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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWe are thrilled to celebrate with Kepler’s favorite Daniel Mason for his new book\, A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth. Join us online as we raise a glass to an incredible collection of literature. If you’ve read Mason\, best-selling author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner\, you already know that this new book of short stories is one that you don’t want to miss. \nIncluding nine stories of human endurance\, vivacity\, and accomplishment that range from a balloonist’s unexpected discovery to multiple medical marvels\, Mason’s writing will help you soar\, believe in minor miracles\, and explore the human condition. If you loved Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone but have never read Mason\, this book is the perfect introduction to a writer who will sweep you away. \nA professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University\, Mason’s previous novels have been translated into 28 languages\, adapted for the opera and theater\, and marked bestseller lists across the world. At times funny and irreverent\, always moving and deeply urgent\, the stories in this new collection— among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner— cap a fifteen-year project. \nJoining the discussion to interview Mason is Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer\, another longtime Kepler’s favorite. Greer has authored six works of fiction\, including the bestsellers Less and The Confessions of Max Tivoli. \nTogether\, these two titans in literature will transport you to a different world through a discussion of one of the most revered bastions of American letters: finely crafted\, utterly original\, and richly imagined short stories. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as the webinar can fill up quickly. Free registrations are limited in quantity; to support the author and Kepler’s\, please consider with-book access if you are able. ** 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo Bicchieri » Grey Rosado » Rhea Dhanbhoora » Richelle Lee Slota | Jennifer Ng » Nora Boxer » Steven Hill » Steven Gray » Lilian Wang » D.S. Black » Caroline Goodwin » Noah Sanders » Kelly Gray » Amy Smith » Dawn Angelicca Barcelona\nWe’ll be streaming at this link (pw in link).\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 846 3452 8987\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \n\n\n\nThanks to everyone who sent in work for our virtual show on 7/6! We received 75 submissions and accepted 21 (28%).  Curators extraordinaire Edmund Zagorin & Nazelah Jamison have put together a show FEATURING ALL OF TODAY’S LAMENTABLE HITS: the novel coronavirus\, systemic racism\, capitalism\, the patriarchy\, fear\, anxiety\, shame\, and premature\, unnecessary death. Join us for community alchemy as we move together from Mississippi to Beirut\, through family disconnects and isolation to the intersections of longing and belonging. \nAll selected authors will perform on 7/6 as part of a literary mixtape\, without introductions or banter. They will also be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 106\, featuring cover art by nkiruka oparah! “Fuzzy Room” is pictured above. \nThe show is free and all ages. If you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’re committed to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n\n\n\nStats for this show \n\nWe accepted 21 out of 79 submissions (28%)\n9 authors are making their QL debut (43%)\n12 authors are returning (57%)\n\nDiana Donovan (3x\, last time was 5/4/20)\nChristopher Dizon (1x\, 5/4/15)\nPaolo Bicchieri (1x\, 11/5/18)\nGrey Rosado (8x\, last time was 7/1/19)\nRichelle Lee Slota (2x\, last time was 1/6/20)\nSteven Hill (1x\, 7/1/19)\nSteven Gray (7x\, last time was 7/2/18)\nD.S. Black (2x\, last time was 1/1/18)\nCaroline Goodwin (1x\, 11/5/12)\nNoah Sanders (1x\, 11/4/19)\nKelly Gray (1x\, 3/2/20)\nAmy Smith (1x\, 1/6/20)\n\n\n25 have never attended a QL (32%)\n40 have read at QL before (51%)\n7 have never been published (9%)\n1 is being published for the first time\nThe largest age groups of submitters were:\n\n19-29 (19%)\n30-39 (33%)\n40-56 (19%)\n\n\n\nPrior to this show\, we have produced 133 events featuring 1\,584 individual performances by 825 different authors and 113 visual artists in 91 venues\, as selected by 65 curators. \n\nAbout the curators \nElizeya Quate (Edmund Zagorin) is a writer dwelling mysteriously both inside and outside this exact sentence. Quate’s work has appeared in Joyland\, Entropy\, Big Lucks\, Sleepingfish\, sparkle + blink\, the 2016 novel The Face of Our Town (Kernpunkt Press) and the 2018 chapbook cra-que-lure (Finishing Line Press). A resident of Schema\, Quate hosts the monthly performance art event Make It Look Like An Accident. \nNazelah Jamison is a performance poet\, actor\, vocalist\, and emcee. She is an East Coast transplant\, former organizer of the Oakland Poetry Slam and sometimes reluctant superhero. Her first book of poetry\, Evolutionary Heart\, was released in Fall of 2016 on Nomadic Press. Nazelah gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Meredith O'Brien & Leslie Gray Streeter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Meredith O’Brien (Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis) & Leslie Gray Streeter (Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Uncomfortably Numb and/or Black Widow and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O’Brien \nIt begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem\, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer\, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change\, she learns she has multiple sclerosis. \nSuddenly\, Meredith\, a married mother of three teens\, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. \nReimagining her life as a writer and an educator\, as a mother and a spouse\, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. \nIt is a life\, altered. \n  \nA Boston area author\, Meredith O’Brien has written four books\, including her latest\, Uncomfortably Numb\, a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis\, called “triumphant” and “riveting\,” as well as “heart-breaking … harrowing … and heroic.” Her third book\, a work of creative nonfiction\, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter\, Tears and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award and was a finalist for a Foreword INDIES award. A former newspaper reporter and investigative journalist\, Meredith teaches journalism and writing at Northeastern University in Boston where she also serves as a writing coach. \n  \n  \n\nBlack Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title) by Leslie Gray Streeter \nLeslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She’s not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside\, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she’d wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott’s funeral; he loved her in that dress! But\, here she is\, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack\, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. (“New widow lifestyle.” Sounds like something you’d find products for on daytime TV\, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait\, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) \nLooking at widowhood through the prism of race\, mixed marriage\, and aging\, Black Widowredefines the stages of grief\, from coffin shopping to day-drinking\, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy\, to breaking up and making up with God\, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!)\, Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott\, recounting their journey through racism\, religious differences\, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? \nTender\, true\, and endearingly hilarious\, Black Widow is a story about the power of love\, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself. \nLeslie Gray Streeter is a columnist for the Palm Beach Post and the author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books With Words Like ‘Journey’ In The Title. She lives in West Palm Beach with her mother Tina and her son Brooks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 7 at 12pm PDT when Merlin Sheldrake discusses his book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds &Shape Our Futures with Michael Pollan on Zoom. \nTickets for this event can be found here. \nAbout This Event \nIn 2016\, a New Yorker profile by famed naturalist Robert Macfarlane introduced the world to one of the most important young thinkers of our age: Merlin Sheldrake. Moving from the labs of Cambridge to the jungles of Central America\, this revolutionary plant scientist had a hunch that fungi possess superpowers far beyond the mushrooms we know\, however mind-blowing their culinary or psychedelic varieties might be. He discovered that fungi are an ancient underground communication network that undergirds the natural world and offers inspiration for rethinking human society. \nMerlin’s riveting first book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures\, has become an instant classic of nature and philosophy—a work of rigorous science and poetic expression\, drawing us into the mystery and meaning of this most magical life form. \nIn our live conversation\, Merlin and bestselling nature and culture writer Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma) will delve into “The Wood Wide Web”: an enchanting “superorganism” whose secrets just might save the world. This event is for everyone who believes that wonder still exists and hope can be found in the unlikeliest places: around us\, under us\, even inside us. You’ll come away with a sense of awe for “life’s labyrinths\,” in Merlin’s words\, where “some of the vexed hierarchies that underpin modern thought start to soften.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-merlin-sheldrake-and-michael-pollan/
