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SUMMARY:Author Julie Buxbaum Discussing ADMISSION | Thu. Apr. 8 @ 7 PDT | GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 8\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of the great new YA novel ADMISSION with author Julie Buxbaum. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86785320869. \nOrder your copy of ADMISSION at http://bit.ly/ggpAdmission\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/AdmissionAB. \nDescription\n\nLie. Cheat. Bribe. How far would you go to get into your dream school? How far would your parents go? Inspired by the recent college admissions scandal\, this ripped-from-the-headlines YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things sees one teenage girl’s privileged world shatter when her family’s lies are exposed. \nIt’s good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer–she has it all–money\, privilege\, and a ticket to the college of her dreams. Or at least she did until the FBI came knocking on her front door\, guns at the ready\, and her future went up in smoke. Now her B list celebrity mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal\, and Chloe might be the next one facing charges. The public is furious\, the headlines are brutal\, and the US attorney is out for blood. \nAs everything she’s taken for granted starts to slip away\, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened\, but also with the examination of her own guilt. How much did she really know-or guess? Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat? And what does it really mean to be complicit? \nBestselling author Julie Buxbaum takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country in this timely tale of the hyper elite and the hyper competitive\, and the lengths they go to stay at the top. \nAbout the Author\n\nJULIE BUXBAUM is the author of the What to Say Next\, as well as the New York Times bestseller Tell Me Three Things\, her debut young adult novel. She also wrote the critically acclaimed The Opposite of Love and After You. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two young children. \nPraise For…\n\n“Deft\, page-turning\, and fresh as the latest college admissions gossip.” —Kirkus Reviews  \n“[Buxbaum’s] assessment of the entitled 1% feels spot-on.” —Publishers Weekly
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-julie-buxbaum-discussing-admission-thu-apr-8-7-pdt-ggp-online-author-chat/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dr. Temple Grandin
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a budding scientist\, inventor\, and/or creator in your household? Have you wondered what are the aerodynamics of skipping stones or the physics of making sandcastles? Have you asked if birds use GPS to navigate their migratory routes? \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a virtual event with New York Times bestselling author\, world-renowned scientist\, and autism spokesperson Dr. Temple Grandin to celebrate the release of her latest book for young readers\, The Outdoor Scientist. \nIn The Outdoor Scientist\, Dr. Temple Grandin\, an inventor and world-renowned scientist\, introduces readers to geologists\, astrophysicists\, oceanographers\, and many other scientists who unlock the wonders of the natural world. She shares her childhood experiences and observations\, whether on the beach\, in the woods\, working with horses\, or gazing up at the night sky. This book explores all areas of nature and gives readers the tools to discover even more on their own. \nDr. Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of twelve books on autism and animal behavior\, including the national bestsellers Calling All Minds\, Thinking in Pictures\, and Animals in Translation. Dr. Grandin was inducted in the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and in 2018 she was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. on her experiences with autism\, and her work has been covered in the New York Times\, People\, National Public Radio\, and 20/20. She was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year and the HBO movie based on her life\, starring Claire Danes\, received seven Emmy Awards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-temple-grandin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #54
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-54/
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CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T080000
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SUMMARY:Pitch-o-Rama\, literary agent pitch festival
DESCRIPTION:As you likely know\, we have been holding the Pitch-o-Rama literary pitch festival annually for more than 20 years. In 2020\, we changed to a digital format. \nOn April 10\, 2021\, we will hold our second-ever virtual Pitch-O-Rama. We have learned a lot from last year to make it even better for you and are greatly expanding our great group of fiction editors\, agents\, and publishers. You gave excellent feedback last year\, we listened and are excited to have fab new folks to hear your marvelous book ideas. The feedback we received for last year’s Pitch-o-rama was fantastic\, most said they preferred pitching virtually for many reasons. \nJoin us for Virtual Pitch-O-Rama 2021! Click here to see a full list of agents and publishers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pitch-o-rama-literary-agent-pitch-festival/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth George - Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:As the author of twenty-four novels\, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful—and prolific—novelists today. In Mastering the Process\, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well\, having taught creative writing both nationally and internationally for over thirty years. \nFor many writers\, the biggest challenge is figuring out how to take that earliest glimmer of inspiration and shape it into a full-length novel. How do you even begin to transform a single idea into a complete book? \nIn these pages\, award-winning\, number one New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George takes us behind the scenes through each step of her writing process\, revealing exactly what it takes to craft a novel. \nDrawing from her personal photos\, early notes\, character analyses\, and rough drafts\, George shows us every stage of how she wrote her novel Careless in Red\, from researching location to imagining plot to creating characters to the actual writing and revision processes themselves. George offers us an intimate look at the procedures she follows\, while also providing invaluable advice for writers about what has worked for her—and what hasn’t. Mastering the Process gives writers practical\, prescriptive\, and achievable tools for creating a novel\, editing a novel\, and problem solving when in the midst of a novel\, from a master storyteller writing at the top of her game. \nElizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty psychological suspense novels\, four young adult novels\, one book of nonfiction\, and two short-story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards\, two Edgar nominations\, and both France’s and Germany’s first prize for crime fiction\, as well as several other prestigious prizes. She lives in Washington State. \n  \nElizabeth George photo by Jennifer Derrick Adams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-george-mastering-the-process-from-idea-to-novel-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lulu Miller\, Why Fish Don't Exist
