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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody\,\nas they discuss their latest books and answer your questions about the art of memoir! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84986160532 \nAbout The Wanting Was a Wilderness \nHow did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir\, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore why. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing\, Jones realizes she must confront some difficult truths\, both in her life and on the page. THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS is a profoundly original work that blends criticism\, craft analysis\, and a memoir of Jones’s own time in the wilderness. The result is a celebration of WILD and a map of our long path to self-discovery. \nAbout The Long Accomplishment \nRick Moody\, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm\, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful\, month-by-month account. \nAt this story’s start\, Moody\, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression\, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is\, fully and for the first time in his life\, “Yes.” \nAnd so his second marriage begins as he emerges\, humbly and with tender hopes\, from the wreckage of his past\, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages\, the deaths of friends\, and robberies\, just for starters. As Moody has put it\, “This is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists\, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment\, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times\, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple\, lifting them above their hardships\, and the reader is buoyed along with them.
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Deborah Tannen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Tannen’s newest work\, Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow\, traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family\, memory\, and the stories we tell. \nDeborah is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and author of many books and articles about how the language of everyday conversation affects relationships. She is best known as the author of New York Times bestseller You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. This is the book that brought gender differences in communication style to the forefront of public awareness. In addition to her eight books for general audiences\, Deborah is author or editor of sixteen books and over one hundred articles for scholarly audiences. She is also a frequent guest on television and radio news and has been featured in and written for most major newspapers and magazines\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, HuffPost\, Newsweek\, Time\, USA Today\, People\, and The Harvard Business Review. She lives with her husband in the Washington\, D.C.\, area. \nAmy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club remains a classic examination of the sometimes painful\, often tender\, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Her other novels are The Kitchen God’s Wife\, The Hundred Secret Senses\, The Bonesetter’s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and The Valley of Amazement\, all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of two memoirs\, The Opposite of Fate and Where the Past Begins\, two children’s books\, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat\, and numerous articles for magazines\, including The New Yorker\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and National Geographic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-deborah-tannen-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Rancho Obi-Wan’s Steve Sansweet
DESCRIPTION:The force is strong with Steve Sansweet\, ruler of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the known world. He’ll join us on Wednesday\, November 18\, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time to guide us through his vast universe of treasures.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe force is strong with Steve Sansweet\, ruler of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the known world. Jedi master of Petaluma\, California’s Rancho Obi-Wan\, Sansweet is an author\, Star Wars expert\, and former head of fan relations at Lucasfilm. He’ll join Alta Asks Live and Alta editor at large Mary Melton on Wednesday\, November 18\, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time to guide us through his vast universe of treasures and explain his passion for galaxies far\, far away. REGISTER \nAbout the guest: \nSteve Sansweet is head of Rancho Obi-Wan\, a nonprofit museum that houses the Guinness World Records–certified largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia (ranchoobiwan.org). Located in Northern California on the outskirts of Petaluma\, it is open for prebooked tours and events. Sansweet has written or coauthored 18 Star Wars books and many articles and has appeared on numerous television and online shows and podcasts. He was director of content management and head of fan relations at Lucasfilm Ltd. for 15 years and after retirement served as a consultant for the company. Prior to Lucasfilm\, Sansweet had a 26-year career as a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/60394/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #66 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-66-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Ishmael Reed with Tennesee Reed