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SUMMARY:Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be launching The Crow Rider\, Kalyn Josephson’s thrilling conclusion to the epic Storm Crow duology that follows a fallen princess as she tries to bring back the magical elemental crows taken from her people. \nThia\, her allies\, and her crow\, Res\, are planning a rebellion to defeat Queen Razel and the Kingdom of Illucia and must convince the neighboring kingdoms to come to her aid. Res excels at his training\, until he loses control of his magic\, harming Thia in the process. She is also being pursued by Prince Ericen\, heir to the Illucian throne. As the rebel group prepares for war\, Res’s magic grows more unstable. Thia has to decide if she can rely on herself and their bond enough to lead the rebellion and become the crow rider she was meant to be. \n\n\n\n\nReading during this time period can be challenging\, but this fabulous series is guaranteed to sweep you away to an enchanting world and introduce you to your next favorite magical creatures. \nKalyn will be chatting with Shannon Price\, author of A Thousand Fires and we couldn’t be more excited
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kalyn-josephson-with-shannon-price/
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich
DESCRIPTION:celebrating his new book \nDesert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \nfrom Counterpoint Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———– \n\nLayering climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences\, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nAs inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. For readers of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush\, Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching\, urgent— yet timeless and profound. \nBEN EHRENREICH writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, the London Review of Books\, and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. His last book\, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, based on his reporting from the West Bank\, was one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016. He is also the author of two novels\, Ether and The Suitors. \nPraise for Desert Notebooks \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” –Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \n“The past few years of an accelerated\, increasingly destructive climate crisis have brought a number of books that struggle to respond accordingly to a crisis of such magnitude; several writers have met this existential challenge with an equally existential discussion of the ways that the climate crisis affects our understanding of human history and time itself. Ben Ehrenreich\, a columnist for The Nation\, takes this discussion to the American southwest\, examining the intersection of science\, mythology\, and landscape in the desert\, in particular in Joshua Tree and Las Vegas. In these settings\, Ehrenreich’s book reflects on the ways that the prospect of extinction has affected our understanding of time\, and how we use that shift in perspective as we move forward.” –Corinne Segal\, Literary Hub\, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year \n“The crisis humanity faces is total. It’s planetary. It’s a crisis in space and also in time. How close are we to the end? Is this land we stand on going to be inhabitable in one hundred years\, sixty\, forty? In sharply featured\, compelling prose–the landscape writing here has the heartbreaking clarity of the experience of desert light–Ben Ehrenreich’s stunning Desert Notebooks combs through history\, literature\, myth\, physics\, and ecology to understand how we got here\, and how we might find our way out\, into forms of time that are made not of our thralldom to capital and petroleum but of our relationships to each other\, to our fellow creatures\, to plants and rocks and landscapes\, and to the stars and sun and moon overhead. Ben Ehrenreich wants you to join him here\, on earth. The thrill of Desert Notebooks is that in its lucid pages such a miracle seems almost possible.” –Anthony McCann\, author of Shadowlands \n“Ben Ehrenreich walked the deserts of the Occupied Territories for his previous book; in Desert Notebooks\, he takes us with him into the Mojave–its coyotes\, creosote\, and Joshua trees. He descends barrancas and canyons\, hikes boulder-strewn slopes into labyrinthine stacks of Jorge Luis Borges’s great Library\, from which he draws out stories from that time ‘when animals were people\, ‘ narratives by the Chemehuevi\, the Serrano\, the Mohave\, and other desert peoples. These echo in texts by Martin Bernal\, Walter Benjamin\, the Marquis de Condorcet\, and Jakob Böhme’s mystical touchstone–The Signature of All Things–as well as James Mooney’s classic\, the Ghost Dance and the Sioux revolt of 1890. Climate change California is burning as Ehrenreich’s meditations prismatically refract heat\, smoke\, and light. Desert Notebooks is a book for our time–that is\, a time scorched by harsh solar rays\, shimmering in searing\, phosphorescent prose.” –Sesshu Foster\, author of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-ehrenreich/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ball\, Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with national political journalist Molly Ball to discuss her book\, Pelosi\, an intimate\, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history\, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nShe’s the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place\, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections\, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party—even though\, as speaker under President Barack Obama\, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal health care to gays in the military. How did a 79-year-old Italian grandmother in four-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ? \nBall’s nuanced\, page-turning portrait takes readers inside the life and times of this historic and underappreciated figure. Based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting\, Ball shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens to explain how this extraordinary woman has met her moment. \n“A top-notch political biography.” ―Kirkus Reviews\, *starred review* \n“An entertaining and balanced biography of Nancy Pelosi…Ball offers plenty of insightful anecdotes\, presenting events within historical perspective so that readers can fully appreciate their import.” ―Booklist\, *starred review* \nMolly Ball is TIME magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN. She appears regularly on PBS’s Washington Week\, CBS’s Face the Nation\, ABC’s This Week\, and other television and radio programs. Ball is the winner of numerous awards for her coverage of American politics\, including the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. She grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lives in the Washington\, DC\, area with her husband and three children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-molly-ball-pelosi/
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts Katherine Addison\, author of The Goblin Emperor\, to talk about new book
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Addison\, author of The Goblin Emperor\, returns with The Angel of the Crows\, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London\, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming. \nThis is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. \nIn an alternate 1880s London\, angels inhabit every public building\, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia\, except for a few things: Angels can Fall\, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human\, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. \nJack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows. \nKATHERINE ADDISON’s short fiction has been selected by The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. She is the author of the Locus Award-winning novel The Goblin Emperor. As Sarah Monette\, she is the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series and co-author\, with Elizabeth Bear\, of the Iskryne series. She lives near Madison\, Wisconsin. You can find her on Twitter as @pennyvixen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-books-hosts-katherine-addison-author-of-the-goblin-emperor-to-talk-about-new-book/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Thea Matthews and Maw Shein Win / Unearth [The Flowers]
