana Casale’s poignant debut, the answer has as much to do with the things her protagonist, Leda – college student, wife, writer, temporary Orca expert, mother – wanted to do and didn’t, as what she actually lives. A funny, tender and touching illumination of the extraordinary beauty contained in a seemingly everyday life. I can’t stop thinking about this book.” —Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
About The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
We first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon, notable only for the fact that it’s the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins. Leda hopes that, by engaging him, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda’s left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never—ever—reads it.
As the days, years, and decades of the rest of her life unfold, we see all of the things Leda does instead, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments, we see the work—both visible and invisible—of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat—bracingly funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.

Poetry Nap · Chapter Three, The Secret of Forgotten Stars
2018-06-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Rudramandir, 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 94710
Slip your shoes off, lie down, and drift away to poetry and music of the masters woven into enchanting, witty and immersive tales. Enter the luxurious, the sublime and subliminal for the world premiere of Poetry Nap ★ Chapter 3, The Secret of Forgotten Stars.
Join us, Lady and Lord Dosis, time voyagers of the dream world, as we guide you through the fantastical cosmos.
Enjoy the elegant, cozy environment of Rudramandir, with cushions, blankets, carved wood columns, Persian rugs, and dreamy tea as you recline and cuddle with some of our most treasured poets from times past and present such as Pablo Neruda, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, Michael McClure, Mary Oliver, e e cummings, and Gary Snyder to name but a few. Though we provide some cush, for the fullest plush, bring your own additional quilts, pillows, PJs, pals, and panache.
You do the resting. We do the rest.
Ethereally, surreally, and really yours,
Lady & Lord Dosis
http://poetrynap.com
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Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
2018-06-21 07:30 - 21:30 | The Bindery, 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , 94117, United States
Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes, story-telling, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle!

Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available, tickets at the door will be $15.

Please note: this event will be held at The Bindery, 1727 Haight.

This is an all ages event. Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.

RSVP appreciated but not required.

Zoé Samudzi
2018-06-21 19:00 - 20:30 | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book

As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation
by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with a foreword by Mariame Kaba
published by AK Press

Over the course of United States history, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people.
Zoé Samudzi Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue, BGD, Bitch Media, and Verso, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic, an Oakland-based collective and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of Black artistic production & literary-visual culture.
Visit http://www.zoesamudzi.com
William C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College, where he’s a contributing editor covering race, class, and immigration.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.

Joel Selvin, Fare Thee Well
2018-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, 95060, United States
Joel Selvin, Fare Thee Well
Thursday, June 21, 2018 – 7:00pm
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes music journalist and bestselling author Joel Selvin for a discussion and signing of his new book, Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of The Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip.
FARE THEE WELL is a tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group, the surviving “Core Four,” as they came to be called, were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy, the band made many attempts at restructuring, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage.
Acclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper, and joyous, sendoff of the group revered by so many.
JOEL SELVIN is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor, with Sammy Hagar, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco, California.

This event will be free at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip (Hardcover)
By Joel Selvin, Pamela Turley (With)
$27.00
ISBN: 9780306903052
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Da Capo Press – June 19th, 2018
Fare Thee Well–GET IT SIGNED!
$27.00
SKU: S780306903052
Name (optional)
If you cannot attend the event, you can still have a copy of Fare Thee Well signed for you at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store after they have been signed. Internet orders must be placed by Wednesday, June 19th. After that, please call the store to inquire about signed editions.
Most authors will be happy to add a name to their signature, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.

