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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:A star at the heart of our literary constellations for decades\, from the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to McSweeney’s\, Dave Eggers returns to Kepler’s for the release of his latest fiction work\, The Parade. \nEggers is a staunch supporter of independent bookstores\, the founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia in San Francisco\, and a writer who consistently champions humanist ideals through empathetic literature. His characters– deeply realized\, flawed\, and driven by extremes– offer readers moral complexity alongside careful critique into modernity. Distinct\, meaningful\, enjoyable… Eggers is\, in short\, the perfect read\, noted for his postmodern and deeply sincere approach. \nJoin us on April 3rd to hear Dave Eggers speak about a powerful piece of new writing. \nThe Parade has already garnered positive reviews for its tight\, beautiful prose: a spare portrait of two very different men attempting to lay a roadway in an unnamed country long rent by civil war\, it uses specific characters in ambiguous yet familiar settings to highlight present-day concerns. For this style\, Kirkus describes Eggers as “the only living American writer for whom the term Hemingway-esque meaningfully applies.” \nHow often do we have the opportunity to hear the living embodiment of future western canon\, in person? \nAt least once\, on April 3rd at Kepler’s Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 3\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 3\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: The Long Honduran Night in the Aftermath of the Coup
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church present: \nDANA FRANK\n“The Long Honduran Night: Resistance\, Terror\, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup” \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nAs the United States continues to tear-gas and imprison asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border\, we wonder why so many Hondurans are fleeing their homeland\, now one of the most violent countries in the world due to a devastating drug war and a political crisis stemming largely from a U.S.-backed coup. Dana Frank’s powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya overthrown in 2009. Told through first-person experiences layered with deeper political analysis\, this narrative weaves together two perspectives; first\, the broad picture of Honduras since the coup\, including the coup itself and its continuation in two repressive regimes; secondly\, the evolving Honduran resistance movement\, plus an emerging solidarity movement in the United States. \nWhile full of disturbing incidents\, this narrative directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless sobbing mothers cry over bodies in the morgue. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges and the inspiring collective strength with which people can face them. \nDana Frank\, Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, is the author of Baneras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, The Baffler\, Los Angeles Times\, Miami Herald\, and many others\, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nDiana Martinez is KPFA’s senior producer for Letters and Politics. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-the-long-honduran-night-in-the-aftermath-of-the-coup/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Ben Lerner
DESCRIPTION:Ben Lerner was born in Topeka\, Kansas. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright\, Guggenheim\, and MacArthur Foundations\, among other honors. He is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures\, Angle of Yaw\, and Mean Free Path)\, two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04). and a work of criticism (The Hatred of Poetry). His most recent books are collaborations: Blossom (with Thomas Demand)\, The Polish Rider (with Anna Ostoya)\, and The Snows of Venice (with Alexander Kluge). He is Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-lerner/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 4\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. \nPart memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n“Filled with hope\, grace\, beauty\, and wisdom\, this book is like warm honey in the sunshine. It beautifully illustrates how nature – even honeybees – can teach and heal us\, if only we open our minds and hearts. It’s the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve finished it–a rare treasure–and you don’t have to be a bee lover to be deeply moved by May’s wonderful story. I’m recommending it to everyone I know.” \n— Stacey O’Brien\, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the Owl \n“Captivating and surprising…. If you’ve ever been stung by a bee you will instantly forget the venom and remember forever the sweetness and redemption bees offer in this extraordinary book.” \n— Sy Montgomery\, New York Times bestselling author of How To Be A Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus \n“If Meredith May’s book was simply an ethology of bees I would devour every word; her prose is tender\, thoughtful and transporting. But The Honey Bus is so much more – a memoir of aching loneliness\, reckoning and redemption. Beautiful and brave.” \n— Domenica Ruta\, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You: A Memoir \n“The wounded feminine\, the missing masculine\, healed by a relationship with honeybees. An innocent child’s hard won journey to adulthood–clear eyed\, often very funny\, and agonizingly compassionate. The Honey Bus is all these things and more–so if you’ve ever been a lonely child\, or want the world to become a kinder place\, here is your book.” \n— Laline Paull\, author of The Bees \n“The Honey Bus is a rare treat for true storytelling deeply rooted in science. Everyone will leave this book with much more knowledge about bees and humanity\, and the compassion that lives at the intersection of the two. [A] captivating coming of age family story.” \n— Noah Wilson-Rich\, Ph.D.