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SUMMARY:Craig Childs Travels in Ice Age America
DESCRIPTION:Craig Childs is a writer\, wanderer and contributing editor at High Country News\, commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition\, and teaches writing at University of Alaska and the Mountainview MFA at Southern New Hampshire University. His books include Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (02019)\, Apocalyptic Planet (02013) and House of Rain (02008). \n\nCraig Childs’s Homepage\nMore about Craig Childs\n\n\n\nTune in at 4:30pm PT on 6/22/20 to watch the public live stream of this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter or Long Now Live. \nCraig Childs is a writer\, wanderer and contributing editor at High Country News\, commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition\, and teaches writing at University of Alaska and the Mountainview MFA at Southern New Hampshire University. His books include Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (02019)\, Apocalyptic Planet (02013) and House of Rain (0200
URL:https://litseen.com/event/craig-childs-travels-in-ice-age-america/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200620T190000
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SUMMARY:Raphael Bob-Waksberg in conversation
DESCRIPTION:A free special online event (registration required) with Raphael Bob-Waksberg\, the creator of “BoJack Horseman\,” discussing his first book “Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory” with Kevin Hunsanger. \nWritten with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman\, Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s stories will make you laugh\, weep\, and shiver in uncomfortably delicious recognition. Equally at home with the surreal and the painfully relatable (and both at once)\, Bob-Waksberg delivers a killer combination of humor\, romance\, whimsy\, cultural commentary\, and crushing emotional vulnerability. \nThis FREE event requires an advance ticket registration – please follow the link above to register\, or click here: https://bit.ly/3cQMJU5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raphael-bob-waksberg-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200620T150000
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SUMMARY:Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Natalie Jenner Discusses THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY with Author Bianca Marais
DESCRIPTION:A Great Good Place for Books presents Natalie Jenner\, author of one of the year’s buzziest books\, The Jane Austen Society\, in conversation with author\, Bianca Marais. \nJoin us for this virtual event on Saturday the 20th of June at 3pm. (PDT) $40 gets you ‘The Jane Austen Society’ as well as a Zoom link to watch the live interview with a Q&A afterwards. A $10 donation gets you a ticket to the event and an opportunity to support A Great Good Place for Books Visit www.ggpbooks.com to buy your ticket or donate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-fundraiser-for-ggp-author-natalie-jenner-discusses-the-jane-austen-society-with-author-bianca-marais/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Danusha Laméris & David Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with poet laureates Danusha Laméris and David Sullivan. \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Email any questions to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-danusha-lameris-david-sullivan/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T120000
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SUMMARY:ALOK\, Vivek Shraya\, Jennifer Finney Boylan\, Meredith Talusan\, More For Adobe Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature trans/nb authors ALOK\, Vivek Shraya\, Jennifer Finney Boylan\, Cyrus Grace Dunham\, Meredith Talusan and Toni D. Newman in a panel discussion\, to support Adobe Books. \nVivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music\, literature\, visual art\, theatre\, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel\,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra\, Part‑Time Woman\, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books. \nALOK (they/them) is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist. Their distinctive style and poetic challenge to the gender binary have been internationally renowned. As a mixed-media artist they explore themes of gender\, race\, trauma\, belonging\, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017) and Beyond the Gender Binary (2020). In 2019 they were honored as one of NBC’s Pride 50 and Out Magazine’s OUT 100. \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is the author of 16 books\, including Good Boy: My Life in 7 Dogs (Celadon/Macmillan); her 2003 memoir\, She’s Not There: a Life in Two Genders(Broadway/Doubleday/Random House) was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. \nMeredith Talusan is an award-winning author and journalist. Her debut memoir\, Fairest\, is out now from Viking / Penguin Random House. \nCyrus Dunham is a writer and organizer living in Los Angeles. His first book\, A Year Without A Name\, was published by Little\, Brown in October\, 2019. He is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. \nToni Newman is a Consultant for the Transgender Strategy Center based in Los Angeles. Toni was the Executive Director for St. James Infirmary and the Development Director for Maitri Compassionate Care\, HIV/AIDS hospice in San Francisco and previously served as the Interim Director of Development & Communications at the To Help Everyone Health and Wellness Center in Los Angeles and as a Strategic Fundraiser\, Volunteer Recruiter\, and Legislative Aide for Equality California. Toni worked with EQCA to raise money to win marriage for the LGBTQ community in California. Additionally\, Toni is a best selling author\, noted for her memoir I Rise -The Transformation of Toni Newman released in 2011. \nAll proceeds benefit Adobe Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 19 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alok-vivek-shraya-jennifer-finney-boylan-meredith-talusan-more-for-adobe-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:The Speaking Axolotl community stands con our Black familias aqui en Aztlan and other occupied territories and is committed to providing a space for AfroLatinx voices to be celebrated and heard. !LAS VIDAS NEGRAS IMPORTAN! \nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 \nA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in Nomadic Press’ Zoom account. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by El Pocho Poeta Josiah Luis Alderete. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \nOR 2) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic\nTime: Jun 18\, 2020 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87825870295 \nMeeting ID: 878 2587 0295\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,87825870295# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,87825870295# 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 (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 878 2587 0295\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kecjov55pS \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:The Speaking Axolotl community stands con our Black familias aqui en Aztlan and other occupied territories and is committed to providing a space for AfroLatinx voices to be celebrated and heard.\n!LAS VIDAS NEGRAS IMPORTAN! \nSpeaking Axolotl is a Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday of the month in el Zoom mundo and is hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. This month Speaking Axolotl is being curated by Beat Decolonizer y MexicaAnarchista L7. Featured readers as well as the Zoom and sign up list for the open mic will be posted later this week. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-8/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-7/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T210000
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Returns! Dracula Edition
DESCRIPTION:It’s a garbage year in this garbage world\, so we’re doing the only thing we know how to do: get the gang back together to drink beer and make stupid jokes about smart literature. \nWe’re taking on Bram Stoker’s 1897 goth horror showstopper\, masterclass in thinly-veiled horniness\, and epistolary epic Dracula. Move over\, Francis Ford Coppola! \n(For the uninitiated\, Shipwreck ran monthly at Booksmith from 2013-2018\, seducing and corrupting thousands of literary-minded citizens along the way. June’s one-off event pits six writers against each other in a winner-take-all competition showdown of dick jokes and punnery. The stories are read anonymously by Baruch Porras-Hernandez and you won’t know who wrote what till we announce the winner.) \nHosted by Amy\, recorded by Casey\, and starring Baruch Porras-Hernandez. Featured writers: Seanan McGuire\, Emily Edwards (from the Fuckbois of Lit podcast)\, and more TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \n\n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on one notable Thursday this June at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back at some point to defend their title. \n— \nCritics are saying: \nwait\, they’re still doing that? \n… the most despicable literary event possible. \nI’m so lost and so scared \n… an affront to literature. \nwonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting. \ncome if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before. \nShipwreck will bring you to madness and you may never return. \nI do not care for this. \n…lovingly rendered artisanal small batch nightmares… \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-returns-dracula-edition/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T203000
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SUMMARY:Black Faggotry Book Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join five of the Bay Area’s most prolific writers\, thinkers\, and entertainers as we celebrate all that is Black and Faggoty. There will be spoken words\, comedy\, monologue\, song\, and prose as we express our collective identities. This night will feature Marvin K. White Full Time Minister of Celebration at GLIDE author of 4 collections of poetry published by RedBone Press\, OUR NAME BE WITNESS\, STATUS\, and two Lammy-nominated collections LAST RITES and NOTHING UGLY FLY. Rotimi Agbabiaka award-winning playwright\, actor\, solo performer HOMELESS\, TYPE CASTE\, and MANIFESTO. Sampson McCormick one of the most in-demand voices of diversity in comedy for two decades. He appeared on BET\, TV One\, VICELAND\, and FOX Soul. Special Guest Living Legend Blackberri singer/songwriter and Activist and Dazié Grego-Sykes award-winning performance artist & author BLACK FAGGOTRY\, AM I A MAN\, NIGGA-ROO.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-faggotry-book-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T190000
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team… \nThursday\, June 18th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2BwCc3l \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @YG-2D\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call\, with directions posted when you enter & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nAnd if being seen/heard doesn’t sound appealing to you right now & you’d like simply to be an audience member\, you can absolutely keep your camera + mic off\, & journal or meditate or lay flat on your face (or do whatever you’d like to do to make sure the call serves you best)! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU WITH A NEDDY BEAR IF HE HAS TO! \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T190000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 18\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Robert S. Pesich \nonline on Zoom\nticket link to come \ndescription to come \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nJuly: Jane Ormerod\nAugust: Caroline Goodwin\nSeptember: Peter Carroll
