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SUMMARY:John Scalzi and Lindsay Ellis (ONLINE)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nDo you love political turmoil\, daring heroines\, fast-paced stories\, unknown worlds\, and the threat of complete ecological and societal collapse? \nOutside of news headlines\, we mean. \nThis is science fiction you can’t miss. On Thursday\, August 6th\, two absolute stars present new novels that offer all of the above. \nKepler’s is proud to host Hugo-award winning author and science fiction legend John Scalzi in a conversation with Lindsay Ellis\, as both writers share powerful books that will take you out of this world. Scalzi joins us online to share the last installment in his acclaimed Interdependency series\, The Last Emperox. Ellis\, the Hugo finalist\, renowned media critic and Youtube video essayist\, presents her brand-new and highly anticipated debut novel Axiom’s End. \nDon’t miss these hilarious\, creative and wickedly intelligent authors as they present the books that everyone should read in 2020. For every person who loves smart science fiction and all things nerdy\, this will be a night to remember. RSVP early to guarantee your spot in the webinar. \nTHE BOOKS: \nYou already know Scalzi’s witty\, inventive writing and previous plaudits for books like Redshirts and The Old Man’s War. Compulsively readable\, with the trademark humor and that makes him a fan favorite\, Scalzi’s Interdependency series offers a topical tale about the death of worlds and political corruption. In an empire spanning star systems\, scientists have long warned of pending ecological disaster\, as a natural resource which enables interstellar travel teeters on the verge of collapse. Greedy\, powerful actors have downplayed the danger for years—and a new leader\, Emperox Grayland\, now has to turn back time on their destructive denialism while faced with a ticking clock and a complex network of enemies. The Last Emperox is the final installment of one woman’s herculean effort to save not just one world\, but all of them. \nEllis’ Axiom’s End features a similarly outgunned\, complex heroine as she stumbles onto the edge of a government coverup. What is the political machinery hiding from us now? Aliens\, it turns out. Cora Sabino’s heroine offers a refreshing taste on the first-contact novel\, as a young woman estranged from her Julian Assange-esque whistleblower father unintentionally gets caught up in his political battles. Cora becomes the key translator and ally to a very otherworldly\, very top-secret alien being named Ampersand. This smart\, playful political novel offers keen insights into empathy\, communication\, and their limits\, all within a reimagined historical telling of the year 2007. And the financial crisis? Also aliens. \nIf you’re a fan of either creator for their work\, this is one incredible conversation and two dynamic storylines that you’re sure to love. If you’re new to both Scalzi and Ellis but love the genre\, prepare to meet your new favorites. Be sure to RSVP before the world ends! \n**Please consider joining with a book or 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.**
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SUMMARY:Author Rose Andersen Discussing The Heart And Other Monsters w/ Alia Volz | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Rose Andersen discussing her new memoir\, THE HEART AND OTHER MONSTERS\, with author Alia Volz. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84953956562. \n(Order your copy of THE HEART AND OTHER MONSTERS at https://bit.ly/ggpHeartMonsters.) \nDescription\n\n“Impossible to put down. It haunts me still.” –Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir \nA riveting\, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. \nIn November 2013\, Rose Andersen’s younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation\, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. \nTo imagine her way into Sarah’s life\, Rose revisits their volatile childhood\, marked by their stepfather’s omnipresent rage and their father’s pathological lying. As the dysfunction comes into focus\, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that Sarah’s cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose\, the story takes a wildly unexpected turn. \nAs Andersen sifts through her sister’s last days\, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger\, the pursuit of an ever-elusive verdict\, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on. \nReminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body\, Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder\, and Lacy M. Johnson’s The Other Side\, Andersen’s debut is a potent\, profoundly original journey into and out of loss. \nAbout the Author\n\nRose Andersen received her MFA in writing at California Institute of the Arts\, where she was awarded the Emi Kuriyama Thesis Prize. Her essays have appeared in The Cut\, Glamour\, and elsewhere. She lives in LA with her spouse\, Josh\, and their dog\, Charlotte. \nPraise For…\n\n“Visceral . . . Part story of America’s opioid crisis\, part grief memoir\, and part tale of a possible murder\, Andersen’s deeply personal book roils with anger and empathy that\, at its very heart\, is a lament for the profound hole left in the wake of a sister’s tragic death.” – The Daily Beast\, “Best Summer Reads”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rose-andersen-discussing-the-heart-and-other-monsters-w-alia-volz-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Giggs and Robert Moor In conversations about Fathoms: The World in the Whale
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Giggs is joined in conversation by Robert Moor\, bestselling author of On Trails\, in this virtual event for her debut book\, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Simon & Schuster). \nRegistration for this virtual event will open soon. Check back or subscribe to our newsletter for information. \nAbout Fathoms\nWhen writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia\, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale blends natural history\, philosophy\, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity\, splendour\, and fragility of life? In Fathoms\, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named\, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity\, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. \nIn the spirit of Rachel Carson and Rebecca Solnit\, Giggs gives us a vivid exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity\, Giggs outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings\, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring\, Fathoms marks the arrival of an essential new voice. \nAbout Rebecca Giggs and Robert Moor\nRebecca Giggs is an award-winning writer from Perth\, Australia. Her work has appeared in Granta\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times Magazine\, Best Australian Essays\, Best Australian Science Writing\, and other publications. Fathoms is her first book. \nRobert Moor is the New York Times bestselling author of On Trails and the creator of the podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King. His writing has appeared in New York magazine\, The New York Times\, GQ\, Harper’s\, and n+1\, among other publications. He is currently at work on a new book\, entitled In Trees. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-giggs-and-robert-moor-in-conversations-about-fathoms-the-world-in-the-whale/
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA! Discussion Series\, Talk #2 - Hilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Edward Onaci