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Thea Matthews for her first full-length book\, Unearth [The Flowers]\, the first single-author title from local reading series and small press Red Light Lit. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nAn electrifying letter to family\, country\, and self\, Unearth [The Flowers] is an essential collection\, relentless in its journey through stages of grief and healing while celebrating life. Each poem is an anthem for resiliency\, a testament to survival\, a triumph over the stigmatized terror that pervades the everyday. Thea Matthews’s first full-length collection of poetry details a mind\, body\, and flower at the intersection of the personal and the political. \n— \n“Unearth [The Flowers] sees the pastoral tradition of poetry through a contemporary feminist lens that shows Thea Matthews as a writer of urgency and authentic concern. Or as Matthews herself says\, ‘where there is land / there is blood.’ This is a book of catalogue\, of taxonomy\, of the need to name the earth and stand on it whole.” – Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition \n​“Unearth [The Flowers] is a blooming battle cry\, a feat of alchemy in which the personal and political merge in a brutal empathy. Rage and sorrow and the liberation of healing unfurl in a landscape of flowers—this is true literary witchcraft.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \n“Unearth [The Flowers] is a refusal of silence and a testament to survival\, speaking back to the damages with a gorgeous bouquet of poems. Thea Matthews conjures poetic magic for healing and bearing witness with vibrant\, lyrically rich poems.” – Tiana Clark\, author of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood \n“Thea Matthews is a poetic herbalist\, using flowers to create healing. This work is egalitarian\, touching on blooms of all sorts: indigenous\, imported\, bolted\, and cultivated. You will feel these poems in the root of your jaw\, in your foot arches. Matthews is an experienced poet with a deft hand and an honest heart. These words languidly stretch\, snap like a lock blade\, they drape and twine and reach. Read this work and be changed.” – Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate \n“Thea Matthews is the voice and protector of our generation. Brave poems like a universe that has decided to go forward with a third testament. Thea Matthews is our sacred underground; the only host of our ascension.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes \n— \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a poet\, scholar\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. She earned her BA at UC Berkeley where she studied and taught June Jordan’s program Poetry for the People. She has work published in the Atlanta Review\, Tilde\, Foglifter\, The Rumpus\, and others. She has work also featured in anthologies Still Here San Francisco (Foglifter Press 2019); and Love WITH Accountability: Uprooting the Roots on Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press 2019). Her first collection of poetry Unearth [The Flowers] is published by Red Light Lit Press. \n** Please note ** \n> This is a free\, all-ages event. The Bindery’s bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unearth [The Flowers]\, find more information here: https://www.booksmith.com/event/bindery-thea-matthews-unearth-flowers \n> Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thea-matthews-unearth-the-flowers/
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SUMMARY:Power to the Poets: Uproar
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 9\, 2020 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern for POWER TO THE POETS: UPROAR! \nVia FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1869493649860368/?active_tab=about \nHosts:\nAmos White & Aileen Cassinetto \nFeaturing: \nJOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE\ncurates and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. His frst book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nBERNARD COLLINS\nis a visual artist and faculty member at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. He is also a spoken word artist whose humorous style hearkens back to the “Toasting” traditions of African American culture seen in poems like the “Signifying Monkey” or “Shine.” \nSHANELLE GABRIEL\nShanelle Gabriel has toured internationally and is known for both opening and featuring on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam alongside Jill Scott. She has also shared the stage with artists such as Talib Kweli\, Nas\, Dave Chapelle\, and more. Shanelle was spotlighted on the Rachael Ray Show\, and was named one of “8 Millennial Feminist Poets That Deserve Recognition” by BET.com and a “Powerful Indie Artist Activist You Should Know” by Blavity.com. She was selected to curate a series of poems for Fast Company Magazine’s 2019 European Innovation Festival at the Gucci Hub in Milan\, Italy\, and was the subject of a mini-documentary on the Lifetime Network regarding her battle with Lupus. She presently resides in Brooklyn. For links to her music & poetry and to learn more\, visit www.shanellegabriel.com. \nAMBITION THE POET HARPER\nis a poet\, workshop instructor\, entrepreneur\, and author of From the Tongue of a Foster Child. He lives in Sicklerville\, New Jersey. \nANTONIO LOPEZ\nis an East Palo Alto native and PhD student in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He holds degrees in African American Studies and Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Duke University and the University of Oxford. His debut collection\, Gentefication\, won the 2019 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry\, and is set to be published fall of 2021. \nSHIKHA MALAVIYA\nis the author of the internationally-acclaimed\, Geography of Tongues\, former Poet Laureate of San Ramon\, co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective\, Sangam Arts Mosaic Fellow\, TEDx speaker\, and 2020 poetry judge of AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in PLUME\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area. https://shikhamalaviya.com \nTUREEDA MIKELL\nis a Story Medicine Woman\, award winning poet and performance artist. She was a featured poet/storyteller at the National Association of Black Storytellers\, Lawrence Hall and Golden Gate Academy of Sciences\, Museum of the African Diaspora\, Randall and Oakland Museums\, The Black Panther’s 50th Anniversary\, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday\, Eth-Noh-Tec Nu Wa in Beijing\, China\, and at the de Young Museum’s Soul of a Nation. Her book\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\, was published by Nomadic Press in February 2020. \nALBERT MILLS\nis the Poet Laureate of Delaware. He is a community-based social worker deeply rooted in the juvenile justice system. Mills has designed and led organizations that provide services for delinquent youth and their families. As a therapist\, he serves New Castle County Delaware’s Multisystemic Therapy Services. Mills is a certified A.R.T. therapist\, and takes pride in his efforts to utilize art as a tool for foundational change in youth\, families\, communities\, and our society. A cofounder of G.O.A.L.S.\, and S.Y.A.-Tutoring and Mentoring Programs in Wilmington\, Mills is also an honored army veteran who served in Iraq and speaks about his struggles with PTSD as a result of the war. https://arts.delaware.gov/poet-laureate/ \nELIJAH PRINGLE III\nis a Philadelphia poet\, lyric baritone\, composer\, actor\, and artivist. He is the author of At the Cornerstone\, Feeding the Sparrow\, and Second Saturday at Serenity\, and has appeared on radio\, TV & stage. He has been quoted in print in Newsweek\, The New York Times\, The Philadelphia Daily News\, and others. He credits his true education to five generations of teachers. \nOCTAVIO QUINTANILLA\nis Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, Texas. He is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing. His poetry\, fiction\, translations\, and photography have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in Salamander\, Poetry Northwest\, RHINO\, and elsewhere. His visual poems have been exhibited in several galleries\, including Presa House Gallery\, Equinox Gallery\, and at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio\, TX. He holds a PhD from the University of North Texas and is the regional editor for Texas Books in Review and poetry editor for The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism & for Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine. https://www.octavioquintanilla.com \nGENTLE RAMIREZ\n(THEY/THEM) is a trans non-binary poet from the Bronx. A 2020 Lyvo Fellow and recipient of The Oluwatoyin Salua Freedom Fighters Grant (2020)\, Gentle’s work has been featured in NYUnited\, Bryant Park Poetry\, West 10th\, PoetNY\, Write About Now Poetry\, and more. Gentle is a BA candidate at New York University and most recently the author of their first book\, Ultram (KDP 2018). https://www.gentleramirez.com \nAMOS WHITE\nThe Founder and Chief Planter at 100K Trees for Humanity\, Amos White is a Climate Mobilization Strategist\, Coro Fellow in Public Affairs\, author\, poet\, arts impresario\, civil rights activist\, father\, and husband based in Alameda\, California. \n*** \nPOWER TO THE POETS is a live reading series curated by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto. We’ll be broadcasting live on this event page. Video will appear as a post under the Discussion tab. The reading will be archived at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB7ih0FYXei_j7pJk4hcfeg \nPast events: \nPower to the Poets: Poets of Color for Change\, https://migozine.org/category/blacklivesmatter/ \nPower to the Poets: A Juneteenth Special\, https://migozine.org/category/juneteenth-2/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/power-to-the-poets-uproar/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts Jo Walton\, author of OR WHAT YOU WILL
