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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Kathryn Aalto\, Writing Wild
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with bestselling author of Kathryn Aalto (The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh) with her latest creation\, Writing Wild: Women Poets\, Ramblers\, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World\, an important exploration of 25 women writers whose works have changed the way we look at Nature. Featured writers include Rebecca Solnit\, Dorothy Wordsworth\, Gene Stratton-Porter\, Mary Austin\, Gretel Ehrlich\, Lauret Savoy\, Kathleen Jamie\, Carolyn Finney\, and more. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nIn Writing Wild\, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars\, spiritual seekers\, conservationists\, scientists\, novelists\, and explorers. They defy easy categorization\, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. \nPart travel essay\, literary biography\, and cultural history\, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens\, head outdoors\, and start writing wild. \nKathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer\, historian\, writer\, and lecturer living in Exeter\, England. She has master’s degrees in garden history and creative nonfiction with a particular interest in literary landscapes. Before her expat life\, she taught American Literature of Nature and Place in the Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment\, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs\, and Garden Communicators International.
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Transatlantic poetry reading with two poets from the SF Bay area\, Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky\, and two poets from Wales\, Graham Harthill and Christopher Twigg. Zoom details & author bios below. \nCaroline Goodwin moved from Sitka\, Alaska to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Custody of the Eyes (dancing girl press\, 2019)\, The Paper Tree (Big Yes Press\, 2017)\, Peregrine (Finishing Line Press\, 2015)\, and Trapline (JackLeg Press\, 2013). She also published a chapbook\, Text Me\, Ishmael\, with Steven Hitchins’ Literary Pocketbook Series based in Pontypridd\, Wales\, 2012. Goodwin lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything\, New Rivers Press. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. \nGraham Hartill’s latest book is a collaborative translation (with Wu Fu Sheng)\, The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Commercial Press\, Beijing\, 2020). He lives in the Black Mountains of South Wales\, works as a writer in residence in a prison and teaches on the Master’s Programme in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute\, London. He has a new collection of his own poems\, possibly called The Necklace\, coming this Autumn from Aquifer Books. \nChristopher Twigg’s most recent poetry collection is ‘The Handle of the Door’ (2019 Aquifer). He lives in Talgarth\, Wales where he also paints. \nZoom \nTopic: Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading\nTime: Jul 12\, 2020 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/71156155385?pwd=OFRtVE5sNDdYT1ltbzZncUpkWWZMUT09 \nMeeting ID: 711 5615 5385\nPassword: 6bkBPX
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Tim Cahill (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author \nTim Cahill is the author of nine books—one of which\, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh\, National Geographic named as one of the 100 best adventure/travel books ever written. \nTim is a pioneer of literary adventure writing. One of the founders of Outside\, he is the author of its long-running “Out There” column\, and an editor-at-large. His work also appears in National Geographic Adventure\, the New York Times Book Review\, and other national publications. \nTim’s travel books include\, A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg\, Pass the Butterworms\, Road Fever and Hold the Enlightenment. He also wrote the introduction for The Best Travel Writing\, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World. He is also the co-author of four IMAX documentary screenplays\, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards. He lives in Montana\, in the shadow of the Crazy Mountains. \nMichael Shapiro writes about travel\, food\, entertainment\, art\, and environmental issues for magazines and newspapers. He is the author of The Creative Spark\, a collection of interviews with many of the world’s most creative people\, as well as A Sense of Place featuring conversations with leading travel writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-tim-cahill-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #1
DESCRIPTION:Struggling to process and confront anti-Black and anti-Asian racism within your social networks? Explore the healing power of creative writing! \nThe July 11th creative writing workshop focuses on “Mental Health and Multiracial Solidarity.” \nMental health advocates Kelechi Ubozoh and Shizue Seigel\, psychiatrist Ravi Chandra\, and storyteller/medicine woman Tureeda Mikell discuss anti-Black/anti-Asian racism with tools for self-care\, and creative writing for healing. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What are you thinking and feeling right now? How were you personally impacted by George Floyd’s murder and subsequent events. Have you personally experienced or witnessed anti-black or anti-Asian racism? What was your response? How would you respond differently today? How do you respond to stress? What are you doing for self-care? How to deal with parents and peer pressure? \nNOTE: The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and YouTube Live with a sliding scale fee of $5~$15 to help support our presenters\, organizers\, tech and labor costs. If you are interested in participating but are unable to afford the lowest ticketing tier\, please email programs@oacc.cc and we would be happy to work with you on making this event accessible.
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SUMMARY:Dashka Slater virtual launch!
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host the virtual launch of The Book of Fatal Errors\, a tale of friendship\, magic\, and eternal life\, an evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy–by local favorite–award-winning author Dashka Slater! \n“A fun\, emotionally driven fairy story…an excellent readalike for The Spiderwick Chronicles…recommended for any young fantasy fans.”– School Library Journal \nFor instructions to register with Crowdcast\, and to order the book from Mrs. Dalloway’s\, please see below. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, July 11\, 2020 – 11:00am to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRufus doesn’t just make mistakes – he makes fatal errors. Clumsy and awkward\, he feels entrapped by his teasing classmates and their constant laughter. But now it is summer. Rufus is free. He roams the wildlands of his grandfather’s mysterious homestead\, blissfully unaware of the danger up ahead. \nAnd there is much danger. Rufus and his snooty cousin Abigail soon become entangled in the tantalizing world of the feylings\, mischievous fairly-like creatures desperate to find their way home. In helping the feylings\, Rufus tumbles down a dark path rich with age-old secrets and difficult truths. Any move he makes might be his final fatal error. \nOr perhaps\, his most spectacular beginning. \nDashka Slater has written several books\, including her non-fiction title for young adults\, The 57 Bus\, which received the Stonewall Book Award and was a YALSA Nonfiction finalist\, among many other honors. She also wrote the picture book Escargot\, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award\, and its follow-up\, A Book for Escargot. \nThe event will take place via Crowdcast. Join us from the comfort of your living room or wherever you might be! \nOrder your copy from Mrs. Dalloway’s\, and Dashka will sign and personalize it. Please provide inscription details in the comment field. Books can be picked up at the store\, or shipped for a fee. We will notify you when your book is ready for pickup. \nQuestions? Please contact info@mrsdsallways.com. \nHope you can join us!
