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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Desirée Alvarez\, Anthony Cody\, Jennifer Hasegawa & Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host an evening with Desirée Alvarez\, Anthony Cody\, Jennifer Hasegawa and Kimberly Reyes. These fabulous writers will read from and discuss their new books. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nAbout Raft of Flame by Desirée Alvarez \nA painter and poet\, Desirée Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca’s passionate cante jondo\, or “deep song\,” and her own family history with Andalusian flamenco\, Alvarez weaves together a time- travelling epic that searches through myth\, culture\, and nature for the roots of identity. Navigating both her Latina and European heritage through works by artists of the ancient Americas and Spain\, Alvarez maps intersections between personal and political history. Searching narratives both fictitious and real\, Raft of Flame includes imagined conversations between a conquistador and an Olmec sculpture\, between Frida Kahlo and Velazquez\, and between The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy and Glinda the Good Witch. \nIn Raft of Flame\, Alvarez constructs and fleshes out a fantastic narrative of personal and cultural history\, offering glimpses into the art\, history\, and land that comprise her story. Her narrative explores how both nature and human populations continue to be trapped in the violence of colonialism. Vivid lyrics interrogate the complexities of mixed race\, digging the dualities\, upheavals\, and casts of characters that underly Alvarez’s identity. \nRaft of Flame won Omnidawn’s 2018 Lake Merritt Prize. \nDesirée Alvarez is a poet and painter living in New York City. Her second book\, Raft of Flame\, won the Lake Merritt Poetry Prize and was published by Omnidawn in April 2020. Her first book\, Devil’s Paintbrush\, received the 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Award. Her poetry is anthologized in What Nature (MIT Press\, 2018) and Other Musics: New Latina Poetry (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2019). She has published poems in Poetry\, Lit Hub\, Massachusetts Review\, Boston Review\, Fence\, and The Iowa Review\, been nominated for a Pushcart prize and received the Glenna Luschei Poetry Award from Prairie Schooner. Alvarez’s exhibits her work widely nationally and internationally\, and paintings are currently on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden Conservatory Gallery through November 2020. Celebrating magical connections between animals\, plants and humans\, her work has received three fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, a Poets House Fellowship\, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and European Capital of Culture. Alvarez teaches at New York City College of Technology\, CUNY and The Juilliard School. \nTo have Raft of Flame sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody \nThe 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican—American War\, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures\, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day. Borderland Apocrypha centers around the collective histories of these terrors\, excavating the traumas born of turbulence at borderlands. In this debut collection\, Anthony Cody responds to the destabilized\, hostile landscapes and silenced histories of borderlands. His experimental poetic reinvents itself and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin\, the page\, and the book in forms of resistance\, signaling a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. The poems ask the reader to engage in searching through the nested and cascading series of poems centered around familial and communal histories\, structural racism\, and natural ecosystems of borderlands. Relentless in its explorations\, this collection shows how the past continues to inform actions\, policies\, and perceptions in North and Central America. \nRather than a proposal for re-imagining the US/Mexico border\, Cody’s collection is an avant-garde examination of how borderlands have remained occupied spaces\, and of the necessity of liberation to usher the earth and its people toward healing. Part auto-historia\, part docu-poetic\, part visual monument\, part myth-making\, Borderland Apocrypha unearths history in order to work toward survival\, reckoning\, and the building of a future that both acknowledges and moves on from tragedies of the past. \nBorderland Apocrypha won Omnidawn’s 2018 1st/2nd Book Prize. \nAnthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn\, April 2020)\, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and longlist for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno\, California with lineage in both the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast\, Ninth Letter\, The Boiler\, ctrl+v journal\, among others. Anthony is a member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle and co-edited How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is a recent MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State where he continues to collaborate with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Anthony has received fellowships from CantoMundo\, Community of Writers\, and Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Conference. He provides communication support to CantoMundo\, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press. \nTo have Borderland Apocrypha sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living by Jennifer Hasegawa \nFrom the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus\, this is a field guide to flora\, fauna\, and mineralia encountered\, real and imagined. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments\, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit\, sprinkling us all with an antidotal salve to viewing any life as ordinary. \nBanzai has a literal translation of “10\,000 years” and was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today\, the word has a comparatively neutral translation of “Hurrah!” in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai\, recasting the language of war and dogmatic loyalty into the language of a life and poetry created against racism and harmful norms\, and toward tolerance and self-acceptance. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who has sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from a plastic surgery clinic in Asunción Paraguay. She was born and raised in Hilo\, Hawaiʻi and lives in San Francisco. The manuscript for her first book of poetry\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal\, Bamboo Ridge\, Tule Review\, and Vallum and is forthcoming in Bennington Review and jubilat. \nTo have La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living sent to your door\, order here. \nAbout Running to Stand Still by Kimberly Reyes \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.These poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nKimberly Reyes has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya\, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley\, Columbia University\, San Francisco State University\, and other places. She’s written for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Film Ireland\, The Echo Newspaper\, RTÉ Radio\, NY1 News\, Entropy\, The Irish Journal of American Studies\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, and The Stinging Fly. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. A second-generation New Yorker\, Kimberly was the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTo have Running to Stand Still sent to your door\, order here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-desiree-alvarez-anthony-cody-jennifer-hasegawa-kimberly-reyes/