\, author of The Bee: A Natural History \n“To read about Meredith May’s bee family and her human family is to garner heart strength. A true story in every sense.” \n— Maxine Hong Kingston\, bestselling author of The Woman Warrior \n  \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 2nd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-the-honey-bus-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:RHYS BOWEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Award-winnig crime writer Rhys Bowen shares her heart-rending new novel\, The Victory Garden. \nAs the Great War continues to take its toll\, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more\, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. \nWhen he is sent back to the front\, Emily volunteers as a “land girl\,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily\, and in the wake of devastating news\, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified–and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married\, she adopts the charade of a war widow. \nAs Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs\, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster\, but may open a path to her destiny. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhys-bowen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:LOLLY WINSTON at Books Inc. Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Lolly Winston—New York Times-bestselling author of Good Grief–discusses her poignant new novel\, Me for You. \nThe last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning\, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now\, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife\, he’s still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life–but his new job is helping. After being downsized from his finance position\, Rudy turned to his first love: the piano. Some people might be embarrassed to work as the piano player at Nordstrom\, but for Rudy\, there’s joy in bringing a little music into the world. And it doesn’t hurt that Sasha\, the Hungarian men’s watch clerk who is finally divorcing her no-good husband\, finds time to join him at the bench every now and then. \nJust when Rudy and Sasha’s relationship begins to deepen\, the police come to the store with an update about Rudy’s wife’s untimely death–a coworker has confessed to her murder–but Rudy’s actions are suspicious enough to warrant a second look at him\, too. With Sasha’s husband suddenly reappearing\, and Rudy’s daughter confronting her own marital problems\, suddenly life becomes more complicated than Rudy and Sasha could have imagined. \nWith Winston’s trademark humor and sweetness that will appeal to readers of Jennifer Weiner and Fredrik Backman but is uniquely her own\, Lolly Winston delivers a heartfelt and realistic portrait of loss and grief\, hope and forgiveness\, and two imperfect people coming together to create a perfect love story. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\n\nCampbell\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lolly-winston-at-books-inc-campbell/
LOCATION:Book Inc. Campbell\, 1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\, Campbell\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan - poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan – poetry reading
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-lazzara-ava-koober-patrick-james-dunagan-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph \nMino Yanci \nAmbrose Akinmusire \nAdam Mansbach \nZoé Samudzi \nJanae Johnson \nMona Webb \nJeff Chang \nRyan Peters \nLauren Whitehead \nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Kepler’s Literary Foundation for a book discussion with author Laila Lalami! From the celebrated Pulitzer Prize finalist who swept multiple book awards with The Moor’s Account comes this lyric\, fascinating new novel The Other Americans. Through nine separate narrators whose accounts effortlessly interweave\, Lalami unravels both the mystery of an immigrant’s sudden death and the quiet schisms that underlie American culture. \nThe novel opens with Nora\, a jazz composer\, who sips champagne with a friend on the same night that her father dies in an apparent hit-and-run near his home in California. Maryam\, Nora’s mother\, narrates a following chapter; a distant neighbor\, another; an undocumented witness\, a friend and immigrant\, and a detective all speak to the events leading up to and following Driss Guerroui’s death. These dueling narrative lines call out to secrets both within Nora’s family and throughout the town. \nThe Other Americans has already garnered extraordinary praise from Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and talented writers of fiction like J.M. Coetzee and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, who gets it exactly right when he calls Laila Lalami “a writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight.” Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this glittering star in the literary pantheon at the height of her career. RSVP now for Lalami’s visit on April 4th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laila-lalami/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Solito\, Solita Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 4\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nJoin the editors and two narrators of Solito\, Solita for a discussion of this powerful new book from Voice of Witness and Haymarket Books. Solito\, Solita tells the stories of youth refugees fleeing their home countries and traveling for hundreds of miles seeking safety and protection in the United States. In an era of fear\, xenophobia\, and outright lies\, these stories amplify the compelling voices of immigrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment\, bravery and resilience\, hypocrisy and hope? \nNarrators:\nGabriel\, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States\, and through study\, legal support and work\, is now attending UC Berkeley. \nSoledad\, a young woman from Honduras who fled at age 14 after being abused by her stepfather\, abandoned by her mother\, and forced into child labor. She recently graduated from SFSU. \nEditors:\nSteven Mayers is a writer\, oral historian\, and professor of English at the City College of San Francisco. \nJonathan Freedman is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist\, author\, and writing mentor at the City College of San Francisco. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solito-solita-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:W. Thomas Boyce OFFSITE