DESCRIPTION:Each reading from their new books of poetry published by Dalkey Archive \nWhy The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nby Ishmael Reed \nCalifia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nby Tennessee Reed \n——— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n————- \nPurchase Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \nPurchase Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \n————- \nabout Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nThe poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around the house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. “Moving Richmond” was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem\, in huge letters forged into weathering steel billboards greets passengers who enter the new Bay Area mass transit hub in Richmond. Other poems were commissioned by musicians. “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was performed by Gregory Porter. “Red Summer\, 2015” appeared in print first and then was set to music by David Murray. The longest poem in the book\, “Jazz Martyrs\,” was begun when I learned about the number of black Jazz greats who didn’t live past the age of forty. I have been fortunate to live beyond the age of 80. I’ve found out who my best friends are. The ones who got me there. \nabout Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nA new collection of poems from the poet Tennessee Reed produced between the years 2012 and 2019. \nIshmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, The Last Days of Louisiana Red\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. In 2003\, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater. His most recent essay collection\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico\, was published in 2019 by Baraka Books of Montreal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\nA graduate of UC Berkeley\, Tennessee Reed is Secretary of Oakland PEN\, and the author of the collections Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books)\, Electric Chocolate (Raven’s Bones Press)\, and Airborne (Raven’s Bones Press). She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ishmael-reed-with-tennesee-reed/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Shannon Messenger with Roshani Chokshi
DESCRIPTION:We are absolutely thrilled to invite you to celebrate the launch of Unlocked\, Shannon Messenger’s latest novel in the New York Times\, USA Today\, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series\, which follows Sophie\, a girl who discovers she’s from another world that exists side by side with ours—and one that has given her amazing abilities. \nIn this extra special installment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series\, the story picks up right from Legacy’s particularly devastating cliffhanger. But chapters alternate between Sophie and Keefe’s perspectives to give readers deeper insights into both beloved characters. New powers will be discovered. Hard truths from the past will come to light. And all of your favorite characters will find themselves tested in ways they never imagined. Unlocked also includes a comprehensive guide to the world of the Lost Cities\, featuring new character and world details that have never been revealed before—plus fun bonuses like Keeper-themed recipes\, a detailed map of the Lost Cities\, and gorgeous full-color illustrations. \nShannon will be chatting with Roshani Chokshi\, the author of the instant New York Times best-selling first book in the Pandava series\, Aru Shah and the End of Time\, and its sequels\, Aru Shah and the Song of Death. and Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen series and The Gilded Wolves series. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. Shannon’s presentations are always so much fun and sell out early.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-messenger-with-roshani-chokshi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T170000
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SUMMARY:FREEMAN'S: Best New Writings on LOVE
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman with Robin Coste Lewis\, Tommy Orange\, and Matt Summell \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by Litquake and City Lights as part of the LITQUAKE 2020 Festival on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse\, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series\, Freeman’s Love asks this question\, bringing together literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange\, Anne Carson\, Louise Erdrich\, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging writers such as Gunnhild Øyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinović. \nMehmedinović contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the aftermath of his wife’s stroke\, describing how the two reassembled their lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo’s charming and painful “Good People” introduces us to two sets of married professors who have been together for decades\, and for whom love still exists\, but between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami tells the tale of a one-night stand that feels like a dying sun. \nTogether\, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the complexities of love\, tracing it from its earliest stirrings\, to the forbidden places where it emerges against reason\, to loss so deep it changes the color of perception. In a time when we need it the most\, this issue promises what only love can bring: a solace of complexity and warmth. \n\n\nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages.  \nRobin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. In 2015\, her debut poetry collection\, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf) won the National Book Award in poetry––the first time a poetry debut by an African-American had ever won the prize in the National Book Foundation’s history\, and the first time any debut had won the award since 1974. Lewis’s writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, such as Time Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Transition\, and Best American Poetry. \nTommy Orange is an American novelist and a writer from Oakland\, California. His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Orange was also the recipient of 2019 American Book Awards. Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. \nMatt Sumell is a graduate of University of California\, Irvine’s MFA programme\, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review\, Esquire\,Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles\, California. \n\nAbout LITQUAKE: \nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nwww.litquake.org