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SUMMARY:Author Joe Di Prisco Discussing The Good Family Fitzgerald w/ Ian Maloney | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 9\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with our friend and author\, Joe Di Prisco\, discussing his new novel\, THE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD\, with Ian Maloney. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82064714666. \n(Order your copy of THE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD in paper at https://bit.ly/GGPTGFF\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/ABTGFF.) \nTHE GOOD FAMILY FITZGERALD \nThe Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition\, crime and the Catholic Church\, a sprawling\, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. \nThe Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege\, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis\, many of their own creation. Even so\, they live large\, in love and in strife\, wielding power\, combating adversaries and each other. The Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition\, crime and the Catholic Church\, a sprawling\, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. \nPadraic Fitzgerald is the up-from-nothing\, aging patriarch whose considerable business interests appear anything but legitimate\, but he has bigger problems than law enforcement. A widower\, Paddy becomes enmeshed with a young woman who will force him to re-examine his cardinal assumptions. Meanwhile\, he has cultivated thorny relationships with his four children\, all of whom struggle over the terms of connection with their father. Anthony―oldest son\, principled criminal defense attorney\, designated prince of the family―and his cherished Francesca are devastated by tragedy. In the aftermath\, Frankie comes to play a vital role in Fitzgerald lore. Philip is a charismatic Catholic priest spectacularly torn between his lofty ideals and aspirations and his all-too-human flaws and longings. Matty has wandered aimlessly\, but once he finds his purpose\, he precipitates turmoil in all quarters. Colleen\, the youngest\, is a seeker who styles herself the outsider and the conscience of the clan. Her hands are full\, as no Fitzgerald is left untested or unscathed\, and by the end the whole family\, as well as those venturing into their realm\, will be stunned into illumination. \nJOE DI PRISCO \nJoseph Di Prisco was born in Greenpoint\, Brooklyn\, where once upon a time the Brooklyn Dodgers ruled the known world. Shortly after he was whisked away at 10 years old on the subway to California (long story; see his memoirs)\, however\, he saw the light and became a San Francisco Giants fan. He has published five novels (Confessions of Brother Eli\, Sun City\, All for Now\, The Alzhammer\, Sibella & Sibella and his latest The Good Family Fitzgerald)\, three books of poetry (Wit’s End\, Poems in Which\, and Sightlines from the Cheap Seats)\, two books on childhood and adolescence co-written with psychologist and educator Michael Riera (Field Guide to the American Teenager and Right from Wrong)\, and two memoirs (Subway to California and The Pope of Brooklyn). Di Prisco is the founding chair of The Simpson Literary Project\, which promotes literacy and literature\, writers and writing across the generations. He also is series editor of the annual anthology: Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project.\nDi Prisco’s book reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers\, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest\, Bear Star Press\, and Bread Loaf.  \nMODERATOR IAN MALONEY  \nIan S. Maloney is Professor of English at St Francis College in Brooklyn\, NY where he directs the SFC Literary Prize. Ian serves on the Literary Council for the Brooklyn Book Festival as well as the board for the Walt Whitman Initiative. He recently completed his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-joe-di-prisco-discussing-the-good-family-fitzgerald-w-ian-maloney-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Juli Delgado Lopera in conversation with Daniel Handler / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:Are you still bummed we had to postpone the launch party for Juli Delgado Lopera and their debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical? Us too! But be bummed no longer and join us for a virtual event\, in conversation with Daniel Handler (Bottle Grove). \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. They are the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. They are the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and have received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, they served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have Fiebre Tropical sent to your door\, order here or below.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-juli-delgado-lopera-in-conversation-with-daniel-handler-fiebre-tropical-2/
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SUMMARY:Leslie Kern
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nFeminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World \n\npublished by Verso Books \n———– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———– \nto make reservations \n(Click Here for Reservations)\nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \nFeminist City is a forthcoming release. Keep an eye on this spot for a link to purchase book. \n(Click Here to buy book in the near future!) \n———– \nFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently\, living better\, and living more justly in an urban world \n\n\nWe live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers\, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. \nIn Feminist City\, through history\, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities\, homes\, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear\, motherhood\, friendship\, activism\, and the joys and perils of being alone\, Kern maps the city from new vantage points\, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just\, sustainable\, and women-friendly cities together. \n\nLeslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender\, Condominium Development\, and Urban Citizenship. \nAdvanced praise for Feminist City: \n\n“Visionary\, intelligent\, and humane\, this book offers intersectional insights into the gendered nature of the modern city to promote ‘living more justly in an urban world’ … A timely\, thought-provoking study.” \n– Kirkus \n\n\n\n“[An] insightful scholarly work … This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists.” \n–Publisher’s Weekly \n\n\n“Cities aren’t built to accommodate female bodies\, female needs\, female desires. In this rich\, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the ‘city of men’ into a city for everyone. Let’s all move there immediately.” \n– Lauren Elkin\, author of Flaneuse \n\n\n“This book totally opened my eyes! Feminist City is an incredibly incisive look at cities and urban design through the lens of gender\, while also inspecting how acts of claiming urban space affect other marginalized groups. Combining academic and lived experience\, Leslie Kern’s intersectional approach clearly lays out just how cities are failing and what it might mean to imagine a more just urban life. Feminist City made me see my own experiences in a whole new light\, and Kern makes the field of feminist geography completely accessible and exciting to the average city slicker. Anyone who considers themselves a feminist or activist should read this book!” \n– Julia DeVarti\, Literati Bookstore
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts Jo Walton\, author of OR WHAT YOU WILL