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T193000
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SUMMARY:July Westhale Reading + Book Launch w/ TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:Here’s an opportunity to pause and reflect while listening to two powerful\, rad\, queer poets on Thursday\, June 18\, 6:30pm PT: July Westhale and TC Tolbert. \nJuly’s “stunning” new book of poems\, a deliciously subversive collection\, is coming out during this revolution\, during Pride month\, from Kore Press Institute\, and it’s called Via Negativa—a term used to describe how you can talk about a thing by talking about what it is not. Proceeds to support the Black community. \nThursday June 18\, 6:30pm PT on Zoom & FB Live stream \nSign up to be part of the live audience in the Zoom room:\nhttps://korepress.org/2020/06/july-westhales-via-negative-available-for-preorder-now/ \n“Via Negativa\, Westhale’s second poetry collection from Kore Press\, deftly weaves the sensual with the spiritual\, reckoning with a religious inheritance and a powerful faith in pleasure\, engaging in bold lyric conversation with the divine. These deliciously subversive poems range from California fires to church pews with equal parts grace and swagger\, always charged with eroticism\, rooted in the body\, showing us again and again “the wildness of ourselves.” Via Negativa left me breathless.—D I A N A W H I T N EY \n*July Westhale* is a poet\, translator\, and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of Via Negativa\, Trailer Trash (winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award)\, The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press)\, Quantifiable Data (Alley Cat Books)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her essays\, poems\, fiction\, and translations are published in numerous journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. July works as an editor for PULP Magazine\, a publication devoted to sexuality and reproductive rights\, and is a community educator\, working with all ages of students in all types of settings—in after school programs\, community colleges\, libraries\, living rooms\, bookstores\, fields\, etc. Her work focuses on dismantling the inaccessibility of creative writing and bringing it into a contemporary focus as a necessary way for marginalized communities to archive their experiences. \n*TC Tolbert* is a genderqueer\, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. S/he believes in working across communities—building bridges wherever possible. Tolbert earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona\, and teaches in the low residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades and at the University of Arizona. S/he has three chapbooks: spirare (Belladonna\, 2012)\, territories of folding (Kore Press\, 2011)\, and I:Not He:Not I (Pitymilk Press\, 2014)\, and a full-length collection\, Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press\, 2014). \nShipping on all Kore books is FREE during the revolution.\nExtend your shelf life\, read great books:\nkorepress.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/july-westhale-reading-book-launch-w-tc-tolbert/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
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SUMMARY:Greil Marcus
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nUnder the Red White and Blue: Patriotism\, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby \npublished by Yale University Press \n———- \nhis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations in the near future \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———- \nPurchase the book (HERE) \n———- \nA deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood\, portrayed\, distorted\, misused\, and kept alive \nRenowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game\, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century\, Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. \nMarcus follows the arc of The Great Gatsby from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself into works by writers such as Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler; found echoes in the work of performers from Jelly Roll Morton to Lana Del Rey; and continued to rewrite both its own story and that of the country at large in the hands of dramatists and filmmakers from the 1920s to John Collins’s 2006 Gatz and Baz Luhrmann’s critically reviled (here celebrated) 2013 movie version—the fourth\, so far. \nGreil Marcus has written many books\, including Mystery Train\, Lipstick Traces\, The Old\, Weird America\, and The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America. He was born in the Middle West\, in San Francisco and lives in Oakland\, CA. \nAdvance praise for Under the Red\, White\, and Blue \n\n“Greil Marcus is one of our greatest living cultural critics. Not only is this a wildly original essay on one of America’s most revered novels—it’s also a fitting capstone to his oeuvre.”—James Miller\n\n\n\n“Now more than ever\, we need to think long and hard about our collective national fantasies. There’s no one better suited to this task than Greil Marcus.”—David Treuer\, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee\n\n\n“With history\, with narrative flourish\, and with thoughtfully woven connective tissue\, Greil Marcus takes The Great Gatsby and gives it a newer\, richer life well beyond the one it has already lived.”—Hanif Abdurraqib\, author of Go Ahead in The Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest \n\n\n“Greil Marcus’s prose has an electric wondering urgency; the artworks under description crackle and glow\, illuminating whole landscapes of history and culture. This method has never found a better home than Gatsby. The result kept me up all night.”