DESCRIPTION:MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: Accomplices \nHilary Moore\, James Tracy\, and Dr. Edward Onaci in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing. \nEvent co-sponsored by Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia\, PA. \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\n————- \nCity Lights LIVE presents four talks about anti-fascist movements\, past and present\, and street-level organizing\, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy\, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements. \nTalk #2\, happening on Saturday\, August 8th at 12PM PST / 3PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Burning Books in Philadelphia. Please consider supporting Burning Books by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here). \nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights\, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth\, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels\, 2020). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nDr. Edward Onaci is the author of Free the Land : The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (University of North Carolina Press\, 2020) and teaches courses on African American history\, modern U.S. history\, women’s global political struggles\, social movements and music in Africa and its diaspora\, and more at Ursinus College. They incorporate interdisciplinary scholarship and emphasize student empowerment. Dr. Onaci’s instruction also makes use of creative resources and high impact tools\, such as Reacting to the Past and Digital Liberal Arts projects. His approach encourages students to take ownership over their personal and group studies\, produce their own knowledge\, and apply what they learn in class to their current lives and future ambitions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa-discussion-series-talk-2-hilary-moore-james-tracy-and-edward-onaci/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights
DESCRIPTION:LIVE ZOOM PANEL DISCUSSION\, FOLLOWED BY AUDIENCE Q&A\nAs we approach the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and stand at the threshold of a presidential election\, “Celebrating Woman Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights” is a panel discussion examining the complex history of enfranchisement in the United States and its relevance to the ongoing anti-racist struggle against voter suppression. A prestigious group of speakers includes Gail Pellerin\, Santa Cruz County Clerk/Registrar of Voters\, as our moderator; with presentations by Judge Marla Anderson\, Judge of the Superior Court of California\, Monterey County; Bettina Aptheker\, scholar-activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Feminist Studies Department at University California Santa Cruz; and Professor Aida Hurtado\, Chair of UCSB Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. \nThe event will be followed by a live Q&A\, and precedes an evening concert featuring the orchestral world premiere of The Battle for the Ballot by composer Stacy Garrop\, inspired by the centenary of the 19th amendment and pivotal figures in the Woman Suffrage movement. \nThis event is sponsored by: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-Sponsors: NAACP\, Temple Beth El\, and Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suffrage-the-struggle-for-voting-rights/
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SUMMARY:No Fascist USA!
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/8015934697570/WN_JVyHTp29QxmfoEbsX2QQjQ\n\nPowell’s Books Presents Hilary Moore & James Tracy in Conversation With Mark Bray. \nThis is a virtual event held on Zoom\, and hosted by Powell’s Books. \nFor information go to powells.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/no-fascist-usa/
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SUMMARY:The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Chapter of Physician’s for Social Responsibility present \nThe Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future \n \nA discussion with Fred Kaplan\, James L Nolan Jr.\, Dr. Tova Fuller & Dr. Robert Gould (of Physicians for Social Responsibility S.F. Bay Chapter) \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 reservations are required \n(Click Here) to make reservations \n————- \nJoin City Lights and the Bay Area Chapter of Physician’s for Social Responsibility in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bombings that killed over 200\,000 human beings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. City Lights has a special connection to these events. Lawrence Ferlinghetti as a Naval commander serving during World War Two was one of the few American soldiers to walk on Nagasaki shortly after the bombs were dropped. What he experienced there changed his life. In this afternoon of discussion we hope to reaccess the events of that time\, their impact on the world\, and where stand now\, facing the dawn of a new global nuclear arms race that compounds the climate and pandemic threats to human survival. At a time when the Nuclear Weapons States possess more than 13\,000 nuclear weapons\, we will focus on the manifold threats posed by new global programs to expand and modernize nuclear weapons arsenals\, the rejection of arms control treaties\, as well as the heightened great-power confrontation now accelerating in the Pacific region. While we face our unfolding planetary emergencies\, the profound “opportunity costs” of our government planning to spend over $4 million an hour over the next 30 years to potentially annihilate countless millions of people is unfathomable. Our speakers will also present alternative visions offered by the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons epitomized by the 2017 United Nations’ Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons\, and the prospects for connecting this with wider popular movements seeking to transform our global priorities in the direction of climate\, environmental\, and social justice necessary for global survival. \n————- \ncelebrating two new books: \n   \nAtomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age \nby James L Nolan Jr. – published by Belknap/Harvard Press \nA vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history\, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times. Atomic Doctors follows physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation\, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. \n(Purchase Book Here) in the near future \nand \nThe Bomb: Presidents\, Generals\, and the Secret History of Nuclear War \nby Fred Kaplan – published by Simon & Schuster \nFrom the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. \n(Purchase Book Here) in the near future \n——— \nFred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of five previous books\, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War\, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller)\, 1959\, Daydream Believers\, and The Wizards of Armageddon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, Brooke Gladstone. \nJames L. Nolan\, Jr.