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss. Love\, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). Our staff is crazy about this riveting book\, which begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan\, then goes down a rabbit hole of history\, morality\, and scientific adventure. Mary Roach calls it\, “Perfect\, just perfect\,” and Sy Montgomery says\, “This book will capture your heart\, seize your imagination\, smash your preconceptions\, and rock your world.” \nRegistration for this free virtual event will begin soon. \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nWhy Fish Don’t Exist tells the strange tale of 19th-century taxonomist David Starr Jordan\, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time\, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered\, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightening\, by fire\, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent over a thousand of his discoveries\, housed in fragile glass jars\, plummeting to the floor. In an instant\, his life’s work was shattered. \nMiller digs into this obscure moment in science history to take us on a remarkable journey that explores some of the biggest questions of our lives: the nature of persistence\, of life’s purpose\, and how we strive to make sense of a chaotic world. Like Susan Orlean peeled back layers in The Orchid Thief\, Miller takes us from the desecration of David Starr Jordan’s specimen collection to a possible murder\, and from a colony of victims of eugenics to her own love life—interweaving biography\, memoir\, and the latest science\, psychology\, and philosophy to investigate what it takes to live a life of resilience. \nWHY FISH DON’T EXIST is an astonishing and category-defying work\, by turns harrowing and life-affirming. Part biography\, part memoir\, part scientific adventure\, it’s a story for anyone who has ever found themselves lost amidst the chaos of life\, and reminds us how we—like David Starr Jordan—can find the courage to stand up again in the wreckage. \nLulu Miller is the co-founder of the NPR program Invisibilia\, a series about the unseen forces that control human behavior. Before creating Invisibilia\, she produced Radiolab for five years and was a reporter on the NPR Science Desk. She received a MFA from the University of Virginia on a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. She is currently the co-host of NPR’s Radiolab.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lulu-miller-why-fish-dont-exist/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, APRIL 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN JEFF VANDERMEER JOINS US FOR THE RELEASE OF HIS LATEST NOVEL\, HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER!\nSTAY TUNED FOR DETAILS \nPraise for Hummingbird Salamander \n“Hummingbird Salamander is harrowing\, gripping\, and profound. It’s both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world. I expect this novel will haunt me for a long time.” —Emily St. John Mandel \n“VanderMeer moves from fantasy into noir territory with this version of an eco-thriller. . .Jane has a number of things in common with Stieg Larsson’s heroine: She can pound most dudes into tapioca\, and she’s pretty handy with a gun and a computer\, too. . .It wouldn’t be a VanderMeer story\, no matter what the genre\, without a post-apocalyptic turn\, and after all the assorted villains (one of them in particular very evil indeed) and oversized amphibians and mad-scientist taxidermists and exploding heads\, it’s sort of nice to get to a future that no one will survive—one that strongly resembles 2020\, for that matter. A daring change of genres\, and an entertaining whirlwind at that.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Hummingbird Salamander is a profound and incendiary thriller hurtling backward from the end of the world. Jeff VanderMeer’s tale of ecological and personal obsession inhabits that strange\, surreal space where the natural world and human ambition collide – a space almost no other writer has chronicled with as much reverence and imaginative lucidity. The result is a detective story unlike any I’ve read before\, futuristic in bearing but deeply relevant to this present\, dangerous moment.” —Omar El Akkad\, award-winning journalist and author of American War\nAbout Hummingbird Salamander \nFrom the author of Annihilation\, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy\, endangered species\, and the end of all things \nSoftware manager Jane Smith receives an envelope containing a list of animals along with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. The list is signed “Love\, Silvina.” Jane does not know a Silvina\, and she wants nothing to do with the taxidermied animals. \nThe hummingbird and the salamander are\, it turns out\, two of the most endangered species in the world. Silvina Vilcapampa\, the woman who left the note\, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of a recently deceased Argentine industrialist. By removing the hummingbird and the salamander from the storage unit\, Jane has set in motion a series of events over which she has no control. \nInstantly\, Jane and her family are in danger\, and she finds herself alone and on the run from both Silvina’s family and her ecoterrorist accomplices—along with the wildlife traffickers responsible for the strange taxidermy. She seems fated to follow in Silvina’s footsteps as she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her\, why she is now at the center of this global conspiracy\, and what exactly Silvina was planning. Time is running out—for her and possibly for the world. \nHummingbird Salamander is the Annihilation author Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant\, cinematic best\, wrapping profound questions about climate change\, identity\, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jeff-vandermeer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alec MacGillis Pro Publica reporter discusses Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning investigative journalist Alec MacGillis joins us to discuss his new book\, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (FSG)\, a deep investigation into Amazon’s business practices and the historic and economic roots of our increasingly stratified society. \n“Alec MacGillis is one of the very best reporters in America. By always going his own way\, he finds stories and truths that others avoid. Fulfillment paints a devastating picture of Amazon\, but it also gives human voices to the larger story of our unequal economy and society. Fulfillment is an essential book in the literature of America’s self-destruction.” —George Packer\, author of the National Book Award–winning The Unwinding \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTRATION INFO coming soon. \nAbout Fulfillment\nAn award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. \nIn 1937\, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes dangerous assembly line labor. Eighty-three years later\, the market capitalization of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dollars\, while the value of the Ford Motor Company hovers around thirty billion. We have\, it seems\, entered the age of one-click America—and as the coronavirus makes Americans more dependent on online shopping\, its sway will only intensify. \nAlec MacGillis’s Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather\, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows\, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs\, data centers\, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart\, the civic fabric is unraveling\, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated. \nRanging across the country\, MacGillis tells the stories of those who’ve thrived and struggled to thrive in this rapidly changing environment. In Seattle\, high-paid workers in new office towers displace a historic black neighborhood. In suburban Virginia\, homeowners try to protect their neighborhood from the environmental impact of a new data center. Meanwhile\, in El Paso\, small office supply firms seek to weather Amazon’s takeover of government procurement\, and in Baltimore a warehouse supplants a fabled steel plant. Fulfillment also shows how Amazon has become a force in Washington\, D.C.\, ushering readers through a revolving door for lobbyists and government contractors and into CEO Jeff Bezos’s lavish Kalorama mansion. \nWith empathy and breadth\, MacGillis demonstrates the hidden human costs of the other inequality—not the growing gap between rich and poor\, but the gap between the country’s winning and losing regions. The result is an intimate account of contemporary capitalism: its drive to innovate\, its dark\, pitiless magic\, its remaking of America with every click. \nAbout Alec MacGillis\nAlec MacGillis is a senior reporter for ProPublica and the recipient of the George Polk Award\, the Robin Toner prize\, and other honors. He worked previously at The Washington Post\, Baltimore Sun\, and The New Republic\, and his journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and other publications. His ProPublica reporting on Dayton\, Ohio was the basis of a PBS Frontline documentary about the city. He is the author of The Cynic\, a 2014 biography of Mitch McConnell. He lives in Baltimore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alec-macgillis-pro-publica-reporter-discusses-fulfillment-winning-and-losing-in-one-click-america/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 13\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/21242738185. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpMidnightLibrary or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/TheMidnightLibraryAB. \nDescription\n\n“A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits.”—The Washington Post \nA New York Times bestseller | Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! \n“Between life and death there is a library\, and within that library\, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different\, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?” \nA dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived\, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. \nSomewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books\, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is\, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been\, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? \nIn The Midnight Library\, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel\, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one\, following a different career\, undoing old breakups\, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life\, and what makes it worth living in the first place. \nAbout the Author\n\nMatt Haig is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive\, along with five novels\, including How to Stop Time\, and several award-winning children’s books. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. \nPraise For…\n\nAn instant New York Times bestseller\nWinner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction\nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!\nOne of the LibraryReads 2020 Voter Favorites\nIncluded in best-of-year and year-end roundups by The Washington Post\, Christian Science Monitor\, New York Public Library\, Amazon\, Boston Globe\, PureWow\, St. Louis Public Radio\, She Reads\, Lit Hub\, The Mary Sue\, and more \n“Whimsical.” —Washington Post\, named one of the 15 Feel-Good Books Guaranteed to Lift Your Spirits \n“An absorbing but comfortable read…a vision of limitless possibility\, of new roads taken\, of new lives lived\, of a whole different world available to us somehow\, somewhere\, might be exactly what’s wanted in these troubled and troubling times.” —The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-midnight-library-by-matt-haig-ggp-online-book-club/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: K.S. Komireddi / Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host K.S. Komireddi for his first book Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India. Please note our early start time of 12pm PT. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Malevolent Republic here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nHailed as the world’s largest democracy and feted by the Trump administration in events like “Howdy Modi” in Houston\, India is rapidly mutating into a plebiscitary autocracy under the sectarian rule of Prime Minister Modi. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present\, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right\, convenient distortions of India’s past\, and demeaning bribes to minorities that led to Modi’s rise. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists\, Komireddi argues\, India will become Pakistan by another name. An incandescent narrative history of the world’s largest democracy\, Malevolent Republic is also a passionate argument for the reclamation of India’s soul. \n“Kapil Komireddi ranks high among the wisest\, most astute\, and most humane observers of modern India” – David Frum\, The Atlantic \n“Written with passion and savagery\, this is a polemical and highly readable short history of modern India from Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi” – Gideon Rachman\, The Financial Times \n“K.S. Komireddi is the V.S. Naipaul of his generation … arresting\, essential\, devastating” – The Spectator \n“In precise and sharp language\, Malevolent Republic takes readers on a terrifying and yet illuminating journey through the rapidly transforming political\, social\, and religious landscape of Modi’s India” – Rafia Zakaria\, The Times Literary Supplement \n“Komireddi is one of the most thoughtful and thorough journalists writing today. His range of interests is impressive in its breadth and cosmopolitanism. His is a rare voice that can comment on global affairs from a truly comparative perspective” – Amitav Ghosh\, author of the Ibis trilogy. \nAbout the author\nK.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi was born in India\, and was educated there and in England. His commentary\, criticism\, and journalism—from South Asia\, Europe\, and the Middle East—have appeared\, among other leading publications\, in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Economist\, the Indian Express\, the Guardian\, the Los Angeles Times\, TIME\, Foreign Policy\, the Spectator\, and the Jewish Chronicle. In 2019\, his oped highlighting the Indian government’s brutality in Kashmir provoked an angry demonstration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters outside the offices of Washington Post in Washington\, DC. A highly regarded observer of modern India\, Komireddi is one of only 2\,300 individuals Modi follows on Twitter (Modi himself has 66 million followers). He is a contributor to Monocle24 radio. Malevolent Republic is his first book. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-k-s-komireddi-malevolent-republic-a-short-history-of-the-new-india/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alonzo King in conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Alonzo King in conversation with Steven Winn \nWednesday\, April 14\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \n \n\n\nHailed as a visionary choreographer\, Alonzo King is altering the way we look at ballet. King calls his works “thought structures” created by the manipulation of energies that exist in matter through laws\, which govern the shapes and movement directions of everything that exists. He has guided Alonzo King LINES Ballet with his unique artistic vision since 1982. A former commissioner for the city and county of San Francisco\, and a writer and lecturer on the art of dance; his contributions appear in the books Masters of Movement: Portraits of American Choreographers and in Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alonzo-king-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick & Kris Welch: Taking a Long Look\, a Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nVIVIAN GORNICK with KRIS WELCH\nTaking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature and Feminism \nTAKING A LONG LOOK: ESSAYS ON CULTURE\, LITERATURE AND FEMINISM IN OUR TIME is described by Publishers Weekly as “illuminating and a welcome addition to this astute critic’s oeuvre.” \nVivian Gornick has brought together 40 years of  her work. Alternately crackling with energy or lucid with insight\, the essays show us one of America’s most beloved critics at her best. She tackles subjects familiar and not\, from feminism\, literature\, and culture to race\, science\, and ecology. Many of these essays are now out of print\, and several have been revised to reflect Gornick’s initial editorial intent. Featuring a new introduction\, Taking A Long Look illuminates one of the main themes present throughout Gornick’s work: that the painful process of knowing one’s self is what connects us all. \nExploring the lives of Alfred Kazin\, Mary McCarthy\, Philip Roth\, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Gornick’s incendiary essays\, first published in the Village Voice\, on the women’s liberation movements of the 70s; plus many a New York story\, these essays show us one of America’s most beloved critics at her best. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice\, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movements in the 1970s\, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments-ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times-The Odd Woman and the City\, and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader\, as well as the classic text on writing\, The Situation and the Story. \nKris Welch is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a devoted  grandmother. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivian-gornick-kris-welch-taking-a-long-look-tickets-137661131149