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Tune in at 5:00pm PT on 11/17/20 to watch the public live stream of this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter or Long Now Live. \nNadia Eghbal is particularly interested in infrastructure\, governance\, and the economics of the internet – and how the dynamics of these subjects play out in software\, online communities and generally living life online. \nEghbal\, who interviewed hundreds of developers while working to improve their experience at GitHub\, argues that modern open source offers us a model through which to understand the challenges faced by online creators. Her new book\, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software\, is about open source developers and what they tell us about the evolution of our online social spaces. \nEghbal sees open source code as a form of public infrastructure that requires maintenance\, and that offers us a model through which to understand the challenges faced by online creators on all platforms.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nadia-eghbal-the-making-and-maintenance-of-our-open-source-infrastructure/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Walk with Obi: Coast Redwoods on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Take a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned coast redwood forest. \nPRESENTED BY HEYDAY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SEMPERVIRENS FUND. Books provided by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe story of the coast redwood is the story of a genetic lineage that stretches back to a time before the dinosaurs. Having evolved over the past several hundred million years to emerge as we find them today\, the tallest tree to ever have lived on planet earth\, coast redwoods are responsible for unique habitats that harbor a wealth of biodiversity found nowhere else. Although California’s mighty redwood forests can survive fire\, flood\, and a slew of other natural stressors\, the onslaught of climate breakdown and a cacophony of other human-made threats presents unprecedented challenges to these precious\, irreplaceable ecosystems. \nJoin Obi Kaufmann\, author of The Forests of California (Heyday/September 2020)\, as he journeys into an old-growth redwood grove\, one owned and managed by Sempervirens Fund that burned just a few months ago\, to reveal the ecological mechanisms already at work repairing the battered forest. Despite the compounded injuries of fire\, fragmentation\, climate\, and poor-policy\, Obi’s profound message of good stewardship and hope as an actionable tool is an important and timely perspective\, not only towards the conservation of the forest\, but to the future of our own human residency in this beautiful and perilous place\, California. \nLive Q&A with attendees following the event. \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKET INFORMATION.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-walk-with-obi-coast-redwoods-on-fire/
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SUMMARY:Rooting Your Voice in Community: A Poetry Class with Alan Chazaro
DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary U.S. poetry is vibrant\, complicated\, and realer than ever — something that gives me hope as a writer\,” says instructor Alan Chazaro. “It’s a family I’m proud to be a part of\, and one that can teach us how to become our best creative selves while representing not only individual perspectives\, but those of communities.” \nIn this online class\, we will tap into the wider world we are rooted in–and the communities we are shaped by–as sources of inspiration for our poems. Each session will provide generative writing exercises\, prompts\, group dialogues\, and select reading materials that will align with centering our voices within our respective communities. \nWhether thinking from the perspective of an immigrant or using our gardening club as a source of philosophy\, we will tune in to the spaces that define us off the page in order to expand ourselves on the page. While reading the work of contemporary poets from various communities such as Jose Olivarez\, Danez Smith\, and Sara Borjas\, we will ask questions of ourselves in our own writing. Who do we speak for? How is community creatively and genuinely reflected in our poetry? And in what ways can we express who we are within the larger context of the cultures\, traditions\, and heritages that we claim? \nAlan says\, “After five weeks in this class\, you will gain a deeper sense of the techniques and craft used by living\, eclectic poets\, while also gaining a sense of what community you speak for and what that looks like in poetic form.” \nNovember 16 – December 14\n5 Mondays\, (PST) 7:00pm – 9:30pm\n\n$274.35 for members \n$295 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rooting-your-voice-in-community-a-poetry-class-with-alan-chazaro/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bookseller Happy Hour: BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
DESCRIPTION:Choosing our “best” books of the year is always a challenge\, but talking about them is anything but. Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers reveal which books made the cut—and made their mark on us this year. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookseller-happy-hour-best-books-of-the-year/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ron Nyren / The Book of Lost Light\, with Ann Packer\, Angela Pneuman\, Ann Cummins\, Lisa Michaels\, Cornelia Nixon\, Sarah Stone\, Rafael Yglesias + Vendela Vida