DESCRIPTION:A celebration and reading from his new book The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive.  \n“The Orchid and the Dandelion is based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children–and the adults who love them.”–Susan Cain\, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of the world’s foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health–a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents\, teachers\, psychologists\, psychiatrists\, and child development experts coping with “difficult” children\, fully exploring the author’s revolutionary discovery about childhood development\, parenting\, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success. \nW. Thomas Boyce\, M.D.\, is the Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health and chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at UCSF. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine and codirector of the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He lives with his wife in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2407 Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94720
URL:https://litseen.com/event/w-thomas-boyce-offsite/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:After Hours: Poetry World Series\nFriday\, April 5th · 7:00pm \nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nThis unlikely pairing of baseball and poetry showcases the poetry\, wit\, and smarts of Bay Area poets who are judged on their ability to make their poems fit subjects “pitched” by the audience. \nMaster of Quips and Ceremonies Daniel Handler ensures fun and irreverence. Popcorn\, beer. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens March 19th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, April 5\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \n  \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \n  \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \n  \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Occult Features of Anarchism: Erica Lagalisse in Conversation with Andrej Grubačić
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 5\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nErica Lagalisse presents her new book\, Occult Features of Anarchism (PM Press\, 2019). In conversation with anarchist dissident and historian\, Andrej Grubačić. \n  \n  \nAbout the Book: \nIn the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution\, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself. The Illuminati were a network of intellectuals who argued for self-government and against private property\, yet the public is now often told that they were (and are) the very group that controls governments and defends private property around the world. Intervening in such misinformation\, Lagalisse works with primary and secondary sources in multiple languages to set straight the history of the Left and illustrate the actual relationship between revolutionism\, pantheistic occult philosophy\, and the clandestine fraternity. \nExploring hidden correspondences between anarchism\, Renaissance magic\, and New Age movements\, Lagalisse also advances critical scholarship regarding leftist attachments to secular politics. Inspired by anthropological fieldwork within today’s anarchist movements\, her essay challenges anarchist atheism insofar as it poses practical challenges for coalition politics in today’s world. \nStudying anarchism as a historical object\, Occult Features of Anarchism also shows how the development of leftist theory and practice within clandestine masculine public spheres continues to inform contemporary anarchist understandings of the “political\,” in which men’s oppression by the state becomes the prototype for power in general. Readers behold how gender and religion become privatized in radical counterculture\, a historical process intimately linked to the privatization of gender and religion by the modern nation-state. \nPraise: \n“This is surely the most creative and exciting\, and possibly the most important\, work to come out on either anarchism or occultism in many a year. It should give rise to a whole new field of intellectual study.”\n—David Graeber\, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Debt: The First 5\,000 Years \n“A tour de force. Any self-respecting radical should know this history\, right down to the dirty history of the ‘A for anarchism’ sign from its location within Freemasonry and magic. Ripping apart with historical detail our contemporary common sense we learn the tactics of how elite radicals claim power through difference. The significance of this history for the politics of now should not be underestimated and most certainly more widely known. Essential reading.”\n—Beverley Skeggs\, director of the Atlantic Fellows programme at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, author of Class\, Self\, Culture \n“Lagalisse excavates the theological\, spiritual roots of anarchism to identify some of the contemporary shortcomings of left activism. Engrossing\, enlightening\, and often surprising\, the book delights and dazzles as it ruminates on a stunning array of topics from gender and intersectionality to secret societies\, the occult\, and conspiracy.”\n—Gabriella Coleman\, professor of anthropology at McGill University\, author of Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous \nErica Lagalisse is an anthropologist and writer. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, where she is conducting a research project on dynamics surrounding the “conspiracy theory” in social movement spaces. \nAndrej Grubačić is an anarchist dissident and historian and chair of the Anthropology and Social Change department at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His books include Don’t Mourn\, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia\, Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism\, Marxism and Radical History\, and Living at the Edges of Capitalism Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid.  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, April 5\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/occult-features-of-anarchism-erica-lagalisse-in-conversation-with-andrej-grubacic/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:The FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB will discuss The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg.  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, April 6\, 2019 – 10:00am\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-first-saturday-book-club-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Chris Van Dusen
DESCRIPTION:A new book by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen is a cause for celebration. And we WILL be celebrating when Chris Van Dusen\, one of our favorite picture book author/illustrators\, visits Kepler’s on April 6. \nEvery porcine wonder was once a piglet – discover Mercy Watson’s delightful origin story in A Piglet Named Mercy. an endearing picture-book prequel to the beloved New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Van Dusen is the author-illustrator of many books for young readers\, including The Circus Ship\, If I Built a House\, If I Built a Car\, Down to the Sea with Mr Magee and Hattie & Hudson\, and the illustrator of the Mercy Watson and Deckawoo Drive series. \nMr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does\, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series\, a tiny piglet brings love (and chaos) to Deckawoo Drive — and the Watsons’ lives will never be the same. \nJoin us and celebrate the joy of a new arrival by a longtime favorite author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-chris-van-dusen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-2/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Managing California: Governor Newsom's Chief of Staff Ann O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Ann O’Leary is Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff. In that role\, she is charged with helping to manage the 5th largest economy in the world. She is one of most important political figures in California and she is the one is the room. How is she thinking about her role? How will she help the Governor prioritize and strategize? What are her goals? Who is this incredible woman? \nCome join the discussion and meet Ann! \nMore about Ann below: \nAnn O’Leary is Chief of Staff to the Governor of California\, Gavin Newsom. Prior to joining the Governor’s office\, O’Leary was a law partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where she focused her practice on representing tech companies\, philanthropies and non-profit organizations\, and led numerous pro bono efforts. O’Leary brings decades of experience in government\, politics\, social policy\, and non-profit leadership. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Co-Executive Director of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project. She co-founded the national non-profit organization\, the Opportunity Institute\, as a continuation of her work as Senior Vice President of Next Generation– where she launched a national early childhood education initiative “Too Small to Fail” in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation. \nEarlier in her career\, she was a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; Executive Director of UC Berkeley Law’s Center on Health\, Economic and Family Security; the legislative director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; and a policy advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President William Jefferson Clinton. O’Leary has served on numerous non-profit boards\, including KQED\, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR and PBS affiliate; the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings\, which works in key communities across the South to equip incarcerated young people with the academic\, workforce and social emotional skills they need to be successful; and\, the East Bay Community Law Center\, which provides free legal services to low-income community members. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College\, a M.A. in Education Policy from Stanford University\, and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. Ann is the proud mother of a 6th grader and 3rd grader\, and is the first Chief of Staff to a California Governor to hold the job while parenting school age children (and she is a very grateful co-equal coparent with Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Goodwin Liu).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/managing-california-governor-newsoms-chief-of-staff-ann-oleary/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Random Poetics
DESCRIPTION:What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute An ideology Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues\, In a provocative evening in Glen Park