\, is Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at William’s College. His previous books include What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville\, Max Weber\, G. K. Chesterton\, and Sayyid Qutb and Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement. \nTova Fuller MD PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Fuller serves as vice president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and has served on the national\, Los Angeles chapter\, and Washington PSR chapter boards. She was a member of PSR-LA’s nuclear ambassadors program and WPSR’s nuclear activism committee. Her primary area of interest is the interface between public health and militarism as it relates to nuclear weapons. \nRobert Gould\, MD is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics\, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine where he also serves as the Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education for the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). Until 2012\, Dr. Gould worked as a pathologist at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose\, California. He has been President of the PSR San Francisco-Bay Area since 1989. Dr. Gould serves as a chairperson in the American Public Health Association’s Peace Caucus. In 2009\, the APHA awarded Dr. Gould the prestigious Sidel-Levy Peace Award. Dr. Gould is also a leading member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA). Dr. Gould has authored numerous book chapters on the health impacts of nuclear weapons including War and Public Health (2007\, Oxford University Press) and Terrorism and Public Health (2011\, Oxford University Press).
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Panel: Migrant Crossings
DESCRIPTION:FREE Zoom Event\nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\nCo-sponsored by the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Department of UC Berkeley. \nJoin us online for the book launch of Migrant Crossings with author Annie Isabel Fukushima! Dr. Fukushima along with panelists Carolyn Kim\, Hediana Utarti\, and Cindy Liou will gather for a discussion on human trafficking. \nMigrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. Through sociolegal and media analysis of court records\, press releases\, law enforcement campaigns\, film representations\, theatre performances\, and the law\, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions how we understand victimhood\, criminality\, citizenship\, and legality. \nMigrant Crossings deeply interrogates what it means to bear witness to migration in these migratory times—and what such migrant crossings mean for subjects who experience violence during or after their crossing.\n—\nAbout the Author:\nDr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Division in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Her research covers issues of migration\, violence\, race\, gender\, and witnessing and her expertise is recognized across the U.S. Dr. Fukushima’s scholarly works appear in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She values praxis\, having implemented community-based research projects and served as an expert witness on human trafficking for immigration\, civil\, and criminal cases in multiple US states\, including California. \n—\nAbout the Panelists:\nCarolyn Kim is the Managing Attorney at Justice At Last\, a non-profit law firm that specializes in legal advocacy for survivors of all forms of human trafficking located in the Greater Bay Area of Northern California. Her experience in law and trafficking includes working at Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)\, Bay Area Legal Aid\, and Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. \nHediana Utarti Ph.D joined Asian Women’s Shelter in 2000 and is currently its Anti-Trafficking Program Coordinator/Community Advocate. Her position includes managing and developing the program\, providing direct services for survivors\, and conducting prevention education in various communities. She had co-facilitated AWS shelter support group for more than 10 years utilizing Art as Healing to enhance survivors’ stabilization and recovery. \nCindy C. Liou\, Esq. is the State Policy Director at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)\, a national non-profit working to provide legal counsel to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the United States. She provides consulting and training on topics ranging from human trafficking\, domestic violence lethality\, to best practices on how to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams to support survivors of violence. She is also the recipient of the SF Collaborative Against Human Trafficking Modern Day Abolitionist Award for Policy and Advocacy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-and-panel-migrant-crossings/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Michelle Bowdler (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Bowdler’s debut blend of memoir and cultural investigation\, Is Rape a Crime?\, tells the story of her rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society’s most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated. \nMichelle is a recipient of a 2017 Barbara Deming Memorial Award for non-fiction and has been a Fellow at Ragdale and MacDowell Colony. She has been published in the New York Times and in the anthologies The Anatomy of Silence and We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women’s Political Action. Her essays Eventually You Tell Your Kids and Babelogue were both nominated for Pushcart Prizes. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love & Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace\, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-michelle-bowdler-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues\, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This second event in the series features Federico Finchelstein discussing his book A Brief History of Fascist Lies. \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\n\n\n“There is no better book on fascism’s complex and vexed relationship with truth.” – Jason Stanley\, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them \nIn this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History\, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth\, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth century\, many supporters of fascist ideologies regarded political lies as truth incarnated in their leader. From Hitler to Mussolini\, fascist leaders capitalized on lies as the base of their power and popular sovereignty. \nThis history continues in the present\, when lies again seem to increasingly replace empirical truth. Now that actual news is presented as “fake news” and false news becomes government policy\, A Brief History of Fascist Lies urges us to remember that the current talk of “post-truth” has a long political and intellectual lineage that we cannot ignore. \n\n\n\n\nFederico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. He is the author of several books\, including From Fascism to Populism in History\, Transatlantic Fascism\, and The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War. His books have been translated into many languages\, including Spanish\, Portuguese\, Turkish\, and Italian. He contributes to major American\, European\, and Latin American media\, including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, CNN\, Foreign Policy\, Clarín\, Corriere della Sera\, Nexos\, and Folha de S.Paulo. \n\n\n\n\nUC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith \n\n\n\n\n\n8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans\, Walls\, Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\n8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies\n8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration\n8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment\n8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet\n9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nTo have A Brief History of Fascist Lies sent to your door\, order here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-federico-finchelstein-a-brief-history-of-fascist-lies/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Molly Wizenberg and Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 10 at 5pm PDT when Molly Wizenberg discusses her memoir The Fixed Stars with Esmé Weijun Wang on Zoom. \nZoom Login \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85317065845 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,85317065845#  or +13462487799\,\,85317065845#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 853 1706 5845\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb7e3obTGg\n \nPraise for The Fixed Stars \n“The Fixed Stars is that rare thing\, a groundbreaking\, essential book about sexuality. Wizenberg’s incisive\, generous laying-bare of her own experience will make many readers feel seen\, understood\, and not alone. This book is a triumph.”