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual launch for Ron Nyren and his debut novel\, The Book of Lost Light\, winner of the 2019 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize. Join us for this special evening\, which will include a reading from the book and a panel discussion with Ron’s writers group of nearly two decades: Ann Packer (The Children’s Crusade)\, Angela Pneuman (Lay It on My Heart)\, Ann Cummins (Yellowcake)\, Lisa Michaels (Grand Ambition) Cornelia Nixon (The Use of Fame)\, Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater)\, Rafael Yglesias (The Wisdom of Perversity)\, and Vendela Vida (The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order The Book of Lost Light here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nJoseph Kylander’s childhood in early 20th century San Francisco has been shaped by his widowed father’s obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia’s fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The 1906 earthquake upends their eccentric routines\, and they take refuge with a capricious patron and a group of artists looking to find meaning after the disaster. The Book of Lost Light explores family loyalty and betrayal\, Finnish folklore\, the nature of time and theater\, and what it takes to recover from calamity and build a new life from the ashes. \n“Ron Nyren’s The Book of Lost Light is a beautifully written novel about the early days of photography; the capturing of time; acting; love\, and much else. At its center is a wonderfully complex relationship between a father and his son\, which is played out before\, during\, and after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The book is absolutely riveting\, and its images will stay with you long after you finish reading it. I loved it.” – Charles Baxter \n“I learned so much from this novel about the mad visions technology has always given us. In this quietly fabulous story\, an early-twentieth-century photographer believes he’s solving the mystery of time\, while his niece and his son have their own rocky fates. It’s so astute about ambition and has such a wise historical sense of the rich wreckage of San Francisco—I couldn’t stop reading.” – Joan Silber \nRon Nyren‘s novel\, The Book of Lost Light\, won the 2019 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Missouri Review\, The North American Review\, Glimmer Train Stories\, Mississippi Review\, Fourteen Hills\, Able Muse\, Dalhousie Review\, 100 Word Story\, and elsewhere. His stories have been shortlisted for the O. Henry Awards and the Pushcart Prize. He is the coauthor\, with his spouse and writing partner Sarah Stone\, of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers\, and a former editor of Furious Fictions: The Magazine of Short-Short Stories. Ron earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. A former Stegner Fellow\, he teaches fiction writing for Stanford University. \nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order The Book of Lost Light here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. The same applies for the other authors’ books – if you’d like a copy\, you can click on their titles\, above. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. \nCancellation Policy:\nIn the event the venue cancels an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date for your purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-ron-nyren-the-book-of-lost-light-with-ann-packer-angela-pneuman-ann-cummins-lisa-michaels-cornelia-nixon-sarah-stone-rafael-yglesias-vendela-vida/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T170000
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Beyond the Bottom Line
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nCan a company satisfy its shareholders while improving the world around us? For some businesses\, the shareholders come first— that’s their very structure. Others have broken away from that template\, to put the good of humanity on a par with profit. \nAwareness has deepened that businesses can and must be partners in tackling urgent issues like global warming and inequality. Now there are B-corps and social purpose corporations\, balancing profits with real purpose. Yet now some businesses also use “greenwashing” and other feel-good posturing to exploit the image of responsibility and play on consumer ethics in order to move product. \nCan the business world move beyond the bottom line? \nAdam Grant and Ben Cohen have long made the case for businesses doing well by doing good. Grant specializes in organization psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His Ted talks and books— especially Give and Take— show that generosity and altruism benefit everyone: company\, employees\, clients. And Ben Cohen\, together with co-founder Jerry Greenfield\, birthed the landmark Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company. The endeavor thrived\, even as its two creators openly endorsed political causes for the public good. \nJoin Adam Grant and Ben Cohen for a This Is Now conversation with Kepler’s in-house journalist\, Angie Coiro\, as they ponder the vision of a robust economy and a better world existing together. \n**Please consider joining with a donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited. ** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-beyond-the-bottom-line/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T180000
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CREATED:20201017T001136Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Thomas Keller (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Keller‘s newest release\, The French Laundry\, Per Se is filled with meticulously detailed recipes for 70 beloved dishes that will change how young chefs\, determined home cooks\, and dedicated food lovers understand and approach their cooking. \nThomas is the author of Bouchon\, Under Pressure\, Ad Hoc at Home\, and Bouchon Bakery and has six restaurants and five bakeries in the United States. He is the first and only American chef to have two Michelin Guide three-star-rated restaurants\, the French Laundry and Per Se\, both of which continue to rank among the best restaurants in America and the world. In 2011 he was designated a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor\, the first American male chef to be so honored. He has received countless accolades\, including The Culinary Institute of America’s “Chef of the Year” Award and the James Beard Foundation’s “Outstanding Chef” and “Outstanding Restaurateur” Awards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-thomas-keller-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T140000
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SUMMARY:Jackie Morris: Artist and illustrator of The Lost Spells and The Lost Words joins us from her studio in Wales