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SUMMARY:Writing Crisis: Crafting the Literature of Turbulent Times\, with Roberto Lovato (via Zoom)\, Oct. 29
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAYS\, OCT. 29 — NOV. 11  |  Living in times marked by relentless and intersecting crises\, the serious writer must ask\, “Where is the literature that responds to this astonishing moment?” Our goal for this class is to answer the question by crafting our own\, by writing crisis. This introduction to the art of writing the prose of crisis—memoir\, journalism\, different genres of fiction and science fiction—(and poetry if there’s interest) will begin by looking at the crisis in literature that has created the vacuum that we will fill with our own work\, including one piece we will polish in the course of our sessions. The course will include the following: \n\nClose readings of writing that exemplifies the art of writing crisis\, analyzing the choices—structure\, tropes\, imagery\, language\, characterization—that these writers make.\nTaking our lead from classic and contemporary writers of crisis\, we will engage in generative writing exercises designed to apply what we’re learning.\nWorshops / sharing works-in-progress with other participants and the instructor.\n\nEach writer in the class will leave with a writing crisis toolkit developed by the instructor. You will also leave the course looking at writing and at crisis in a different way. You will leave with an enhanced ability to respond to this unprecedented historical moment with the words and stories it demands. \nThis course is open to students of all levels. \nThis class will meet on Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom details. \nNote that this class meets two Thursdays (Oct. 29 & Nov. 5) and one Wednesday (Nov. 11). \nRoberto Lovato makes a living as an educator\, journalist\, and writer based at The Writers Grotto. He recently authored Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins). A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center\, Lovato has reported on war\, violence\, and terrorism in Mexico\, Venezuela\, El Salvador\, Dominican Republic\, Haiti\, Paris\, and the United States. Until 2015\, Lovato was a fellow at U.C. Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center and recently finished a teaching stint at UCLA. His essays and reports from around the world have appeared in numerous publications including Guernica Magazine\, the Associated Press\, the Boston Globe\, The Millions\, Foreign Policy magazine\, the Guardian\, the Los Angeles Times\, Der Spiegel\, La Opinion\, and other national and international publications. \nContact: robvato@gmail.com \nNumber of sessions: 3 \nDates: Thursdays\, October 29; November 5\, and Wednesday\, Nov. 11 \nTime: 6:00 – 9:00 pm Pacific time \nCourse fee: Early-bird discount: $225 through October 21; $250 thereafter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-crisis-crafting-the-literature-of-turbulent-times-with-roberto-lovato-via-zoom-oct-29/
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SUMMARY:EmeryArts Poetry Reading with Sarah Kobrinsky
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an evening of poetry reading with Emeryville’s former Poet Laureate Sarah Kobrinsky. Some ekphrastic poems inspired by the artwork in the 2020 Emeryville Art Exhibition will be read. Ekphrastic poems focus on works of art by interpreting\, inhabiting\, confronting\, and speaking to their subjects. The ekphrastic poems at this reading will focus on any of the 185 works of art in the virtual exhibition\, online now at www.emeryarts.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emeryarts-poetry-reading-with-sarah-kobrinsky/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.\nhttps://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman-celebration-his…\n\nIn celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell\, by City Lights Books\, we’re assembling a gathering of video contributions by poets\, artists\, and musicians\, AFTER what would be the late poet’s 95th birthday — our planned event from this past Spring for April 18\, Kaufman’s actual birthdate\, having been canceled. Now we’re back on track. \nThis remote-access event begins promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. \nCo-sponsored by The Poetry Center\, City Lights Books\, and The Green Arcade. \nMusicians: Bruce Ackley and Aurora Josephson (Steve Lacy’s songs to Bob Kaufman’s poems); Hafez Modirzadeh\, Francis Wong\, David Boyce \nPoets and other artists: Josiah Luis Alderete\, Will Alexander\, Arlene Biala\, James Cagney\, MK Chavez\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Dewey Crumpler\, Justin Desmangles\, Duane Deterville\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Agneta Falk\, C.S. Giscombe\, Leticia Hernández-Linares\, Jack Hirschman\, Genny Lim\, Sarah Menefee\, Alejandro Murguía\, Jevohn Newsome\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Kim Shuck; Tate Swindell with Jessica Loos\, Niko Van Dyke\, and Michael Young (reading “Second April”); Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, Michael Warr\, A.D. Winans + tba
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Fearless Poetry Workshop with Julie Bruck