DESCRIPTION:Come join Borderlands Bookstore as they host Jo Walton for her latest\, OR WHAT YOU WILL! \nFrom Jo Walton\, author of the critically-acclaimed and reader-beloved Among Others\, and Hugo\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Award winner\, comes a new lyrical and philosophical novel: OR WHAT YOU WILL (A Tor Hardcover; On-sale: July 7\, 2020). Walton’s latest is an utterly original novel about how stories work and how they are brought forth from a writer’s depths. With OR WHAT YOU WILL\, Walton delightfully dramatizes the deep processes common to most writers and how their characters speak to them—with all their danger\, cruelty\, drama\, and sublime charm.  It is the perfect book for anyone who LOVES literature: writing it\, sharing it\, and most of all\, reading it! \nHere is some of what people are already saying about OR WHAT YOU WILL:\n“Or What You Will is a Jo Walton book. Which is to say—it’s a joy and a revelation\, and I never wanted it to end.”—Rainbow Rowell \n“Both intellectual and engaging\, this is a book for readers experienced in the fantasy genre and who also enjoy thinking about the craft of writing.”—Buzzfeed \n“Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Walton brilliantly braids somber realism\, fanciful metafiction\, and Shakespearean-influenced fantasy into a moving paean to the power of storytelling…\nThis gorgeous\, deeply philosophical work is a knockout.—Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \nHe has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar\, a warrior\, a lover\, and a thief. He has been a dream and dreamer. He has been a god…\nBut “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea\, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison\, 73\, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels\, and in the recesses of her mind\, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won’t live forever\, any more than any human does. And he’s trapped inside her cave of bone\, her hollow of skull. When she dies\, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel\, a fantasy for adult readers\, set in Thalia\, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he’s got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her. \nJO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel Among Others. Before that\, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, and her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. The novels of her Small Change sequence—Farthing\, Ha’penny\, and Half a Crown—have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics’ Choice Award. A native of Wales\, she lives in Montreal. Follow her on Twitter at @bluejowalton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-books-hosts-jo-walton-author-of-or-what-you-will/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Leslie Kern
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nFeminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World \n\npublished by Verso Books \n———– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———– \nto make reservations \n(Click Here for Reservations)\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nFeminist City is a forthcoming release. Keep an eye on this spot for a link to purchase book. \n(Click Here to buy book in the near future!) \n———– \nFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently\, living better\, and living more justly in an urban world \n\n\nWe live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers\, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. \nIn Feminist City\, through history\, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities\, homes\, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear\, motherhood\, friendship\, activism\, and the joys and perils of being alone\, Kern maps the city from new vantage points\, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just\, sustainable\, and women-friendly cities together. \n\nLeslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender\, Condominium Development\, and Urban Citizenship. \nAdvanced praise for Feminist City: \n\n“Visionary\, intelligent\, and humane\, this book offers intersectional insights into the gendered nature of the modern city to promote ‘living more justly in an urban world’ … A timely\, thought-provoking study.” \n– Kirkus \n\n\n\n“[An] insightful scholarly work … This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists.” \n–Publisher’s Weekly \n\n\n“Cities aren’t built to accommodate female bodies\, female needs\, female desires. In this rich\, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the ‘city of men’ into a city for everyone. Let’s all move there immediately.” \n– Lauren Elkin\, author of Flaneuse \n\n\n“This book totally opened my eyes! Feminist City is an incredibly incisive look at cities and urban design through the lens of gender\, while also inspecting how acts of claiming urban space affect other marginalized groups. Combining academic and lived experience\, Leslie Kern’s intersectional approach clearly lays out just how cities are failing and what it might mean to imagine a more just urban life. Feminist City made me see my own experiences in a whole new light\, and Kern makes the field of feminist geography completely accessible and exciting to the average city slicker. Anyone who considers themselves a feminist or activist should read this book!” \n– Julia DeVarti\, Literati Bookstore
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leslie-kern/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Juli Delgado Lopera in conversation with Daniel Handler / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:Are you still bummed we had to postpone the launch party for Juli Delgado Lopera and their debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical? Us too! But be bummed no longer and join us for a virtual event\, in conversation with Daniel Handler (Bottle Grove). \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. They are the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. They are the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and have received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, they served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Fiebre Tropical sent to your door\, order here or below.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-juli-delgado-lopera-in-conversation-with-daniel-handler-fiebre-tropical-2/
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SUMMARY:Author Joe Di Prisco Discussing The Good Family Fitzgerald w/ Ian Maloney | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 9\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with our friend and author\, Joe Di Prisco\, discussing his new novel\, THE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD\, with Ian Maloney. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82064714666. \n(Order your copy of THE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD in paper at https://bit.ly/GGPTGFF\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/ABTGFF.) \nTHE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD \nThe Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition\, crime and the Catholic Church\, a sprawling\, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. \nThe Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege\, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis\, many of their own creation. Even so\, they live large\, in love and in strife\, wielding power\, combating adversaries and each other. The Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition\, crime and the Catholic Church\, a sprawling\, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. \nPadraic Fitzgerald is the up-from-nothing\, aging patriarch whose considerable business interests appear anything but legitimate\, but he has bigger problems than law enforcement. A widower\, Paddy becomes enmeshed with a young woman who will force him to re-examine his cardinal assumptions. Meanwhile\, he has cultivated thorny relationships with his four children\, all of whom struggle over the terms of connection with their father. Anthony―oldest son\, principled criminal defense attorney\, designated prince of the family―and his cherished Francesca are devastated by tragedy. In the aftermath\, Frankie comes to play a vital role in Fitzgerald lore. Philip is a charismatic Catholic priest spectacularly torn between his lofty ideals and aspirations and his all-too-human flaws and longings. Matty has wandered aimlessly\, but once he finds his purpose\, he precipitates turmoil in all quarters. Colleen\, the youngest\, is a seeker who styles herself the outsider and the conscience of the clan. Her hands are full\, as no Fitzgerald is left untested or unscathed\, and by the end the whole family\, as well as those venturing into their realm\, will be stunned into illumination. \nJOE DI PRISCO \nJoseph Di Prisco was born in Greenpoint\, Brooklyn\, where once upon a time the Brooklyn Dodgers ruled the known world. Shortly after he was whisked away at 10 years old on the subway to California (long story; see his memoirs)\, however\, he saw the light and became a San Francisco Giants fan. He has published five novels (Confessions of Brother Eli\, Sun City\, All for Now\, The Alzhammer\, Sibella & Sibella and his latest The Good Family Fitzgerald)\, three books of poetry (Wit’s End\, Poems in Which\, and Sightlines from the Cheap Seats)\, two books on childhood and adolescence co-written with psychologist and educator Michael Riera (Field Guide to the American Teenager and Right from Wrong)\, and two memoirs (Subway to California and The Pope of Brooklyn). Di Prisco is the founding chair of The Simpson Literary Project\, which promotes literacy and literature\, writers and writing across the generations. He also is series editor of the annual anthology: Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project.\nDi Prisco’s book reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers\, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest\, Bear Star Press\, and Bread Loaf.  \nMODERATOR IAN MALONEY  \nIan S. Maloney is Professor of English at St Francis College in Brooklyn\, NY where he directs the SFC Literary Prize. Ian serves on the Literary Council for the Brooklyn Book Festival as well as the board for the Walt Whitman Initiative. He recently completed his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-joe-di-prisco-discussing-the-good-family-fitzgerald-w-ian-maloney-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Dashka Slater virtual launch!