DESCRIPTION:Artist and illustrator Jackie Morris\, who has collaborated with Robert Macfarlane on The Lost Words and The Lost Spells\, joins us from her studio in Wales to talk about her recent projects\, what’s sustaining her through the pandemic\, and her new pillow book\, The Unwinding. \nNOTE: We are currently in the process of securing copies of The Unwinding from the UK. If you are interested in ordering a copy\, please contact sparks@ptreyesbooks.com. You can read more about The Unwinding on Brainpickings. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Lost Spells and The Lost Words\nSince its publication in 2017\, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now\, The Lost Spells\, a book kindred in spirit and tone\, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. \nThe Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature\, conjuring up red foxes\, birch trees\, jackdaws\, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells\, words of recollection\, charms of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away. \nAbout Jackie Morris\nJackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales\, with cats and dogs for company. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books\, and written some. The Lost Words\, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-morris-artist-and-illustrator-of-the-lost-spells-and-the-lost-words-joins-us-from-her-studio-in-wales/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Andrew Paynter
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SUNDAY\, NOVEMBER 15 AT 1:00PM PT WHEN ANDREW PAYNTER JOINS US ON INSTAGRAM LIVE TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS\, ART\, AND WHAT MAKES SAN FRANCISCO GREAT; AND TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF HIS BOOK\, DO PHOTO.\nAndrew Paynter will be broadcasting live from Green Apple Books to share a special curation of some of his favorite Green Apple purchases over the years and how they’ve contributed to his artistic journey\, all to celebrate Paynter’s book\,\n Do Photo: Observe. Compose. Capture. Stand out. \nSigned copies of Paynter’s book will be available after the event! When purchasing online\, be sure to write “signed” in the order comments. \nAbout Do Photo \n“In a world where everyone is a photographer now\, how do you stand out? The answer can be found in this simple but profound book. It will train your eye to see what others don’t.” — David Hieatt \nThis isn’t a book about how to take the best pictures. It’s not even about the technical aspects of photography or how to “make it” as a photographer. In fact\, it argues that you should take fewer photographs. \nBy sharing 10 practices honed over a lifetime spent behind the lens working with clients such as Adidas\, Levi Strauss\, and Apple\, photographer Andrew Paynter encourages you to develop a more considered approach to photography so that you craft pictures with care. \nDo Photo teaches novice\, intermediate and advanced photographers – and everyone in between – how to use their cameras to really connect with subjects\, create memorable and more impactful photographs\, and to enjoy the process along the way. And guess what? It all starts before you even pick up the camera.\nAbout Andrew Paynter \nAndrew Paynter is a photographer and director based in Oakland\, California\, who is interested in exploring character and the creative process. His clients include Coca-Cola\, Adidas\, Levi Strauss\, Converse\, Apple\, American Express\, The North Face\, Rolling Stone\, and W magazine. He has also embarked on several long-term photographic collaborations including decade-long projects with Hiut Denim and artist Geoff McFetridge\, long-standing work with the bands Tortoise and The Mattson 2\, and his ongoing personal series Working Artists. Andrew’s work appears in Do Purpose and Do Open\, both by David Hieatt and published by Do Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-andrew-paynter/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212922
CREATED:20201028T234604Z
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SUMMARY:Wales to Bay III
DESCRIPTION:The third in a series curated by poets Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky\, this event will bring together 2 Welsh poets: Rhys Trimble and Steven Hitchins and 2 Bay Area poets: MK Chavez and Lisa Rosenberg. \nRHYS \nSTEVEN \nMK \nLISA \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wales-to-bay-iii/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T180000
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CREATED:20201017T000458Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Naomi Wolf (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Naomi Wolf‘s latest book\, Outrages: Sex\, Censorship\, and the Criminalization of Love\, explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring\, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced. \nNaomi made a sensation with her landmark international bestseller The Beauty Myth in 1991. She’s lectured widely on the themes in Outrages\, presenting lectures on John Addington Symonds at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford\, at Balliol College\, Oxford\, and to the undergraduates in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. Naomi has written eight nonfiction bestsellers about women’s issues and civil liberties\, including Vagina: A New Biography\, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot\, and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. She is also the cofounder and president of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-naomi-wolf-virtual-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212922
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SUMMARY:Peace In Chaos with Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo
DESCRIPTION:Online Workshop\nPeace In Chaos with Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo\nSaturday\, November 14\, 1:00pm to 2:00pm \n\n$20 General/$15 PCSJ members and students \nGet a quick-start on writing some deep\, personal\, meaningful poetry. \nIn the “Peace in Chaos” guided poetry workshop\, we will write about finding peace and contentment in times of hardship. Two poem samples and three guided writing exercises with share-outs will get your words and inspiration flowing! Choose your own comfort-level of interaction with the group. \nSmall group\, online Zoom meeting\nFor all levels of writing experience\nSafe-space rules/no recording \nElizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is a poet\, visual artist\, and teacher based in the SF Bay Area. Elizabeth’s visual artwork has been included in over fifty exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States and her poetry is included\, and forthcoming\, in various literary magazines and anthologies. She was co-editor of the first issue of Culture Counts Magazine of Culture Counts Reading Series at San José State University 2020. Elizabeth has completed a poetry book and a chapbook in 2020\, both pending publication. www.ejmontelongo.com/poetry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peace-in-chaos-with-elizabeth-jimenez-montelongo/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T200000