DESCRIPTION:Now celebrating over 15 years at The Writing Salon\, this workshop draws people who want to jumpstart their poetry practice and to keep the engine oiled. You’ll do plenty of writing and reading\, and we’ll have lively discussions about both the craft and the process(es) of poetry. \nEach weekly homework assignment provides fresh angles of approach designed to surprise\, even startle\, both the writers and their readers. “We all get stuck in familiar ruts\,” says instructor Julie Bruck\, “and this class offers ways of digging ourselves out\, whether we use these strategies to start a new poem or to revise a particularly challenging one. With fresh poems on the table each week\, an early question is often\, how does this poem move? Our group task is to offer constructive help in locating and enhancing that movement. Poets are always learning how to read their own drafts (and those of others)\, much as we keep learning how to read the world.” \nThe remote class is suitable for a wide spectrum of people. “We’ve had students with an interest in poetry but no experience writing it\, and others with MFA’s from Iowa\, and it’s always been a good mix\,” says Julie. “The aim of the class is to get everybody excited about new work\, to take away strategies that can help with current and future writing—and to have a great time while we’re at it.” \nOctober 29 – December 03\n5 Thursdays\, (PST) 7:00pm – 9:30pm\n\n\n$274.35 for members \n$295 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fearless-poetry-workshop-with-julie-bruck/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Matthew McConaughey with Reese Witherspoon - Greenlights (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:“This is not a traditional memoir\, or an advice book\, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life. Adventures that have been significant\, enlightening\, and funny\, sometimes because they were meant to be but mostly because they didn’t try to be.” \nMatthew McConaughey has kept a diary for thirty-five of his fifty years\, and recently worked up the courage to take those writings into solitary confinement and read through them. He found not only stories\, questions\, truths\, and affirmations\, but also a reliable theme. Greenlights is an album and a record of what he has seen and learned along the way—“my sights and seens\, felts and figured outs\, cools and shamefuls.” \nIn Greenlights\, readers will learn about many of the adventures and formative moments in McConaughey’s life\, and the sense of meaning he’s found through his philosophy of the same name. From growing up as an adventurous kid in a tough-love Texas home of rule breakers\, to revelatory journeys to Australia\, Peru\, and Mali\, to his early days in Hollywood and meteoric rise to fame\, McConaughey shares how his life experiences have instilled in him the importance of competent values\, the power of new experiences\, and\, as he puts it\, “either changing your reality or changing how you see it.” \nWritten with candor\, humor\, and profound insight and humility\, the uniquely McConaughey Greenlights is an unconventional portrait of an unconventional artist and a wise road map to navigating a life of more greenlights—one that recognizes that the red and yellow lights eventually turn green\, too. \nAcademy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey is a married man\, a father of three children\, and a loyal son and brother. He considers himself a storyteller by occupation\, believes it’s okay to have a beer on the way to the temple\, feels better with a day’s sweat on him\, and is an aspiring orchestral conductor. \nIn 2009\, Matthew and his wife\, Camila\, founded the just keep livin Foundation\, which helps at-risk high school students make healthier mind\, body\, and spirit choices. In 2019\, McConaughey became a professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin\, as well as Minister of Culture/M.O.C. for the University of Texas and the City of Austin. McConaughey is also brand ambassador for Lincoln Motor Company\, an owner of the Major League Soccer club Austin FC\, and co-creator of his favorite bourbon on the planet\, Wild Turkey Longbranch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-mcconaughey-with-reese-witherspoon-greenlights-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #33
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-33-tickets-126619904543; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nNomadic Press is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #33\nTime: Oct 30\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82565267961 \nMeeting ID: 825 6526 7961\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82565267961# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82565267961# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 825 6526 7961\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kL67YYo7z
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-33/
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SUMMARY:Mindy Uhrlaub - Unnatural Resources (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:When her Congolese village is destroyed by an invading militia group\, eleven-year-old Therese is injured and outcast. Stranded with only her little brother’s best friend in a war-torn jungle\, she is forced to make a choice: lie down and become another victim of the war or stand up and survive. Desperate to find her mother and beloved brother\, Felix\, she uses her greatest gift\, her knowledge of English\, to navigate the vast web of humanitarian aid groups. Along the way\, she meets the charismatic one-legged teenager\, Robert\, who takes her on an adventure with a film crew which becomes her lifeline back home. \nLuna\, Therese’s mother\, has been taken as a slave and concubine to the handsome and evil leader of the militia\, The General. In a harrowing act of bravery\, she uses her own knowledge of languages to make the difficult choice to escape into the mountainous jungle. In her struggle to reunite with Therese and Felix\, some of the least likely people become her friends. With its themes of women’s empowerment\, Unnatural Resources is a stunning and unflinchingly brutal redefinition of the meaning of family. This book tells the story of a young Congolese girl who becomes a symbol of hope in the worst place in the world to be female.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mindy-uhrlaub-unnatural-resources-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Hollister Rand - Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what’s going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges facing us right now? \nGet answers to these questions from the spirits themselves! Experience the peace of knowing that those you love remain close to you. \nDuring the event\, a number of audience members will receive messages from loved ones living in the spirit world. There will be time to ask general questions about mediumship and what life is like on the other side. \nDuring the last twenty-five years\, Hollister Rand’s dedication to the healing work of mediumship has included events and workshops in the United States and abroad. Hollister’s work on television includes Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood and America Now. Her radio appearances include Sirius XM’s “The Séance with John Edward” (on John Edward Psychic Radio)\, KOST FM’s Angels in Waiting\, KBIG-FM’s Radio Medium\, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. \nHollister’s first book\, I’m Not Dead\, I’m Different: Kids in Spirit Teach Us About Living a Better Life on Earth\, published by HarperCollins\, is available in several languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her impossibly small chihuahuas\, Bodhi and Amara Metta. Visit her at her website\, MediumHollisterRand.com \nPlease note: Spontaneous messages are provided throughout the evening. However\, everyone in attendance is not guaranteed a reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollister-rand-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-afterlife-but-were-afraid-to-ask-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman’s new novel\, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874523125. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpAnxious\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/AnxiousAB. \nDescription\n\nInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller \nA People Book of the Week\, Book of the Month Club selection\, #1 Indie Next Pick\, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping\, PopSugar\, The Washington Post\, New York Post\, Shondaland\, CNN\, and more! \n“[A] quirky\, big-hearted novel… Wry\, wise\, and often laugh-out-loud funny\, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming\, poignant novel about a crime that never took place\, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air\, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. \nLooking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation\, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything\, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face\, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent\, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom\, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. \nEach of them carries a lifetime of grievances\, hurts\, secrets\, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. \nRich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness)\, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship\, forgiveness\, and hope—the things that save us\, even in the most anxious times. \nAbout the Author\n\nFredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove\, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry\, Britt-Marie Was Here\, Beartown\, Us Against You\, and two novellas\, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime\, as well as one work of nonfiction\, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His latest novel\, Anxious People\, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anxious-people-by-frederik-backman-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T170000
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SUMMARY:Santa Clara University Osher: Exciting Adult Learning Zoom Classes
DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter Open Now through December 4th\, 2020 \nOLLI@SCU: Enjoy learning from home with exciting Zoom (virtual) classes taught by instructors who design their varied courses for curious audiences like you. Join and take advantage of our classes\, events\, and programs (currently remote until safe to be in-person) designed for adult learners who love learning. We offer more than 15 thought-provoking courses each quarter\, on a variety of topics including history\, science\, art\, current events\, law\, literature and culture – all without homework\, tests or grades. There are member-only Special Interest Groups exploring such topics as food\, genealogy\, Italy\, mystery books\, memoir writing\, photography and contemporary issues. OLLI@SCU is here for you\, now. Join us! \nMembership is $55; course fees vary from $50 – $110 depending on length. \nPresented by Santa Clara University Osher Lifelong Learning.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/santa-clara-university-osher-exciting-adult-learning-zoom-classes/
LOCATION:56941
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Santa Clara University Osher Lifelong Learning":MAILTO:OLLI@SCU.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201101T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201101T130000
DTSTAMP:20260414T061853
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SUMMARY:Fiction Workshop: Honing the Art of Storytelling with Andy Touhy
DESCRIPTION:You write something down and it’s awkward\, trivial\, artificial\, approximate. But with effort . . . you can get it to open up\, and expose what’s lurking there beyond the clumsy thing you first put down. —Deborah Eisenberg \n“What makes a story compelling?” asks instructor Andy Touhy. “More importantly\, what are the ways to make it compelling? In this online workshop\, we’ll begin to really think about how to tell a good tale (short story or novel). \n“Opening lines matter\, as does point of view\, as does the difference between what a character wants and what a character gets (the conflict that creates plot)\, as does engaging dialogue\, and artful prose style\, and images that fire the imagination. We’ll explore all the basic elements of craft—with an eye toward creating narratives that stick with readers long after the reading.” \nThough the class may mix in readings for discussion and exercises\, workshopping (sharing and critiquing of two drafts per writer) will be the primary focus. “We’ll grow as readers and listeners\,” says Andy\, “by approaching one another’s work as if it were our own\, testing choices and material\, and identifying strengths and weaknesses\, so that the best of our hearts and minds make the page.” Andy will also give generous written feedback to each participant. \nNovember 01 – December 06\n5 Sundays\, (PST) 10:30am – 1:00pm\n\n$274.35 for members \n$295 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fiction-workshop-honing-the-art-of-storytelling-with-andy-touhy/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201101T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201101T233000
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SUMMARY:Colossus: Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Dena Rod\nKarla Brundage\nPeggy Morrison\nSharon Coleman\nNorma Smith\nZakiyyah G.E. Capehart\n\n\nCarol Dorf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossus-home-reading-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colossus":MAILTO:colossuspress510@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T133000
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Keenan Norris