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host the virtual launch of The Book of Fatal Errors\, a tale of friendship\, magic\, and eternal life\, an evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy–by local favorite–award-winning author Dashka Slater! \n“A fun\, emotionally driven fairy story…an excellent readalike for The Spiderwick Chronicles…recommended for any young fantasy fans.”– School Library Journal \nFor instructions to register with Crowdcast\, and to order the book from Mrs. Dalloway’s\, please see below. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, July 11\, 2020 – 11:00am to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRufus doesn’t just make mistakes – he makes fatal errors. Clumsy and awkward\, he feels entrapped by his teasing classmates and their constant laughter. But now it is summer. Rufus is free. He roams the wildlands of his grandfather’s mysterious homestead\, blissfully unaware of the danger up ahead. \nAnd there is much danger. Rufus and his snooty cousin Abigail soon become entangled in the tantalizing world of the feylings\, mischievous fairly-like creatures desperate to find their way home. In helping the feylings\, Rufus tumbles down a dark path rich with age-old secrets and difficult truths. Any move he makes might be his final fatal error. \nOr perhaps\, his most spectacular beginning. \nDashka Slater has written several books\, including her non-fiction title for young adults\, The 57 Bus\, which received the Stonewall Book Award and was a YALSA Nonfiction finalist\, among many other honors. She also wrote the picture book Escargot\, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award\, and its follow-up\, A Book for Escargot. \nThe event will take place via Crowdcast. Join us from the comfort of your living room or wherever you might be! \nOrder your copy from Mrs. Dalloway’s\, and Dashka will sign and personalize it. Please provide inscription details in the comment field. Books can be picked up at the store\, or shipped for a fee. We will notify you when your book is ready for pickup. \nQuestions? Please contact info@mrsdsallways.com. \nHope you can join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dashka-slater-virtual-launch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #1
DESCRIPTION:Struggling to process and confront anti-Black and anti-Asian racism within your social networks? Explore the healing power of creative writing! \nThe July 11th creative writing workshop focuses on “Mental Health and Multiracial Solidarity.” \nMental health advocates Kelechi Ubozoh and Shizue Seigel\, psychiatrist Ravi Chandra\, and storyteller/medicine woman Tureeda Mikell discuss anti-Black/anti-Asian racism with tools for self-care\, and creative writing for healing. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What are you thinking and feeling right now? How were you personally impacted by George Floyd’s murder and subsequent events. Have you personally experienced or witnessed anti-black or anti-Asian racism? What was your response? How would you respond differently today? How do you respond to stress? What are you doing for self-care? How to deal with parents and peer pressure? \nNOTE: The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and YouTube Live with a sliding scale fee of $5~$15 to help support our presenters\, organizers\, tech and labor costs. If you are interested in participating but are unable to afford the lowest ticketing tier\, please email programs@oacc.cc and we would be happy to work with you on making this event accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/healing-around-race-creative-writing-workshop-1/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Tim Cahill (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author \nTim Cahill is the author of nine books—one of which\, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh\, National Geographic named as one of the 100 best adventure/travel books ever written. \nTim is a pioneer of literary adventure writing. One of the founders of Outside\, he is the author of its long-running “Out There” column\, and an editor-at-large. His work also appears in National Geographic Adventure\, the New York Times Book Review\, and other national publications. \nTim’s travel books include\, A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg\, Pass the Butterworms\, Road Fever and Hold the Enlightenment. He also wrote the introduction for The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World. He is also the co-author of four IMAX documentary screenplays\, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards. He lives in Montana\, in the shadow of the Crazy Mountains. \nMichael Shapiro writes about travel\, food\, entertainment\, art\, and environmental issues for magazines and newspapers. He is the author of The Creative Spark\, a collection of interviews with many of the world’s most creative people\, as well as A Sense of Place featuring conversations with leading travel writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-tim-cahill-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200712T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200712T133000
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Transatlantic poetry reading with two poets from the SF Bay area\, Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky\, and two poets from Wales\, Graham Harthill and Christopher Twigg. Zoom details & author bios below. \nCaroline Goodwin moved from Sitka\, Alaska to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Custody of the Eyes (dancing girl press\, 2019)\, The Paper Tree (Big Yes Press\, 2017)\, Peregrine (Finishing Line Press\, 2015)\, and Trapline (JackLeg Press\, 2013). She also published a chapbook\, Text Me\, Ishmael\, with Steven Hitchins’ Literary Pocketbook Series based in Pontypridd\, Wales\, 2012. Goodwin lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything\, New Rivers Press. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. \nGraham Hartill’s latest book is a collaborative translation (with Wu Fu Sheng)\, The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Commercial Press\, Beijing\, 2020). He lives in the Black Mountains of South Wales\, works as a writer in residence in a prison and teaches on the Master’s Programme in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute\, London. He has a new collection of his own poems\, possibly called The Necklace\, coming this Autumn from Aquifer Books. \nChristopher Twigg’s most recent poetry collection is ‘The Handle of the Door’ (2019 Aquifer). He lives in Talgarth\, Wales where he also paints. \nZoom \nTopic: Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading\nTime: Jul 12\, 2020 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/71156155385?pwd=OFRtVE5sNDdYT1ltbzZncUpkWWZMUT09 \nMeeting ID: 711 5615 5385\nPassword: 6bkBPX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wales-to-bay-a-poetry-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200712T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205931
CREATED:20200706T180535Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Kathryn Aalto\, Writing Wild
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with bestselling author of Kathryn Aalto (The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh) with her latest creation\, Writing Wild: Women Poets\, Ramblers\, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World\, an important exploration of 25 women writers whose works have changed the way we look at Nature. Featured writers include Rebecca Solnit\, Dorothy Wordsworth\, Gene Stratton-Porter\, Mary Austin\, Gretel Ehrlich\, Lauret Savoy\, Kathleen Jamie\, Carolyn Finney\, and more. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nIn Writing Wild\, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars\, spiritual seekers\, conservationists\, scientists\, novelists\, and explorers. They defy easy categorization\, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. \nPart travel essay\, literary biography\, and cultural history\, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens\, head outdoors\, and start writing wild. \nKathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer\, historian\, writer\, and lecturer living in Exeter\, England. She has master’s degrees in garden history and creative nonfiction with a particular interest in literary landscapes. Before her expat life\, she taught American Literature of Nature and Place in the Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment\, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs\, and Garden Communicators International.