DESCRIPTION:Come join Borderlands Bookstore as they host Jo Walton for her latest\, OR WHAT YOU WILL! \nFrom Jo Walton\, author of the critically-acclaimed and reader-beloved Among Others\, and Hugo\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Award winner\, comes a new lyrical and philosophical novel: OR WHAT YOU WILL (A Tor Hardcover; On-sale: July 7\, 2020). Walton’s latest is an utterly original novel about how stories work and how they are brought forth from a writer’s depths. With OR WHAT YOU WILL\, Walton delightfully dramatizes the deep processes common to most writers and how their characters speak to them—with all their danger\, cruelty\, drama\, and sublime charm.  It is the perfect book for anyone who LOVES literature: writing it\, sharing it\, and most of all\, reading it! \nHere is some of what people are already saying about OR WHAT YOU WILL:\n“Or What You Will is a Jo Walton book. Which is to say—it’s a joy and a revelation\, and I never wanted it to end.”—Rainbow Rowell \n“Both intellectual and engaging\, this is a book for readers experienced in the fantasy genre and who also enjoy thinking about the craft of writing.”—Buzzfeed \n“Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Walton brilliantly braids somber realism\, fanciful metafiction\, and Shakespearean-influenced fantasy into a moving paean to the power of storytelling…\nThis gorgeous\, deeply philosophical work is a knockout.—Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \nHe has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar\, a warrior\, a lover\, and a thief. He has been a dream and dreamer. He has been a god…\nBut “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea\, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison\, 73\, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels\, and in the recesses of her mind\, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won’t live forever\, any more than any human does. And he’s trapped inside her cave of bone\, her hollow of skull. When she dies\, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel\, a fantasy for adult readers\, set in Thalia\, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he’s got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her. \nJO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel Among Others. Before that\, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, and her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. The novels of her Small Change sequence—Farthing\, Ha’penny\, and Half a Crown—have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics’ Choice Award. A native of Wales\, she lives in Montreal. Follow her on Twitter at @bluejowalton.
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SUMMARY:Power to the Poets: Uproar
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 9\, 2020 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern for POWER TO THE POETS: UPROAR! \nVia FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1869493649860368/?active_tab=about \nHosts:\nAmos White & Aileen Cassinetto \nFeaturing: \nJOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE\ncurates and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. His frst book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nBERNARD COLLINS\nis a visual artist and faculty member at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. He is also a spoken word artist whose humorous style hearkens back to the “Toasting” traditions of African American culture seen in poems like the “Signifying Monkey” or “Shine.” \nSHANELLE GABRIEL\nShanelle Gabriel has toured internationally and is known for both opening and featuring on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam alongside Jill Scott. She has also shared the stage with artists such as Talib Kweli\, Nas\, Dave Chapelle\, and more. Shanelle was spotlighted on the Rachael Ray Show\, and was named one of “8 Millennial Feminist Poets That Deserve Recognition” by BET.com and a “Powerful Indie Artist Activist You Should Know” by Blavity.com. She was selected to curate a series of poems for Fast Company Magazine’s 2019 European Innovation Festival at the Gucci Hub in Milan\, Italy\, and was the subject of a mini-documentary on the Lifetime Network regarding her battle with Lupus. She presently resides in Brooklyn. For links to her music & poetry and to learn more\, visit www.shanellegabriel.com. \nAMBITION THE POET HARPER\nis a poet\, workshop instructor\, entrepreneur\, and author of From the Tongue of a Foster Child. He lives in Sicklerville\, New Jersey. \nANTONIO LOPEZ\nis an East Palo Alto native and PhD student in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He holds degrees in African American Studies and Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Duke University and the University of Oxford. His debut collection\, Gentefication\, won the 2019 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry\, and is set to be published fall of 2021. \nSHIKHA MALAVIYA\nis the author of the internationally-acclaimed\, Geography of Tongues\, former Poet Laureate of San Ramon\, co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective\, Sangam Arts Mosaic Fellow\, TEDx speaker\, and 2020 poetry judge of AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in PLUME\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area. https://shikhamalaviya.com \nTUREEDA MIKELL\nis a Story Medicine Woman\, award winning poet and performance artist. She was a featured poet/storyteller at the National Association of Black Storytellers\, Lawrence Hall and Golden Gate Academy of Sciences\, Museum of the African Diaspora\, Randall and Oakland Museums\, The Black Panther’s 50th Anniversary\, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday\, Eth-Noh-Tec Nu Wa in Beijing\, China\, and at the de Young Museum’s Soul of a Nation. Her book\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\, was published by Nomadic Press in February 2020. \nALBERT MILLS\nis the Poet Laureate of Delaware. He is a community-based social worker deeply rooted in the juvenile justice system. Mills has designed and led organizations that provide services for delinquent youth and their families. As a therapist\, he serves New Castle County Delaware’s Multisystemic Therapy Services. Mills is a certified A.R.T. therapist\, and takes pride in his efforts to utilize art as a tool for foundational change in youth\, families\, communities\, and our society. A cofounder of G.O.A.L.S.\, and S.Y.A.-Tutoring and Mentoring Programs in Wilmington\, Mills is also an honored army veteran who served in Iraq and speaks about his struggles with PTSD as a result of the war. https://arts.delaware.gov/poet-laureate/ \nELIJAH PRINGLE III\nis a Philadelphia poet\, lyric baritone\, composer\, actor\, and artivist. He is the author of At the Cornerstone\, Feeding the Sparrow\, and Second Saturday at Serenity\, and has appeared on radio\, TV & stage. He has been quoted in print in Newsweek\, The New York Times\, The Philadelphia Daily News\, and others. He credits his true education to five generations of teachers. \nOCTAVIO QUINTANILLA\nis Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, Texas. He is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing. His poetry\, fiction\, translations\, and photography have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in Salamander\, Poetry Northwest\, RHINO\, and elsewhere. His visual poems have been exhibited in several galleries\, including Presa House Gallery\, Equinox Gallery\, and at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio\, TX. He holds a PhD from the University of North Texas and is the regional editor for Texas Books in Review and poetry editor for The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism & for Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine. https://www.octavioquintanilla.com \nGENTLE RAMIREZ\n(THEY/THEM) is a trans non-binary poet from the Bronx. A 2020 Lyvo Fellow and recipient of The Oluwatoyin Salua Freedom Fighters Grant (2020)\, Gentle’s work has been featured in NYUnited\, Bryant Park Poetry\, West 10th\, PoetNY\, Write About Now Poetry\, and more. Gentle is a BA candidate at New York University and most recently the author of their first book\, Ultram (KDP 2018). https://www.gentleramirez.com \nAMOS WHITE\nThe Founder and Chief Planter at 100K Trees for Humanity\, Amos White is a Climate Mobilization Strategist\, Coro Fellow in Public Affairs\, author\, poet\, arts impresario\, civil rights activist\, father\, and husband based in Alameda\, California. \n*** \nPOWER TO THE POETS is a live reading series curated by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto. We’ll be broadcasting live on this event page. Video will appear as a post under the Discussion tab. The reading will be archived at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB7ih0FYXei_j7pJk4hcfeg \nPast events: \nPower to the Poets: Poets of Color for Change\, https://migozine.org/category/blacklivesmatter/ \nPower to the Poets: A Juneteenth Special\, https://migozine.org/category/juneteenth-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Thea Matthews and Maw Shein Win / Unearth [The Flowers]