DESCRIPTION:Author Keenan Norris is joined in conversation by author and Alta contributor Susan Straight on Wednesday\, November 4 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time for an intimate discussion on writing and race in the suburbs of Southern California.\n\n\n\nAuthor Keenan Norris came of age as a member of one of a growing number of Black families who moved to the Inland Empire from Los Angeles in the late 1980s. His essay in the Fall 2020 issue of Alta Journal recounts a childhood amid snakes\, scorpions\, and racism. Norris is joined in conversation by author and Alta contributor Susan Straight for an intimate discussion on writing and race in the suburbs of Southern California. REGISTER \nAbout the author: \nKeenan Norris’s novel\, Brother and the Dancer\, won the 2012 James D. Houston Award. His essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and PopMatters\, among other outlets. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies\, including Oakland Noir\, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire\, and San Bernardino\, Singing. He serves as an editor for the Oxford African American Studies Center and teaches American literature and creative writing at San José State University. His next novel\, The Confession of Copeland Cane\, will be published in June 2021. \nAbout the moderator: \nSusan Straight has published eight novels\, including Highwire Moon\, Between Heaven and Here\, and A Million Nightingales. Her memoir\, In the Country of Women\, is Barnes & Noble’s September 2020 Nonfiction Pick. Straight has been a finalist for the National Book Awards\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, and the National Magazine Awards. She is the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, the Edgar Award for Best Short Story\, the O. Henry Prize\, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published in the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Guardian\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, Black Clock\, Harper’s\, and other journals. She is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California\, Riverside. She was born in Riverside\, where she lives with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-asks-live-keenan-norris/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T203000
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Weather Pat Holt's monthly book discussion group
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nFall dates: \nOctober 7: Call Me Zebra\, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi \nNovember 4: Weather\, Jenny Offill  \nDecember 2: Nickel Boys\, Colson Whitehead \nJanuary 6: Disappearing Earth\, Julia Phillips \nFebruary 3: The Great Believers\, Rebecca Makkai \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-weather-pat-holts-monthly-book-discussion-group/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T210000
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SUMMARY:Orion Magazine presents Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election\, the State of Democracy\, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. \nJoin Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books for a post-Election Day exchange between two of the world’s most prominent voices for justice and the environment\, Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams. Solnit is currently an advisor to Orion\, while Williams is a contributing editor. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. Please REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Most Radical Thing You Can Do\nThis event marks the publication of Orion’s new anthology\, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays from Orion Magazine. The collection includes work by both Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams\, as well as Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Glenis Redmond\, Bill McKibben\, Winona LaDuke\, Scott Russell Sanders\, Wendell Berry\, Sandra Steingraber\, Barbara Kingsolver\, and others. The book is available here. \nAbout the Authors\nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orion-magazine-presents-rebecca-solnit-and-terry-tempest-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T170000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Aria Aber
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \nAria Aber\nAria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a Whiting Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, POETRY\, the New Republic\, and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing\, she holds fellowships from Kundiman\, Dickinson House and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is a 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkley-lunch-poems-aria-aber/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T170000
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SUMMARY:Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryke
DESCRIPTION:Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryker\, 2020–22 Barbara Lee Distinguished Professor of Women’s Leadership (RSVP to receive the event link)\nThursday\, November 5\, 2020 | time TBA | mark your calendar\nJordy Rosenberg is the author of Confessions of the Fox\, a love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures. This genre-bending debut tells a profound story of gender\, desire\, and liberation which Publisher’s Weekly\, in a starred review\, called “Astonishing and mesmerizing.” A New York Times Editors’ Choice Selection\, Confessions has been shortlisted for multiple awards and was named a best book of 2018 by the New Yorker\, Huffington Post\, Kirkus Reviews\, LitHub\, and others. Rosenberg is a Professor of Literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst\, where he teaches eighteenth-century literature and gender and sexuality studies. \nCo-sponsored by We Are the Voices.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jordy-rosenberg-in-conversation-with-susan-stryke/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T140000
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SUMMARY:Writers Against Trump
DESCRIPTION:Writers Against Trump\nJoin us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event featuring Steve Wasserman of Heyday Books as host. He will be joined by activist and writer Roberto Lovato\, activist and poet Margaret Randall\, and San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. \nEvent is free\, but requires registration \n(CLICK HERE) to register \nWriters Against Trump are American writers who have come together to oppose the racist\, destructive\, incompetent\, corrupt and fascist regime of Donald Trump\, and to give their language\, thought\, and time to his defeat in November. They believe that this presidency is uniquely dangerous to our present and future society. Writers Against Trump collaborates with organizations seeking to encourage voter turnout\, promote candidates who resist the Trump apparatus\, protect the election from fraud and theft\, and mobilize in the event of post-election trouble. \n\nWriters are well-positioned to advocate for our democracy. They understand the strength of words\, of rhetoric. Collectively\, American writing has brought so much change. And Writers Against Trump seek to honor the legacies of the revolutionary writers who came before us by joining in now——and their choir must be deafening. \nThe brutal and criminal regime called an “administration” may remain in power a while longer\, spewing disinformation\, exacerbating ill health\, earth-hatred\, obscene inequality\, race- and woman-hatred\, and encouraging violence\, but as an unintended consequence\, writers and booksellers across the nation are coming together to resist. Join us in this struggle. \nFor more information visit: www.writersagainsttrump.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-against-trump/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T153000