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kathryn-aalto-writing-wild/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200713T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200713T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Heather Lende in conversation with Sedge Thomson / Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Heather Lende for her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics. She’ll be in conversation with Sedge Thomson. \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nThe writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls “part Annie Dillard\, part Anne Lamott” now brings us her quirky and compassionate account of holding local office. \nHeather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines\, Alaska\, cost less than $1\,000\, she won! But tiny\, breathtakingly beautiful Haines—a place accessible from the nearest city\, Juneau\, only by boat or plane—isn’t the sleepy town that it appears to be: from a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears from rifling through garbage on Main Street to the recall campaign that targeted three assembly members\, including Lende\, we witness the nitty-gritty of passing legislation\, the lofty ideals of our republic\, and how the polarizing national politics of our era play out in one small town. \nWith an entertaining cast of offbeat but relatable characters\, Of Bears and Ballots is an inspirational tale about what living in a community really means\, and what we owe one another. \n\nHeather Lende has contributed essays and commentary to NPR\, the New York Times\, and National Geographic Traveler\, among other newspapers and magazines\, and is a former contributing editor at Woman’s Day. A columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News\, she is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines and the recipient of the Suzan Nightingale McKay Best Columnist Award from the Alaska Press Club. Her previous bestselling books are Find the Good\, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs\, and If You Lived Here\, I’d Know Your Name. Lende was voted Citizen of the Year\, Haines Chamber of Commerce\, in 2004. Her website is heatherlende.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Of Bears and Ballots sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-heather-lende-in-conversation-with-sedge-thomson-of-bears-and-ballots-an-alaskan-adventure-in-small-town-politics/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T130000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jessica Pearce Rotondi & Lauren Francis-Sharma
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Jessica Pearce Rotondi (What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers) & Lauren Francis-Sharma (Book of the Little Ax). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy What We Inherit and/or Book of the Little Ax and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nWhat We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers by Jessica Pearce Rotondi \nIn the wake of her mother’s death\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters\, declassified CIA reports\, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack\, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war that changed the rules of engagement forever. \nIn 1943\, 19-year-old Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing in action for months\, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and a march across the Alps before returning home. \nEd’s eldest son and namesake\, Edwin “Jack\,” follows his father into the Air Force. But on the night of March 29\, 1972\, Jack’s plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed’s past comes roaring into the present. \nIn 2009\, Ed’s granddaughter\, Jessica Pearce Rotondi\, is grieving her mother’s death when she stumbles across declassified CIA documents\, letters\, and maps that reveal her family’s decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is Rotondi’s story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather’s 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his son. \nAn excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national scale\, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father’s refusal to be silenced and a daughter’s quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen alive\, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has haunted her family for generations―and the destructive impact of a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war. \nJessica Pearce Rotondi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The History Channel\, Reader’s Digest\, Vogue\, Salon\, Atlas Obscura\, The Huffington Post\, and Refinery29. Previously\, she was a senior editor at The Huffington Post and a staff member at the PEN American Center\, the world’s oldest literary human rights organization. Her first job in New York City was at St. Martin’s Press\, where she had a “room of her own” in the Flatiron Building to fill with books. She grew up in New England and is a graduate of Brown University. What We Inherit is her first book. Connect with Jessica on Twitter and Instagram @JessicaRotondi or visit JessicaPearceRotondi.com. \n\n  \n  \n  \nBook of the Little Ax by Lauren Francis-Sharma \nIn 1796 Trinidad\, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright\, competitive\, and opinionated\, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house\, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she\, alone\, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule\, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners―Rosa’s family among them―will be allowed to keep their assets\, their land\, and ultimately\, their freedom. \nBy 1830\, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn\, Montana with her children and her husband\, Edward Rose\, a Crow chief. Her son Victor is of the age where he must seek his vision and become a man. But his path forward is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept from him. So Rosa must take him to where his story began and\, in turn\, retrace her own roots\, acknowledging along the way\, the painful events that forced her from the middle of an ocean to the rugged terrain of a far-away land. \n  \nLauren Francis-Sharma is the author of Book of the Little Axe and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry\, her first novel\, which was awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Lauren is a contributor to Marita Golden’s anthology\, Us Against Alzheimer’s\, and her more recent work can be found at ElectricLit.com\, Barrelhouse.com and The Lily. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a MacDowell Fellow and the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College. \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-jessica-pearce-rotondi-lauren-francis-sharma/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Greg Palast\, Noam Chomsky & Amy Goodman - How Trump Stole 2020 (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Noam Chomsky • Moderated by Amy Goodman\nTuesday\, July 14\, 2020 • 7:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm PDT • Virtual Event via Zoom • Ticket: $20 (includes copy of How Trump Stole 2020) \nHas Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about\, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known\, it is now recognized as one of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. \nThe scope is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone—the testing ground—Republican voting officials quietly removed half a million voters from the voter rolls—including Martin Luther King’s ninety-two-year-old cousin Christine Jordan. How Trump Stole 2020 is the story of the racially poisonous schemes to steal the 2020 election\, the political operatives behind the trickery—and the hard right billionaires funding it all\, written by the investigative reporter who has been covering this story from the outset. \nGreg Palast regularly contributes original reporting to the BBC\, The Guardian\, Democracy Now!\, The Young Turks\, and other progressive media. He has been featured recently on among others MSNBC’s Joy Reid show and in Salon\, and in the New York Times and Washington Post for successfully suing the state of Georgia with Stacey Abrams to release voter rolls after she lost a congressional seat to Brian Kemp who was at the time also the overseer of the voter rolls. Palast’s two-decade hunt of elections chicanery are detailed in his books\, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy\, Armed Madhouse\, and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits–all New York Times bestsellers. In 2000\, his investigation for the BBC and the Guardian uncovered how the Bush family purged thousands of Black men from Florida voter rolls\, falsely labeling them felons\, the scheme that won Bush the White House. In 2016\, Palast predicted Trump’s “surprise” election months earlier in a Rolling Stone exposé detailing exactly how Trump’s operatives\, in control of voting offices in key states\, would bend the election results. Palast lives in Los Angeles\, CA. \nPolitical philosopher\, activist\, and linguist Noam Chomsky is beloved around the world for the strength of his personal commitment to the truth as he sees it and for the brilliance of his ideas. Born in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania\, on December 7\, 1928\, he studied linguistics\, mathematics\, and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD there in 1955. Chomsky has taught at MIT for fifty years and is currently Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His linguistics work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field\, and his political writings have made important contributions for decades. In 2001\, he published 9-11\, which became his first international bestseller and was arguably the single most influential post–9-11 book. Chomsky is the author of many other best-selling political works\, including Profit Over People\, Media Control\, Hegemony or Survival\, Failed States\, Hopes and Prospects\, Masters of Mankind\, What Kind of Creatures Are We?