\n— Kate Christensen \n“The Fixed Stars is a nuanced look into two subjects frequently depicted as binary: love and sexuality. Wizenberg writes of her journey into queerness with tenderness and curiosity\, two essential qualities for any sort of entry into new lands. This book spoke directly to my heart. Read it.”\n— Esmé Weijun Wang \n“The Fixed Stars\, like its protagonist\, is both brave and sexy\, both heady and bodily\, and I ripped through this memoir like it was the most erudite romance novel in the world. This is a truly compelling look at sexuality\, marriage\, and parenthood in this century.”\n— Emma Straub \n\nAbout The Fixed Stars \nFrom a bestselling memoirist\, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity\, complex sexuality\, and enduring family relationships. \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? The Fixed Stars is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-molly-wizenberg-and-esme-weijun-wang/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Launch for Nancy Jooyoun Kim with Ingrid Rojas Contreras / The Last Story of Mina Lee
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Nancy Jooyoun Kim to launch her debut novel The Last Story of Mina Lee. She’ll be in conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree). \n** Please note ** \n>  This is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.\n>  If you’d like a copy of The Last Story of Mina Lee\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nMargot Lee’s mother\, Mina\, isn’t returning her calls. It’s a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot\, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown\, Los Angeles\, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past\, unraveling the tenuous and invisible strings that held together her single mother’s life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant\, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother. \nInterwoven with Margot’s present-day search is Mina’s story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While she’s barely earning a living by stocking shelves at a Korean grocery store\, the last thing Mina ever expects is to fall in love. But that love story sets in motion a series of events that have consequences for years to come\, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death. \n \nBorn and raised in Los Angeles\, Nancy Jooyoun Kim is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Washington\, Seattle. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Guernica\, NPR/PRI’s Selected Shorts\, The Rumpus\, Electric Literature\, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins\, The Offing\, and elsewhere. The Last Story of Mina Lee is her first novel. \n \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday\, 2018) a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Cut\, The Believer\, and elsewhere. A new work of non-fiction\, a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds\, is coming from Doubleday in 2022. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-nancy-jooyoun-kim-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras-the-last-story-of-mina-lee/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200811T140000
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SUMMARY:Bernard-Henri Levy in conversation with Adam Gopnik
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and Yale University Press celebrate the release of Bernard-Henri Levy’s new book:\n\nThe Virus in the Age of Madness \npublished by Yale University Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(CLICK HERE) to register \n———— \n(Purchase Book Here) link to be posted soon! \n————- \nWorld-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic—and what they tell us about ourselves. \nWith medical mysteries\, rising death tolls\, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe\, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world.\nDrawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault\, Lévy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature\, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors\, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid\, incisive\, and always original\, Lévy takes a bird’s-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future. \nBernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher\, activist\, filmmaker\, and the author of over thirty books. He is widely regarded as one of the West’s most important public intellectuals. His books include Who Killed Daniel Pearl?\, In the Footsteps of Tocqueville\, The Spirit of Judaism\, among others. \nAdam Gopnik is an award-winning writer and essayist. Since 1986 he has served as a staff writer for The New Yorker\, contributing nonfiction\, fiction\, memoir\, and criticism. He is the author of the books Paris to the Moon\, Through the Children’s Gate\, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bernard-henri-levy-in-conversation-with-adam-gopnik/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shruti Swamy and Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, August 11 at 5pm PDT when Shruti Swamy discusses her story collection A House is a Body with Meng Jin on Zoom.\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88151795344 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88151795344#  or +12532158782\,\,88151795344#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 881 5179 5344\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcdI8BFm5B \nPraise for A House is A Body \n“Swamy’s A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories—short and long—are told\, written\, and consumed. There is nothing\, no emotion\, no tiny morsel of memory\, no touch\, that this book does not take seriously. Yet\, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I’ve ever had in a short story collection.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \n“I’ve been reading Shruti Swamy’s stories for a long time and so for me to have them here together is cause for great celebration. These stories are written with such rare patience and a restraint that they are at times\, almost unbearably tense. That’s a story writer. Not a book to read in a hurry. Take your time\, as Swamy did. No need for hyperbole\, either. The beauty and timeless grace of these stories will always speak for themselves.”\n—Peter Orner\, author of Maggie Brown & Others: Stories \n“The winner of two O. Henry Prizes\, Shruti Swamy will publish her first short-story collection this summer\, and you won’t want to miss out on reading it. The 12 stories in A House Is a Body move between India and the U.S.