Story is the Thing
2018-06-21 19:30 - 20:30 | Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, 94025, United States
Join us on Thursday, June 21st for our quarterly reading series – Story is the Thing – that highlights established authors and stars on the rise. This evening, we’ll showcase a dynamic and diverse group of seven writers reading on the theme “Kindness”: Dinika Amaral, Idris Anderson, Tristen Chang, Betsy Franco, Carrie La Seur, Elaine Castillo, and Peg Alford Pursell.
“We are real only in moments of kindness” -cited by Meave Brennan in her author’s note from “The Long-Winded Lady.”
Reading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm.
Dinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay, India. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Times of India, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Golden Handcuffs Review, Denver Quarterly, the Massachusetts Review, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently, a Steinbeck Fellow, she is working on an unlinked story collection and a novel.
Idris Anderson’s second collection of poems Doubtful Soundwas selected by Sherod Santos for the Hollis Summers Prize of Ohio UP, and was just published in March 2018. Her first collection of poems Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee was selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Poetry Award. She has won a Pushcart Prize (2010) and the New York Yeats Society Poetry Prize. She has published poems in AGNI Crab Orchard Review, The Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, Plume, Southern Review, and other journals.
Tristen Chang grew up in Woodland, California, and received her MA in English from UC Davis. Her work has appeared in various journals and she was twice a finalist for Glimmer Train’s short story award. Recently, she won first place in Six Fold’s fiction contest and was awarded the Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction. She now lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing.
Betsy Franco is an award winning author of over eighty books, including her novel Naked, her YA, Metamorphosis Junior Year, and her picture books and poetry collections. She wrote the screenplay for Naked, which has been optioned for a film, and she was screenwriting mentor for Metamorphosis, featured at the Mill Valley Film Festival and the basis of a sold-out play. She loves working with teens and is inspired by her creative sons, James, Tom, and Dave.
Carrie La Seur practices energy and environmental law on behalf of farmers, ranchers, and Native Americans, and is a seventh generation Montanan. In 2016 she helped found The House of Books, a co-op bookstore in downtown Billings, MT. In 2006, Carrie founded the legal nonprofit Plains Justice, which provides public interest energy and environmental legal services in the northern plains states and played a key role in halting several new coal plants, enacting clean energy reforms, and launching the Keystone XL pipeline campaign. Her writing has appeared in Grist, the Guardian, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Rumpus and Salon.
Elaine Castillo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and received her MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Milpitas, California. America is Not the Heart is her first novel.
Peg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, a collection of fiction and hybrid prose with praise from Peter Orner, Joan Silber, Antonya Nelson, and others, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine’s second annual 5 over 50, December 2017. Her second book, A Girl Goes into the Forest, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2019. Her work has appeared in Permafrost, the Los Angeles Review, Joyland Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press.

BOOKSMITH: an evening with Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham
2018-06-21 19:30 - 21:00 | The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, 94117, United States
Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us!

Mortal Trash by Kim Addonizio

Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.

Kim Addonizio has been called “one of our nation’s most provocative and edgy poets.” She is the author of six poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry. Her latest are Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton) and Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her writing has appeared in New York Times, Poetry, The Sun, and numerous literary journals and anthologies. She offers poetry workshops privately in Oakland and online
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4:30 Movie by Donna Masini

In poems that are by turns intimate and wild, provocative and tender, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss, global violence, and the consolations of art. She brings her wit, grief, fury, and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise, 4:30 Movie is fueled by despair and humor, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room, part childhood, part underground depths where the self is a bit player, riding the subway with “its engine of extras.” Masini’s exquisite word play shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful foreshortened run.

Donna Masini is the author of two previous collections of poetry and one novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and New York Foundation of the Arts grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

Double Portrait by Brittany Perham

Each poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved, child and parent, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen, to reflect and be reflected, to address and be addressed? With musicality, grit, and humor, these poems challenge our conceptions of identity and language. By questioning the ways we think and speak, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience, they formalize obsession. Emotionally stirring and unapologetic, Double Portrait contemplates the nature of devotion.

Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton, 2017), which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions, 2012); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco.