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick-kris-welch-taking-a-long-look-a-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Melissa Febos and R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 14 AT 6PM PT WHEN MELISSA FEBOS DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, GIRLHOOD\, WITH R.O. KWON ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88638955882\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88638955882#  or +12532158782\,\,88638955882#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdaYqnjjvP \nPraise for Girlhood \n“In this book\, Febos proves herself to be one of the great documenters of the terrible and exquisite depths of girlhood. Here\, that terrible and beautiful aeon is dissected\, sung over\, explored like ancient ruins. These essays are moss and iron—hard and beautiful—and struck through with Febos’ signature brilliance and power and grace. An essential\, heartbreaking project.” —Carmen Maria Machado\, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties \n“Melissa Febos just revived me in the most spectacular way. Girlhood blazes through the stories we’ve been told with a dazzling fury and a brilliant beauty. Whatever we are or were\, this is a map to a new becoming. Between the intellect and the body a third term emerges\, dissolving binaries and reinventing the space of erotic power and creativity. A fuck-all guide to resilience and reclamation\, a breathtaking reimagination of who we might be in spite of what we’ve been told. Girlhood will bring you back to life.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge and The Book of Joan \n“Melissa Febos is part poet\, part theorist\, and all writer. In this lyrical\, searching\, profound\, and personal collection\, Febos examines childhood\, femaleness\, and love in its many forms with a sensuous ferocity that is all her own.” —Ariel Levy\, author of The Rules Do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs \nAbout Girlhood \nFor readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison\, a poignant\, universal story of the forces that shape girls and of a world where women are rarely free to define themselves. \nIn her dazzling new book\, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be a girl and the realities of growing up female in a world that prioritizes the feelings\, perceptions\, and power of men at girls’ expense. \nFebos was eleven when her body began to change\, and almost overnight\, the way people spoke to\, looked at\, and treated her changed with it. As she grew\, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. But in her thirties\, Febos began to question the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety\, happiness\, or freedom\, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. \nBlending investigative reporting\, memoir\, and scholarship\, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger\, hurt\, and grief women have long been taught to deny.\nFierce and breathtaking\, written with Febos’ characteristic lyricism and searing insights\, Girlhood is an anthem for women\, a powerful exploration of the forces that seek to confine them\, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood on a lifelong journey of discovery. \nAbout Melissa Febos \nMelissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and Publishing Triangle Award finalist. Her essays have appeared in Tin House\, The Believer\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. Febos is the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction from Lambda Literary and serves on the directorial board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-melissa-febos-and-r-o-kwon/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Willie Vlautin in conversation with Megan Abbot
DESCRIPTION:discussing Willie Vlautin’s new book \nThe Night Always Comes \npublished by Harper Collins \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. \n————- \nAward-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family. \nBarely thirty\, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs\, some illegally\, she’s been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland’s housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years\, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it’s their last best chance to own their own home—and obtain the security they’ve never had. While she has enough for the down payment\, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price. But a week before they’re set to sign the loan papers\, her mother gets cold feet and reneges on her promise\, pushing Lynette to her limits to find the money they need. \nSet over two days and two nights\, The Night Always Comes follows Lynette’s frantic search—an odyssey of hope and anguish that will bring her face to face with greedy rich men and ambitious hustlers\, those benefiting and those left behind by a city in the throes of a transformative boom. As her desperation builds and her pleas for help go unanswered\, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious\, frenzied spiral. In trying to save her family’s future\, she is plunged into the darkness of her past\, and forced to confront the reality of her life. \nA heart wrenching portrait of a woman hungry for security and a home in a rapidly changing city\, The Night Always Comes raises the difficult questions we are often too afraid to ask ourselves: What is the price of gentrification\, and how far are we really prepared to go to achieve the American Dream? Is the American dream even attainable for those living at the edges? Or for too many of us\, is it only a hollow promise? \nWilly Vlautin is the author of the novels The Motel Life\, Northline\, Lean on Pete\, The Free\, and Don’t Skip Out on Me. He is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. He lives outside Portland Oregon. \nMegan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels The Turnout\, Give Me Your Hand\, You Will Know Me\, The Feber\, Dare Me\, The End of Everything\, Bury Me Deep\, Queenpin\, The Song Is You\, and Die A Little. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Salon\, the Guardian\, Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times Magazine\, and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections\, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger\, the International Thriller Writers Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO’s David Simon show\, The Deuce\, she is now co-creator\, executive producer and show-runner of Dare Me\, based upon her novel\, for the USA Network and\, internationally\, Netflix. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/willie-vlautin-in-conversation-with-megan-abbot-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Daniel Lieberman\, Exercised
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Harvard University professor Daniel Lieberman\, bestselling author of The Story of the Human Body\, will join us to discuss his new book\, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. If exercise is healthy (so good for you!)\, why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising—not to mention sitting\, sleeping\, sprinting\, weight lifting\, playing\, fighting\, walking\, jogging\, and even dancing. \n“Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship\, wit\, and enthusiasm. This is easily one of my favorite books of the year.” —Bill Bryson\, New York Times best-selling author of The Body \nRegister here for this free Crowdcast event! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nIn this myth-busting book\, Daniel Lieberman\, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity\, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise—to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world\, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk\, run\, dig\, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. \nExercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes\, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise. \nDrawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology\, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable\, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much\, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us. \nDANIEL E. LIEBERMAN is Edwin M. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He is the author of the national best seller The Story of the Human Body: Evolution\, Health\, and Disease and Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rearding. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-daniel-lieberman-exercised/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Couch with Kelly! An Evening with Kelly Corrigan