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita\, author of I-Hotel\, Letters to Memory\, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 | 2:30 PM PDT \nAbout the books: \nI Hotel – A multi-voiced fusion of prose\, playwriting\, graphic art\, and philosophy that spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas\, one for each year\, I Hotel begins in 1968\, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated\, students took to the streets\, the Vietnam War raged\, and cities burned. \nAs Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students\, laborers\, artists\, revolutionaries\, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day\, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion\, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2497/I_Hotel.html \nLetters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians\, anthropologists\, classicists—their disciplines\, and Yamashita’s engagement with them\, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family\, and our borders\, to ideas of debt\, forgiveness\, civil rights\, orientalism\, and community. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1626/Letters_to_Memory.html \nSansei and Sensibility – In these buoyant and inventive stories\, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial\, cultural\, emotional\, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies\, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives’ freezers\, tape-record high school locker-room chatter\, or collect a community’s gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team\, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A.\, bake sales replace ballroom dances\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2176/Sansei_and_Sensibility.html \nAbout the Authors: \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, a 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 U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAbout the host: \nAndrew Way Leong is a comparativist who works primarily in Japanese and English with additional interests in Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night. He is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s English Department. \nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html \n— \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. 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. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita-in-conversation-with-andrew-way-leong/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections\, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83679639869 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83679639869#  or +13462487799\,\,83679639869#\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 +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 836 7963 9869\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kmEIyss6Y \nPraise for Hosts and Guests \n“Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests is a fine book full of rich nuance\, complex emotions\, and sharp observations. These are poems replete with hosts and guests from a wide range of ecosystems in which Horace\, Rihanna\, Leviticus\, Dickinson\, and even Pikachu and Pokémon Go make smooth appearances. Hosts and Guests is a book that feels as though\, in Klug’s own words\, ‘day’s first words // arrive like nets\, flung / from somewhere behind // our heads.’ These are beautifully crafted\, contemplative poems that stay with you long after you’ve read them.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Living Weapon: Poems \n“What’s the secret of these fresh and mysterious poems? In their lightness of touch\, clarity\, probity\, and almost Japanese spareness\, they bathe the ordinary in otherworldly light. Cicadas\, young parents\, a baby\, North American bars and highways\, jellyfish\, a Horatian ode\, the death of Pompey\, religious faith feeling its way\, an inchworm shrinking from em dash to hyphen—all find their places\, revealed\, in Nate Klug’s delicately paced syntax and gracious reticence. A book both timely and ageless\, a balm\, a boon.”—Rosanna Warren\, author of So Forth: Poems\n \nAbout Hosts and Guests \nAn exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments” \nNate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests\, his exciting second collection\, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pokémon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine\, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude\, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the “immiserated quiet” of modern life\, love poems and poems of new fatherhood\, and studies of a restless\, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency\, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled\, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world\, social commentary\, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work\, “The visual is rendered sonically\, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses\, to speak the lines\, to taste the syllables.” \nAbout Rain in Plural \nThe highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \nRain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain\, who has been praised by The Rumpus as a master of musicality and enlightening allusions. In the wholly original world of these new poems\, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the polis\, using silence and montage\, lyric and antilyric\, to envision what she calls creating between liberties. With a moral precision embracing us without eschewing I\, she rethinks questions of citizenship\, the selections of sensory memory\, and\, by extension\, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes\, I accept the truth in newspapers / by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. // To each weather forecast I give thanks: / merci for every outdated // dusk/dawn. Agrippina the Younger\, Franz Kafka\, Bob Dylan\, a butoh performance\, an unnamed Raku tea bowl–each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness\, synchrony\, coincidences\, and accidents\, Rain in Plural beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-nate-klug-and-fiona-sze-lorrain/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cárdenas