\, focusing on women’s interior lives and the ways in which their identities differ from the perceptions and presumptions of those around them.”\n—Bustle\, “The Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020” \nAbout A House is a Body  \nDreams collide with reality\, modernity with antiquity\, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In “Earthly Pleasures\,” a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India’s biggest celebrities\, and desire and ego are laid bare. In “A Simple Composition\,” a husband’s professional crisis leads to his wife’s discovery of a dark\, ecstatic joy. And in the title story\, an exhausted mother watches\, hypnotized by fear\, as a California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured\, provocative and probing\, these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India\, they reveal small but intense moments of beauty\, pain\, and power that contain the world. \nA House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction\, from a writer at the start of a stellar career. \nAbout Shruti Swami \nThe winner of two O. Henry Awards\, Shruti Swamy’s work has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. In 2012\, she was Vassar College’s 50th W.K. Rose Fellow\, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Blue Mountain Center\, and Hedgebrook. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow\, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University\, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She lives in San Francisco. \nAbout Meng Jin \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shruti-swamy-and-meng-jin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Reading Series\nTuesday\, August 11\, 7pm on Zoom\nfeaturing Safia Elhillo and MK Chavez\nopen mic preceeds the featured readers \nonline on Zoom\nregistration link to come \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nbios to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jana Marcus\, Line of Blood
DESCRIPTION:When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s was discovered in her grandmother’s secret drawer\, award-winning photographer and local author Jana Marcus began what became a decades-long quest to uncover her family’s hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold case. Join us on the Crowdcast platform as she discusses the investigation\, the shocking secrets of her father’s family\, and her new book\, Line of Blood: Uncovering a Secret Legacy of Mobsters\, Money\, and Murder\, with journalist Wallace Baine. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jana-marcus-line-of-blood/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virgil Wander by Leif Enger | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 11\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Leif Enger’s novel\, VIRGIL WANDER. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85844599184. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPVW\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/GGPVWAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nI LOVE THIS BOOK! \nThe characters are so delightful and fully realized I wanted to drop down into Greenstone and meet Virgil\, Rune\, Nadine\, and Bjorn at the Wise Old or the Agate for breakfast! \n— Samantha \n  \nOctober 2018 Indie Next List\n\n \n“From the fated flight of Virgil Wander’s Pontiac into the frigid waters of Lake Superior to an encounter with Rune\, an enigmatic kite enthusiast searching for word of a long-lost son\, and other interactions with the citizens of Greenstone\, Minnesota\, Leif Enger’s new novel is a most welcome\, albeit quirky\, story of words and people lost and found. Lovers of Peace Like a River\, rejoice! Enger is back with another enchanting and enriching tale of community and revival\, with his ever-deft touch of magic and grace. A perfect remedy for those whose hearts ache from our present reality\, Virgil Wanderis a treasure to be shared with all readers.”\n— Mark Nichols\, Bank Square Books\, Mystic\, CT \nDescription\n\nThe first novel in ten years from award-winning\, bestselling author Leif Enger\, Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures of kite-flying\, movies\, fishing\, baseball\, necking in parked cars and falling in love\, Virgil Wander is a swift\, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked upper Midwest by an award-winning master storyteller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virgil-wander-by-leif-enger-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Geri Spieler & Rick Kaplowitz - San Francisco Values (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:As Americans are one step from deciding who will be our next president\, Geri Spieler and Rick Kaplowitz\, the authors of San Francisco Values: Common Ground for Getting America Back on Track shed light on major issues today and how San Francisco’s value system can help us vote for the right candidate. Tracing the evolution of the country by using their city’s progressive culture as a baseline\, the authors’ research uncovers real laws and undisputed facts\, as well as dispel the vitriolic conservative view of San Francisco as “un-American.” Spieler and Kaplowitz reveal how the Bay Area is family-friendly\, equality-based\, and patriotic—values in common with cities and towns across the USA.  Viewed from national\, regional\, and San Franciscan perspectives\, San Francisco Values includes insights on racial inequities\, health care\, homelessness\, and immigration. \nSpieler\, an investigative journalist\, and Kaplowitz\, a former college dean with a degree from Harvard\, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geri-spieler-rick-kaplowitz-san-francisco-values-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Pilipinx Essential Workers: Colonization\, Delano\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online panel conversation with authors Enrique de la Cruz\, Patty Enrado\, Tony Robles\, and Juanita Tamayo Lott moderated by MT Vallarta \nRegister for access to Zoom event \nPanelists:\nDr. Enrique de la Cruz received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Mathematical Logic) from UCLA. His most recent publication is the Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons\, which is a collection of political cartoons from 1898-1907\, the period of the Philippine-American War\, and which he co-authored with Abe Ignacio\, Jorge Emmanuel\, and Helen Toribio. \nPatty Enrado’s debut novel\, A Village in the Fields\, was shortlisted for the Seventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing\, Fiction\, in 2016. The historical novel about Filipinos and the American farm labor movement was published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nTony Robles\, “The People’s Poet” was born in San Francisco and is the nephew of Filipino-American poet\, historian and social justice activist Al Robles. He was a shortlist nominee for poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission individual literary artist grant in 2018. \nA child of the Manong/Manang Generation\, Juanita Tamayo Lott is a trailblazer in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her latest book is Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies\, SF State. A Memoir. \nModerator: MT Vallarta is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pilipinx-essential-workers-colonization-delano-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joshua Bennett in conversation with Tongo Eisen Martin\, Jesse McCarthy\, and Simone White