URL:https://litseen.com/event/random-poetics/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 7\n3:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, April 7th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by poets from Sixteen Rivers: Maya Khosla\, Barbara Swift Brauer\, and Camille Norton. \nMore Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 7\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-3/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RACHEL CUSK In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:RACHEL CUSK\nIn Conversation with Steven Winn\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 9:00 am\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRachel Cusk is a writer of considerable range and depth. She is the author of nine novels including David Agnes\, The Lucky Ones\, and The Bradshaw Variations\, three nonfiction books including A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother and the memoir The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy\, a play\, and numerous essays. Her most recent trilogy —  Outline\, Transit\, and Kudos — embodies a new\, and distinctive style for Cusk. The books take the form of a succession of monologues delivered not by the protagonist\, but by the people she encounters. Little is revealed about a central character who serves principally as a conduit for others’ experiences and reflections\, but the themes and questions that arise from those stories are weighty\, as is Cusk’s choice to subvert traditional positions and form. Cusk’s new collection\, Coventry\, encompasses memoir\, cultural criticism\, and writing about literature\, with pieces on family life\, gender\, and politics\, and on D. H. Lawrence\, and Elena Ferrante.       \nPlease note: this event is at 9AM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gallery Chat and Book Signing: Eddy Portnoy
DESCRIPTION:Eddy Portnoy\, best-selling author of “Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press\,” returns with more stories about Jews behaving badly in early twentieth-century New York. Book sales and signing to follow. \nPresented in conjunction with Lew the “Jew and His Circle: Origins of American Tattoo\,” an exhibition that examines the work of “Lew the Jew” Alberts (born Albert Morton Kurzman\, 1880-1954)\, one of America’s most influential tattoo artists at the beginning of the twentieth century. \nAn expert on Jewish popular culture\, Eddy Portnoy has an MA in Yiddish from Columbia and a PhD in Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He currently serves as Academic Advisor for the Max Weinreich Center and Exhibition Curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. \nFREE with regular admission as follows: General Admission\, $14; Students with a valid ID and Seniors\, $12; Members and Youth 18 and under\, free. \nPresented by Contemporary Jewish Museum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gallery-chat-and-book-signing-eddy-portnoy/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later\, near the Canadian border\, one of his favorite generals\, Benedict Arnold\, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later\, as the book ends\, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war\, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. \nValiant Ambition is a complex\, controversial\, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity\, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold\, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led\, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Natalie Devora at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our April author Natalie Devora will discuss her memoir Black Girl\, White Skin\,  and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nNatalie Devora is a writer and activist. Living as a Black woman with albinism affords her a unique lens through which she navigates the world. She has been featured on NPR’s Code Switch She currently serves as the National Coordinator for International Albinism Awareness Day with the National Association for Albinism and Hypopigmentation NOAH.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natalie-devora-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment \npublished by City Lights Books \n\n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate.”—Adam Hochschild\, The New York Review of Books \n“If . . . anyone at all really wants to ‘get to the root causes of gun violence in America\,’ they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes.”—Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Her analysis\, erudite and unrelenting\, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives\, but\, crucially\, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence\, Loaded is an indispensable book.”—The New Republic \nWith President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves\, with the NRA portrayed as a group of “patriots” helping to Make America Great Again\, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis\, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed\, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children? \nLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States\, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains\, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control\, we must understand the history of U.S. guns\, from their role in the “settling of America” and the early formation of the new nation\, and continuing up to the present. \nPraise for Loaded: \n“Dunbar-Ortiz’s argument will be disturbing and unfamiliar to most readers\, but her evidence is significant and should not be ignored.”—Publishers Weekly \n” . . . gun love is as American as apple pie—and that those guns have often been in the hands of a powerful white majority to subjugate minority natives\, slaves\, or others who might stand in the way of the broadest definition of Manifest Destiny.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Trigger warning! This is a superb and subtle book\, not an intellectual safe space for confirming your preconceptions—whatever those might be—but rather a deeply necessary provocation.”—Christian Parenti\, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis \n“Loaded recognizes the central truth about our ‘gun culture’: that the privileged place of guns in American law and society is the by-product of the racial and class violence that has marked our history from its beginnings.”