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Thea Matthews for her first full-length book\, Unearth [The Flowers]\, the first single-author title from local reading series and small press Red Light Lit. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nAn electrifying letter to family\, country\, and self\, Unearth [The Flowers] is an essential collection\, relentless in its journey through stages of grief and healing while celebrating life. Each poem is an anthem for resiliency\, a testament to survival\, a triumph over the stigmatized terror that pervades the everyday. Thea Matthews’s first full-length collection of poetry details a mind\, body\, and flower at the intersection of the personal and the political. \n— \n“Unearth [The Flowers] sees the pastoral tradition of poetry through a contemporary feminist lens that shows Thea Matthews as a writer of urgency and authentic concern. Or as Matthews herself says\, ‘where there is land / there is blood.’ This is a book of catalogue\, of taxonomy\, of the need to name the earth and stand on it whole.” – Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition \n​“Unearth [The Flowers] is a blooming battle cry\, a feat of alchemy in which the personal and political merge in a brutal empathy. Rage and sorrow and the liberation of healing unfurl in a landscape of flowers—this is true literary witchcraft.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \n“Unearth [The Flowers] is a refusal of silence and a testament to survival\, speaking back to the damages with a gorgeous bouquet of poems. Thea Matthews conjures poetic magic for healing and bearing witness with vibrant\, lyrically rich poems.” – Tiana Clark\, author of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood \n“Thea Matthews is a poetic herbalist\, using flowers to create healing. This work is egalitarian\, touching on blooms of all sorts: indigenous\, imported\, bolted\, and cultivated. You will feel these poems in the root of your jaw\, in your foot arches. Matthews is an experienced poet with a deft hand and an honest heart. These words languidly stretch\, snap like a lock blade\, they drape and twine and reach. Read this work and be changed.” – Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate \n“Thea Matthews is the voice and protector of our generation. Brave poems like a universe that has decided to go forward with a third testament. Thea Matthews is our sacred underground; the only host of our ascension.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes \n— \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a poet\, scholar\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. She earned her BA at UC Berkeley where she studied and taught June Jordan’s program Poetry for the People. She has work published in the Atlanta Review\, Tilde\, Foglifter\, The Rumpus\, and others. She has work also featured in anthologies Still Here San Francisco (Foglifter Press 2019); and Love WITH Accountability: Uprooting the Roots on Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press 2019). Her first collection of poetry Unearth [The Flowers] is published by Red Light Lit Press. \n** Please note ** \n> This is a free\, all-ages event. The Bindery’s bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unearth [The Flowers]\, find more information here: https://www.booksmith.com/event/bindery-thea-matthews-unearth-flowers \n> Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thea-matthews-unearth-the-flowers/
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Books hosts Katherine Addison\, author of The Goblin Emperor\, to talk about new book
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Addison\, author of The Goblin Emperor\, returns with The Angel of the Crows\, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London\, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming. \nThis is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. \nIn an alternate 1880s London\, angels inhabit every public building\, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia\, except for a few things: Angels can Fall\, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human\, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. \nJack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows. \nKATHERINE ADDISON’s short fiction has been selected by The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. She is the author of the Locus Award-winning novel The Goblin Emperor. As Sarah Monette\, she is the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series and co-author\, with Elizabeth Bear\, of the Iskryne series. She lives near Madison\, Wisconsin. You can find her on Twitter as @pennyvixen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-books-hosts-katherine-addison-author-of-the-goblin-emperor-to-talk-about-new-book/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ball\, Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with national political journalist Molly Ball to discuss her book\, Pelosi\, an intimate\, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history\, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nShe’s the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place\, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections\, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It’s a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party—even though\, as speaker under President Barack Obama\, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal health care to gays in the military. How did a 79-year-old Italian grandmother in four-inch heels become the greatest legislator since LBJ? \nBall’s nuanced\, page-turning portrait takes readers inside the life and times of this historic and underappreciated figure. Based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting\, Ball shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens to explain how this extraordinary woman has met her moment. \n“A top-notch political biography.” ―Kirkus Reviews\, *starred review* \n“An entertaining and balanced biography of Nancy Pelosi…Ball offers plenty of insightful anecdotes\, presenting events within historical perspective so that readers can fully appreciate their import.” ―Booklist\, *starred review* \nMolly Ball is TIME magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN. She appears regularly on PBS’s Washington Week\, CBS’s Face the Nation\, ABC’s This Week\, and other television and radio programs. Ball is the winner of numerous awards for her coverage of American politics\, including the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. She grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lives in the Washington\, DC\, area with her husband and three children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-molly-ball-pelosi/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich
DESCRIPTION:celebrating his new book \nDesert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \nfrom Counterpoint Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———– \n\nLayering climate science\, mythologies\, nature writing\, and personal experiences\, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. \nAs inhabitants of the Anthropocene\, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over\, this anxious present\, the future we have no choice but to build? Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. \nIn the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse\, Ehrenreich finds beauty\, and even hope\, surging up in the most unlikely places\, from the most barren rocks\, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. For readers of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush\, Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching\, urgent— yet timeless and profound. \nBEN EHRENREICH writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, the London Review of Books\, and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011\, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. His last book\, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\, based on his reporting from the West Bank\, was one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016. He is also the author of two novels\, Ether and The Suitors. \nPraise for Desert Notebooks \n“Ehrenreich’s Mojave is both eternal and despoiled\, a measuring rod for the apocalypse\, and proof that nature abides. Progress\, he explains to us\, is like one of those strange paved streets in the desert running through phantom\, unbuilt subdivisions. The pavement ends abruptly\, and we find ourselves lost in the furnace-hot badlands of the Present where time and meaning are twisted into enigmatic and terrifying forms that recall the end-time visions of cultures vanquished by ‘civilization.’ This haunting meditation on terminal capitalism and its unthinkable future clearly establishes its author as one of our greatest essayists\, wholly contemporary with these strange times.” –Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz \n“The past few years of an accelerated\, increasingly destructive climate crisis have brought a number of books that struggle to respond accordingly to a crisis of such magnitude; several writers have met this existential challenge with an equally existential discussion of the ways that the climate crisis affects our understanding of human history and time itself. Ben Ehrenreich\, a columnist for The Nation\, takes this discussion to the American southwest\, examining the intersection of science\, mythology\, and landscape in the desert\, in particular in Joshua Tree and Las Vegas. In these settings\, Ehrenreich’s book reflects on the ways that the prospect of extinction has affected our understanding of time\, and how we use that shift in perspective as we move forward.” –Corinne Segal\, Literary Hub\, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year \n“The crisis humanity faces is total. It’s planetary. It’s a crisis in space and also in time. How close are we to the end? Is this land we stand on going to be inhabitable in one hundred years\, sixty\, forty? In sharply featured\, compelling prose–the landscape writing here has the heartbreaking clarity of the experience of desert light–Ben Ehrenreich’s stunning Desert Notebooks combs through history\, literature\, myth\, physics\, and ecology to understand how we got here\, and how we might find our way out\, into forms of time that are made not of our thralldom to capital and petroleum but of our relationships to each other\, to our fellow creatures\, to plants and rocks and landscapes\, and to the stars and sun and moon overhead. Ben Ehrenreich wants you to join him here\, on earth. The thrill of Desert Notebooks is that in its lucid pages such a miracle seems almost possible.” –Anthony McCann\, author of Shadowlands \n“Ben Ehrenreich walked the deserts of the Occupied Territories for his previous book; in Desert Notebooks\, he takes us with him into the Mojave–its coyotes\, creosote\, and Joshua trees. He descends barrancas and canyons\, hikes boulder-strewn slopes into labyrinthine stacks of Jorge Luis Borges’s great Library\, from which he draws out stories from that time ‘when animals were people\, ‘ narratives by the Chemehuevi\, the Serrano\, the Mohave\, and other desert peoples. These echo in texts by Martin Bernal\, Walter Benjamin\, the Marquis de Condorcet\, and Jakob Böhme’s mystical touchstone–The Signature of All Things–as well as James Mooney’s classic\, the Ghost Dance and the Sioux revolt of 1890. Climate change California is burning as Ehrenreich’s meditations prismatically refract heat\, smoke\, and light. Desert Notebooks is a book for our time–that is\, a time scorched by harsh solar rays\, shimmering in searing\, phosphorescent prose.” –Sesshu Foster\, author of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-ehrenreich/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be launching The Crow Rider\, Kalyn Josephson’s thrilling conclusion to the epic Storm Crow duology that follows a fallen princess as she tries to bring back the magical elemental crows taken from her people. \nThia\, her allies\, and her crow\, Res\, are planning a rebellion to defeat Queen Razel and the Kingdom of Illucia and must convince the neighboring kingdoms to come to her aid. Res excels at his training\, until he loses control of his magic\, harming Thia in the process. She is also being pursued by Prince Ericen\, heir to the Illucian throne. As the rebel group prepares for war\, Res’s magic grows more unstable. Thia has to decide if she can rely on herself and their bond enough to lead the rebellion and become the crow rider she was meant to be. \n\n\n\n\nReading during this time period can be challenging\, but this fabulous series is guaranteed to sweep you away to an enchanting world and introduce you to your next favorite magical creatures. \nKalyn will be chatting with Shannon Price\, author of A Thousand Fires and we couldn’t be more excited
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kalyn-josephson-with-shannon-price/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 7 at 12pm PDT when Merlin Sheldrake discusses his book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds &Shape Our Futures with Michael Pollan on Zoom. \nTickets for this event can be found here. \nAbout This Event \nIn 2016\, a New Yorker profile by famed naturalist Robert Macfarlane introduced the world to one of the most important young thinkers of our age: Merlin Sheldrake. Moving from the labs of Cambridge to the jungles of Central America\, this revolutionary plant scientist had a hunch that fungi possess superpowers far beyond the mushrooms we know\, however mind-blowing their culinary or psychedelic varieties might be. He discovered that fungi are an ancient underground communication network that undergirds the natural world and offers inspiration for rethinking human society. \nMerlin’s riveting first book\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures\, has become an instant classic of nature and philosophy—a work of rigorous science and poetic expression\, drawing us into the mystery and meaning of this most magical life form. \nIn our live conversation\, Merlin and bestselling nature and culture writer Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma) will delve into “The Wood Wide Web”: an enchanting “superorganism” whose secrets just might save the world. This event is for everyone who believes that wonder still exists and hope can be found in the unlikeliest places: around us\, under us\, even inside us. You’ll come away with a sense of awe for “life’s labyrinths\,” in Merlin’s words\, where “some of the vexed hierarchies that underpin modern thought start to soften.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-merlin-sheldrake-and-michael-pollan/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Meredith O'Brien & Leslie Gray Streeter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Meredith O’Brien (Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis) & Leslie Gray Streeter (Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title). \n** Please note ** \n>  The books may be listed as out of stock — this is because we’re shipping directly from the warehouse to your door! If you’d like to purchase the books\, please do so through the links above or below\, at the bottom of this page. \n>  You can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the dates and join us! \n>  This event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Uncomfortably Numb and/or Black Widow and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nUncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O’Brien \nIt begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem\, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer\, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change\, she learns she has multiple sclerosis. \nSuddenly\, Meredith\, a married mother of three teens\, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. \nReimagining her life as a writer and an educator\, as a mother and a spouse\, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. \nIt is a life\, altered. \n  \nA Boston area author\, Meredith O’Brien has written four books\, including her latest\, Uncomfortably Numb\, a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis\, called “triumphant” and “riveting\,” as well as “heart-breaking … harrowing … and heroic.” Her third book\, a work of creative nonfiction\, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter\, Tears and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room\, won an Independent Publisher Book Award and was a finalist for a Foreword INDIES award. A former newspaper reporter and investigative journalist\, Meredith teaches journalism and writing at Northeastern University in Boston where she also serves as a writing coach. \n  \n  \n\nBlack Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “journey” in the Title) by Leslie Gray Streeter \nLeslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She’s not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside\, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she’d wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott’s funeral; he loved her in that dress! But\, here she is\, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack\, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. (“New widow lifestyle.” Sounds like something you’d find products for on daytime TV\, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait\, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) \nLooking at widowhood through the prism of race\, mixed marriage\, and aging\, Black Widowredefines the stages of grief\, from coffin shopping to day-drinking\, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy\, to breaking up and making up with God\, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!)\, Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott\, recounting their journey through racism\, religious differences\, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? \nTender\, true\, and endearingly hilarious\, Black Widow is a story about the power of love\, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself. \nLeslie Gray Streeter is a columnist for the Palm Beach Post and the author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books With Words Like ‘Journey’ In The Title. She lives in West Palm Beach with her mother Tina and her son Brooks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-meredith-obrien-leslie-gray-streeter/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo Bicchieri » Grey Rosado » Rhea Dhanbhoora » Richelle Lee Slota | Jennifer Ng » Nora Boxer » Steven Hill » Steven Gray » Lilian Wang » D.S. Black » Caroline Goodwin » Noah Sanders » Kelly Gray » Amy Smith » Dawn Angelicca Barcelona\nWe’ll be streaming at this link (pw in link).\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 846 3452 8987\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84634528987#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,801695# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \n\n\n\nThanks to everyone who sent in work for our virtual show on 7/6! We received 75 submissions and accepted 21 (28%).  Curators extraordinaire Edmund Zagorin & Nazelah Jamison have put together a show FEATURING ALL OF TODAY’S LAMENTABLE HITS: the novel coronavirus\, systemic racism\, capitalism\, the patriarchy\, fear\, anxiety\, shame\, and premature\, unnecessary death. Join us for community alchemy as we move together from Mississippi to Beirut\, through family disconnects and isolation to the intersections of longing and belonging. \nAll selected authors will perform on 7/6 as part of a literary mixtape\, without introductions or banter. They will also be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 106\, featuring cover art by nkiruka oparah! “Fuzzy Room” is pictured above. \nThe show is free and all ages. If you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’re committed to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n\n\n\nStats for this show \n\nWe accepted 21 out of 79 submissions (28%)\n9 authors are making their QL debut (43%)\n12 authors are returning (57%)\n\nDiana Donovan (3x\, last time was 5/4/20)\nChristopher Dizon (1x\, 5/4/15)\nPaolo Bicchieri (1x\, 11/5/18)\nGrey Rosado (8x\, last time was 7/1/19)\nRichelle Lee Slota (2x\, last time was 1/6/20)\nSteven Hill (1x\, 7/1/19)\nSteven Gray (7x\, last time was 7/2/18)\nD.S. Black (2x\, last time was 1/1/18)\nCaroline Goodwin (1x\, 11/5/12)\nNoah Sanders (1x\, 11/4/19)\nKelly Gray (1x\, 3/2/20)\nAmy Smith (1x\, 1/6/20)\n\n\n25 have never attended a QL (32%)\n40 have read at QL before (51%)\n7 have never been published (9%)\n1 is being published for the first time\nThe largest age groups of submitters were:\n\n19-29 (19%)\n30-39 (33%)\n40-56 (19%)\n\n\n\nPrior to this show\, we have produced 133 events featuring 1\,584 individual performances by 825 different authors and 113 visual artists in 91 venues\, as selected by 65 curators. \n\nAbout the curators \nElizeya Quate (Edmund Zagorin) is a writer dwelling mysteriously both inside and outside this exact sentence. Quate’s work has appeared in Joyland\, Entropy\, Big Lucks\, Sleepingfish\, sparkle + blink\, the 2016 novel The Face of Our Town (Kernpunkt Press) and the 2018 chapbook cra-que-lure (Finishing Line Press). A resident of Schema\, Quate hosts the monthly performance art event Make It Look Like An Accident. \nNazelah Jamison is a performance poet\, actor\, vocalist\, and emcee. She is an East Coast transplant\, former organizer of the Oakland Poetry Slam and sometimes reluctant superhero. Her first book of poetry\, Evolutionary Heart\, was released in Fall of 2016 on Nomadic Press. Nazelah gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-quiet-lightning-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nWe are thrilled to celebrate with Kepler’s favorite Daniel Mason for his new book\, A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth. Join us online as we raise a glass to an incredible collection of literature. If you’ve read Mason\, best-selling author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner\, you already know that this new book of short stories is one that you don’t want to miss. \nIncluding nine stories of human endurance\, vivacity\, and accomplishment that range from a balloonist’s unexpected discovery to multiple medical marvels\, Mason’s writing will help you soar\, believe in minor miracles\, and explore the human condition. If you loved Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone but have never read Mason\, this book is the perfect introduction to a writer who will sweep you away. \nA professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University\, Mason’s previous novels have been translated into 28 languages\, adapted for the opera and theater\, and marked bestseller lists across the world. At times funny and irreverent\, always moving and deeply urgent\, the stories in this new collection— among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner— cap a fifteen-year project. \nJoining the discussion to interview Mason is Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer\, another longtime Kepler’s favorite. Greer has authored six works of fiction\, including the bestsellers Less and The Confessions of Max Tivoli. \nTogether\, these two titans in literature will transport you to a different world through a discussion of one of the most revered bastions of American letters: finely crafted\, utterly original\, and richly imagined short stories. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as the webinar can fill up quickly. Free registrations are limited in quantity; to support the author and Kepler’s\, please consider with-book access if you are able. ** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mason-with-andrew-sean-greer-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Lane Moore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, July 6 at 6pm PDT when Lane Moore joins us to discuss her book How to Be Alone: If You Want To\, and Even if You Don’t on Instagram Live. \n\nPraise for How to Be Alone \n“Lane Moore is one of the most talented people I know and I’m so glad even more people will be able to read her words.”— Mara Wilson\, author of Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame \n“How to Be Alone feels like peeling back your best friend’s skull and jumping into her brain. Lane is so open and funny and honest; I never want to be alone if it means I can’t have her with me. What a gift.” — Samantha Irby\, New York Times bestselling author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“How to Be Alone is like a song that pops up on the radio and lifts your spirits . . . so special\, elegant\, and true. It’s spectacular and truly personal. This book is with me every day\, and it helps so much.”