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Books:

Mortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)

By Kim Addonizio
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393354348
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st, 2017

Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Paperback)

By Kim Addonizio
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143128465
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books – June 21st, 2016

Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (Paperback)

By Kim Addonizio
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393334166
Availability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – February 1st, 2009

Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Paperback)

By Kim Addonizio
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393335255
Availability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – January 1st, 2011

The Palace of Illusions: Stories (Paperback)

By Kim Addonizio
$15.95
ISBN: 9781593766252
Availability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Soft Skull Press – September 15th, 2015

4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)

By Donna Masini
$25.95
ISBN: 9780393635508
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th, 2018

Turning to Fiction: Poems (Paperback)

By Donna Masini
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393328448
Availability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – April 1st, 2006

Double Portrait (Hardcover)

By Brittany Perham
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393354010
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th, 2017

The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions) (Paperback)

By Brittany Perham
$14.00
ISBN: 9781602352391
Availability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Parlor Press – November 3rd, 2011

Hazel White
2018-06-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
presents Vigilance is No Orchard, an experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin.

Bawdy Storytelling 'JACKPOT!'
2018-06-21 20:00 - 22:30 | Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, 94110, United States
ABOUT BAWDY STORYTELLING
Storytelling is about building a connection. So is sex.
For the past 11 years, Bawdy has featured true stories of sex, kink, body image, gender and more to build community and bring people together. We do regular live storytelling events in two cities, but that’s just one way to enjoy Bawdy. Our podcast and YouTube channel are great ways to get your Bawdy fix, too.
Our live events feature an eclectic mix of authors, poets, comedians and actors – along with real people just like you – sharing their adventures in ten minutes or less, with no notes. This is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant, transformational tales at each and every show. Storytellers submit their material online and are chosen for their panache and sense of (mis)adventure. Dixie curates submitted stories, then works with experienced and first-time storytellers to create a one-of-a-kind evening for each and every Bawdy. Her coaching superpowers tease out surprisingly powerful stories of sex, kink or gender. Then at showtime, Dixie coaches the audience, too – creating an emotionally supportive, unintimidating, and sex-positive atmosphere that’s unique, engaging and fun. Add connecting games (like the ever-popular Bang-O) and you have a show that’ll be your new favorite social event EVER.
Come see what LA Weekly calls “The Moth for pervs” and meet new, open-minded people. Before you know it, you’ll be wanting to share your stories, too.
ABOUT DIXIE DE LA TOUR
Dixie has earned the title of America’s premier sexual folklorist. Once called “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”, she is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. In addition to being the founder, curator, and host of the long-running Bawdy Storytelling series, Dixie is also an accomplished storytelling coach and offers workshops for anyone who wants to communicate better and inspire others, no matter what the subject matter. As a storyteller, Dixie’s own stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast. She is based in San Francisco and hosts live shows across the United States.
AWARDS

Best Storytelling Show (SFist)
Best of San Francisco (SF Weekly)
Best of Los Angeles (LA Weekly)
Best Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian)
Top Ten Sex Podcast (Esquire Magazine)

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After Hours: Jeff Goodell - The Water Will Come
2018-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Main Reading Room, Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, 94941, United States
Friday, June 22nd · 7:00pm
Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, has traveled across 12 countries to interview scientists and leaders about climate change. He will present his findings and report how climate change and sea level rise are affecting major cities, coastal villages, island nations and the military.
Registration recommended. Registration opens June 4th.
Add to my:iCal/Outlook
When:Friday, June 22, 2018
Time:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, California, 94941
Event Type:Library, After Hours
Contact:(415) 389-4292

TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: DAPHNE GOTTLIEB AND SAGE CURTIS)
2018-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Nomadic Press: Uptown, 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features Daphne Gottlieb and Sage Curtis!
Music by TBA.
Telegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below.
Safe Space Statement
Nomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism, misogyny, homophobia, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else.
Come early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz.
To help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give), but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press books, as always, will be for sale at the event.
Wine and Red Bay coffee will be available.