\, Who Rules the World?\, and Requiem for the American Dream. \nAmy Goodman is a multiple New York Times bestselling author\, and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now!\, a daily\, independent news program airing on more than 800 television and radio stations. TIME Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of thePodcasts\,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award\, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are oftenexcluded by the mainstream media.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greg-palast-noam-chomsky-amy-goodman-how-trump-stole-2020-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl with Kate Hudson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \nJoin Kate Hudson in conversation with Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rad Women book series. \nThe three women will discuss Kate and Miriam’s newest book\, Rad American History A-Z\, an illustrated history book that explores centuries of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural moments and movements in American history. They’ll touch on multiple topics including the importance of reading and learning about our nations’ lesser-known histories\, engaging in honest conversation with their children about current events\, and broadening our minds to create a just and sustainable future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-kate-schatz-and-miriam-klein-stahl-with-kate-hudson-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Silva in conversation with Jamie Gangel - The Order (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Daniel Silva\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Order in conversation with CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel! \nFor the first time ever\, the book tour is happening at Daniel’s house and you are invited via Crowdcast to join him live! The event will include a peek behind the scenes at where Daniel works —  where he keeps all those yellow legal pads and just how he sharpens his secret stash of pencils. Best of all\, Daniel will be ready and waiting to answer your questions about The Order. And you never know\, Gabriel and Chiara may just make a surprise visit in his kitchen. \nTo join us\, please purchase a ticket above. Once you make your purchase you will receive the confirmation for your purchase which will include a link and password to register for this special event on Crowdcast. \nDaniel is disappointed he is not able to see you all in person this year\, but with Covid19 the most important thing is for everyone to stay safe. The silver lining is he thrilled to “meet” readers who live in places he doesn’t usually get to visit. \nDaniel Silva is the award-winning\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy\, The Mark of the Assassin\, The Marching Season\, The Kill Artist\, The English Assassin\, The Confessor\, A Death in Vienna\, Prince of Fire\, The Messenger\, The Secret Servant\, Moscow Rules\, The Defector\, The Rembrandt Affair\, Portrait of a Spy\, The Fallen Angel\, The English Girl\, The Heist\, The English Spy\, The Black Widow\, House of Spies\, and The Other Woman.  He is best known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Silva’s books are critically acclaimed bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 30 languages. He resides in Florida with his wife\, television journalist Jamie Gangel\, and their twins\, Lily and Nicholas. For more information visi danielsilvabooks.com. \nTuesday\, July 14\, 2020 • 7:30 pm EDT / 4:30 pm PDT • Virtual Event via Crowdcast • Ticket: $32 (includes copy of The Order)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-silva-in-conversation-with-jamie-gangel-the-order-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: A.H. Kim and Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday July 14th for A.H. Kim discussing her new novel A Good Family with Vanessa Hua on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81092364570 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81092364570#  or +12532158782\,\,81092364570#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 810 9236 4570\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kjMDC3vEC \nPraise for A Good Family \n“A story of money\, family\, who you can trust\, and the extremes to which one will go for blood. I couldn’t put it down.” –Lisa Ling\, host of CNN’s This Is Life \nAbout A Good Family \nBeth is the darling of God Halsa\, a pharmaceutical giant\, and she’s got the outrageous salary and lifestyle to prove it. Until she lands in white-collar women’s prison\, thanks to a high-profile whistleblower suit. \nSam\, Beth’s husband\, used to be the town’s most eligible bachelor\, and he’s never had to do anything for himself. Until his wife goes to jail\, and he’s left to raise two daughters on his own. \nLise\, the au pair\, is the whistleblower. But is she? Everyone knows she’s not clever enough to have done it alone. \nHannah\, Sam’s sister\, is devoted to her family. There’s nothing she wouldn’t do for them. \nEva\, Beth’s sister\, is the smart one. (Read: not the pretty one.) Her life seems perfect on the surface\, but sibling rivalry runs deep. \nMartin\, Beth’s brother\, is the firstborn\, the former golden boy turned inside-the Beltway businessman. But what is he hiding? \nSomeone knows something. Someone betrayed Beth. \nThis is the story of the Min-Lindstroms. This is the story of the all-American family as it implodes under the weight of secrets\, lies and the unchecked desire for wealth and power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-a-h-kim-and-vanessa-hua/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Girls Have Something to Say: Lisa Moore Ramee\, Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, Alicia Williams
DESCRIPTION:Black girls have something to say and we are proud to be hosting this panel of incredibly talented middle-grade authors to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated new novel\, Something to Say. \n\n \n\nLisa Moore Ramee is one of our favorite authors. We launched and evangelized for her debut novel A Good Kind of Trouble\, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book\, and are so excited to launch Something to Say\, an unforgettable story about finding your voice—and finding your people. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven-year-old Jenae doesn’t have any friends—and she’s just fine with that. She’s so good at being invisible in school\, it’s almost like she has a superpower\, like her idol\, Astrid Dane. At home\, Jenae has plenty of company\, like her no-nonsense mama; her older brother\, Malcolm\, who is home from college after a basketball injury; and her beloved grandpa\, Gee. Then a new student shows up at school—a boy named Aubrey—and Jenae can’t figure out why he keeps popping up everywhere she goes. The more she tries to push him away\, the more he seems determined to be her friend. Despite herself\, Jenae starts getting used to having him around. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the proposed name change for their school\, Jenae knows this new friendship has an expiration date. Aubrey is desperate to win and earn a coveted spot on the debate team. But Jenae would do almost anything to avoid speaking up in front of an audience—including risking the first real friendship she’s ever had. \nLisa will be in conversation with Mariama J. Lockington\, Janae Marks\, and Alicia Williams \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariama J Lockington is the author of For Black Girls Like Me\, a lyrical coming-of-age story about family\, sisterhood\, music\, race\, and identity that draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanae Marks is the author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington\, a captivating mystery full of heart\, as one courageous girl questions assumptions\, searches for the truth\, and does what she believes is right—even in the face of great opposition. \nAlicia Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again\,  which received a Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors\, was a William C. Morris Award finalist\, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Genesis Begins Again is a deeply sensitive and powerful novel that tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. \nDon’t miss this chance to hear what these four extraordinary authors have to say