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents "Cut to Bloom"
DESCRIPTION:This November\, KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom\,” a celebration of Arhm Choi Wild’s collection of poetry. Joined by Isabella “Isa” Borgeson and Hieu Minh Nguyen\, this event features three powerful poets reading works transforming the cut\, the chasm\, the hyphen—of identity\, of the body\, of queerness\, home and healing. \n  \nNO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. Email info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll take care of you. \n  \n\n\n\nFeatured Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nArhm Choi Wild \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nphoto by Sy Klipsch-Abudu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nHieu Minh Nguyen \n\n\n\n\nis a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer. He is a Kundiman fellow\, the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry\, a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship\, the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts\, the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center\, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Summer Residency. His work has appeared in PBS Newshour\, POETRY Magazine\, Gulf Coast\, BuzzFeed\, Poetry London\, Nashville Review\, Indiana Review\, and more. In 2014\, his debut collection of poetry\, This Way to the Sugar\, was a finalist for both the Lambda Book Award and Minnesota Book Award. His second collection\, Not Here\, was published in April 2018 by Coffee House Press. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College and is currently a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIsabella “Isa” Borgeson \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, mixed race\, white and Filipina poet\, community organizer\, and teaching artist from Oakland. Isa was named a “Best New Poet” of 2018. She has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Art Foundation (2015\, 2017)\, the Poetry Incubator through Crescendo Literary (2016)\, and AIR Serenbe as their 2019 Spoken Word Artist with a commitment to Community and Collaboration (SWACC!) Fellow. Most recently\, she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Isa is a co-founder of The Root Slam – a free poetry venue in Oakland dedicated to promoting the artistic growth of the Bay Area poetry community. She currently organizes with the #StopSanQuentinOutbreak coalition around COVID-19 rapid response work to decarcerate all prisons. Isa’s commitment toward teaching poetry as a tool for resistance keeps her grounded in her communities from Oakland to Tanauan. \nphoto by Andrea Gutiérrez \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT CUT TO BLOOM \nWhat does it take to unlearn the survival instinct of trauma? What does it take to choose our tools instead of wearing down the ones we’ve been handed? In Cut to Bloom\, Arhm Choi Wild attempts to forge answers to these questions by navigating the hyphen\, sometimes chasm\, between the Asian and American identity\, between queerness and the politics of belonging\, between survival and the possibility of choice. \nWhile talking back to the colonialism of strict poetic form\, this book attempts to disrupt clear definitions and redefine the American identity as one that is constructed more by questions than answers. This book celebrates the self-made\, rogue bouquet\, the taking of what you were given and transforming it into something you could make a gift of\, and examines what needs to be pruned in order to arrive at this transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-cut-to-bloom/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88012383591\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +13462487799\,\,88012383591#  or +16465588656\,\,88012383591#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 880 1238 3591\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcAbeZacb9 \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-earl-ryan-and-martin-pousson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212922
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T220646Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88012383591 \n  \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-earl-ryan-and-martin-pousson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T140000
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SUMMARY:Paul Kingsnorth & Martin Shaw
DESCRIPTION:Dark Mountain Project co-founder Paul Kingsnorth is joined by mythologist Martin Shaw for a conversation about Alexandria (Graywolf Press)\, the final volume in his epic trilogy about climate\, crisis\, and a world out of balance. \nRegistration info available soon. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Emergence Magazine\, which has published work by both writers. \nAbout Alexandria\nOne thousand years from now\, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world’s last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer\, and that seems to have brought them to the brink of extinction. A force that offers them a promise and a threat: a place called Alexandria. \nSet in a time on the far side of an apocalypse\, and perhaps on the verge of another\, Paul Kingsnorth’s radical new novel is a work of matchless\, mythic imagination. It is driven by elemental themes: community versus the self\, the mind versus the body\, machine over man—and the tension between an unstable present and an unknown\, unknowable future. \nAlexandria is the rousing conclusion to an extraordinary fiction project that began with Kingsnorth’s prizewinning novel The Wake\, one that maps two thousand years of troubled human history. \nAbout the authors\nPaul Kingsnorth is the author of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist\, Beast\, and The Wake. He cofounded the Dark Mountain Project\, a global network of writers\, artists\, and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink. \nMartin Shaw is a mythologist\, a storyteller\, an author\, and a designer of mythic life and oral tradition courses at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-kingsnorth-martin-shaw/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T070000