—  Caroline Kepnes\, author of You\, Hidden Bodies\, and Providence \n\nAbout How to Be Alone \nThe former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant\, funny\, and deeply moving first book. \nLane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page\, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles\, including being her own parent\, living in her car as a teenager\, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all\, she looked to movies\, TV\, and music as the family and support systems she never had. \nFrom spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth\, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor\, anxiety\, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift. \nHow to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved\, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life\, who tries to have genuine\, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all\, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words. \n\nAbout the Author \nLane Moore is an award-winning comedian\, writer\, actor\, and musician. The New York Times called her comedy show Tinder Live “ingenious.” Her comedy and her band\, It Was Romance\, have been praised everywhere from Pitchfork to Vogue\, and her writing has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to The Onion. She is the former sex and relationships editor at Cosmopolitan\, where she received a GLAAD Award for her groundbreaking work expanding the magazine’s queer coverage. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog-child\, Lights. You can follow Lane at @HelloLaneMoore on Instagram and Twitter or visit LaneMoore.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lane-moore/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200706T170000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aimee-bender-the-butterfly-lampshade/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200705T210000
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SUMMARY:Fire Thieves Honor the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:The 10th edition of the Fire Thieves makes it’s online debut during modified quarantine with featured performers Avotcja\, Thea Matthews\, Cassandra Dallett\, Christine No\, Loa Niumeitolu\, Zouhair Mussa\, and more performers TBA. \nThe Fire Thieves is an inter-sectional & inter-generational poetry series produced by San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck\, with a different venue every month with 2 established poets\, 2 mid-career poets and 2 younger poets. \nThis event made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Bird & Beckett Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fire-thieves-honor-the-sacred/
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Fire Thieves":MAILTO:pabs67@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T210000
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SUMMARY:Oona Out of Order | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 30\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Margarita Montimore’s new novel\, OONA OUT OF ORDER. \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/89347970109. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at bit.ly/GGPOonaHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/OonaAB. \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK \n“With its countless epiphanies and surprises\, Oona proves difficult to put down.” —USA Today \n“By turns tragic and triumphant\, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful\, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read.” —The Guardian \nA remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment\, even if those moments are out of order. \nIt’s New Year’s Eve 1982\, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen\, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics\, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins\, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own\, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order… \nHopping through decades\, pop culture fads\, and much-needed stock tips\, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising\, magical\, and heart-wrenching\, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time\, the endurance of love\, and the power of family. \nAbout the Author\n\nMargarita Montimore is the author of Asleep from Day and Oona Out of Order\, a national bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College\, she worked for over a decade in publishing and social media before deciding to focus on the writing dream full-time. Born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn\, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oona-out-of-order-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks\, is delighted to welcome bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius of Birds) for an online event celebrating her new book\, The Bird Way\, a radical investigation into the bird way of being\, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds—how they live and how they think. This virtual event will include a beautiful 30-minute presentation by Ackerman\, as well as a Q&A with the audience. \nRegistration for this Crowdcast event will begin soon. Sign up for our emails to be the first to know. \n If you’d like to make a donation\, you may do so here. \n“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring\, and lately\, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have\, for years\, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities\, abilities we once considered uniquely our own—deception\, manipulation\, cheating\, kidnapping\, infanticide\, but also\, ingenious communication between species\, cooperation\, collaboration\, altruism\, culture\, and play. In THE BIRD WAY\, Ackerman shows us extraordinary behaviors\, including birds that dance or drum\, that paint their creations or paint themselves\, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Genius of Birds\, which has been translated into twenty languages and the forthcoming The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and many other publications\, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a Bunting Fellowship\, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jennifer-ackerman-the-bird-way/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T130000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Bonnie Tsui & Jennifer Steinhauer
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery\, in partnership with Zyzzyva\, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch\, a weekly salon\, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the coronavirus pandemic who have banded together to support one another. This event features Bonnie Tsui (Why We Swim) & Jennifer Steinhauer (The Firsts). \nYou can find a full list of Lockown Lit authors here. Please save the date and join us! \nThis event will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \n\nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy Why We Swim and/or The Firsts and we’ll deliver them directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nWhy We Swim by Bonnie Tsui \nWe swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure\, for exercise\, for healing. But humans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now\, in the twenty-first century\, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n  \n  \nBonnie Tsui is the author of the new book Why We Swim. A journalist and longtime contributor to The New York Times\, she is also the author of American Chinatown\, the winner of the Asia/Pacific American Award for Literature and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. She lives\, swims\, and surfs in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Firsts: The Inside Story of The Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer \nIn the November 2018 midterms\, the greatest number of women in history were elected to Congress. It was a group diverse in background\, age\, professional experience\, and ideology. And from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad” to a group with national security backgrounds calling themselves “the Badasses\,” from the first two Native American women to the first two Muslim women\, all were swept into office on an enormous wave of grassroots support. \nHere\, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer chronicles these women’s first year in Congress\, following their shift from trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms\, offices\, visits back home with their constituents\, and conversations in the halls of the Capitol\, she probes the question: Will Washington\, with its hidebound traditions and overpriced housing and petty power struggles\, change the changemakers? Or will this Congress\, which looks a little more like today’s America\, truly be the start of something new? \nVivid and smart\, The Firsts delivers fresh details\, inside access\, historical perspective\, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring\, controversial\, talented\, and rebellious—do something surprising: make Congress essential again. \nJennifer Steinhauer has covered numerous high-profile beats in her twenty-five-year reporting career at the New York Times\, from City Hall bureau chief and Los Angeles bureau chief to Capitol Hill. She won the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline Reporting Award in 2006 for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina. She has written a novel about the television business\, and two cookbooks. \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-zyzzyva-the-booksmith-present-lockdown-lit-lunch-with-bonnie-tsui-jennifer-steinhauer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T093000