Julian Francis Park, Lauren Levin, and Isabel Bezerra Balee
2018-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Julian Francis Park lives in Oakland and writes poems, narrative, literary criticism, and social theory. Through the Bay Area Public School Julian facilitates a writing workshop, “Writing with world stuff,” at the Omni Commons, where Julian also is on the Communications and Challenging Dominant Cultures working groups. Julian works reception in Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic. Tweets: @jfpark3; links: https://jfpark.tumblr.com/texts
Lauren Levin is the author of The Braid (Krupskaya) and Justice Piece/Transmission (forthcoming, Timeless, Infinite Light 2018). They are a Summer 2018 Columnist at Open Space, SFMoma’s arts and culture platform and from 2011-2014, co-edited the Poetic Labor Project. Lauren is from New Orleans and lives in Richmond, CA.
Isabel Bezerra Balée writes poems and works at a nonprofit in Berkeley. Previously, she has taught creative writing at Tulane University. Born and raised in New Orleans, with roots in Northern Brazil, she feels a deep connection to floodplains. Links and writings can be found at: ibalee.tumblr.com. Isabel lives in Oakland.

Poetry with Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, Brittany Perham
2018-06-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, 94704, United States
Poetry with Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, Brittany Perham

Friday, June 22, 7:30pm
Pegasus Books Downtown
Pegasus welcomes renowned poets Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham, for an evening of shared words from recent works.
Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books, most recently Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin), and a poetry collection, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Sun, Poetry, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is an occasional presenter for BBC Radio. She lives in Oakland, CA, and teaches poetry workshops privately and online. Visit her at www.kimaddonizio.com.

Donna Masini’s third book of poems, 4:30 Movie (W.W. Norton and Co., 2018) will be out this May. She is the author of Turning to Fiction (W.W. Norton 2004), That Kind of Danger (Beacon Press, 1994), and a novel, About Yvonne (W.W. Norton,1998). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Open City, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Pushcart Prize, Brooklyn Poets, Best American Poetry 2015. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, she is a Professor of English at Hunter College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program. She is at work on a novel, The Good Enough Mother.

Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton, 2017), which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions, 2012); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco.

Event date:

Friday, June 22, 2018 – 7:30pm

Event address:

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave

Berkeley, CA 94704

Mortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)

By Kim Addonizio
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393354348
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st, 2017

4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)

By Donna Masini
$25.95
ISBN: 9780393635508
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th, 2018

Double Portrait (Hardcover)

By Brittany Perham
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393354010
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th, 2017

For Kids ages 4-8 Leslie Crawford
2018-06-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Presents Sprig the Rescue Pig, nspired by the true story of a feisty swine who escapes a delivery truck and ends up at an animal sanctuary, this gently humorous tale introduces kids to an intelligent, inquisitive, and very appealing pig.
“May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are.”–Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig, Tamed & Untamed, and The Soul of an Octopus
To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Sprig the Rescue Pig by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

Saturday, June 23, 2018 – 4:00pm

Things aren’t looking good for Sprig, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn’t know where they’re going but his nose knows there’s something better out there.
So with one dramatic leap, or really more of a tumble, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig who finds his way to an animal sanctuary.
The book includes a bonus section called “More About Pigs,” where curious readers will learn that pigs are smart enough to play video games, enjoy sleeping in cozy pig piles, run really fast, and other amazing facts.
A journalist and editor for more than twenty years, Leslie Crawford has primarily written about health and education. It was thanks to her 12-year-old daughter Molly, who has never met an animal she doesn’t like, that Leslie developed an interest in writing about animals. Crawford lives in San Francisco with her two children, six chickens, five foster pigeons, and a bearded dragon lizard named Georgia.

CATHY CASSADY: TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID
2018-06-23 16:00 - 18:00 | The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
SAT. JUNE 23RD, 4-6PM

TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID BY CAROLYN CASSADY

Join us for an afternoon with Cathy Cassady, eldest daughter of Neal and Carolyn Cassady, and editor of the newly published Travel Tips for the Timid, written and richly illustrated by Carolyn.
For many years, and somewhat unbeknownst to her children until after her passing, Carolyn Cassady remained hard at work writing and painting, and this book is part of the trove of art and writing she left behind. Travel Tips for the Timid follows Carolyn’s journeys abroad with her children, dispelling the kind of surprises that often catch travelers—particularly first-time travelers—by surprise.
This event will include readings from the book, as well as a discussion and Q&A with Cathy about Carolyn’s exceptional life and work.