—Jonathan Lethem\, author of The Ecstasy of Influence\n\n\n\n“Under the Red White and Blue is a soaring\, roaring song of a book. The pretext is The Great Gatsby\, but the value comes in riding along as Marcus beats back into the past and the fate of America.”—David Thomson\, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film\n\n\n\n“Astute\, challenging\, and far-reaching.”—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review\n\n\n\n“[Marcus’] smart\, singular book gives us invigorating new ways to think about Fitzgerald’s iconic novel.”—Kevin Canfield\, San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/greil-marcus/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with John Kaag \nHarvard Book Store’s virtual event series welcomes DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH—Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England and author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean\, Enslave and Exterminate Others—for a discussion of his latest book\, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He will be joined in conversation by JOHN KAAG\, author of Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life—available for purchase here. \nContribute to Support Harvard Book Store\nWhile payment is not required\, we are suggesting a $3 contribution to support this author series\, our staff\, and the future of Harvard Book Store—a locally owned\, independently run Cambridge institution. In addition\, by purchasing a copy of On Inhumanity\, you support indie bookselling and the writing community during this difficult time. \nAbout On Inhumanity\nThe Rwandan genocide\, the Holocaust\, the lynching of African Americans\, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again—that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche—deeper than prejudice itself—leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization\, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. \nAn award-winning author and philosopher\, Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity\, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it\, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result. \nDrawing on numerous historical and contemporary cases and recent psychological research\, On Inhumanity is the first accessible guide to the phenomenon of dehumanization. Smith walks readers through the psychology of dehumanization\, revealing its underlying role in both notorious and lesser-known episodes of violence from history and current events. In particular\, he considers the uncomfortable kinship between racism and dehumanization\, where beliefs involving race are so often precursors to dehumanization and the horrors that flow from it. \nOn Inhumanity is bracing and vital reading in a world lurching towards authoritarian political regimes\, resurgent white nationalism\, refugee crises that breed nativist hostility\, and fast-spreading racist rhetoric. The book will open your eyes to the pervasive dangers of dehumanization and the prejudices that can too easily take root within us\, and resist them before they spread into the wider world. \nPraise for On Inhumanity\n“This book is firm but gentle\, wise but accessible. Its reflections on our worst habits of politics are phrased in such a way that they allow us to see what better habits might be.” —Timothy Snyder\, Yale University\, author of On Tyranny \n“This brilliant and powerful book is a philosophically sophisticated and prophetically courageous treatment of dehumanization\, especially in regard to race. It is timely and needful in our monstrous times! Don’t miss it!” —Cornel West\, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy\, Harvard University \n“On Inhumanity is a powerful exploration of the processes and consequences of dehumanization. Concerning himself with violence and the processes that motivate the extermination of ‘lesser beings\,’ Smith pens a much-needed treatment of the constantly reemerging brutality that is seemingly endemic to the human condition . . . Simply put\, On Inhumanity is a most appropriate confrontation with the illusions and political powers that produce sub-humanity in the 21st century.” —Tommy J. Curry\, University of Edinburgh\, author of The Man-Not
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-inhumanity-dehumanization-and-how-to-resist-it/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Laila Lalami\, The Other Americans
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with author Laila Lalami to discuss her latest book now out in paperback\, The Other Americans.  This timely\, powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant\, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. The Other Americans is at once a family saga\, a murder mystery\, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nLate one spring night\, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California\, he is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui’s daughter Nora\, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she’d left for good; her mother\, Maryam\, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efrain\, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy\, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman\, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets; Anderson\, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters—deeply divided by race\, religion\, and class—tell their stories\, each in their own voice\, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts its secrets\, a town faces its hypocrisies\, and love—messy and unpredictable—is born. \nLaila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits\, Secret Son\, and The Moor’s Account\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and which won the American Book Award\, the Arab American Book Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s Magazine\, and The Guardian. In 2019\, she was awarded the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize for her body of work. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside\, she lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-laila-lalami-the-other-americans/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Matt Ortile\, Nicole Chung and Cinelle Barnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday June 17th at 5:00pm PDT for Matt Ortile discussing his new book\, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I’ve Made About Race\, Resistance\, and Romance with Nicole Chung and Cinelle Barnes. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82645267456 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82645267456#  or +12532158782\,\,82645267456#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 826 4526 7456\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcncUD1CD1 \nPraise for The Groom Will Keep His Name \nMatt Ortile’s ardent and precocious collection sets the page aflame with its explosive mixture of passion and politics\, cultural analysis and self-examination. Cruising through virtual and nocturnal circuits\, Ortile riffs like a guitar savant on what it means to be a young wanderer in the city today with astute carnality and endearing candor. The Groom Will Keep His Name is a daring brown and queer manifesto that proclaims to everyone making our way in the world: never bow to the false gods of whiteness and normalcy.—Meredith Talusan\, author of Fairest \nAbout The Groom Will Keep His Name \nA riotous collection of “witty and captivating” (Bitch Magazine) essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America learning that everything is about sex–and sex is about power\nWhen Matt Ortile moved from Manila to Las Vegas\, the locals couldn’t pronounce his name. Harassed as a kid for his brown skin\, accent\, and femininity\, he believed he could belong in America by marrying a white man and shedding his Filipino identity. This was the first myth he told himself. The Groom Will Keep His Name explores the various tales Ortile spun about what it means to be a Vassar Girl\, an American Boy\, and a Filipino immigrant in New York looking to build a home. \nAs we meet and mate\, we tell stories about ourselves\, revealing not just who we are\, but who we want to be. Ortile recounts the relationships and whateverships that pushed him to confront his notions of sex\, power\, and the model minority myth. Whether swiping on Grindr\, analyzing DMs\, or cruising steam rooms\, Ortile brings us on his journey toward radical self-love with intelligence\, wit\, and his heart on his sleeve.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/home-virtual-event-matt-ortile-nicole-chung-and-cinelle-barnes/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T170000
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SUMMARY:Armistead Maupin And Alia Volz For Rakestraw Books
DESCRIPTION:It’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Alia Volz and Armistead Maupin. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). She is a MacDowell Colonist and a Ucross Foundation Fellow. Other writings appear in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, and Dig If You Will The Picture: Remembering Prince. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan from weedy hippie stock. \nArmistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Rakestraw Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/armistead-maupin-and-alia-volz-for-rakestraw-books-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alchemy of the Reset with Natalie G. Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Alchemy of the Reset is a conversation series hosted and created by Senior Fellows Brett Cook and Liz Lerman and YBCA Chief of Program Meklit Hadero. The Senior Fellows program centers interdisciplinary artists and curators who are interested in developing systems and structures that catalyze artist-driven change as leaders in our organization and in the life of our community. \nIn the wake of current social crises\, including both COVID and ongoing racist police violence\, our society must do the work to leap forward\, to transform. Already\, we are seeing glimmers of this. Over several weeks\, Cook\, Lerman and Hadero will be dialoguing with thought leaders\, including artists\, scientists\, educators and more whose work points us to some of these new systems. In line with the characteristic community building backgrounds of Cook and Lerman\, this is about a heart and human centered approach\, with opportunities for audience connectivity and engagement. \n  \nNatalie G. Diaz\nNatalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles\, California\, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection\, When My Brother Was an Aztec\, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship\, the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, a Hodder Fellowship\, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency\, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at Arizona State University. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley\, Arizona\, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language. \nHosts: \n\n\n\nBrett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His public projects often involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy along with contemplative practices\, performance\, and food to create a fluid boundary between art making\, daily life\, and healing. \nTeaching and public speaking are extensions of Cook’s social practice that involve communities in dialogue to generate experiences of reflection and insight. He has taught at all academic levels in a variety of subjects\, and published in academic journals at the Maryland Institute College of Art\, and Columbia and Harvard Universities. In 2009\, he published Who Am I In This Picture: Amherst College Portraits with Brett Cook and Wendy Ewald through Amherst College Press. \nCook has received numerous awards\, including the Lehman Brady Visiting Professorship at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and