—Richard Slotkin\, author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America \n“From an eminent scholar comes this timely and urgent intervention on U.S. gun culture. Loaded is a high-impact assault on the idea that Second Amendment rights were ever intended for all Americans. A timely antidote to our national amnesia about the white supremacist and settler colonialist roots of the Second Amendment.”—Caroline Light\, author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense \n“Loaded unleashes a sweeping and unsettling history of gun laws in the United States\, beginning with anti-Native militias and anti-Black slave patrols. From the roots of white men armed to forge the settler state\, the Second Amendment evolved as a tool for protecting white\, male property owners. It’s a must read for anyone who wants to uncover the long fetch of contemporary Second Amendment battles.”—Kelly Lytle Hernandez\, City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles\, 1771-1965 \n“Now\, in Loaded\, she widens her lens to propose that the addiction to violence characteristic of American domestic institutions also derives from the frontiersman’s belief in solving problems by killing. Whether expressed in individual cruelty like the collection of scalps or group barbarism by settler colonialists calling themselves ‘militias\,’ violence has become an ever-widening theme of life in the United States.”—Staughton Lynd\, author of Class Conflict\, Slavery\, and the United States Constitution \n“For anyone who believes we need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ to address our national gun crisis\, Loaded is required reading. Beyond the Second Amendment\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz presents essential arguments missing from public debate. She forces readers to confront hard truths about the history of gun ownership\, linking it to ongoing structures of settler colonialism\, white supremacy\, and racial capitalism. These are the open secrets of North American history. It is our anxious denial as much as our public policies that perpetrate violence. Only by coming to peace with our history can we ever be at peace with ourselves. This\, for me\, is the great lesson of Loaded.”—Christina Heatherton\, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz’s Loaded argues U.S. history is quintessential gun history\, and gun history is a history of racial terror and genocide. In other words\, gun culture has never been about hunting. From crushing slave rebellions to Indigenous resistance\, arming individual white settler men has always been the strategy for maintaining racial and class rule and for taking Indigenous land from the founding of the settler nation to the present. With clarity and urgency\, Dunbar-Ortiz asks us not to think of our current moment as an exceptional era of mass-shootings. Instead\, the very essence of the Second Amendment and the very project of U.S. ‘settler democracy’ has required immense violence that began with Indigenous genocide and has expanded to endless war-making across the globe. This is a must read for any student of U.S. history.”—Nick Estes\, author of the forthcoming book Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and Native Liberation \n“With her usual unassailable rigor for detail and deep perspective\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has potentially changed the debate about gun control in the United States. She meticulously and convincingly argues that U.S. gun culture—and the domestic and global massacres that have flowed from it—must be linked to an understanding of the ideological\, historical\, and practical role of guns in seizing Native American lands\, black enslavement\, and global imperialism. This is an essential work for policy-makers\, street activists\, and educators who are concerned with Second Amendment debates\, #blacklivematters campaigns\, global peace\, and community-based security.”—Clarence Lusane\, Chairman and Professor of Political Science at Howard University and author of The Black History of the White House \n“Just what did the founding fathers intend the Second Amendment to do? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s answer to that question will unsettle liberal gun control advocates and open-carry aficionados alike. She follows the bloodstains of today’s mass shootings back to the slave patrols and Indian Wars. There are no easy answers here\, just the tough reckoning with history needed to navigate ourselves away from a future filled with more tragedies.“—James Tracy\, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times \n“Gun violence\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz compellingly shows\, is as U.S. American as apple pie. This important book peels back the painful and bloody layers of gun culture in the United States\, and exposes their deep roots in the killing and dispossession of Native peoples\, slavery and its aftermath\, and U.S. empire-making. They are roots with which all who are concerned with matters of justice\, basic decency\, and the enduring tragedy of the U.S. love affair with guns must grapple.”—Joseph Nevins\, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid \n“Loaded is a masterful synthesis of the historical origins of violence and militarism in the US. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us of what we’ve chosen to forget at our own peril: that from mass shootings to the routine deployment of violence against civilians by the US military\, American violence flows from the normalization of racialized violence in our country’s founding history.”—Johanna Fernández\, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University\, and author of the forthcoming book\, When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party\, 1968–1976 \n“More than a history of the Second Amendment\, this is a powerful history of the forging of white nationalism and empire through racist and naked violence. Explosively\, it also shows how even liberal—and some leftist—pop culture icons have been complicit in the myth-making that has shrouded this potent historical truth.”