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SUMMARY:City Lights Authors on the Road: Whistleblower at the CIA - Melvin A. Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Melvin Goodman\, PhD\, Retired CIA and State Department Analyst\, Author \nThe whistleblower is essential to congressional oversight\, investigative journalism\, and the public’s awareness of important national and international security issues. Mel Goodman will address his own experiences as a whistleblower in testifying to the Senate intelligence committee in 1991 to block the confirmation of Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence. He will also discuss such whistleblowers as Edward Snowden\, Chelsea Manning\, the CIA whistleblower at the White House\, and the recent case of Dr. Rick Bright at the Department of Health and Human Services. The lack of protection for whistleblowers in the intelligence community will also be assessed. \nA Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the event. Cost is $5 \nQuestions? Contact Deborah Wilbur at dwilbur [ @] benderjccgw.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-authors-on-the-road-whistleblower-at-the-cia-melvin-a-goodman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200628T200000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's Post-Pride Parade Phenom!
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 28th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-post-pride-parade-phenom/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nJune’s book club selection is Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim. The book contains unique recipes. Try them and share with Eastwind’s Instagram @eastwindbooks. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Sunday\, June 28 at 2pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Eastwind Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month. \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~ \nAbout the book: \nLush and visual\, chock-full of delicious recipes\, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food\, heritage\, and finding family in the most unexpected places. \nAt the news of her mother’s death\, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago\, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading\, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant. \nThe neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately\, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance\, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along \nAbout the Author: \nRoselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse\, Asian neighbourhood. \nShe found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism\, she devoured books about mythology\, which shaped the fantasies in her novels. \nAn artist by nature\, she considers writing as “painting with words.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-natalie-tans-book-of-luck-and-fortune/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gina Rae La Cerva: Author discusses her book\, Feasting Wild\, with David George Haskell
DESCRIPTION:Gina Rae La Cerva discusses her new book\, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Greystone Books) with David George Haskell. \nThis event will be broadcast on our Crowdcast channel. To register\, visit this page. \nAbout Feasting Wild\nTwo centuries ago\, nearly half the North American diet was foraged\, hunted\, or caught in the wild. Today\, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries\, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile\, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. \nIn Feasting Wild\, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods. Throughout her travels\, La Cerva reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces\, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods –including biodiversity\, Indigenous and women’s knowledge\, a vital connection to nature\, and delicious flavors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, La Cerva investigates the violent “bush meat” trade\, tracking elicit delicacies from the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the dinner tables of Europe. In a Danish cemetery\, she forages for wild onions with the esteemed staff of Noma. In Sweden–after saying goodbye to a man known only as The Hunter–La Cerva smuggles freshly-caught game meat home to New York in her suitcase\, for a feast of “heartbreak moose.” \nThoughtful\, ambitious\, and wide-ranging\, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today\, and introduces an exciting new voice in food journalism. \n“A memorable\, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.”–Elizabeth Kolbert\, New York Times-bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction \nAbout the participants\nGina Rae La Cerva is a geographer\, environmental anthropologist\, and award-winning writer who has traveled extensively to research a variety of environmental and food-related topics. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow\, La Cerva holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. \nDavid Haskell’s work integrates scientific\, literary\, and contemplative studies of the natural world. He is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award\, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies\, the National Outdoor Book Award\, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-rae-la-cerva-author-discusses-her-book-feasting-wild-with-david-george-haskell/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Summer" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos of this moment in time\, or go back in history or memory to a time when summer felt different\, or imagine a new kind of summer for the future. Travel or stay home\, either way\, we’ll be right here. Put on a summer hat and join us for a summer open mic. Online. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJUNE FEATURES: Tess Taylor and Alia Volz \nSaturday\, June 27\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on June 20. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. To sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature again and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 956 8283 0985\nPassword: 474874 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/95682830985?pwd=Vk5MWHhPK3N4Mzk2Skp4Q2NOcDRnQT09 \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 \nSNS misses its home at Nick’s Lounge and hopes to return soon. Meanwhile\, please support Nick’s Lounge on GoFundMe: \nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nicks-lounge-karaoke-support-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nTess Taylor is the author of the chapbook The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, The Forage House\, which was a finalist for the Believer poetry prize\, and Work & Days\, which was named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by The New York Times. Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed her as “the poet for our moment.” In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition at the MoMA\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press. She is a poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, The Threepenny Review\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-summer-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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