the Richard C. Diebenkorn Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute. Recognized for a history of socially relevant\, community engaged projects\, he was selected as a cultural ambassador to Nigeria as part of the U.S. Department of State’s 2012 smARTpower Initiative and an inaugural A Blade of Grass Fellow for Socially Engaged Art in 2014. Cook’s work has been featured in private and public collections including the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery\, the Walker Art Center\, and Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeklit Hadero is an Ethiopian American vocalist\, songwriter\, composer and cultural activist making music that sways between cultures and continents. \nHer innovative take on ethio-jazz has taken her around the world\, from her home base of San Francisco to her home city of Addis Ababa (where she is a household name). Hadero has founded and led many creative and cultural initiatives\, from musical collaborations to performance series. She is a National Geographic Explorer\, a TED Senior Fellow\, former codirector of the Red Poppy Art House\, and has served as an artist in residence at New York University and Harvard University. \n\n\n\nLiz Lerman is a choreographer\, performer\, writer\, educator and speaker\, and the recipient of numerous honors\, including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant\,” a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance\, and the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists\, construction workers to ballerinas\, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory\, relevant\, urgent\, and usable by others. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011. She was an artist-in-residence and visiting lecturer at Harvard University in 2011\, and her most recent work\, Healing Wars\, toured across the US in 2014-15. Lerman conducts residencies on Critical Response Process\, creative research\, the intersection of art and science\, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard University\, Yale School of Drama\, Wesleyan University\, Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, and the National Theatre Studio\, among others. Her collection of essays\, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer\, was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press and released in paperback in 2014. In 2016 Lerman was named the first Institute Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University\, where she is building a lab focused on creative research.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alchemy-of-the-reset-with-natalie-g-diaz/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Armistead Maupin And Alia Volz For Rakestraw Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Alia Volz and Armistead Maupin. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). She is a MacDowell Colonist and a Ucross Foundation Fellow. Other writings appear in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, and Dig If You Will The Picture: Remembering Prince. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan from weedy hippie stock. \nArmistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Rakestraw Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/armistead-maupin-and-alia-volz-for-rakestraw-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: Kiva Uhuru)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nThis month’s performers:\nNoelia Cerna\nMaymunah Rasheed\nAurora Masum-Javed\nJosé Héctor Cadena\nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier\nPoet E Spoken\nCharlie Neer\nAngelique Palmer\nJoyce E. Young\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nNazelah Jamison\nKristina Ten\nE.K. Keith\nGamal Abdel Chasten\nKarla Brundage \nMusic by: Kiva Uhuru \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/get-lit-61-tickets-109374259354; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Get Lit #61\nTime: Jun 16\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84775046781 \nMeeting ID: 847 7504 6781\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,84775046781# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84775046781# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 847 7504 6781\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc2DaF1iuu \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-kiva-uhuru-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200515T165508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T165508Z
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SUMMARY:THE CHILL by Scott Carson | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 16\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Scott Carson’s new novel\, THE CHILL. \n“Wow! This is one terrific horror/suspense/disaster novel. Characters you root for and a story that grips from the first page.” —Stephen King \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83200265394. \nYou can order a hardcover of THE CHILL at bit.ly/GGPChillHC\, or an audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/ChillAB. \nDescription \n\n\n\n“Wow! This is one terrific horror/suspense/disaster novel. Characters you root for and a story that grips from the first page.” —Stephen King\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Institute \n“Horror has a new name and it’s Scott Carson. The Chill is an eerie dive into the murky depths of the supernatural. A story that has you looking back over your shoulder on every page.” —Michael Connelly\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night Fire \n“A creepy tale of supernatural terror.