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nAphasia \npublished by Farrar Straus Giroux \nMauro Javier Cárdenas\, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—”an original\, insubordinate novel” (New York Times)—pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family\, as well as his own behavior\, as an immigrant in America. \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———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book (Link to be posted soon) \n———– \nAntonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister—even though he knows he won’t be able to avoid thinking about his sister—because his sister is on the run after allegedly threatening to shoot her neighbors\, and has been claiming that Antonio\, Obama\, the Pentagon\, and their mother are all conspiring against her. Nevertheless\, Antonio is going to try his best to be as avoidant as possible\, because he worries that what’s been happening to his sister might somehow infect his relatively contented\, ordered American life\, and destabilize the precarious arrangement with his ex-wife that’s allowed him to stay close to his two daughters. \nIn fact\, he’s busy doing everything except facing his problems head-on: transcribing recordings of his mother speaking about their troubled life in Colombia\, transcribing recordings of his ex-wife speaking about her idyllic life in the Czech Republic; writing about former girlfriends whose words and deeds still recur in his mind; rereading stories by American writers that allow him to skirt the subject of his sister’s state of mind without completely destroying his own. \nWritten in long\, unravelling sentences that accommodate all the detritus of thought—scenes real and imagined\, headphones and heartache\, Toblerones and Thomas Bernhard—Aphasia captures the immensity of the present moment as well as the pain of the past. It cements Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s place as one of the most innovative and extraordinary novelists working today. \nMauro Javier Cárdenas is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again\, which The New York Times called “an original\, insubordinate novel.” In 2017\, the Hay Festival included him in Bogotá39\, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T210000
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #1: Cookbooks and Gift Books
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 5\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83160582546. \nThis is our first recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/12: Kids & graphic novels;\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-1-cookbooks-and-gift-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T150000
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SUMMARY:Awesome Asian Americans: Children's Story Time with Oliver Chin
DESCRIPTION:It’s about time – rebel girls\, rad women\, little leaders\, and great guys are Asian American too! \nReaders will enjoy learning about 20 trailblazers who have contributed to our country. All compelling personalities\, these unique men and women come from diverse backgrounds and vocations. \nFeatured Asian Americans in the book are:\n-Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (actor)\n-Bruce Lee (martial artist)\n-Mindy Kaling (comedian)\n-Lea Salonga (singer)\n-Yuri Kochiyama (activist)\n-Helen Zia (journalist)\n-and more! \nArtist Juan Calle’s 60 dynamic color illustrations bring these fascinating and relevant portraits to life. Immigrants and their children continue to enrich our nation’s culture. Discover important chapters of American history not covered in school textbooks\, and the marvelous accomplishments of these groundbreaking pioneers. \n—\nAbout the authors and illustrator: \nOliver Chin wrote the popular annual children’s book series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac\, Julie Black Belt\, Welcome to Monster Isle. He co-wrote The Asian Hall of Fame series with Phil Amara. He lives in San Francisco\, CA. \nPhil Amara was an editor at Dark Horse Comics\, and wrote The Nevermen\, The Treehouse Heroes\, and So\, You Wanna Be A Comic Book Artist? He is an elementary school teacher in Boston\, MA. \nJuan Calle founded Liberum Donum Studios (Bogotá\, Colombia) which works on TV\, film\, and video games. Juan created the children’s book Good Dream\, Bad Dream and illustrated The Year of the Rooster and The Asian Hall of Fame series. \nAbout Immedium: \nImmedium\, Inc. inspires a world of imagination\, and creates entertaining books that have multi-dimensional appeal. Based in San Francisco\, CA\, Immedium sits on the Pacific Rim\, a vibrant intersection for crossover cultural trends from Asia and America. Embracing an increasingly diverse and “multimedia” world\, Immedium publishes titles ranging from eye-catching children’s books and contemporary non-fiction to commentaries on art and popular culture. Visit us at www.immedium.com. ​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/awesome-asian-americans-childrens-story-time-with-oliver-chin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Anthony Lee Head with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Lee Head’s debut collection\, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road\, tells the story of modern-day runaways escaping the rat race and heading to a tropical paradise in search of a fresh start—a timely  antidote for anyone who has grown weary of quarantines and sheltering in place. \nAnthony knows firsthand the challenges of the expat lifestyle. In a fit of middle-aged madness\, he gave up an established career as a trial lawyer in San Francisco to travel 3500 miles to tropical Mexico\, where for a decade he and his wife ran a small hotel and a margarita bar near the Caribbean Sea. That adventure became the inspiration for this book. Anthony now lives in San Rafael\, California with his wife and an embarrassingly large number of Mexican rescue dogs and cats. He is currently working on both a memoir and a new novel. \nPeter Coyote is the author of the 1960’s counter-culture memoir Sleeping Where I Fall\, which received universally excellent reviews and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book about mentors and the search for wisdom\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015. His third book\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha) combines 50 years of Buddhist practice with acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” It is forthcoming from Inner Traditions Press\, as his first book of poems\, The Tongue of a Crow. \nPeter has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and transmitted teacher\, Peter is currently giving live weekly dharma talks on Facebook\, preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-anthony-lee-head-with-peter-coyote-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T193000