DESCRIPTION:On The Couch With Kelly! An Evening of Connection and Conversation \nKelly Tells Us More! Don’t miss out on an amazing virtual experience benefiting Compass High School\, a school serving students with learning differences\, in San Mateo\, California.  Join the conversation with Kelly\, as she discusses the connections and relationships that are so vital to everyday life.  You’ll laugh\, you’ll cry\, you’ll commiserate with this New York Times bestselling author.  Kelly will share insights from her newly released book\, Hello World!  Be among the first to hear about it.  So grab a drink\, curl up on your couch\, and settle in for an intimate conversation\, all in support of Compass High School’s Scholarship Fund. \n$50-$500. \nhttps://compasshigh.org/fundraiser/ office@compasshigh.org 650-720-4248
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-couch-with-kelly-an-evening-with-kelly-corrigan/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Adam Jentleson Book Club Talk
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 15 AT 5PM PT WHEN FOR A BOOK CLUB TALK WITH ADAM JENTLESON ON HIS BOOK KILL SWITCH: THE RISE OF THE MODERN SENARE AND THE CRIPPLING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY\, MODERATED BY SPENCER PAHLKE AND AMANDA SADRA!\nIn partnership with The American Constitution Society chapters from Berkeley Law\, Stanford Law School\, and ASU Law\, the Political & Election Empowerment Project\, and Manny’s \nYou can register for the event here! \nAbout the Event \nWhy can’t we pass gun control legislation even after a horrific mass shooting?  Why couldn’t Congress pass any civil rights legislation for 82 years after Reconstruction?  What could prevent us from reversing the anti-democratic\, anti-voting legislation coming from states like Georgia? \nThe filibuster. \nBut isn’t the filibuster a central part of the founder’s vision for our country?  Doesn’t the filibuster protect minority rights?  And doesn’t the filibuster encourage bipartisan legislating? \nNo.  No.  And not even close.  \nThe modern filibuster is the result of more than two centuries of work by those who stood—and stand—in the way of equality\, progress\, and fairness.  It is now a kill switch that allows a minority of the Senate\, representing a minority of voters\, to repeatedly block needed—and popular—legislation. \nThis drove Adam Jentleson\, Sen. Harry Reid’s former Deputy Chief of Staff\, to write Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.  The book is a history of the intertwining narratives and bad faith actors that delivered the Senate to its current anti-democratic condition. \nAdam has been quoted just about everywhere of late\, from the NYT to Politico to the Washington Post.  He’s also a GQ columnist and frequent MSNBC contributor. \nAnd—he will be joining us for a moderated Zoom discussion about Kill Switch and the filibuster on April 15 from 5-6pm Pacific.  \nIf you’ve seen him in the news and want to ask him your question\, or learn more about the filibuster\, or you’ve already read the book and are a fan—this is the chance to meet Adam! \nPlease RSVP at this link—and forward this on to others who would be interested as well as post on social media!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-adam-jentleson-book-club-talk/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Radden Keefe and Jane Mayer
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 15 AT 6PM PT WHEN PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE IS JOINED BY JANE MAYER TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST BOOK\, EMPIRE OF PAIN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE SACKLER DYNASTY\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89915697259\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89915697259#  or +13462487799\,\,89915697259#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSA9O6zQh \nAbout Empire of Pain\nA grand\, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family\, famed for their philanthropy\, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin\, by the prize-winning\, bestselling author of Say Nothing \nThe Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Oxford\, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world\, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague\, however\, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. \nEmpire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers\, Raymond\, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur\, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution\, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing\, especially for pharmaceuticals\, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium\, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer\, Purdue Frederick\, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art\, and wives\, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. \nForty years later\, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors\, influencing the FDA\, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue\, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. \nThis is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world\, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich\, Connecticut\, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington\, D.C. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company\, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. \nEmpire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing\, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age\, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes. \nAbout Patrick Radden Keefe\nPatrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author\, most recently\, of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal\, and was named one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change. \nAbout Jane Mayer\nJane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President\, 1984–1988\, with Doyle McManus\, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas\, with Jill Abramson\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals\, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, was named one of The New York Times’s Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize\, the Goldsmith Book Prize\, the Edward Weintal Prize\, the Ridenhour Prize\, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker\, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award\, the George Polk Award\, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting\, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-radden-keefe-and-jane-mayer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Rick Barot was born in the Philippines in 1969 and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied at Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Barot is the author of four books of poetry: The Galleons (Milkweed Editions\, 2020)\, finalist for the National Book Award; Chord (Sarabande Books\, 2015)\, winner of the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award; Want (Sarabande Books\, 2008)\, winner of the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and The Darker Fall (Sarabande Books\, 2002)\, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. \n  \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of  Letters to a Young Brown Girl  (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. \nRegistration available soon here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-rick-barot-barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Meiburg