DESCRIPTION:discussing Joshua Bennett’s new book \nBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man \npublished by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press \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(Register Here) link to be posted soon \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n\n\n\nA prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman\, man and animal. \nThroughout U.S. history\, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons\, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure—the rat\, the cock\, the mule\, the dog\, and the shark—in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright\, Toni Morrison\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Jesmyn Ward\, and Robert Hayden. The plantation\, the wilderness\, the kitchenette overrun with pests\, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people—all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find black and animal life in fraught proximity. \nJoshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene. \n\nJoshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School\, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ford Foundation\, and MIT and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. \n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, 2017) and someone’s dead already (Boostrap Press\, 2015) and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine and New York Times Magazine. Heaven Is All Goobyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry\, an American Book Award\, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He’s from San Francisco. \n\nJesse McCarthy is assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature\, postwar or post-45 literary history\, and Black Studies. His dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War\, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. He is also interested in modernism\, film\, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton he founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. His writing on culture\, politics\, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Dissent\, The New Republic and n+1. I  also serve as an editor at The Point. \nassistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English  and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. My research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature\, postwar or post-45 literary history\, and Black Studies. My dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War\, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. I am also interested in modernism\, film\, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton I founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. My writing on culture\, politics\, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Dissent\, The New Republic and n+1. I  also serve as an editor at The Point.\nSimone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death\, Of Being Dispersed\, and House Envy of All the World and of the poetry chapbooks Unrest and\, with Kim Thomas\, Dolly. Her writing has appeared in publications including Arttforum\, BOMB\, e-flux journal\, the Chicago Review\, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. \nCritical Praise for Being Property Once Myself \n\n“This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis\, Richard Wright\, Toni Morrison\, Jesmyn Ward and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’… An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought.“—Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \n“Bennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats\, cocks\, mules\, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing\, thinking\, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing\, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics\, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety.“—Colin Dayan\, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog \n“Being Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original\, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory\, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention\, and as much about animals as it is about people\, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute\, collectively\, black literary culture.”—Akira Mizuta Lippit\, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife \n“A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide.”—Salamishah Tillet\, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-bennett-in-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin-jesse-mccarthy-and-simone-white/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SHAUN KING presents MAKE CHANGE: HOW TO FIGHT INJUSTICE\, ​DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION\, AND OWN OUR FUTURE
DESCRIPTION:** PLEASE NOTE **\n>  This event will be virtual and free of charge. Connection information is forthcoming. Please save the date and join us!\n>  Order here to have the book delivered to your door. \nAs a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement\, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. In Make Change\, King offers an inspiring look at the moments that have shaped his life and considers the ways social movements can grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. He shares stories from his efforts leading the Raise the Age campaign and his work fighting police brutality\, while providing a roadmap for how to stay sane\, safe\, and motivated even in the worst of political climates. By turns infuriating\, inspiring\, and educational\, Make Change will resonate with those who believe that America can — and must — do better. \n—– \nShaun King was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most important people in the world online. He covers civil rights issues for the Intercept and is writer-in-residence at the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard Law School. Previously\, King served as a pastor\, teacher\, and full time motivational speaker in Atlanta’s juvenile justice system. In 2019\, King launched the media platform The North Star\, which has hundreds of thousands of members and subscribers. His podcast The Breakdown has remained one of the most popular news and politics category on Apple with over 100k subscribers. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. \nPlease note:\n​\nThis is a free\, all-ages\, virtual event that begins at 7pm PST. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shaun-king-presents-make-change-how-to-fight-injustice-%e2%80%8bdismantle-systemic-oppression-and-own-our-future/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Center":MAILTO:info@berkeleyartcenter.org
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT: John Waters\, Mr. Know-It-All