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SUMMARY:Nerd Nite Tokyo: Hive Minds
DESCRIPTION:Nerd Nite Tokyo: Hive Minds\n\n  \n\nFungus among us! What can we learn from microbes\, how can we harness hypertext to save the world\, and how do trillions of cells hold themselves together to make you?! Join Nerd Nite in November to watch and discuss. While coronavirus is still hanging around\, we’re keeping it virtual\, but we miss seeing you all in person! \n–> Watch for free or buy a ticket <– \nSpeakers and approximate schedule (times JST): \n1. (20:15) Karamoon — Only Deep Hypertext Can Save The World\nDiscover a system that goes beyond the web to capture knowledge and create collective intelligence to tackle the world’s biggest problems \n2. (21:00) Johanna Rotko — Colorful Microbial Images with Yeasts and Fungi\nThis year’s Bioart Society Tokyo Resident explores fermented colors and living images \n3. (21:45) Kyogo Kawaguchi — Chirality and Topology in Your Hands\nUsing “many-body physics” to understand the development and maintenance of the body \nWhen: November 13 (Friday)\, start 20:00 (JST) [11am London\, 6am New York] \nWhere: YouTube\n* Get a ticket here\, free option is also available: https://eventsframe.com/e/sVg21x76E/nerd-nite-tokyo-hive-minds/tickets/ \nYou can donate or buy a beaker at https://ytg.jp/support/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nerd-nite-tokyo-hive-minds/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212922
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SUMMARY:Lightning. Natty Light. Change.
DESCRIPTION:Nerd Nite is a monthly event during which several folks give fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines – while the audience drinks along. It’s like the Discovery Channel… with beer! Now from the comfort of your own home! \nThis Month’s Speakers & Topics: \nThe Shocking Truth About Lightning and Thunderstorms\nby Eric Cramer\n\nAlthough lightning is one of the most commonly known and destructive natural phenomena on Earth\, it remains poorly understood. Eric will discuss the theoretical and experimental aspects of lightning research\, present the biggest questions in the field\, and show the connection between the atmospheric science of thunderstorms on Earth and the astrophysics used to describe high energy bursts of distant galaxies. \nBio: Eric has a Ph.D. in Physics from Florida Institute of Technology. His dissertation work involved the simulation and modeling of energetic particles inside thunderstorms. After a postdoctoral assignment at the University of Alabama and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center\, he became a systems engineer at Northrop Grumman. \n/ / / / / \nChange and the Effects on our Brian\nby Elizabeth Davis\n\n/ / / / / \nA Modest [Beer] Proposal\nby Tracy Kurtz \nNerd Nite Fargo Boss Tracy Kurtz will discuss the science of beer\, share first hand observational research\, and attempt to convince us that Natural Lite is immune to staling. You do not want to miss this special guest appearance! \nJoin us November 12\, 2020 at 7:30pm:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/96162775461\nor\nhttp://facebook.com/nerdnitemiami
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lightning-natty-light-change/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Morgan Parker—Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \nRegister for this free event here. \nMorgan Parker is a poet\, essayist\, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a Pushcart Prize\, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations\, Live! at the Ace Hotel. She co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles. \nGary Young is the author of many volumes of poems and translations\, and has edited several anthologies and poetry textbooks\, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place. His most recent books are Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese published by White Pine Press (2018)\, and That’s What I Thought\, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books (2018). Young teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at the UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-morgan-parker-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212922
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SUMMARY:Diane Cook in Conversation with Dan Polsby\, Vintage Berkeley\, Virtually
DESCRIPTION:Pull up a chair in the comfort of your own home\, pour yourself a glass of lovely wine from Vintage\, and join the conversation between Diane Cook and Dan Polsby discussing her novel The New Wilderness\, shortlisted for the Booker Prize (announcement November 19). For info on joining and book sales write dan@vintageberkeley.com. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 12\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA daring\, passionate and terrifying novel about a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change. \nBea’s five-year-old daughter\, Agnes\, is wasting away\, consumed by the smog and pollution of the over-developed metropolis they call home. If they stay in the city\, Agnes will die\, but there is only one alternative – joining a group of volunteers in the Wilderness State. This vast expanse of unwelcoming\, untamed land is untouched by mankind. Until now. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers\, Bea and Agnes slowly learn how to survive on this unpredictable\, often dangerous land. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of her new existence\, Bea realises that saving her daughter’s life means losing her in a different way. \nAt once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood\, and what it means to be human\, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary\, compelling novel for our times. \nDiane Cook is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer. Her debut collection\, Man v Nature\, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, her stories have appeared in Harper’s\, Tin House and Granta\, and Best American Short Stories. The former producer for This American Life lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diane-cook-in-conversation-with-dan-polsby-vintage-berkeley-virtually/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T210000