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Meiburg (of the band Shearwater) discusses his new book\, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey (Knopf). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channle. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout A Most Remarkable Creature\nIn 1833\, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome\, social\, and oddly crow-like falcons that were “tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate\,” and so insatiably curious that they stole hats\, compasses\, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America\, sensing a larger story\, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later\, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America\, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana\, in search of these birds: striated caracaras\, which still exist\, though they’re very rare. He reveals the wild\, fascinating story of their history\, origins\, and possible futures. And along the way\, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson\, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world\, and to falconry parks in the English countryside\, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing\, travelogue\, and biography\, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated\, and absolutely riveting. \n“I’m in love with this book. If you like great writing\, strange historical twists\, adventure\, nature\, music and/or birds this will quickly become one of your all-time favorite books.”—Laurie Anderson\, artist \nAbout Jonathan Meiburg\nIn 1997\, Jonathan Meiburg received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to remote communities around the world\, a year-long journey that sparked his enduring fascination with islands\, birds\, and the deep history of the living world. Since then\, he’s written reviews\, features\, and interviews for print and online publications including The Believer\, The Talkhouse\, and The Appendix on subjects ranging from a hidden exhibit hall at the American Museum of Natural History to the last long-form interview with author Peter Matthiessen. But he’s best known as the leader of the band Shearwater\, whose albums and performances have often been praised by NPR\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and Pitchfork. He lives in central Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-meiburg/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Mike Mechanic\, Jackpot
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Michael Mechanic\, journalist and senior editor at Mother Jones magazine\, to discuss his new book\, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All.  Mechanic dives into the lives of the extremely rich\, revealing the fascinating\, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious effects their disproportionate affluence has on them\, as well as our society at large. Tim O’Reilly and Kim Polese will join as panelists; the conversation will be moderated by Clive Thompson. This event is co-hosted by reader-supported investigative news organization\, Mother Jones. \nRegister for this free online event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nHave you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies; we spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019. Americans dream of the jackpot\, the big exit\, the life-altering payday\, in whatever form that takes. We would escape day jobs and cramped living spaces\, bury our debts\, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But the reality for the ultra-wealthy is quite different. \n“Mechanic’s nuanced perspective on wealth accumulation offers fresh insights …. an intriguing look at the boons and burdens of wealth.” —Publishers Weekly \nMichael Mechanic is a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, two teenagers\, and various animals. Jackpot is his first book. \nTim O’Reilly is the founder\, CEO\, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media\, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley goldrush for the past thirty-five years. The company’s online learning and knowledge-on-demand platform at oreilly.com is used by thousands of enterprises and millions of individuals worldwide. O’Reilly has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software\,” “web 2.0\,” “the Maker movement\,” “government as a platform\,” or “the WTF economy\,” he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas. Tim is also a partner at early-stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV)\, and on the boards of Code for America\, PeerJ\, Civis Analytics\, and PopVox. He is the author of many technical books published by O’Reilly Media\, and most recently WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business\, 2017). He is working on a new book about why we need to rethink antitrust in the era of internet-scale platforms. \nKim Polese is co-founder and board chair of CrowdSmart\, a startup that combines human expertise with artificial intelligence to help funders identify promising young companies\, reducing ingrained biases that have prevented many would-be founders from raising venture capital. Early in her career\, Kim led the launch of Java as a founding product manager at Sun Microsystems. She has co-founded several companies\, including software pioneer Marimba\, where she was Chairman and CEO\, took the company public\, and later oversaw its successful acquisition by BMC. Marimba remains one of the world’s top internet-of-things platforms\, delivering three billion software updates annually to our devices\, appliances\, and vehicles. Kim earned her degree in biophysics from UC-Berkeley and has done post-baccalaureate study in computer science at the University of Washington. An Aspen Institute Crown Fellow\, she is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, including Information Week’s “Top Technology Executives” and Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans.” \nClive Thompson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, a columnist for Wired\, and his most recent book is CODERS: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mike-mechanic-jackpot/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #34
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-34/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:High Dawn 8: Choi / Morgan / Foster / Suzuki
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-april.eventbrite.com \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBased in Berkeley\, CA\, 최 Lindsay is a poet and translator working between English\, Korean\, and Swedish. They are the author of Transverse (Futurepoem\, 2020)\, and a chapbook\, Matrices (speCt! books\, 2017). They are a Kundiman fellow and a Ph.D. student in English literature at UC Berkeley. More of their work can be found in Omniverse\, Amerarcana\, and Aster(ix) Journal\, and elsewhere. \nRecent projects include a creative manuscript in and out of translation on the colonial history of leprosy in Korea. Their editorial work includes a print journal of translations and experiments in collaboration between Swedish and American poets\, released in Sweden\, Denmark\, and the U.S\, edited collaboratively by Berkeley Poetry Review and Ordkonst. They are a founding co-editor\, with Noah Ross\, of the chapbook press MO(O)ON/IO. Their work has been translated to French\, and will appear in the forthcoming issue of NIOQUES\, 22/23: Nouvelle Poésie Des États-Unis (New U.S. Poetry)\, edited by DoubleChange Collective\, and translated by Abigail Lang. Visit them at lindsaychoi.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a writer and artist\, Saretta Morgan’s current work uses text\, etching\, sculpture\, and video to engage relationships between ecology\, Black diaspora and migration in the United States Southwest. She is based between Phoenix and Mohave Valley\, Arizona where she teaches creative writing at Arizona State University and is an active member of the grassroots humanitarian aid organization\, No More Deaths Phoenix\, which supports the safe passage of migrants in the U.S. Mexico borderlands. \nSaretta is author of the chapbooks\, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs\, 2017). She has received support from the Jerome Foundation\, Arizona Commission on the Arts\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics\, Virginia Piper Foundation\, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, among others. Recent work can be found at Triple Canopy\, The Colorado Review\, and Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Ted Roeder \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoet\, essayist\, and educator Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; the chapbook A History of the Bitch (forthcoming\, Sputnik and Fizzle\, 2020); and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her next poetry collection\, Thingification is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2021. Monkey Talk\, a multi-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthetics and surveillance is in development with support from a 2020 Creative Capital Foundation grant. She has been an artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora\, at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and at Macdowell. A 2020-2021 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University\, Dr. Foster holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She was raised in New Orleans\, and her family goes generations back in Louisiana. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nkaori suzuki is a tokyo-born music maker/composer currently living in oakland\, ca. seeking modes of heightened listening-and-being in her spiraling sound visions\, she uses high-droning modified acoustic instruments\, electroacoustic sound technologies\, intensely high register electronics\, tape\, and other elements necessary to spin her often loud\, auditory transmissions. \nher projects include solo compositions and durational music for vhf-combination tones; collaborative immersive light-sound happenings; drumming in the oakland-based minimalist psych-punk group\, night collectors; and playing amplified cello and guitar in the ecstatic music band. \nsuzuki has performed widely in numerous venues across the u.s\, japan\, europe\, mexico\, and canada\, and has published her recordings on independent labels in germany and the u.s. she currently teaches in the music department at the center for contemporary music at mills college.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-8-choi-morgan-foster-suzuki/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Frank Mortimer and Bob Tanem