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate Mr. Know-It-All\, the newest essay collection from legendary New York Times bestselling author John Waters\, reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years. John Waters will be in conversation with Steve Palopoli\, editor of Santa Cruz’s alt-weekly the Good Times\, during this ticketed virtual event on Crowdcast. \nTickets available via Eventbrite—click here to purchase! \nNo one knows more about everything—especially everything rude\, clever\, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache\, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos\, Polyester\, Hairspray\, Cry-Baby\,andA Dirty Shame\, is one of the world’s great sophisticates\, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste\, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important\, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes\, how to cheat death itself. Through it all\, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard\, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.” \nStudded with cameos\, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp\, Kathleen Turner\, Patricia Hearst\, and Tracey Ullman\, and illustrated with unseen photos from the author’s personal collection\, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’ most hypnotically readable\, upsetting\, revelatory book—another instant Waters classic. \n“That John Waters is a national treasure is a surety. Period. Thank you and good night . . . [Mr. Know-It-All] shows a vulnerability and an honesty and an almost frantic desire to impart to us\, before he can no longer\, his manic mantras\, his obsessive treatises and his biting and blisteringly honest bons mots that are actually really enlightening life lessons.” —Alan Cumming\, The New York Times Book Review \nJohn Waters’ books Role Models (2010) and Carsick (2014) were national bestsellers\, and his spoken-word shows This Filthy World and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the world. Indecent Exposure\, a retrospective exhibition of Waters’ acclaimed artwork\, was recently shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus\, Ohio. He is at work on a novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ticketed-event-john-waters-mr-know-it-all/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200813T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200813T133000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-2/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Solidarity: From Third World Liberation Front to Black Lives Matter
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online conversation with authors Juanita Tamayo Lott\, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Harvey Dong moderated by Janie Chen. \nRegister for access to Zoom event \nPanelists:\nJuanita Tamayo Lott grew up in the Fillmore/Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco in the 1950s. She was part of the historic 1968 SF State BSU/TWLF strike and served on the planning committee for the School of Ethnic Studies in 1969. Coming full circle\, she served on the planning committees for the respective 50th anniversary commemorations in 2018 and 2019. In graduate school at the University of Chicago\, she studied survey research\, human ecology\, demography\, statistics and sociology. Her Washington\, D.C. career was as a manager and senior demographer/statistician in the federal statistical system\, including the U.S. Census Bureau. Juanita directed the first Office of Asian American Affairs in the federal government in the 1970s. In 2007 she co-founded Filipino American Studies at the University of Maryland. The Juanita Tamayo Lott Collection resides in The Library of Congress. \nGolden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies\, SF State. A Memoir by Juanita Tamayo Lott \nDr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes where she lives on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. In January of 1968 she was the first Native American student enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley. While attending UC Berkeley\, Dr. War Jack participated as the first Native American component of the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide effort in establishing Native American Studies\, African American Studies\, Chicano Studies and Asian Studies. In 1969\, Dr. War Jack and students united together to take over Alcatraz Island\, which ended the Indian Termination policies. \nNative Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight For Survival and Life by Dr. LaNada War Jack \nHarvey Dong is a second-generation Chinese American who was active in TWLF-UC Berkeley strike for Ethnic Studies and the struggle to save the International Hotel (1969-1977). In 2002\, he received his PhD in Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley. He is currently a lecturer in Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley and teaches Asian American history\, Chinese American history and Asian American Contemporary Issues. In 2016\, he received the American Cultures Ronald Takaki Teaching Award and in 2018\, the Chancellor’s Public Scholar Faculty Fellowship. He is currently a humanities advisor for the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s project series on social justice\, and is involved in the operations of Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, promoting Asian American authors. \nPower of the People Won’t Stop: Legacy of the TWLF at UC Berkeley by Harvey Dong \nModerator: Janie Chen was born and raised in Oakland\, Janie is a rising senior at UC Berkeley studying sociology and ethnic studies. She works at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, where she became the co-editor of Power of the People Won’t Stop. Her current research looks into the cultural nuances of family reunification for formerly incarcerated Asian American and Pacific Islanders. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solidarity-from-third-world-liberation-front-to-black-lives-matter/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Diane Cook in conversation with Rahawa Haile / The New Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Man V. Nature author Diane Cook for her anticipated debut novel\, The New Wilderness. She’ll be in conversation with Rahawa Haile. Please join us! \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can 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\nBea’s five-year-old daughter\, Agnes\, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City—an over-populated\, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives—is destroying her lungs. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore\, because there is nowhere else to go. But across the country lies the Wilderness State\, the last swath of open\, protected land left. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. People are forbidden. Until now. \nBea\, Agnes\, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers\, this new community wanders through the grand country\, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers\, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. As the group slowly learns to live and survive on the unpredictable and often dangerous land\, its members battle for power and control and betray and save each other. The farther they roam\, the closer they come to their animal soul. \nTo her dismay\, Bea discovers that\, in fleeing to the Wilderness State to save Agnes\, she is losing her in a different way. Agnes is growing wilder and closer to the land\, while Bea cannot shake her urban past. As she and Agnes grow further apart\, the bonds between mother and daughter are tested in surprising and heartbreaking ways. \nYet just as these modern nomads come to think of the Wilderness State as home\, its future is threatened when the Government discovers a new use for the land. Now the migrants must choose to stay and fight for their place in the wilderness\, their home\, or trust the Rangers and their promises of a better tomorrow elsewhere. \n\nDiane Cook is the author of the story collection Man V. Nature\, which was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award\, Believer Book Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and were anthologized in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She received a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her debut novel The New Wilderness is available August 11\, 2020. Author photo by Katherine Rondina. \n  \n  \nRahawa Haile is the author of the forthcoming In Open Country\, a book about her Appalachian Trail trek in 2016. She lives and writes in Oakland. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nTo have The New Wilderness sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-diane-cook-in-conversation-with-rahawa-haile-the-new-wilderness/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Karen Tei Yamashita\, Sansei and Sensibility