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-girls-have-something-to-say-lisa-moore-ramee-mariama-j-lockington-janae-marks-alicia-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Scott Dominic Carpenter in conversation with Don George - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris\, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors\, police denunciations\, surly demonstrators\, cooking disasters\, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese. It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted\, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure. \nIn French Like Moi\, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday\, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all\, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern). \nMinnesota-born and Midwest-bred\, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018)\, recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant\, and semi-finalist for the Many Voices Project Prize\, he has published work in a wide variety of venues\, including The Rumpus\, Silk Road\, Catapult\, South Dakota Review\, and various anthologies. He lives 45 miles from Minneapolis in Northfield\, Minnesota\, and Paris. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing\, and the editor of twelve anthologies. In his 40-year career he has served as travel editor for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle\, founder and editor of Salon.com’s Wanderlust travel site\, global travel editor for Lonely Planet\, and editor at large for National Geographic Travel. He is also the co-chair of Book Passage’s Travel Writers & Photographers Conference\, now in its 29th year. \nLarry Habegger is a travel writer\, editor\, journalist\, and teacher who has been covering the world since the 1970s. As a freelance writer for more than 30 years and syndicated columnist since 1985\, Habegger’s work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines\, including the Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Travel & Leisure\, and Outside. In 1993\, he cofounded the award-winning Travelers’ Tales books with James and Tim O’Reilly\, and is currently executive editor. His latest book in the Travelers’ Tales series is The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 11.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scott-dominic-carpenter-in-conversation-with-don-george-french-like-moi-a-midwesterner-in-paris-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T190000
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SUMMARY:LItquake on Lockdown: A Family Divided
DESCRIPTION:Millions of families are separated today\, by circumstances of the current pandemic\, by draconian immigration policies\, and by war. Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure\, frighten\, and terrorize. Through the lens of fiction\, we can understand the impact of such wounds\, and strengthen our shared belief in family and community connection. Authors Donna Hemans\, Aimee Liu\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Kristen Millares Young discuss their Spring 2020 novels\, and explore the paths of families torn apart. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKristen Millares Young\nThe current Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House\, Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction. Her prize-winning investigations\, essays and book reviews appear in the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere. She was the researcher for The New York Times team… Read More →\n\n \nDonna Hemans\nDonna Hemans is the author of Tea by the Sea and a previous novel\, River Woman. Her short fiction has appeared in Caribbean Writer\, Crab Orchard Review\, Witness\, and Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad. She is an editor at Pree\, a Caribbean online… Read More →\n\n \nAimee Liu\nAimee Liu is the author of Glorious Boy and the previous novels Flash House\, Cloud Mountain\, and Face. Her nonfiction includes Gaining and Solitaire. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies\, magazines\, and literary journals. She teaches in Goddard… Read More →\n\n \nEllen Meeropol\nEllen Meeropol is the author of Her Sister’s Tattoo\, and the previous novels Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Recent essay publications include Ms Magazine\, Lilith\, Lit Hub\, and Mom Egg Review. She is a founding member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and leads… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-a-family-divided/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 14\, 7pm on Zoom\nfeaturing Jeanine U-C and Indigo Moor \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nJeanine U-C won last July’s Anarchy Poetry Slam. Two of her poems were published in last year’s Caesura\, “Ash Wednesday February 14\, 2018” in the paperback version and “Punks” in the online version. Jeanine published two chapbooks: “Allowed Aloud” in 2018\, “Let Go of Detachment” in 2019. Another chapbook is forthcoming. Its title; “Too Pretty to Be Porn.” It’s taken her whole life to get to be this age. \nPoet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor‘s fourth book of poetry Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, took second place in the University of Nebraska Press’ Backwater Prize and will be published spring 2021. His second book\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window\, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first and third books\, Tap-Root and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers\, were both part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. In addition to poetry\, Indigo has produced award-winning plays\, short fiction\, and essays. His stage-turned-screenplay Live! at the Excelsior was optioned as a full-length film. He is a former teacher at the Stonecoast MFA Program and a Cave Canem fellow. Indigo sits on the advisory board for both the Modesto Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Sacramento Poetry Center. A 10-year veteran of the US Navy and a twice-decorated Gulf War Veteran\, Indigo divides his time between writing\, teaching\, and Integrated Circuit Layout Engineering for computer companies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Melissa Valentine / The Names of All the Flowers\, with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host the launch for Melissa Valentine and her debut\, The Names of All the Flowers. She’ll be in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven is All Goodbyes). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you are welcome to join via Zoom. \nWe will also be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n*Please note* Buy your copy of The Names of All the Flowers from us to be entered into a raffle for a free signed copy of Thea Matthew’s Unearth [The Flowers]! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nMelissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland\, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence\, a bullying incident and later a violent attack in school leave him searching for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places; he develops a hard front and falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth birthday\, the family is torn apart when he is murdered as a result of gun violence. \nThe Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost\, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence\, grief\, and trauma\, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.” \n\n“In this poignant\, painful\, and gorgeous memoir\, Melissa Valentine bravely explores what faces black boys and men\, through the eyes of a black woman\, sister\, daughter\, and member of a family whose lives are altered forever\, time and time again. The Names of All the Flowers encourages us to be brave too; brave enough to imagine a world that loves black people\, in all of our complexities.” – Alicia Garza\, cofounder\, Black Lives Matter \n“You will think about this book for a very long time.” – Catherine McKinley\, author of The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts \n“Valentine’s words on grief and trauma will stick with me for life: ‘We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.’ This is a book I know I’ll return to time and time again.” – Tyler Ford\, founding editor\, them \n“Sharp and incredibly courageous\, The Names of All the Flowers is an act of profound love\, profound service. Valentine gives herself the task of speaking the words of all of our grief\, all of our trauma\, and she does so with unexpected beauty and honesty. I could not resist this book. In the end\, it broke me.” – Carvell Wallace\, writer\, New York Times Magazine \n\nMelissa Valentine is a writer from Oakland\, CA. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in creative writing from Mills College. She has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, and her work has appeared in Jezebel\, Guernica\, Apogee Journal\, and others. Her writing has received honorable mention from Glimmer Train and the Ardella Mills Non-fiction Award. She currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\n  \n  \n  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have The Names of All the Flowers sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-melissa-valentine-the-names-of-all-the-flowers-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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