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, April 16 at 6pm PT when Frank Mortimer discusses his new book\, Bee People and the Bugs They Love\, with KSFO’s Bob Tanem\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795539844\n\nPraise for Bee People and the Bugs They Love\n“It is an achievement to convey so much knowledge so accessibly without once seeming overbearing. The main reason it all works is the honest descriptions of friendships that spring up around a shared\, all-absorbing interest in bees. The book is written in a stylistically assured voice and with a structure that makes it easy to follow. And Mortimer intersperses useful facts about his passion in a successful and funny book that is sure to swell the ranks of the world’s beekeepers.”\n—The New York Times\n\n“Frank Mortimer’s BEE PEOPLE AND THE BUGS THEY LOVE is the bee’s knees and getting a ton of buzz. Bee smart\, people\, and read this un-BEE-lievably interesting look at the quirky world of beekeeping.”\n—Harlan Coben\, #1 New York Times bestselling author\n\n“If the world of beekeepers has a top ambassador\, it’s Frank (The Beeman) Mortimer. Bee People and the Bugs They Love is a delightful portrayal for non-beekeepers of what life is like for those of us who are always thinking about bees.\n—Tom Seeley\, author of The Lives of Bees\n\n”Bee People takes a long look at your first beekeeper’s meeting\, that first bee sting\, capturing your first swarm and tasting your first honey…My advice\, read Mortimer’s book first\, before you become a beekeeper. If you do\, you will become a beekeeper. He gets it right. And Bee Nerd Alert: You will meet some of the best people in the world – beekeepers.“\n—Kim Flottum\, author\, The Backyard Beekeeper\, and editor-in-chief of Bee Culture Magazine\n\nAbout Bee People and the Bugs They Love\nA fascinating foray into the obsessions\, friendships\, scientific curiosity\, misfortunes and rewards of suburban beekeeping—through the eyes of a Master Beekeeper…\n\nWho wants to keep bees? And why? For the answers\, Master Beekeeper Frank Mortimer invites readers on an eye-opening journey into the secret world of bees\, and the singular world of his fellow bee-keepers. There’s the Badger\, who introduces Frank to the world of bees; Rusty\, a one-eyed septuagenarian bee sting therapist certain that honey will be the currency of the future after the governments fail; Scooby the “dude” who gets a meditative high off the awesome vibes of his psychedelia-painted hives; and the Berserker\, a honeybee hitman who teaches Frank a rafter-raising lesson in staving off the harmful influences of an evil queen: “Squash her\, mash her\, kill\, kill\, kill!”\n\nFrank also crosses paths with those he calls the Surgeons (precise and protected)\, the Cowboys (improvisational and unguarded) and the Poseurs\, ex-corporate cogs\, YouTube-informed and ill-prepared for the stinging reality of their new lives. In connecting with this club of disparate but kindred spirits\, Frank discovers the centuries-old history of the trade; the practicality of maintaining it; what bees see\, think\, and feel (emotionless but sometimes a little defensive); how they talk to each other and socialize; and what can be done to combat their biggest threats\, both human (anti-apiarist extremists) and mite (the Varroa Destructor).\n\nWith a swarm of offbeat characters and fascinating facts (did that bee just waggle or festoon?)\, Frank the Bee Man delivers an informative\, funny\, and galvanizing book about the symbiotic relationship between flower and bee\, and bee and the beekeepers who are determined to protect the existence of one of the most beguiling and invaluable creatures on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-frank-mortimer-and-bob-tanem/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #55
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-55/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Environmental Justice\, Writers tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Elise Ficarra \nPresented in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition \nSupported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Academy of American Poets in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-and-environmental-justice-writers-tba/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Courttia Newland in conversation with Naomi Jackson and Victor LaValle
DESCRIPTION:Courttia Newland in conversation with Naomi Jackson and Victor LaValle  \ndiscussing Courttia Newland’s newly published novel \nA River Called Time \nfrom Akashic Books \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n \nThe Ark was built to save the lives of the many\, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite\, the entrance closed without warning. \nYears after the Ark was cut off from the world—a world much like our own\, but in which slavery has never existed—a chance of survival within the Ark’s confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny\, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded secret: without warning\, his spirit leaves his body\, allowing him to see and experience a world far beyond his physical limitations. \nOnce inside the Ark\, Denny learns of another with the same power\, whose existence could spell catastrophe for humanity. He is forced into a desperate race to understand his abilities\, and in doing so uncovers the truth about the Ark\, himself\, and the people he thought he once knew. \nCourttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much-lauded debut\, The Scholar. His last novel\, The Gospel According to Cane\, was published by Akashic in 2013. In 2016 he was awarded the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter\, he has written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe. A River Called Time is his latest book. \nNaomi Jackson is author of The Star Side of Bird Hill\, published by Penguin Press in June 2015. The Star Side of Bird Hill was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Star Side was named an Honor Book for Fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was also selected for the American Booksellers Association’s Indies Introduce and Indies Next List programs. The book has been reviewed by The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Kirkus Reviews\, NPR.org and Entertainment Weekly\, which called Star Side “a gem of a book.“ Publishers Weekly named Jackson a Writer to Watch. Jackson is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She was the 2018-19 Writer-in-Residence at Queens College and previously taught at the University of Iowa\, University of Pennsylvania\, City College of New York\, and Oberlin College. \nVictor LaValle is the author of four novels which include\, The Ecstatic\, Big Machine\, The Devil in Silver\, and The Changeling and two novellas\, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom\, as well as a short story collection titled Slapboxing with Jesus. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValle’s DESTROYER. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award\, British World Fantasy Award\, Bram Stoker Award\, Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Shirley Jackson Award\, American Book Award\, and the key to Southeast Queens. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courttia-newland-in-conversation-with-naomi-jackson-and-victor-lavalle/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jasmin Darznik (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:A dazzling novel of one of America’s most celebrated photographers\, Dorothea Lange\, exploring the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit\, compassion\, and daring. \nIn 1918\, a young and bright-eyed Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco\, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee\, a vivacious\, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past\, gives Dorothea entrée into Monkey Block\, an artists’ colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends\, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom\, art\, and politics. She also finds herself unexpectedly falling in love with the brilliant but troubled painter Maynard Dixon. Dorothea and Caroline eventually create a flourishing portrait studio\, but a devastating betrayal pushes their friendship to the breaking point and alters the course of their lives. \nThe Bohemians captures a glittering and gritty 1920s San Francisco\, with a cast of unforgettable characters\, including cameos from such legendary figures as Mabel Dodge Luhan\, Frida Kahlo\, Ansel Adams\, and D. H. Lawrence. A vivid and absorbing portrait of the past\, it is also eerily resonant with contemporary themes\, as anti-immigration sentiment\, corrupt politicians\, and a devastating pandemic bring tumult to the city—and the gift of friendship and the possibility of self-invention persist against the ferocious pull of history. \nAs Dorothea sheds her innocence\, her purpose is awakened and she grows into the figure we know from history—the artist whose iconic Depression-era photographs like “Migrant Mother” broke the hearts and opened the eyes of a nation. \nJasmin Darznik’s debut novel\, Song of a Captive Bird\, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice\,” a Los Angeles Times bestseller\, longlisted for the Center for Fiction Prize\, and awarded the Writers’ Center’s First Novel Prize. Darznik is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries. She was born in Tehran\, Iran\, and came to America when she was five years old. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College\, a JD from the University of California\, and a PhD in English from Princeton University. Now a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts\, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-jasmin-darznik-online-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CWC SPEAKER SERIES: Emily Cotler of WaxCreative Author Websites
DESCRIPTION:Emily Cotler is the Creative Director and principal of Waxcreative Design\, Inc. She is the co-author of Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow that Works\, an established standard for workflow methodologies and user-centered design principles worldwide. (Peachpit Press; 2nd edition; co-written with web design industry titan Kelly Goto\, translated into 14 languages.) \nA graduate of UCLA\, Emily started designing effective websites for authors in the late 1990s. A decade later\, Wax is a leader in fan-based Web sites for authors and others. Her dozens of clients include New York Times best-selling authors Julia Quinn\, Eloisa James\, and Elizabeth Boyle\, and span North America and Europe. \nEmily is passionate about navigation\, luring\, and user pathways. Understanding that audience is more than a statistical demographic\, Emily focuses on reaching visitors based on their level of brand devotion. \nWhen not connected fingertip-to-keyboard\, Emily can be found at the park with her young daughter\, where she often mentally redesigns the play structures for better user flow. Emily lives in Oakland\, California. \n  \n### \n  \nToday\, the California Writers Club is the third oldest writing club in the United States. Membership has grown to 1\,800 members in 22 Branches throughout the state. Although named the Berkeley Branch when the Club reorganized into formal Branches and a Central Board in the mid-1970s\, the Branch meets in Oakland monthly September-June. The statewide Central Board holds its biannual meetings in Oakland as well. \n  \nCWC member/volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing speaker programs\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, publishing opportunities\, networking events (online and F2F)\, and more. \n  \n$10 For Members\, $20 For Non-Members. \n  \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-speaker-series-emily-cotler-of-waxcreative-author-websites/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathon Keats and Alla Efimova
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, April 18 at 6pm PT when Jonathon Keats is joined by Alla Efimova to discuss the new monograph\, Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82380142783\n\nAbout Thought Experiments\nJonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions\, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions\, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change\, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities—from the absurd to the profound. Since the turn of the millennium\, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.” These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas\, offering provocations\, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities—systematically asking “what if?”—these projects probe the world in which we live\, exploring the potential for societal change.\n\nAbout Alla Efimova\nAlla Efimova\, Ph.D.\, is a contemporary art curator and museum specialist with a background in critical theory. She is the founder and principal of KunstWorks\, a consulting firm that addresses the growing need for legacy planning among artists of the post-war generation. As the former Director and Chief Curator of The Magnes at the University of California Berkeley\, one of the largest museum collections of Jewish art and history\, Efimova engaged cutting-edge scholars as guests curators and collaborators and commissioned important regional and international artists to create site-specific projects\, including two works by Jonathon Keats. She also co-published two of his artist books together with Modernism Inc.: Yod the Inhuman and Zayin the Profane. Efimova is an author of several books and catalogs and has taught at the University of California Berkeley\, Santa Cruz\, and Irvine as well as the San Francisco Art Institute.\n\nAbout Jonathon Keats\nAcclaimed as a “poet of ideas” by The New Yorker and a “multimedia philosopher-prophet” by The Atlantic\, Jonathon Keats is an artist\, writer and experimental philosopher based in the United States and Europe. His conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society\, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He has exhibited and lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide\, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano\, and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO. He is the award-winning author of four books of nonfiction on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design – most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future (Oxford University Press) – and three book-length works of fiction. A contributing editor to both Discover Magazine and Art & Antiques\, he also authors a weekly online art and design column for Forbes. He has been an artist-in residence at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics\, UC Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station\, and the LACMA Art + Technology Lab\, a Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Asheville\, an Imaginary Fellow at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination\, and a research fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment. He is currently a Polar Lab artist at the Anchorage Museum\, a visiting scholar at San Jose State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, a research associate at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill\, and an artist-in-residence at both the SETI Institute and UC San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center. He serves as co-director and principal philosopher for Earth Law Center’s Interspecies Technology Transfer Consortium and as founding director and curator of the Museum of Future History. He is represented by Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonathon-keats-and-alla-efimova/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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