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book\, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast soon.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“An elegantly written\, wryly affectionate mashup of Jane Austen and the Japanese immigrant experience. . . . Yamashita’s reimagining of Austen is sympathetic and funny—and as on target as the movie Clueless.” —Kirkus\, starred review \n“Karen Tei Yamashita contends with the Western canon in this astute\, pitch-perfect\, and wryly funny short story collection. . . . A genuine pleasure to read.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This hilarious new collection of stories and essays will make you chuckle\, though underneath the humor is deft critique. Marie Kondo’s tidying up is juxtaposed with a tour of World War II internment camps. Sexist techno-orientalism and the meaning of Godzilla are reexamined. Local treasure\, UCSC professor emerita\, and acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has written a book about the Japanese American experience both entertaining and vital in this era of anti-immigration politics.” —Jason\, Bookshop Santa Cruz bookseller \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-karen-tei-yamashita-sansei-and-sensibility/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:[Virtual Ruby] Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Guests of Rubies are welcome to join; please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom.] \nJoin us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. \nWe encourage you to purchase THE FIXED STARS from a local bookstore! Pre-order here from Green Apple Books and received a signed book plate: https://www.greenapplebooks.com/pre-order-new-titles-0 \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author  \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ruby-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-110874659090
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-ruby-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars/
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lee and Bathsheba Demuth Celebrate the publication of Two Trees Make a Forest
DESCRIPTION:Jessica J. Lee is joined in conversation by Bathsheba Demuth to celebrate the publication of her book\, Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family’s Past Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts (Catapult). \n“This is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places\, and the means of their bridging.” —Robert Macfarlane\, author of Underland \n“Two Trees Make a Forest is glorious and extraordinary—in its language\, in its setting\, in its story. Jessica J. Lee has a brilliant eye for nature\, an ear for languages\, and a sensitivity to the poetry of the human heart. In these pages\, she performs a subtle miracle: she retrieves lost strands of family\, landscape\, and history and weaves them together to create a surprising and soulful whole.” —Sy Montgomery\, author of The Soul of an Octopus \nVisit our Crowdcast page to register for this event. \nAbout Two Trees Make a Forest\nA chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland\, Taiwan. There\, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. \nLee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests\, birds found nowhere else on earth\, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms\, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years\, awaiting landfall. Throughout\, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world\, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants\, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. \nTwo Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history\, travel\, nature\, and memoir\, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories. \nAbout the authors\nJessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian\, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016\, and her first book\, Turning: A Year in the Water\, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin. \nBathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. Her first book\, the prize-winning Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton)\, was named a best book of 2019 by Nature\, NPR\, Barnes and Noble\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Library Journal\, and is out in paperback in August 2020. An environmental historian\, Demuth specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon. For over two years\, she mushed huskies\, hunted caribou\, fished for salmon\, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, Demuth is starting work on her second book\, a biography of the Yukon River watershed from colonization to climate change. In the archive or on a dog sled\, she is interested in how the histories of people\, ideas\, places\, and other-than-human species intersect. Her writing on these subjects has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-lee-and-bathsheba-demuth-celebrate-the-publication-of-two-trees-make-a-forest/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Jessica Breheny\, Richard Huffman & Helene Simkin Jara
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Jessica Breheny\, Richard Huffman\, and Helene Simkin Jara\, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-jessica-breheny-richard-huffman-helene-simkin-jara/
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon\, Rachel Khong And Cathy Park Hong For Point Reyes Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Rachel Khong\, R.O. Kwon and Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Evan Karp. \nR.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, is published by Riverhead (US) and Virago/Little Brown (UK)\, and it is being translated into seven languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications\, The Incendiaries received the Housatonic Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book and Los Angeles Times First Book Prize. Kwon’s next novel\, as well as an essay collection\, are forthcoming. \nRachel Khong’s debut novel\, Goodbye\, Vitamin\, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction\, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016\, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach\, she also edited a cookbook about eggs\, called All About Eggs. In 2018\, she founded The Ruby\, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district. \nCathy Park Hong’s first book\, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection\, Dance Dance Revolution\, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by W.W. Norton. Her third book of poems\, Engine Empire\, was published in Spring 2012 by W.W. Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. \nThis event is hosted by Evan Karp\, organizer of the Quiet Lightning reading series and events coordinator at Booksmith. \nAll proceeds benefit Point Reyes Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 3 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-rachel-khong-and-cathy-park-hong-for-point-reyes-books-2/
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