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #2: Kids' Books and Graphic Novels
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on kids’ books and graphic novels in this second episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81464519883. \nThis is our second recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/19: Adult non-fiction\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\n6120 LaSalle Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-2-kids-books-and-graphic-novels/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
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SUMMARY:Ling Ma
DESCRIPTION:THE EVENT: \nThe Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Ling Ma\, author of Severance\, on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7PM. ​ \nThe event discussion will be moderated by Jiayang Fan. \nJiayang Fan became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016. Her reporting on China\, American politics\, and culture has appeared in the magazine and on newyorker.com since 2010. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe it’s the end of the world\, but not for Candace Chen\, a millennial\, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat\, wryly funny\, apocalyptic satire\, Severance. \n\nCandace Chen\, self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower\, is so devoted to routine that she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone\, still unfevered\, she photographs the eerie\, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. \n\nA send-up and takedown of the rituals\, routines\, and missed opportunities of contemporary life\, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story\, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale\, and a hilarious\, deadpan satire. Most important\, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive. \n\n\nTHE BOOK:  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTHE AUTHOR: \n\n\nLing Ma received her MFA from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor. Her writing has appeared in Granta\, Vice\, Playboy\, Chicago Reader\, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. A chapter of Severance received the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ling-ma/
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T200000
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SUMMARY:Zyzzyva 2020 Fall Issue Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon with Jonathan Escoffery\, Wendy C. Ortiz\, Siel Ju\, Andrés Reconco\, Kathleen Mackay\, and Nina Revoyr \nZYZZYVA closes out its year-long celebration of its 35th anniversary with the publication of Issue No. 119—the L.A. Issue. A complement to the journal’s Bay Area Issue published last winter\, the L.A. Issue features some of the exciting work being done by writers\, poets\, and artists who make Los Angeles County their home or place of work. At more than 300 pages\, and including a republication of a classic Ray Bradbury story as well as in-depth interview with the late Wanda Coleman\, it’s one of ZYZZYVA’s biggest issues ever\, and six of its contributors will be reading from their work in it. Come join us for this special event! \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register (link to be posted soon) \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase the journal (link to be posted soon) \n———- \nAbout the readers: \nJonathan Escoffery is the winner of The Paris Review’s 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and is the recipient of a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (Prose) Literature Fellowship. He currently attends the University of Southern California’s Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature Program as a Provost Fellow. \nWendy C. Ortiz is the author of “Excavation: A Memoir” (Future Tense Books)\, “Hollywood Notebook” (Writ Large Press)\, and the dreamoir “Bruja” (CCM). Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, The Rumpus\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. \nSiel Ju is the author of the novel-in-stories “Cake Time\,” won the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks. Her stories and poems appear in The Missouri Review\, The Southern Review\, Confrontation\, and other places. \nAndrés Reconco is a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow and received his MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is a high school teacher in Los Angeles. \nKathleen Mackay is a writer and teacher living in Los Angeles. \nNina Revoyr is the author of several acclaimed novels\, including “Southland\,” “Wingshooters\,” and most recently\, “A Student of History” (Akashic). She has been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University\, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University\, Occidental College\, Pitzer College\, and Pomona College. She lives in Los Angeles with her spouse and their dogs. \nZYZZYVA publishes the best prose\, poetry\, and visual art produced by West Coast writers and artists—along with the occasional piece from east of California. Since 1985\, they’ve published such writers as Sherman Alexie\, Raymond Carver\, Aimee Bender\, Po Bronson\, F.X. Toole\, Haruki Murakami\, Richard Rodriguez\, and Daniel Handler; poets such as Kay Ryan\, Adrienne Rich\, Matthew Zapruder\, Czeslaw Milosz\, W.S. Di Piero\, and Francisco X. Alarcon\, and have featured work from such artists as Ed Ruscha\, Sandow Birk\, Laurie Anderson\, Richard Diebenkorn\, and Wayne Thiebaud. Visit: www.zyzzyva.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-2020-fall-issue-launch-party/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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