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SUMMARY:Ayşegül Savaş Reading
DESCRIPTION:You must register to attend this event! \nFree and Open to the Public. \nCo-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. \n\n\n\n\n\nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling. Her second novel White on White is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and The Guardian. She lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T213000
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Mia Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, NOVEMBER 12\, 2020 AT 7 PM PST – 9:30 PM PST\nDuring Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by the incredible\, sweet Mia Ruiz\, tuning in from Lake County! \nReaders & Performers for this event: \nTBA \nCassandra (she/her\, Berkeley) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \n\n\nTopic: Eves at the Beat w/Mia Ruiz\nTime: Oct 22\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/4171477773\nMeeting ID: 417 147 7773\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,4171477773# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,4171477773# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 417 147 7773\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kehFQLUYO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-mia-ruiz/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201108T160000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Elizabeth Strout (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Strout‘s latest novel\, Olive Again\, continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge\, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. \nElizabeth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive\, Again\, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible\, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton\, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys\, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me\, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction\, the International Dublin Literary Award\, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines\, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth lives in New York City. \nCathleen Schine‘s most recent work is the best-selling novel The Grammarians. She is also the author of The Love Letter\, Rameau’s Niece\, Alice in Bed\, To the Birdhouse\, The Evolution of Jane\, She Is Me\, The New Yorkers\, The Three Weissmanns of Westport\, Fin & Lady\, and They May Not Mean To\, But They Do. In addition to her novels\, she has written articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Sunday Magazine\, and The New York Times Book Review\, among other publications. Her essays have been included in Best American Essays 2005\, Fierce Pajamas\, an Anthology of New Yorker Humor\, and The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs. She grew up in Westport\, Ct. and lives in Venice\, California. \n  \nBelow\, please find links to purchase their books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-elizabeth-strout-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
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SUMMARY:November Manuscript Intensive Program
DESCRIPTION:Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one intensive\, an experienced published author will closely read your entire book and mentor you\, giving focused editorial feedback on the first 25 pages and an editorial letter to guide revision of the rest. \nThere will be significant opportunity for extended correspondence with your mentor\, who will provide specific suggestions for revision and offer general advice on the current state of publishing\, and next steps for you to take in your publishing journey. Work with us before sending out your manuscript to help your book really shine! \n\nHow it works:\n\nThe San Francisco Creative Writing Institute Manuscript Intensive is a four-week\, one-on-one mentorship with a published writer to get help with your completed prose manuscript (novel\, memoir or other non-fiction\, essay or story collection) and receive valuable feedback for revision or submission to agents or publishers.\n\nIf you have a completed manuscript and want to know what the next steps to take are\, this is the course for you.\n\n\n\n\n\nNext Steps:\nAfter you register\, you’ll email the manuscript to us at mentor@sfwriting.institute along with tendering a retainer fee. \n\nWe will look at your manuscript and assign you one of our mentors based on your work and their specialties. Read up on our list of mentors here.\n\n\n\n\nWeekly Schedule: November 09\, 2020 – December 04\, 2020\, All Day\nWeek 1 – Your mentor will spend the first week of the month reading your entire book. \n\nWeek 2 – In the second week you will receive an editorial mark-up of the first chapter or first 25 pages (whichever is most appropriate) and an editorial letter oriented toward revision.\n\nWeek 3 – In the third week\, you can initiate an email conversation about the edits and feedback\, and even offer a revision of the first pages for a “second look.”\n\nWeek 4 – In the final week\, your mentor will respond to your commentary and any possible revisions to the opening pages and offer final guidance for revision or submission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/november-manuscript-intensive-program/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online Evening Literary Seminar: Let's Pretend This Never Happened\, Jenny Lawson
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Lawson’s ridiculously eccentric childhood in Texas—combined with a hefty dose of anxiety\, depression and serious intelligence—makes for a hilariously dark memoir that will bring the comic relief we might all need in November. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened feels like a Mary Karr-David Sedaris-Amy Poehler mash-up\, a look at how to cope when things are just plain absurd. It would be a crime during this Covid fall NOT to turn to Lawson for commiseration\, solace and some much-needed laughs. \nJoin Kimberly to delve deeper into a novel that has been described as “transformed by intragenerational retelling rather than passed down\,” one made up of “quick and dirty mythmaking\,” a book we should all be reading now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-evening-literary-seminar-lets-pretend-this-never-happened-jenny-lawson/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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