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nIn this terrifying thriller\, a supernatural force—set in motion a century ago—threatens to devastate New York City. \nFar upstate\, in New York’s ancient forests\, a drowned village lays beneath the dark\, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century\, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that’s what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families\, settled there since America’s founding\, were forced from their land\, but they didn’t move far\, and some didn’t move at all… \nNow\, a century later\, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known. An inspector assigned to oversee the dam\, dangerously neglected for decades\, witnesses something inexplicable. It turns out that more than the village was left behind in the waters of the Chill when it was abandoned. The townspeople didn’t evacuate without a fight. A dark prophecy remained\, too\, and the time has come for it to be fulfilled. Those who remember must ask themselves: who will be next? For sacrifices must be made. And as the dark waters begin to inexorably rise\, the demand for a fresh sacrifice emerges from the deep…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-chill-by-scott-carson-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200614T235313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200614T235313Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: Kiva Uhuru)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nThis month’s performers:\nNoelia Cerna\nMaymunah Rasheed\nAurora Masum-Javed\nJosé Héctor Cadena\nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier\nPoet E Spoken\nCharlie Neer\nAngelique Palmer\nJoyce E. Young\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nNazelah Jamison\nKristina Ten\nE.K. Keith\nGamal Abdel Chasten\nKarla Brundage \nMusic by: Kiva Uhuru \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/get-lit-61-tickets-109374259354; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Get Lit #61\nTime: Jun 16\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84775046781 \nMeeting ID: 847 7504 6781\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,84775046781# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84775046781# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 847 7504 6781\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc2DaF1iuu \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-kiva-uhuru/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200521T172617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T172617Z
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SUMMARY:Strange Hotel: Irish Literary Sensation Eimear McBride in conversation with Brooke Warner
DESCRIPTION:The trajectory of Eimear McBride’s career is an underdog’s dream: she spent six months writing her debut novel\, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\, and nine years trying to sell it\, only to take the literary scene by storm when it was finally published in 2013 to an avalanche of acclaim\, awards (including the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction)\, and rapturous comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Now\, McBride is joining Women Lit in a live virtual conversation with Brooke Warner\, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress\, in celebration of her eagerly awaited new novel\, Strange Hotel\, which further cements her singular place in the contemporary canon. As unforgettable as her debut\, McBride’s latest book depicts a rootless woman’s exile as she hotel-hops across the globe\, seeking to quash her ghosts and escape the dangers that haunt her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/strange-hotel-irish-literary-sensation-eimear-mcbride-in-conversation-with-brooke-warner/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200515T214254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T214254Z
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SUMMARY:Ainissa Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another \nfrom The MIT Press \n————- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n————- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n————- \nThe Book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase THE ALCHEMY OF US here< \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n————- \nIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials\, the innovations they made possible\, and how these technologies changed us. \nIn The Alchemy of Us\, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks\, steel rails\, copper communication cables\, photographic film\, light bulbs\, hard disks\, scientific labware\, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time\, the inventor who inspired Edison\, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes\, among other things\, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. \nRamirez shows how materials were shaped by inventors\, but also how those materials shaped culture\, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology\, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking\, bias\, and convention. Doing so\, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it’s splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR. \nAinissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate\, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held academic positions at Yale University and MIT. She has written for Time\, Scientific American\, the American Scientist\, and Forbes\, and makes regular appearances on PBS’s SciTech Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ainissa-ramirez-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200608T194625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200610T195013Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: You\, Me\, and Everyone In Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Cutting-edge poetry and visuals from both coasts\, on the theme of “You\, Me\, and Everyone In Quarantine.” From the depths of their shelter-in-place\, these writers will perform their literary hearts out for you! With Wo Chan and Katie Fricas from New York\, Micheal Foulk from Oakland\, and Preeti Vangani from San Francisco. Curated and hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org! \n\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n\n \nBaruch Porras-Hernandez\nBaruch Porras Hernandez is a San Francisco writer\, stand up comedian\, illustrator\, organizer\, and the author of the small poetry collections “I Miss You\, Delicate” and “Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle\,” both from Sibling Rivalry Press. His solo show “Love in the Time of… Read More →\n\n\n  \n  \n  \nSpeakers \n\n\n \nWo Chan\nWo Chan is a queer poet and drag performer living in Brooklyn. Wo has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts\, Kundiman\, and the Asian American Writers Workshop. As a member of Switch N’ Play\, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney\, National Sawd… Read More →\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n \nPreeti Vangani\nPreeti Vangani is a poet & essayist. Her work has been published in BOAT\, Buzzfeed\, Gulf Coast\, and Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the winner of the RL Poetry Award 2017 and her debut book of poems titled Mother Tongue Apologize was published by RLFPA Editions in February 2019. S… Read More →\n\n\n  \n  \n \nKatie Fricas\nKatie Fricas is a cartoonist and bibliophile in New York City. She makes nonfiction essay comics on art\, politics\, oddities\, and hidden histories for various publications and websites including The New Yorker\, The New York Times Book Review\, the Guardian\, and Hyperallergic. Her comic… Read More →\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nMicheal Foulk\nMicheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian\, writer\, actor\, and organizer thriving in Oakland\, California. They have produced over 200 live shows featuring Sketch\, Storytelling\, and Stand Up across the country. Micheal has been featured on SF Sketchfest\, Crom Comedy Festival\, Moontower… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-you-me-and-everyone-in-quarantine/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200523T185429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T185429Z
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SUMMARY:Sam Lansky - Broken People
DESCRIPTION:“He fixes everything that’s wrong with you in three days.” \nThis is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform “open-soul surgery” on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic\, depressed Sam\, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded\, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He’s desperate for something to believe in\, and the shaman—who promises ancient rituals\, plant medicine and encounters with the divine—seems convincing\, enough for Sam to sign up for a weekend under his care. \nBut are the great spirits the shaman says he’s summoning real at all? Or are the ghosts in Sam’s memory more powerful than any magic? \nAt turns tender and acidic\, funny and wise\, Broken People is a journey into the nature of truth and fiction–a story of discovering hope amid cynicism\, intimacy within chaos and peace in our own skin. \nSam Lansky is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Gilded Razor and the West Coast editor at Time magazine. He’s written for New York magazine\, The Atlantic\, Esquire\, and Out. He lives in Los Angeles\, California. Read more at samlansky.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-lansky-broken-people/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200523T185712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T185712Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Jennifer Rosner with Kate Quinn / The Yellow Bird Sings
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Jennifer Rosner for her debut novel\, The Yellow Bird Sings. She’ll be in conversation with Kate Quinn (The Huntress). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nAs Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town\, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter\, Shira\, flee\, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night\, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet\, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. To soothe her daughter and pass the time\, Róza tells her a story about a girl in an enchanted garden: \nThe girl is forbidden from making a sound\, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. \nIn this make-believe world\, Róza can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe\, and Róza must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart. \nInspired by the true stories of Jewish children hidden during World War II\, Jennifer Rosner’s debut is a breathtaking novel about the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter. Beautiful and riveting\, The Yellow Bird Sings is a testament to the triumph of hope — a whispered story\, a bird’s song — in even the darkest of times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-jennifer-rosner-with-kate-quinn-the-yellow-bird-sings/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200616T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T111832
CREATED:20200615T191129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200615T191129Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light 2 - Jeneé Darden & Peter Bullen
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit and Light Rail Station are teaming up for a series of livestream readings through June. For our second event. we’re featuring humorist Peter Thomas Bullen\, whose first book\, “Wallflower\,” was published by Nomadic Press. Journalist\, author\, and public speaker Jeneé Darden will also be reading from her first book\, “When a Purple Rose Blooms\,” published by Nomadic Press. Our musical guest is David Williams\, who has appeared on more than 20 albums (six of them his own). The event will be hosted by comedian\, writer and playwright\, Luna Malbroux.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-2-jenee-darden-peter-bullen/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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