Carolyn Cassady (April 28, 1923–September 20, 2013), immortalized as “Camille” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, graduated from Bennington College with a degree in Drama. She moved to Denver to pursue her Masters in Theater Arts; while there, she met and married Neal Cassady, who became known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey. But Carolyn was a prolific artist in her own right. Aside from enjoying painting, sculpting, drafting, block printing, embroidery, upholstering, and theater arts, she also published two memoirs, Heart Beatand Off the Road. She was fortunate enough to be able to pursue her passion for the theater as the Artistic Director for both the San Jose Light Opera Company and the Santa Clara University Drama Department. For many years, she designed stage sets, costumes, and hairstyles for the local dance school. When her three kids were grown and gone, Carolyn moved to England, where she lived her remaining thirty years.

Poetry
2018-06-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Rodney Koeneke, Dodie Bellamy, and Ross Simonini
Hosted by Kevin Killian

Poetry Flash -- featuring Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham
2018-06-24 15:00 - 17:00 | East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 94618
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday, June 24th at 3pm. The month’s feature poets are Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham.
Kim Addonizio’s latest book of poems is Mortal Trash. Terrance Hayes calls it “Peerless poetry…reliably remarkable clarity, edge, and emotion.” This is her seventh collection. She’s been a finalist for the National Book Award, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and a Pushcart Prize. Among her other publications are four books of fiction and her Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life. An occasional presenter for BBC radio, she teaches workshops privately and online.
Donna Masini’s new book of poems is 4:30 Movie. Tracy K. Smith says, “Truly inspired…4:30 Movie is a stunning, playful, searing, healing collection that will enlarge the reader and revive something crucial in American poetry.” Her two previous collections are Turning to Fiction and That Kind of Danger. She has also published a novel, About Yvonne. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship and another from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Best American Poetry 2015.
Brittany Perham’s second book of poems, Double Portrait, won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Claudia Rankine. Eavan Boland says, “This unswerving, ambitious work brings the reader on a wild and thrilling journey. The poems lead into a world where desire, the body, memory and invention are looked at in the bright light of language; nothing forgiven, everything laid bare.…” She is also the author of the full-length collection The Curiosities and, with Kim Addonizio, the chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is now a Jones Lecturer in their Creative Writing Program.

Wolff Translator’s Prize Winner Isabel Fargo Cole: Unearthing Wolfgang Hilbig
2018-06-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Goethe Institut, 530 Bush St #204, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
Goethe-Institut San Francisco | ART-Lounge | 530 Bush Street (entrance street level) | San Francisco, California

Join us for a double celebration at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco! We will toast Berlin-based translator Isabel Fargo Cole, winner of this year’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s Old Rendering Plant, and the recent publication of The Tidings of the Trees. Cole will discuss the translator as discoverer, the challenges of recreating the experience of language, and the artistic intimacy one cultivates by translating multiple works by the same writer with editor and critic Joseph Schreiber.

Jonathan White, Tides
2018-06-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, 95060, United States
Jonathan White, Tides

Monday, June 25, 2018 – 7:00pm

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes marine conservationist Jonathan White for a reading and signing of his new book, Tides: The Spirit of the Ocean.
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, he shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont St. Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture – the very old and very new.
Jonathan White is an active marine conservationist, a sailor, and a surfer. His first book, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity, is a collection of interviews exploring our relationship with nature and features Gretel Ehrlich, David Brower, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Snyder, Peter Matthiessen, and others. White has written for the Christian Science Monitor, The Sun, Orion, Surfer’s Journal, and other publications. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and lives with his wife and son on a small island in Washington State.

This event will be free at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.

Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean (Paperback)

By Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen (Foreword by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781595348517
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Trinity University Press – June 15th, 2018

Tides–GET IT SIGNED

$18.95
SKU: S781595348517

Name (optional)

If you cannot join us for this event, you can still have a copy of his book Tides signed for you at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store once they are signed. Internet orders must be placed by Friday, June 22nd. After that, please call the store to inquire about signed editions at 831-423-0900.
Most authors will be happy to add a name to their signature, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