—Gerarld Horne\, author of The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has done an outstanding job of resituating the so-called gun debate into the context of race and settler colonialism. The result is that the discussion about individual gun ownership is no longer viewed as an abstract moral question and instead understood as standing at the very foundation of U.S. capitalism. My attention was captured from the first page.”—Bill Fletcher\, Jr.\, former president of TransAfrica Forum and syndicated writer \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides a brilliant decolonization of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. She describes how the ‘savage wars’ against Indigenous Peoples\, slave patrols (which policing in the U.S. originates from)\, today’s mass shootings\, and the rise in white Nationalism are connected to the Second Amendment. This is a critically important work for all social science disciplines.”—Michael Yellow Bird\, professor and director of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies at North Dakota State University \n“This explosive\, ground-breaking book dispels the confusion and shatters the sanctimony that surrounds the Second Amendment\, revealing the colonial\, racist core of the right to bear arms. You simply cannot understand the United States and its disastrous gun-mania without the brilliant Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz as a guide.”—Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age \n“There is no more interesting historian of the United States than Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. And with Loaded she has done it again\, taking a topic about which so much has already been written\, distilling it down\, turning it inside out\, and allowing us to see American history anew.”—Walter Johnson\, author of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom \n“Not only does it rank as one of the most insightful and brilliant books on the layered and deeply textured analysis of the second amendment\, gun culture\, racism\, and white supremacy\, among other issues\, that I have read in years\, but the writing is just lyrical and poetic. A model for combining social commitment\, theoretical rigorousness\, and accessibility. Certainly will be using in my classes.”—Henry Giroux\, author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico\, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation\, and she lives in San Francisco\, CA.
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa See\, The Island of Sea Women
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY\, APRIL 8\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nA new novel from Lisa See\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. \nMi-ja and Young-sook\, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju\, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough\, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective\, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers\, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. \nDespite their love for each other\, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades\, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s\, followed by World War II\, the Korean War and its aftermath\, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time\, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator\, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds\, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. \nThis beautiful\, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down\, one where the women are in charge\, engaging in dangerous physical work\, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story–one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them– The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 6th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-see-the-island-of-sea-women/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Roz Chast & Patricia Marx on Mothers
DESCRIPTION:Much beloved\, utterly genius contributors to The New Yorker for decades\, the inimitable cartoonist Roz Chast and wry humorist Patricia Marx have now joined forces to gently roast our very favorite human beings: moms. \nJoin us as we welcome both creators for a celebration of motherhood with their new collection\, Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? \nAs a writer\, Marx has always had an eye for small\, domestic absurdities and almost minuscule sociological rebellions—and\, for years\, she has been noting her own mother’s most eccentric one-liners\, with great glee. She compiles them all here! Cartoonist Roz Chast\, whose own mother describes her artistic work as “a conspiracy of inanimate objects\,” highlights the peculiarity of each one-liner with her own wickedly sly sense of visual humor and deep love for how unique a parent’s outlook can truly be. In-conversation to share with us the best of their work\, join these two remarkable women just in time to get that book personalized for Mother’s Day. Don’t miss this chance to chance to celebrate the humor\, grace\, and sheer oddity of moms! \nROZ CHAST has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1978\, and is the only cartoonist we’ve heard of with multiple honorary doctorates\, in addition to several books and a boatload of awards under her belt. In 2012\, she was awarded the NYC Literary Honor in Humor. She has a knack for revealing the entire feeling of a situation in just one sentence\, as evidenced by her critically acclaimed 2014 memoir\, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? \nPATRICIA MARX was the first woman humorist ever elected to The Harvard Lampoon\, a writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats\, and a contributor of creative\, unusual ephemera to The New Yorker since 1989. She has authored multiple books\, taught at university\, given a TEDxTalk\, won some awards\, and only occasionally feared for her own wits. She was the recipient of the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roz-chast-patricia-marx-on-mothers/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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